I came across this great tutorial on making organza flowers and had to give it a go engageology.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/diy-organza-flower-t... . It’s fun, but if you try it be very careful! I used 6 different sized circles of organza in two shades of pink and added beads to the centre. One of the leaves from the Scattered Leaves set is stamped on some green organza (it was impossible for me to catch the stamping in the photo). The leaves were cut out with a fine pointed soldering iron so they won’t fray. The branch background and scallop border are embossed in white. The pink pp was originally a very pale pink so I sponged it with worn lipstick distress ink to get the shade I wanted. The flower reminds me of the peonies my mam has in her garden so I’m going to give this to her on her birthday next month.

The card fits into a few challenges as well as the current HA one - Moxie Fab World (Fun with Fabric) www.moxiefabworld.com/2010/05/fun-with-fabric-challenge.html , Card Patterns (Sketch 64) cardpatterns.blogspot.com/2010/05/sketch-64.html and Jenny’s Challenge #6 (pink and embellishments) suchins.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenge-6-my-favorites.html.

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For the backgrounds I stamped the image with Versamark on white cardstock and coloured over it with chalk pastels. The dragonflies are from the Hero Arts Digi Kit Winged Friends. I printed them out onto transparency sheets and added co-ordinating glitter glue to them for some subtle sparkle.

My inspiration is from the cards on pg 64 that have one big and colourful image with a simple sentiment.

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I created this card using Hero Arts "Flourish Tulip" stamp (G4998) but I couldn't find it in the catalog so it must be an older stamp. Not sure. :) Same with the "Designer Butterflies" set (JS178) and then the "Celebrate" I used to create the brown background came from "Birthday Messages" (CL139) I've used this set a lot & I LOVE it! Thanks for checking out my card! This was a super duper fun challenge! ♥♥♥

I always have great fun messing around with stamps and papers to wrap gifts and this is the project I did for the blog today. I just noticed from my photostream that I seem to be going through a blue phase at the moment, I'll have to try step away from that colour for a bit!

Supplies

CL383 Antique Engravings

CL495 Blossom Art

CG134 Large Flower

CL139 Birthday Messages

CH156 Clear Mixed Gemstones (Thanks again Joy (dustypenny)!)

VersaMark, roll of craft paper, vellum, gems, white embossing powder and string.

More details are on my blog stampingandstitching.blogspot.com/2011/03/hero-hostess-ta...

Renumbered from 2539,Motherwell garage.

This card was inspired by Lin, www.flickr.com/photos/bearpaw14/3445461513/. I used HA D1138, E3273 and CL139. I cleared emobssed the floushes and on the raised hibiscus flower, I embossed with glitter powder.

Resubmitting for the Spring challenge! :-)

One of my friends has triplets that are about to turn one year old. So I decided to make a fun card in the shape of the number 1 for their birthday! This is the resulting card and matching envelope. There is just a bit of pale green dye sponged between the bunnies on the envelope to give that hint of grass!

When making this card, I selected a very thick patterned cardstock by BoBunny for the card base. And because the main part of the card is so narrow, I didn't want to add a lot of bulk to the front that would make it imbalanced and not stand up well for display. That's why I decided to keep things simple with paper piercing and embossing, and why I adhered the bunnies directly to the card without pop dots.

Materials used:

* A2 envelope (to hold 4.25" x 5.5" card)

* bone folder

* BoBunny Double Dot double-sided cardstock: Wasabi (green)

* cardstock: white

* chipboard from food product to make template

* EK Success Cutter Bee scissors

* Hero Arts CL139 Birthday Messages ("happy birthday")

* Hero Arts CL153 Happy Day Animals (bunnies)

* Hero Arts CL155 Playful Animals ("hip hip hooray")

* Marvy Uchida Clever Lever Giga punch (purple): 3" circle (when making template)

* mousepad

* needle

* Odorless mineral spirits (OMS) - Mona Lisa brand (Michael's)

* pencil

* Prismacolor Premier colored pencils

* Ranger Archival Ink (waterproof): jet black

* Ranger embossing powder: seafoam white

* ruler

* Tsukineko Memento Dew Drop (dye ink): new sprout (pale green)

* Tsukineko Sponge Daubers (I **love** these!)

* Tsukineko VersaMark watermark ink

Thanks for looking!

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Edited to add:

The triplets were born on Easter Sunday last year (March 23rd) which is why I used the bunnies! :-)

You can download a template for this card from my blog, Gaal Creative.

Thanks for looking!

HA challenge - adding shine

Butterfly is totally covered with glossy accents and the grass has a layer of pearl ex, but unfortunately the picture does not pick up the shimmer of it.

