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Rainbow Repeat Stamping

Hello crafty friends! Its Teri here posting for our July Challenge Repeat Yourself on A Blog Named Hero.  I hope you are finding lots of inspiration and ideas on Repeat Stamping Techniques. I have three different cards using the You Lift Me Up Stamp Set.

Check out the fun colors used on this curved front card! I selected a rainbow of colors for the hot air balloons. Reactive Inks in Creamsicle, Fruit Punch, Green Apple, Pool Party, Grape Slush and Lemon Drop made this a bright and cheerful card!

Use a Curved Die to cut the shape on the top of a Hotdog card allowing room for the rainbow striped piece and a sentiment. Lining these images up without a Misti Stamping Tool would be a challenge. Start with the purple balloon and move the card front to the right and up by 1/4 inch. This will allow the balloons to overlap.  After stamping the Pool and Green balloons, return to the center position and repeat on the left.

 

The rainbow striped piece was created by using the Direct to Paper Technique on 1/4 inch strips of paper. After I had created  five strips with different colors, I glued them on a piece of paper that had been cut with the same curved die. Once the strips were attached, I trimmed the piece to allow the colors to pop under the stamped piece!  The sentiment is from the same stamp set.

 

This one is similar in concept, starting with the purple balloon and moving the card base up and to the left, stamping the next balloon and then moving it up and to the right to stamp another balloon.

 

Once the line of balloons was complete, I trimmed 1/4 inch off the left side and added an orange strip.  The sentiment is from the Acts of Kindness Stamp Set.

 

The third card was created using the same technique as the prior card except the stamping was done on the right side of the card. Once the images were stamped, the balloons were fussy cut on the right side to allow a piece of light blue cardstock to show. The sentiment is from the same set.

 

I hope you have enjoyed my post and will consider entering your own creation in our monthly challenge. There are gift cards to be won sponsored by Hero Arts. Go to the bottom of the post on A Blog Named Hero to enter. 

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Lifestyle Dies: A Pithy Obsession

Hello Crafty Friends!  

This month our challenge is all about repetition–and that’s one of my favorite things for cardmaking. 

Taking a simple image and using it over and over can be a great way to stretch your stamps and dies and make something unexpected.  And for today’s card, I did just that, using just one tiny die, one equally tiny stamp, and one detail that is totally, uniquely me. 

This card started with my obsession with the hat die, which is part of the Hero Lifestyle Picnic Day set.  I obsessed over it because I had somehow started thinking of it as a pith helmet, although I really think it is intended to be a straw sun hat.   

I ink blended my summer version of a rainbow on my die cut pith helmets, using my new Hero Hues reactive inks in Taffy, Lemon Drop, Pool Party, and Blue Hawaii (those names just sound like summer, don’t they?) and lined them up carefully on white 4 X 5.25 card stock.

And then I got stuck, which happens to me sometimes.  I needed heads for the helmets–but cutting the heads off  a dozen Lifestyle people dies, seemed pretty barbaric.  Creatively blocked, I just stared down at my hands!  Problem solved:  I used one of my fingerprints to “stamp” the heads!  And now the card is totally, uniquely me.

The heads needed faces–so I just picked a happy one from the Hero Lifestyle Faces  stamp set.  This little face is soooo tiny, I was sure I’d lose it on my craft desk (I am NOT a neat crafter); somehow I managed to not lose it (or smudge the card.)  I popped up those pith helmets on the head at suitably jaunty angles using foam dots, and then all I needed was a sentiment. 

I wanted something that went with my pith helmet obsession and I was stuck…again.  Ugh.  Fortunately, I was zoom crafting with my friends, including the oh-so-lovely-and-clever Michelle Lupton.  Took her about 30 seconds to suggest a just perfect sentiment from the My Monthly Hero kit for March 2021.*  She’s a genius.  And so:  Adventure is at your fingertips!  (I love a good pun!!)

I hope you enjoyed my card with the one dozen explorers wearing rainbow-hued pith helmets.  They are ready for some summertime fun, and so am I! 

Now it’s your turn!  Show us how you repeat yourself by entering our challenge with a creation of your own, which will also give you a chance to win one of our two prizes from our sponsor, Hero Arts.  Can’t wait to see what you create!

Thanks for stopping by, 

                                               

 

* The March 2021 My Monthly Hero kit is sold out.  However, the Fly High Animals stamp set has a couple of great adventure-themed sentiments that would work well). 

