Hero Arts Global Team blog hop

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Today, the Hero Arts Global Team is hopping to celebrate the launch of the summer catalogue! (more details about a prize to be won below!) 

I have two cards to share, one made with a layering stencil, one with a stand-alone stencil, and both using the Luggage Lowercase Alphabet fancy dies.

For the first card, I first stenciled each layer with Unicorn White pigment ink before adding reactive ink over the top. I added some white Hero Pearls to the dots and the flower centres.

There's a $50 gift card to be won, comment by Sunday, June 4. Winner will be pulled from the comments left across all of the blogs. Winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog.

Here's the list of all the stops on the hop: 

Anna Mahtani: https://craftyannastudio.blog/

Arjita Singh: http://www.arjita.in/

Erica A-B: https://cacacraftblog.wordpress.com/

Karen Boyce: https://www.cardsstampsandink.com/

Lisa Tilson https://www.mycardtrip.co.uk/

Lounon: https://craftmecraftmoi.wordpress.com/

Michelle Lupton: https://handmade-by-michelle.blogspot.com/

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Hot foiled background

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 I bought this hot foil cover plate from Crafty Meraki a little while ago, but this is the first time I've used it. It's so pretty all by itself, but I added some ombre shading as well. I finished with a sentiment from Darkroom Door.

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Purple hydrangeas from Gina K

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 I made this card for an ex-workmate of mine who loves purple!

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Wistful fox for Paper Rose

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Today, I'm sharing a wistful-looking fox for Paper Rose. 

I stamped and coloured the Frankie the Fox clear stamp - I extended the line to the right of the image so that it would stretch across the bottom of my card, and I fussy cut him out. I took two pieces of white cardstock and cut one with the Cloud Coverplate die, and one with the Pierced Cloud Coverplate. I ink blended all over the pierced one, adhered it to my card front, and adhered the fox image to the bottom. I took three of the clouds from the Cloud coverplate, stamped a sentiment on one, and then adhered them to look like Frankie the Fox is daydreaming. 

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Teenaged birthday card for Hero Arts

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 I made this card for my mum to give to my nephew, who turned 13 earlier this month. I used Hero Paste coloured with core inks, and a stencil from the May release.

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Craft Roulette 164

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 I missed most of today's Craft Roulette episode, so I'm playing catch up with this card.

The parameters for Craft Roulette this week are: 

Project: Slimline

Colors: Tea Party

Element: Word

Random: Hand drawn line(s)

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Rainbow anemones

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 Today, I'm sharing a card I made with some new-to-me dies from Spellbinders.

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Have a wheelie good day!

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The premium version of this month's My Monthy Hero kit includes a set of dies to create this fun and nostalgic scene. I paired it up with one of the coolest layering stencil sets I have ever seen!

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Watercoloured floral birthday card

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Today, I'm sharing a card where I combined products that are new (well, at least new to me) and products that I've had in my stash for many, many years.

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Dino birthday for Paper Rose Studio

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Today, I'm sharing a pair of cards I made for Paper Rose Studio. 

I started with three for sheets of cardstock - I cut the yellow, teal and navy cardstocks to the same size for a min-slimline card and stuck them together with masking tape. I placed the Slimline Happy Birthday die on the stack and ran it through my die cutting machine. The die cut through the top two layers, but left and impression on the third, which allowed me to line up the die onto that piece and run it through by die cutting machine again so that all three were cut in the same place. I also cut the word dies from white cardstock. 

I arranged the pieces onto a mini slimline card base so that my card had a navy, teal and yellow background on one card, and a teal and navy background on the other card. I added the little pieces in the loops of the letters to create a bit of fun contrast. I finished with a dino die cut from Dino Adventures, and a faux stitching border  drawn with a white gel pen. 

 

 

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Craft Roulette 163

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 This week's Craft Roulette episode had the following parameters:

Project: Three tags

Colors: Rose garden

Element: May

Random: Masking

This is what I came up with: 

And I made a video! 

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New dies from Spellbinders

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I'm sharing another card I made using the new Country Road release by Annie Williams for Spellbinders.

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Hello baby Sebastian

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I was recently asked by a friend to make a card for a baby called Sebastian. My friend wanted an image of a crab (Sebastian, get it?), but the closest I could get to the theme she wanted was a mermaid.

 

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NB the baby word die I used is discontinued - it was made by Papertrey Ink.

Country Road collection from Spellbinders

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There's a new collection available at Spellbinders today - it is the Country Road collection by Annie Williams. I used the Garden Builder die set, along with the Rustic Garden die set on this card. (I used a stencil from Hero Arts for the grass.)

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Fancy feathers birthday

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I've had these feather dies on my wish list for a LOOOOONG time - so glad to get them in my hot little hands!

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