Hero Arts Sketch Challenge

Another sketch challenge is up at Lily Pad Cards. Our sponspor is Hero Arts - YAY!!

Here is the sketch...

And here is the card I made using some gorgeous Hero Arts stamps - generously provided by Hero Arts.  I stamped 3 lines of text for the vertical lines of the sketch and used an ornament as the round feature.  

Hero Arts CL551 Decorate your holiday

Distress inks fired brick, walnut stain, Memories dye ink white.

Bazzill kraft, Hero Arts notecard , May Arts Ribbon

shine on kraft

Just a quick share with one of those cards which went through a loong process and ended up entirely different than planned. I actually wanted to make a yellow card - but I had to squeeze in some kraft - you know me ;) I added some shine to that kraft, too, after stamping the background..

Stamps: Hero Arts Live Life, Hero Arts Lotus Background

Paper: MME Darling Deer, Bazzill kraft cs.

The sentiment is from the lovely set Live Life, stamped in Hero Arts Chalk ink latte.

Here you can see some of the shine...

Today Jan & I took the day off and went to a lovely restaurant on board a ship down at the harbor.
We ordered a surprise lunch and look what we got as a starter - my favorite ... scallops!! Yummy!

Eventhough the weather was not the best - they are saying the remaing effect of the hurricane Katia will hit Denmark today ... we still enjoyed the view from the ship. Just look at that old ship sailing through the bridge!!!

a lady-like card

This turned out very lady like with that big bow ;) Could be used for a wedding also,  I guess. 

The resist embossed flower is stamped twice for some added dimension in the center.  

I thought the white dots on the background would be a fine match for the dots of the flower...

Hero Arts stamps: 

From to Petals , Life of the Party Dots, Find Joy , Notebook paper

Papers; 

Basic Grey, Hero Arts notecard, Bazzill kraft cs.

Other:

May Arts silk ribbon, embossing powder, foam dots.

Have a great week!! Thanks for stopping by!

Another color challenge at Lily Pad Cards...

Sorry for the late post of my latest card for the color challenge at Lily Pads. 

I was not feeling well yesterday and I missed the date for this....

I love the colors Kathy chose for this one.  The sponsor is A Day for Daisies. They have some really cute images for coloring. You have to check it out ;)

I feel a bit humble showing this amongst such great coloring talent on the Lily Pad Cards blog - I am not any way near the skills those girls have.... 

So here is my inspirational card - I chose an Autumnal image - with some fuzzy flowers.. I thought the birds looked like housemartins ...

A Day for Daisies "Barrell of Blossoms"  

MME paper pad Vanity Fair, Watercolor paper, Copics ,

MS tag punch

Pennants

A few weeks ago we hosted a party at our place and for this I bought some very bright colored pennants for the porch. I actually didn't like these afterall -  I had more something like these soft colored pennants in mind... So pretty! Huh??

Source: stylemepretty.com via Kristen on Pinterest

I remembered I had some linen and I then started out on a stamping project using the Spellbinders pennants die, the linen, a beautiful butterfly stamp from Hero Arts, broken china distress ink & some twine....

I was a bit too optimistic with my time schedules and all - so my small banner ended up as decor inside on a mirror instead ;))   

I now have on my future to-to list to create a banner with double pennants,  stitched on the sewing machine, for future use ... One of those projects for the winter time, I guess....

And we used the very bright colored one instead.... It was festive afterall ;))

(picture taken with the evening sunlight at the porch - my husband taking a break from the preparations)...

And I will leave you with a card also using pennants - these ones I created with washi tape and some great Hero Arts /Studio Calico Stamps.

Supplies: 

Stamps: Hero Arts You are the Best ST510, Hero Arts Hooray ST509, Hero Arts Woodgrain Pattern S5100.

Other: Hero Arts notecard, washi tape, fiskars cloud punch, misc inks...

Sorry for the long post today. Thank you so much for stopping by!

it's time to celebrate

Hooked on resist lately... it is soo easy to add coloring to a stamped image. I had a couple of these flowers already embossed and inked - so one of them found a home on this simple kraft background.

The sentiment is a fave of mine from the Find Joy set.The flowers are from this wonderful set from Hero Arts.

A very popular technique

Everybody loves the wonderful technique Resist Embossing! Myself included, and I have been making af few cards lately with this wonderful technique.  I love the wow effect it gives when you start adding color to the embossed images!!

Today there is a new challenge up at Lily Pad Cards challenging you to use that particular technique.

Here is my inspirational card (see my last two blog posts for more)... I chose to stamp & emboss the circles then color in with distress inks and punch out for this cluster type of card...

Some of the circles are adhered directly onto the background - others are pop dotted with some foam adhesive for a bit of dimension. I used Studio Calico/Hero Arts stamps for this card and was inspired by the Studio Calico style for my design here...

Stamps: Hero Arts Studio Calico / ST510, ST508

Papers: Bazzill kraft, Hero Arts layering paper Eggshell

Inks: Ranger distress

Resist embossed circles. The stitching is done with a built-in feature on my sewing machine...

Please do not forget to go to the Lily Pad Cards site to check out the rest of the inspirational cards (you are in for a treat !) and the details (any kind of resist goes).
Also there is a great list of tutorial links for this technique - if you haven't tried it before.

I hope you feel inspired to play along - I am sure you can't resist :-) !

Thank you so much for stopping by today!!