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Watercolor Butterfly Birthday Card

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Hi Friends! Kristina here for my solo post of the month! I’ve created another card to go with out current Celebrate theme – You have a few more days to get your projects linked up! Here’s what I’ve come up with, it i’s Hero Art’s birthday after all…

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I fell in love with this butterfly set the moment I saw it. These images are drawl beautifully. While I have lots of colorful plans for them, I wanted to keep the coloring simple.

I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens for all of my watercoloring. I started by coloring my main butterfly, and once dried, I went around the white space fading it in from the edges of the card and the main butterfly.

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I glued this panel down to some fun foam for sturdy dimension, and then only an a2 sized card base. To finish I went over all of the black and white butterflies with a shimmer pen. Lastly, heat embossed my sentiment onto pink card stock with white embossing powder and adhered it onto the card with foam tape.

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Thank you for stopping by today, I hope I’ve giving you some inspiration to enter our challenge!

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Hero Arts New Day Butterflies
Hero Arts New Day Butterflies
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HA		 Hero Arts Greetings Occasions
Hero Arts Greetings Occasions
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HA		 Neenah Solar White
Neenah Solar White
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SSS		 Bristol Strathmore Smooth Paper
Bristol Strathmore Smooth Paper
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Hero Arts Azalea Cardstock
Hero Arts Azalea Cardstock
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HA		 Hero Arts Intense Black Ink
Hero Arts Intense Black Ink
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HA		 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens
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SSS | AMZ		 Wink of Stella Clear
Wink of Stella Clear
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Nuvo Crystal Drops White
Nuvo Crystal Drops White
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SSS		 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder
Hero Arts White Embossing Powder
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HA		 Art Institute Glitter Glue
Art Institute Glitter Glue
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AMZ		 SA 3L Foam Squares
SA 3L Foam Squares
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Hero Arts Acrylic Block Trio
Hero Arts Acrylic Block Trio
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HA		 Wagner Heat Gun
Wagner Heat Gun
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HA		 Scor Pal
Scor Pal
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MISTI
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Teflon Bone Folder
Teflon Bone Folder
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ABNH July Challenge: Birthday Cards

Hello everyone, it’s Juhi here and today I’m sharing a birthday card. The card is for this month’s Challenge – Birthday Cards. There is still time to play along if you haven’t already. You can find the details here.

For today’s card, I’ve used stamps and dies from the My Monthly Hero May 2018 Card Kit.

My monthly hero may 2018 card kit card

The background panel is made using alcohol inks, it’s been lying on my craft table for a long time and I finally found the perfect way to use it! I haven’t experimented much with alcohol inks, this is one of my first attempts with them. I love the result, I guess it’s time to experiment some more!

There’s still time to participate in the Birthday Card Challenge! You have until August 10th to play along, we love to see what you make!

I hope you liked my card today and thanks so much for stopping by!

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MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool
MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool
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Hero Arts		 Intense Black
Intense Black
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Hero Arts		 Happy Stamp & Cut
Happy Stamp & Cut
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Hero Arts		 My Monthly Hero May 2018
My Monthly Hero May 2018
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Have a Killer Birthday!

Good morning!  Jess here with a CAS interactive birthday card for our Interactive challenge!  It’s hard to see in the photos but my little shark is quite dangerous! 😉

Have a Killer Birthday by Jessica Frost-Ballas for A Blog Named Hero

I started by stamping the waves background stamp onto soft navy cardstock with navy ink.  I wanted a subtle background for my shark.  Then I stamped the sentiment from Killer Messages onto the card with versamark and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder.  I stamped my shark onto white cardstock with copic-friendly ink and colored him with copics.  I fussy cut him and then added a layer of clear embossing powder over him to give him more strength and stability.  Then I added him to my card with a mini action wobbler.

Have a Killer Birthday by Jessica Frost-Ballas for A Blog Named Hero

I trimmed that panel down to 4″ by 5.25″ and then adhered it to a white card base!  Simple but fun and a great masculine card!  I’ll try to post a video of him “in action” over on my instagram page! 😉  Thanks so much for stopping by and make sure to get your interactive cards entered in our challenge!!

 

 

 



 

 

Interactive Birthday Cupcakes

Hello there!   Kimberly here with a fun light up card for our Interactive Challenge this month!   I was so excited to work with products from Chibitronics, our sponsor for this month’s  challenge – I’ve never used them, and I have to tell you –  it was a pretty easy process!

I started by stamping a background for my focal panel using a retired Hero Arts background stamp called Zig Zag (you could use something similar, such as this stamp).    I kept my stamping simple, adding three cupcakes down the center and heat embossing the sentiment.  Next I colored the cupcakes with Copic markers and adhered this piece to a Hero Arts postage stamp die cut.    Next I cut down a smaller piece of cardstock and temporarily adhered it to the back of my focal panel.   I poked tiny holes through the candle flames where the lights will shine through!

The Chibitronics are quite easy to work with!   I created my circuit on the smaller piece of paper using the poked holes as my guide for where the lights would be placed.  Once complete, I adhered the circuit piece to the focal panel with three layers of foam tape (to make sure that the lights only turn on when pressed).

This is such a fun way to take your cards to the next level!!!   I can’t wait to see what you create for this month’s Interactive Challenge!

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Happy Birthday

Hey lovelies, I hope you are all having a great week ?

Have you been and checked out the latest challenge ? This month we are kindly sponsored by Honey Bee Stamps and our Theme is Watercolor. You can find all the details by clicking on the graphic below.

For this card I have used my Mijello Mission Gold watercolours to create a wash on the background, I was going to heat emboss the Happy Birthday, which is from the fab Hooray Sentiment set, but I decided to mix it up and stamp using Hero Arts Black ink.

I used some old paper from my stash for the background and decided to cut the watercolored piece so it was at an angle.

I adhered that using foam tape and added some twine around the top for interest.

The enamel dots I added are super old (i’m talking before enamel dots were cool kinda old) but the colours matched the paper well so I decided to use some of them to finish the card off.

I hope you have enjoyed my inspiration for the challenge, and I do hope you will join us for this months challenge.

Have a great day & Happy Crafting