Hoppy Day // Hero Arts

Today I'm "hopping" in for a quick card, the non-identical twin of THIS card I shared last week.

I didn't customize the sentiment for this card like I did for the twin, but it's definitely possible. Using a small 1" ink cube, you could selectively ink up the sentiment, and get "hoppy" instead of "happy."

I just love these adorable Hipster Animals!

Thanks for stopping in and God bless!

SUPPLIES

Cardstock: Canson
Stamps: Hero Arts Hipster Animals, Color Layering Happy Day Flowers and Garden Flowers by Lia  
Ink: Hero Arts Charcoal, Soft Pink, Soft Apricot and Soft Pool
Other: Hero Arts Sunshine Mixed Accents

Watercolor Wash // Hero Arts

Today I'm popping in with a card I made for the Hero Arts catalog, but didn't quite make the cut (it's twin did though - see if you can spy it in the catalog ;))

I masked off the fun piñata to add a pale peach watercolor wash behind. You can actually use almost any ink pad to watercolor, although some inks work better than others. For this card, I smooshed my Fresh Pink ink against a clear block, added water, and made my wash. I find that the Hero Arts inks usually dry pretty quickly, so you have to add a decent amount of water and work quickly with them.

Thanks so much for stopping in and God bless!

SUPPLIES

Cardstock: Canson (watercolor), Hero Arts Brown Bag Kraft
Stamps: Hero Arts Piñata and YAY!
Ink: Hero Arts Black, Fresh Peach and Mint Julep

Tools: water, paintbrush

Hoppy Day // Hero Arts

I'm over on the Hero Arts blog today, with a spring card using the adorable bunny from the Hipster Animals stamp set - hop on over for more details! (sorry, I couldn't resist ;))

Thanks so much for stopping in and God bless!

Stretching Layering Stamps // Hero Arts

Hiya! Today I have a bright and cheery card set to share with you, using one of my favorite stamp sets from the Hero Arts 2016 catalog release.

I may or may not be obsessed with For You Flowers Color Layering stamp set - I used only this one stamp set to make both of these cards.

First off, I used the stamps to create a focal point, and topped it off with the super fun sentiment embossed in white on navy.

For the second card, I used it to make a focal background - the flowers aren't exactly fading in the background, but they don't make up one whole focal point themselves.

With both of these cards, I didn't use the second layer of the stamps - this stamp set is really so versatile that way, in that the images look awesome layered or alone.

Thanks so much for stopping in today and God bless!

SUPPLIES

Cardstock: Canson
Stamps: Hero Arts For You Flowers Color Layering
Ink: Hero Arts Soft Vanilla, Soft Apricot, Kelly's Fashion Inks, Tide Pool
Other: sequins (Lucy's Little Things), white embossing powder (Hero Arts)

Tools: heat gun

Coordinating Dies Focus // Lawn Fawn

Hello all!
Long time, no see!
I had a hectic two midterm weeks at the end of February to the first week of March, and then drove straight off to Iowa to visit my brother and some friends. Now I'm home and back in the saddle!

The cards today were rather experimental ones...

The Chit Chat stamp set and dies are both so versatile, and I decided to focus on the dies for the two cards.
The sensible thing to do in the case of this first card would be to color the cardstock first, and then die cut, but as is well known, I am not usually very sensible, and as a result, I have this extra card...

These cards are for the Lawnscaping Color Splash challenge...

Also, to announce the winner of the Altenew gift certificate giveaway; Random.org picked #25, which is...
Joy Meadows!
Thanks to all for the sweet comments, and Joy, if you could just shoot me an e-mail, I'll get the gift card code out to you ASAP. :)

Thanks so much for stopping in and God bless!

SUPPLIES

Cardstock: Canson
Stamps: Lawn Fawn Chit Chat
Ink: Versamark, Stazon, watercolors
Other: sequins (stash), enamel dots (Doodlebug), white embossing powder (Martha Stewart)

Tools: Cuttlebug, Lawn Fawn Chit Chat dies, water, paintbrush