Happy Holidays

Another card for the Hero Arts monthly challenge here. This is a simple card without a lot of bulk, great for sending out in the mail during the holidays.

The trees were embossed using blue pigment ink and clear embossing powder. I added Stickles to the stars and I really like the texture from the Flower Soft for the snow.

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Holiday Ornament

This card was made for the monthly challenge of Holiday Cardmaking at Hero Arts. Check it out here.

Lots of embossing on this card with the Swirly Frame and Ornament. The background is from a HA digi kit here. It has the definition of Merry, Happy and Joy on it. Perfect background for all your holiday cards.

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Embellish Magazine

I was seeing so many beautiful cards made for Embellish Magazines Color Challenge (plus background stamping) that I decided to make one for the challenge too.

This colour combo is not one that I would think to put together but I loved playing with it.

I used alcohol inks to colour some glossy cardstock and white embossed the flower on this. I clear embossed the background on the black paper and used the Cuttlebug to emboss the white card base.

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Clean & Simple

A card for the Caardvarks Clean & Simple challenge. The tree and sentiment are both embossed on vellum which is overlayed onto cardstock that is stamped with a handwriting stamp.

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Falling Leaves

I love the colours of fall and have a tiny obsession with all things leafy so a leafy card for the Hero Arts Everything Autumn challenge and the Caardvarks Clean & Simple Challenge is a perfect fit.

I stamped the leaves and sentiment on cream coloured vellum and overlayed this onto cardstock stamped with a blue flourish background and added some ribbon. I wanted to keep it simple so the colourful beauty of the leaves is the focus.

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Apple of My Eye

Today is the release of Vinnie Pearce's new digi kit, Apple of My Eye, available here. Lots of beautiful things in this kit!

This first project is for my sister. She's having some friends over for dinner as a "thank you" for helping her out and the table will be set with these place cards and little gift bags. So sweet!

For my card I thought I would try something new so I used different shades of brown with just a spot of colour from the butterfly.

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Everything Autumn

Hero Arts theme for September is Everything Autumn: Harvest, Halloween and Thanksgiving with a technique challenge of Simple Gift Bag. Check out all the info here.

To go along with that theme I made some place cards and gift bags for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday in Canada (Oct. 11th). I think these will look festive on the table.

These were made with a Hero Arts digital kit found here and with some traditional stamping. So fun to make! I think I'll put everyones favourite sweet treats into each bag!

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Operation Write Home

This weekend Hero Arts is hosting a Birthday Bash to help celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of Operation Write Home. The goal is to make 500 cards this weekend! If you can find the time please help this wonderful organization by making a card or two.

Here are the cards I made, all using the Emboss Resist technique.

Check out the videos here and here to learn more about the techniques.

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Emboss Resist

I was playing around with a couple of new stamps and came up with these cards. Both use the emboss resist technique. I stamped the background with a Sheet Music stamp  (Impression Obsession) and then clear embossed the flower (Outlines) ontop and covered it all with Distress Inks.

One in fiery shades

One in shades of blue

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Etsy Inspired

The EtsyInspired blog is celebrating their 100th challenge so I thought I would make a card! The inspiration is from Cathy Walters Etsy shop. She makes beautiful pendants and this butterfly one caught my eye. Love the blues and purples!

Here is my card inspired from the pendant.

I used Alcohol Inks in blues and purples to colour some glossy paper and them embossed the butterfly in black on top and added a bit of shimmer with a Stardust Pen. The background was done in Distress Inks and all was mounted on the Big Scalloped Circle die cut. I didn't add a sentiment on the front, instead I stamped it on the inside of the card. I do this quite often to have a cleaner looking front.

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Journey Back

I'm sharing a few cards I made using Vinnie Pearce's new digi kit here called The Journey Back Collection.  There are so many lovely images in this kit so go take a peek!

I love leaf images and there are quite a few in the collection. I especially love this fern in a ghost-like white colour against the teal shade.

Who can resist butterflies? Vinnie has some beautiful ones in this kit and I used a couple of them on cards.

On this butterfly I thought that the girl image looking up at the night sky would be perfect for a Thinking of You card.

Some more leaves (I just couldn't resist)!

And my final card, soft and serene.

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Just because...

There's a new monthly challenge over at Hero Arts called Keeping in Touch and Back to School. Go check out the details here.

I embossed the dandelion image with Zing Embossing Powder in Leaf. I love how the colour pops on the black glossy cardstock. The sentiment is also embossed and I used my new nestie shape Big Scalloped Circles for the card base.

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