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Blended Floral Panels

March 19, 2021

Hi there!  Kate, here! 
The blah days of winter here in NJ have me longing for some happy spring colors.  And that means FLOWERS!!

Here I took the Friendship Blooms set from Hero Arts/Gina K. Designs (PR101) and heat embossed the roses on Arctic cardstock (PS314) with White Ultrafine Embossing powder (PW110).  Before adding any color to the panel, I cut the panel into a smaller rectangle using Nesting Rectangle Infinity Dies (D1798).  Then I took my paper trimmer and cut out 1/4 inch strip on the diagonal.   

I used some blender brushes and my Ink Cubes in Orange Soda, Butter Bar, Bubble Gum, Grape Slush and Splash to lightly blend on my color, making sure to wipe off the ink from the embossed roses, allowing the white embossing powder to show through. 

Next, I laid the panels onto my card front, using the 1/4 inch strip to keep the spacing.  I then CAREFULLY removed the strip and stamped my “Thinking of You” sentiment from the Color Layering Sea & Sky (CM317) stamp set.

Pop up those panels with foam tape (keeping the spacing even near your sentiment) and you have a bright and sunny card to send to someone who could use some happy thoughts! 

Don’t forget to enter this month’s challenge!  Tag me on Instagram @katedeignancards if I’ve inspired you!  Have a crafty day!

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Layered Slimline Card

March 16, 2021

Greetings Friends. It’s Teri and I am posting today for the March A Blog Named Hero Challenge – Floral Cards.I stepped out of my comfort zone to create this layered floral card with muted colors. I tend to go big and bright, so this is a little different!  Check out the Challenge Blog! There are prizes!

It all started with a stencil from the Crossing Waves Stencil.  In order to cover the slimline base, you need a symmetrical stencil where you can ink blend a portion of the stencil and shift to cover the rest of the base. I used Soft Olive Shadow Ink.

I have a short video documenting the process here:

I used the Protea Flowers Stamp Set to create dimension on the card.  Multiples were stamped on watercolor paper with Black Ink.  I watercolored several of the blooms gearing towards muted colors. Once dry, I fussy cut them out.

The card was assembled by gluing the stencil background on the front of a slimline base. The center portion is a cream cardstock cut 7.5 x 2.5 inches and stacked of 2 additional pieces of cardstock. Once centered on the base, I added the Protea Flowers with the bottom center flower popped up with foam tape. The sentiment was stamped and added.

I hope you enjoyed this post. Be sure to visit A Blog Named Hero and enter the challenge. There are prizes!

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Gift Card Florals

March 14, 2021

Hi everyone!

I was so inspired by the recently concluded #staycrafty challenge over at the Hero Arts blog.  The challenge was to create gift card holders so I thought it would be great to use the beautiful florals from Hero Arts for the inspiration for this month’s challenge.

I made three floral gift cards.  The first one being the most involved and the last being the simplest.

For this project, I decided to use watercolor paper because I wanted to do some simple water coloring for the flowers. I took some inexpensive but thick watercolor paper and cut it down to 4″X6.75″.  Then using my scoring board, on the 6.75″ side, I scored at 2.25″ and then at 4.75″ to create the folds for my gift card. 

I opened up the gift card panel and positioned it on my stamping platform. I took some washi tape and placed it across the upper fold to mask off the area. Then I placed the floral cluster stamp from the My Monthly Hero February 2021 kit on top half of the upper part of the panel.  I made sure the stamp stretched across and touched both ends of the panel.

I prepped the panel with anti-static powder before inking it up with embossing ink.  I stamped the panel and then heat embossed it using gold embossing powder. After heat setting it, I folded the bottom half of the gift card, flipped it around and stamped and heat embossed it using the same gold embossing powder.

 

I took the coordinating die and positioned it on the stamped image of the upper half of the panel. After securing it with some washi tape, I positioned the top plate of my die-cutting machine on the upper part of the die and then run it through. This only cut the upper part of the image.

