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Archives for September 2013

Second generation stamping

Hello crafters,
today I have a set of tags for you. I used the second generation stamping techique wich is great to use when you need two shades of the same color on your project.

It is a very simple techique and it works great with reverse images like the Flower Table Cloth I used on my tags.

First I inked the stamp and stamped the image on a piece of white cardstock and then I quickly (for the ink not to dry) stamped it again on a tag. The result is a little uneven and artistic and I like that a lot. I used the first (bold) stamped image to cut out the flowers and leaves and used them to embelish the tags.

Here is the close-up of the yellow tag to see the results a little better.

Thanks for stopping by, I wish you a great weekend.
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focus on wood veneer paper

Hi everyone, it’s Christine, bringing you some wood veneer paper inspiration!
I ordered some sheets a few weeks ago – and i totally fell in love! For me this is a MUST-have 😉
Since I like to play around with different materials and techniques I wanted to find out if my favorite techniques work with this paper.
So I used it with die cuts, embossing powder, embossing folders, stamps, scissors, markers,… 
And here is what I came up with! It was so much fun to create these cards.
Which one is your favorite?

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Colors of Autumn

Hello Everyone!  It’s Michelle here today. I was trying to decide what I wanted to share this month and then it hit me…Hero Inks. I just picked up the two newest members of the Hero Hues family so I thought I would share some cards made with Just Rust and Pumpkin Pie.  If you have not picked these 2 colors up I urge you too.  ASAP. I do know that Simon Says Stamp just got them restocked. They are just AMAZING colors. All the Hero colors are AMAZING and I find myself shocked when I hear that someone hasn’t tried them yet.  I use them on just about every single project I make.

I started by making this card:

I have these very old stamps from Hero Arts. It’s one of the first sets I bought years and years ago. I took them off the wood block a long time ago and made them into cling stamps  (There were 3 leaves and one acorn on the wood mounted stamp. I don’t remember the name of it. I am sorry.)

I started with the Maple leaf and from top to bottom I inked Pumpkin Pie, Butter Bar, Soft Apricot, Just Rust and Red Royal.  I know it’s a lot of colors for one little stamp but they came out so pretty.  I inked them all similarly, cut them out and then stamped the acorns in Latte Chalk ink and Cup O’ Joe mid-tone ink.  The wreath of leaves is inked in the Forever Green mid-tone.

The inks blend beautifully and this next card shows that.

 This card uses Butter Bar (mid-tone ink), Soft Apricot (shadow ink) and Just Rust. I applied it with a Foam tool the same way you would apply Distress inks. It worked beautifully. I also stamped over it with Versamark and used some Inference Green Perfect Pearls on it.  I am in the midst of getting my Boo Baskets ready to Boo my neighbors and I thought these tags would be so fun to add to them.  The sentiment on this card come from Darcie.

Lastly, I have a very simple card that uses Hero Hues but in a different way. I used a Hero Hues Note card in Mandarin and then I inked up the tweed background stamp in Just Rust. I die cut the ghost tag using a Hero Arts digital shape, available in the Silhouette store.

I really love the way the Just Rust compliments the Mandarin note card. It’s the perfect marriage. I put some Vellum behind my ghost, added a sentiment, some stickers to spell Boo and a bow.  This one will go into a Boo basket too.

I hope you got a better look at these magnificent colors.  They are just superb in every way.

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 Have a Fabulous day!!

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Another Hero Arts Set

     Hi creative and artful friends! I  went with the challenge and did a card set. I decided to only use Hero Arts stamps and dies with some Ranger Inks to give different colors to the backgrounds, which I did by clear embossing one of my HA favourites backgrounds stamps ever, the Tweed and then color the embossed images with different Ranger Distress Inks. The final touches are Hero Arts stamps and a little bit of bling.
  

   

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WPlus9 & Hero Arts Week, Day Final

I’m so sad to see this week come to an end! We’ve had so much fun sharing our projects mashing-up WPlus9 with our beloved Hero Arts. We think it’s a match made in Card-Heaven.

Mary Dawn 

Leslie

Leslie

Thank you so much for sharing out WPlus9 Mash-Up week with us!

And don’t forget, there’s still plenty of time to play in our current challenge:

 Mary Dawn’s Supplies:

Leslie’s Supplies (card 1):

Leslie’s Supplies (card 2):