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Trio of Tags

Hi everyone, Caren here today.  I hope all who celebrated had a great Thanksgiving.

Today I have a trio of tags to share with you today.

I stamped the Graphic Snowflake Bold Prints stamp onto white card stock with Versamark ink and heat embossed with silver embossing powder.  

I then used tag dies from my stash to die cut three dies from the stamped image.  I ink blended with three different colors of distress ink.  I colored the images from an older Hero Arts stamp set – Snow Much Joy – with Copic markers.

I stamped my sentiments – from the November 2017 My Monthly Hero kit – onto some banners.  I adhered the images and banners to my tags with dimensional adhesive.  To finish the tags, I added some coordinating twine.

Thanks so much for visiting and don’t forget to visit the challenge to link up your project for a chance to win a Hero Arts gift card!

Winter Greetings

Hello everyone.  Hope everyone’s week is starting off great. It’s icy and snowy here today.

My card today is a shaker card.  It features a see thru element which is this months challenge!

My images are from a previous My Monthly Hero kit.  I colored them with Copic Markers and die cut them using the coordinating dies.  My sentiment is from the Stacking Snowflake stamp set.  I filled the shaker part with various sequins from my stash.

Thanks so much for visiting and don’t forget to visit the challenge to link up your project for a chance to win a Hero Arts gift card!

Happy Holidays

Hi everyone, Caren here today.  My card today features all dies with not stamping today!

I die cut the Christmas Lights Border Fancy die and the Happy Holidays Script die from sparkly silver paper.  I adhered these to a aqua card base with liquid adhesive and added a white jewel to dot the I in holidays.

This clean and simple design would be easy to mass produce in different colors.

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to join in on this month’s challenge – which happens to be clean and simple!

 

Merry Christmas

Hi everyone, Caren here today.  In honor of the 2020 Winter card catalog release yesterday from Hero Arts, I created a card with one of my favorite background stamps Christmas Lights Bold Print.

 

 

I stamped the Christmas Lights onto a black piece of card stock with Versamark Ink and used gold embossing powder to heat emboss the image.  I die cut out the portion that I wanted with a stitched scalloped rectangle die.

I used an older Hero Arts set – Christmas Sentiments – for my Merry Christmas sentiment.  I again heat embossed on black card stock with gold embossing powder.  Also, inked the edges of my sentiment rectangle with Versamark ink and added gold embossing powder.

I added shimmer to all the light bulbs with a shimmer pen – this doesn’t show up in the pics 🙁  I popped my sentiment up on the card using dimensional adhesive to finish the card.

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to join in on this month’s challenge!

 

Messy Paint and Fancy Dies

Hello everyone, I hope you are working on cards for the latest challenge which is “Cute”.  I have been playing with a lot of mixed media lately and so while my card is not cute in the traditional way, I do think the pineapple below is cute.

I die cut the pineapple fancy die from some dove white cardstock and then cut around it to separate it from the paper. This die is neat because you can actually keep it attached to a card front or just cut around it and you get all those neat pieces that pop up too.  This was messy but fun to make, I got out a Gelli plate and brayered some green ink onto it and scratched it with a bamboo skewer, then I pressed the pineapple down onto the Gelli plate and took a print.  Then I mixed some yellow with some gold paint and printed the bottom portion of the pineapple.  I took another die cut pineapple and painted the body of it brown and the top a darker shade of green and then put foam squares in the center and attached the top pineapple to the bottom with glue around the sides so it curved up in the middle. I used a craft pick to pull up the die-cut pieces so you can just see the darker bits of the base below.

I brayered some more of that green onto an A2 piece of card and a bit of gold and yellow too and my background was done!  SO EASY!  I glued my cute pineapple on top and added the aloha sentiment from an older Hero Arts pineapple layering set, and there you have it…”who lives in a pineapple under the sea…..?” There are som many great fancy dies that you could make with this easy technique.

Make sure you enter the challenge and show us all of your cute cards.  See you soon.  Lee Ann

 

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