Archives for 2020

Home décor

April 3, 2020

Hello there! It’s me, Cha! I want to show you this idea for the March challenge. I hope you are going to love this idea for decorating your home. Remember this March challenge is going to end by April 10th. Make sure to use your Hero Arts products to create something different except a card and to join us in this March challenge. Let’s started!

First of all, I picked heavyweight vellum, such as the Hero Arts. I used four sheets of vellum to create this decoration. You can use your MISTI Stamping Tool if you want to but I preferred not to use it because I used a Cling Stamp which is easy to stamp without using a stamping tool. I used the Hero Arts Venetian Fleur-de-lis Bold Prints that is a 6″ by 6″ rubber stamp. I faced the rubber up on my work surface so that I could press the vellum down on top of the stamp. So, I used an Anti-Static Powder Tool first on the vellum sheet and inked the stamp with Versamark Ink. Then, I pressed the vellum down the stamp firmly and I heat embossed this piece with White Embossing Powder. As it is a sheet of vellum, I trimmed the piece down to the size of the stamp (6″x6″) excepting the right side that I left 0,75″ and scored it to create the lap for gluing this to the next side of this candle decor using adhesive tape.

I created three more pieces like this one. Then, I wanted to create something similar to a square, so I glued each lap to the next piece of vellum until I created this square.

Finally, I added this decorative square on a decorative plate and added artificial candles inside. However, you can create one of these as a vase for indoor plants, cacti or flowers.

I hope you understand this process and like this idea. Also, I hope you get inspired to join us in the March challenge!

Thank you for stopping by and see you soon!

Trio of Tags

March 27, 2020

Hi everyone, I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. It’s really hard to fathom what is going on in the world right now. I hope that sharing some craftiness can bring a little sunshine into your day.

I’m sticking with this month’s challenge theme of Anything but a card in today’s post. I made three different Christmas tags using various inks and stamp sets from Hero Arts.

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For my first tag, I ink blended a white tag and a stencil with two ink cubes from Hero Arts – Lime Green and Forest. I then stamped the holly image and Merry Christmas sentiment from the Mini Christmas stamp set, colored the small images with Copic markers, and added a couple of jewels to complete the tag.

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My second tag uses the Hero Arts Blue Reactive ink and the Stacking Snowflakes stamp set. I stamped one part of the snowflake in the blue ink and heat embossed the second layer with silver embossing powder. The sentiment is from the November 2017 My Monthly Hero kit.

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The third tag features more ink blending with blue inks and then I overlayed a snowflake stencil and used the Unicorn White Hero Art ink. The stamps for this tag are from the Winter Silhouettes stamp set.

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There is still time to join the A Blog Named Heroes monthly challenge.

March Anything but a card

Thanks for stopping by!

Sig_Caren

Little gifts, for a crazy time.

March 21, 2020

Sweet Treat Bags Made with Woodblock Stamps

Hello Makers! This month the challenge is to create ”Anything but a Card ” and in my previous post I made bookmarks. Today I will share with you another fun project that is perfect for an Easter table, a Birthday, or just a simple little small gift.

I recently gave these to two girlfriends who are also practicing “social distancing” as you know we out here in Northern California have been ordered to shelter in place for the past week so we are all starting to go a little crazy between working from home, homeschooling, having your spouse around 24/7 and lack of purely just getting out for a coffee and some exercise.

We are all taking this VERY seriously so as to flatten the curve and save others lives, so I made these and dropped off a couple of bath bombs and some special tea bags and a couple of tiny chocolates- just left them in the mailbox and texted them to let them know a treat had been left off.
Right now it really is the smallest gestures that will keep people positive that we will get through this together.

So…onto the making! I took some Hero Arts Dove white cardstock and I used two lawn fawn dies to die cut these two cute bags. You cut two duplicates per bag and it takes about 2/3 of an 8-1/2×11 sheet of cardstock. You could also use Kraft paer and just make a simple little bag or use a paper lunchbag like we used to take.

I stamped with versamark sticky ink and embossed the large woodblock flowers on two of the bags fronts and embossed with white and gold embossing powders and then did some very quick coloring with Zig and tombow markers, I added some details with colored pencil, I kept it fairly simple as I did not know if these would juts get recycled or thrown away immediately due to the virus. After you are done stamping and coloring then I used double sided adhesive tape to put them together. And added some coordinating tissue paper. You could also add some sweet little tags but I ran out of time!

More images on my blog, hope you have a quiet and restful weekend, and STAY Healthy!

I hope you enjoy this inspiration and please take some time to craft and make it will ease your mind and soul. Dont forget to link up your projects here for the chance to win a $50 gift card from Hero Arts.

Lee Ann

March Challenge!

March 15, 2020

Hi there!

It’s time for our March challenge!

This month we want to see you make:

So we want to see your note paper, bookmarks, scrapbooking layouts, ANYTHING but cards 🙂 As always, be sure to use Hero Arts products.

One winner will be selected by or DT, and win a $50 gift voucher, a second winner will be chosen at random to receive a $25 voucher!

Be sure to enter the challenge (via the linky tool below) by 5pm on the 10th of next month, to be in the running for one of the TWO gift cards from our delightful sponsors, Hero Arts!

See you again soon!

Linda

Make a wish

March 13, 2020

Hello everyone. I am here today sharing one last birthday card before our new challenge is up the 15th.

For my card I have used several stamp sets and dies to create this, fairy in the woods, birthday scene. I started by using left over blue ink on my blender brush to create a soft, blue sky.

I used the “Tree arch fancy die” twice on a couple of patterned papers to create a paper pieced wood clearing. I inked the edges of the tree trunks and tree crown using brown and green inks.

I also cut grass from the same patterned paper as the tree crown using the “Thorn tree and grasses fancy die“. I then glued my grass and trees to the blue background.

I then turned to my stamps. My fairy girl is a stamp from the 2018 December MMH kit and my cake is from the 2020 February MMH kit. I colored both of the images using copic markers, a white gel pen and my Wink of Stella glitter brush pen.

I glued my images on the scene and stamped my sentiment, also from the February MMH kit before I cut the scene slightly smaller than the white card base to create a very thin frame for the scene.

I hope to see you again here on our blog when our new and exciting challenge is up in just a couple of days.