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Happy New Year with Hero Arts

January 6, 2020

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I hope you had a wonderful end to 2019 and holiday extravaganza’s. The last 2 months were a whirlwind, I’m just now catching my breath. Would you believe I never actually got around to sending holiday cards ( I know right! ) so I’m going New Year cards instead. Beautifully enough, most of your Christmas supplies can double over to New Year’s cards as well.

My Process

Add a double sided adhesive (like Stick It) to the back of a white a2 sized piece of card stock and run it through your die cutting machine with your snowflake background die.
After weeding the negative space, adhere down to your background paper, for me, this was glitter paper 🙂
Next I stamped and die cut 3 images from the Wonder and Magic of Christmas stamp set and planned my arrangement.
Once I knew where everything would go I adhered down a small piece of vellum backed with more double sided adhesive sheet, to add a place to stamp a sentiment.
After adhering down my stamped images, I used my stamp positioning tool to stamp my sentiment. You’ll need to stamp a few times since we’re stamping on vellum, or use a solvent type ink.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and don’t forget you still have time to enter our Sparkly challenge for December.

Supplies

Hero Arts Christmas Messages Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Wonder & Magic of Christmas Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Wonder & Magic of Christmas Dies Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Snowflake Pattern Die Shop at: HA
DCWV Glitzy Cardstock Metallics Shop at: AMZ	Neenah Solar White Shop at: SSS \| AMZ	Hero Arts Intense Black Ink Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Thistle Reactive Ink Shop at: HA
Hero Arts Taffy Reactive Ink Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Pool Party Reactive Ink Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Vellum Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Precision Glue Shop at: HA

A Shaker Card for a New Year

January 3, 2020

Hello there! It’s me, Cha! Today I’m at A Blog Named Hero to show my sparkly card. As we are starting a new year, I decided to create a shaker card. Remember that you can enjoy in this sparkly challenge until January 10th, 2020.

First of all, I picked a 4,25″ by a 5,5-inch piece of black cardstock. I used the Foil Quill tool to create some gold lines on the background simulating fireworks. Besides, I did die cut a frame, also in black cardstock, using the Rectangle Nesting Infinity Die Set and decorated it with some gold lines, too. I also die cut some letters from the Luggage Tag Alphabet die set on black cardstock in order to create the sentiment for this card.

Later, I colored some images with Copic Sketch alcohol markers. I decided to use the bottle and the glass from the Gal Pal Brunch stamp set. I stamped these images with Intense Black Ink that is a Copic-friendly ink, using my Mini MISTI stamping tool. I don’t have many Copic markers but the ones that I have are enough to create some beautiful cards.

The Copic markers used for each image are:

– Glass: Y02, Y08, Y11, C1, C4, C7, 0

– Bottle: G05, G21, G14, Y02, Y08, Y11

Los rotuladores Copic utilizados para cada imagen son:

– Copa: Y02, Y08, Y11, C1, C4, C7, 0

– Botella: G05, G21, G14, Y02, Y08, Y11

When I finished coloring the images, I also colored around the images with a black marker (the number 100 in Copic Sketch) in order to avoid a white halo around them. I cut by hand the images but there are coordinating dies for this stamp set available (see HERE).

I glued the black background with the fireworks that I’d created earlier on a white card base. Then, I picked the black frame and added thin double-sided tape on the back and added a piece of acetate. Later, I cut thin foam strips and added them on the back of that frame. So, I added some gold star sequins, gold confetti and gold glitter inside that frame. I attached this piece to the background.

Finally, I attached the images to the background and each letter to make the sentiment “Happy New Year“. I added some gold confetti here and there and some shimmer to the letters and the glass with the NUVO Midas Touch Shimmer Pen. Also, I wanted some dimension to the glass and the bottle adding some transparent dots with the Crystal Clear Lacquer Pen. I used a black marker to add the year 2020 to the bottle!

Remember that you can visit my blog if you want to see the full list of supplies that I’ve used for creating this card. Besides, you can find the same post in Spanish.

I hope you enjoy this sparkle challenge that comes to end in a few days so that you could win a Hero Arts gift certificate! Thank you so much!

Sparkly Wishes

December 27, 2019

Hello everyone, hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

I’m back today with another sparkly card, this time it is a birthday card.

I started the card by using a mask square stencil with distress inks. I then sprayed the panel with the mask still on it with Hero Arts White Iridescent Shimmer Mist. I then stamped an image and sentiment from the December 2018 My Monthy Hero kit. I matted this panel on a piece of black glitter card stock.

I layered this onto a white card base and added a few Moonshine confetti pieces also from the same kit. To finish off the card, I added some loose glitter to the angel wings and wand.

There is still time to join this months challenge.

Holiday Sparkle

December 21, 2019

The Fantastic Merry Christmas Fancy Die from Hero Arts makes cards easy over your favorite backgrounds, and the holly leaf is die inlaid with sparkly paper too and coated with gloss.

The Holidays are approaching fast and this month’s A Blog Named Hero Theme is Sparkle! I am a lover of all thinks sparkly and this is the perfect theme for holiday cardmaking.

Sparkle is also very hard to show in photos so I will explain all of the elements and products I used because these cards are super sparkly IRL (In Real Life). I started with two sets one that I have had for a year and a new one. The deer come from the Wonder and Magic set and I used sentiments from that set and another favorite Hero Arts Christmas Messages set.

The poinsettia card is from one of the first MMH kits but you could easily substitue the lovely woodblock poinsettia from the vault.Red rubber on wood is still my favorite!

I Used 4 kinds of sparkle on this card with a gold watercolored background, gold embossing and finally gold stickles to top it off and give it a modern vintage look.

I hope you enjoy these projects and are inspired to create something sparkly this season. More details on these cards on my blog, and make sure to Join in the very sparkly Giveaway Challenge here where you can add your sparkly card!

Happy card making!

December Challenge!!!

December 15, 2019

WOW! How did we get to December already?!

Hi there crafty friends, and happy December.

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I thought it would be nice NOT to do a specific Christmas theme for this month, but a bit of Sparkle is ALWAYS a good thing!

Here are the cards from the design team, to inspire you!

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What do you think? Some amazing inspirational projects, right?!

Be sure to enter via the linky tool below, and you could go into the draw to win one of two gift certificates thanks to our delightful sponsors, Hero Arts!

Hope to see your entries soon!

Crafty hugs,

Linda