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Good morning! It’s the last Monday of the month, so that means it’s time for another Man Card Monday! This time, I’m using some of the adorable new stamps from the 2019 Hero Arts catalog to create a card fit for little man (or maybe even a big man!). I used the new Fly High Animals and some sponge daubing to create a little sky scene fit for a little guy! Let’s get started with the details!

I began by stamping and clear embossing the plane and its little puppy pilot from Fly High Animals onto some watercolor paper, then using my Daniel Smith paints to watercolor the little guy and his pilot. I also embossed a greeting from the Fly High Animals onto some vellum with white embossing powder.

For the background, I used some Scrapbook.com sponge daubers and Unicorn White pigment ink to add some clouds to a panel of Periwinkle card stock. I also used some White Watercolor to do some artistic splattering just to add a bit more texture to the card front.

I trimmed a bit off of the bottom of the blue panel to allow some of the white card base to show through, then added the plane and sentiment using foam adhesive to add extra dimension.

Well, that’s all for this month’s Man Card Monday! Thanks so much for dropping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Good morning! I have a quick post for you today using some of the new items from the newest Hero Arts catalog! The catalog is filled with some beautiful new springy products that are perfect for creating simple, elegant projects. Let’s get started with the details for my project today!

I began by die cutting the new Monarch Butterfly Fancy Die from some Hero Arts vellum. This vellum is a nice, heavy weight card stock, and it die cuts like a dream, especially with super intricate dies.

Next, I blended a bit of Stone Wash ink on some of the new Periwinkle card stock from the newest Hero Arts catalog. The new card stocks are gorgeous and such a luxurious weight. After lightly blending the Stone Wash ink in the center of the card front using the Picket Fence Studios blender brushes, I added a few spritzes of Hero Arts Shimmer Spray.

I added a sentiment on a strip of white card stock with silver embossing powder, then placed my butterfly in the center of my card front with tiny dabs of adhesive in the center to be covered by the white card stock strip, popped up with foam adhesive.

Well, that’s all for my project today! I am waiting for spring to arrive… but also don’t mind these last cool days of winter. My favorite days are those that you just need a sweater and some cute flats. 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a marvelous day!

Hi there! I’m so excited to be joining the Altenew March 2019 Release Blog Hop! Today, ALTENEW is introducing so many gorgeous new stamps, dies, and stencils, and I’m happy to help introduce some of these new products to you! You should have arrived here from Laurie Willison’s blog, and your next stop is the Altenew Scrapbook Blog. (You can head to the Altenew Card Blog if you get lost!) Be sure to read til the end to find out about the fun prizes up for grabs!

For my first project, I wanted to create something colorful, springy, and just plain pretty. Enter: Watercolor Doodles stamp set. This brand new stamp set creates just the prettiest patterns, with minimal effort. Simply stamp the outline bouquet, then add in the solid stamps in whatever color your heart desires! The solid flowers are meant to be a little “outside the lines,” so you don’t even have to match them up perfectly! Here, I’ve stamped a pretty pattern in some springy Altenew ink colors on an A2 panel of plain white card stock, then die cut the Mega Friend die (reserving the interior portions), then backed the panel with some black shimmer card stock and replaced the interior portions of the die cut for a nice, flat, easily mailed card.

For my second project, I wanted to showcase the beautiful new Book Club stamp and die set. I heat embossed the image on white card stock using gold embossing powder, then colored it in an unusual color scheme with my Copic markers. I’ve noticed an awful lot of pink and purple in my cards recently, and wanted to shake things up a bit from the norm, so I colored the images in blue, coral, and mint. In the center of the circle, I heat embossed a thank you from the new Thank You Builder stamp set.

After I’d finished adding color and a greeting to the Book Club die cut, I used my T-square and a gold marker to create a golden frame. The frame highlights the beautiful lines of the flowers and circle in the die cut.

