Sincerely Yours: Hero Arts

Friday, April 22, 2011

Exciting News to Share!!

Good Morning Dear friends!!! I have some very exciting news to share with you!!!!

I am so happy to announce that I have been asked to be a guest designer at Two Peas in a Bucket for their 30 days of Stamping and Cardmaking Event!!!

Whooo hoo!! If you haven't had a chance to follow this event at Two Peas you can check it out here. They have invited Tim Holtz, Wendi Vecchi, Kimber McGray, Lucy Abrams, Jennifer McGuire, Ali Edwards, Debbie Olson.....and I can't believe it, yes, they invited me!!! I am beyond thrilled!!! You should see the huge smile on my face!!! :)

I was asked to use one stamp three ways....which is one of my favorite types of projects!!!

Here is the stamp that I chose to play with:

Hero Arts Bird Collage Wood Mounted Stamp

and here is the set of cards I created using this stamp:

There are so many possibilities when you play with a collage stamp!! I paired the stamp up with Crate Paper's Emma's Shoppe Collection and I loved the results!!!

In the first card, I stamped the image onto cream cardstock and inked the edges with Brushed Corduroy Distress ink. I stamped the image again onto cream cardstock and then I colored in the bird, flower, and leaves with Copic Markers. I fussy cut the colored images and glued them onto the first stamped image to create dimension.

Copic Markers are so fun to play with! Look at the dimension in the flower!!

I layered three sheets of patterned paper under the stamped image and added a bow! Such pretty papers in this line!!!

In the second card, I used the stamp as a background image. I inked the floral edge of the stamp with Versamark Ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.