Lise Mariann

An elephant remembers everything

July 13, 2019

Hello everyone. I hope you are all having awonderful day wherever you are. I am here today to share with you a conclusion of the month of sympathy before we will be back shortly to present a new and fun theme for you.

My last card for you this month is a card that can be used for sympathy as well as friendship and love. I love this elephant from the June My Monthly Hero kit. He is so adorable. I decided to use him with the sentiment from the May 2018 My Monthly Hero kit, because, as you know, an elephant never forgets the beautiful moments.

I also wanted to use the thorn tree die, but since I am on my summer vacation I didn’t have my die cutting tool with me. So…I needed to be creative. I used my die as a stamp in my stamp platform, raising the platform up using fun foam. My image was barely visible so I traced the image using a black pen and voila…the thorn tree could be used.

I colored the thorn tree and my elephant using copic markers and highlighted them with a white gel pen.

I cut my card panel to size using a stitched rectangle die and then ink blended my background using the following ink colors on white cardstock:
Grass: Green hills and Nest
Sky: Just rust, Orange Soda and Ultra pink
For the blending I used blending brushes to create an almost canvas-like texture.

I attatched my images using foam tape and stamped my sentiment using black ink before adding even more foam tape behind the panel to raise it up from my white card base.

I finished the card by scattering a few sequins on the card coordinating them to the color beneith.

Be sure to come back the 15th to see our new challenge.

Make yourself a lovely day.

Let’s shell-ebrate

June 13, 2019

Hello all lovers of Hero Arts. I’m here today to thank you all for celebrating with us the last month. We have received lots of beautiful projects and you sure do make the selection of the winner hard for us. Stop by tomorrow to see who will win the Celebration prize.

I also want to show you my last inspiration card for the Celebration theme made using the “Pet turtle” stamp set as my inspiration jump off. I stamped and colored the relaxed turtle using my copic markers and then I needed to create the rest of the card.

I remembered the layered sea stamps that I got in my June 2018 My Monthly hero kit and that you can also buy separately now and I thought it would be perfect as a relaxation spot for my turtle. I stamped the ocean using the Deep ocean, summer sky and soft sky ink blocks and also lightly colored the sky using the summer sky ink. I cut a slit in my sea and put the turtle in.

I stamped the sentiment “Let’s shell-ebrate” from the “Pet turtle” stamp set on the top part of my card panel. And now I needed a few more bits and pieces. I stamped and colored the clouds and flying seagull from the “Seas the day seagulls” set and glued them close to the sentiment and I also stamped an colored the bottle with the message from the “You & me by the sea” set and placed it on the sea as well.

I thought I was done at this point and glued my card panel to a white card base and then I saw a leftover light post from a previous project lying around on my desk (The light post is from the MMH October 2018 kit). The light posts bottom part looked just like the handle on a fishing rod, so… with minor surgery it became just that. I drew on the fishing line and hook and “attatched” the fishing line to to the bottle. A perfect last detail to the card.

I wish you all a lovely day.

Poppies in Venice

May 13, 2019

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.

Dragonfly friend

April 13, 2019

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.