Card for Challenges

Hi friends!

Ever since I saw the Spellbinders Regal Pair die and other products in the Regal product line... I was obsessed and had to have them! :) I love the antique ceramic dog statues like this and I even own a pair of Staffordshire dog figurines that I keep by my living room window. The Regal Lattice 3d embossing folder is stunning as well so of course that went to cart too... And I'm very happy with my purchases! 

I used patterned papers from my stash that had a vintage feel and coherent color palette for making the background and the figurines. The shiny parts I cut from copper card stock and ended up heat embossing the sentiment with copper embossing powder as well. 

If you are interested in how I created the look for the background, this is what I did:

After dry embossing the folder I took white pigment ink and carefully rubbed and swiped it on the raised areas. I let it dry overnight and on the next day I did the same but with shimmery gold ink. I finished the background with coppery gold paint splatters. 

I'd like to join these challenges:

Just Us Girls: Embossing

Crafting A Cut Above: Anything Goes

613 Avenue Creates: Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge: Anything Goes

NBUS Challenge: Challenge #84, all dies and the embossing folder are brand new to me! 

Thank you for popping by and I hope you enjoy my vintage dog statues!

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More Inspiration With March My Monthly Hero... Focus on the Milk Carton Die!

Hi friends!

I'm here with two more fun cards with the new March My Monthly Hero kits by Hero Arts. These cards are made with the Superhero version of the kit (larger kit with more products) but also highlight products available in the smaller My Monthly Hero kit. These kits are great value and sell out fast... So grab yours before it is too late!

Card 1

Stenciled and Die Cut Milk Carton - Our Friendship is Legen-Dairy

One of the very cool products of the Superhero kit is the milk carton stencil that you can cut out with matching dies and color it super realistic looking. I love the way this turned out using only two ink colors but bigger and smaller blending tools for color and intensity variation. I wanted to keep this card very clean and simple to make the stunning milk carton really pop... And I love the fun, sweet sentiments too! 

With this card I'd like to join:

CAS on Friday: Cute

Just Add Ink Challenge: Stencils and Dies

Just Us Girls Challenge: Stencil

We Love Stamping Challenge: Anything Goes

Card 2

Die Cut Milk Carton - It's Your Birthday, Milk it!

This card is a bit less CAS with a very layered look, stenciled background ( I used a clear, glossy paste) and plenty of die cut details. The milk carton die is the same one that matches the stencil of the first card so you can get really different looks with just the die (My Monthly Hero kit) or die and stencil combo (My Monthly Superhero kit). 

I'd love to hear which look you prefer -the detailed, stenciled look or the clean, crisp, die cut look! 

With this card I'd like to join:

Allsorts Challenge: Anything Goes

A Cut Above Challenge: Anything Goes

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Make Your Own Background

613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Thank you for popping by and I hope you liked my projects. xxx

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March My Monthly Hero is Out!

Hi friends!

I'm excited to be creating with the brand new Hero Arts My  Monthly Kits in my post today! Click HERE for all the details on the My Monthly Subscriptions. These kits tend to sell out so make sure to grab yours fast this month! If I inspire you with my post, I'd love you to do your shopping through my links... It helps me a lot without any extra cost for you! Now let's have a look at this super cute (Legen-Dairy!!) kit and what I've made with it! 

Card 1 

Cretaed with My Monthly Hero kit

The stamp set in the My Monthly Hero kit  has very fun sentiments and I wanted to make them the focal point of my card. I used Hero Arts Neon Inks for all the colorful stamping. The stenciled background is created with white Hero Paste. My card design with the vellum is inspired by one of Hero Arts' artists, Channin Pelletier, who made a wonderful video in February using February's kit (watch it HERE)... Fingers crossed we'll get an inspiring video again this month and I'm pretty sure we do!!

With this card I'd like to join:

Word Power Challenge: Anything Goes

Inkspirational Challenges: Use Stencils

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers: Use Black

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Make Your own Background

Card 2 

Created with My Monthly Superhero kit

My second card uses the same fun stencil from the My Monthly Hero kit, but also the additional stamps and dies that you get if you purchase the the Superhero kit. I wanted to make this card very "milky" so I made a white on white background with paste again and kept the color scheme pretty restricted. Love how this turned out! 

With this card I'd like to join:

Alphabet challenge: V is for volume (dimension)

Creative Artiste Challenge Blog: Anything Mixed Media Goes

Just Add Ink Challenge: Stencils and Dies

Just Us Girls Challenge: Stencils

Crazy is our fame Stencil Challenge: Anything Goes

I'll be back tomorrow with more inspiration with the kits! Thank you for popping by and I hope you liked my projects. xxx

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New Releaae at Hero Arts!

