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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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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