Happy Birthday and Many More

I have another card to share with you today. This one uses a sentiment stamp from Hero Arts along with some washi tape, twine, a paper doily and a Nestabilities die cut.

Thanks so much for stopping. Have a great day.

Welcome to the Neighborhood

Today's card features stamps from Paper Smooches and Hero Arts. The house stamp from Hero Arts was stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The welcome stamp is from Paper Smooches.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you have a terrific Tuesday!

Birthday Boys

A friend requested birthday cards for her grandsons and mentioned that one plays lacrosse, basketball and football and the other plays baseball, basketball and football. So here's what I came up with.

 

I covered the card bases in paper from October Afternoon. The sentiment is from Hero Arts and the balls are from Papertrey Ink's Have a Ball set. The jersey is an old set from CTMH.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday. Happy Stamping!

Celebrating the Moments

I love this sentiment stamp from Hero Arts Life Is Not Perfect set. I stamped it inside a die cut piece created with the Papertrey Ink Fillable Frames #1 die and stamped with the matching border. The designer paper is from the 6x6 Gathering bundle from Authentique. For fun, I added a few mini stars from A Muse Studio to the center of the flowers and also one to the sentiment piece. I think this simple layout really showcases the sentiment and great designer paper.

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Congratulations on your new home

I put this card together for the Hero Arts December sketch challenge. I stamped the Row of Houses with chalk ink, cut out three of the houses and mounted them on the card with foam dimensionals. The sentiment is from A Muse Studio and the papers are from October Afternoon.
Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're all having a wonderful Wednesday. Happy Stamping!

Hero Arts Greetings

Today's card uses October Afternoon papers, a flower stamp from Hero Arts and a greeting from Clear and Simple Stamps. I stamped the flower with Colorbox white pigment ink and the greeting with Bubblegum pigment ink from A Muse Studio. The edges of both panels were sponged with Walnut Stain Distress ink and I also sewed around the floral panel. For some extra detail I used the large scallop die from A Muse Studio on the side strip of dp and added some lace and twine. The finishing touch is a couple of gemstones on the flowers using my i-rock tools and gems.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're all having a wonderful Wednesday. Happy Stamping.

Wedding Card

I had a request from a co-worker for a wedding card with an elephant on it. Her nephew is getting married and after the wedding he and his bride are traveling to India so she thought an elephant would be a fun addition to the card. Here's what I came up with using a Hero Arts elephant I had.

 

I even finished the inside of the card with a sentiment from MFT, a few strips of 7 gypsies designer paper and some Walnut Stain Distress ink sponged on the edges.

Thanks so much for stopping. Happy Stamping!

Savitri Wilder Inspired

I love this card that Savitri Wilder posted on her blog and decided to try and recreate it with supplies that I had on hand. To create the background I stamped one of the circle stamps from the Hero Arts Monogram Alphabet set in SU pixie pink on PTI Kraft cardstock. The outline label stamp is from the Doodlebug Designs Tags set and the birthday wishes is from PTI's Faux Ribbon set. I pulled some old lace out of my stash and tied it in a bow then tied the tag onto the bow and attached it to the card with a glue dot. The flower is 3 blossoms from a silk flower held together with a bright yellow brad and attached to the card with a glue dot. I also cut two leaf shapes from felt and attached those to the back of the flower petals with scor-tape.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a wonderful week! Happy Stamping.

Lovin' the Go-to Sketches edition from Paper Crafts

I have another card today using a slightly modified version of the sketch I used on my last post (page 9 of the Go-to Sketches edition of Paper Crafts). The flower stamp is from Hero Arts.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Happy Stamping.

Reindeer Noses

Are you looking for a cute little stocking stuffer or small gift for the kids in the neighborhood or classmates? Well, how about some Reindeer Noses.

A friend brought me a page torn out of her Current Catalog and asked me if I could make her some packets of Rudolf Noses. After more thought and discussion we decided on Reindeer noses instead of strickly Rudolf noses. Here's what I came up with. . .

8 whoppers per pack for Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen. And 1 cherry sour for Rudolf.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday! Please let me know if you make any packets of noses and leave me a link if you post them on-line.
Happy Stamping!

Supplies:

• Stamps: Hero Arts (frame and reindeer), Snap Stamps (words)
• Paper: Kraft, Vanilla, Riding Hood Red
• Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Cocoa
• Misc: Lollipop bags, Candy, Crystals

Grad cards

In honor of the season, here are a couple of quick graduation cards I put together the other day.

Congratulations to all of the graduates out there!

Another Valentine

Today's quick post features another simple Valentine using the Hero Arts Happy Day Animals set. For this one I used my heart Nestabilities.

Have a great day! Thanks so much for stopping by.

