Archives for October 2020

Winter Greetings

October 27, 2020

Hello everyone. Hope everyone’s week is starting off great. It’s icy and snowy here today.

My card today is a shaker card. It features a see thru element which is this months challenge!

My images are from a previous My Monthly Hero kit. I colored them with Copic Markers and die cut them using the coordinating dies. My sentiment is from the Stacking Snowflake stamp set. I filled the shaker part with various sequins from my stash.

Thanks so much for visiting and don’t forget to visit the challenge to link up your project for a chance to win a Hero Arts gift card!

Holiday Joy

October 24, 2020

Hello, crafty friends! It’s Seeka here and today I have a shaker card to share. Shaker cards are a perfect fit for this month’s challenge theme, “A See-Through Element.”

I started off by heat embossing the Hand Drawn Snowflakes background stamp, with Ultra Fine clear embossing powder, onto an A2-sized panel of Lavender cardstock. Then, I used a http://ablognamedhero.com/2020/10/challenge-time-for-october/blending brush to blend a bit of Orchid ink over the corners of the panel.

Next, I used the Joy Ornament die to cut a circle out of the panel. I also used the die on a piece of white cardstock and set that piece aside while I worked on the shaker.

To create the shaker, I used double-sided tape to adhere a piece of acetate to the back of the lavender panel. Then I adhered a double-layer of foam tape around the back side of the round opening, to contain the sequins, and along the perimeter of the panel. With the panel facing down, I poured a bit of Icicle Sequins mix into the area behind the round opening and then I removed the release tape from the foam tape and adhered another panel of Lavender cardstock.

To finish the card, I added the ornament chain and then adhered the card front to a card base.

Thanks so much for visiting and don’t forget to visit the challenge to link up your project for a chance to win a Hero Arts gift card!

Autumn See Through Layers

October 21, 2020

Hello everyone! Hope you are having a lovely fall and I am not quite ready for winter cards yet so I wanted to focus on some beautiful fall colors but all with this month’s theme of a “see-through element”. For all three of this month’s cards, I created autumn-colored backgrounds with a Gelli plate and acrylic paint and then used my two favorite See-Through techniques using a raised frame (The Window Die) and a strip of vellum to hold a sentiment over a colorful, busy background. I love layers and using a very colorful textured print with stamping on top is wonderful but sometimes hard to add a sentiment on top.

The See-Through Vellum pairs beautifully with a die-cut on top like the Sunflower Fancy Die or the beautiful garden window both from Hero Arts. I stamped on top of the colorful backgrounds with complementary fall colors, dark brown shadow ink for the silhouetted images on top. I like to set a color palette when I start and for this, it was orange, olive green, and a butter yellow.

I also combined stamps from four Hero Arts stamp sets and three dies from my collection. It is so nice to get out all of your supplies from a season and mix them all up. I hope this inspires you to create some painted or stamped backgrounds and overlay them with some Vellum, Fancy die-cuts, and or windows.

Make sure that you link up your See-Through creations for a chance to win a $50 gift card from our wonderful sponsor Hero Arts.

We look forward to seeing your makes! Lee Ann

Challenge Time for October!

October 15, 2020

Hi there crafters!

How is it October already?! Jeesh this year feels like it’s flown by for me (although I know not everyone feels this way this year!)

This month we’re asking you to get your creative juices flowing by making projects that incorporate

That can mean clear panels, peep holes, portholes, cut away segments, shaker cards, anything you can think of!

Now if you join us, as always thanks to our amazing sponsors, Hero Arts, you can win one of two gift vouchers!

We look forward to seeing what you make!

Enter via the linky tool below before 10th November, at 5pm!

See you soon!
Linda & the team x

Challenge Winners

October 10, 2020

Hi there crafting friends!

I’m here to announce the winners of the last two challenges.

For August we asked you to go for

and boy did you all make some CUTE cards!! So hard to pick winners.

But pick we did, and here they are. A big big BIG thanks to our delightful sponsors, the beloved Hero Arts, who are offering up TWO gift vouchers to their store to two lucky winners.

The winner of the $25 gift voucher is Helen from Cards from Helen, a new blog but such a CUTE card!

and the winner of the $50 gift voucher is Anna with this card that’s so stinking cute I’d like to frame it!

Now for the September challenge, which was to keep it

The lucky winner of the $25 gift voucher is Ishani (from the blog Quillish) with this lovely CAS card

One layer Masculine card, Acrylic block stamping, Hero Arts lake card, Pier at the lake stamp set, Quillish, Clean and simple cards

and the winner of the $25 gift voucher is Jennifer from Crafting with Aloha!

Congratulations winners!! Please email us at ablognamedhero@gmail.com, specify which challenge you’re a winner of (just to make life easier!).

Thanks so much to everyone for playing, and our beloved Hero Arts for continuing to sponsor us.

See you in a couple of days for the next challenge!