No-one lilac you for Hero Arts

 Today, I'm sharing two cards using the No-one Lilac You bundle from Hero Arts.  

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Case me a Christmas Card - Hop 9

Welcome to Case me a Christmas Card 2025 - a Christmas Card series! 

Throughout October, there will be a series of 10 hops – two YouTube hops, and eight Instagram hops. Each hop involves participants CASEing (Copy And Selectively Edit) a card from the next person, drawing inspiration while each creating a Christmas Card. And you can join in!

Background

This series began in November 2016 as a personal challenge to explore different Christmas card styles, with friends suggesting creative ideas. Over time, more cardmakers joined, leading to a format where participants CASE each other's cards. A helpful video by Ardyth Percy Robb outlines a 5-step CASE process—check it out HERE.

This year

This year is a bit different, because I'd love for you to join in! You can join in by making your own CASE, or by commenting on the stops on the hop (either on IG or on YT). 

I'm over the moon excited to share that some amazingly generous companies that I love are offering some super generous prizes! 

In Alphabetical order:  

$25 (or £25) gift card from Alex Syberia 

$30 gift card from Altenew

2 x $50 gift cards from Concord & 9th 

$25 gift card from Hero Arts 

$100 gift card from Gina K Designs  

$50 gift card from The Ink Stand 

$100 gift card from My Sweet Petunia   

Online Card Classes will give 3 winners 3 classes of their choice each 

$50 gift card from Paper Rose Studio 

$25 gift card from Pink and Main  

$50 gift card from Simon Says Stamp

$25 gift card from Spellbinders  

$50 gift card from Trinity Stamps

Today's hop

Today, we’re hopping on Instagram – click HERE to start the hop!    

Here's my card for today - I'm CASEing Taniesa Vlasak, owner of Trinity Stamps!

This is Taniesa's card that I CASEd: 

I turned Taniesa's rainbow sun rays into a rainbow Christmas tree! 

Your turn!

Now, you’re invited to join! CASE a card from any hop participant, share your creation via Inlinkz HERE, and you could win a prize from one of our amazing sponsors! Or comment on any of the stops on the hop for a chance to win, too! 

To link up your CASE me a Christmas Card project, first share it publicly somewhere you can copy the link – this can be your blog, Instagram, a Flickr account, your Splitcoast gallery – anywhere that allows you to have a URL or website location to link up, and where we can see your post. 

By linking your project, you are giving me permission to feature your card on my blog and social media, crediting you as the artist.

Entries close on the 7th of November at 6am AEDT (Melbourne time) - which is 6th Nov, 12 noon Pacific Time.  

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

  

 

Christmas Joy for Paper Rose

 Today, I'm sharing a simple card, a fancy fold card, and an acetate card, all using the Woodland Christmas B paper from Paper Rose Studio. 

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Here comes the sun for Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero

Compensated affiliate links may be used - these are at no extra cost to you. No posts are paid or sponsored. I appreciate your support! 

 There's a new Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero Challenge on the Hero Arts blog. The theme is "here comes the sun", so I used sunshiny colours on these daffodils.

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Acetate birthday card for Hero Arts

I made this card during a live video for the Hero Arts Creative Team Crafty Hour last week! You can watch the replay HERE.

I had an extra die cut (You'll need to watch the video to see why!) so I made this card: 

 

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Blog post at Picket Fence Studios

 I have a post up at the Picket Fence Studios blog today. Here's a sneak peek:

You can find my post HERE

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Acetate card and a video!

I made a card for A Blog Named Hero last week, and I had a heap of comments on my blog and on Instagram asking for a video showing how I made it. So I made a new version of it and made a video, too!

And here's the video

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See through for A Blog Named Hero

 I have an acetate card to share today, using a die and stamp from Hero Arts for the current challenge at A Blog Named Hero.

I cut a panel with the snowflake border fancy die twice by using the partial diecutting technique to make it symmetrical. I used clear glitter embossing powder on the snowflakes to make them nice and sparkly. I then made a panel with the white embossed sentiment and some Distress Oxide ink blending. I splattered some water and added some white and some glitter embossing powder to add some texture and interest to the panel.

 

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Challenge me a Christmas Card with Debbie Pamment

Welcome to "Challenge me a Christmas Card" for 2019! I have asked cardmaking friends to join me in the lead up to Christmas by challenging me to make a card using a specific style, theme, technique or product.

My guest for today is Debbie Pamment of Debbie P's Place. Debbie has challenged me to make a card with the theme "Christmas Windows".

You can check out her take on the challenge HERE. 

Here's what I came up with:

I actually googled a whole lot of Christmas Window themes from shops around the world (Myer, Macy's, that kind of thing) to get a specific theme for this card, but in the end, I decided to go with a night-time view outside a window with a Christmas tree from Lawn Fawn. The sentiment on the windowsill is from Simon Says Stamp. When I was almost done, I decided to make this into a shaker card. using little sparkly gems from Studio Katia. 

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CAS-ual Fridays: CFC 183

Happy friday! I have a shaker card for you today for the latest CAS-ual Fridays challenge.

I used the CAS-ual Fridays stamp sets "Bring on the snowflakes" and the discontinued set, "Christmas Carols"

 Make sure you check out the rest of the design team creations at CAS-ual Fridays!

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Acetate, embossing paste and flowers

I recently received an order from Hero Arts in the mail, and I wanted to try out the "Color layering for you flowers" stamp set, as well as some of the shadow inks I ordered (I mainly ordered them to make my life a bit easier when I wanted to do some stamp layering).
I decided to make an acetate card, and I used a stencil from Dina Wakely (that I have used a fair bit recently) to add some Wendy Vecchi translucent embossing paste to the acetate. 

Let me just say, acetate cards are very hard to photograph well!

Some of the smaller flowers are from Lil' Inker Designs "Fresh cut flowers". The sentiment is from the Happy stamp & cut set from Hero Arts.

 I'm going to share this card at Virginia's View challenge "All about colours". 

 Just Add Ink has a challenge to "Just Add S" - and I added Sequins!

I'll also be sharing over at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - the theme this week is "anything goes"

 Thanks for visiting :)

Hello, twins

A friend of mine asked for a baby card for twins, so I thought I'd join in with both Lawnscaping's Clean and Simple challenge, and Virginia's View Shaker card challenge.  Now, I've never made a shaker card before today.  Never. So it was a bit of a steep learning curve, and I must say I'm not very inclined to make another one!  However, I am happy with the finished product. 

On the background, I used the technique of using Versamark to create shadows on a panel of solid ink (Hero Arts Shadow Ink in Soft Pool), which I learned in the recent Online Card Class.  I created a stencil to apply the Versamark using some Lawn Fawn cloud dies.   All the stamps are also Lawn Fawn - from "Plus One" and also "Hello Baby".  I had to create an extra bundle for the stork to carry with some creative masking (I've done this a number of times before with this stamp).  The window was cut with a Stitched Circle die from Lil' Inker Designs. 

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Fusion #16

I just adore the colours in this week's Fusion photo, and the sketch made me think of a window card, so I pulled out an acetate card base and started from there! 

Isn't it weird how cards sometimes turn out - my original plan had heaps of yellow, and something floral on it. But it turned out as an acetate card with the sentiment on the inside, with baby blue stripes and a happy, bright sun diecut from vellum.

Make sure you visit Fusion challenge blog to see what the other DT ladies have made, and to link your card creation to the linky link ;)

Thanks for visiting :)