A Few Cards....

Hello!

 

I hope you are well and having a good week!  I really enjoyed my first solo post at A Blog Named Hero on Monday....I was a bit nervous but think it went ok :)

 

I just thought that I would put a few cards on the blog today that I have made over the past few weeks and not had chance to post.  They are very different styles!

 

 

This is just a fun card that I made using Hero Arts Missing You set - I do love those cute critters!  I created a polaroid style photo with some patterned papers for the background and a strip of cork patterned paper to suggest a noticeboard. 

 

The card below is one that I have made for Marcy from the Hero Arts Flickr group - I sent it over a week ago so I hope that it has reached her and that she doesn't mind me sharing it here!  Marcy is a great member of the group and we are all missing her lots - hope you are feeling better, Marcy :)

 

 

I gold embossed Hero Arts Looped Flowers background, masking a strip for the sentiment which is from the lovely Messages with Flourish set.  I picked out a few of the circles in the background and watercoloured with my inktense pencils.  I really like the random look!

 

That's it from me for today.  I hope you like the cards :)

 

See you soon, Sarah x

 

Happy Birdday

Hello!

Just a quick post today with a fun card that I made with the cute bird from Hero Arts Missing You set.

 

I popped up the three birds for a bit of dimension and added glossy accents to their beaks and eyes.  I attached some twine for them to stand on and added the fun sentiment.  The background is created by stamping Hero Arts Magical Background in tumbled glass with some inking around the edge.  I also stamped the background in the corners of the card base to add a bit more interest.

 

I will add this as my final card to play along with Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge to make birthday cards.

 

I am over with a post at A Blog Named Hero today - come and see what I made :)

 

See you again soon, Sarah x

Time Out

Hello!

I hope you have had a lovely weekend.  We have just come back from my father in law's 70th birthday lunch - always good to see family! 

Before we set off I made a quick card to play along with the new Time Out Challenge.  It is a Home Sweet Home challenge using this home décor inspiration photo:

I loved the crisp white of the bedlinen and combination of blues/gold-browns of the butterflies.

 

I softly inked through the Memory Box Rhapsody stencil in teal and beige and added two Uniko Studio butterflies.  I used Wink of Stella on the butterflies.  The sentiment is gold embossed and from Mama Elephant. 

 

As I have used another stencil I can also play along with the second challenge at Virginia's View.  There are still 12 days to get your entries in!

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Sarah x

Rainbow Birthday

Hello!

I hope you are enjoying your Saturday!  Just a quick post with another birthday card that I made while I had the Papertrey Ink birthday die and stamps out.  This time I have teamed them up with Uniko Studio's Background Builders Round in Circles set which I stamped in a rainbow down the side of the card. 

 

The birthday die is built up with several layers of black cardstock and topped off with black glitter card for a bit of extra bling!

 

It is another entry in to this week's Simon Says Stamp 5th birthday Wednesday Challenge.  They have some great prizes!

 

I hope you like it :)

 

Bye for now, Sarah x

Happy 5th Birthday!

Hello!

Simon Says Stamp are celebrating 5 years of challenges and I have made this birthday card using a Papertrey Ink die and stamp set.  I love the look of inlaid dies that I have been seeing on lots of cards.  I have kept the colours more soft and neutral after my recent colourful cards :)

 

I hope you are looking forward to a good weekend!

 

Bye for now, Sarah x

 

Fabulous Butterfly

Hello!

I was so flattered to be showcased in last week's Less Is More Challenge - there are so many great cards every week!  It is one of my favourite challenges and I love to see what others create in relation to the challenges set by Chrissie and Jen :)  This week the theme is Round and Round.  I got out my bubble stencil from Tim Holtz and made this card:

I am loving these Penny Black dies!  The stencil is inked in peacock feathers, mowed lawn and tumbled glass distress inks.  The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday.

As my card features a stencil I can also play along with Virginia's View fab 2nd challenge too - she had an amazing number of entries for her first challenge - go and check it out!  I will also enter it in to Moxie Fab World's Styling with Stencils Challenge.

Love it when one card covers a range of challenges :)

Bye for now, Sarah x

Birthday Blog Hop!

Hello!

Can you believe that A Blog Named Hero is 2 years old?!

 

We are celebrating 2 years of Hero Arts inspired fun all thanks to Linda and Mary Dawn and a great line up of friends have come to join the party :)  Many of them are my stamping heroes including Lisa Spangler whose blog you should have come from....but if you have just arrived, why not go back to A Blog Named Hero and start from the beginning?

Don't forget to leave comments on all of the posts along today's hop to increase your chances of winning a prize package from either of our fab sponsors - Hero Arts or Simon Says Stamp.  Thanks to both for making ABNH's 2nd birthday even more special and for all of their support over the past 2 years :)

I won't make this a long post as you still have more great blogs to visit.  As it is a 2nd birthday I have made two cards to share:

Both cards feature the large birthday sentiment from HA's Fancy Basics.  The butterfly on the first card is white embossed with the Fabulous Flourish. The first card is inked with picked raspberry and spiced marmalade distress inks and the second with peacock feathers and mowed lawn distress stains.  I had great fun splattering on the second card!!

I won't keep you any longer as you will want to be hopping along to see what the amazing Kelly Rasmussen has created.  A full list of blog stops is below in case you lose your way.....
 
ABNH Linda Trace Jennifer McGuire Cristina Martinez Debby Hughes Christine Drogt Britta Swiderski Stephanie Klauk Leslie Hanna Shari Carroll Lisa Stein Maya Isaksson Virginia Lu Kathy Racoosin Michelle Lupton Vicky Papaioannou Lisa Spangler Sarah Gray Kelly Rasmussen Sindhura Prajay Lucy Abrams Mary Dawn Quirindongo Teri Anderson Teresa Pham Tanja Kewel-Neef Laura Bassen Cheiron Brandon Kelly Latevola

Enjoy :) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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