Hi friends!

It's release time at Hero Arts and this new release will definitely cheer you up if you are suffering of a long and cold winter like we are here in Finland! Winter is surely beautiful... But the nature waking up in the spring with beautiful lilacs is even more beautiful if you ask me! Let's have a look what kind of cards I've created with the dies and stamps of the release. 

Card 1

Die Cut There's No One Lilac You 

This card is created with the Layered Lilac Die Set and sentiment from No One Lilac You Samp Set. You could think putting this die cut lilac together takes for ages but actually not at all! There's "officially" 2 layers and the way the die is designed makes it very simple to know where to glue your layering pieces. I ended up adding a 3rd layer by randomly glueing small flowers here and there and I love the way this turned out! I used gold gel pen and shimmery glitter pen for the flower centers and embellished the card with white paint splatters. 

With this card I'd like to join:

Cut It Up Challenges: This makes me happy: using a die that gives very flashy outcome with less effort than the recipient will ever believe! :) 

Allsorts Challenge: Anything Goes

A Perfect time to Craft: Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: Anything Goes/ photo inspiration

Crafting A Cut Above: Anything Goes

Card 2

Hello Friend

The stamps from There's No One Lilac You stamp set are perfect for clean and simple card making. I used two of the separate lilac stems and colored them with alcohol markers and colored pencils. The sentiment I heat embossed with white. I cut a small label tag to have something behind the flowers (Tag Frames Infinity Dies) and used a cover plate die from Cozy Critters, Die of The Month September 2025 for giving the tag some texture. 

With this card I'd like to join:

Just Add Ink: Sketch

CAS on Friday: Anything Goes

Simply Clean And Simple Challenge: Anything Goes

Card 3

Stamped There's No One Lilac You

The focal point of this card is the main image from the No One Lilac You Samp Set. I've colored it with alcohol markers and colored pencils. I wanted to have a very simple background for this card so all I did was mask off a strip from the bottom of the card and inked a little bit of blue above it. I added gold paint splatters for embellishment. The sentiment is simply stamped, no heat embossing this time!

With this card I'd like to join:

We Love Stamping challenge: Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations: Anything Goes

Sweet Stamping Challenge Blog: No Designer Paper

We Love to Create: Anything Goes

Daisy Chain Challenges: Something New

Thank you everyone for popping by and I hope I've inspired you to check out the New Release at Hero Arts. The florals from this release certainly help in waiting for the spring to arrive! :) 

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More Inspiration With My Monthly Hero Kits!

Hi friends!

I'm here with more inspiration with the new February Hero Arts My Monthly kits. Click HERE for all the subscription and product details!

Card 1 

Hello Friend, You are the Best

My first card is created with the larger kit, My Monthly Superhero. If you choose this option you'll receive fun coloring stencils for the outline flower stamp set and as you can see, I've also created a background with them! Love the look of the soft no line flowers I could create with the stencil. I've also colored my main flower with the coloring stencils as well. 

With this card I'd like to join:

Allsorts Challenge: Create Your Own Background

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes

A Perfect Time to Craft: Anything Goes

Card 2

Happy Spring

My second card is created using only supplies from the smaller kit, My Monthly Hero kit. I've stenciled a background with the layering stencils and added some die cut florals and heat embossed sentiment on top. This one ended up having sort of a retroish color scheme which I really loved! 

With this card I'd like to join:

Pick 3 challenge: Stencil, Layers + Texture from heat embossing and different cardstock textures

A Cut Above: Anything Goes with Die Cuts

Stencil Fun Challenge: Create Your Background with Stencils

I hope you get inspired to check out the February My Monthly Hero and become a My Monthly Subscriber -the products are great and so is the value! I'd love to see what you'll create with these products if you have them so do let me know where to find your work if you do! 

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February My Monthly Hero + My Monthly Superhero are Available, Woot Woot!

Hi friends!

I'm excited to be creating with the brand new Hero Arts My Monthly Superhero kit in my post today! Click HERE for all the details on the My Monthly Subscriptions. The January kits sold out in a couple of days so make sure to grab yours fast this month! If I inspire you with my post, I'd love you to do your shopping through my links... It helps me a lot without any extra cost for you! 