Hero Arts stamps:

Silhouette grass S5316

Antique Engravings CL383

Manuscript Background H 2141

Birthday messages CL139

Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda.

Airmont Books 1967.

Introduction by Nathan R. Teitel.

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My first attempt with Copics!

Just another quick card using some scraps and butterflies which I had coloured a few weeks ago.

Stamps:

CL383 Antique Engravings

CL139 Birthday Messages

More details on my blog stampingandstitching.blogspot.com/2010/09/shades-of-autum...

I embossed the flowers with white ep and sponged with worn lipstick distress ink. The petals on the smaller flowers are cut to the outer part of the flower centre and curled. I attached them to the larger flowers with pop dots and added a few beads to the centres.

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For this card I used some of the presents of the K5315 Birthday Gift stamp. Besides this stamp I used also CL139 Birthday Messages .On this stamp set you can find the wish and the tag. The little present on top is from CL035 Number ONE. The balloons are from the CL292 Celebrate All Day set. The cupcake is from the CL333 What's cooking set. And the little butterfly is from the CL184 Thoughtful Messages set.

Hello! I made this card for my Mom's birthday, which happens to be on Valentine's Day. I used the "kissing" technique as part of this month's contest theme.

Blogged here:

judyscardcorner.blogspot.com/2011/02/kissing-valentine-bi...

Thanks for looking!

Judy

I was in the mood for a bit of paper piecing, stitching and cute so this birthday card is the result of that. More details are on my blog stampingandstitching.blogspot.com/2011/03/birthday-owl.html

Supplies

S5215 Clouds

K5483 Tree Trunk

D5302 Heart Owls

CL377 Be Happy

CL139 Birthday Messages

S5507 Envelope Pattern

CL265 Adorable Baby Girl

Faded jeans distress ink, fabric, thread, gold stickles, googly eyes, gem.

Another card for this month's birthday and layered background challenge. I only managed to layer two stamps on this background but it's great getting all these birthday cards made in advance!

More details are on my blog stampingandstitching.blogspot.com/2011/03/dotty-butterfli...

Supplies:

CL383 Antique Engravings

CG211 Magical Background

S5507 Envelope Pattern

CL139 Birthday Messages

Vellum, broken china distress ink, beads, Cuttlebug, white thread & string, white embossing powder

All work and no play this week (almost), just barely finished two cards for this week's challenge.

This card uses color scheme # 2 (tuesday)

The bold florish was stamped with brown ink on light craft cardstock, and then again on Bo Bunny frost dot. The frost dot piece was then cut into a circle, and highlighting was added with white glaze pen. The butterfly was stamped on Bo Bunny burnt orange, and also highlighted with white glaze pen. The dots on the flourish is Dimensional Pearls from Ranger (stream)

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I wanted to use my favourite stamps for one card.

Used: CL155 Playful Animals

CL158 Cupcakes

CL139 Birthday Messages

S5101 Raindrop Background

Hello! Just sharing another card for the Hero Arts August challenge to use clean and simple stamping. I used kraft so I can also play in the current challenge at A Blog Named Hero. Fun!

Blogged here: judyscardcorner.blogspot.com/2012/08/more-birthday-wishes...

Stamps Used:

K5404 Wild Flowers

S5507 Envelope Pattern

CL139 Birthday Messages

Thanks for stopping by!

Judy

It's so hard for me to create a monochromatic card, so i decide to play with my stamp using my favorite color "pink".

I stamp the dress twice at white cardstock and distress it a bit, and once again at vellum.. add gems, flowers and stickle pink, and last i twine the fuchsia ribbon and place it on the waist.

Also submitted to caardvarks challenge here.. ;)

HA supplies: K5112, S5101, S5218, CL139

Embellies: wire, lace, ribbon, flower, gem, pom2, brad.

Inks: Colorbox

Thanks for looking!

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I loved the fabulous fabric flowers that Kelly made heroarts.com/blogs/club/2011/03/23/watch-it-wednesday-emb... just had to make some too. So I made quite a few the other day and used a couple on this card. The flowers have pins on the backs so can be used as brooches. I used this week’s PDCC colour combination – love these colours together and oh dear I’m still on blue! More details and more flowers can be found on my blog stampingandstitching.blogspot.com/2011/03/wild-flowers-wi...

I’m not using my usual computer as I'm having problems with it at the moment so apologies if the photo is too light or too dark – it’s hard to tell on this one if it's okay.

Supplies:

K5404 Wild Flowers

CL139 Birthday Messages

CH173 Hearts Accent Pearls

Broken china & dusty concord distress inks, hand dyed fabric, beads, gems, white embossing powder and watercolour paper.

