I do love it when I get crafty goodies in the mail! One way to guarantee it is to sign up for a monthly kit. Hero Arts does not disappoint! Love January's kit! Not only does it have a boat load of dies that I'll be using frequently it also came with simple perfect sentiments and a sentiment strip die.
If you don't watch Jennifer McGuire Ink videos, you are missing out. Her video, using this kit, die cut the flowers twice, once with green and then another color for the bloom. She then colored edges with sponge daubers for dimension. Guess, what? It was fun and pretty fast. I then glued the blooms to stems. Next I used some tissue paper to wrap my bouquet - flowers come in tissue paper, right? A small ribbon tied it up after I arranged then glued the flowers and greenery. Some pen work adds detail. My background is the Stipple Hex Cover plate, it's backed with fun foam and adhered to my top folding card base. The sentiment and die strip is from the kit, a Stardust pen adds sparkle. Foam tape raises the strip over the bouquet.
Have a great day and keep on crafting!
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I hope everyone had a wonderful time celebrating the holidays! We did, but of course having a 9 month Grandson, added to the mix of his two brothers, made it a little more interesting! Always fun watching the kids enjoy.
Todays cards are made with Heartstrings Dies that I purchased with a gift card from Christmas (thanks Sue!). A sale, coupon and a gift card makes this girl a very happy shopper! Starting with a piece of shiny gold specialty paper, I cut using the Gemini Jr. This die cuts the negative pieces but to get it as a separate piece you need to use the outline die. Did not realize this until I started to play and decided to make two cards.
I already had made some backgrounds using a stencil from Carabelle Studios called Tricot and some ink from Hero Arts. I tend to make more than one background at a time when I pull out stencils. They were die cut with Stitched Rectangles and then I began assembling the cards. The first card has the panel raised with a piece of fun foam and the smaller heart has foam tape under for dimension. The sentiment is from Ribbon Messages from Hero
arts and it includes a corresponding die. Congratulations was stamped with Tuxedo Black Ink and die cut with the Gemini Jr. It was also raised with foam tape. All of this is adhered on my green card base.
Card number two used the remains of the first gold die cut. They were pieced in place, with a lot of adhesive on the card base. The sentiment is from Ornate Love and stamped with Tuxedo Black in my Mini Misti. Thank goodness I did because several stampings were needed. Finally, some sequins were attached with glue. One of these will be an Anniversary Card for my parents who are celebrating 60+ years of marriage!!
Have a great day and keep on creating!
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