Amazing Nude

Comfy Armchair

Distressed Fern

Let's Chill

Yippee Bird

Flower Appeal

I acquired the Hero Arts DVD, just to see what was on it. They did have a lovely tutorial to make this card. It doesn't do anything I do not know already how to do, but I loved the composition, so just had to make one myself. I cannot remember if they used green on theirs or not.

I did not own all theirs stamps, so have substituted ...mainly for the background piece. Chalk and die inks have both been used here with lots of 2nd and 3rd generation stamping.

Another with the Arc

A fair bit of dimension to this one. Again, I chose colours not normally seen together with my work. I was trying to follow the colours showing in the Credit Card swiped feature piece. I LOVE the embossing folder!

The wording is by Hero Arts

CAS and Cased: One Step Removed

.......Soooooo.....

I DID...Put a layer or two and quite like this one better!

Hero Arts stamps rock!

CAS and Cased

Cased from the Hero Arts 2011 catalogue....I have a different shadow stamp and different colours.

I found it very, very hard to leave this as is. To me, it was not finished. (You may have noticed, i enjoy a layer or two!)

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Robot Future

Cute little robot set from Hero Arts! Coloured with Tomboy Pens. The wording is also Hero Arts. After I stamped the wording, I actually found the "robot-y" wording I thought I owned! Sigh.....

Ten Minute Card

Using the same stamp, attaining a different look.

This time it was embossed with fine gold before colouring with white Prisma pencil.

The wording (from Stampin' Up) was also embossed in fine gold embossing powder.

Add some ribbon and brads and done.

Love Kraft card with one other colour!

The Beauty of White Pencil!

Here is a FIVE minute card!

Yes! FIVE minutes!!!!. Just stamp the gorgeous flower in StaZon black on to Kraft card and colour parts of the flower in white Prisma pencil. Add some bling. Attach the ribbon and wording (by SU).

Voilà! You are done.

Up in the Air Challenge

This was made with a purpose in mind. I have joined a 10 month swap and this is the first challenge in that swap. I had to create something with the theme - "Up In The Air" - in mind.

I used a very old stamp of mine, formally a mounted, but long since, unmounted and of unknown origin . I cut the shape of the basket out by hand and overstamped it with the Kaiser grid stamp randomly to create a pseudo basket look. The little wording is Hero Arts.

I Know It's Been Difficult

My friend Grace and I are having a little challenge time and here is my result.

** Wording - Stampendous

** Flower - Hero Arts

** Leaf Definition - Kaisercraft

I stamped and cut out (ugh) the flower multiple times on different colours of Bazzill card, using black StaZon ink. I cut an ever-so-small piece of Oh So Sticky paper and stuck it in the middle of the flower and sprinkled micro beads over the top. (They are NEVER going to move...NOT with that stuff adhering them!

The chipboard leaves I inked with Stampin Up Suede and overstamped randomly with the Kaiser grid stamp.

As sympathy sets are concerned, I think the Stampendous one has a great deal to offer and I am more than happy to have it amongst my goodies!

I think the rest is pretty self explanatory!

Brayering

This is combination of three companies:

**Elephants-TAC

**The wording- Hero Arts

**The tree branch, reeds, pebbles, birds- Stampscapes

I used a circle punch to create a sun mask and a scrap piece of card the create an horizon. I then brayered repeatedly, building the colour up gradually from the sky edge. When the sky component was done, I turned it all around and repeated the process to get the land base.

I think I brayered with Ranger Adirondack Lettuce and all stamping was done with India Ink (black).

I Cuttlebugged a piece of blue card and then cut a rough rectangular shape from the middle. I turned the edges back over on themselves, tore them and distressed them with Ranger Adirondack Denim.

Didn't mind how this one turned out!

Unhurried

This started when I snitched a piece of Credit Card background from my friend Grace!

I stamped over that background with an unnamed script stamp of hers. Then, on top, went the Hero Arts flower in red and then offset slightly in black. I sponged around the outsides in black also and distressed the edges of the layers. The wording stamp is by Stampin' Up.

Calendar Page 2012

MMmmmmm...I couldn't capture the crisp white of the card!

Inspiration for this came directly from the Hero Arts DVD. Not a bad get if you are interested in presenting your stuff in different ways.

There are a variety of stamp companies used for this:

SU- Sanded, Sense of Time, Hero Arts- CL 476 (Flower),

Stamp It- siset007mc, Unknown 52001 Monarch Flourishes

Inks: Hero Arts Shadow Ink- soft Purple

Hero Arts Chalk Ink - Iris

Ethereal Fairy

Well then! It has been a lonnng time since I have posted anything. Indeed, it has been quite a while between stamping sessions also. Life has intruded but let's see how long I can stay on track!

This card was made using a gorgeous stamp created and produced by a friend of mine, Jeanette Trappett. You will find her and all her goodies here http://www.thestamptrap.com.au/ .

This image was coloured using Prisma, Gamsol and paper stumps. The Cuttlebug folder Swiss Dots was used on the white background piece and Spellbinders dies for the main image layering with Stampin' Up oval punches for the wording which is a Hero Arts stamp. (I like to share it around between companies!)

Sending You Hugs Watercolour

I had this background piece in the backgrounds box and decided to get it gone! It was quickly made using H2O's on watercolour paper, some time ago.

I just quickly stamped the Penny Black image in StazOn black ink, distressed the edges...HEAPS...and mounted it, using a couple of embellishments! The Hero Arts wording fits just beautifully. I find Hero Arts have paid a great deal of attention, of late, to the sizing and the look of their sentiments. I am really enjoying the direction this company has been taking!

Subdued With Sympathy

Ok, one of my varying excuses for lack of blogging was that my camera had died a lonely death.

My beautiful DIL to be and I also enrolled in TAFE to do a digital camera course AND a Photoshop course. Whilst the digital camera course was a total flop for us, we did get one thing out of it. We now want to learn how to take a good photo. This, of course requires a good camera.

We have been in the pursuit of finding us a good SLR camera and have now done so. Melissa has hers and I am waiting for mine to come in. In the meantime, without having the camera for more than an afternoon, we just did a series of point and shoots in terrible fluorescent lighting of some of my recent cards (seen the last two days and coming for the next two also). I am pretty chuffed with them. They have been merely cropped and straightened within Photoshop...Nothing else! Cannot wait until they unearth another Sony A55 for ME!!!!! The two from the last two days were stamped on gloss card. Any gloss card work I have ever tried to photograph has been a royal pain in the bum. This was so easy with a great result.

This card uses a beautiful Hero Arts shadow stamp. Have you tried looking for nice shadow stamp lately? I have! For someone else and they appear to be non existent! Hello manufacturers! There should be some out there. Highly useful a nice shadow stamp is!

The wording is hero Arts also but I think the main image is from Stampin Up.