Black cardstock is so fun because it gives you a huge contrast against your colors — but the problem is usually, markers won’t color on black. These Sharpies though! It’s definitely fun for simple coloring!
All my supplies for creating this card will be listed down below (with multiple sources when available) for your curiosity and convenience. Affiliate links used when possible.
Let’s start by taking a closer look at the November Card Kit of the Month.
<PHOTO OF CARD KIT>
Includes:
CK1024C Clear Stamp Set, 6” x 8”
CK1024D 16 Coordinating Dies & 1 Hole Punch Die
1 Window Die
Holiday Treats Words Cling, 6″x 6″
Washi Sticker Pack, 22 Pieces
Embossing Ink Cube
5 sheets each, Kraft, White & Red Cardstock, 5.5″ x 8.5″
Gold Embossing Powder, 1/2 oz.
White Embossing Powder, 1/2 oz.
Peppermint Embellishments
There’s a ton of inspiration and the full blog lineup can be found on the Hero Arts blog. You should be coming from _____’s blog and your next stop will be _______. The full blog list will also be updated below!
I have two cards to share with you today featuring this month’s kit and one of the Extraordinary Extras.
The first card focuses on the Card Kit of the Month. This Card Kit contains a ton of fun pieces. First and foremost, I’m a coffee drinker so I’m automatically drawn to the coffee cup die cut. I die cut that out of white card cardstock and color it up with copic markers. I also used one of the snowflakes in this Card Kit to stamp with Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink along with White Embossing Powder directly on the cup for decoration. When you color up die cuts, it looks like no line coloring, so I decided to stamp the owl from the main stamp set with Contour Ink, and did more no line coloring with copic markers. I also wanted some pops of red, so I stamped and colored the berries and poinsettia as well. For my background, I used one of the stencils from the card kit with Crimson Core ink to ink up on Sand Cardstock. I popped the images on Ivory cardstock so they would stand out against that background and I love how the stenciled pattern still stands out. Lastly, I stamped a sentiment on the Ivory Cardstock using Intens-ified Black Ink.
My second project focuses on the stamp set from the Mini and Extraordinary Extras, Winter Foliage Pattern. How this stamp set is set up is that it’s to be paired with the Winter Foliage Pattern Cover plate and it’ll die cut all the images, which is really cool and convenient because you don’t have to line each image up with the die. But I wanted to share a quick and easy card with just the stamp set. I went and did ink swiping with the colors of a Christmas rainbow using the Hero Hues Reactive Glitz inks: French Pink, Spanish Orange, Naples Yellow, and Byzantine Green. Then I just stamp the Winter Foliage Pattern right on top. To finish off the card, I stamped with Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink and heat embossed the sentiment using White Embossing Powder on Pitch Black cardstock. I also trimmed down my panel so I could mat it with the same Pitch Black cardstock.
Here’s a little video for this one:
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed the two cards I shared today using some of the new Hero Studio collection. Hope you were inspired to create!
Giveaway:
Hero Arts will give away a $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, October 13th at 11:59pm Pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.
Bold sentiments — I’m not a 5×7 card gal but for this sentiment, I can be. I just love how it looks and it’s so pretty! You can even just embossed it on a solid piece of cardstock and make easy cards!
All my supplies for creating this card will be listed down below (with multiple sources when available) for your curiosity and convenience. Affiliate links used when possible.
Hi friends — We’re kicking off the countdown to the October Hero Studio release today and I’m sharing a card using the Clear Stamp & Dies of the Month.
Ok — if you’re a cat lover, this set is definitely for you… and you know those kitties love the Christmas tree around the holidays and they are kinda naughty! I used Hero Arts INTENSI-ified Black Ink to stamp the three cats, the paw print, and the sentiment. I just drew in the lines to create the look of a room right after.
This is one of those cards where the images create the scene and my personal favorite cat is the one clawing down the wall. He adds the dimension to the card and helps create the look of walls on this card.
This was a relatively simple card since it was stamping and then coloring! Hope you liked it!
Head over to the Hero Arts blog for more inspiration using the Hero Studio collection leading up to the release! And then I’ll be back for the Hero Studio blog hop with a couple more projects to share!
Stamping crisp images is very important to me — it just looks nicer and more professional. However, this is one of the exceptions — where you ink up your images using distress oxide inks. This type of ink is water reactive and before stamping it, I’ll spritz it with water and then stamp! It provides such a cool look.
All my supplies for creating this card will be listed down below (with multiple sources when available) for your curiosity and convenience. Affiliate links used when possible.
These ninjas are obviously ready for action and I wanted to try adding little lines that depict movement. I experimented and hopefully, it comes through on this card. It’s super cute, and I think you can change out the colors easily to match your recipient’s favorite colors!
All my supplies for creating this card will be listed down below (with multiple sources when available) for your curiosity and convenience. Affiliate links used when possible.
Sometimes, within a release, I want to mix and match all the sets. It’s the best way to use your sets because you have more flexibility than just sticking with one set only.
All my supplies for creating this card will be listed down below (with multiple sources when available) for your curiosity and convenience. Affiliate links used when possible.
A little ink blending goes a long way and just adding a bit of black distress ink around the edges really finishes things off!
All my supplies for creating this card will be listed down below (with multiple sources when available) for your curiosity and convenience. Affiliate links used when possible.
This stamp set is perfect for a little fall scene — so many ways to use the images… all of them or even maybe one!
All my supplies for creating this card will be listed down below (with multiple sources when available) for your curiosity and convenience. Affiliate links used when possible.
Easy cards are quicker than you think — using a bold stamped image is the best!
All my supplies for creating this card will be listed down below (with multiple sources when available) for your curiosity and convenience. Affiliate links used when possible.
I love silhouettes — when there’s die cuts that make it easy (using black cardstock), it makes it so easy!
All my supplies for creating this card will be listed down below (with multiple sources when available) for your curiosity and convenience. Affiliate links used when possible.
You can always use your die cuts as windows — that’s what I did here with the Bat Shaker dies. It make the perfect fun windows for a Halloween card.
All my supplies for creating this card will be listed down below (with multiple sources when available) for your curiosity and convenience. Affiliate links used when possible.
InsideoutJeans by Jeannie 