Tic Tac Toe: Circles, Birthday, and Favorite color

This card was an inspiration from a Kleenex box.  The box has large, medium, and small dotted circles with tiny flowers between the circles.  I really don't have a particular favorite color, but I do like the HA mid and soft tone pinks.  For this card I chose circles, Birthday theme, and favorite color.  To give my card some bling, I added wink of stella to the flowers and also some tine clear gems.

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Materials used:

 Hero Arts Stamps:

Hello Circles CL291

Circular Designs CL124

Happy Birthday to You C2656

 Ink:

HA Mid-tone Bubble Gum

HA Soft Blossom

HA Soft Pink

Memento angel Pink

versa fine Onyx Black

Hero Arts Tic, Tac, Toe Challenge

Hero Arts Tic Tac Toe Challenge

I can't believe that It has been over two years since I posted to my blog.  (This sounds like a confession.)  I decided to take a long needed break from blogging and time just got away from me.  I wanted to divide my time with other crafts and not just to making cards.  Now I am back in the swing of making cards again and just realized that I really missed making cards.  I have been keeping up with the world of card making, just not making many cards.  

 

This card is for the current Hero Arts Challenge; Tic, tac, toe challenge and picked stencil, birthday theme, and tag.  I colored the poppy with faber-Castell Pitt Artist pens:  Permanent green Olive #167 and Pale geranium Lake #121 and then went over the flower with a clear Wink of Stellar pen.  The background that I used is from the Hero Arts Stencil Boarders (SA003).

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 Supplies:

 Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens

Permanent Green Olive #167
Pale Geranium Lake #121

Ink

Hero Arts:  Soft Stone
Memento tuxedo Black
Versa fine Onyx Black

 Stamps

HA Delicate Blossoms CL449
Sentiment:  HA Classic Messages8CL414

Stencils

HA Stencil: Boarders SA003

 

 

 

Black and White Cards (My Favorite)

Wow!!  Once again I have taken forever to post cards.  Lately it seems that I am not very consistent in my posting.  It seems like things keep getting in the way of my posting; or I should say I have not been motivated in making cards.  But, I am trying to put that to an end.

 Yesterday, April 6, 2013, I decided to take part in the 90 minute challenge that was hosted on the Hero Arts Flickr group.  The theme was to make a all white card, or to use black, white, gray, and/or silver or any of these combinations.  I choose black and white.  Well, to make a long story short, I decided to make another black and white after the challenge was finished. 

 The card that I entered in the quickcard57 challenge is the second one on this post.  This first card is entered into the Hero Arts Flickr group current challenge.  I used the sketch provided for this particular card.  I love making black and white cards and I especially love to use flowers as my focal image.  I think that these type of cards are very elegant and I love the clean and simple.

 

Card for Hero Arts April challenge



 

Card entered in Quickcard57

Stamps used are Hero Arts:

 

Everyday Sayings CL342

Bold Blossoms CL450

Flower Corsage CG287

Truly Appreciated CL380

 





Clean and Simple Cardmaking 2 Homework Day 10

I have been enjoying the Clean and Simple Cardmaking 2 class for the past two weeks.  (I am sad that it has come to an end.)  This is an online class that is being taught by Jennifer McGuire, Kristina Werner, and Julie Ebersole.  The homework assignment for Day 10 (last day of the class) is to “Grab a stamp and try using it three different ways”.  The stamp that I used comes from Hero Arts stamp set “Valentine Sayings (3 images) CG156 (discontinued as far as I know). [To see the picture of the stamp set, please see below this post.] This set includes two cupcake stamps and the sentiment.  I used the sentiment stamp from the set.  Instead of making 3 cards for the homework, I made 4; three cards using the sentiment and 1 card using one of the cupcakes.

For this card, I masked over the hearts and outline image of the stamp so that I would only stamp the words.  I stamped the word Day by itself onto the heart.

 For my second card I cut out two hearts out of pattern paper and adhered them in place of the original stamped hearts.

 For my third card I omitted the hearts that were originally included on the stamp and left the sentiment plain.

This stamped image on this card comes from the same stamp set.  The sentiment is another Hero Arts Stamp "Valentine's Day Message C2967 (discontinued).  (I masked off the word Day.)

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Hero Arts Valentine Sayings (3 Images) CG156

Valentine Cards

Wow!! I am having a hard time believing that I haven’t posted anything in the last 3 months. Let me briefly say that I have been busy with family. November was very busy for my husband and me as we spent most of it in Ohio helping our daughter. We became the proud grandparents (4th grandchild) of a healthy baby girl and we watched our grandson while his mother and new baby sister were in the hospital. December was busy with shopping for Christmas gifts and going back to Ohio to spend Christmas with both of our daughters and their families. I spent the whole month of January 2013 trying to get back to a normal routine and I was experiencing burnout and needless to say, my mojo was gone. So, to get my mojo back I decided that I needed to take the On Line Card Class: “Clean and Simple Cardmaking 2”.

Here are some of the cards that I made this week.
I made this card for the Clean and simple cards 2 class (Day 6).  I  used a technique called "patch work stamping" that Jennifer McGuire showed in her video.  But, I used 2 colors instead of 4.  The color ink that I used are Pale Tomato and Soft Cantaloupe by Hero Arts. 
Hero Arts Stamps:  Everyday Sayings CL342, Banner Pendent DI074 (The banner Pendent stamp set is made by hero arts for Archivers), Antique Flowers & butterflies 657773, Lattice 331065. 

I used the  Hero Arts Sketch challenge for the current challenge.  Hero Arts Stamps:  Four Leaf Grid S5141, Antique Brocade CG102, and Fancy Love A1295 (discontinued).

 Hero Arts Stamps Hugs & Kisses Birds CG155 (I think that this stamp set is discontinued).  I wanted this card to look like a chalkboard so I used black cardstock and white embossed the image and sentiment.  This  is an inspiration from Kristina Werner.  She made a card using the chalkboard effect on Day 4 of the
Clean and Simple card 2 class.

   

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Simon Says Challenge

This is the first time that I have entered a challenge over at Simon Says Stamps.  My friend Barb is a guess designer on Simon Says Stamps for this month and she inspired me to make this card for the challenge.  The challenge is to make a Sympathy card or a thinking of you card; I chose to make a sympathy card and I kept it cleam and simple. 

On Sunday, Nov 11th it is Veterans Day and Simon Says Stamp is dedicating this challenge to our fallen heros and their families.  Here is my card:

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Hero Arts stamps: 
Lattice 331065
Sentiment from Gina K; Natures Greetings
Image from Gina K Springtime Silhouettes

Starry Night

This card is an inspiration from Kristina Werners card over at the Online Holiday Card Workshop class (day 7).  I stamped the image with Rangers black Archival ink and after the ink was dry, I went over the image with tumble glass, peacock feathers and iced spruce distress ink.  I added blue gems and colored the star with a clear star gelly roll pen by Sakura.  (I wanted to make a star with this shape but didn't have a star punch or die.)  The blue layered paper is embossed with Hero Arts Dot Swirl embossing folder.   I am entering this card in this months current Hero Arts card challenge.

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Supplies used:

Hero Arts Stamps:  Starry Night CG224.

Distress Ink:

Tumbled Glass

Peacock Feathers

Iced Spruce

Black Archival Ink by Ranger

Hero Arts Swiss Dots Embossing Folder 658286