Spring Card Camp

I am taking the Online Card Class - Spring Card Camp and this is Day 1. Today's lesson was making a faux embossing folder with a stamp image. I chose to use the Hero Arts/GinaK Friendship Blooms stamp set.

This is how the embossing image turned out:

I embossed the image with White embossing powder 10 times. I then ran it through my Big Shot with the sandwich for embossing with dies. I made 2 cards from the embossed / de-bossed images:

I also stamped the image with black ink onto white cardstock so I could do the spotlight technique on the green card base. I used the embossed side up and blended ink over the image before I adhered the spotlight panel.

For this card I blended two colors of ink over the de-bossed side and added an image from STAMPlorations that I stamped and fussy cut out. I added a sentiment strip from Taylored Expressions.

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Beautiful as Dreams that Dance

I absolutely love this sentiment from Impression Obsession! Then pair them up with watercolored butterflies from Hero Arts = LOVE!  I used distress inks on the butterfly and spritzed the stamp with water before stamping them onto Tim Holtz Distress Water Color Paper. I then used my MISTI and Versafine Onyx Black ink to stamp the sentiment.

I am submitting this card to Less Is More Challenge - One Layer Card with the theme of Dreams:

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Sending Warm Thoughts

I finally used the Hero Arts Color Layering Tree stamp set. It is really fun to use and you can get some really good autumn colors using the various layers and different colors. I used Distress inks for the leaves and tree. The window die is an oldie but goodie from Memory Box and the cat die is from Taylored Expressions.

I am submitting this to Virginia's View Challenge - Focal Point

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'Tis The Season

The SCS color challenge inspired me to create this holiday card. This was made with the Hero Arts Color layering stamp set. The patterned paper is from PaperTrey.

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Celebrate

This was homework from the Online Card Class - Intermediate Watercoloring. Of course this was a case of Laura Bassen's card!  This was a lot of fun to make.
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Thanks a Bunch!

I finally got to posting again - I have been making lots of cards for the SCS cancer drive but I haven't been posting them here since I haven't had much time for that. I wanted to enter this into some other challenges as well so I'm taking the time to post. This tree is from Hero Arts and it is a layered stamp set.  The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions.
I am entering this card into Freshly Made Sketches:

and to TGIF Challenges:

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Oh Happy Day!

The color challenge at SCS today was gold and vanilla with a dessert option of butterflies. The patterned paper is from PaperTrey, the sentiment is from Essentials by Ellen and the gold embossed butterflies are Hero Arts - they are embossed onto vellum and fussy cut.

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Birthdays Are For the Birds!

Freshly Made Sketches is celebrating their 200th sketch!  I think this "birds on a wire" stamp from Hero Arts fit the bill (or should I say beak! sorry....).  The sentiment is from Crafty Secrets.

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Make A Wish

This is for the SCS CC542 challenge - use elegant eggplant, delightful dijon, cajun craze, mossy meadow. Dessert was to case one of the DT's cards.  I cased Maura's card.
I substituted the colors since I didn't have any of the SU! ones.  The butterfly image is from Hero Arts and the sentiment is from The Crafts Meow, which is retired. I used my Scor-pal to score lines down the right side where Maura had used an embossing folder on her card.

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Using a Background for my Hero Arts Wildflowers

This is a card that I made just because - but I did use one of the backgrounds that I created for the OCC Background Check class.  The stamp is a Hero Arts stamp and I colored it with Distress Markers and then misted it with water before I stamped it onto water color paper..  The background was one that I blended distress inks onto and then used a baby wipe over  open parts of a stencil to remove some of the ink.
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OCC Background Check - Day 2 2nd Post

These last two backgrounds for today's lesson are examples of emboss resist with layers of inking.

This first one is really outside the box for me - I'm not sure I like it very much.  I clear embossed a Hero Arts background stamp on top of the patterned paper.  I then rubbed direct to paper black ink and then cleaned off the embossed part with a baby wipe.

This background was inked twice.  I started with a white piece of card stock and blended a distress ink in an ombre fashion.  Then I clear heat embossed the Hero Arts background stamp and reinked the the entire panel with the same ink.  I then applied a darker blue distress ink to the bottom to enhance the ombre look.

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The first two pages here were created by stenciling an entire A2 size card stock panel with distress inks.  I cut off a portion to create two journal entries.  I used the Penny Black hot air balloons and a sentiment from Winnie & Walter with Versafine Onyx Black ink.  The line art flowers are from Rubbernecker and the sentiment is from TJ Designs.  The third page is a mixed media piece.  I stamped the Hero Art feathers with Versafine Onyx Black ink and water colored the large one with Koi water colors.  I then used distress ink to stencil the background.

