Simon Says You Gotta Have Friends

You can never have too many friend cards in your stash so it's a good time to get crafty and enter the Friend Challenge over at Simon Says Stamp.

I inked up a tag with Distress Ink and spritzed it with Perfect Pearls for a little shimmer and splatter and continued with the splattering with some gold Heidi Swapp spray. It's a gray and rainy day here today so I think that's why I needed a little sparkle in my day!

I managed to use two patterned papers on this card along with some Simon Says dies. The Fresh Daisies is an oldie die but it is one of my most favourites.

Wishing you a sunny day and thanks for stopping by!

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Runway Inspired #62

It's been a long time since I've made a card for the Runway Inspired Challenge. But with a little free time and a beautiful photo to get my mojo working, I decided to play along.

Isn't this dress so pretty...I was totally inspired by the gliding birds against the dark blue background.

I did tone-on-tone stamping with Hero Arts Flourish Background and made some stencils of flying birds on my Silhouette and used them to add embossing paste on top of  the flourishes.  While the embossing paste was still wet I sprinkled on Martha Stewart Crystal Fine Glitter for a subtle sparkle.

I stamped the sentiment on vellum, added a strip of silver glitter paper, some May Arts Silk Ribbon and a pretty button to finish off the card. I was thinking this would be a great card for a wedding.

There's still plenty of time to play along with the challenge, you'll find all the deets here.

I'm also entering this in Simon Says Anything Goes Challenge.


Thanks for visiting today and have a great weekend!

Hero Arts Sketch Challenge

It's been a long time since my last post, so I'm happy to be popping in today to share a card I made for the Hero Arts Sketch Challenge, which sadly, is over tomorrow.

I chose sketch #2 (the one with the flower) as my inspiration and made a shaker card.

I finally bought Hero's Butterfly Die and am so glad I did.  I just love the large size and that it has so many cut-outs.  I die cut mine out of paper that I colored with yellow, orange, pink and red India Ink.

Instead of using a tag to mount my butterfly on, I used a glassine envelope that I filled with Hero Arts Mixed Sequins.  I think Hero Arts doesn't make them anymore as I couldn't find any on the website.

The background was white heat embossed with the Five Line Background stamp and the sentiment is from the Sending Smiles set.

To finish off I added Glitter Ritz to two edges of the card for some added sparkle.

I'm also entering this for A Blog Named Hero's You're the (em) Boss Challenge.

Thanks for visiting today, I appreciate all your lovely comments!

Have a great weekend!

Pretty Pink Posh Blog Hop

I have a card today for the Sequin Shaker Blog Hop at Pretty Pink Posh.

If you're not familiar with Pretty Pink Posh, they carry some wonderful sequins in such pretty colors.  I don't own any of them but hopefully will one day.

I made a fun graduation card today, one that I think will be good for my nephew.

There's still time to enter the challenge and be inspired by all the other projects!

Thanks for visiting!

Simon Says Birthday Challenge

It's a Simon Says Stamp Birthday Challenge to celebrate 5 years of fun challenges on their blog.

I used translucent embossing paste for my background, stamped the sentiment onto card stock and placed it in a glassine envelope along with some sequins.

Hope you get to play in the challenge, you could win a fabulous prize from Simon Says.

Thanks for visiting today!

A Blog Named Hero Turns Two

We're having a blog hop to celebrate the 2nd Anniversary of A Blog Named Hero! How time flies when you're getting inky!

I'm the last stop on the hop and you should be arriving from Kelly's fabulous blog here. If you are just joining us you can start the beginning of the hop here.  You will want to hop and comment along the way as we have some wonderful prizes up for grabs from Hero Arts and Simon Says Stamp. The more you comment the better your chances of winning a prize!

I used lots of Distress Inks on my card today, along with embossing and die cutting. I sprayed Perfect Pearls over everything to get a subtle sparkle and to let the ink colours blend together. Love the texture on the balloons from the splotches of Perfect Pearls.

I glued 6 balloon die cuts on top of one another to get a thick chipboard effect, then die cut the balloon shape from the embossed background and nestled the balloons into the recess made by the die.

Thanks so much for joining the hop and celebrating along with us! And thanks for all the amazing inspiration from the ABNH designers new and old and all of our guest designers!

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