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Hero Arts Build a (Wreath) Christmas Card

Hi Friends! I’m back today with another card for our Nature challenge. I’ve used the Hero Arts Build a Tree stamp set, but to make a wreath! 

Hero Arts Build a Tree

I used 3 different branches from the wreath builder part of the stamp set, in 3 shades of gray/silver to form my main wreath. I then triple stamps, for maximum opacity, the red holly berries & my sentiment over top. 

To keep with the monochromatic theme I had going, I mounted the card panel onto some black mirror card, and the onto silver glitter paper. 

My finished card is 4.5″x4.5″

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Supplies

 

Hero Arts Build a Tree
Hero Arts Build a Tree
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HA		 Hero Arts Reactive Ink Fruit Punch
Hero Arts Reactive Ink Fruit Punch
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Hero Arts Reactive Ink Lime Fizz
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Hero Arts Soft Granite Ink
Hero Arts Soft Granite Ink
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Infinity Shaker Card w/ Hero Arts Christmas Goodies

 

Hi Everyone! Kristina Here with another Christmas in July project. You have a few days left to enter our July challenge, I wen non-traditional for this one. 

The Process

  • I started by stamping the Candy Stripe background in versamark ink onto some Bristol Smooth paper, and heat embossing with clear embossing powder
  • Once cooled, I did some ink blending over top, wiping off the excess afterwards to reveal the white strips that resisted the ink.
  • To turn this into an infinity shaker I stuck the card panel into a stamp storage pocket. To close it I trim the storage pocket down so that theres only about an inch and a half on excess past the card. Cut the corners off that flap and use strong double sided tape to fold it over and adhere it down. 
  • To make it into a card that will stand up on its own and have somewhere to write a greeting, I use more strong tape to adhere the shaker down to a white a2 notecard trimmed slightly smaller than a2 so that it’s hidden behind the shaker. 
  • For the front, I die cut a Hero Arts Infinity Tag out of white glitter cardstock and stuck it down to the front with more strong tape & added some ribbon to embellish
  • For my sentiment, I die cut the Hero Arts Christmas fancy die from foil card stock as well as stamped and heat embossed some secondary sentiments onto black card stock. I adhered all of this down to my tag with strong liquid adhesive. 

I hope I’ve been able to give you some last minute inspiration to enter our Christmas in July challenge, I can’t wait to see what you create!!

 

Supplies

 

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Hero Arts Christmas Fancy Die
Hero Arts Christmas Fancy Die
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Distress Oxide Wilted Violet
Distress Oxide Wilted Violet
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Hero Arts White Embossing Powder
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Picket Fence Studios Life Changing Blender Brushes
Picket Fence Studios Life Changing Blender Brushes
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Christmas Tree Card Set

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and are getting a chance to relax after all the hustle and bustle of the holiday. Or if you are like me, you are still sending out Christmas cards. Yes, this is the one thing that I always wait till the last minute to send, so instead they become “Hope You Had A Merry Christmas” cards lol.

Here are three more cards that I will be sending out a little later than expected but were so fun to make.

Have you had a chance to play along with out “Winter” Challenge this month?

The stamp and embossing folder is an older Hero Arts product that I still have in my stash, called Birds ‘n’ Trees Set. I made the gold embossed cards first.

I started the first one by using the embossing folder and then gold embossing the tree stamp. I wasn’t happy with the result and so reversed the steps by gold heat embossing first and then running the embossing folder through my die cut machine. The result was better details which can be seen on the card on the right.

I then trimmed down the panels and added them to a white card base. I added the “merry” die in glitter card stock and heat embossed the Christmas in gold.  To finish the card I added a little Nuvo Glitter Drops.

I also wanted to stamp the trees in blue so created a third card.

The details of the stamp really comes through in the ink. I used the same sentiments and glitter drops to finish of the card.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you get a chance to play along with us in our Winter Challenge!

SUPPLIES

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Hero Arts - Christmas - Merry
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Hero Arts – Embossing Powder – Gold
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Tsukineko – VersaMark Ink Pad
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I’ll have a blue Christmas….

Good morning! Emily here with you today sharing a blue Christmas card. My mom always asks me when she looks through my box of holiday cards why I don’t ever make “regular red and green” Christmas cards haha! The answer? I’m honestly not sure…. other than I just like blue. My card today is an homage to a blue Christmas. I’m combining Hero Arts products with products from this month’s sponsor, Neat and Tangled.

To start, I used a tip from our very own, super clever Lisa Stein. She’s been using her Distress Oxide inks and clear embossing powder to create custom “colored” embossing! The Distress Oxide line stays damp just long enough to be able to add embossing powder and heat it up… Well, I took mine one step further and used pearlescent embossing powder with Salty Ocean Oxide Inks and the Hero Arts Snowflake Background to create a pretty, frosty card base. (I love this tip because now I don’t have to own a bazillion different shades of embossing powder! Plus, no stray flecks of color EP flying everywhere, because it’s clear! Score!)

Using the darling Beary Merry from Neat and Tangled, I die cut and stamped using very pale gray ink the bear and gift box. I then used my Prismacolor pencils and blender pencil to do some no line coloring. I cut an A2 sized panel of blueberry colored card stock, then die cut an oval using one of the Hero Arts Infinity Ovals dies and created a shaker card by adding foam adhesive and acetate to the back. I adhered my bear and gift (love the way that gift nestles into the bear’s paws!), then added a black glitter Happy Holidays die from Neat and Tangled. I filled my shaker with the Winter sequins mix from Hero Arts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, that’s all for me today! I hope you’ve enjoyed this festive, icy shaker. I just love when products from different companies combine so seamlessly!

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Simon Says Stamp
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Elf on a Shelf!

Hello! Michelle here today to share a cute Christmas card, using goodies from Neat and Tangled and from Hero Arts.

I CASEd a card by made by Donna back in September – you can check out her card HERE.  I used the layout of her card, but overall, this is a very different card to hers!

I used the “Elfs and their shelf” set from Neat and Tangled, along with a sentiment from “Santa’s Wonderland”. I made the background using my favourite technique – white embossing a background stamp (in this case, Highline Ironwork Background from Hero Arts – sadly, discontinued) onto watercolour cardstock, then scribbling with some Zig markers and spraying with water.

I coloured the little elf with Copic markers, before fussy cutting her out, tracing around the edge with a black marker, and adhering her so she looks like she’s perching on the edge of the white card panel.

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