With the arrival of new stamps....

Ah new stamps how I love thee:-) Nothing beats the smell of fresh stamps to get the creativity flowing, I managed to get my hands on some gorgeous Hero arts goodies. Most of them from the new catalog, mmmmm:-)

Also sharing some good news while I have your attention, I was one of the lucky winners of the Hero Arts January Challenge.
http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2011/02/03/more-january-winners/
And I plan to get a few of the new stamps with my prize;-) yay!! So many gorgeous stamps to pick from... But I have finally narrowed it down to a small list of faves. Will share them with you as soon as they arrive!

For now though, here's a few that I purchased:-)



I adore this pretty flower and bees stamp set, been wanting it for quite a while, and I finally have it.. So I was pretty excited to get busy stamping..
I stamped the wood grain on the entire front of the card, the window was cut out and the cloud background was adhered behind it. I doodled along the edges for a better defined look.

Everything else was then stamped, coloured and cut out and finally, adhered to the card front.



Here is a side view that shows the depth that was created using dimensional adhesive..

Supplies:

Hero Arts Wood grain, Clouds background stamps and the Be Happy, All Occasions Messages Clear stamps set.

Brads by Basic Grey

Copics for colouring

Ink in Soft pool and Tea Dye.

Annes Itty bitty challenge:-)

Fine I admit, it was the challenge name that made me enter.. plus the fun of trying to figure out what I could do with my tiny stamps:-) I am new to the challenge at "Gaal Creative", I enjoyed it so much I think I will make time to play next time too...

Here's the link if you want to enter, not much time left so you would have to hurry:-)

http://www.gaalcreative.com/2010/06/02/junes-challenge-itty-bitty-stamps/


So here's what I came up with, I think the whole idea of summer is really making a mark on all the cards I create lately! For this one I used the Tic Tac Toe grid:-)

Close-up,



How's that for a simple quick card? I think the most time was spent preparing the perfect sized grid for these stamps!! he he


The supplies used:

Hero arts stamp sets: Cute Letters, Bugs and Kisses
Copics
Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Play date cafe challenge : take two

Another submission for the Play Date Cafe challenge this week, love the colour combo so I just couldn't help myself!

I made the focal point a huge Inkadinkado sunflower, love that its detailed and the petals gave lots of room for manipulating it:-) Since the challenge colours were pink grey white and black, I thought I should colour the sunflower in pink!! It looked very pretty in pink. My Copic shading came out really well this time, (If I say so myself:-) he he)..

I took my chance and used the fab Washi tape again ( if you need to know where it can be purchased feel free to ask me would be more than happy to help) and used the black and white stripes this time. I made a border with it to frame the card to help the sentiment stand out.

I used my Prima stamps and stamped the music notes, then used Black soot Distress ink and shaded the corner where the flower would sit. I adhered the flower and stamped additional butterflies and bees, again by Prima.

I lastly stamped the sentiment in grey, this is a Heidi Swapp stamp set.. Its the best alphabet stamp that I own. love love love the mixed letters.. Its the same set I used for my Venice layout for NSD.

Anyways,

Hope you enjoyed my card, and hope you have a fabulous day!