Card 1

Happy Easter

This card was so fun to make! This stamp set comes both with the My Monthly Hero kit and the My Monthly Superhero Kit and is one of the most cute things in the whole kit if you ask me! I've Copic colored the flowers and eggs but to save time, I used the coloring stencils from the My Monthly Superhero Kit to color in the bunnies. There are coloring stencils for the flowers too, but I love marker coloring cute florals like this so I had to do that of course! :) The stencil I used for the sky is an older Hero Arts product, Clouds and Grass Scenic Stencil. The die for the grass is included in the My Monthly Superhero Kit. With this card I'd like to play along in the following challenges:

Time Out Challenges: Favorite Technique (marker coloring)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations: Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes + Animals

Card 2

Thinking of You - a Galentine's Card! 

I made this card as a Galentine's card... February 14th is not the easiest if you've recently become single or your relationship status is unclear somehow... We ladies need to support each other! The background is made with the layering stencils you'll receive in both My Monthly Hero and My Monthly Superhero kits. The sweetest little bunnies you'll receive with the Superhero kit. I've used Hero Arts Heart Nesting Dies behind the bunnies, cut from vellum, and I love how sweet this card is! 

Cut It Up Challenges: My Heart

Festive Friday: Valentine's (mine is a Galentine's though, hope that's ok!) and Pink, Ink Blending, Heart, Die Cuts

Die Cut Divas: Red and Pink

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Have a Heart

Thank you so much for popping by and make sure to come back next week for more inspiration!

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Have You Noticed Spellbinders Has a New Monthly Challenge?

Hi friends!

Have you noticed there's a new challenge in blogland? Spellbinders is trying out a monthly challenge, very exciting! The theme for January is Glam, Foil and Shine. You'll find the challenge HERE. 

I've used a bunch of Spellbinders products in my card:

Damask 3d Embossing Folder for the background

Gifting Bow Etched Dies for the Ribbon, Bow and Floral dies

La Dolce Vita Banners Etched Dies for the sentiment

I started this card by dry embossing a piece of gold cardstock with the Damask 3d folder that I had inked with watermark ink. My inking had been so heavy that it was a bit all over the card stock... So when I sprinkled gold embossing powder on top, the whole embossed piece got covered, oops! However after heating it this treatment made the piece look like a metal plate or something so I kept going. 

I then wiped some white pigment ink on the raised areas and sprinkled clear embssing glitter on top. After heating that powder some of the sparkles showed up pink and blue (if you enlarge the photo, you'll see it better). That made me choose a very pastel and light color scheme for the rest of the card. The ribbon and bow I did cut from gold mirror card to bring even more shine to my project!  

I'd also like to join:

Time Out Challenges: All That Glitters

A Cut Above Challenge: Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Emboss It 

...and you'll also find me joining the January Simon Says Challenge in Instagram.

Thank you for popping by!

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Ms. Detective's News are Published :)

Since receiving the Hero Arts My Monthly Superhero January kit I have had this card, or at least a version of it, in my head! I knew I wanted to combine the fun newspaper stamp and die from the My Monthly Superhero kit with the stamps and dies from the Case Closed Collection, my favorite Hero Arts collections! All the coloring, stamping, die cutting and some heat embossing sure took a couple of hours... But I do love the outcome and I had fun creating this card! Ms. Detective is colored with Copics with some added white gel pen highlights. The background is created with the newspaper stamp with some basic masking with post-its. This card is quite large, about a 6,5 inches square... But I wanted to add a lot of details! Let me know what you think! 

I'd like to join the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations: B for Breaking news and You are the Best

We Love Stamping: Something New (new card making kit)

Cut It Up Challenges: Favorite die (the magnifying glass from the Case Closed collection, which is my absolute favorite card making kit!) 

Time Out Challenges: All that glitters (gold card and gold paint splatters) 

Hello "from the other side" dear Time Out ladies! 

Thank you for popping by!

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Breaking News! More Insporation with My Monthly SuperHero

Hello friends! 

I'm here today with a fun card that I made with the January My Monthly Superhero Kit, available at Hero Arts. The Superhero kit includes the My Monthly kit + one extra stamp and die set and one extra stand-alone die set, both marked with a plus sign in the product photo below. The little postman pup of the Superhero Kit has absolutely stolen my heart! I colored him with Copics and added quite a bit of dimension to him popping some parts of the the hat and bag up with foam squares. The stamp set is so fun too -you can customize your own newspaper front or just cut the various sentiments from it with the matching dies -many possibilities. I have a fun idea for the newspaper stamp combining it with an older Hero Arts favorite... Make sure to pop back in a couple of days to see it! 

