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Friday, June 29, 2012

Another Hero Arts June Sketch Card


I had a lot of fun with the first June sketch for Hero Arts so I thought I'd try another one. This was more of a challenge for me as I didn't know what to use as a focal image.  When in doubt go with flowers... :-)

Ingredients: 
Cardstock:  Neenah Solar White, Bazzill Red
Ink: Distress Ink: Wild Honey, Festive Berries, Scattered Straw and Spiced Marmalade, Memento Love Letters (sentiment)
Stamps: Hero Arts: Flower from Layered Flowers and sentiment from Say It All
Misc: Swiss Dots embossing folder, StarDust Stickles, Rhinestones and circle punch

Thank  you for looking!  Have a great day!

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Hero Arts June Sketch

I had fun with this sketch from Hero Arts and tried something really different for me.
                     
 Let me know what you think.  Thank you for looking!


Ingredients: 
Stamps:  Hero Arts: Floral & Leaf Background, Enjoy sentiment from Live & Laugh clear stamp set
Card Base: Neenah Desert Storm cardstock
White Cardstock:  Neenah Solar White
Ink:  Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass, Festive Berries, Wild Honey & Gathered Twigs), Watermark Ink (Tsukineko Versamark)
Embossing Powder:  American Crafts Zing Black, Stampendous Detail White
Misc: Black Cardstock (Bazzill) and Bakers Twine from Queen & Co.
Directions:
Stamp background stamp on kraft cardstock and then on white cardstock with Versamark ink. 
Heat emboss the white cardstock with white embossing powder. :et the kraft cardstock dry.
Cut rectangles out of white embossed cardstock and use Distress Ink and a foam blending tool to color over the embossing. Distress edges with brown Distress Ink.
Heat embossed the Enjoy sentiment on a scrap of kraft cardstock and added it to the card with pop dots.  
A couple of strips of black cardstock and black and white baker's twine finishes the project