Lawnscaping Challenge # 8!

I'm pretty exciting to be participating in my first ever Lawnscaping Challenge! The theme for this challenge is Calling All Critters! I adore stamping animals so I jumped at the chance to take part in this one! So exciting! I wish I had Lawn Fawn stamps to use but I haven't had the opportunity to buy any just yet! :)

Here are some of the cards I created....

Inside...

Love how this one turned out...

Super cute owl... I just made it a little more personalized! :)

Happy Hello with a fun color bird!! Love this ones tail.. so fun to color.

That is all for today...

hope everyone has a great Tuesday! :D

Love For Hero Arts!

Hello everyone! Whew it has been awhile since I've posted anything... been crazy busy with getting ready to move into an apartment. Sadly, with this move... I will lose my scrapbook room. :( So, I'm going to have to find a space saving way to put up everything I currently have. It will all work out in the end, I'm sure of it. :)

Well, today I wanted to talk about one of my favorite stamp companies, Hero Arts.

As you know, I used Hero Arts stamps, OFTEN... and the reason is simple: They are amazing! From the simple sets to the detailed sets, they have it all. One of my favorite kinds of stamps that they make are the clear sets. I just adore stamping with clear stamps which I really feel is a little easier to judge where exactly your stamps will STAMP! haha.

I did a little research on Hero Arts and I found out some very interesting things about them.. Jackie Leventhal, founder of Hero Arts, started making stamps in the mid-70's and she was an art teacher. I was always curious as to how Hero Arts got such a name... CLICK HERE to read more about the story of how it was named Hero Arts. Such a great story. :) 


Which one is my favorite?


It's so hard to pick from all the wonderful stamps that Hero Arts makes... but I would probably have to go with the one that I use a lot which is Everyday Sayings...

On the Hero Arts website, they have an option to set up a Wish List... My Wish List is ridiculously long lol Take a peek...

Anyway, that concludes my ramble about how much I love Hero Arts stamps. I hope you love them too! :)

Have a blessed day everyone.

Fun with Distress Ink & Card Shares!

Hello! Happy Tuesday! Off to another start of a fabulous week... 

Today I started my day off with having fun with water and Distress Inks by Ranger. Love these inks. They come in so many wonderful colors, it's hard not to get addicted. I have a small but perfect starter set and I use almost all the time. They do wonderful things with water, as you can see below...

The color lineup (starting from left to right) -

First Row: Vintage Photo, Wild Honey, Faded Jeans, Forest Moss

Second Row: Dusty Concord, Spiced Marmalade, Crushed Olive, Barn Door

So neat to see what they do when you just sprits them with water.... it looks even better on paper! ;)

Next, off to a card share!

This is a card that I made for a family friend of ours that is going through a hard time and I have to say I'm IN LOVE with how this card turned out... probably because I'm kind of  a big fan of purples. I used THIS background stamp that I can't get enough of and stamped with StazOn Opaque Cotton White Ink.

This one is a fun little bird from THIS stamp set. It's such a fun thing to stamp with when I'm in the mood to color. Simple & Easy... the perfect thing about card-making! :) 

I hope everyone has a great Tuesday! Back with another post tomorrow!!

God Bless!

Ribbon Storage & Card Shares!

Hello there everyone! Just another post... today, I had a question about ribbon storage. This is the only way that I can find to store my scrap ribbon. Any one else out there have another way of doing it? I'm kind of desperate because it's such a pain to dig through all of that ribbon to find something. 

My precious little helper! This is my cat Penelope, one of my many "foster failures" lol I decided to keep her when I was fostering her and her brother. She is just a doll and one of the sweetest cats I've ever seen. She likes to "help" me scrapbook... which really means... get in my way. But I adore her anyway! :)

Card Shares!!

Love the green Mind's Eye paper! and Just A Note clear stamp from Hero Arts.

This card turned out so cute! Glittery Goodness! That's for sure. :)

Enjoy your Thursday everyone! Tomorrow is Friday... yay! 

Hopefully I'll have a video up by Saturday! :)

Happy Wednesday!

So glad it's almost the end of the week. It's been a busy busy week and it's going to be an even busier weekend! But, I am blessed with time to create from cute cards I'm going to share here quickly... First, I made this one as a "Welcome baby boy!" set :) (This stamp is actually from the baby girl set but I liked it so I decided to "boy" it up a little :)

Hero Arts, Adorable Baby Girl Stamp Set

Stamped with Adriondack, Pitch Black pigment ink... Love this stuff! Takes a little while to dry but it's worth it!

Added a little bit a border, foam dots and it's all done! :)

It wasn't quite done yet.. I decided to add pearls to the wheels just to give it a little softer look. I also added blue loves to the top part that were originally clear dots. 

That's all for now... hope you all have a great Wednesday! :)

Just Saying Hello.

Just saying hello! Such a cute, simple hello greeting! It's finally Friday... yay! Anyway, on to the reason for the post... This card is a 5x7 inch card and I stamped the background with a Hero Arts Large Cling Background Stamp, called Magical Background! I got this one from Memento's in my hometown when I was there last week and it is AMAZING! I love this fun, busy background! The ink I used Is Spiced Marmalade, Distress Ink by Ranger-Tim Holtz (I'm a little crazy about Distress Ink, Just an F.Y.I) :D

The "Just Saying Hello" Stamp is from Everyday Sayings set from Hero Arts, Love that stamp set! I inked it using the same color as I did for the background onto white cardstock, used my paper trimmer to crop it, adhered it with foam dots. I also used Glossy Accents, which I also love to make sure that everything stayed in place, sometimes the foam dots are not as sticky as I would like. :)

Here is a close up of the added dimension that I LOVE when using foam dots! Perfect, Perfect, Perfect! 

next, I gave the card a couple of sprays of Perfect Pearl Water (put a couple of scoops of your paint brush into a Ranger Mini Minster that is filled with water about 3/4 of the way full. Shake!) to give it a shiny finish!

Close up of the shiny goodness! ;)

The Finished Product! 

So since today is Friday (YAY!) I'm picking my Friday Favorites... which is.. Glossy Accents! This stuff is addicting, to say the least and it is literally a lifesaver! If you haven't had the chance to use this product, I recommend getting to your nearest craft store to do so... right away! :) 

In closing, I'm leaving you with some examples of how much amazing-ness Glossy Accents can bring to a simple card! 

Have a great weekend everyone! Be safe! :)

Happy Birthday! :)

This is the first post to my brand new blog! What a better day to start than on my birthday! :) Happy Birthday to me! So anyway, this is going to be a new thing I'm starting up to kind of share some of my ideas on scarpbooking and card making - without breaking the bank! :) Today I'm going to show a card that I made this morning for one of my friends back home.

The card features the Happy Everything stamp set from Hero Arts. I used the "Thinking Of You" #CL342 stamp and it is just amazing. So elegant and perfect!

The back ground for this stamp is also Hero Arts.. it's Flower Pattern, Cling Background #CG241. I'm a big fan of purple so I went with that color for the background of the card! :)

A little close of an "uh oh" on the card that kind of just works! A lot of people tend to stress about making the card PERFECT... who cares? it's supposed to be for fun.. if you make a mistake, just go with it. It will make it look more artistic in the end. ;)

Once I stamped the image onto a lilac colored piece of cardstock, I used my ink blending tool from Ranger to work shades of purple on the sides, leaving the middle to have a highlighted look. 

Mounted the saying on top of some twine and TADA! Perfect & simple! :)

Any questions about this card or the products used to create it, please feel free to email me! 

I'll be back tomorrow with another card! Have a blessed day everyone!