Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge # 509 Clean And Simple, Hero Arts

Hi Everyone!

I am here to introduce a new challenge at the fantastic Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

This week's challenge is called: Clean and Simple
The team is showcasing products from: Hero Arts

And this is my take:

Supply list from the Simon says Stamp store:

LINKED-CHAIN-CIRCLE-FRAME
Layering Goldfish

SSS Black ink for use with markers
Copic Markers
Ranger's Distress ink
Neenah Solar White cardstock (for the stamped and colored images)
Simon Says Stamp Ultra Thick Cardstock (120 lb) (cardbase and die cuts)
Jet Black Archival ink (for watercoloring)
Scotch foam adhesive
Tombow Tape dispenser
Glue Dots

Hope you feel inspired to join us this week! By playing along with the Challenge you have the chance to win 50 usd to spend in the Simon Says Stamp Store - YIPPIE!!!!

Hope to see you there!

You have until next Wednesday at  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in!

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram 

I'm entering this for the Crafter's Choice Challenge at A blog Named Hero!

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Moose you so much!

Today I'm playing the first challenges of the year and I just had to break open this new embossing folder I got for Christmas ! It will be awesome for so many projects this year! Thank You so much Lotta! I used the sketch (flipped) from Scraphuset as inspiration.

Start a Fresch Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog.
Anything Goes Penny Black and More 
New to me at A Blog Named Hero
Anything goes Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge


Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Merry Christmas - Hero Arts Challenge

 I'm so happy that Hero Arts is back with their Challenge and have made another entry. This time I used their wonderful Happy Holly Days and the sentiment is from the beautiful Vintage Christmas Wishes  set.

The Holly is colored with Copics.

Holiday theme at A Blog Named Hero
Seven Hills - Christmas song - My song is of course : Have a Happy Holly Jolly

Copic marker Europe - Christmas:

Heart Desires






Copic Marker Sverige: Anything goes , Hjerteboden: Jul Kort o Mania: Det snør, det snør , Kreativ Scrapping: Jul , Scrap from your Heart: Jul
Scraphuset: Kort i vintagestil




                                                       Have a great day, hugs, Karin

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PINK - Thanks for all that you do - Hero Arts

This is a card made for the Pink Challenges at Simon Says stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog and the color (pick at least 3) challenge at Seven Hills  (I chose the two yellows and one pink from the middle swatch ) and inspired by the Fusion Challenge photo.
The flower and sentiment is from the beautiful set : Happy Mother's Day

I will also share this with Createalicious , Scrappelyst: Skarpe farger, Papirdesign: Lag på lag ,


Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Guest designing for Hero Arts : A Vintage Christmas

Hi Everyone! I am so super excited because I am guest designing for Hero Arts today.  I've had a wonderful time playing with Hero Arts beautiful new vintage sets: 

 

For the first card I simply stamped the beautiful mistletoe stamp from the Happy Holly Days set two times and colored them with Copic markers.

I then fussy cut them and tied them together with a thin piece of red ribbon. (I actually didn’t have red ribbon, but white that I colored with my Copic markers — a super fast and easy way to get ribbon in exactly the color you want!) The sentiment is from the beautiful Snowy Tree set.

For my second card I started out by stamping the fir twig from the Vintage Christmas Post set with green ink and then diecut the panel using the Rectangle Infinity Dies. I diecut it two ways to get it wider than it is from the beginning. I then stamped my cones with dark brown ink and colored them with Copic markers before fussy cutting them.

The cone stamp is from Happy Holly Days. I then added them to my panel with foam adhesive along with some red pearls. The sentiment is from the Holiday Messages and Tags set.
I also share my cards, watercolors and papercraft projects on  Instagram.

Have a great day!  Hugs, Karin

Sending You Love - Hero Arts

I have returned to one of my favorite dies from Hero Arts - the the celebrate-tag-stamp-cut-by-lia and am playing along with Sketch challenge at CAS(E) this sketch the Anything goes challenge at Createalicious  - inspired by Sending You a Love Song - Jeffery Osborne.
I'm entering this for the challenge Word Art Wednesday which is Anything goes and at the SSS Wednesday Challenge it is Clean and Simple so I'm entering this there as well (-: !!!  Also I embossed my diecutting for A Blog named Hero's Texture challenge #HeroArts

Have a great Sunday, hugs, Karin

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Hero Arts color-layering-Cardinal

I used the color-layering-Cardinal from Hero Arts - so fun to stamp! I'm entering it for the SSS Wednesday Challenge where the theme is Stamping and It is also for the challenge at A blog named Hero which is : Texture (I used embossing paste)

Have a great week! Hugs, Karin

Hero Arts Layering Stamps: Goldfish

The Challenge at Bastel traum is Thank You cards and at CASology it is FRAMES and at Papirdesign: it's all about the stamp -  this is my take. I used the super fun Goldfish layering set from Hero Arts for my card.

