Hero Arts Digital Kit: Papillons - Vintage Cards!

Hey everybody! I'm back today with a super fun and easy set of vintage-style butterfly cards. Over the last few months Hero Arts has been release digital papers and kits with their releases. There have been some really fun ones but I think this new Papillons Digital Kit is my favorite to date (and at just $4.99 it is a screaming deal!). Now, I was a little worried if I'd be able to use the kit or not because I don't have any fancy editing software. I shouldn't have worried because I was easily able to use this kit with Word. I downloaded the kit and then I just dragged the images into a blank word document and resized them how I pleased.

There are a variety of images that come with the kit, some are single butterflies, some are multiple butterflies, some have writing and some don't, etc... You can add them and arrange them and size them however you like. The kit does come with paintbrushes.... I do think you need software (maybe Adobe?) to use those, however, they were not necessary for this kit to be be absolutely phenomenal!

For these cards I decided to go for a vintage look and I printed the images out in color (yes, color! I didn't even have to color them-but you can print them inn black in white and color if you want to) on some vintage looking printer paper I had in my office. I cut them down to A2 sized papers and used Sand Core ink to ink blend around the edges. Then I used Sand ink, black ink and Gold Glimmer Metallic ink to splatter the background (the splatters are subtle and don't show up well in the pictures.

I wanted to glam the butterflies up a little so I used a paint brush to paint on some Gold Glimmer Metallic Ink. You can kind of see this in this pictures. I took a quick video of this to share but somehow I deleted it (sorry). To finish my cards off I glued the beautiful Papillon papers to Ivory Cardbases. These were fun, easy and make such a sweet little card set. 

Ok, you guys, that is it for today but please come back tomorrow because I've got more to share!

Have an awesome day!

Maria

Gina K Designs Release

Hello everybody! Thanks for stopping by today because I have a clean and simple card to share with you today. I'm using the brand new Winter Window stamp set from Gina K Designs. Now, this set has some really beautiful elements that can be used to build a window scene complete with a window treatment,  trees in the distance and beautiful birds. There are also coordinating dies! There is so much you can do with this set but for today I decided to keep it simple.

I stamped the tree in black onto watercolor paper. Then I watercolored with my Karin markers.

I started out by watercoloring the ribbon and ornaments before moving on to coloring the tree. After that I watercolored the presents. It was so hard for me to do but I managed to leave the background white.

I heat embossed my sentiment in black and then I popped my panel up on a light blue card base.

Ok you guys! That's it for today. Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you back here soon!

Maria

Cupcakes & Carousels Embellishment Kit Card

Hello, hello and happy Thursday! I know you haven't been seeing as much creativity from me as usual but I wanted to let you know I am absolutely working on fun stuff! It's just that it's fun stuff for On Stage in a few weeks and I am not allowed to share it until after the event. Don't worry, time flies and you'll get to see the fun new products before you even realize it.

For today, have you checked out the Cupcakes & Carousels Embellishment Kit?! It's so amazing! I rarely buy embellishment kits because I'm always afraid that I won't use up the whole kit. This kit is just too fun to pass up. It's got two colors of twine, ribbon, paper bows, tassels, gold embellished die cuts and sequins! I used one of everything to make this simple card. I've even got a tutorial for you. Just scroll on down.

Measurements:

• Card Base in Sahara Sand: 5½” x 8½” and scored at 4¼”
• DSP Card Face: 4” x 5 ¼’

Instructions:

1. Attach one length each of the blue and yellow twine around the middle of the DSP piece.
2. Attach a length of the Calypso Coral ribbon above the twine and snip the ends on a diagonal.
3. Stamp the sentiment in Calypso Coral onto one of the die cut pieces. Then attach it to the center of the card using dimensionals.
4. Add a rhinestone to the center of a bow. Then use a glue dot to adhere the bow to the ring of a tassel. Use a dimensional (cut in half so it is easily hidden) to attach the bow to the left of the sentiment piece.
5. Use glue dots to add sequins to the front of your card.
6. Attach the embellished DSP piece to the card base using dimensionals.

Have fun giving it a go! If you have any questions or need help ordering the products please let me know. Remember that through March 31st for every $50 CSV order, you will get to pick an exclusive gift of your choice from the Sale-a-Bration catalog! Pretty awesome! Also, if you love this embellishment kit, time is running out to purchase it as it will only be available through April. Need more stamps now? Never fear! I've got you covered!

Need more stamps now? Never fear! I've got you covered! Don't forget that during Sale-a-Bration (now) for every $50 USD you spend before taxes you will get to select a FREE item from the SAB catalog! If you are looking for the ultimate Stampin' Starter kit then now is the time! For $99 you will get to pick $125 in products of your choice plus any two stamp sets from the Main or Occasions Catalog! It really doesn't get better than that! Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks for stopping my blog today! See you soon!

-Maria.

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Need more stamps now? Never fear! I've got you covered!

Need more stamps now? Never fear! I've got you covered! Don't forget that during Sale-a-Bration (now) for every $50 USD you spend before taxes you will get to select a FREE item from the SAB catalog! If you are looking for the ultimate Stampin' Starter kit then now is the time! For $99 you will get to pick $125 in products of your choice plus any two stamp sets from the Main or Occasions Catalog! It really doesn't get better than that! Let me know if you have any questions!

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