I love Flowers....

I made this card after watching Shari's video on the Hero Arts site and decided to enter it into their monthly contest.  I love the white embossing on the darker pink paper. I just got this Flower Text stamp and it's already one of my favs!  I also used Basic Grey's Hopscotch collection for the paper piecing.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you're having a great week and ready for the weekend!

supplies: Hero Arts stamp and gems, Basic Grey paper, Making Memories pearl gem, kraft paper

Make-it + Mail-it challenge!

A very sweet online friend of mine sent me this background stamp last week (Thanks Tiffany!!) and I decided to try it out this weekend.  I combined it with an older flower stamp set from Hero Arts. The colors on this card definitely remind me of spring. :)  I used Jenni Bowlin's inks for this. This is the first time I've used them and they are great!

Lisa Spangler has a new challenge on her blog called Make-it + Mail-it. Have you seen it yet? I'm going to enter this card in Lisa's challenge and then go mail it.  :)

supplies: Hero Arts stamps and pearls, Basic Grey paper, leaf and flower, American Crafts lace, Jenni Bowlin inks

Flowers for Friends

Quick post today. Come to think of it, it seems that I always say that and I'm not sure why because almost all of my posts are quick. :)  I got this new Hero Arts stamp and decided to make a quick card. I stamped and embossed it with black Zing embossing powder on kraft paper. I then used colored pencils to color in the flowers. I love the way the white shows up on kraft. I added a sentiment from an older Hero Arts set and then stamped the grass using a chalk ink. Then I added Hero Arts gems and pearls and called it done. I'm thinking of entering it in the Hero Arts contest this month.

Hope you're having a great Sunday! Are you voting for the Steelers or the Packers?

supplies: Hero Arts stamps, gems, pearls, kraft paper, colored pencils, fiskars border punch

Card Patterns Sketch 61

I used my other new stamp to create this card for the Card Patterns contest. I LOVE this Hero Arts stamp! I used Copic markers to color the flower and leaves. This stamp is so pretty on it's own, so I made the card very simple. I rotated the sketch.

Here is the sketch.

And here is my card.

Hope you have big plans for National Scrapbooking day!  :) 

supplies: Hero Arts hydranga, Hero Arts All Occasion Messages, Hero Arts notecard, Copic Markers

New Stamps - Flowers and more flowers....

I was given some "oh so pretty" Hero Arts stamps for my birthday this month. Thank you to my sweet in-laws! Once I received these in the mail, I just had to ink them up and get to making cards!  Here's what I came up with. I used the wood block Flower Medley stamp with Zing embossing powder for this first card. Then I colored in the flowers with Copic markers.

And for this card, I used the wood block Dogwood stamp.  I stamped and colored with Copic markers and then cut the flowers out and pop-dotted them to add some dimension to the card. I purposely left the sentiments off of these cards so I can use them for whatever comes up (birthday, thank you, cards for friends, etc.)

I have entered these cards into Jenny's challenge here: Wee Memories Flowers Challenge
Thanks for stopping by. Hope you're having a great day!

supplies: Hero Arts stamps: Dogwood and Flower Medley, Zing embossing powder, Bazzill yellow dotted swiss paper, Nestabilities Label 1.