Hero Arts Card Exchange

I made this one for a single card exchange through the Hero Arts Flickr group.  Went to a wonderfully talented scrapbooker/cardmaker in Hawaii - Donna Mikasa.

All stamps and die cut by Hero Arts.

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Paper Smooches

I have seen these stamps on-line and my scrapbook store (Scrapbook Centrale, DDO, Québec) started carrying them this Fall. I am in love with this company :) Here is a Christmas one for my Nephew Luca.

All stamps: Paper Smooches - Warm Hearts set

Snowflake paper: American Crafts

Ink: Hero Arts - Royal Red

Copics

Thx for taking the time!

Happy Holidays!

Joyeuses Fêtes!

Kim

Snowflakes

These were fun and easy to make.  For two special friends, one who loves pink and one who loves blue.

Products used:

Hero Arts Snowflake - CG462

Hero Arts Snowflake Die - D1044

American Crafts white embossing powder

Sentiments:

Hero Arts - Miracle of the Holidays, CL630

Inks:

Distress

Pink - Tattered Rose, Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry

Blue - Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Peacock Feathers

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Christmas Angel

Made this one for my favourite Aunt, she loves angels of any kind!

Penny Black Angel

Hero Arts/Sizzix Embossing folder

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

My annual gift tags

So I have decided on these for my annual gift tags.  I thought they were fun and really simple to make in large quantities.

Products used:

Mittens die cut - Cottage Cutz

Background: Tiny Flakes - CG387
Sentiment Hero Arts Merry Christmas Tree set - 658276
Snowflake on mittens also from Hero Arts.
Hero Arts Royal Red ink
Distress Vintage Photo ink
StazOn White ink

Thanks for taking the time!
Kim

Tag Challenge

This one is for the CAS-ual Friday Tag challenge.  Easy to make, I might just repeat this one for all my tags.

Products used:

Stamps all Hero Arts

Background: Tiny Flakes - CG387

Christmas: Decorate your holidays - CL551

Merry & holly: Holiday sayings CL343

Inks

Royal Red Hero Arts

VIntage photo distress

Thanks for taking the time and feel free to leave me a comment!

Kim

Holiday Card Exchange

This is the group of cards that I made for a card swap with other Flickr members.  I will keep adding once I know the recipients have them.

This one is Stamping Bella products

I really love to use pink for Christmas

Took the picture at night, I apologize for the lighting...  Proper lighting will be on my Christmas wish list...

Products:

Hero Arts - Ornament stamp and die cut from Archivers

Hero Arts - Sentiment also Hero Arts

For this one I used a tutorial from Jill on the Penny Black blog where she used this technique for gift tags.  I like it so much I turned it into a full size.

Products used:

Penny Black

Tree, Fantasy - 3880K

Background, Diamond Pattern - 40-167

Distress inks for background

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Lawn Fawn Challenge

I do like the quality and working with these clear stamps.  Here is one using Critters in the Snow (seal, snowflakes and sentiment) for a Lawn Fawn challenge.

Thanks for taking the time! Feel free to comment, they make my day :)

Kim

Penny Black - Merry Berries

I do enjoy working with Penny Black stamps! 

Thanks for taking the time! I love your comments, feel free!

Kim

Penny Black

There is something so special about the Penny Black animated stamps that I love so much.  Here is a PB snowman with the paper from the Madison collection and a lot of Stickles!

Thx for taking the time! Feel free to leave a comment, they always make me smile!

Kim

CAS-ual Friday - Let it snow!

Here is the second of two cards for the Cas-ual Friday's contest - CFC79 Winter Blues

Snowman and most of the snowflakes are Hero Arts

Sentiment and the smaller snowflakes from Lawn Fawn

Distress inks.

Thanks for taking the time!

Thx

Kim

CAS-ual Friday - Blue Christmas

Here is the first of two cards for the Cas-ual Friday's contest - CFC79 Winter Blues.

All stamps from Hero Arts

Distress inks

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Hello Handsome!

This was for something else completely, but ended-up like this!  This will more than likely be my husbands b-day card.

Products:

Background: Hero Arts, Snowflakes and edges CG468

Owl: Lawn Fawn, Winter Owl - LF434

Sentiment: Hero Arts, Year Round Sentiments - CL582

Ink: HEro Arts - Royal Red.

Thanks for taking the time!

Feel free to comment!

Kim

Jolly Season

I love this holly stamp so I tried something different.