For the next project, I combined a few older products to create a pretty vase of flowers. I stamped two peonies from the lovely  Beautiful Peony stamp set, as well as some wildflower “filler” flowers from the Focus on you stamp set. After heat embossing all of the images in silver and die cutting them with their coordinating dies, I used Tombow markers to watercolor the images in pretty, springy shades of bright pink and pale blue. I also heat embossed one of the vases from the new Versatile Vases on an A2 panel of white card stock.

To add some shadow and depth to the vase, I used the new Versatile Vases Stencils and the Picket Fence Studios blender brushes to add some pale blue blending to the bottom of the vase to indicate water. I popped the flowers using foam tape, then added a silver embossed greeting, also from Versatile Vases.

After so many white, clean and simple cards, I wanted to do something vibrant and saturated with color to showcase the absolutely gorgeous new Wallpaper Art stamp set. I stamped several of the blooms on a panel of A2 card stock, then used the cut outs from the Wallpaper Art stencil collection as masks to stamp the foliage. These stencil collections make for quick and easy masking to create bouquets and scenes!

I wanted to create some very pale pink anemones, so I colored the main images with my Copic markers (RV0000, RV00, RV63, V95 and G21, YG61, G46, BG96), then used the darkest green from the Green Fields Artist Markers to color the negative space on the panel. Finally, I added a sentiment from the Mini Hello stamp set in white embossing powder to make it pop!

Now, for some fun giveaway information!

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by 3/19/2019 for a chance to win. Altenew has also generously provided a $20 gift certificate for my blog readers! Simply leave a comment on this post telling me which product is your favorite from this release! All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 3/23/2019.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping! Your next stop is Altenew Scrapbook Blog.

HI there! Today, I am thrilled to be taking part in the Waffle Flower March 2019 Release Blog Hop! I was lucky enough to see some of the beautiful sets being released today at Creativation, and was particularly enamored of the new floral sets. One can never have too many flowers, right? You should have arrived from the utterly fabulous Jessica Frost Ballas’s blog, and your next stop is the incredibly talented Channin Pelletier’s blog.

From Nina: Hi everyone! We are excited to announce the arrival of Waffle Flower’s March 2019 release! This month we have 5 new stamps and 7 dies.

We have the lovely Lilac Dreams set (stamp, die, combo) illustrated by Oana Befort this month which brings to mind summer breezes and sweet scented flowers. We also have a new Bouquet Builder set featuring a beautifully arranged bouquet of wildflowers illustrated by Karla Jodoin (stamp, die, combo). The pretty floral elements from our Loved stamp set is now back in a much bolder format in XOXO (stamp, die, combo). To compliment the adorable Be Her stamp set, we now have a dapper Be Him set (stamp, die, combo)! The Animal Tags set, designed by JJ Bolton, (stamp, die, combo) can be customized to create the cutest bear, panda or frog tags. This month we also have two stand alone dies. The Stitched Rose (stand alone die) die allows you to add the look of beautiful stitching to a card in the shape of a pretty rose. The Wave Texture Die (stand alone die) incorporates fluid stitched lines that are reminiscent of a rolling wave, falling rain, or gentle winds.

For my project today, I chose to get my color on with the new Bouquet Builder 3 (WF|EH|SSS). This stamp set features such a beautiful array of blooms, (including a bouquet and several individual blooms and foliage) and was an absolute blast to color! I began by stamping the image on a panel of white, Copic-friendly card stock using Intense Black ink. I then used my Copic markers in a pretty cornflour blue, plum, and lavender color scheme. I then die cut the finished Copic-colored image out with the coordinating dies. (I love that the entire bouquet can be cut out with one swipe of my die cut machine!)

After I’d colored and die cut my main floral image, I die cut a white frame (EH|SSS) and popped it up on a white card base using dimensional foam tape. I added the floral bouquet with foam tape, overlapping some of the flowers with the frame die cut.

After I’d arranged the flowers and frame (EH|SSS) I used the coordinating sentiment dies included in the Bouquet Builder 3 combo(WF|EH|SSS) set to die cut and stamp the lovely handwritten happy birthday sentiment. I added it to the card front and called it good! Now, for some giveaway information!

