I couldn’t resist making another card with the new Hero Arts “Lil Hoot” stamp set, this time using the pair of bears.
As with my card using the Lil Hoot owls, I relied on several Hero Arts background stamps for some pattern.
Category: Hero Arts
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.
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.
Holiday Card Camp Day 5
Today’s Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop lesson was all about feminine and masculine cards. I crafted the cards shown by Debby Hughes with a few modifications.
The card size is 3 1/2″ x 5″ with a panel of 3″ x 4 1/2″. I’ve never crafted a card this size before, but I must say I like it a lot. I cut a Crafter’s Workshop blank template with the Savvy branch die, through which I applied the embossing paste. I tried using cardstock, as Debby did, but ended up placing the branch too high on the card. I heat embossed the branch. Key to this idea is using an embossing buddy on the cardstock before applying the paste. I used one of my new favorite Hero Arts sentiment sets heat embossed in white. The Savvy snowflake die was heat embossed with silver several times.
I took a shortcut with the feminine card by dry embossing the background rather than using paste. I also have fewer snowflakes on mine than Debby had on hers. I can only do so much bling! With two sons, I actually have an easier time crafting masculine cards than feminine ones.
Today was a fabulous class loaded with inspiration to which I’ll turn in the coming weeks!
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Holiday Card Camp Day 3
The focus of today’s Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop lesson was Clean and Simple Holiday Cards. For my first card, I followed one shown by Shari Carroll.
Shari used a repeating sentiment from Lawn Fawn, which was adorable. I looked through my stash and found a sentiment from a Technique Tuesday set that would work, although it wasn’t repeating. Because of the sentiment’s length, I ended up making the card 4 1/2″ wide, to provide white space on the side and bottom. I added some “snowflakes” with embossing paste in the sky.
For the second card, I made some modifications to an idea shown by Cristina Kowalczyk. I masked off a triangular area and colored in select parts of the Tim Holtz Dot Fade stencil with Copics to form a Christmas Tree. I wasn’t thrilled with the way the tree sides looked, they were raggedy, so I cut it out with the larger tree die cut from the Sizzix “Holiday Cheer” set. I silver heat embossed a sentiment from the Hero Arts “Naughty or Nice” set – really like the fonts in this set!
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Olive, the Other Reindeer
I enjoy picture books, especially holiday ones! For whatever reason, when Olive, the Other Reindeer was published, it escaped my attention. But the title came up repeatedly on a recent search of “best holiday children’s books,” so I checked it out of the library to read it!
The book’s premise is that Olive hears “All of the other reindeer” and thinks they’re saying her name. I immediately thought of making a card when I saw the image of Olive hanging by a cord from Santa’s sleigh.
I decided that one of the dogs in the Lawn Fawn set would be Olive (taking some artistic license!). Naturally I turned to the Impression Obsession Santa die for Santa and the reindeer. I heat embossed the Lawn Fawn sentiment on the card base, masked it, and then stamped the Hero Arts background stamp in white pigment ink.
Supplies: ColorBox white pigment ink; Doodlebug twine
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