Challenge

Challenge: Embossing

March 15, 2019

Good morning! We hope you are having a wonderful month of March, so far, and are looking forward to the weekend. Our new challenge starts today and it’s all about Embossing! Heat embossing, dry embossing, whatever you’ve got up your sleeve, it works for our challenge.

As always, there are two prizes this month, one for a random winner and one for a chosen winner, both are gift cards to the Hero Arts store. Thank you Hero Arts! Below are some cards that we hope inspire you for this month’s challenge. Click on the picture to go to the Design Team member’s blog for more details.

This month we have a very special person joining us, Linda Trace! Linda started this blog many years ago with our friend Mary Dawn Quirindongo and then entrusted it to Jess and myself, Lisa, for the last couple of years. Well, guess what? Linda is coming back! She’s taking over, starting TODAY! So please leave a lovely comment welcoming her back. I know she’s got big plans for the blog, and I’m excited to see it grow.

Linda has chosen a new Design Team for 2019 and they are going to knock your socks off! It’s an amazing team and we are very excited to see their projects each month. Introductions will start soon, so make sure to check back frequently or subscribe to the blog via email over on the left side of this page.

Sending My Love

March 8, 2019

Hey there, it’s Juhi with my post for the month. Today, I’m sharing a floral watercolor card, it features one of my favorite floral stamps – the gorgeous flowering magnolia stamp from Hero Arts.

I started off by stamping the magnolia flower on a watercolor cardstock panel with black ink, masking it and stamping a few more flowers in the background with grey ink. I then watercolored the focal image with zig clean color real brush markers. Everything was going great until now but I managed to spoil it (as I usually tend to do when things are going great!) by splattering some purple distress oxide ink. I tried to salvage the piece by spraying water and dabbing with a paper towel which made it worse. I then added lots of green watercolor paint to camouflage the purple splatters.

I finally finished off the card by cutting the watercolor panel in two around the flower and mounting the two pieces with a little gap in between on a pink cardstock base.

I hope you like how my card finally turned out. Do you also mess up perfectly beautiful projects while trying to add something extra or is it just me?

Supplies Used:

MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Embossing Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Intense Black Shop at: Hero Arts	CM261 Hero Florals Magnolia Shop at: Hero Arts
DI198 NESTING RECTANGLE INFINITY DIES Shop at: Hero Arts

Love is in the Air!

February 24, 2019

Kim with you today to share some inspiration for the current Love is in the Air Challenge!

For my card today, I decided to play with the fantastic Hero Arts Watercolors! I took a piece of Tim Holtz Watercolor paper and started by adding three drops direct to paper of the HA Pink Watercolor and sprayed water to help with the movement using my Distress Sprayer. I decided to add some HA Strawberry Watercolor ink using the same method to deepen the color and I also added some Distress Paint in Antique Bronze also using the same technique.

Once that was dry, I dry embossed my Love Confetti die and added some “splatter” with the same Distress Paint and added the Picket Fence and Black Soot. I put that aside to dry once more.

I took my New Day Butterflies and stamped the second largest with Versamark ink and used my rose gold embossing powder. I was careful in using my Copic markers so as not to harm my nibs and remove my embossing. I then used the accompanying die.

I took my Tonic mirror cardstock and die cut the Wonderful. I also embossed my secondary sentiment using the same rose gold embossing powder and die cut it from a banner die.

I place all of my elements on the card panel and added some black Nuvo drops to the Butterfly. I also finished off the card with some rose gold sequins with Nuvo White Blizzard glitter drops in the centres.

Thanks for taking the time. All of the products used are listed and linked below. Affiliate links used where possible at no extra cost to you!

Kim

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Every Single Day

February 19, 2019

Hello Crafty Friends! I have a wonderful Poppy card to share with you for this month’s challenge. If you want to see a bonus card I made, hop over to my blog for a special treat!

If you don’t know already, the theme is Love Is In The Air and there is a lovely and rich color palette.

Based on both the theme and the colors, I was inspired to make this card for my sweet valentine! I have had this stamp set since it was released and I never inked it up – oye.

Starting with a piece of of White cardstock, I used my Misti to start arranging my poppies. The colors for the poppies are Cotton Candy, Ultra Pink and Mulled Wine and the stems and buds are in Moss. For the sentiment, from the stamp set All My Love Decorative Hearts and edge of the card I used grape juice. I used black to stamp the stamen and a white gel pen to add details. The panel was trimmed down to 5.25×4 and added to a top folding notecard with craft foam and adhesive. A finishing touch was added with sequins for additional interest.

Remember to check out my blog for the bonus card I made.

SUPPLIES

Want to find the products I used? They are listed below for ease of reference. (Affiliated links are used at no cost to you. Thank you!) Click on the icons below each product picture to go to a favorite store.

Challenge: Love is in the Air

February 15, 2019

Hello and Happy Friday! We’re excited to share our next challenge with you! Our challenge is Love is in the Air and we have a pretty color palette to inspire you!

And now for some inspiration from our Design Team. Click on the picture to go to their blog for more details.

The challenge runs until March 10th and there are two prizes up for grabs. A $50 gift certificate and a $25 gift certificate to Hero Arts!

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