Category: Hero Arts

OCC Stenciled: Day One

The Online Card Classes Stenciled Class began today. It’s the perfect way to head into the weekend!

For my card, I followed the one shown by Debby Hughes. Her cards are always perfection! Debby used a different stencil and sentiment (neither of which I own).

OCC Stenciled: Day One
Yes, white on white with a vellum overlay is difficult to photograph! My sentiment doesn’t take up the tag space as much as the one Debby used (she used one from a SSS set and it’s just beautiful). Because the sentiment I used talks about “brighter days” I chose yellow and orange inks for the tweed pattern stencil. The biggest issue was adhering the vellum to the card front. I placed clear foam adhesive behind the heat-embossed sentiment in a couple of spots. Obviously, if the sentiment was larger, I would have had more spots to hide the adhesive!

Have a fabulous weekend!

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Revisiting “Tiny Flags”

Happy Monday! I had so much fun using the Tiny Flags background stamp in this post that I decided to make some more cards with it. 🙂

For my first card, I paired a clear-embossed background with a die cut from the My Favorite Things “Celebrate” set for a black-and-white card.

CelebrateTinyFlags

Following the double-stamping technique shown by Jennifer McGuire with the Tiny Flags stamp in this post, I created another card pairing a double-stamped background and another die cut from the MFT set. I used a Stamp-a-ma-Jig to help line up the stamp when I shifted it for the second impression.

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Ready for Color

Now that the new year is upon us, I’m craving color, quite possibly because it’s still winter (and dark and cold)!

Ready for Color

I added pattern to this card by clear embossing the new Hero Arts Tiny Flags background stamp. The sentiment is from one of my favorite Hero Arts sets – “Heydey Sentiments.” I really like the fonts in that set, especially to add graphic punch.

After finishing that card, I saw this card by Jennifer McGuire and created something similar (albeit simpler) heat embossing the Tiny Flags background with Hero Arts Sparkle embossing powder. (The sparkle doesn’t show up particularly well in the photo, but it lends a subtle shimmer.) I used the Hero Arts “My Favorite” set for the sentiment.

Ready for Color

Supplies: Stampin’ Up cardstock (pink)

So Proud of You

I couldn’t resist making another card with the new Hero Arts “Lil Hoot” stamp set, this time using the pair of bears.

So Proud of You

As with my card using the Lil Hoot owls, I relied on several Hero Arts background stamps for some pattern.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! One of my resolutions for 2014 is to color more with my Copics. Today I’m sharing a card created with the new Hero Arts “Lil Hoot” stamp set.

Happy New Year!

I used several Hero Arts background stamps on this card as well – for the tree background and the starry sky. I fussy-cut the colored owls and attached them with dimensional adhesive to the star background.