Supplies:

• Stamps - Hero Arts & Studio G (sentiment)
• Ink - Archival Black
• Paper - Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Kraft
• Misc - Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol, Pop dots, Nestabilities hearts, Swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder

Hero Arts Valentines

Recently I did some cleaning and re-organizing in my craft room and put away all of my holiday stuff so I could move on to Valentines. I pulled out a couple of Hero Arts sets and stamped several images with Archival ink on SU Whisper White and then colored them with prismacolor pencils and gamsol while I watched a movie. Cutting them all out was a little time consuming but I love the effect. I also punched out hearts and covered them with Firebrick Distress Stickles for each of them to hold. The cards are 4 inches square and not too bulky so they will mail well. I'm planning to make enough to send to all my nieces and nephews and my girlfriends children so I stuck with a pretty simple design.

This first batch is from the Happy Day Animals clear set.

This second batch is from the Playful Animals set.

For those of you experiencing this cold spell we're having here in the northern mid-west I hope you're all safe and warm! Thanks so much for stopping.

Supplies:

• Stamps - Hero Arts & Studio G (sentiment)
• Ink - Archival Black
• Paper - Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Kraft
• Misc - Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol, Pop dots, Punches, Swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder
  

Another money holder card

Here's another money holder card and matching envelope. You can see the directions for the card on this post and the envelope on this post.

Supplies:

• Stamps - Hero Arts Playful Animals
  
• Ink - Timber brown stazon
• Paper - White, Chatterbox, Artichoke
• Misc - Punches, pop dots
  

U Rock Chocolates

I found some cute little chocolate rocks and decided to package them up with bag toppers to share them with friends.


I used DCWV Rockstar papers for the toppers. The U is cut from grungeboard and sponged with inks to match the papers. The ROCK on the purple package is stamped from the Hero Arts Monogram Alphabet set using Palette hybrid black ink. The ROCK on the other package is actually part of the designer paper.

Thanks for stopping.

Coneflower Thanks

Here's just a simple tri-fold card using some neglected Hero Arts stamps. For the first two panels I stamped the coneflower with colorbox white pigment ink and let it dry. Then I colored over the white with Prisma color pencils. For the third panel I stamped the flower in versamark and colored over it very lightly because I wanted to make sure the words would show up. Each panel is stitched with my Janome Sew Mini and the "thanks a lot" are heat embossed with white.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Hero Arts
  
• Papers: White cardstock, Kraft from Stampin Up
  
• Ink: Colorbox White pigment, Versamark
  
• Accessories: Prisma color pencils, White EP, Sewing machine

SheetLoad of Cards

As mentioned in my last post, I really enjoy the SheetLoad of Cards eZine so I made time to use the sketch from the April issue to make some cards. All of the cards have the same basic layout using SU very vanilla bases, chocolate chip mats and patterned papers from My Mind's Eye. The first two cards feature one of the birds from the Inkadinkado set Birds Galore. I stamped the bird with Colorbox dark brown chalk ink on SU very vanilla, cut it out and mounted it with pop dots. The Sending love your way message is from the Hero Arts Birds and Messages set. Happy Birthday is from a retired SU set.

For the next card I used the Hero Arts Birds and Messages set again and added some distressing to the chocolate chip layers. I also added some ribbon to the card by using a bobby pin. It's a nice simple way to add some ribbon to a card without punching any holes to attach it. The image was stamped with Timber Brown Stazon and colored with SU reinkers and an aqua brush.

The next card uses a frog stamp from PaperSource. I stamped the frog with Timber Brown Stazon and colored him with SU reinkers and an aqua brush. Then I stamped the birthday greeting from Papertrey Ink's Faux Ribbon set in Warm Red Colorbox chalk ink and layered it using my Nestabilities.

The final card is my series uses my new Stampendous Changito stamp. When I saw this stamp I had to bring it home with me. I think it will get a lot of use at my house. Again the image is stamped with Timber Brown Stazon and colored with SU reinkers and an aqua brush. The message says "You are truly amazing" and I believe it's from Hero Arts. It's my brother's birthday today and I think this might be the card I bring him this evening. It seems pretty fitting for our relationship! Maybe I'll change the sentiment to "Mom always liked me best!" *giggle*
Thanks so much for stopping and checking out my creations. Have a wonderful day!

Monkey Business

Sorry it's been so long. It's a shame when life gets in the way of stamping and blogging. he he

Here are a couple of cards I made using my Hero Arts Playful Animals set again because I thought it would go great with the fun Love, Elsie (Lola collection) papers and cardstock stickers that I won as blog candy from SmilynStef's blog (Ingenious Inkling). For both cards I stamped the monkeys on white with chestnut roan colorbox chalk ink and colored them with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. For the top card I stamped the vines in olive pastel colorbox chalk ink on white and cut them out. Then I stamped the leaves on green paper with the same olive pastel ink and cut those out as well. I mounted the monkey scene on a large Love, Elsie sticker and mounted it on a mat of lavendar. I inked the edges with brown to give it a little pop. I inked the edges of the other layers on the card then added the three small stickers to the right of the main image with brown matting. I thought the stickers worked well for the layout. This card uses almost the same supplies except I used pink (the bright pink from SU) for my card base. I added a row of paper piercing to the bottom and used my ticket punch on the corners then stamped the Yippee! on the patterned paper. This card is bright but I think it would work well as a birthday card for a young person. Thanks so much for the great blog candy Stef! I love it! And thanks to you for stopping by!