If you aren't familiar with the My Monthly Hero kit, it's a kit that is released by Hero Arts on the first Monday of every month. It always has a fun, themed, collection of stamps, dies and other goodies. The cost is just $34.99/month and the value is always much greater!
You have the option to subscribe (subscribing now means your first kit will be the February 2023 release), or, to buy your favorite kits as one-off purchases. Be aware that once these kits sell out they are gone for good. If you see a kit you like make sure to snatch it up quickly!
Today is Day Twoof the Countdown to Creativity and I've got an easy Valentine's Day card for you. To make this card I started off with a piece of water color paper and I sprayed it with Pink Liquid Watercolor spray. I heat embossed it in black using Onyx Pigment ink and Clear embossing powder. Then I cut the piece down with a paper trimmer and matted it on black cardstock with some foam adhesive on the back. I set that bit aside so that I could work on the background.
To create the background I used one of the stamps from the set (only the edges because it actually has a sentiment in the middle), inked it up in black and stamped repeatedly until my background was as full as I wanted it. Then, I adhered my pink Valentine focal point to the center of the card front.
Next, I cut some hearts from the kit out of gold foil (on the bottom I only wanted one heart so i just snipped the other heart off) and glued them on to the sentiment piece on opposite corners.
Well, that is it for today but make sure you check out the sneak peeks from other creative team members, and for a chance to win the kit before you can buy it make sure to head over to the Hero Arts blog.
Have an awesome day and I'll see you back here on Monday for the full release!
Hey you all! One of the really fun things about Creativation was getting to play with amazing new products from our favorite stamp companies. I spent quite a bit of time at the Hero Arts Make 'n Take table and if you haven't seen their new catalog yet it is time to go check it out! One of my favorite things in this new catalog is this floral background die. It is so gorgeous! The die actually cuts out a large rectangle that fit on the front of a card but I wanted to do something different with it for today's card.
First, the die cut was colored by ink smooshing using Hero Arts liquid watercolors in Strawberry, Pink and Mulled Wine. Then it was spritzed with the Hero Arts Pink Metallic Mist to give it some awesome shimmer. Then I adhered it to a piece of white cardstock and die cut a large heart out of it.
I wanted to create a softer background so I gently blended some Distress Oxide ink in Milled Lavender onto the background. A little of it got on the die cut but it easily wiped off. Get a load of how gorgeous this die is!! In the picture below you can see how beautifully the watercolors and metallic mist have combined for a soft, elegant look.
I heat embossed a sentiment from a Hero Arts sentiment set and popped it up on foam adhesive. I used foam adhesive to pop my heart up on a background that I sponged and splattered. black rhinestones and black metallic thread were the final touches to finish off this card.
Have you seen the new Hero Arts catalog yet? What are some of your favorite things?
This month the A Blog Named Hero challenge is doing a Crafter's Choice challenge so you know I'm playing along! Click the graphic below to head over to their blog and check out the awesome cards made by their design team!
Ok, I'm off to go pick up my son from school but I will be back soon!
Hey you guys! I hope you're having a great day. I'm back with another card made from Concord and 9th's Just Love Bundle. This time I used an Emboss Resist Technique with watercoloring. First, I embossed the floral stamp in white embossing powder (if you don't have white, clear embossing powder will work well too)...
Then I used Distress Inks and a water brush to watercolor the image. You can see that the embossed image resists the ink and remains white. This is a great technique for beginning watercolorists because the raised, embossed image helps you to keep your paint/ink where you want it.
After my watercoloring dried I used my anti-static pouch on my card. Then I used Versamark ink and my Rose Gold Embossing Powder from Wow! Embossing to heat emboss the large "Love" sentiment straight onto the card face.
I decided not to add any background splatter or sequins to this card this time. It's such a simple but pretty one-layer card and I decided to leave it alone.
That's all for today folks! Let me know if you have any questions. I'll add product links below so that if you want to add any of these products to your crafty stash it's as easy as a mouse click.
Paper Pumpkin Kit: January 2018 - Heartfelt Love Notes
Hello Everybody and welcome to the first A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop of 2018! If you get Paper Pumpkin and are looking for some alternate ideas you have come to the right place! I am joining a bunch of talented Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all over the world to share some creative ideas for making both cards and projects from the contents of your monthly Paper Pumpkin Kit!
Personally, I am not a huge fan of the color pink so I swapped out the Flirty Flamingo that the kit was designed with for some Bermuda Bay. The envelopes in the kit are a dark Crumb Cake color so I added some Crumb Cake ink to stamp my background. The background is layered over Bermuda Bay and a card base of Basic Black.
One of my favorite things in this kit are the vellum hearts-they are so fun and I'm a fan of the elongated shape! I layered mine over a piece of striped DSP that I cut off of a card base from the PP Kit. Then I heat embossed the same "LOVE" sentiment in white on black cardstock. I cut it out and layered it on top of the heart and off set it just a bit. This card was so easy to make thanks to all of the Paper Pumpkin supplies that I had to work with.
