Archives for April 2018

Flowers + Fringe

April 30, 2018

More Flower Challenge Photo Inspiration

Hi Friends! Hope the start of your week is going well! If your Monday is gray, you’re in the perfect spot to get a dose of bright floral cards. I hope they cheer you up, and inspire you to create your own floral cards for this month’s challenge!

I am super excited about my design for these cards, which I came up with trying to figure out the right background for these large beautiful peonies, which are new from Hero Arts. I decided to use the new fringe die to layer up, and varying the colors and the lengths of the fringe to contrast the colors of the flowers. If you don’t have this fringe die, you can totally make your own by cutting slits into thick stripes of colored card stock or you can just use large bold stripes of color or paper which would also be a great effect.

My first two cards are color opposites of each other – I either have a rainbow fringe and a black and white flower or black and white fringe and a rainbow flower, and I think both look great.

I created both the rainbow fringe and the rainbow flower by playing with rainbow colors of watercolor or distress ink on watercolor paper and then using that to die cut from – so super easy! I then added my flowers to the upper right, and a small stamped sentiment on top of my fringe, a few gems, and these cards are done!

My last card uses both a colorful fringe and a color flower but with complimentary colors to neither one overpowers the others. For this card, I wanted my alcohol ink flower with vivid sunset colors to be the focal point, so I used soft teals and aquas for my fringe. For this fringe, I blended an ombre look onto my watercolor paper with Distress Oxides, which created an ombre fringe look which I just love. I like how it looks my peony is floating upon a calm lake with the colors I chose, but with some trendy fringe. I added a gold glitter stripe to help separate the two color pallets a bit, added my small black sentiment, a few white gems and this card is also done! I decided not to trim the petals going over the edge – I’m still debating if I should do it. What do you think? I’d love your opinion!

I hope these fun cards inspired you to Put a Flower On It, and submit your beautiful flower card – whether as the focal point or the background – to the challenge! Thanks so much for stopping by today, I really appreciate it!

xoxo

Hero Arts Products Used:
Hero Arts Clear Stamps Peonies
Hero Arts Dies Peonies
Hello Stamp & Cut
Color Layering Deer Stamp Set
Fiesta Fringe Fancy Die

Let Love Shine

April 27, 2018

Hello, Ericka here. I hope you had a wonderful week and are getting set for a fantastic Friday. Today, I have another card for our current challenge Put a Flower On It.

Since I started making cards, I’ve realized that I’m obsessed with floral images, so I was super excited for this challenge. Hero Arts has some great ones and for this card I’m working with two Antique Rose images. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get stuck using the same color pallet, so today, I CASed Erum Tasneem. She uses beautiful and unique color combinations for her flowers and so I decided to see if I could come up with something similar.

To start off I stamped the images in Versamark Ink on watercolor paper and heat embossed them in gold. I used Gansai Tambi watercolors in No. 57, 51, and 91. No. 57 was my main color and I laid it down closer to the middle of the flower and in the shadow areas of the petals. Working on one petal at a time, I took a clean brush and filled the rest of the petal with water, pulling the color to the empty space. Once those were dry, I took random parts of the petals and added in the gold (No.91) and the lighter green (No.51). I love the look that the gold gives the flower.

Once the flowers were all dry, and I was done playing with shading, I added some gold washi tape to the center of the card. I stamped the sentiment on some black card stock in Versamark ink and heat embossed it in gold as well. I adhered the sentiment with foam tape to give it some dimension and then adhered the card onto black card stock. I love this sentiment and feel like it really adds to the “shine” of the card. To finish the card, I added some splatters of gold paint.

I hope you enjoyed my card and that you have a chance to play along with us in this fun challenge. I can’t wait to see what you create!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Spring Layering Flowers!

April 24, 2018

Happy Tuesday! Kim with you today sharing a spring inspired card with some of the fantastic Hero Arts Layering Flowers 🙂

I decided to go with a color scheme that I rarely use but always like the end result! I started by stamping my flowers and leaves from the For You Flowers and Layering Roses using Hero Arts inks in Pale Tomato, Crimson, Red Royal, Soft Vanilla, Butter Bar, Green Apple and Fresh Lawn and die cut my images with the accompanying dies.

I love using wood grain pattern paper with this color scheme so I pulled a small piece out of my stash to go behind the window. Once that was complete I place my panel on top of the pattern paper and adhered everything to the card base.

Once I lined up my flowers and was happy with the placement, I took a picture (makes it easier to place after stamping the sentiment). I stamped my sentiment also from the For You Flowers in Hero Arts Black Die Ink and I placed my flowers with a mix of foam tape and glue. I placed a few sequins and felt I needed a little something extra so I added a small strip of black and white stripe paper from my stash. These layering flowers really make it possible to create a fun and quick project! All of the supplies listed below!

Go check out the challenge! Have a great day and thanks for taking the time!

Kim

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Teacup Mice & Flowers

April 21, 2018

I am back with another post for A Blog Named Hero and continuing with the “put a flower on it” challenge for the month of April.

I was inspired by the Mouse Tea Party stamp set from Hero Arts. I thought the flowers (and the mouse) were so cute and that I could do a subtle flower theme for the the challenge this month. Once the card was complete, my crafty friend Karen (find her @karendejarnette on Instagram) suggested I photograph the card with a teacup in the background – enter my grandmother’s old tea set! Just darling!

If you look really close at the stamp set and the little mouse in the tea cup, she does not have a flower in her ear – I added that detail after the fact. Watch my video for me details about how this card was made.

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On a piece of what Bristol Smooth cardstock, I stamped the small tea cup with the flower on it. I then made a mask and covered the image so that I could stamp the tea pot and other tea cup so that it looked like they were in the background. I then stamped the other details and the sentiment to complete the look. Using black versafine ink, I clear heat embossed the sentiment at the bottom to offer some shine. I colored the images using my Zig Real Color pens and a waterbrush to create shading.

The outside of the card was created using flowers from the stamp set and Soft Granite ink. I used a rounded rectangle die to lightly trace where I would die cut a window and stamped around the entire edge of the card.

Once the stamping was complete, I cut the center window using the rectangle die. I wanted card to look as though it was one layer even though it is not. I glued the little mouse scene to the back of the rectangle window and adhered everything to a side folding white notecard. For some shine and interest, I added confetti sequins to the project.

Thank you so much for stopping by this week and I hope you enjoy this month’s challenge! I look forward to the entries you create for this challenge!

SUPPLIES

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Hello Beautiful!

April 18, 2018

Jeanne here today with another card for our latest challenge “Put A Flower On It!” There are so many different floral sets available from Hero Arts that you’ll have no trouble finding one to use for this month’s challenge.

I started with a panel of card stock inked with Ranger Distress Ink in Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass. I spritzed the panel with water, Broken China and white ink. I topped the panel with two die cut Filigree Borders to create a trellis for the Flowers For You!

Whenever I get a new stamp set I cut lots of flowers in different colors. That way when I want to make something I have several already cut and stamped – ready to work with! These triple stamped flowers come to life each time you add a layer of ink! (You can see all the colors I used in the links below.)
I love the mixed fort sentiment from the set. The script and bold print look beautiful together. I stamped them on a simple banner die cut.

Now it’s your turn! I sure hope you’ll join us for our Put a Flower On It! Challenge. Click here to jump to the challenge page where you can find more samples and link up your own project!