Lattice background - 331065

Classic Holly - CG229

Sentiment, Miracle of the holidays - CL630 

Thx for taking the time! Feel free to leave me a comment!!

Kim

Poinsettia

Here is another for the Hero Arts November challenge.

Stamps: Poinsettia Stamp and Cut - Hero Arts at Archiver's

Background: Hero Arts - Flourish Pine

Sentiment: Hero Arts - Holiday Sayings

Ink: Red - Hero Arts Red Royal

Color Box - Fresh Green

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

New York Christmas

My favourite city! I adapted the Penny Black New York stamp to make a NY Christmas scene.

Penny Black New York Stamp - 40-118

Sentiment is from Stamping Bella

Little X-mas tree - Hero Arts

Used distress inks:

Tumbled Glass

Broken China

Stormy Sky

American Crafts white embossing powder

Stickles and Perfect Pearls

Fiskars Punch for the border

Thx for taking the time and feel free to leave a comment!

Kim

Hero Arts - Bring on the Bling

I had fun with distress inks for this one! This is for the Hero Arts Bring on the Bling November contest.

Ranger distress inks: Spun sugar, Worn lipstick and Festive berries.

Ink for background and saying - Hero Arts, Cup o' Joe.

Tree: Hero Arts - Swirl Christmas, CL469

Sentiment: Hero Arts - Holiday sayings, CL343

Background stamp also Hero Arts - Flourish pine, S5247
And finally, Star Dust Stickles on the tree.

Thanks for looking!

Feel free to leave a comment.

Kim

Archivers goodies

I placed a first-time order with Archivers for these stamp and cut from Hero Arts.  I do like pink for Christmas, always makes me think of my sister.

Thx for taking the time and feel free to leave a comment!

Kim

Penny Black and Moe Manning

Loved this image from the first time I saw it. Stamp is Penny Black and the sentiment is from Stamping Bella.

Thx for taking the time!

Kim

Craft Christmas

Had fun making this one, had just received my Archivers Hero Arts stamp and cut.  This one is for the Cas-ual Friday craft challenge.

Thx for taking the time and feel free to leave a comment!

Kim

Pawly

This one is a thank-you card for the vet.  My parents had to have their 17 year-old dog put down :(  She was a sweetheart.  We are blessed with a wonderful vet and her team.  This is to say thank you for taking such good care of Pawly in her last years, especially in her last hours.  The image is a Stamping Bella stamp that I coloured to look like Pawly.

This one is also for a team member at the clinic.

By the way, this excellent Vet is: 

Deborah Nash 84, rue Principale, Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, QC  450-377-1279

For any of you that live in the South Shore or Montreal area.

Thx for taking the time!

Kim

Twins

This is the first time I have been asked to make a card for twins! Here is what came of it, the rattle is from Outlines Rubber Stamps.

Thx for taking the time.

Kim

Aqua Christmas

I am really enjoying working with this colour for Christmas.  This is one of the newer Hero Arts mid-tone Pool ink, pool folded card and the stamp is also Hero Arts - CG224 Starry Night.  Sentiment comes from Penny Black.

Thx for taking the time,

Kim

Hero Arts/American Crafts

This is paper I picked up today from the American Crafts holiday collection.  I picked-up the Candy Canes and the Snowflake craft, I find they will make great card backgrounds.  Stamps Hero Arts candy canes E5527 the sentiment is also Hero Arts, Ink - New Hero Arts mid-tone.  This is also a first for me with tape, I picked-up the "My Mind's eye" holiday tape and used it here.  

Thx for taking the time!

Kim

Whipper Snapper

Another with my new Whipper Snapper stamps. This polar bear was fun to work with, and it's my first attempt with a transparent card!

Thx for taking the time!

Kim

Whipper Snapper!

Here is a card made with a Whipper Snapper stamp.  Recently discovered these and I LOVE them.  This frog was so fun to work with!

Thx for taking the time!

CAS-ual Fridays!

"For the Girls"

October is also breast cancer awareness month. I love that this challenge is focused on breast cancer awareness.

Here is what I came up with, Technique Tuesday stamps.

Thx for taking the time!

Kim

Hero Arts October

Here are two for the Hero Arts October contest Holiday cardmaking.  I love holiday cards :)

Thx for taking the time!

Kim

Penny Black weekend contest

Here are two that I did for a Penny Black sketch contest over the weekend.

Thx for taking the time, feel free to leave a comment!

Kim

Inspired by cute!

