Jump Start the Holidays with Hero Arts

Hello everyone,

Today we are hopping to celebrate all things fall and winter - and to rev up your holiday cardmaking motors! We are also joining Lea Lawson during her month-long Crafty Comeback Party. Lea is an amazing designer, and we are thrilled to support her! Tune into her blog every day this month - she began the party on October 7, and there have been many beautiful cards and fabulous giveaways along the way!  To make this party extra fun, we invited along the fabulously talented team at A Blog Named Hero! Lots of inspiration on this hop today.

Prize: We will be giving away a $25 gift certificate, randomly chosen from all of the comments left at every stop along the blog hop. To enter, leave a comment on any of the blogs by Friday, November 10 at 11:59 pst, and the winner will be announced on Lea Lawson's blog the on Sunday, November 12. 


For my card I used the postage stamp nesting dies and cut out a piece of red card stock. I then stamped the tree with Versamark and heat embossed it with white embossing powder and I did the same with the sentiment. 

I then added a chibitronic light to the back and used foam tape to pop it up.  I took a white card base and added Versamark to the sides and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder to tie in the gold star at the top of the tree.  I then lined it up with the light and removed all the backing from the foam tape and added it to the card base.  To finish off my card I added red stickles to tree.  

Here is a list of the hop.  Hope you'll join us along the way!

Hero Arts

Lea Lawson

Ilina Crouse

Jana Millen

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Lisa Stein

Coralynn Murray You are here!

Donna Idlet

Emily Midgett

Kelly Szafron

Kimberly Rendino

Melissa Chipperfield

Michelle Lupton

Swapna Patil

Tracy Freeman

Libby Hickson

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon!

Coralynn :) 

Skipping Stones Design Grand Reopening/New Release Blog Hop - Day 2!

Hi everyone!  

It's day 2 of the Skipping Stones Design Grand Reopening/New Release Blog Hop.  

I am all about clean and simple so I thought these note cards would be nice to add to a gift. 

I cut out the panel with a stitched rectangle die and popped it up on foam tape.  Then I stamped the tree from the "Joy" stamp set.  I liked it so much that I made two and they are super easy so they would be great to mass produce for your Christmas cards.   I used pink and teal inks and finished them off with some gems.

Don't forget:  to be eligible for the $25 store credit, you must become a follower of the SSD blog and leave a comment at each stop as well as here.  Commenting will be left open until August 8th and the winner will be announced on Monday August 10th!  So this gives everyone time to hop and leave comments at each of the different stops.

We are following the same line up as yesterday so you're next stop along the hop is the very talented Wanda.  Happy Hopping!!

Day 2 line-up:
Skipping Stones - back to the start
Coralynn - You are here
Wanda
Teresa
Anja
Lee Ann
Giovana
Martha
Chelsea


Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon!

Coralynn  :)

Skipping Stones Design Grand Reopening/New Release Blog Hop

Hi everyone!  

I am one of the new DT member for Skipping Stones Designs and I'm very excited!  

We are hopping today to celebrate our grand re-opening!!!  We are offering free shipping to EVERYONE to celebrate.  Enter "FREESHIP" at checkout.


Please sign up for the news letter to get exclusive offers and sneak peeks.

So we hope you enjoy all the amazing design team projects and give them a warm welcome.  We have an amazing group of ladies this year and of course their is awesome prize pack up for grabs.

Now on to my card for the hop!

I used the sentiment and small butterflies in the background from the Dandelion Dreams stamp set as well as the butterfly from the Victorian Summer set.

I used a teal and navy inks to do the rock and roll technique and stamped them on to white card stock.  I then fussy cut them out and popped them up on foam tape. I used the teal ink and the small butterflies from the Dandelion Dreams set and did some second, third and sometimes 4th generation stamping to give it some dimension.  I fished off the card with some teal ad clear sequins.

Rules for the hop: To be eligible you must become a follower of the SSD blog and leave a comment at each stop as well as here.  Commenting will be left open until  August 8th and the winner will be announced on Monday August 10th!  So this gives everyone time to hop and leave comments at each of the different stops.

You're next stop along the hop is the very talented Wanda but make sure to visit all the hops for a chance to win some blog goodies and we hope you enjoy all the creations along the way. 

Hop line-up
Skipping Stones - back to the start
Coralynn - You are here
Wanda
Teresa
Anja
Lee Ann
Giovana
Martha
Chelsea


Thanks for stopping by, see you again tomorrow for day 2 of the hop!!!

Coralynn  :)