Hero Arts Blog Hop

Hi and welcome to the Hero Arts Hostess Hop, featuring wonderful stamps from the new 2016 release and winter catalogue!  

If you’ve been following along, you’ve just arrived from the extremely talented Joy Taylor's blog!

Hero Arts will be awarding 4 prizes:
 
Today's hop:
1 $25 Hero Arts shopping spree
1 bonus prize on the Hero Arts blog

Tomorrow's hop
1 $25 Hero Arts shopping spree
1 bonus prize on the Hero Arts blog

 The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning! Please comment by Sunday Oct 30 by 11:59pm PT for a chance to win.

If you find a broken link, you'll find a master list of the hop links at the Hero Arts Blog.

I love fall and using the new Grateful Leaves allowed me to create several cards highlighting the beautiful colors of fall. 

 I started by inking up the solids with a mix of distress inks in fall colors. I stamped them on white cardstock and cut them out.  I then stamped the veins using a brown ink.  I added a touch of tissue tape to the background and stamped the beautiful sentiment on the cardbase. 

A quick and easy Thanksgiving card to give to the hostess of Thanksgiving dinner.

 The leaves are so versatile because the lines are separate from the solids.  I decided to create a resist with the veins for my next card. 

I stamped all the veins using Versamark and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder. I then stamped the leaves using Saffron Archival Ink.  The sentiment was added last with a brown ink. I finished with a splattering of fall colors across the surface. 

I have to finish my post with a cute step card created to root on one of my home teams who are in the playoffs.  Hero Arts has the cutest sets of stamps from Kelly Purkey celebrating different cities and I couldn't resist the Kelly's Chicago set.

 I created a mini step card and added a few pennants to root on the Cubs!

Now it is time to head off to the amazingly creative Heather Doran and see what she has created to delight the eyes!

If you missed anyone else on the hop here is the full list:

Virginia Lu

Emily Leiphart

Sue McRae

Sarah Kapteyn Moerman 

Nancy Krueger

Tiffany Ervin 

Arlene Pagent McClung 

Joy Taylor

Suzanne Czosek --> you are here

Heather Doran 

Hero Arts 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz

Hero Arts 2013 Hop

Welcome to the Hero Art Hostess Hop 2013! All this week there are daily hops happening over at the Hero Arts blog!  Hero Arts will be awarding prizes from randomly drawn comments. For a chance to win, simply comment on ANY of the stops along the hop on ANY day, including each day’s starting post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning!If you arrived here from  Emily Leiphart's wonderful blog than you are in the right place.  If not, hop on over to the Hero Arts blog and start the hop from the beginning for today!

I selected some of the gorgeous background stamps to use for the hop!  My first card uses the lovely Leafy Vines:

This was a simple resist stamping the image using versamark and heat embossing with clear embossing powder.  I used a soft lavender color to sponge over the surface.  I added the word Love from the Made with Love. The butterfly was created the same way and is from one of my all time favorite sets Three Artistic Butterflies.

I then used the beautiful Antique Background :

The images on this collage are so beautiful. I stamped in a soft gray ink and then added touches of watercolor to the various ares of the stamp to highlight them.  I decided to continue the collage and mixed in layers using Carte Postale, Past Times, Life is Not Perfect, Timely Bird, and All the Time. The bird was stamped and cut out of his collage to bring into the mix.  The colors are STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell watercolors.  The edges are distressed with a distressing tool and sponged with grey ink.

On to a fun birthday card using the new background Number Pattern.  My youngest has already claimed for her birthday this year. (Which isn't for quite awhile but she loved this!)

The background is stamped using Versamark and then colored with the STAEDTLER Karat soft pastel chalks.  The images are from the super sweet Life of the Party.  They were stamped with black ink and colored with the same soft pastel chalks.  The sentiment is from the same set.  I added a few gems for a little sparkle.  I went into my party supplies to find curling ribbon and added a little touch of ribbon underneath the cotton candy.

My last background uses the Harlequin pattern:

The pattern became a lovely vintage pattern by stamping it using Versafine Toffee.  I distressed the edges with brown dye ink.  I stamped over the surface using the Watch Gears inked in brown ink. I finished it off with a few gears and a touch of gold ribbon. 

Your next stop on the Hero Arts Hostess Blog Hop is the inspirational  Sharon Dunn!  If you run into a bad link please report it to  blog@heroarts.com.


Happy Hopping!

Suzz

Hero Arts 2012 Blog Hop

Welcome to the  Hero Arts 2012 Hero Hostesses Blog Hop!  The Hero Arts 2012 blog hop  is  all week long,  January 9th through Friday January 13th.   Along the way you will see wonderful  inspiration from the Hero Hostesses using the 2012 release! 

When I saw the new Fleurettes - K5597 Stamp and the Classic Tea Flower I was smitten. I love flowers and both of these are gorgeous.

I created a little card set with a purse to hold the cards: 

A close up of the wooden purse:

And a close up of the cards: (Click to enlarge)

Recipe:

1. Paint the wood purse using white acrylic paint. Dry. Repeat to create two coats of paint. 
2. Cut four 5" circles from white cardstock. 
3. Cut eight 5 1/4" circles from black cardstock.  
4. Stamp flowers using black archival ink on purse and on white circles.
5. Smear pink dye ink onto craft mat. Watercolor flowers using water brush. 
6. Smear brown dye ink onto craft mat. Watercolor flowers for shading using water brush. 
7. Stamp dragonflies onto tissue paper using archival black ink. Sprinkle black embossing powder over surface. Shake off excess. Heat emboss. Repeat for multiple dragonflies. 
8. Turn over dragonflies with embossed surface facing down. Paint with waterbrush and pink dye ink. 
9. Cut out dragonflies. Accent dragonflies with gem.
10. Attach dragonflies to background. 
11. Add highlights to flowers using white gel pen. 
12. Assemble cards. 
13. Smear pink dye ink onto craft mat and spritz with water until drops appear. Dip white seam binding into pink dye ink and turn the ribbon until covered in pink. Dry ribbon and attach to handle of purse.

Products:

• Classic Tea Flower
• Year Round Sentiments 
• Fleurettes
• All the Time
• Fern and Hummingbird

 The next card uses the same flowers but I turned it into a Valentines Card:

 I created a mask from the spellbinders heart die and stamped the image repeatedly into the heart shape. I then colored using watercolor pencils. The butterfly (Three Artistic Butterflies) was stamped on tissue paper and watercolored with the pencils.  The sentiment is from the Made with Love clear set.

I finished off my projects with a vintage tag: 

I used the fun Art of the Card cling set called Past Times.  I stamped the background with Watch Gears
 using glimmer mist chalkboard ink.   I added a few partial stamping of the Moments definition stamp.   The rest of the images were stamped in black ink and cut out and pop dotted.

Onto the important details: 

If you arrived here from Deborah Nolan at Society of Stamp and Scrap a holics you are in the right place, your next stop is the fabulous Donna Mikasa at Three Umbrellas!   If you didn't come here from Deborah you should head over to the Hero Arts Blog  and start at the beginning of the hop!

Hero Arts will be awarding prizes from randomly drawn comments. For a chance to win, simply comment on ANY of the stops along the hop on ANY day, including each day’s starting post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning!

If you find a broken link, you'll find a master list of the hop links at the Hero Club Blog. Also, please report broken links to Tami.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz