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September challenge winners!

October 15, 2019

Hi crafting friends,

I’m back to announce the winners of the September challenge “Inspired by”. We had some incredibly lovely entries, as always, so it would have been lovely to offer everyone a prize!

Our sweet sponsors Hero Arts are, as always, offering up a $50 and a $25 gift voucher to two lucky winners!

This month’s $25 GV winner is: Friendly Fox

with this gorgeous card inspired by Kristina Werner.

And the lucky winner of the $50 GV to spend at Hero Arts is Enna

with this African sunset stunner:

Congratulations ladies!

Please email us at ablognamedhero@gmail.com, and let us know in the email (or subject line) which gv you won.

Thanks as always to everyone for playing along and our beloved Hero Arts for sponsoring us!

See you very soon with the next challenge!

Linda 🙂

Swinging by to say hello

October 13, 2019

Have you been inspired by other crafters the past month. I certainly have and today i am sharing a card inspired by the talented Nancy otherwise known as Nananas in her blog and on her Instagram.

I have noticed that she often uses windows on her card to put her images in. She also uses background stamps and stencils to ground her design on and I have also noticed that she stamps her background stamps or stencils on the top half of her cards. My interpretation of these elements resulted in the card below.

To create this card I stamped the cute hanging kitty from the “Knitting” stamp set. I colored the cat using copic markers and highlighted it using a white gel pen.

I stamped the “Knitting pattern bold prints” background stamp using several yellow, orange and red ink colors to create a gradient pattern. I cut the panel to size and cut a round hole in the panel using a stitched circle die. I backed the whole using acetate to create a “real window” and attatched the kitty using red string from the top part of the inside of the window. I popped the panel up on foam to create wiggle space for the cat and backed the panel using a left over piece of of patterned paper that matched the string.

I stamped the sentiment from the May 2018 MMH kit using black ink and cut it to size and glued it on to the panel. I also made a red bow using the same string as the cat hangs by and attatched it to the sentiment strip.

To finish the card I glued the panel to a white card base.

I hope you have a lovely day.

Inspired by Julee Tilman

October 9, 2019

092019_Inspired Hi all! Its Gwendolyn here and I’m on the blog today to share another “Inspired by another crafter” card, which is also the theme of our challenge this month. The challenge ends tomorrow the 10th so you still have a full day to create something which was inspired by another crafter. Venetian cling product.jpg My card today was inspired by the very talented Julee Tilman who had created a card with this very same Venetian Neighbourhood Cling stamp by Hero Arts. She did a watercolour smooshed background, which I did too, using Hero arts reactive inks. Venetian cling main I adhered my watercolour panel onto a blue cardstock and stamped the birthday message using Hero Arts Intense Black ink onto a strip of yellow card stock.

Well, I hope you liked my card and that you’ll join in our challenge. There are 2 generous gift vouchers to the Hero Arts store, to be won, so what are you waiting for?!

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

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Hero Arts Holiday Card

October 6, 2019

Hi Everyone, I’m back on the blog today playing with new holiday goodies from Hero Arts.

I started by die cutting the new Hero Arts Snowflake Pattern Die from plain white card stock and then adhering it down to an embossed piece of pearlescent white card stock.

Next I die cut and assembled the Hero Arts Paper Layering Poinsettia and adhered down to the bottom left of my card, followed by a sentiment strip on the right with a gorgeous sentiment from the new Build a Tree stamp set.

Don’t forget, you still have a few more days to enter our September challenge!

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August challenge winners

October 4, 2019

Hi there crafty friends,

My apologies! I thought I’d posted this a couple of weeks ago but a lovely reader just let me know that I hadn’t!

Here are the winners for the August challenge of

OK the winner of the $25 gift voucher from Hero Arts is:

Crafty Anna

And the winner of the $50 gift voucher from our delightful Hero Arts is:

Helen! (a.k.a Granny Sparkle)

Congratulations ladies!! Please email us at ablognamedhero@gmail.com, to claim your prize (please put winner of the $X voucher in your email somewhere/subject line :))

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the challenge, and don’t forget you still have a few days to enter the current one! Just click the “Current Challenge” button on the top left of the blog!

See you again soon!

Linda x