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Archives for June 2016

Ombre Thank You

This month are collaborating with the awesome Lil’ inker designs. Gosh, we love Laura there. She’s so sweet. And her products? Gah! I want them all. 🙂

Our challenge this month is vellum. Which is actually a great challenge, because using it usually presents one. As in, “how will I adhere this”? Well, I might have come up with a card design based upon the idea that I could not find my vellum adhesive. Ha!

This is actually an easy card, conceptually. But I highly recommend a little patience. I used the awesome swirl cover up die on some of the dip dyed ombre paper pad. This pad of paper is gorgeous eye candy, and I recommend buying it just to make yourself happy. 
I adhered the pieces from the die onto a sheet of vellum. I used mini glue dots on most pieces, and some liquid glue on the pieces too small for a glue dot. I planned out which swirls I could use to keep the sentiment portion in place. 
Then I flipped it over and applied foam tape to the back so I could have a bit of dimension on the card front, and as a way to adhere it to my card base without any adhesive showing through. 
Now, my original plan was to put this onto a piece of purple cardstock. Didn’t love the look. So I went with white. Huge difference, and really made me happy. Then I said to myself “hey, what about your favorite kraft cardstock”, and it was perfection. Just the right amount of contrast to make it pop, but not get lost. So happy I played around with this for a bit.
Now, one of my favorite things to do is line envelopes. As a matter of fact, I usually spend most of the summer doing so, as I make a lot of wedding invitations, and always line those inner envelopes. So, when I was shopping at Lil inker designs, I just had to have this envelope liner die. It’s so much fun. It’s got a great stitched detail on the flap. 
I can’t wait to send this card to a friend. I hope they love it just as much as I do.
Make sure to join us this month in our Vellum Challenge, you can win a gift certificate to Lil inker designs. You want to win, I promise.

My oldest Hero Arts stamp

Hello, everyone! Michelle Lupton here today to tell you all about a giveaway being hosted by Niki Garcia on the A Blog Named Hero Facebook page this week.

Niki has a $20 gift voucher to a2z Scrapbooking to give away – all you have to do is share your first ever Hero Arts stamp in the comments of her post. So that is what I am doing today!

 I combined by first Hero Arts purchase (the Happy Birthday to You stamp), white embossed onto some black cardstock, with one of my most recent Hero Arts purchases (the Bold Floral stencil). Some Distress Ink sponging and a few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh make for a simple birthday card!

 I hope you will share your first ever Hero Arts stamp with us on our Facebook Page – Niki can’t wait to give away the voucher!

Niki will be choosing the winner on June 20th.

And don’t forget, our challenge theme for June is:

http://ablognamedhero.com/2016/06/with-gratitude-new-collaboration-partner/

Thanks for visiting 🙂

Lil Inkers Vellum Collab

Hi friends – welcome back for another fun collaboration between Hero Arts and Lil’ Inker Designs – lucky me, I already had some fun things in my stash from Lil’ Inker’s which made this card oh so fun to create!

My vellum looks hidden, but I promise you its there!! 
Hubby has a good friend that his wife was diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer; she quickly lapsed into coma, never regained consciousness and passed away two weeks later – so incredibly sad. I already had this card in the works and decided to make it into a sympathy card – it’s pretty girly but I know he will appreciate it!
The gorgeous flowers are the Vintage floral set from Lil Inker Designs with matching dies – swoon – they are super gorgeous, yes?
I started with the Stitches and Stripes cover-up die and sponged on Broken China and Mermaid Lagoon distress inks, I removed the inside small pieces and saved those for another card which I’ll show soon. I then colored the flowers and greenery with Copics finishing them off with some white dots, placed them on the card where I liked the arrangement and used the good ole press and seal to pick up the entire bouquet, added adhesive and reapplied – works so well!
I layered the Stitches and Stripes die on a piece of vellum then adhered the entire piece to a white card base. I used Hero Arts Prayer set for the inside of the card.
Press and Seal in action
Thanks for stopping by; have a great day! And don’t forget to link up and show us YOUR project using vellum; link HERE!

Vintage Flowers

This month our challenge is vellum and our sponsor is
 

I chose their Vintage Flowers for my card which I stamped and embossed in gold on vellum.  Made masks so I could make a bouquet and then fussy cut it in one piece.

I embossed another flower and a leaf on the background  using my MISTI.  After putting it all together with the sentiment and some sequins, I popped it up with some foam tape.
Be sure to enter your vellum card in this month’s challenge and be eligible for a prize from our generous sponsor, Lil Inker Designs. 

Ombre with vellum

Hi there!!

Linda here, and I wanted to share another card I made that goes along with our current challenge of

I used a combo of Hero Arts inks and our collaboration partner for this month,

I was feeling like a CAS card was the way to go, so this is what I came up with

Its tough to see in the light, but I’ve used my wonky stitched dies around the edge of the vellum and the black topper piece.

So the black part, is actually a top folding notecard, that I trimmed around 3 inches off the length of. I still scored it at the traditional 5.5 inch mark, so that I’d have a kind of ‘flap’ (for lack of a better word).

I used Hero Arts Soft Pool, Soft Sky and a tiny bit of Navy Shadow Inks right at the bottom, blending them upwards from the bottom of the panel of white cardstock, which is sitting behind the vellum.

To finish the card I just stamped and heat embossed the sentiment, and added some aqua enamel dots.

Hope you like it!

We’d love to see what you make for the challenge, so come on and let’s see what you’ve got!

See you again soon!

Linda