A Blog Named Hero

Embossed Background & Color Stamp Layering

Hi there! I’m on the blog A Blog Named Hero for another card with the June Challenge 2019! Have you already joined the challenge with your sympathy cards? If you don’t, you have some time to do so! Join us uploading your cards until July 10th, 2019 for a chance to win a voucher with 50$ or 25$ on Hero Arts online store!

I made two cards because I was experimenting with some colors. The processes on the two cards are the same, except for the colors.

 

I started stamping the Venetian Fleur-de-Lis Bold Prints on top of a black piece cardstock, using Versamark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

 

On a piece of white cardstock, I used the mini MISTI stamping tool in order to double stamping the image. I stamped the flower from the Color Layering Calla Lily stamp set with blueish inks. First, I stamped the first layer with Soft Pool ink, then I stamped the second layer with Summer Sky ink, and I stamped the fine lines of the last layer with Navy Mid-tone Shadow Ink. Later, I followed the same process for stamping the leaves. As the leaves had two layers, I stamped the first one with Moss Bold ink and the second one with Forever Green Mid-Tone Shadow ink. I die cut all the pieces with the coordinating dies.

I stamped the sentiment from the Color Layering Calle Lily stamp set with Versamark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I trimmed the sentiment on a strip.

I assembled this card in a very simple way. I first glued a piece of Arctic cardstock on top of a white notecard and over this, I attached the embossed background. I glued the flowers and the leaves together and adhered over the background. I also added the sentiment strip above the flowers and the leaves with some foam tape.

To finish the card, I added some Nuvo Drops English Mustard at the center of each flower. Also, I added different types of sequins to the background – black confetti and blue bubbles sequins. I added some green bubbles sequins on top of the leaves, too. These bubbles sequins came with a past kit, so they are not available anymore but you can find some similar options HERE, HERE and HERE. Finally, I added some gold shimmer to the flowers and leaves.


I also made another card with the same products but different colors. I heat embossed the background with Gold embossing powder. Also, I stamped the flower with Soft Yellow Shadow ink, Butter Bar Mid-Tone Shadow ink, and Orange Soda Shadow ink. For embellishing this card, I just added some gold and black confetti here and there. These confetti embellishments came with the My Monthly Hero February 2019 and it is still available.


I hope you like these cards! Join us to this June Challenge 2019! Thank you!

See you the next time!

CHAXI ABNH
Cha

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Hi there! It’s Cha here on the blog A Blog Named Hero for the May challenge 2019 in which we want to congrats Hero Arts company in their 45th anniversary! There are a few days left to join this May challenge for the chance to win a 50$ or 25$ voucher for Hero Arts store!

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For today’s card, I picked a past My Monthly Hero kit. If you don’t know these kits, Hero Arts kits (known as My Monthly Hero kits) have been a good investment for new cardmakers in these years because they come with different, new and limited products (see here). The My Monthly Hero kit that I used for my card has to be a must-have product because of the sentiments and word dies that come with this kit… yeah! I’m talking about the My Monthly Hero kit March 2018… and it is still available! Yeah! I invite you to visit their online store and take a look because you can create beautiful and emotive cards with just one kit! In the case that this kit was not available anymore, you could find some alternatives here and here.

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First of all, I picked a piece of 5,5 by 4,25-inch white cardstock. For stamping, I just used a medium-size acrylic block. I stamped the small sun that came with the kit here and there until I had my whole panel completed, using different colors inks. I used the inks that came with the kits along these years but they are very similar colors of the Hero Arts ink: mulled wine, navy, aquatic, red royal, rose madder, soft sky, summer sky, butter bar, orchid, orange soda, tangerine, deep ocean, soft granite, cup o ‘joe, pumpkin pie, just rust, and green apple. Now that my piece was full of suns, I also stamped the flower that came with the kit. I stamped this flower on every sun that I’d previously stamped. I followed the chromatic color wheel in order to change the color. For example, if I stamped the sun with butter bar ink, I stamped the flower with orchid or orange soda ink. Also, there were some suns that were so dark, as the navy ones, so I decided to stamp the flower on each of them using the unicorn pigment ink. When I finished stamping all the flowers over the suns, I decided to fill the gaps with some hearts here and there, too.

