A Rockin Birthday

Yesterday I finally managed to get crafting. And the agenda was to create a Birthday card for a very special friend. I started out with a a few die cut pieces of base card stock, Kraft and Purple and I decided to use this fun Hero Arts stamp, It was perfect for a girly card!

I did a bit of Copic colouring and cut this stamped image out. I used some Glossy Accents to add some dimension to the i-pod and ear phones. I then went about stamping my sentiment, I obviously used my go to set of letters by Hero Arts- Cute letters, perfectly sized for this kind of job! It's always more fun adding a custom sentiment:-) To add some extra zing, I went over the stamped letters with a glitter pen.

I finally put the card together using some dimensional adhesive and finished it off with some pink Hero Arts pearls and some faux stitching with a black pen. Viola!

Supplies:

Stamps- You Rock by Hero arts, Cute Letters by Hero arts too.

Cardstock- Bazzil

Pearls- Hero arts

Hello 2011 Hero Arts stamps!

Finally used my gorgeous Dictionary Greetings stamp set by Hero Arts... One of my faves from the 2011 catalog for sure! I used a plain Kraft 4x4 card and came up with this fun design:-) Super pleased how it turned out.
This was actually my second attempt. The dictionary stamp didn't leave an even impression on the first card I made, so I had to start over.. Never the less was worth the effort:-)




I masked out the cupcake and stamped the little party hat, and coloured it with Copics... Didn't spend too much time blending since I wanted it to keep it looking rustic.

The streamers were the last to stamp, I coloured them lightly with a green Copic and accented with my white gel pen. I also highlighted the window with some stitching and also added a few detailing on the cupcake and the party hat.

Hope you have a wonderful Sunday!

Hugs!

Stamps: Celebrate all and Dictionary greetings by Hero Arts

Copics for colouring

Tuxedo Black Ink

Uniball signo White gel pen.

Happy World Card Making Day!!!

Happy World Card Making Day everyone!! Hope there is some stamping involved in all of you girls schedules today:-)

I started off with some much needed online purchasing, with all those great CHA lines hitting the stores who could restrain themselves huh? Went crazy today and bought some Pink Paislee and October Afternoon, you really cant get enough when you see these vintage yummy designs! So that's a little peek into whats been happening today... On to card details!

This is a card I made from a brand new Hero Arts stamp I purchased, It's an older design, but I think it's so great for coloring.. While I was at it I also stamped two matching bookmarks with this stamp as well, left it for some Copic colouring later on, when I am free:-)



I love this little butterfly who balances out the design, I glossy accented it! Shocker! ;-)

Used the gorgeous Hero Arts sentiment set "Huge Hugs" .. isn't it pretty:-)

Definitely brightens up a rainy day which today just happens to be! My only wish for the weekend was nice warm weather:-( Oh well, just have to settle for a sunny card I guess!!!

Have a great weekend you guys!!

Happy Birthday!

Hi,

Sharing a little card I made for a friends birthday today:-) So many occasions to make cards for these days, just finished making cards for two birthdays and an anniversary!


I did a little clear strip on this card so that I could stamp some balloons flying off...(yet again!! he he)
And I used some Doodlebug chunky glitter and filled in the centers for a festive look.

I did this by filling in the balloon with Glossy accents and sprinkling glitter.. once it was dry I did another coat of glossy accents to seal it up, so that glitter wont keep coming off...

I also stamped a monster from the same kit ( Monster Fun by Hero arts) and paper pieced it with Basic Grey Lime Rickey paper. The other patterned paper I used was by Lilly Bee.

To finish off the card I used some Hero arts Jewels and added some stitching with a black pen on my orange punched border.

Thanks for dropping by,

Hugs!!!

Happy birthday Collage card

Hi there, finally back with another post:-)
Today I was testing out a new product! And boy was it fun! I have just discovered alcohol inks:-) I love them, so many different possibilities..

This is the first set I broke out.. It's the Cottage Path Alcohol ink set by Ranger. I used two colours and created this fab background! not my usual style but I think its rather pretty.

I decided to make a Birthday card, it's for my Aunt. She is the sweetest, and I thought this gorgeous hydrangea stamp would help make a fab card for her.. I also tested out my new Friend Definition stamp for this, totally love the dictionary print. I filled out the background with the ledger stamp so that the hydrangea had a nice backdrop.

Here's a close up, The pin is one of my new fun stamps! super cool touch huh? works great with the Hero Arts Ledger stamp. (Everything but the Engraved circle, lace stamp and the pin is by Hero arts)

I used distress ink Milled Lavender mixed with a bit of Antique Linen to finish the edges to look aged. love the muted tones:-)

Butterfly from the Antique Engravings set

Sentiment from the Birthday Massages set

Cling stamps: Friend definition and Ledger stamp

and the Hydrangea Wood block stamp

Hope you liked todays card! and would love to hear your comments on the Alcohol ink background, and if you use them I'd like to know what your favourite colour/set is:-)

Happy stamping girls!

Fun with Brads!

Today is my darling husbands Birthday, here is the card I made for him:-) The metal brads were bought specially for this card a couple of months ago, when I saw them on sale at Two Peas I knew exactly what sort of a card I planned to use them on!

I love circle cards, I think they are the coolest; simply because they are not your average card shape; if you go to a card shop, you don't find tonnes of circle cards now do you? :-) That's what makes them special I guess ;-)




I made the base of this card with blue and green paper by Basic Grey ( Sugar Rush) to stop it from looking like a valentines day card since I was planning to use lots of hearts on it. The green paper also has a fun print of dots that looks like confetti, so it was perfect.

I used the 'Many hearts' stamp set and the 'Valentines sayings' stamp set by Hero arts and got busy stamping the patterned hearts in Magenta and Red Colorbox ink and then Clear embossed them.

Since some of the patterned hearts were too big for this card I took the patterned heart that I had stamped and pre cut, flipped it over, used a smaller heart and stamped on it and cut it out. This way I got patterned small hearts!!

Thats a fun little trick to get the most out of your stamps:-) So if you need smaller hearts in those fab patterns you can try this out..

The banner was drawn free hand and the sentiment was stamped using the fun small letters in the Hero arts 'Cute letters' stamp set, they are great for a card like this!

I then assembled the card by adding the Big Metal number brads by Around the block to finish it off :-)

Hope you enjoyed my card, sorry I have not been able to post much as hubby has been ill these days.. Will be back with the winner for the give away and hopefully another card by Monday!

Please feel free to leave some comments or questions about the card as I love reading them:-)

'Happy Birthday' set of cards

Hi, I am here to share with you a pretty set of birthday cards I have been working on, my motivation behind this set was to use some Hero Arts Birthday stamp sets.
Now these stamp sets have a load of tiny birthday elements that are great for making small gift sets of cards. They are versatile and can be mixed and matched, but I kept it pretty much clean and simple:-)

I used my favourite paper from October Afternoons Fly a kite collection which I got two days ago for this.. Since the cards were only 4x4 I still have loads left over from that sheet!!





Here is a look at the individual cards, all of them have some decorative stitching :-)

I added a fun little party hat to make it more interesting:-)

The gifts on the bottom have been popped up to give the correct dimension of a stack of gifts..

Supplies list:

Hero Arts stamps sets- Birthday messages and Celebrate all

October afternoon paper collection- Fly a Kite Mini paper pad

Distress ink- Mustard and Tea dye

Memento ink- Tuxedo black and Rich Cocoa

Adhesive- Tombow mono adhesive runner, Scotch dimensional tape
Coloured with Copics

Hope you enjoyed this set, I sure enjoyed making them:-)

And if you have any comments or questions about these cards, I'd love to hear them!