Easter Cards for Hero Arts

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 Today, I'm sharing two more Easter cards using the Charming Easter collection from Hero Arts. 

I made one panel using the Asana stencil, White Pearl Hero Paste and Metallic sprays. After it was dry, I cut the egg shape from it so that I could make two cards - gotta love a good two-for-one!

 

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Case me a CHristmas Card with Lee Murphy

Welcome to Case me a Christmas Card for 2024 - a Christmas Card blog series!

For more background info on the who, what, where, when, how and why of this series, please visit my first post for this year HERE!

Today's guest

Today, my guest is Lee Murphy. I have CASEd one of her cards that you can check out HERE.

 All of the products I used are linked below :) 

This is the card I Cased: 

Using Ardyth's LIMES technique: 

List:  floral layering stencil, pink and grey, grey on white sentiment, silver gems

Include: pink and grey

Modify: berry and leaves layering stencil, rose gold on white sentiment, peach gems

Exclude: the ink gnome ;)

Spin: Christmas!

Lee also Cased one of my cards - you can find it HERE

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Birthday wishes from the jungle!

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I've been playing with some of the products from the August release from Hero Arts - this layering stencil set looks just like a jungle!

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Christmas village from Hero Arts

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 Today, I'm sharing a card using layering stencils from Hero Arts.

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Hero Arts Mixed Media Stamp-along - Jessica Frost Ballas and Channin Pelletier

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Today, I'm sharing some more cards I made during the Mixed Media Stampalong on the weekend. These cards were inspired by Channin Pelletier and Jessica Frost Ballas.

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Online Card Classes: Stenciled 2 Day 2

Day 2 was all about using pastes through stencils. I decided to try aaaaalll the pastes - Hero glitter paste, white pearl Hero paste that I coloured with alcohol inks, and Decofoil Transfer Gel Duo. 

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Inspired by Gale at A Blog Named Hero

The challenge this month at A Blog Named Hero is "Inspired By" - I have taken inspiration from a card posted in July by Gale Williams-Thompson.
 

Gale created a panel of watercolour card with glitter paste and watercolour powders. I don't have glitter paste, so I used Wendy Vecchi embossing paste. Gale used Pixie spray to adhere her stencil, which I don't have, so I used a technique I've seen Kelly Latevola use - put Tombow mono multi glue on the back of the Bold Floral stencil from Hero Arts and wait for it to dry so it becomes repositionable. I spread the embossing paste over the stencil, scraped off the excess, then sprinkled Nuance watercolour powder over the top, and sprayed with water and mopped up the excess water with paper towel. When the panel was dry, I added some Stardust Stickles to give some glittery shine, and added a white embossed sentiment from Many Birthday Messages popped up on dimensional adhesive.

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Challenge me a Christmas Card with Deb McCleary

Welcome! Last year, I did a series on my blog where I asked people to set me a Christmas card challenge. This year, I'm stepping it up a notch, by asking crafty friends to join me!

How cool is this graphic!! My crafty friend, Kylie Purtell, made it especially for me! YAY!  You can check out her blog HERE.

Today, the challenge theme is White Christmas

My special guest today is Deb McCleary  - you can check out her take on this challenge below.

Here's my take:

 I used a Simon Says Stamp die with embossing paste to create the snow in the background. I created the snow drifts using Hillside Border dies from Lawn Fawn. The snowman and the sentiment are from Papertrey Ink.

My guest today, Deb McCleary, does not blog her cards, so she sent me a photo to include here:

I love all the shine and texture on her card!! Gorgeous!

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Make a wish

Hello! I was determined today to make a card to enter into a challenge, but when I visited blogland, there was an abundance of wonderful challenges that were calling my name! So this card actually fits 5 different challenges!

I started with a top folding white card, and I masked a panel on the front of my card and blended some Abandoned Coral Distress Ink.  I then put the Cloudy Day stencil from My Favorite Things over the top and added some embossing paste. Before that was dry, I added some Iridescent Sparkle embossing powder from Judikins, and heat set it when the embossing paste had dried a little.
I stamped the Unicorn from Lawn Fawn's "Critters Ever After" onto some white cardstock with some Intense Black ink from Hero Arts (which is Copic marker friendly - I stamped the sentiment in the same black ink), before colouring with pale yellow and pale pink Copics.   I attached the Unicorn to the card with dimensional adhesive, then added glimmer upon glimmer upon glimmer - Wink Of Stella on the body, Star Dust Stickles on the mane and tail, and a sprinkling of sparkling clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. 

 I will be sharing this card at CAS(e) this sketch #181,  The Mixed Media Card Challenge (the theme is Sparkle), CAS Mix up challenge (I used Stamping, Markers, plus stenciling and embossing paste), Just Us Girls (Coral, Yellow and Pink), and Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge (Unicorn).

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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"

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Merriest baubles

I made this card a week or so ago, and forgot to put it up on my blog. When I remembered, I realised that the first photo I took is a bit blurry - but I've already written on the card and sealed it in an envelope! Oh, well, the photo is not THAT blurry that you can't figure out what the card looks like!

I used the "Triangle patterned stencil" for the background, with some white embossing paste, and a dusting of glitter embossing powder over the top (which I heat set after the embossing paste was dry).  The sentiment is white embossed on black.  I used Hero Arts "Stamp & Cut Ornament" with some ombre inks, then covered in Wink of Stella.  I tied some twine into bows and attached it to the card and the ornaments with Multi Medium Matte.

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Silver congratulations

A friend of mine asked me on the weekend to make a congratulations card for an engagement. I asked if she wanted elegant, or modern, or cute - she said elegant.  This is what I made:

I used the Tim Holtz Lace layering stencil to add some Wendy Vecchi embossing paste that I had coloured with a silver Gelato from Faber Castell, and before it was dry, I sprinked on some Judikins Iridescent Sparkle embossing powder. I let the paste dry before heat-setting the embossing powder.  I stamped and silver embossed the sentiment from Hero Arts, and then added some more sparkle with a strip of silver glimmer paper from Stampin' Up.

This is one of those cards that the photo just does not do it justice - the lace has so much texture and sparkle! 

 I will be sharing this card over at Virginia's View Challenge - all about glitter!

Thanks for visiting :)