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Friend

I used my friend Georgia's Hero Arts stencil to create this card.  I colored in the stencil openings with Distress inks and a dauber.  The sentiment is also from Hero Arts.

When I saw the new Fusion challenge I couldn't believe how this card is perfect for the photo inspiration part:

I am submitting this to Kathy's 30 Days of Coloring challenge:

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Casing the Ultimate Enabler!

I was checking in on some blogs that I look at often and I saw this post by Jennifer McGuire on the Hero Arts blog.  I happened to own the bird stamp set and I couldn't wait to try this technique.  I love how this came out. I don't have many different colors of embossing powders so for the lighter blue I mixed the white and the blue that I had as Jennifer suggested.  For the branch I used a chalk ink and embossed it with clear powder and for the leaves I used Versamark and Perfect Pearls.  The white dots were done with a Sharpie paint pen.

I am submitting this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Favorite technique and/or product:

My favorite technique is CAS and my favorite products are Distress Inks (not used here though).

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Watercolored Cards

I love this Penny Black die that my friend Georgia has.  I die cut water color paper and water colored the flowers and leaves with Distress inks and the wet on wet technique.  I don't remember where this sentiment was from.

I used the Friendship Jar Spring Filler set from PaperTrey and stamped the bouquet of tulips with Antique Linen for this no line water colored card.  Again, I used distress inks to water color the image.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts and the banner is from Spellbinders.

I am submitting these cards to Kathy's 30 day coloring challenge:

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Hello - Positive Mask

Here is the positive mask being used for the Online Card Class - Mask-erade day 2 homework. (See negative mask post here for products used, etc).

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Hello - Using the Negative

While I was waiting for some liquid mask to dry on another card I made two more cards for day 2 of the Online Card Class - Mask-erade using the positive and negative die cut masks.  This one uses the negative of a Cuttlebug Butterfly die cut.  I used PaperTrey dye inks. The sentiment is from Hero Arts - I masked off with tape the other words of the sentiment so I could just stamp the "hello" part.

I will include my positive die cut card on my next post.
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Kindness

Wow I haven't posted here in over a week!  Life has been so busy and I have taken a few minutes here and there and tried to create some cards!  I got some new Penny Black brush stroke images a while ago and am just now getting to them.  They are large and beautiful images!  I used Distress Ink markers directly on the rubber, misted it with water and then stamped the image onto the Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor paper.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  I cut the image panel with PaperTrey's Tip Tops die and matted it with PaperTrey card stock.
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ATCAS #59 - GREEN

Welcome back to another ATCAS challenge! Our hostess for the challenge is the very talented Vicki and she chose the Code Word - GREEN:

Our sponsor for this challenge is Scribbles Designs:

Our guest designer for the month of March is Birgit. Please check out Birgit's lovely card as well as the rest of the inspiration from the DT on the ATCAS Challenge blog.

I clear embossed several Hero Arts butterflies on white card stock and then sponged a few Memento green dye inks on the panel.  I cut borders from Lifestyle Crafts Washi tape sheets and adhered them to the panel.  The panel was mounted to the card front with fun foam for dimension.  I then stamped a few more Hero Arts butterflies with Versafine Onyx Black ink and cut them out with the Sizzix companion dies.  The butterflies were adhered with foam squares.

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

Colour Me Card Challenge #62

Hero Arts Nature Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Things that Fly

Virginia's View Challenge #13 - All Things embossed

Happy Little Stampers - CAS Sponging

 

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Essentials By Ellen Meets Hero Arts and a few other challenges!

There is a new challenge in blogland! Laurel Beard, a designer for Essentials by Ellen wrote the following on The Classroom blog:
It’s a challenge where we invite one manufacturer to contribute a design that combines Essentials by Ellen stamps/dies with their product to inspire our readers!
For the first challenge Jennifer McGuire was invited to play and to represent Hero Arts.

This is the first card I made for the challenge.  I used Hero Arts Shadow Inks and white detailed embossing powder.  The flowers and sentiment are from Essentials by Ellen's Bold Blooms set.  I think I need a new Versamark pad - my embossing didn't come out very well.
I am submitting this to the Colour Me Card Challenge - Monochromatic using orange:

to Virginia's View - All Things Embossed:

to Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge - Sponging:

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