I made this card after I had seen Kelly's card last monday at Hero Arts blog. I used her sketch and I like to thank her for it! And I enter it in the challenge at " A blog named Hero". ablognamedhero.blogspot.nl/

love making these scruffy flowers

I applied broken china and faded jeans distress inks to the upper part of a panel of white card and spritzed with water. Then I sponged the base of the panel with shabby shutters distress ink. I loved Shari’s colour layering technique, so for the flowers I used two pink chalk inks to get a few different shades. The flowers have diamond stickle centres. Originally the background was white card which I sponged with worn lipstick distress ink and stamped randomly with the flourish background using water.

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Vanessa's card is just too pretty www.flickr.com/photos/36859427@N07/4642697904/in/pool-her... that I would like to recreate it.

I use various type of distress ink:

peel paint, broken china, tea dye, anitque linen for the peacock, Tattered rose and spiced marmalade for the flower, shabby shutter and bundled

sage for the leaves. Distress the edges with walnut stain.

For the larger background, I stamp Old Letter Writing with tattered rose, distress the edge with walnut stain and tea dye. Attached to dark brown card stock and tie up with a hemp cord. Finish off with Basics rhinestones. Sentiment is also HA from the CL139 Birthday Message set. Thanks for checking out.

This is my card for the purple-yellow challenge. This was a tricky one for me.

I stamped Old French Writing with VersaMark as a background. The flower is made after Jennifers Thinking inking class - embossed with clear a couple of times. The bird are coloured with Faber Castell Polychromos.

As Kelly is using punches on her cards on the blog this week I decided to pull out a couple of punches and some scraps for this card. All of the coloured squares are punched out from bits and pieces left over from other projects. Some of the bigger squares had already been embossed and I clear embossed the other ones. I just added some machine stitching in yellow, red, blue and green to finish. I'm also putting the card in for Die Cut Divas' May challenge www.flickr.com/groups/crafty/discuss/72157623865674061/.

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Still playing with clean and simple. This background design is from a card I did last year.

H5327 Small Chandelier

H2141 Manuscript Background

G3316 Harlequin Pattern Block

CL139 Birthday Messages

Gold and Silver Stickles

Embossing challenge : White ink embossed with white EP, distress stains to colour.

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I made this quick birthday card for my nephew's 4th birthday. I stamped the elephant on patterned paper and stamped the "pool" using a shadow stamp. The bubbles are a mix of gems and Stickles.

Materials used:

CL139 Birthday Messages

CL155 Playful Animals

C1973 Little Greeting Background

I've distressed the edge with Distress Worn Lipstick. Glossy accent on the flowers/berries.

I made this card for the Caardvarks challenge. I made the lace flower and I also made the pink raw silk flower. I embossed the Background with the raindrop BG stamp and clear embossed it. I colored the pearls in with copics and sharpies and added them to the embossed dots.

TFL :)

This photo is from Country Living June 2008 issue, too. I think it's the column where people send in their antics and the magazine antic experts tell you how much they worth. I LOVE the look of this vintage Barbie box.

Distressed the piece on the right with Old Paper Tim Holtz Distress ink then stamped Raindrop Background with a second generation of Fired Brick ink hoping that it won't look as strong as the first inking.

TFL. =)

EDITED: I think at the end this first-edition Barbie (the Barbie doll was next to this box in the magazine, but I didn't use it) is worth $3,000!!!!!!!

A masculine birthday card using all Hero Arts stamps:

E5388 Traditional Butterfly

S5316 Silhouette Grass

CL139 Birthday Messages

CG138 Ledger

F2674 Long Writing Background

Thanks for looking!

Not for a challenge...just wanting to share.

Card created for the color inspiration challenge at kwernerdesign.com/blog/2008/11/color-inspiration-31.html.

Materials used:

Stamps: Hero Arts AR125 Fabulous Birthday; CL139 Birthday Messages; Purple Onion Designs Date Me set

Ink: ColorBox Queue Amber Clay & Creamy Brown

Paper: Bazzill & Unknown Kraft paper

Ribbon: unknown source

Bling: Hobby Lobby brand

Ranger Crystal Stickles

JudiKins Diamond Glaze

Lace: Grandma B's stash

PrismaColor Colored Pencils

More information about the challenge can be found on my blog createdbyjb.typepad.com/created_by_jb/.

TFL!

I made this with Kristina's Color Inspiration #55 colors and adjusted it with unsharp mask as Lisa has showed in her blog.

I first adjusted the levels then played a little bit with the unsharp mask. It really made the photo looked better and sharper at the corners and around the stamped image.

