Stars & Cocktails

Today's first card is for two Hero Arts related challenges:  A Blog Named Hero has asked us to Make the Sentiment the Star and a2z Scrapbooking wants a CAS card using Hero Arts products.  I wanted to play with my embossing paste so I mixed my paste with some yellow ink and used a Stampin' Up star stencil to create the background.  The background was just perfect for this sweet sentiment and with it's different fonts and little stars it has enough personality to carry the card.  I embossed it onto blue cardstock to mimic the night sky and added a few yellow gems.  Super simple!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Night of Navy) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Sentiment from CL582) Hero Arts

Inks:  (VersaMark) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Seafoam White) Ranger

Die:  (Stitched Rectangles) Lil' Inker Designs

Stencil:  Stampin' Up

Gems:  Recollections

This second card is for The Friday Mashup and I'm using both parts of the challenge - a project with food or drink on it and it's coloured with markers.  I stamped, coloured and cut out these adorable drinks and sunglasses from Paper Smooches and pieced them onto the card base - some flat and some with dimensional adhesive.  The washi tape is a new Duck Washi that I got while I was on vacation and I thought the ocean vibe of it went perfectly with the tropical drinks.  That's it for now - it's time to head off for my first day back at work but I'll be back tomorrow.  Have a wonderful day!   




Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink

Stamps:  (All from Get Outta Town) Paper Smooches

Inks:  (VersaMark) Tsukineko

Markers:  (R22, R35, YR04, YR31, Y17, Y38, YG95, E04, E29, E33, E35, C1, C3) Copic

Washi Tape:  Duck Washi

Gems:  Recollections

Dauber Thanks

I've broken out my Hero Arts ink daubers again - this time to make a one layer card for the current A Blog Named Hero challenge.
I paired them with the aptly named Dauber Bunch stamps and I had fun making little rainbow flowers!  There will definitely be more daubers finding their way into the Craft Cave in the future...

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (Kraft) Papertrey Ink

Stamps:  (Flowers & sentiment from Dauber Bunch) Hero Arts

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Early Espresso) Stampin' Up, (Pale Tomato, Orange Sode, Butter Cup, Field Greens & Tide Pool daubers) Hero Arts

Gems:  Recollections

Gratitude Bear

Hi there!  A regular client of mine recently asked me to make some thank you cards as a gift for her friend who is expecting a baby boy.  She figures it's something the new mum will need but have no time to go shopping for.  :)  She said they could all be the same design but I'm going to try and make a few different ones.  My first design was inspired by this week's CAS(E) Study challenge - another gorgeous design by Donna Mikasa. I stamped and embossed the Hero Arts teddy bear onto the card base.  Then I used the negative of one of Papertrey Ink's Half and Half dies and sponged it with Tumbled Glass and Peacock Feather Distress Inks. Finally I added a sentiment, some gems and voila! Because the this is the first time I used the teddy bear stamp (and the sentiment stamp) I'm going to enter this into the New Year, New Stash challenge at A Blog Named Hero.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill

Stamp:  (Bear from New Baby) Hero Arts, (Sentiment from Many Thanks) Paper Smooches

Inks:  (VersaMark) Tsukineko, (Smokey Slate) Stampin' Up, (Tubled Glass, Peacock Feather Distress Inks) Ranger

Embossing Powder:  (Clear) Ranger

Die:  (Half and Half collection) Papertrey Ink

Gems:  Recollections

Fusion Flower

Good morning, all!  I'm playing along with two challenges with this card.  Both the sketch and the photo at the latest Fusion challenge inspired the design.  I love the grey polka dot paper and found a pretty good match in my stash.  The flower is an oldie (but goody!) Hero Arts cling stamp.  Since I used the HA stamp, and it's a clean and simple card, I'm also entering it into A Blog Named Hero's CAS challenge.  I used up a lot of bling in the centre of that flower!  The stash of gems I got from my Christmas trip to Chicago is dwindling fast.  Oh to have a Michael's in Bermuda!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Kraft) Gina K., (Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  (Dots & Stripes Metropolitan collection) Echo Park

Stamp:  (Flower) Hero Arts

Ink:  (VersaMark) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Black) Ranger

Die:  (Pop Up Thanks) Memory Box

Gems:  Recollections