The card I made for Cas-ual Fridays inspired the Turtle card.  The turtle is from Stamping Bella, love that company and the sentiment is Hero Arts.

Thx for taking the time, feel free to leave a comment!

Kim

Blog look-a-like

The challenge this week at CAS-ual Friday is "toot your own horn' meaning create a card like your blog. Easy enough for me... I am a dog lover have two of my own that look like mother and son :) Here is my interpretation:

Thx for taking the time and feel free to leave a comment!

Kim

Stampendous Hollies

This is the same basket that I used on the Fall card.  I really enjoy working with Stampendous stamps.  This one has the Chrismas background cling and the basket of hollies.  The red ink is Stampin' up the basket is coloured with copics. And, of course, Spellbinder dies.

Thx for taking the time! :)

Kim

Fall CAS card

I am not very good or patient with "CAS" cards.  They seem to take longer to plan out...  But I am happy with the way this one turned out.  

Most of the stamps are Hero Arts with the exception of the basket.

Basket stamp: Stampendous cling Holly Basket

Maple leaves: Artistic Grapes

Smaller leaves and sentiment: Find Joy

Coloured with Copics and added dots of glossy accents on the leaves which you can't really see.

Thanks for taking the time and feel free to leave a comment :)

Kim

Penny Black Christmas

I have started my holiday cards to be able to fill my orders.  Here are two using Penny Black Stamps.

For the one above, the stamp is "Warm and Cold". I love this snowman :)

This one is from a new set that I just got my hands on :) All stamps are from "A bright tomorrow" set.

Thanks for taking the time and feel free to leave a comment. :)

Penny Black tag challenge

I had fun with these.  Working with Penny Black products is always fun.  These are for the tag weekend challenge.

I used the Christmas Fashion clear set and the sentiment is from Christmas Everyday set. I coloured with Copics and used some ColorBox silver for the sides and some Martha Stewart twine.

For these I used the Adornment stamp from a couple of years ago, I use this one often. The saying is as listed above.

Thanks for taking the time and feel free to leave a comment!

Kim

Hero Arts and CAS Challenges

This one is for both the Hero Arts "a stamp for all season's challenge and the CAS black and white plus one.

Stamps: 

Star: Swirl Christmas - Hero Arts

Hello: Live Life - Hero Arts

Patterned paper: American Crafts

Ink: Hero Arts Neon Pink.

Thanks for taking the time and please feel free to leave a comment!

Kim

A Merry Little Christmas...

This if for the CAS "embossing challenge" for this week.  I embossed the white card stock with a spellbinder folder and I used a technique that Kristina Werner does from time to time that I love. I used American Crafts Zing silver embossing powder three times on white card stock, I also used VersaMark ink on my stamp. I stamped the image when the embossing powder was still wet and this gives the "reverse" embossing image. The sentiment is from American Crafts.

Thanks for taking the time and feel free to leave a comment!

Kim :)

Penny Black Mini contest

Had fun with this challenge, I used my favourite holiday set from Penny Black: Winter Wonderland along with the sentiment from the Joy to the world set.  The ink is Stampin' up Real Red and the paper is also from Penny Black: Madison 6 x 6 paper pad.  I used Copics and added white Flower Soft to the hats. The cards are 2.5 x 2.5.

Thanks for taking the time :)

Kim

Merci

A simple thank you card for my cousin who put up with me when I visited my hometown last weekend :)

Products used:

Copic markers

Hero Arts and Sizzix butterfly stamp and die

Memory box die

Spellbinder die

Sentiment and flowers stamps by Bonne Idéé 

Thanks for taking the time :)

Kim

Sister-in-Law

This one is for my very girly sister-in-law :).  I like the Penny Black belle's, they are really fun to work with. The sentiment is from Hero Arts and the paper is from American Crafts another of my favourites. Now, I just hope she doesn't check my blog before she receives it!

Thanks for taking the time! 

Kim

Enjoy!

I made this one for fun.  Thought I would submit it to A Blog Named Hero for the craft challenge and it works for the August Hero Arts contest as well. Used the circle sentiment stamps that I really enjoy working with.

Thanks for taking the time and feel free to leave your comments!

Kim

The Sweet Stop - SSS172

Had fun with this one for my niece's 3rd birthday.  It's a sketch/die cut or punch challenge.  I used a Stampendous stamp with Copics.  Dies from Spellbinder and the punch is American Crafts.  Thanks for taking the time to look and feel free to leave a comment!