Hero Arts – November Hero Studio Inspiration

Welcome everyone! Today I’ve got a couple of cards to share for inspiration with the November Hero Arts Hero Studio subscription – specifically the layering stencil and die of the month. My second passion to cardmaking is reading so this month just grabbed me by the heart immediately!

My first try at the layering stencil, I went with a ton of bright, happy colors just to play with it. It was so fun and I love how it turned out! Then I grabbed the die of the month set and couldn’t wait to build the sweet book worm, along with both styles of books included.

After creating my images, I took one of the sentiments in the die set and cut it 3 times to layer together, plus a dark blue layer for the top. These are adhered by liquid glue. Then I wove my book worm through the letters, adhering him with liquid glue here and there as well.

I added the books with foam squares, then the worm and sentiment below it with liquid glue and a foam square where needed. I finished things off here with glossy accents on the worm’s glasses because, who can resist that?!? Not me.

For my second card, I went darker on my color palette and finished things off with some Astro Paste for the beautiful gold glitter. This library belongs in a castle somewhere, I’m sure of it!

I went back and forth on what images to add but in reality, this little worm is too adorable not to add to everything for the foreseeable future. So he won and so did this simple little sentiment from the What’s Cookin’? stamp set. They are both popped up with foam strips and his glasses are also finished off with glossy accents.

If you haven’t thought about the Hero Studio subscriptions from Hero Arts, I highly recommend. The themes are so fun each month and you know it’s so fun to have something new to create with regularly! It’s also a steal of a deal compared to retail prices.

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Hero Arts – It’s All Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus

Hello again. I’m back with a bit more inspiration for the Hero Arts Hocus Pocus Collection. Like I said before, the scattered stars stencil set was so fun and I just kept inking up different color combos. So when I went to create cards, they just kind of put themselves together. This one features another background from that inking session and the Tricks and Treats stamps and dies.

Pulling from the colors in my background, I stamped and colored images from Tricks and Treats, then used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I played around with the arrangement of my images for a while feeling like the flow of the stars was pulling them across my card.

Once I liked where they were at. I added foam squares to the back one at a time and replaced them in their spot. Then I put the panel in my MISTI and stamped a sentiment from the same stamp set in the upper left corner.

I glued the panel to a card base and finished the design off with some glossy accents and stardust Stickles on various parts of the images. Isn’t it whimsical and fun!?!

Products used:
Tricks and Treats stamps and dies
Scattered Stars stencils
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust
Blending Brushes
Lawn Fawn inks – sugar plum, black soot, sunflower

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Hero Arts – Hero Studio

Hello everyone! I’m here today with some inspiration for this month’s Hero Studio subscriptions for Die and Stencil of the Month! I love how the Hero Studio series always coordinates together in fun ways. This month is Fall in the Forest and it’s so fun!

First up I have a fun card combining the die and stencil of the month together! I had to have a first go-around creating all of the critters in the die set and then I couldn’t choose just a couple for my card so I tried stacking them and when they fit, I knew it was meant to be!

It seemed perfect to ink up a panel with the stencil of the month for my panel these critters are peeking around and look at those gorgeous trees! I love how different the are and the way the layers easily build a full panel with lots of color! After inking this panel, I edged it with a gold strip and glued my critters to that.

With everything adhered, I popped the stenciled panel and critters up on a white card base with foam tape. Then I chose a sentiment from and older set and stamped it up the left side. Isn’t it so perfect and lends this card to be great for a variety of occasions.

Next, I have a card using more of the die of the month set, creating a sweet sleeping bear. I used on layer of the scattered stars stencil from the Hocus Pocus Collection to create a starry sky. Once the astro paste was dry from the stenciling I lightly inked the edges with white pigment ink for a foggy, cloudy look.

Then I glued the bed frame to the card base along with the pillow and comforter and popped the bear head up with foam tape. Then I carefully glued his paws to the comforter.

Last, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from another older set, trimmed it into a strip and popped it up with foam squares.

Products used:
Hero Studio Die of the Month
Hero Studio Stencil of the Month
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn inks
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Embossing & Watermark Ink
Embossing powder
Magic anti-static brush
Reverse tweezers

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Hero Arts – Hocus Pocus Collection

Welcome back everyone! Today I’m highlighting the Hero Arts Hocus Pocus Collection with a pair of cards featuring the Boo to You dies, along with sentiments from Season’s Creepings and the Scattered Stars layering stencils.

When I received my package, I hit blending brush to paper with those awesome scattered stars immediately! I couldn’t wait to try different color backgrounds with different color combos on the stars! Then I was sure to die cut all of those fun ghosts and their accessories to see what fun I could create!

My first card features a whimsical take on the starry background and three of the ghosts from the die set. I cut an oval from a piece of black cardstock and popped it up on the stenciled panel to frame my stars.

Then added ghosts and my sentiment with foam squares on top of that. This gives everything a couple of layers for more depth and interest.

My second card has a gray background with a light orange frame cut from two infinity rectangles. I love the look this gives. Then I popped my dressed up witch ghost up with foam squares and finished the design off with another great heat embossed sentiment!