At Scrappegarasjen: the challenge is Less is more and it is a great card for a man too; Stamping Sensations - For the boys
And of course I have to enter the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge; - music with inspiration from A Swedish song called - Jag går och fiskar (I'm going fishing) by Gyllene Tider, but since most of you won't know (except for Anna-Karin (-: ) that song I found a fun old  Dolly's song called Something Fishy in which her dh goes fishing and there's something fishy going on  (-;

Have a great day

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Hero Arts - Many Thanks

The theme at  A blog named Hero   this month is TEXTURE and for this card I used some dry embossing and my favorite die from Hero Arts - the celebrate-tag-stamp-cut-by-lia

The challenge at Bastel Traum is Diecutting so I'll be sharing this there too!!!

Since it is Anything goes at the SSS Wednesday Challenge I'm entering this there as well (-: !!!

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

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Hero Arts 2016 Winter Catalog Blog Hop

Hi everyone! I'm so excited today because I get to hop with HERO ARTS as they launch the Winter 2016 release in the Hero Arts store !!!!! So many absolutely WONDERFUL products I know you will love! So make sure you have a notepad to jot down all your favorites as you see them used in this hop. If you are doing the hop you should have come from  super talented Joan Bardee - if not, I suggest you pop over to Hero Arts and start from the beginning.

Watercolored Holly - Happy Holly Days

For my first card I used the beautiful holly stamp from CL998 Happy Holly Days. I stamped the holly four times with distress ink (antique linnen) and then watercolored them. But any type of coloring will be amazing with the images from this set! The sentiment is from the sweet new CM103 Holiday Animals

Supplies:
CL998 Happy Holly Days
CM103 Holiday Animals


Warm Wishes and Eskimo Kisses

Another super sweet set from the new catalog is the CL989 Warm Hugs. With just four of the stamps from that set I created this little arctic/winter scene. I started out by inking my sky background and then stamped and cut my images. I then cut some snowyhills from white cardstock and layered them so they would make a nice hilly scene for my images. When I knew how I wanted them I held them in place with some washitape and the bottom part of them all together. I stamped my sentiment to my sky bg and then adhered my hills with foam tape to get lots of dimension. The images are also attached with foam adhesive so even if it doesn't show in the picture it is a very 3d-y (!) card!

 

Supplies:
CL989 Warm Hugs
Ink: AF248India Ink Black



Vintage Tag

There are so many wonderful new sets in this Hero Arts launch - something for everyone and everyone's styles. I usually don't do vintage but couldn't resist playing with the beautiful stamps from
CL997 Color layering Snowy Tree and CM101 Vintage Christmas Wishes . For a super fast little Christmas gift get a vintage notebook and make a beautiful tag to go with it. For my tag I started out by stamping the snowman and then masked him with maskingpaper before I stamped the tree. I used ink for it and let that dry completely before I stamped the second layer, the snow with white pigment ink and embossed with white opaque embossing powder while the mask was still on.

I stamped my sentiment and then diecut my tag. Did you see the new Hero Arts nesting tag dies? They will be perfect for these kind of projects and so many sizes to choose from - just awesome!

I inked the edges with antique distress ink and then stamped some snowflakes afterwards. When I get the time I will stamp a whole forest of those beautiful trees - I just LOVE them!

Supplies:
CL997 Color layering Snowy Tree
CM101 Vintage Christmas Wishes
CM102 Vintage Christmas Post
Dies: DI197 Nesting Tag Dies
Embossing Powder: PW110 White
Ink: AF210 Field Greens, AF249 Unicorn White



Holiday Greetings (from San Francisco)

Last I couldn't help but share a card where I've combined  Kelly's San Francisco stamp with the sentiment from CM102 Vintage Christmas Post. I think they work so well together . The nesting rectangles that are released today too will be great for similar looking window designs.

Supplies:
CL971 Kelly's San Francisco
CM102 Vintage Christmas Post

Time to hop on to Amazing Yana Smakula but befor you leave I must make sure you know this (-: : Not only is there amazing talent and AWESOME inspiration in this hop - there is a great GIVEAWAY too:

Hero Arts will be giving away 3 $25 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop . So make sure to comment on everyone´s blog by Sunday, August 28 at 11:59pm PT. The winners will be announced the following week.

