Reminder for May Challenge at Stay Crafty With a Blog Named Hero!

Hello friends!

If you haven'tjoined the May Stay Crafty With a Blog Named Hero Challenge yet, you'd better do it fast! :) The challenge is still running for about one day. Our theme is a very fun one, "Can't Take my Eyes off You", create a project with eyes. My first DT project was with butterflies and I could not restrain myself... This one has butterflies too lol! I read somewhere that some butterflies have extra set of eyes in their wings. That's quite something!! 

I've used the following Hero Arts products: 

Special Day Butterfly Stamp and Cut from the Spring Whimsy Collection (butterflies)

It's Our Anniversary Stamp and Cut (sentiment) 

Swirls Confetti die (background)

Nesting Circle Infinity Dies (die cut circle for the sentiment)

I've colored the butterflies with Copics and added white gel pen details. The sentiment is heat embossed. The die cut background I've cut from white card and attached it on top of another piece of white card -one of my favorite ways to use background dies. 

I hope to see you joining us -doesn't creating a project with Hero Arts products (and with something that has eyes!) to start the weekend sound like the perfect plan?!? 

I'd like to join: 

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Emboss It 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge: Anything Goes

Ellibelle's I Spy With My Little Eye Challenge: Butterflies

Try It on Tuesday: Butterflies

 

Current Challenget at Time Out... Your Favorite Winged Thing!

Hi friends!

I'm a couple of days late with my post for Time Out Challenges... But better late than never! :)

Our current challenge is "Inspired by Your Favorite Winged Thing" and it was an easy choice for me... Definitely butterflies! 

I played with some sparkly and shiny water color backgrounds I had made with water color and shimmer powders. I embossed one of them with an Altenew folder and then swiped white pigment ink on top of the embossing to make it stand out even more. I cut the Honey Bee butterfly from a different water color panel. The sentiment, also by Honey Bee, is simply white heat embossed on black and cut out. I love how moody and "dark academia" with a pop of color this turned out! :) 

I hope to see you joining our challenge. There's lot's of more DT inspiration and all the challenge details available HERE. 

 

New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

Due to busy work schedules I haven't been making cards for all of my design teams in the past couple of months... But today I'm happy to be joining the new challenge at Time Out and hopefully my schedules permit me to join more often now! Making a card may only take some hours... But when one is very busy, those extra hours outside responsibilities tend to lack mojo and lean towards simply chilling! Are you familiar with the phenomenon? :) 

Our challenge is a very fun one:

May the 4th be With You! 

May 4th is celebrated as a Star Wars day and that's how we got the idea. However, you don't need Star Wars supplies. Think movie series, celestial, galaxy, sky, northern lights, etc.

My card started with making a watercolor background. I used Brusho powders and Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Sparkles -it's a pity you can't really see the beautiful shine that the background has! I then heat embossed a background stamp image by Echo Park, I've had this for years and I love it. The heat embossing powder is by Ranger and it's a new favorite, the shade is called Bubbly. It's like a creamy, slighty golden silver. Lighter than Liquid Platinum if you have that. It's a very beautiful shade!

The die cut sentiment comes from Textures by Lou Collins and goes well with the challenge I think! This will be fun to give a way as a little encouragement card. 

Please head on over to our challenge blog for all the challenge details and lots of more DT inspiration!