A Blog Named Hero - Mid month inspiration

Hello everyone,

It's halfway through our A Blog Named Hero collaboration challenge with CAS-usal Fridays and Hero Arts.  I know I say this every time but it's hard to believe how fast the month has gone.


For my card, I decided to watercolour.  I took a 3/4 inch brush and some watercolour paint and painted stripes vertically across the card base.  I only used one colour to do this. I let the first set of stripes dry a bit before going over them again and only did every second one to give it a two-tone look.
I stamped the Full on Floral set from CAS-ual Fridays and heat embossed it with Hero Arts white embossing powder. I also did the same for the sentiment from the It's Your Day stamp set also from Hero Arts.

Thanks for stopping by!  I how you'll head over to the blog and see all the amazing cards from the team and link up your own cards.  We love seeing what you create!  Don't forget to use our hashtag #ablognamedhero so we can see you on social media. 

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Simon Says Stamp

Ellen Hutson

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AAA Cards Challenge #98 - Creatures Great or Small

Hello everyone,

We are back with another AAA Cards challenge and this is one of my favourites - Creatures Great or Small.  There is a TV show that is called All Creatures Great and Small that my father-in-law used to watch all the time, so it made me smile when I heard the name of the challenge.

Now on to my card.  I used the critters from Lawn Fawn Elfie Selfie stamp set and the coordinating dies.  I coloured them in with my copics and die cut them out and set them aside.  

I took a piece of bristol card stock and picked raspberry distress Oxide ink and did some ink smooching.  I did this in stages. I added some colour then dried it with my heat tool, then did it again about two more times to get this effect.  I added that panel to the card base and then added the elephant directly to the base and I popped up the adorable mouse.  I added some Spectrum Noire glitter pen to the balloon as well as glossy accents. Once that was all done I added the sentiment from the tiny tags saying - birthdays with Lawn Fawn jet black ink and this card is done.

We hope you'll play along with us for this challenge.
Please remember that this is a CAS - Clean and Simple card challenge.

Our lovely sponsor HLS is giving you a chance to win a $20 gift certificate. 

I'm also entering my card in the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon!

Coralynn  :)

New Release card share.

Hello everyone!

I'm back with another card with this months release which is available today in the shop. 

For my card I used the "Away in a Manger" stamp set along with the "Christmas Quilt" stencil.  I used what I'm calling the reverse stencil technique with I did with my previous card.  This was the second stamping to use up the ink left of the stencil. I then took some watercolour paints and coloured in the background.  

I used a circle from my stash along with a banner die cut from black card stock. I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder and adhered it to the front panel. I then coloured and fussy cut Baby Jesus and popped it up with foam tape.  To finish off the card I added some Sparkle pen to the watercolour panel but you can't see it in these pictures.

We hope you'll head over to the shop to treat yourself with a few, or the entire release for this month!

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon.

Coralynn  :)

AAA Cards - Game 55 "Glitter"

Hi everyone!

We are back with a new year with great things for AAA Cards Challenges.  We have some great sponsors who are giving away prizes to win so be sure to link up your project for a chance at some great goodies!  

The first game of 2016 is "Glitter".  Who does't love glitter, right?  

The prize for this game is a $20 GC to Stampendous!

For my card today, I used Ranger Enchanted Gold embossing powder and added that to a full card front and embossed the whole thing.  Once that was cooled off, I die cut it with the flower die.  You could also die cut the flower first and then emboss it but since this was pretty thing I opted to do it the other way. 

The panels where watercolour backgrounds that I did a while ago and finally put it on a card.  I have lots of those in my stash.  I play around with the colours and make backgrounds to use for later. Helps when you're in a hurry and need to do up a quick card.  

I cut them out with stitched rectangle dies and popped them up on the card.  I cut out the Amazing from some foiled card stock that I also had in my stash and glued that on to the card along with the flower and the sentiment. 

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to link up you're project. We always LOVE to see what you create and to show off your stuff tag #aaacards on Instagram!  

See you again soon!

Coralynn  :)

Die-namics Doubly Amazing	Amazing Stamp Set	Label Maker Sentiments Stamp Set	Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad WORN LIPSTICK Ranger TDP40309	Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies, Wild Garden by Julie Ebersole
Ranger Embossing Powder ENCHANTED GOLD EPJ37491	Clear Rock Candy Distress Stickles	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad	Distress Ink Pad Tumbled Glass	Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables Lawn Cuts
Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables Lawn Cuts	*Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two Applicators 62191	3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent	Ranger Studio Paint ARTIST BRUSHES Brush BRU40842

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AAA Cards Game #54 - Silent Night, Holy Night.

Hi everyone,

It's time for Game #54 with AAA Cards and our these this game is Silent Night, Holy Night and I just got this background stamp the other day and thought it would be perfect.  And I can never wait to play with my crafty goodies that come in.  ;)

On with my card!

There was some Christmas Sparkle embossing powder that came in the Nov SSS Card kit that has red and green glitter and I heat embossed the background on some watercolour paper with the Lattice Grid background stamp from SSS.  I then took some Picked Raspberries and Peacock Feathers distress inks and did some water colouring.  I purposely blended in the middle to create the purple colour.  These are my two most favourite colours of the distress colours.  Okay, most of them are my favourite, but who's keeping track!

I then took the Merry & Bright die and cut it out of navy shimmer paper from Recollections and glued it down the Tombo Mono.  I added the same shimmer paper to the sides to tie in the sentiment.  To finish it off I added some Sparkling Clear sequins and clear droplets.  

Be sure to head over and link up your project!  We cannot wait to see what you all create!

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon!

Coralynn  :)


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Thanks - Simon Says July Card Kit

Hi everyone,

I'm back with a card made with the SSS July Card kit.

I used the SSS stitched rectangle dies to cut out the front panel and popped it up on an A2 size card base with Recollections 110# card stock.

I used Versamark and SSS white embossing powder to stamp out the images and I heat embossed it all.  I used masking to have the images overlap and give it dimension.

I used my Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colours to colour in the images.  I didn't go crazy but I didn't stay within the lines either.  I didn't want it to be perfect.   I finished off the card with SSS sequins.

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon!

Coralynn  :)


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