Please click here to see the original photo.

Big thanks to Lisa for her helpful tutorial!!

TFL. =)

Hero Arts Stamps used:

Old Letter Writing S4878

Two Birds CH152

Tree Bird CL182

Solid Flower flourish LL228

Birthday Messages CL139

Designer Butterflies CL115

I made this card for Jacqueline's grid-tag challenge. Lately, I have been making mostly clean and simple cards, but for this challenge I wanted to make something that has a little distressing and that was a little different from what I usually create. This was a fun challenge and I totally enjoyed making this card. Thanks Jacqueline for starting this challenge. This was a great idea.

Thanks for stopping by; I appreciate the comments.

Love this paper! It is light on one side and dark on the other and it made me think bright blue sky. I stamped the wheat silhouette with distress inks. Colored the dragon flies with liquid pearls and broken china and shabby shutters, then added some twinkling H2O's.

inspired by this: www.heroarts.com/stampcraft/stampcraft.cfm?craftID=59&...

from THE jennifer mcguire

i've made many covered lunch tins to give as presents in the past filled with all occassion handmade cards. THIS one though, i think i will keep for myself!

other views can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/19184395@N06/3724031408/ and here: www.flickr.com/photos/19184395@N06/3723222211/in/photostr...

TFL!

For Hero Arts' March 2011 Challenge. This is my very FIRST attempt at using the distress inks the way Tim Holtz intended :-). It was too grungy for what I'm used to, so I added the white dots and sponged red on the flowers.

Stamps: Hero Arts Birthday Messages (CL139) and HA Big Flower Patterns (CL375), Layers of Color's The Love Chapter (text bkgrnd)

Just playing with my Classic Fabric Design cling...love seeing how pretty it looks in different colors!

Stamps and Material Used:

(CG245) Classic Fabric Design;

(CL139) Birthday Messages;

Punch chalk ink;

navy dye ink;

Spellbinders Shapeabilities Fancy Tags;

Prima flowers;

brads, gems, pearls, button, floss;

patterned paper;

border punch

corner rounder

More info here:

judyscardcorner.blogspot.com/2011/02/fabric-and-flower-bi...

I coloured the background using a few Distress Inks and then stamped over it using the kissing technique that Kandis Smith showed us here. I just love that technique, so fun!

The Scroll Tree is a HA digi image found here and I added punched flowers from vellum and Stardust coloured paper. I used a Pergamano paper piercer to make the holes along the edges.

Thanks for stopping by!

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For a very special friend's Birthday.......I know that she won't be expecting this card style, as I seem to be such a "simple" stamper. I'm just LOVING those distressing inks and a more COLLAGE LOOK......I had to do EVERYTHING in my power NOT to spray GLIMMER MIST all over this card!! Thanks for peeking. Oh, this is a SMALL card, measuring 3 1/2" x 5".

Love, Karen

Made these birthday favor bags + tags for this week's tags challenge.

The bags are made from standard card size envelopes so they are not big. I stamps and colored the cupcake border stamp from the In Birthday clear set then cut them out. I also hand drew the confetti on the blue and yellow pps behind the cupcakes.

Please visit my blog for a bonus photo with a squirrel!!!

TFL. =)

I wanted to try out my GIGA Scallop Punch and this was my 1st attempt at trying it.... I love that punch!

Here are the supplies I used:

K5147 Scallop Background

S5055 Floating Leaf Pattern

JS169 Fantastic Flourishes

CL139 Birthday Messages

CL184 Thoughtful Messages

CH166 Art Flowers Pastel Collage

CH152 Art Flowers Neutral

CH117 Assorted Crystal Gems

I just love those strawberry cups!! I used a pink chalk ink and stamped the raw of cupcakes from the clear Birthday (CL331) set on the card base, but it doesn't show up in the photo...

TFL. =)

EDITED: THis is also a photo from Country Living June 2008 issue.

This week the challenge at Moxie Fab World is to use fabric www.moxiefabworld.com/2010/05/fun-with-fabric-challenge.html. A big thanks to Trinh for telling me about the challenge as I love any excuse to play with fabric!

I stamped the large flower on some orange/ pink hand dyed fabric, layered it with wadding and a stiff backing and machine stitched over the image. The flower centre is a scrap of suede with the Woodgrain Circle stamped on it twice in different directions. I used more fabric on the sentiment panel and the bow on that is made from threads pulled from the frayed edges. I applied spiced marmalade and worn lipstick distress inks to a white card base so it would go with the fabric flower (which looks more orange/pink in real life). Please excuse the bad photo. When I took photos in the shade the flower looked totally flat but in the sun the colours look odd!