Hero Arts layering Peacock

It is the beginning of the month so time for a new Challenge at A2Z Scarpbooking.  This month I have a card for the 1st.

I made this card as part of the 90 mins scramble over at the Hero Arts Flickr Group last weekend.  I used a stencil for my subtle background and stamped and die cut the Layering Peacock.

Do pop over and visit the team to see what they have come up with.  Awesome inspiration from everyone.

More Poppies

It's my day to share at A2Z Scrapbooking today.  I've scheduled this as I'm still over in Perth... I'm enjoying using the Layering Poppy and today I have chosen to make a sympathy card.

I choose colours that would give a soft ethereal look

The use of the Soft Granite for the third layer added to the ethereal look.   The colours I used are listed in my supplies list below.   I have them all in cubes from different sets.  I added a thin line of gold pen around the outside of my panel and some splatters of watered down Gold Glitz ink.   The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set (CL476 - Retired)

I also decorated an envelope to match

Supplies:

• CM144 Layering Poppy
• Soft Cantaloupe and Fresh Peach Inks
• Soft Granite and Charcoal Inks
• Green Hills Ink
• Emerald Green Ink
• CL146 With Sympathy

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Weekend fun

I managed to get a bit of stamping done over the weekend.  Some really CAS and one more complex

Saturday I joined Cindy's Hero Art Flickr group 90 mins Scramble.  With the coming of the Northern Hemisphere summer, the Scrambles are over a 24hr period.  You just choose your own 90 min time slot and go for it!  This suits me

Last week I got some new Hero Arts stamps so this was a great time to try them out.  Cindy taksed us to use an Oval on our projects

It took me three goes to line up my peacock and die cut him.   Still not perfect but I didn't have enough time to do it a fourth time.  I had brought the matching ink cubes - Lemon Yellow, Emerald Green, Deep Ocean and Navy.  I used the blues and green to sponge the background. And then the yellow to stamp the feather.    I die cut a Spellbinders Oval and stamped on the sentiment.  Add a few Enamel Accents to finish.  Not bad for 70mins.

Sunday I had some spare time - on a very humid and sticky day when my craft room was a bit cooler.  I had also just got an Altenew stamp set called Halftone Circles and took a piece of A5 card (15cm x 21cm) and using some of the Altenew Blue inks stamped a variety of the circles - going from lighter at the top to darker at the bottom.  I then cut the panel in half to make two cards.

For the top card, I used the lighter part and added a few little darker circles.  I did some selective stamping of the last part of the sentiment. 

For the lower one, I added some of the Hero Arts Emerald Green and Lemon Yellow inks with little circles.  I added a stripe of the dark blue with the sentiment white embossed. The sentiment is from a set of 25 that came with a magazine last week.   I added some Liquid pearls for an accent.

These two cards took no time and were such fun to stamp. 

And finally I wanted to try out a technique I saw a while back.  Stamp with white pigment ink and then overstamp with dye inks.

It didn't work out as I thought as the white ink looks more light blue than white, but I was still very happy with the more soft result I achieved. 

In just over 1 week I'm heading over to Perth to spend Easter with my daughter and her family.... and then on the 20th to celebrate Archer turning one, so I'm trying hard to get ahead with my design work as well as getting the house tidied up for the house sitter and to make a card for Daughter - her birthday is early May so I'll take the card with me. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Fall Layering Tree

It's a new month so a new Challenge at A2Z Scrapbooking... and our theme is"Make it a Tag"

My order has been held up with one of the items on back order so I'm still working with some older stamps.  I have chosen to use the Fall Layering Tree (currently out of stock in our store, but you could use the Snowy Layering Tree for a similar tag)  However did you know if you really wanted this stamp you can request a custom order - just see the button on our site.

So here is my tag

I started by use a Tim Holtz/Sizzix die to cut the tag.   I then used a number of distress inks to make my background.   I stamped the trees with Hero Arts Cup'o'Joe ink and then used a variety of distress inks to do the various layers on them.  I used the layering stamps to stamp the "leaves" on the ground as well.  The sentiment is from the same set, again stamped with the Cup'o'Joe ink.  I finished with a bit of ribbon and twine.

So it's time for you to join us with your tags... by themselves or on a card.... looking forward to seeing them all.

This tag also doubles as my sample for Die Cut Divas where our challenge is "Fall"

Playing with Alcohol.....

Inks that is!  When I was meeting with my friends to stamp I took along my Alcohol inks and made a few backgrounds.  Some purples and greens.   On one of them I stamped an Peony from Altenew.  I die cut it with the matching die

I also stamped and die cut the leaves with some green Alcohol inks and made them up into a card

I used some of the pink woodgrain paper layered onto some purple card and then onto the white card base.  I used a sentiment from Kaisercraft (which I picked up on sale for $1.80) and stamped with Hero Arts Metallic Ombre ink. It is very intense in real life.

I thought I'd share a quick pic of little Archer.  He's 4 months old now.  And in 12 days I will get to give him big hugs.  I can hardly wait!

He's such a happy smiley baby (or at least in all the photos I get!)

Thanks for visiting today.  Please leave me a comment, I would appreciate it.