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Later, I used my mini MISTI for stamping the sentiment because I wanted to stamp it several times. I designed the phrase choosing each word from the kit before stamping. When I was satisfied with my phrase, I stamped with black ink and then, heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

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Next, I trimmed the sides of the panel just a half inch and glued over a 5,5 by 4,25-inch black cardstock that I attached the whole piece to an A2 white notecard.

For some details, I gave some shine to the flowers with a shimmer pen. I also added some dimensional dots on the center of each flower with the lacquer pen.

I didn’t add anything else due to the shine of the card!

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I hope you’ll join this new May challenge 2019 at A Blog Named Hero to a chance to win 50$ or 25$ voucher from Hero Arts! We are waiting for your creations!

See you!

CHAXI ABNH

Cha

 

 

Black and White CAS Card

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Hello everyone! It’s Cha here with another card for A Blog Named Hero. As you know there are a few days left until April’s challenge 2019 is going to end. So, I’m going to show you one different CAS card that I hope you are going to love it!

 

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For today’s card, I used a previous My Monthly Hero kit (February 2019). There are few of this kit available.

First, I stamped the girl with a drink from the main kit at the center of the card, using intense black ink. Then, I masked the image so that I could blend the background with black soot Distress ink except for the top and bottom edges of the card, for these, I decided to blend some white pigment ink.

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Later, I unmasked the central image and started coloring in black and white colors. For coloring, I just used three polychromos colored pencils – warm grey II, warm grey V and black. I started coloring with the dark one, then the medium color and finally, I finished blending the medium and light colors. When I finished coloring, I stamped the image again using Versafine onyx black ink and heat embossed with ultra fine embossing powder.

The sentiment that I picked is also from the main kit and I stamped the sentiment underneath the central image that I heat embossed with white embossing powder, then.

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For final details, I just gave some blush to the girl using polychromos colored pencils – carmine, and, also, I decided to stamp the drink several times at the top and at the bottom of my card with versamark ink for a more interesting look. Finally, I gave the image some shimmer and some highlights on the image with a white gel pen.

I attached the card to a standard notecard.

 

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I hope you like this card and, join in April’s challenge 2019!

Thank you so much and… see you the next time!

CHAXI ABNH

 

Hi there! I’m …

Hello there! I’m going to introduce myself but, first I can’t tell how much I’m excited about this! This is the first time that I’m joining a designer team (thank you for this, ladies!) and this is the second time that I applied for it and got it! yeah!

I’m Cha and I’m from the island of Lanzarote, the Canary Islands (Spain). I’m a full-time ESL teacher in a public high school and I love cardmaking, movies, series, and music!

I started this wonderful hobby three years ago and created my YouTube channel to share my projects. One year later, I also started sharing my projects on my blog chalionart.com and on my Instagram @chadelel, too!

I love Hero Arts products (and the fantastic kits!) and it was the first company that I trusted in order to take orders from the Internet. So, they showed me the world of cardmaking through their products!

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For my first card on A Blog Named Hero, I made a card using the Hero Arts kit from June 2018 (here and here) and the sand embossing powder that these are available on the Hero Arts catalog 2019!

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First, I stamped many beach chairs using different dye inks on white cardstock – Most of the inks that I used for this card are the ink cubes that came with the Hero Arts monthly kits. We can find similar ink colors in the Hero Arts catalog: deep ocean, butter bar, orange soda, soft granite, soft sky, summer sky, navy, dandelion, strawberry, orchid, aquatic. Later, I die cut each beach chair with the coordinating die.

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I created the background covering a piece of white cardstock with some Versamark ink and heat embossed with sand embossing powder. I heat embossed this piece twice for better results. I attached this background on a standard folded card (4,25 by 5,5 inches) and started gluing the beach chairs using a ruler to make the row of beach chairs straight. I cut the excess from the edges.

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Later, I heat embossed the sentiment with sand embossing powder. As I wanted to heat embossing twice, I used the mini MISTI. I trimmed this piece and attached on the beach chairs from the sandy background. Also, I heat embossed the bottom part of each beach chair with sand embossing powder to give a more realistic look.

I added some beach balls too and some colorful shell embellishments that I have in my stash.

I gave some shine to the beach chairs using a shimmer pen.

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And that’s it! this is the result of my card that I hope you like it!

See you soon!

CHAXI ABNH

(Cha Lion)