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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Paper Piecing at A Blog Named Hero

There's a new challenge up at A Blog Named Hero and we are looking for projects that use paper piecing.

We are using Gossamer Blue products on all our March projects along with our Hero Arts supplies. Gossamer Blue has some wonderful scrapbook and life pages kits that include pretty papers, embellishments, inks and stamps.  Stop by here to check them out.

All the papers on my card, except for the kites, is from Gossamer Blue.

I used Rock Candy Stickles on the fun swirly clouds and Wink of Stella in clear on my funky sun.

I thought this would be a great card for my nephew when he goes off to university in the fall.

We can't wait to see your creative projects over at A Blog Named Hero.  Remember that a random winner will receive a gift voucher to do some shopping at Simon Says Stamp.

Please stop by A Blog Named Hero to check out the projects created by the other design team members.

Thanks for visiting!

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Rainbow Birthday

A card for Hero Arts Birthday Challenge in the rainbow category.

I inked up the Tiny Flags stamp with Distress Markers, gave it a spritz and stamped it on my card to create a watercolour border.

For the text background I gathered up all my sentiment sets and puzzled together a variety of birthday sentiments and stamped them in Smokey Gray Versafine Ink.  I black embossed the main sentiment so it would pop off the background and finished off with some twine and pearls.

Wishing you an inky day!

Sparkly Easter Card

A quick post today with an Easter card I made using this Egg Set from Impression Obsession.

The little chick is such a cutie!

I used DCWV Pastel Glitter Cardstock for the grass, chick and background and some mother of pearl white cardstock for the egg.

I really love how this turned out!

Thanks for visiting today!

Watercoloured Daisies

A watercolour card for Virginia's View Challenge #1.  This is a new challenge blog, go check out the details here.

I did a little bit of painting, stamping, die cutting and embossing to make this Mother's Day card.

I attached the vellum sentiment with a decorative staple from EK Success's Fastenater, a tool that has been in my stash for years and years! Does anyone remember this stapler and all the fun staples you could buy for it?  

Maybe it will make a comeback like stencils, stencil paste and the Spritzer Air Brush that Tim Holtz is now peddling. All of these items have been in my craft stash for years as well.

I'm also entering this in Vicky's InLinkz Project Manager Challenge.

Thanks for visiting!

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Patterned Paper, It's Not Just For Cards

I'm up at A Blog Named Hero with a new post, please stop by for a peek.

Watercoloured Backgrounds

I could play for hours with watercolour paints and paper. Watching the colours mix and move, never knowing exactly how it will turn out. Oh, happy days!

Then I end up with all sorts of watercoloured pieces that I don't use right away so they sit in my drawer for some future card. But then I get the inkling to play with the paints again and the vicious cycle repeats itself.

Case in point, I wanted to play in Papertrey Inks Make It Monday Watercoloured Background Challenge. I had oodles of backgrounds ready and waiting but oh no, I decided I needed to paint a fresh and new background. So I made one and thought maybe I would use two on my card, so I made another. And another, until I had seven background pieces. Was it necessary? No, but I had a ball making them!!!

I used two watercoloured pieces for this card. Some pinks, corals and yellow for the sentiment piece and yellow and pink for the card background.

The sentiment from Stylish Sentiments Birthday was white embossed and the dotted lines from Background Basics Retro was clear embossed over pigment ink. I clear embossed stars onto the background and added a bunch of iridescent sequins.

I'm going to try and make another card for the challenge with one of the pieces I painted last night. Hopefully I'll be able to control myself from pulling out the watercolours again!

Thanks for visiting, I appreciate all the comments you leave for me!