Hello. LOTS to share today. As many of you know, I love
Hero Arts. Their stamps just make me happy so I wanted to share a few different projects highlighting my favorite products from them, old and new. First up is part of my mom's Mother's Day gift. She loves handmade gifts from me so I thought I would make her a card set because she is always sending out cards. Here is the package (box from Target-my happiest place on earth lol) ...
A closer look at the tag. I used an older Hero Happy Mother's Day Stamp and heat embossed it. I finished it off with some clear gems..
When you open the box, you see this...
That cute black and white pen is from Target too. :)
Here is the card set...
A closer look at a technique featured on the oh so talented
Jennifer McGuire's blog. You can find the technique
HERE. I like how she die cuts an image and then puts the image back in so it lays flat for a smooth look.... GREAT for sending cards through the mail. Jennifer used a die cut for this technique but I used a punch instead (Martha Stewart butterfly punch). I inked each butterfly with the ink I used for the background color. Sprayed it heavily with pearlized water-hard to see in real life but GREAT shine! and then glued it on top of a black piece of paper that I taped under the white background. I used a glitter pen in the black holes to give it more shine. I also love using Washi tape to anchor the sides of the die cut....
The envelopes got fancy too...
I dry embossed the flaps only. Love the look...
Project #2: I wanted to make visual black and white cards for Aiden's crib to give him something to look at...
I just stamped some of the Hero Background Stamps on white cardstock, cut them to size and lined his crib with them...
He loves them- just look at that smile...
Project #3- Teacher Appreciation Day is coming up so I made a set of these for my nephews preschool teachers.....
I heat embossed
THIS fun background stamp with
white embossing powder on black cardstock to resemble a chalkboard. ( I even smudged up the edges to look like it was erased.) I also put
glossy accents on the
apple to make it shine. The green background was stamped with
THIS stamp using
THIS ink onto
THIS card. ...
I hope you enjoyed these
Hero projects. Have a great weekend!
