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Archives for November 2017

I’ll have a blue Christmas….

Good morning! Emily here with you today sharing a blue Christmas card. My mom always asks me when she looks through my box of holiday cards why I don’t ever make “regular red and green” Christmas cards haha! The answer? I’m honestly not sure…. other than I just like blue. My card today is an homage to a blue Christmas. I’m combining Hero Arts products with products from this month’s sponsor, Neat and Tangled.

To start, I used a tip from our very own, super clever Lisa Stein. She’s been using her Distress Oxide inks and clear embossing powder to create custom “colored” embossing! The Distress Oxide line stays damp just long enough to be able to add embossing powder and heat it up… Well, I took mine one step further and used pearlescent embossing powder with Salty Ocean Oxide Inks and the Hero Arts Snowflake Background to create a pretty, frosty card base. (I love this tip because now I don’t have to own a bazillion different shades of embossing powder! Plus, no stray flecks of color EP flying everywhere, because it’s clear! Score!)

Using the darling Beary Merry from Neat and Tangled, I die cut and stamped using very pale gray ink the bear and gift box. I then used my Prismacolor pencils and blender pencil to do some no line coloring. I cut an A2 sized panel of blueberry colored card stock, then die cut an oval using one of the Hero Arts Infinity Ovals dies and created a shaker card by adding foam adhesive and acetate to the back. I adhered my bear and gift (love the way that gift nestles into the bear’s paws!), then added a black glitter Happy Holidays die from Neat and Tangled. I filled my shaker with the Winter sequins mix from Hero Arts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, that’s all for me today! I hope you’ve enjoyed this festive, icy shaker. I just love when products from different companies combine so seamlessly!

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Simon Says Stamp
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts
Remember, you still have a few more days to participate in our November challenge:
Please be sure to read all of the rules so that your fabulous project will be eligible to win the prize from our sponsor for this month, Neat and Tangled! You can add your link to your project here.
Have a fabulous day, friends!

Thinking of You

Hello, everyone!  It’s Melissa back today with more clean & simple inspiration as I play along with this month’s challenge to CASE one of the A Blog Named Hero designers!

I made a simple Thinking of You design, taking inspiration from a poodle card by Emily Midgett (seen below my card).

I just loved the classic red, white and black color scheme and polka dotted background on her card and wanted to create a similar design.  I used the adorable bunny from Neat & Tangled’s Holiday Baking set as my main image, adding just a touch of color to its cheek.  The sentiment is from the Hero Arts Everyday Sayings set.  The little candy cane is from the same set and is colored with a red Copic marker.  I changed the color arrangement ever so slightly, using a black polka dot decorative paper instead of red as the base.  I then used red cardstock as the matte behind the main panel.  The black polka dot paper was glued directly to the white cardstock card base.  Once assembled, the main panel was attached to the card using foam adhesive to add a little dimension to the overall design.  I then added just a touch of sparkle to the candy cane using a clear Wink of Stella brush marker.  Here is Emily’s original design:

You have a few more days to join us in this challenge!  We’ve collaborated with Neat & Tangled this month and are using their images as inspiration on our designs!

Until next time, happy stamping!

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Simon Says Stamp
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts

Challenge: Copy a Designer with Neat & Tangled, Part Two

Good morning!  Today we’re back with more Neat and Tangled inspiration for our Copy a Designer challenge!!  Click the name to visit each designer’s blog for more details!

 

Coralynn

Donna

Jessica

Kelly

We can’t wait to see what you create for the challenge!  Don’t forget to read our Challenge Rules to make sure you’re eligible to win. Use the link up tool below to submit your entry.


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Simon Says Stamp
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts

I Miss You!

Hello there!  Kimberly here today to share another bit of inspiration for this month’s challenge, ‘Copy A Designer‘!   I CAS’d Swapna’s card from March 2017!

Below is Swapna’s original card.   I really like the outline images stamped around the edge of the card and the colorful & shiny sentiment!

   I wanted to work with the Maple Thanks stamp set from this month’s amazing collaboration partner, Neat & Tangled.   I stamped the image around the edge of my kraft paper with brown ink.   I added some Festive Fall sequins, also from Neat & Tangled here and there around the stamped leaves.

I was so excited that the ink colors in Hero Arts‘ Ombre Autumn Ink Pad matched the sequins perfectly!   I die cut the ‘Hello’ sentiment from Hero Arts Hello Stamp & Cut and used ink blending tools and the Ombre Ink Pad to get a gradient look on the die cut.   To finish it off, I added a heavy layer of Glossy Accents.   I stamped the supporting sentiment, also from the Hello Stamp & Cut set, on a strip of wine colored cardstock and heat embossed it in white.

What do you think?   It’s a fall version of the original….so fun!   

I hope you all get a chance to play along with this month’s challenge!   All you need to do is use at least one Hero Arts product on your project and follow this month’s theme, ‘Copy A Designer’.   Link up your card for a chance to win a great prize from Neat & Tangled!    Can’t wait to see what you create!!

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Simon Says Stamp
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts

Elf on a Shelf!

Hello! Michelle here today to share a cute Christmas card, using goodies from Neat and Tangled and from Hero Arts.

I CASEd a card by made by Donna back in September – you can check out her card HERE.  I used the layout of her card, but overall, this is a very different card to hers!

I used the “Elfs and their shelf” set from Neat and Tangled, along with a sentiment from “Santa’s Wonderland”. I made the background using my favourite technique – white embossing a background stamp (in this case, Highline Ironwork Background from Hero Arts – sadly, discontinued) onto watercolour cardstock, then scribbling with some Zig markers and spraying with water.

I coloured the little elf with Copic markers, before fussy cutting her out, tracing around the edge with a black marker, and adhering her so she looks like she’s perching on the edge of the white card panel.

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Simon Says Stamp
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts