Category: Hero Arts

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.

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.

Holiday Card Camp Day 5

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.

Holiday Card Camp Day 5

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.

Holiday Card Camp Day 3

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.

Holiday Card Camp Day 3

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!