With my card I'd like to join:

A Cut Above: Anything Goes

AUD Sentiments Challenge: Anything Goes + sentiment

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Something New (new products)

A Perfect Time to Craft: Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge: Anything Goes

Crafty Animals: Anything Goes with an animal

Creations in Pink Challenge: Anything Goes with Mostly Pink

Die Cut Divas: New Crafty Item (all the stamps and dies are new)

Thank you for popping by and I hope you like my project! Make sure to check out the My Monthly Hero subscription if you want to learn more about how to get your hands on these fun products! 

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More Inspiration with My Monthly Hero

I have not been able to put down the products from Hero Arts January My Monthly Hero... The Happy Mail theme is just so cheerful and the little chirps and the mailbox are too fun to color! 

Click HERE for all the details about My Monthly Hero products and subscription! 

I revisited an old technique for the background -I've dry embossed the white and red cardstocks using a Daisy Mosaic stencil and a die cutting machine... No embossing folders were used! :) I have (an almost vintage lol!!) Cuttlebug and the sandwich I used was 

A plate, B, plate, cardstock, stencil, rubbermat, piece of packing cardboard (so quite thick cardboard), B plate. 

My plates are pretty worn out and the whole machine is falling apart a little bit lol... But I've decided I won't replace it before it stops working!   

I'd love you to check out My Monthly Hero subscription! If you need more inspiration, simply scroll down to my older posts, I've used all of the products in my cards in the previous posts. 

I'd like to join:

Little Red Wagon: Use the Force (DIY dry embossing with a stencil!)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Add a Sentiment

Craft Rocket Challenge: Something New

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More Inspiration With My Monthly Hero!

Hi friends!

A promised earlier, I'm back with more inspiration with Hero Arts My Monthly Hero! The card in my previous post was created with the cute stamp set that comes with the kit and now I'm sharing two cards created with the dies of the kit. The theme of January My Monthly Hero is "Happy Mail" and these dies are perfect for creating mail themed cards! I especially love the first card of this post -that large slightly vintage looking mail box die is just the cutest! I've added some extra dimension and color to the die cuts with inking and marker coloring... And used a heat embossed sentiment from the stamp set included in the kit. The second card has fun springy feel with the pastel colors that I chose... And who wouldn't want to receive an envelope and have flowers bursting out from it! 

The price for My Monthly Hero is $45 (value of $88). In My Monthly Hero you'll receive one stamp set with coordinating dies + 2 stand-alone die sets. Scroll down to my previous post to see the stamp set and coordinating dies in action!

I'd like to join the following challenges:

Cut It Up Challenges: Anything Goes (card with the red mailbox)

Creative Inspirations Challenge: Anything Goes (card with the red mailbox)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Add a sentiment (card with the red mailbox)

Craft Rocket Challenges: Something new (Brand new dies! Card with the red mailbox)

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My Monthly Hero Is Back!

Happy New Year!

The year changes with exciting news from Hero Arts -the My Monthly Hero Kits are back! Many Hero Arts lovers have been missing My Monthly Hero and now it's here again... Happy Happy times! Accordingly, the January kit is called "Happy Mail" and it has fun mail related stamps and dies with cute birds, snails and animals too! 

Click HERE for all the information about the two options for My Monthly Hero. 

The price for My Monthly Hero is $45 (value of $88) and My Monthly SUPERHero costs $75 (value of $155). In My Monthly Hero you'll receive one stamp set with coordinating dies + 2 stand-alone die sets... In My Monthly SUPERHero you'll get all of that + an additional stamp and die set + an additional stand-alone die set. 

The card in today's post is created with the stamp set from the My Monthly Hero which product images you'll see below. I'll be back later with another post with the die cuts... And later with another post with projects for the SUPERHero. I'm deeply in love with both subscription options and haven't been able to put them down... So get ready for many Happy Mail cards lol! This card is fairly simple -I've just stamped die cut and colored a bunch of images from the set and colored them with my Copics and colored pencils. The frame die actually comes from the My Monthly SUPERHero stand-alone die set, you'll be seeing a lot of it in this blog in the upcoming days lol! 

I'd like to join the following challenges:

Passion for Markers: Add a sentiment

A Place to Start Challenge: Anything Goes

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Sparkle and Shine

613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes + Sparkle and Shine

Creative Inspiration Challenge: Anything Goes

Ellibelle's Corner Garden Party n:o 10: Anything from the Garden

Word Power Challenge: Sentiments

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Add a Sentiment

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