Caren Bartholomew

Snowflake Happy Holidays

October 27, 2019

Hi crafters, it’s Caren here today. I’m sharing a fun sparkly holiday card for you today. Since it has snowflakes, I think it meets this month’s challenge – Nature!

I die cut the Snowflake Pattern Cover plate from blue card stock. I adhered it to a piece of silver glitter paper (it’s so sparkly!) I glued this to my white card base. I die cut the sentiment from the Happy Holidays Script Stamp and Cut set three times from white card stock. I glued them together to give the sentiment more dimension on the card.

I added a few white jewels on the snowflakes to finish the card. I love, love, love this snowflake die. It is so pretty and intricate and it’s easy to create quick and easy gorgeous cards.

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Happy Halloween

September 27, 2019

Hi crafters! It’s Caren here, hope everyone had a great week. I’m ready for the cooler weather, it is still pretty warm here in Oklahoma.

For today, I have a one layer Halloween card to share. I love making Halloween cards, I think its the bright purple, green, and orange colors. I used the Pure Magic stamp set and Happy Halloween die from the September My Monthly Hero kit to create my card.

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I started by drawing a line on my card base to ensure my bottles were lined up. I then stamped the bottles using a couple of masks where the bottles would over lap. I added masks to the rest of the bottles and some post it notes to mask off the area below the bottles.

Next, I ink blended the top part of the card with a few shades of purple distress ink. I removed the masks and colored the bottles with Copic markers. I stamped the stars from the same set in black ink onto the card. I added glossy accents on the bottles to look like glass.

I ink blended with orange and purple distress ink on a piece of white card stock and then die cut Happy Halloween from it. I die cut the Happy Halloween two more times from white card stock and adhered the three die cuts together. This is a great way to give a little dimension to the card. I adhered this to my card and added a few green jewels to finish the card.

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So Proud of You

August 27, 2019

Hi crafters! It’s Caren here, hope everyone’s week is going great. I love that Hero Arts embraces other companies in the stamping industry. For today’s card, I used the collaboration stamp set – You Make a Difference – from Hero Arts and Pinkfresh Studios. I knew I had to have this stamp set when I saw it.

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I used the large flower stamp from the set and heat embossed the image and the sentiment on watercolor paper using rose gold embossing powder. I water colored the flower image using distress inks and a water brush.

I die cut the image and the sentiment using some scalloped rectangles from my stash. I adhered the image panel to a pink card base. I also layered the sentiment image on a piece of pink card stock. I then adhered the sentiment panel using foam adhesive. I added three pink jewels to finish the card.

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Peace, Love, and Prosperity

July 27, 2019

Hi crafters! It’s Caren here, hope everyone had a great week. I decided to stick to this months challenge theme with today’s card.

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I was able to get me hands on some of the new Hero Arts Christmas products at my local craft store.

The first one is the Poinsettia Ornament die. I love dies like these. I cut the top layer with silver glitter paper and the bottom layer in black card stock. I adhered the two layers together with liquid adhesive. I then found the glittery red piece of patterned paper and adhered it to a black card base.

The sentiment is from a new stamp set from Hero Arts named Holiday messages. I heat embossed one of the sentiments from this set onto black card stock and silver embossing powder. I adhered the ornament and the sentiment to the card using dimensional adhesive.

For the final touches on the card, I added silver twine to the top of the ornament and them added three silver jewels to the card.

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Sig_Caren

Stay Golden

June 27, 2019

Hi everyone, it’s Caren here! hope everyone is having a great week, I’m looking forward to the short work week next week for the Fourth of July!

Today I have a fun Fishy card to share with you today.

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I used Hero Art’s Fishy stamp and die set to create this card. I stamped the fishbowl onto some patterned paper that had a slight blue gradient with a few blue speckles. I also stamped the bottom part of the fishbowl onto brown patterned paper and cut out the sand part of the bowl. I paper pieced this onto the fishbowl. I stamped the fish and rocks onto some white card stock and used the dies to cut out the fish. I hand cut the rocks.

I heat embossed the Stay Golden sentiment onto black card stock and trimmed the piece to fit the sentiment. The fish, rocks, and bottom of the fishbowl was colored with Copic markers.

I die cut a piece of light brown wood-grained patterned paper with a rectangle die that has wonky stitching. I backed this piece with a piece of black card stock. I adhered the fishbowl, fish, and rocks onto this panel. The sentiment was adhered to the panel using dimensional adhesive. This was then attached to a white card base to finish the card.

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Sig_Caren