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Introducing the 2017 Design Team: Michelle Lupton

Hello, crafty friends! Michelle Lupton here, very happy and excited to be back again for another year with A Blog Named Hero.  You have already met all of the new design team – aren’t they fabulous? Well, for those of you who do not know me, or for those of you who are new to A Blog Named Hero, let me tell you something about myself.

 

Firstly, I’m an Aussie. My day job is as a teacher – I teach biology to tertiary students. I also sing in a couple of choirs, and I am in a book club. And I make cards – I have done so for a long time, but I have blogged about it since 2011, shortly after which I discovered the wonderful worldwide community of stampers and card-makers out there! My style has evolved over the years, but right now, I love stamping, along with rainbows, watercolouring, flowers, stencils, and the colour blue (and the oxford comma – certified nerd, right here).  I’m a CAS card-maker, with occasional forays into not-so-clean and definitely-not-simple.  I’ve been with A Blog Named Hero since 2013, and I also coordinate the Facebook page for A Blog Named Hero, so please be sure to visit and say hello to our wonderful Facebook Design Team.

You can find my blog HERE, and you can also find me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest.  (I do have a twitter account, but don’t hold your breath waiting for me to post anything!)

Anyhow, enough about me – here’s my card to say hello!

 

I started by using the Large Flower stencil to add some very pale orange to the card base, and then stamped the sentiment in Intense Black ink.  I stamped a bunch of the images from the “You’re So Lovely” stamp set in various ink colours, and die cut them with the matching dies.  I then spent AGES arranging them!! (You have no idea. Seriously.) I really admire people who make collage cards regularly – it’s not easy!  I adhered most of the elements using Multi Medium Matte, but then popped the two flowers up on layers of dimensional adhesive.  A sprinkling of sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and I was done!

 

I hope to see you here again very soon – we have a bunch of new challenges planned for you in the new year, and some amazing collaboration partners – you won’t want to miss a minute!

And don’t forget, to celebrate our new home, we have a $20 gift certificate to Hero Arts for one lucky commenter! Have you seen their new Valentine’s release? Definitely something you’ll want to check out. We will draw a random winner from comments on all design team introduction posts (which began here), so the more you comment, the more chances to win!

Thanks for visiting 🙂

Michelle

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Introducing The 2017 Design Team: Kelly Szafron

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Hello!  I’m honored and excited to be joining the A Blog Named Hero Design Team.  I am a stay at home mom of 4 kids (ages 12, 10, 7 and 2), a cat and dog.  I moved with my family from Alberta, Canada to Texas a few years a go.  I have been stamping and card making for as long as I can remember.  After I moved I started blogging to find inspiration, meet other card makers, join in challenges and take online classes.  You can find my blog here and you can find me on Instagram my username is kellyszafron.

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I made a shaker card to share with you for my intoduction post.  I stamped and embossed the outline of Texas on water color paper than added two shades of blue water color paint.  To assemble my shaker I glued together several die cut frames to create dimension and room for my shaker elements to move (I used a technique shared by Jennifer McGuire on her blog).  First adhere the acetate to the die cut from that will be on top than adhere the rest of the die cuts to that, making shaker window this way eliminates using foam tape and looks nice from the side.   I embossed the sentiment on my card base before adhering the shaker.  On the inside of the card I stamped the state outline again this time in blue and the sentiment over top.

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I look forward to sharing my work with you over the next year and I hope you are inspired to share yours with us at a Blog Named Hero.

And don’t forget, to celebrate our new home, we have a $20 gift certificate to Hero Arts for one lucky commenter! Have you seen their new Valentine’s release? Definitely something you’ll want to check out. We will draw a random winner from comments on all design team introduction posts (which began here), so the more you comment, the more chances to win!


Introducing the 2017 Design Team: Donna Idlet

Hello, my name is Donna Idlet and I am so excited about being on A Blog Named Hero’s design team!   Who doesn’t love Hero Arts stamps?  I know I do.For my first post I am using  the Celebrate Tag Stamp and Cut set to introduce myself and say “Hello” to everyone.  I am no stranger to Hero Arts products.  I have been using their stamps for many years and also have been a stamper for many years. My passion is card-making, but I also love scrapbooking, traditional and digital. I also love photography.  I so enjoy sharing my craft with others and I hope that I can/have inspired you in some way….. now onto how I put my card together:

  1. My card is an A2 card,
  2. I die cut the scalloped layer and adhered it to my card,
  3. I then die cut the stitched rectangle and embossed it and then adhered it to the scalloped piece,
  4. I die cut the tag and added the sentiment,
  5. I used foam tape to pop the tag on the rectangle embossed piece,
  6. I finished off the card by adding some rhinestones and twine.

