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.

More use from my favourite set..

Was busy the last three days making this card, you can imagine how busy I must have been last week huh? I only got to craft late in the night... Works just drowning me these days.

So as always the trend seems to be, reaching for my 'Sweet wonderful you' set.. As some might know, this is a stamp I won from Hero Arts for one of the monthly challenges.. I love that company I tell ya:-) their stamps ROCK!!

Now last week I got a load of Maya Road Chip board, and I happen to get the Windows chip set.. Awesome for scrap booking.. but when I sat down to craft I thought it would look amazing on a card, so I painted it with some Tim Holtz Picket Fence Crackle paint and got crafting..

Here is what I cam up with!

I used a fab Hero Arts woodblock stamp for the flowers as well as their wood grain stamp. The wood panels are individually pieced for an authentic look. I used Tea Dye distress ink to get a lovely woody finish.. I added some nails to complete the panels, mighty happy with the results:-)

The little curtain is a part of the chipboard window, I covered it with some cutesy pattern paper.. And few punched butterflies were need to jazz things up:-)

The little girl was stamped inside the card along with a pretty red balloon ( slightly visible in the first pic).. I also added some grass on with my Copics to finish it off..

So that's my card for you today! Hope you enjoyed:-)

Supplies:

Designer wood grain stamp, Sweet wonderful you, Monster fun and Pattern Flowers stamps all by Hero Arts

Maya Road Chipboard Windows Chipboard set

Tea dye distress ink and Picket Fence Crackle paint by Ranger

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

My Minds Eye Lush Rhinestones in pink

Copics for colouring

American Crafts Dear Lizzy Patterned paper