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

A Paper Pumpkin Thing: March 2018 Kit

Hey, hey! It's the last Thursday of the month in my neck of the woods and you know what that means, right? It means it's time to pull out your March 2018 Paper Pumpkin and have some fun creating alternate projects with this kit!

Today I am hopping with the A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop crew and I cannot wait to see what fun and creative projects the team will have to share with us.

This month's kit is a special one because this kit marks Paper Pumpkin's Fifth Anniversary!  This month the kit is vintage themed with lots of roses and a free gift of wooden embellishments. I decided to make a gift card set with my kit. I made the "box" out of Very Vanilla Thick cardstock that I splattered with Fresh Fig ink. Then I cut one of the envelopes apart and lined the left side with Gold Foil. I used the Fresh Fig ribbon from the kit as a closure for the box.

Inside of the set I've include some notecard sized envelopes on the left. On the right is a set of four cards that I put together using the supplies from the Paper Pumpkin kit. I could've decorated the inside of this set a bit more but decided to keep it simple this time.

Here's a peek at the cards I made for this set. There are two each of two designs for a total of four cards.

This card is my favorite. The rose background adds so much detail but still allows the gold glimmer paper, sentiment piece and gorgeous pearls to really stand out.

With supplies that were left in the kit I created this simple card to finish off my set. 

The only thing that I added to it (not included in the PP kit) was the stitched circle in crumb cake cardstock. The "Thank You" sentiment comes from the All Things Thanks stamp set. 

Here's a last look at the final product. I plan on giving it to my Mother-in-Law for Easter and I really hope she will like it. 

That is it for today but if you are looking for more Paper Pumpkin inspiration please click on the next button and keep on hopping along with us.

UPDATE: Here's a link to the tutorial I've created upon request. Enjoy!

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Maria Willis

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