Repeat With Me…

Hello everyone! Welcome to the July challenge “Repetition”. I hope you will all join along and stretch those creative muscles. 

There are so many creative uses of repetition that you could use… My card for this month includes repeated stamping and images. 

I started with an A2 side fold white card base and used the mail stamp along with “contour ink” to stamp the background. This gave all that white space just a bit more interest. I cut a piece of sand cardstock to about 2 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. I applied embossing ink to the script stamp from the “Sending Love Mail” set and stamped the sand cardstock for a tone on tone look. 

Three butterflies from the “Envelope Accessories Fancy Dies” were cut from white cardstock and colored with Copic markers: YR07, YR16 and YR04 and the 110 Special Black. I added the white dots to make it a Monarch butterfly with a Gelly Roll 08 white pen. The “Sending My Love” sentiment was stamped using Intensified Black Ink onto a small strip. 

The sand cardstock was adhered with liquid adhesive onto the middle of the cardbase. I also cut very small (about 1/8th inch) strips of Papaya cardstock to really bring out the orange in the butterflies. I added the butterflies with the same liquid adhesive keeping the top and bottom butterflies only adhered at the body so the wings could be lifted to give dimension. The middle butterfly was fully adhered due to the sentiment being across it. I did also add a few strips of scrap paper under the sentiment for dimension. 

Supply List:

Dove White side fold cards

Dove White cardstock

Sand cardstock

Papaya cardstock

Sending Love Mail stamp set

Contour Ink 

Embossing Ink

Intensified Black Ink

Envelope Accessories Fancy Dies

Copic Markers: YR07, YR16, YR04 and 110 Special Black

Gelly Roll White Pen 08

 

I hope that you enjoyed this card today. I had fun making it! I can’t wait to see your submissions for the challenge. 

Stay crafty friends!

July Challenge – Repeat Yourself

Hello crafty friends and welcome back for another fun challenge sponsored by our namesake and sponsor Hero Arts! Remember that everyone who enters (and follows the rules!) has a chance to win one of two gift vouchers from our fabulous Namesake and sponsor, Hero Arts!!

 

Thanks as always to the lovely Hero Arts team for supporting us! Be sure to enter your projects via the linky tool at the bottom of the post, by 5pm on the 26th of the month for your chance to win!

The challenge this month is Repeat Yourself. I can think of so many ways to incorporate this theme.

I hope the amazing posts from the design team will inspire you to enter using the linky tool at the bottom of this post!

Feeling inspired? We’d love to see your creations! Enter via the Linky Tool below.

Sending Crafty Hugs!

 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter


Tone on Tone Monochromatic Card

Hello Crafty Folks!!
I hope all of you are doing great and inspired by the wonderful monochromatic cards the DTs have been creating all throughout the month.

I decided to create a Blue Monochrome Birthday Card, after my Orange Monochrome Card which was Travel themed card. If you missed seeing it, click here to have a look.

So for today’s card, I wanted to keep it simple and introduce you to the tone on tone technique in the card. A technique that not only accentuates the beauty of the stamp and the color but also is quick and simple.

To create this card I trimmed the Hero Hues Premium Dove Cardstock of the measurement 4x 5.25 inches and then treated it with anti static powder to prep up for the heat embossing. For today’s card, I stamped the tulips from the Hero Florals Tulip Stamp set randomly and heat set with the Hero Arts White Embossing Powder.

After I was happy with my heat set, I started ink blending this panel using the Hero Arts Dusty Blue Shadow Ink Pad and created an Ombre effect by ink blending at the bottom of the panel with the heavy hand and taking it up to the top with the gentle hand.

Now the technique of the tone on tone begins, I used Hero Arts Hawaii Reactive Ink to color the petals and the flowers very gently and with little strokes. Once I was happy with the whole panel, I splattered the panel with the same Hero Arts Hawaii Reactive Ink, Titanium White and Black acrylic paints to give it a dimension and added interest.

I completed the card by adding the sentiments Happy Birthday from the same stamp set by heat setting it on the Hero Hues Premium Cardstock Pitch Black using the Hero Arts White Embossing Powder and stuck it on the panel using the 3D foam tape. I then pasted this panel on the Hero Hues Dove White Top Folded Card.

I hope you are inspired by this Tone on Tone Monochrome Card. Do not forget to create your card and link it up with the current challenge at the Blog. You can link up your creations here and win a chance to win the $50 gift card to shop it at Hero Arts.