A Blog Named Hero is giving away a $20 gift certificate to Hero Arts for one lucky person. They will draw a random winner from comments on all the design team introduction posts (you can start here), so the more you comment, the more chances you have to win!  If you haven’t seen the new Valentine’s release check it out!

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope I have inspired.  You can follow me on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook and my blog. You can also find me over at Splitcoast Stampers.

Introducing the 2017 Design Team: Coralynn Murray

Hello everyone,

I am super excited to be joining the wonderful and talented group of designers that make up the A Blog Named Hero design team for 2017.

My name is Coralynn and I have been a paper crafter since 2011.  I started out with Close to My Heart and was a demonstrator for about a year.  After that I started my design team journey with Butterfly Reflections Ink and haven’t looked back.  I am married to my wonderful husband for 13 years but we’ve been together for over 22.  We have two beautiful daughters, 8 & 12 (wow, that’s hard to believe!) along with three dogs and two cats.

You can find me on social media here:

Blog. Instagram. Pinterest. YouTube. Twitter. Flickr.

Now for my card.

I used the Hello stamps and die set as well as the Circle Confetti die. I has some metallic paper in my stash and thought I would use it today.  I stared out by cutting a panel from white card stock and then removing all the little circles and added a piece of printer paper to the back that I covered with adhesive. I then cut out a panel from the gold metallic paper and kept all the circles in tact. I lined up both panels up so that I could push the little circles into the negative space about 3/4 of the way up.  It wasn’t the fastest process but I feel it was worth the time.

I then cut out a 1″ strip of Neenah Desert Storm card stock and added it to the card.  I then added the sentiment with Versafine Onyx black in and then added the Hello die cut to finish the card.

We are giving away a $20 Hero Arts gift card!  One commenter will be randomly chosen from the comments on all of the design team introduction posts.  So don’t forget to share some blog love.  We love reading all of your lovely comments.

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon.

Coralynn 🙂

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Introducing the 2017 Design Team: Tracy Freeman

Hi everyone ! My name Is Tracy aka Inkyfingers and Ribbon and I am SUPER excited to be part of the A Blog Named Hero Team.
Like all my fellow teamies I have a huge passion for all things Hero Arts. My first ever stamp set was Hero Arts over 15 years ago and thanks to them my love of stamping developed.

I have been crafting for most of my life and have always been obsessed with paper, but I got into paper crafting 15+ years ago. I did have a break for a few years due to life taking a different turn but now thanks to an extremely  supportive and encouraging husband I get to craft until my heart is content.
I am mainly a card maker but do dabble in home decor and sometimes mixed media…although not as much as I used to. My style is very much Clean & Simple and I love all things floral and cute.

I love being part of the crafting community and you will often find me over on my Instagram account chatting to lots of fellow crafters.

You can also find me over on my blog- Inkyfingersandribbon
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For my card I am sharing with you today I am using two of my favorite Hero Arts Products.

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The first is the Stamp & Cut Hello set, I LOVE this set because it can be used in so many different ways and for some many different occasions. For the card I arranged the stamp on my block so that is was more straight and stamped the background using one of other favorite Hero Arts products, Ombre Ink pad. I have a serious obsession with all things inky and love these ink pads, the effect they give is amazing, but you can also use them as individual colours which for me is great.

For the Hello die I die cut some Silver Glitter cardstock and heat embossed one of the sentiments from the stamp set using white detail embossing powder.

I adhered these to a die cut circle of vellum and offset it to the side of the card.

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I finished the card off with some sequins which came with the October My Monthly Hero kit.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I am so excited to see everyone’s entries for the challenges and work with such an amazing team.

Happy Crafting !

And don’t forget, to celebrate our new home, we have a $20 gift certificate to Hero Arts for one lucky commenter! Have you seen their new Valentine’s release? Definitely something you’ll want to check out. We will draw a random winner from comments on all design team introduction posts (which began here), so the more you comment, the more chances to win!