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Challenge for September!

September 15, 2020

Hi crafty friends!

It’s that time again, and we’re challenging you to make a project that is

Now on to the DT’s samples:

How inspiring! I can’t wait to see what you all create.

Don’t forget that by entering the challenge you have two chances to win gift vouchers from our lovely sponsors Hero Arts!

Enter via the linky tool below before 5pm on October 10th for your chance to win!

Time to get crafty!

Linda

PS Winners for last month’s challenge will be announced soon!!

Hello there! It’s me, Cha. Today I’m up at A Blog Named Hero with another card with this Cute Challenge for this August 2020. Remember to use Hero Arts products to join us in this challenge. This challenge will end on the 10th of September. For me, cute cards mean cute critters or animals. So, this card is with a dog in the sky. I know many crafters have lost furry friends. My dog, Tara is 11. I cannot imagine how hard would be to be without her. So, this card is for those dogs that are barking in heaven.

First of all, I picked a 4,25 by 5,5-inch Hero Arts Canary Premium Cardstock (soft yellow cardstock) to create the background. I placed the stencil on the cardstock and held it with masking tape temporarily. The stencil that I used is called Hero Arts Sun Background stencils. I blended some Distress Oxide inks using an Ink Blending Tool, you can use a blending brush or sponge dauber. The inks that I used were Distress Oxide Squeezed Lemonade and Distress Oxide Mustard Seed. You can also use Hero Arts Reactive inks. Later, I sprayed some water to the background and dried with a cloth. Also, I trimmed the sides of the panel with Tim Holtz trimmer. I left this piece aside to continue with other elements.

Later, I die cut a cloud on Hero Arts Dove Premium Cardstock (white cardstock) from the Cloudy Sky Scene Die. I adhered to the bottom of the background that I’d created earlier with some Foam Tape.

I used my Mini MISTI Stamping Tool to stamp several times the dog and the balloon from the Birthday Paw-ty stamp set. I stamped the dog with the Hero Arts Intense Black ink and colored both images with Copic Sketch Markers. I used E31, E33, E79, 100, R27, R46, R89. I also added some white dots to the birthday hat that this dog wears, some black to his eyes, and some shimmer to the balloon. I added these elements on top of the cloud using adhesive tape and a piece of the adhesive foam circle.

For the sentiment, I also used the Mini MISTI Stamping tool to stamp the sentiment several times with Versamark ink on Hero Arts Black Pitch Premium Cardstock (black cardstock). Before stamping, I applied an Anti-static tool to avoid the powder adhered to other parts of the card that I did not want. Then, I added some Hero Arts White Embossing Powder and dried with a heat tool. I repeated the process twice. I cut myself the sentiment around the letters and added to the bottom of the card with adhesive foam strips.

To finish this card, I added some balloon sequins that came with one of the past kits of Hero Arts although it is discontinued you can see the sequins HERE if you could find something similar. These sequins were pink but I decided to color them red to fit with the colors of the card. I colored these balloon sequins with Copic markers and added them to the card.

And this is my card for this challenge! I hope you join us with this challenge! You can visit my blog if you are interested in more inspiration!

Thank you so much!

Messy Paint and Fancy Dies

August 21, 2020

Hello everyone, I hope you are working on cards for the latest challenge which is “Cute”. I have been playing with a lot of mixed media lately and so while my card is not cute in the traditional way, I do think the pineapple below is cute.

I die cut the pineapple fancy die from some dove white cardstock and then cut around it to separate it from the paper. This die is neat because you can actually keep it attached to a card front or just cut around it and you get all those neat pieces that pop up too. This was messy but fun to make, I got out a Gelli plate and brayered some green ink onto it and scratched it with a bamboo skewer, then I pressed the pineapple down onto the Gelli plate and took a print. Then I mixed some yellow with some gold paint and printed the bottom portion of the pineapple. I took another die cut pineapple and painted the body of it brown and the top a darker shade of green and then put foam squares in the center and attached the top pineapple to the bottom with glue around the sides so it curved up in the middle. I used a craft pick to pull up the die-cut pieces so you can just see the darker bits of the base below.

I brayered some more of that green onto an A2 piece of card and a bit of gold and yellow too and my background was done! SO EASY! I glued my cute pineapple on top and added the aloha sentiment from an older Hero Arts pineapple layering set, and there you have it…”who lives in a pineapple under the sea…..?” There are som many great fancy dies that you could make with this easy technique.

Make sure you enter the challenge and show us all of your cute cards. See you soon. Lee Ann

Challenge time!!

August 15, 2020

Greetings Crafters!

It’s challenge time and this month is another good one 🙂

This time we want to see you make something

Hows that for some inspiration? We hope you love what everyone made. I know I think that they’re all SUPER cute 🙂

Now its your turn! Thanks to our wonderful sponsors Hero Arts, you have the chance to win one of two gift vouchers to shop up a storm in their store!

Enter via the linky tool below by September 10th, 5pm and show us your creative cuteness!

Can’t wait to see what you make!

Thanks for joining us as always,

Linda

Winners!

August 14, 2020

Hello crafty friends,

It will be a double-post day today as I’m announcing the winners for June & July, as well as introducing the new challenge for August!

Let’s get straight into it.

The challenge for June was;

and gosh did we love what you guys came up with. It was great seeing those older Hero Arts goodies getting used.

The winner of our $25 gift voucher is Linda W with her lovely spring-inspired card.

and the winner of the $50 gift voucher is Maureen with her cutie card below.

For our July challenge, we asked you to get

you could choose to heat emboss or dry emboss, it was up to you!

The winner of our $25 gift voucher for this month was Greta H with this colourful creation;

and the winner of our $50 gift voucher was Nugicards with this oceanic loveliness.

Congratulations everyone!! Thanks so much to all of you who entered the challenges, they were all lovely creative entries and so inspiring.

Big thanks as always to our beloved Hero Arts who sponsor us and let us offer these prizes to our lucky winners!!

Winners, please contact us on ablognamedhero@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Thanks for joining me! I’ll be back shortly with the new challenge post for August!

See you soon,

Linda