Clean & Bold Designs + Giveaway

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I have no water, and flickering power, so I will be brief! This is my card with the AWESOME new bold collaboration set between Hero Arts and Reverse Confetti, stamped with Gina K inks, and horribly photographed with my Iphone - sorry! It's a disaster here! But I love the bold designs, and the Scandinavian design ethic feel to this set. The fonts are bold and lovely, like my sweet friend Jen at Reverse Confetti.

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Kathy Schweinfurth

Lisa Henke

Jeanne Jachna

Amy Tsuruta

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Tricia Barber

Amy Kolling

Audrey Tokach

Channin Pelletier

Daniel West

Ilina Crouse

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Libby Hickson

Lydia Fiedler

Maria Willis

Mindy Eggen

Seeka

Julee Tilman

Nichol Spohr

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Froget All Your Troubles + Giveaway

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Hello from freezing and powerless Texas! There's literally no one more ready for spring than my state, so today's springy cards are just what I need!

Today is the release of the new Hero Arts catalog, and because I have no idea how long I will have electricity - I'm going to link you to the entire collection, where you can see everything I'm using today. When I was creating these a few months ago, I had springy weather and not a polar vortex! So I'm happy to see these fun images today, with the promise of warmer days to come.

First - I have to share my favorite card from the whole collection. I freaking LOVE this frog set - OMG. It's so danged cute. I built a blue Texas sky with Hero Hues ink, using direct to paper, and then finger painted fluffy clouds with white acrylic paint. I used my circle infinity dies to cut a piece of watercolor paper for the earth, and then watercolored it with Daniel Smith watercolor. The froggy set does come with dies, but I close cut this little guy with scissors and had him staring up at the cloud and OMG I love it. I sent this card to Libby, but I will be making more because it's just so fun. 

Next there is the SUPER fun balloon window die! I took a UFO background that I did with watercolor, and die cut the frame. I added shadows to the balloon with Graphit Markers (coupon in the footer) and used this Happy word die and the sentiment from Irreverent Birthday Messages.

 

There are TONS of big dies that make super quick and easy cards in this catalog. Here I used just two dies - this gorgeous window fancy die and the Big Hugs die. the colorful UFO was an alcohol ink background from my stash.

Same with this card - this happy birthday cover die makes such quick and cute cards. I used this rainbow paper and turned this into a shaker card, putting foam strips between each word so that each one had shiny stuff in them.

It's no secret that I love infinity dies - and these new smaller sets they have are KILLING me - so much fun to layer up. I colored white die cuts in a rainbow with my Graphit markers and added the die cut from the Love You dies, and the sentiment from the matching stamp set.

Here is a link to the full collection, as well as a few other supplies I used today.

https://heroarts.com/collections/2021... [ HA ] AF428 Splash Reactive Ink - Hero Arts [ HA ] JJ's Rainbows Paper Pad [ WFF ] Graphit — Marker Universe [ MRK ] Hero Arts Irreverent Birthday... [ HA ] Hero Arts Blog [ HA ]

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Snarky Cardstravaganza

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I love snarky cards! It's just so much fun to use your outside voice on your cards. So today I'm bringing you some snark.

The first one is my fave. This stunning girl image comes with all sorts of inspiring sentiments, but I chose the snarky and hilarious sentiment from this set instead. She's stamped in Paradise ink - it's perfect for covering large, solid stamps like this one.

The next one cracks me up too. I used this highway tape for the center. Then I lined up the sentiment from this set. The background I did with Ember ink on my gel press using this fun brick stencil, and then lifted that with white matte paint.

While I was being snarky and twisted, I thought I'd throw in a Zombie card! This new set has this little hand that's supposed to friendship themed, but it was just too tempting to make it a zombie. So I created the sky with the 52 Layers of Clouds Stencil, and then just tore a piece of paper to make a hill shape, and blended Black Soot Distress Oxides to make that. Then I stamped the hands, and used the back of the stamp to make the shadows. The sentiment becomes slightly creepy when used here - HEH. 

The karma set is hilarious - don't you wish there was a number you could call to notify karma? That's how this sentiment feels. Hilarious. I used the new cover die to make sparks around the sentiment on an old gel press print.

Here are all the supplies I used today! 

Nothing Short of Amazing [ PFS ] Amazon.com: PlayTape Black Road -... [ AMZUS ] Driving the Karma Bus [ PFS ] Seriously Die [ PFS ] Sparks Cover Plate Die [ PFS ] Life Sucks Without You [ PFS ] English Brick Wall Stencil [ PFS ] 52 Layers of Clouds Stencil – Picket... [ PFS ] Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink - Ember [ JGG | SSS ] Holbein Mat Acrylics [ BLIC ] Paradise - VersaFine Clair Ink Pad [ ACH ] My Sweet Petunia [ MSP ] Pre-Cut & Scored Cardstock [ CTC ] Sakura CLASSIC WHITE Fine Line 05... [ SSS ] Art Anthology BIG CRAFT MAT 24x36 311473 [ SSS ] Heavy Base Weight Card Stock- White [ GNK ] Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -... [ BLIC ] LightView 2in1 LED Magnifier for... [ BRG ] Mudder 10 Pack White Buffer Sanding... [ AMZUS ] Xyron ADHESIVE ERASER 23675 [ SSS | ART | AMZUS ] Teflon Bone Folder - Ellen Hutson LLC [ ELH | SSS ] Crafter's Companion GEMINI... [ SSS ] Scor-Pal MINI SCOR-BUDDY Scoring... [ SSS ] Storage Envelopes, Medium 25pk,... [ ELH ] CheckOutStore Stamp & Die Clear... [ CHC ] Extra Large -50 pk, Avery Elle Stamp... [ ELH ] Mermaid tidy towel case and glue... [ ETS ] Lawn Fawn STAMP SHAMMY Cleaner LF1045 [ SSS | CST ] Airtable: Organize your stamps & dies [ ART ] Life Sucks Without You [ PFS ]

Enjoy your weekend. Loveyameanitbye.

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