1.29.2024

I have been wanting to use this Geometric Frames bundle for a while and finally got around to it. These are clean and simple cards with bright shimmery sprays and lots of white space.

I started by heat embossing the geometric frames on Deluxe White Cardstock. Then I sprayed Two-Tone metallic sprays over each shape. I used Fuchsia, Royal Purple and Ocean Blue. I was pretty heavy handed since I wanted the spray to cover each of the shapes. While I had the spays out, I splattered each color onto a white card panel. I tried to focus on the bottom left corner but it’s splatter, it just does it’s own thing. I also spritzed the bottom left corner of a white envelope to coordinate.

After the shapes were completely dry I stamped the sentiment in the center of each. In hindsight, I wished I would’ve done that before die cutting because it was difficult to make sure they were straight. And believe me, they are not straight.

I trimmed down the white panel with splatter and adhered it to a trimmed down coordinating mat. I used Azalea, Iris, and Bermuda cardstock. Then I used the flourish stamps from the set to stamp directly on the panel. I lined up each shape and picked a flourish that I felt went with the shape. I definitely used my Misti stamp platform for this as I did not want to mess anything up at this point.

I popped up the shape with foam adhesive and called it a day. I think this would be a great set to give a friend or a coworker as a gift.

Thanks for popping in. Check back on Wednesday for a special birthday card I created for my niece’s 21st birthday. Just waiting for her to receive it before I blog about it.

1.21.2024

One of my friends from college orders custom Valentine cards for her students every year. I love getting texts from her saying she needs another set of cards for her class. This year I used some new products from the January Hero Arts release.

This year I made quick work of the backgrounds by using Hero Arts Two-tone metallic sprays. I used the Heart Burst stencil and sprayed 2-3 different sprays on each panel (yellow, orange, fuchsia, ocean blue, blue, red, purple). After it was sprayed I didn’t want to waste the spray that pooled on the stencil so I put a card panel on top and smooshed them together. This transferred enough spray to the top panel.

After letting those completely dry over night, I went back with Gold Hero Paste. I spend on some of the panels and pushed the paste from the heart out to the edges. The panels I didn’t use gold paste on, I used Black Two-tone metallic spray.

To finish them off, I added these cute little skunks from the Skunk Love bundle. I didn’t color the skunks but I did add some color to the showers and hearts. The sentiment strip is from the Everyday Sentiment Strips.

I packaged these cards and they are on their way to a class of amazing students to share with their family.

Thanks for stopping by!

12.31.2023

What a year 2023 was! It started off as any other year but, in July I took a leap of faith and applied for the Hero Arts Creative Team. I truly applied thinking it was a “good experience and practice” to apply. When the email came in October, I didn’t tell anyone for a day or two. Not even my husband…I just quietly read the email about 100 times. It’s been a whirlwind since then but I’m having the best time. Creating for Hero Arts is a dream I never want to wake up from.

I also started selling my cards at The Artisan Market in Martinez, California. It’s a wonderful little cooperative store with over 50 artists. I imagined having my cards at the Artisan Market I wouldn’t do vendor events but I will probably still do a select few in 2024.

I used heat embossed the fireworks bold print with unicorn white pigment ink and clear embossing powder on black watercolor paper. I used plenty of antistatic powder and a juicy unicorn ink pad to get a good impression on that watercolor paper. Then I sprayed a few of the tone-on-tone metallic sprays in blue, ocean blue, yellow and fuchsia. The color didn’t really come through like I envisioned but the metallic sprays still shine.

I cut a 2 and 4 from the number dies from silver glitter and white cardstock. I also cut the small 3 from glitter cardstock and trimmed it to make an apostrophe. The Happy New Year sentiment is a transfer from Holiday Message Strips transfers.

I put the background on a card base and glued the numbers and sentiment down with Precision glue.

I can’t wait to see what 2024 has for me! I am excited to continue to create and share cards as part of the Hero Arts Creative Team. As far as new challenges, I’d love to start teaching in-person classes and attend a trade show. Thank you for following supporting my creative journey by following and interacting with me on social media.

12.22.23

Christmas is only a couple days away and I am busy wrapping gifts and running last minute errands. As if I don’t have enough to do I decided to make some personalized gift tags for my family.

Does anyone else like to have a “theme” for their wrapping? Well, this year I found this cute Mexican themed wrapping paper at Target. I picked out a few rollls but didn’t see any coordinating tags. Once I was home I headed to the craft space to see what I could whip up.

I used tag infinity dies to create tags in two sizes and a couple different cardstocks. I used the ornate flourish stencil and another older stencil. I used coordinating inks in crimson, butter bar, pine, Bermuda, nautical, and grape juice.

Then I die cut letter dies for each family member. I layered a white die’s cut with a colored cardstock for some extra support. Since I have 3 A,s and 3 J’s in my family, I decided to add names on the letter. I attached each letter to the tag using Percision glue and tied with colored twine.

I had a special gift for a neighbor and reused a gift bag so it didn’t have a tag. I made this tag by using some extra foliage dies and the S cut from some gold cardstock. I die cut the tag from a scrap of shamrock and gave it a spritz of yellow two tone metallic spray for dimension.

I used some extra foliage dies I had in my stash to embellish the tag. I added a few red baubles to the mistletoe. Then I added a gold S die cut. I cut a slit in the top of the tag and slide it onto the ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by. Happy holidays and Merry Christmas!