Lise Mariann

Hi everyone. I’m on the blog today to thank you all for wonderful entries in our Clean and Simple challenge the last month. We are stunned by all your wonderful makes.

I am ending this month’s Clean and Simple theme by showing you the card below using all kinds of Hero Arts goodness.

I started this card by cutting white cardstock to a long rectangle that made my image panel. I then stamped my poppies using the Color layering poppy stamp set. For the flowers I used the colors: Pale tomato, Red Royal and a red reactive from the My Monthly hero July 2018 kit. For the stems and buds I used the colors Forever green and Green hills.

I arranged the flowers on the rectangle and tied a red bow around the whole panel before popping it up on foam tape on a white card base.

I used one of the dies from the My Monthly Hero April kit and cut the white Venice buildings and glued them directly on the card base to make it look like it goes across the whole card.

To finish this poppies in Venice card I stamped the sentiment “Wishing you the best” also from the April My Monthly Hero kit.

Be sure to come back tomorrow to see the winners of the Clean and Simple challenge and the 15th to see the reveal of the May challenge.

I hope you have a wonderful day. Make it a good one.

Hello everyone. My name is Lise Mariann and let me tell you how excited I am to be on the new design team here at A Blog Named Hero. Beyond the moon, I tell you. First I would like to introduce myself and then tell you about my project.

I live in Trondheim, Norway with my husband, two children and two cats, but I originally come from the cold and far north of Norway. I have been scrapbooking since 2004, but have been gravitating more and more to cardmaking the last couple of years. Today I am mostly making cards, but love creating pages for my scrapbooks as well. When I am not crafting I work as an archaeologist and museum educator and I also like reading, embroidering, drawing and singing as well as hanging out with my family of course. You can also find me at my blog and on Instagram.

For my first project on the team I made the dragonfly card below using the “Color layering dragonfly” stamp set.

I decided to only use the image edge stamps to create the water lilies and the dragonfly since I wanted to color them using my Copic markers, so I stamped it using a Versamark stamp pad and embossed it using gold embossing powder. After stamping and coloring the images I cut them from the paper using the matching frame cuts.

For the background I used patterned papers from my stash to suggest water and sky and cut them to size with a stitched rectangle die. I attatched the water lilies in layers raising the top one up using foam tape. I also glued the dragonfly using foam tape. I wanted to have the dragonfly “flying” off the page to create some extra movement in the card.

I then stamped and embossed a sentiment from the same stamp set as the images.

When all of the images and sentiment was placed I found a piece of white embroidery thread and hand stitched a flying trail from the dragonfly through the sentiment and behind the flowers.

To finish the card I glued the panel on a white card base raising it up on foam tape.

And before I leave you today I am hoping you will take a look at the A Blog Named Hero Facebook group where we also have lots of lovely makes by our Facebook design team. if you haven’t been there already I urge you to find it.

Make yourself a wonderful day.

Poppies in Venice

Dragonfly friend