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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!

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Hero Arts - Christmas - Merry
Hero Arts – Christmas – Merry
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HA		 Hero Arts - Embossing Powder - Gold
Hero Arts – Embossing Powder – Gold
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HA		 Tsukineko - VersaMark Ink Pad
Tsukineko – VersaMark Ink Pad
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HA		 MISTI Stamping Tool
MISTI Stamping Tool
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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
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts
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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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Simon Says Stamp
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts

Winter Wishes

Hello everyone!

It’s Donna here and we are collaborating with another one of my favorite companies which is Neat & Tangled!   All month long the design team will have lots of inspiration from Neat & Tangled.  Make sure you come back to join in on the challenge which will be announced November 6th, so make sure you come back.

Now onto my card, my card is an A2 card, I started by die cutting the Hero Arts Snowflake Confetti Fancy Frame with white card stock using my big shot machine.  I then used Distressed inks to create the blue background.  I then cut a piece of silver glitter paper to go behind the snowflakes to give them some dimension.  I then stamped all the images I wanted to use from the Neat & Tangled Merry Kisses (aren’t those fox so cute!), I colored all the elements with copic markers. I then die cut the word “winter” with silver glitter paper and the background with black card stock from  the Neat & Tangled Hello Winter Die set.   The sentiment “wishes” is from the Hero Arts Color Layering Dimensional Bird which I stamped and embossed with silver embossing powder.

My card was inspired by one of the design team members Kelly Szafron which was created back in March 2017.  Here is the link if you want to see how she crated her card.

I hope I have inspired you in some way to get those embossing materials out and have fun! Thank you so much for stopping by, please come back again soon.

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Simon Says Stamp
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts

Happiest and Merriest

Hello! Michelle L here today with my last post for ABNH for 2016!
The card I have for you today uses Avery Elle’s “Merriest” stamp set, along with an older Hero Arts set (which is unfortunately discontinued), “Decorate your Holidays”

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