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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

2 comments:

  1. I found this card through the hero arts challenge...congratulations on the win! This is a wonderful technique, thanks for sharing!

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  2. This is fabulous. I wanted to know if you heard back from Hero Arts? I have mailed them twice and didnt get a reply. Can you please reply to comment, it will directly land in my inbox :)
    thanks!

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