I’ll be back with more inspiration using this collection soon, so stay tuned!

Products:
Boo To You dies
Season’s Creepings stamps and dies
Scattered Stars layering stencils
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn inks
Foam tape and squares
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder
Magic anti-static brush
Liquid glue

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Hero Arts – August Hero Studio

Welcome everyone! I wanted to also catch you up on some neglected Hero Arts projects that have made it to social media but not yet on here. I’m fortunate enough to create with the Hero Studio Stencil of the Month and Die of the Month and I’m having a blast with it!

This month the theme is Ichabod’s Study and it’s spooky fabulous! I have had so much fun creating and wanted to share my cards thus far.

My first card is created to resemble an old book and uses the stencil of the month. It’s so detailed and beautiful in any color palette! I added a “spine” to the edge and a sentiment from the recent Sherlock themed release which I thought fit the vibe.

Next, I combined the stencil of the month with the frame dies from the die of the month as well. I thought they made a cool and different background setting for my sentiment. Then I trimmed the edge of the front card flap and stamped my sentiment on what is actually the inside of the card on the right side. Isn’t this stencil amazing in bright colors too?!?

Next I had to pull out the full spooky vibes for the Hero Studio die of the month. It’s amazing and has so much potential for spooky, eerie, holiday, bright and cheery! Depends what you fill your frames with or if you fill them at all! I created what I envisioned as a wall in a spooky library in an old mansion.

Have you thought about a monthly subscription like Hero Studio? There are lots of variations for your style of crafting and the products are so fun to create with each month!

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Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Java Junkie Shaker

Hello there! Today I’m over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers for the first Tuesday Tea of 2022!!! Can you even believe it?!? Time just flies by too fast. I hope you all had a wonderful New Year holiday and are ready to jump into fun crafting! I’ve got a shaker card today featuring so many companies and highlighting embellishments from the Twiddler’s Nook shop. We just had our mini Valentine release yesterday and I couldn’t wait to start creating with it!

I recently picked up these adorable unicorns from Heffy Doodle that I’ve been eyeing for an eternity and I’m so happy to color them up in Valentine colors! Aren’t they adorable!?! Then I used the Lawn Fawn stitched mug die sets to create a shaker and filled it with three embellishments from Twiddler’s Nook – sweethearts clay hearts, holographic hearts confetti and rosetta pixie dust micro beads. The whipped cream on my mug is from the Lawn Fawn cupcake die set.

To create the background for my card, I cut a white panel to 4×5.25 inches and inked the top and side edges with Lawn Fawn mermaid ink and a blending brush. Then I cut two layers of clouds used the Lawn Fawn cloudy border dies and inked the tops of those with the same color before adhering all the layers with liquid glue.

Next, I used my images as guides before stamping my sentiment in the top left sky area. Then I started adding everything with either foam squares or liquid glue, or a combo.

For finishing touches today, I added Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the unicorn horns, sweetheart clay embellishments to the whipped cream and heart on the mug and a scattering of holographic hearts around the sky.

I probably had way too much fun creating this card but I’m just so happy with how it turned out and think it would make anyone smile when they opened it! Don’t you?!?

Products used today:
Heffy Doodle Fluffy Puffy Unicorn stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Mug dies
Lawn Fawn Stitched Mug Frame dies
Lawn Fawn Puffy Cloud Border dies
Lawn Fawn mermaid ink
Trinity Stamps blending buddy brushes
Hero Arts 2018 My Monthly Hero Kit stamp set
Twiddler’s Nook Pixie Dust Micro Beads – rosetta
Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts Clay Heart embellishments
Twiddler’s Nook Holographic Hearts embellishments
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
Foam squares
Liquid glue

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Lawn Fawn – Wild Ride

Hello everyone! I’m back again today to share a really special card that I made because today is my anniversary. My husband and I have been married for 14 years today and I couldn’t resist making this card because the sentiment was just too perfect!

To create my card, I started with a piece of kraft cardstock. I smooshed some green ink on my glass mat and spritzed it with water. Then I smooshed my paper in the ink repeatedly, drying in between layers. Once that panel was dry, I ran it through the die cutter with the Hero Arts vines and leaves cover die. I placed it over a light teal panel and thought it was too plain. So I used a blending brush and green ink on the edges of the teal panel and really liked the difference it made. So, I used liquid glue and adhered them together.

Next, I stamped and colored images from the new Lawn Fawn Toucan Do it set and then cut them out with the coordinating dies. I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the set on black cardstock and trimmed it into two strips.

With a combination of liquid adhesive and foam squares I adhered all of my images and the sentiment strips. Then I went in for finishing touches like glossy accents to the bird beaks and unicorn Stickles to the butterflies and flower centers. I also added black glaze pen to the eyes and glossy accents to the jaguar noses too.

I’m just so happy with how this card turned out and am really excited to give it to my husband today too!