To celebrate the blog hop, Waffle Flower is giving away $25 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. You can leave comment on my blog and along the hop by 11:59pm ET on 3/7/19 for your chances to win. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the posts on this blog hop and will be announced on the Waffle Flower blog on 3/11/19.

Waffle Flower
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Emily Midgett
Channin Pelletier
Rebecca Keppel
Caly Person
Kelli Cool
Alix Davis
Keeway Tsao 
JJ Bolton 

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Good morning! Today is the first Monday of the month, so that means that we have new My Monthly Hero kit release and blog hop! This month’s kit is an ocean-lover’s dream…. the kit itself features some beautiful underwater flora and fauna, as well as one of those fantastic, super detailed cover plates that are so commonly found in the My Monthly Hero kits. You should have arrived from Caly Person’s blog and your next stop is Ilina Crouse’s blog.

The kit contents value over $75, but the price is only $34.99! A fantastic deal if ever there was one. Included in the kit:

6×8 stamp set
27 coordinating frame cuts
5.5″x4.25″ Aquarium Fancy Die
3 Water Reactive Ink Cubes (Sea Salt, Sea Glass, Blue Water)
Blue and Green Droplets

We also have a bunch of fun add-ons for you, as well! You can check them out here!

These kits frequently sell out, and once they’re gone, they’re gone… so don’t wait and miss out! You can also subscribe to make sure that you get first dibs every month. The kits will begin shipping from the warehouse on Friday, March 8th.

I have two projects for you today, so let’s get started with the details!

For my first project today, I wanted to combine the kit with one of the beautiful add-on background stamps that were also released today: Jellyfish Party Bold Prints. I began by swiping the teal reactive ink included in the kit directly onto some white card stock to get a beautifully saturated panel. I made sure that it was completely dry before embossing theJellyfish Party Bold Prints background on the panel in silver embossing powder, then used a water brush to lift some of the color. This reactive ink almost bleaches when water is added to it, similar to the way you can lift watercolor by wetting it and dabbing with a paper towel or cloth. I also added some shimmer pen to create a magical, undersea effect, and die cut an oval using the Oval Infinity Dies from Hero Arts.

Next, I heat embossed several of the ocean floor elements from the main kit onto some more white card stock using silver sparkle embossing powder. I die cut them with the coordinating frame cuts, then embossed a greeting (also from the kit) onto a strip of white card stock using the same sparkle embossing powder. I mounted the jellyfish panel to a white A2 card base, then added the silver sparkle die cuts and sentiment using foam tape. The final touch was a few sequins for some more sparkle!

For my second project today, I wanted to use some of the super cute add-ons. I began by stamping the Bubbles Bold Prints background onto some vellum using Versamark ink, then heat embossed some sparkle embossing powder to create sparkly, translucent bubbles! I also stamped several elements from the Under the Sea stamp set using Intense Black ink onto Copic-friendly white card stock, then colored them in using my Copic markers and die cut them using the coordinating frame cuts.

I arranged the aquarium elements on the bottom of the sparkly bubbled panel, then used a combination of liquid and dimensional foam adhesive to adhere them all. To sneakily adhere the vellum panel to an A2 panel of Hero Hues Adriatic card stock, I flipped over the vellum panel, then added adhesive tape to the back of the die cuts. Using the adhesive tape prevents the adhesive from squishing out the sides and being seen, like a liquid adhesive would do. I adhered it to the Adriatic panel, then added a few sequins to look like bubbles floating up from the different aquarium elements.

Now, for some fun giveaway information! Hero Arts is giving away one kit to a lucky commenter (and if you’ve already purchased one, they will reimburse you!). All you have to do to be eligible is leave a comment on each stop on the blog hop. The more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win! Here’s the full lineup in case you got lost:

The Hero Arts Blog Nichol Spohr
Michelle Short
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Janette Kausen
Ilina Crouse
Emily Midgett
Caly Person
Lydia Fiedler
Laurie Willison
Julee Tilman
Jennifer McGuire
Debi Adams
Amy Kolling
Libby Hickson
Mariana Grigsby