I am really excited about my project today! I tried something that I've never done before and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I used four of the envelopes from the Paper Pumpkin Kit to make an envelope book with pockets and tags and pull tabs. It was really so much fun to decorate! Here is what the cover of the book looks like...
And here it is about to be opened up!
Here's the first inside layout. I've used stamps and paper pieces from the PP kit to make just about everything you see here. I did add some Bermuda Bay and Basic Black cardstock to keep with the color theme of my card. The Bermuda Bay piece is a pocket and the little little black tab peeking out is a secret message... fun, right?! The note on the right is slipped into the pocket and comes out easily as well.
The second spread looks like this, it's pretty simple but has nice room to write and the tag on the left pulls out. The striped DSP on the left and the fun scalloped paper on the right are both from the PP kit as is that gorgeous white ribbon with copper edges.
One of the most fun things about this project was adding fun details. This vellum banner was from the PP kit and I layered a stitched circle and small Crumb Cake heart over the top. I didn't use dimensionals because I wanted the book to close as flat as possible.
This is the third and final layout... I think it's may favorite one. I edged the pocket on the left with some copper washi tape then made a tag to fit inside. Those splatters I've used are from Swirly Bird and did a good job of grunging up this project a little bit. On the right I've used the Pick a Pattern washi tape and done some more layers.
This embellishment was so easy as it is just simple layers. The heart is layered on a circle and placed over a DSP flag and a strip of copper foil washi. Fun!
Here's one last look at this cool little love book...
I had such a good time putting this together but didn't have time to make a tutorial. If you're interested in a tutorial please let me know and I will make you a video ASAP! For now, I hope you'll continue on this fun blog hop by clicking the next button below and heading off to visit my crafty friend Audra Monk!
UPDATE! I had so many requests for a tutorial that I have made a video for you to follow along with. Happy crafting!
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Welcome back to What Will You Stamp! This week we are featuring the Groovy Love stamp set from Stampin' Up! I spilled the beans last week and told you that hearts aren't really my style when it comes to crafting. I also am not a huge fan of the color pink and traditional color combos (like red and pink for Valentine's Day, red and green for Christmas, orange and black for Halloween)... Don't worry, I'm not complaining! Here's another little secret: I do not own this stamp set (gasp!). I had to have one of my fellow design team members stamp some images for me and pop them in the mail (Thanks Priscilla!)-actually I need help like this often because unfortunately I do not own the entire catalog even though I would like to! I asked Priscilla to please surprise me with whatever she wanted to send me. I find that when I receive images that I would not have requested on my own I get the extra challenge of having to think outside of my own box. This is a good thing!! I received three heart images in Pink Pirouette, Real Red and Basic Black (the black one was the zebra print heart). I also received three of the little "Love" circles in different colors which are so adorable! At first I thought I would use the black heart and then I told myself to knock it off and make something fun with color combos that aren't my norm. Here's what I came up with. I am so happy that I decided to go for it because I came up with two different cards that I am happy with. Thanks for the color challenge Priscilla!
This first card uses the dotted heart and Love circle images stamped in Pink Pirouette. I combined the Pink with Whisper White, Coastal Cabana (Yes, retired, but it was out on my desk from another project and just worked perfectly for this project), and Sahara Sand.
That beautiful background DSP is from the Sweet Little Things DSP pack and went perfectly with this project!
I added some shimmer to this softly colored card using Wink of Stella in clear. Then I added some loops of silver thread behind the heart and popped it up on dimensionals.
For my second card I decided to use the exact same layout but in different colors. I think it's pretty cool that with the same two stamped images (in different colors) you can create two very different looking cards even if you use the same layout. For this card my images were stamped in Real Red. I decided to pair them with Whisper White, Marina Mist and Smoky Slate.
The DSP for this card is from the Neutrals 12x12 paper stack. I love that the sweet words on the DSP go with the theme of the card. I decided not to use Wink of Stella on this card as I was going for a more bold look. On both of my cards the Whisper White layer is dry embossed using the Softly Falling embossing folder.
Here's what the whole stamp set looks like! It has really great sentiments. I did receive some sentiments but I ended up not using them. Lucky for me I should be able to make another card with the images that I have left over!
So, I'm really curious to hear what you all think. I've certainly been doing some truth telling over the last two weeks and I'd love to hear from you too. Do you like hearts? Pink? Traditional color combos? Do you own the entire SU catalog? Hahahaha! Which of my two cards do you like better? Do you prefer the first, softer looking card? Or, do you prefer the second card that has bolder color choices? I like them both but....SHOCKER!! I think I like the Pink Pirouette card better! Please let me know what you think and if you have this set and want to school me on how to use hearts please join us over at the What Will You Stamp challenge blog this week! I would really love to see What Will You Stamp with this set!
Thanks for stopping by! Have an amazing day!
-Maria
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