Then I did the same for the other side of the gift card and this is how it looks after all the die-cutting.

To create the closure of the gift card, I took a single floral bud image from the stamp set, stamped it with embossing ink, embossed it in gold and die-cut it.  I positioned it on the upper half of the gift card in such a way that part of the flower matched with an image on the the bottom half. I then cut a slit on the lower part to enable the base of the flower bud to go through. If you look closely, it will seem that the flower is part of the overall image when its closed. I placed tiny bead of glue on both sides of the bottom flap and adhered it.  This made a perfect pocket for a gift card.

I did some simple water coloring with reactive inks on the flower to emphasize the closure and to give it a pop of color.

For the other gift card, I used the beautiful Nasturtium stamp set.  Instead of doing a partial die cut, I fussy cut the edges, but only at the top flap.  I did round the edges of the inside flap to give it a finished look.  To make the closure, I used a craft knife to cut along one of the tendrils in the image where I can insert one of the blooms in.

I made the third one even more simple. I gold heat embossed and partially die cut the upper half and for the inside flap, I just place some gold washi tape across and cut a slit on the washi making sure I cut it in such a way that the slit was not visibly seen.

I hope my project inspired you to make some gift cards.  I can hardly wait to see what you create for our challenge! 

Take care! Stay crafty and stay safe!

 

 

 

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Happy Birthday

March 11, 2021

Hello there.

Kailash here with a card for this months floral challenge at A Blog Named Hero.

 I started off with a piece of dove white cardstock which I first masked to create an inked panel using splash reactive ink, spritzing with water to create droplets. I then die cut two sizes of Hero arts wood frame infinity dies from white cardstock. I also die cut the same dies using inexpensive white cardstock to adhere to each of the rectangles to add dimension.

I stamped the protea flowers with intensified black ink, colored with copic markers RV13, R32, RV04, YG45, YG41, G09, Y19 which was then die cut with the coordinating frame cuts.

Next I stamped the sentiment from sending love mail using versamark ink onto a piece of black cardstock, heat embossing with white embossing powder.

My card was assembled onto an A2 size panel finishing off with sequins from my stash.

 

Thanks so much for visiting! Hope you will join us in our challenge for a chance to win gift certificates from our wonderful sponsor Hero Arts!

Crafty hugs

 

 

 

 

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Hello there !

March 9, 2021

I hope you’re doing well. If you didn’t have time to create and/or participate to our first challenge, I hope you will on this new one. This month’s theme is « Floral », I don’t have a lot of floral stamps but I found a gorgeous stamp set which could fit right in.    

I made 2 cards from this stamp, so you could have more inspiration from it.
Are you ready for the making process ?

Yes ? Let’s go ! 

So, for both cards, I used Tulip field Heroscape ( Layering stamps are my favourites 😊), you can totally change the look of the design just by changing the colors you use. I do love that.

For the first card, I stamped the first layer of grass with pool party reactive ink, then I stamped the detailed grass with blue raspberry reactive ink (love this combo) on Hero arts white cardstock.
For the flowers, I used Taffy reactive ink and then ultra pink mid-tone shadow ink.

To make the sky, I found my inspiration on Google image.
I began to ink the bottom part (just over the flowers’ field) with Taffy reactive ink using a Q-tip and added a little bit of to create some light.

After that, I ink blended the same colors that I used for the grass : pool party and blue raspberry reactive inks , leaving almost a blank space in the center left of the sky, and added some blue hawaii reactive ink and some intens-ified black ink all around and on some spots but I tried to leave the center of the card lighter than the outline of the sky.

I used the splatter technique 3 times with a brush on the sky, to make some stars:
1 – Using unicorn white pigment ink reinker mixed with white iridescent shimmer mist on the sky to make some shimmery stars.
2 – Again using unicorn pigment ink with just a little of water.
3 – For the last layer, I used a tiny bit of unicorn ink without mixing it, to create whiter stars.