Products used on today’s card:
Lawn Fawn Toucan Do It stamps and dies
Hero Arts Leaves and Vines cover die
Lawn Fawn inks
Glossy accents
Stickles – unicorn
Foam squares
Tombow Multi Mono liquid adhesive
Blending Buddy brush

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Coffee Loving Cardmakers – You’re Just My Cup of Tea

Hi everyone! It’s time for another Tuesday Tea over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today. I had some fun playing with the secondary images in a new-to-me set from Hero Arts called Mouse Tea Party. There are some adorably cute mice in this set ready for a tea party, along with great sentiments and other fun images too.

I stamped and colored images from the set with my copic markers, keeping to pinks and oranges because I knew I wanted a blue/teal background so they would pop and not get lost. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and moved on to getting inky.

I blended chipped sapphire, peacock feathers and speckled egg distress oxide inks on a while panel, then splattered it with water and pearl watercolor. Then I trimmed the panel down to 4.5×4.25 inches and added a strip of white glitter paper to the bottom. I added foam tape to the back and popped it on a white card base. Then I stuck that in my MISTI and stamped a sentiment on the bottom right side.

Next, I added foam squares to the back of my images and popped them in place. Moving on to finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the mushroom dots, and parts of the teacup and teapot. Then I went ahead with a little more sparkle by adding stardust Stickles to the steam, butterflies and flower centers.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. I hope you’ve found some inspiration to create something wonderful and share it with someone too!

Have a fabulous day!

MFT Stamps – Super in Superhero

Hello everyone! I have a REALLY fun box card to share with you today featuring some fun, new goodies I got from Scrapbookpal.com recently.

Products used on today’s project, using affiliate links to help fund this page at no cost to you:
Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink
Lawn Fawn Scalloped Box Card dies
MFT Stamps Super Friend stamps and dies
Hero Arts Leaves and Vines background die
Distress Ink colors – Tea Dye, Mowed Lawn and Black Soot
Tombow Mono Liquid Adhesive
Scrappy Tape 1/4 inch
Copic markers – R00, R24, R27, R29, YR21, YR24, YR27, Y11, Y13, Y26, Y28, YG11, YG13, YG93, YG95, G12, G14, G16, G24, G28, B0000, B32, B34, W1, W3, W5, W7, E41, E42, E43, E44

To create my card, I started by die cutting all the elements from the Lawn Fawn scalloped box card. The outside of the box is cut from kraft cardstock and the edges are inked with tea dye distress ink. The decorative panels are cut from white cardstock and inked with tea dye and mowed lawn distress inks. Then they are splattered with watered down ink from those two colors plus a little black soot for extra texture.

An extra white panel was inked up with the same colors that I die cut the Hero Arts leaves and vines die from. Then that panel was cut down to 3×3.25 inches to fit the back panel of the box card. This gave me a large piece left over to use on another project too! Next, I used 1/4 inch scrappy tape to adhere the box card together, including the inner supports that I will attach my images to later on.

I stamped images from MFT Stamps Super Friend and colored them with my copic markers. I made sure to stamp lots of extra leaves so that I could fill the scene really well. I attached the koala character to a strip of acetate and added him to the back support in the card. Working my way forward, I added the other two characters and leaves in between.

For my sentiment, I chose to stack one of the longer ones from the Super Friends set by masking it off and stamping it in two sections on one of the inked decorative panels. Last, I added those to the flaps of the card and also glued the leaves and vines background to the back panel of the box card.

This card was so much fun to create! I love making interactive cards. They are so fun to make but more fun to give to people! Seeing their face when it moves or pops open is so cool!

I hope you found some inspiration to create something wonderful. I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Hero Arts

Happy Tuesday everyone! It’s time for another Tuesday Tea with Twiddler’s Nook over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog. I was recently gifted some incredible caffeinated products from Hero Arts from a very generous friend and I’m obsessed with it all! This was the My Monthly Hero kit from August 2018, so maybe you have it in your stash and can bring it out to new light.

As soon as I laid my eyes on this die I knew I had to try it in black and white and I love them both! Such different effects by just changing a simple color of cardstock, always amazes me.

For this black one, I blended distress oxides in tattered rose, ripened perssimon and fired brick on an A2 panel. I spritzed it with water and flicked gold watercolor all over it. Once that was dry, I grabbed a sentiment from the stamp set and inked it up with VersaFine onyx black ink, using my die cut panel as a guide. Then I added foam squares and strips to the back of the die cut panel and adhered them together. I used liquid glue to attach the whole thing to a card base and, voila, it’s all done.

For this second panel, I used cracked pistachio, broken china and wilted violet distress oxides on the background panel. Then after spritzing water, I flicked a pearl watercolor over the whole panel. It gives a great shimmer in the light. I used my die cut panel for a guide again and stamped another sentiment from the stamp set included in the kit. Adding the same foam squares and strips to the back I popped the panel in place and adhered this to a card base.

If you’ve followed me for long, you know I love getting messy in the craft room so these cards were extra fun! My fingers are always rainbow when I’m finished and it just makes me smile. I hope you found a little inspiration to create something wonderful.

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