That way this created 3 different star distances and some depth to the galaxy.

To finish this card I drew some scribbles to make the illusion of a cloudy effect on our lighter space with a white gel pen, and I added some intensi-fied black ink with a Q-tip (very lightly) and then I used a gelly roll pen to draw some silver stars all over the sky.

The best sentiment I found for this card was this «  If flowers were hugs, I would send you a thousand » from the same stamp set. I stamped it on the right center of the card using again intensi-fied black ink.

This is it for the first card. Now let me present the second one. 

For this sunny card, I used the same white cardstock and the same stamp set , which is the Tulip field Heroscape with (in the same stamps order of appareance than the first one 😊 ) : Key Lime fizz reactive ink, green apple reactive ink, thistle reactive ink and for the flowers details berry smoothie reactive ink.

To create that sunny sky, I used the sun background stencil and I inked the top portion of it with lemon drop reactive ink, leaving the bottom half as white as possible . Then I die cut the cloudy sky scene dies on some paper (you can use scrap paper for that). I used it as a stencil and placed it on top of the sun stencil, then I used a blending brush with soft sky shadow ink to make the clouds in the portion that we left white.
It looks like the rays of the sun hide the clouds.
I’m always looking for ideas to create more realistic looks, and I’m happy  I found this one.
I hope you’ll like it too !
As my brush wasn’t clean (it happens…) , I had to come back on my blue clouds with unicorn pigment ink to make it softer, and then I came back with the soft sky ink. So don’t forget to clean well your brush or if you can, it’s better to have one brush for each color type. 🙂

To finish this card, I heat embossed the sentiment « sending you fields of joy » with clear embossing and watermark ink and gold embossing powder from the same stamp set.
This sentiment was perfect for this card. To add more of a shiny look to the rays of the sun, I used a shimmery pen ( hard to see in the pictures but in real life, it’s beautiful) and : “voila, notre carte est terminée” (that’s it, our card is finished ). 😊

I wish you a ton of joy and I hope you’ll join us on this challenge.

Have a beautiful day !

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Thank you to everyone who participated in our birt Thank you to everyone who participated in our birthday celebration Instagram Hop last week! It was so lovely to celebrate with past and present design team members. The winner has been chosen randomly from comments on day 2, stop 7, and the winner is @waterlily57 ! Congratulations! I will send you a DM to let you know how you can collect your prize!
This month, the design team at @ablognamedhero is This month, the design team at @ablognamedhero is celebrating the 9th anniversary of our first challenge! To help us celebrate, we have invited some design team alumni and special guests to join us for an Instagram hop over two days! We also have one $50 Hero Arts gift card to be won! This will be drawn from all the comments on all the stops, so the more you hop and comment, the better your chance to win.
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This month, the design team at @ablognamedhero is This month, the design team at @ablognamedhero is celebrating the 9th anniversary of our first challenge! To help us celebrate, we have invited some design team alumni and special guests to join us for an Instagram hop over two days! We also have one $50 Hero Arts gift card to be won! This will be drawn from all the comments on all the stops, so the more you hop and comment, the better your chance to win.
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Gale here! We're gearing up for the 9th Anniversa Gale here!  We're gearing up for the 9th Anniversary celebration of our blog!  Be sure to visit Instagram for our giveaway hop on April 1st-2nd filled with stops from your favorite Hero Arts artists!  For more info on this easy and fun project, please visit thedarbycreekdiaries.com
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What is better than Birthday cake? Birthday cake w What is better than Birthday cake? Birthday cake with flowers 🙂 There are still a few days left on our Floral challenge and you can see details of my card on my blog. Have a great day, Mateja M
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Hi! @jenniferkotas here with another card for the Hi! @jenniferkotas here with another card for the Floral Challenge. There’s still a few more days to enter your own project. More info on my blog. #ablognamedhero #ablognamedherofacebookpage #heroarts
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