Here's the hop list:


The Hero Arts Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Kathy Racoosin
Wanda Guess
 Lydia Fiedler
Alice Wertz
Amy Tan
Cheiron Brandon
Debbie Olson
 Laura Bassen
 Debby Hughes
 Heather Ruwe
 Ilina Crouse
 Isha Gupta
Jenn Shurkus
 Jessica Frost-Ballas
 Joan Bardee
 Karin Akesdotter
 Yana Smakula
 Kelly Rasmussen
Amy Tsuruta
Clare Prezzia
Mariana Grigsby
May Sukyong Park
 Libby Hickson


Have a wonderful day and a great inspiring hop!
Hugs, Karin

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You - are my sunshine!

Hi Everyone!

I'm sharing inspiration on the Butterfly Reflections Ink today and here's a little sneak peak:

Pop over to the Butterfly Reflections Ink to get the details!

Hi Everyone!

It's Karin from PeppermintPatty's Papercraft, here to share some inspiration. For today's card I've played with a wonderful new stencil from Hero Arts called Large Flower Stencil.

I placed my stencil on a piece of off white cardstock and held it in pålacewith some washi tape. I started by inking the yellow and Brown part of the flower first - then I created a mask for that part of the stencil (the flower) from masking paper - so I didn't mess my yellow flower when I inked the green leaves.

When I was done with that I let my panel dry completely before I cut out a stitched rectangle from it. I saved the leftover and adhered that outer frame to my cardbase. I then added the stitched rectangle panelinside the "frame" with foam adhesive to get a bit of dimension.

Last I diecut my "You" and adhered it to the card with glue tape.

Supplies:
Stencil: Hero Arts; Large Flower Stencil

Dies: Hero Arts: Thank You die  (mine is an older version)
My Favorite Things: Stitched Rectangle

Ink: Tuxedo Black ink
Rangers Distress Ink Scattered straw, Spiced Marmalde, Peeled paint, Walnut stain, Vintage Photo, Mustard seed.

Tools: x-press blending card
Blending tool
Stamping mask paper

Adhesives: Foam Adhesive
Dot Gluetape
Glossy Accent

Pop over to the store to find the products I've used for this card; Butterfly Reflections Ink

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

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Butterfly Reflections Ink : Just keep swimming!

Hi Everyone!

I'm sharing inspiration on the Butterfly Reflections Ink today and here's a little sneak peak:

Pop over to the Butterfly Reflections Ink to get the details!

Hi Everyone!

It's Karin from PeppermintPatty's Papercraft, here to share some inspiration. For today's card I've played with some new favorites I just got in the mail from BRI - such superfast delivery even for me who is on the other side of the pond!
I just had to have these wonderful layering stamps from Hero Arts. Have you tried them yet? They are so much fun to play with and you get a beautiful result both easy and fast!

I simply inked my bg with distressink and when it was dry I stamped the weed and bubbles. I added glossy accent to the bubbles for a bit of dimension.
The fish are simply stamped and fuzzy cut. I used MFT ink which worked out well I think.

Supplies:

Stamps:
Hero Arts Goldfish

Dies:
My Favorite Things Stitched rectangles

Ink:
Tuxedo Black ink
Rangers Distress Ink
MFT Hybrid Inks

Tools:
x-press blending card
Blending tool
Stamping mask paper

Adhesives:
Foam Adhesive
Dot Gluetape
Glossy Accent

Pop over to the store to find the products I've used for this card; Butterfly Reflections Ink

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

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I'm sharing this with the challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

I'm also entering this for the Masculine challenge at A blog named Hero

Blue Poppies with Hero Arts

Today's card was made for the flower challenge at HERO ARTS but also for the Inspiration Journal where I and my super talened Inspiration Emporium teamies share  inspiration. If you haven't been already make sure to visit right away  - lots of amazing and inspiring projects !

Supplies;

Most of the supplies I used for this card can be found at  ;  Inspiration Emporium.

Follow the links below and use my code peppermint to save 10% .

Paper:
Dies:   Hero Arts
Stamps:  Hero Arts Woodblock Hero Arts Clear  Hero Arts Cling
Ink; Distress Ink and Archival Jet Black  Hero Arts
Embossing Powder ; Rangers
Tools; Rangers Inkblenders
Paints or markers; Winsor Newton water colors    Copic Markers
Adhesive; Plus Glue tape  Glue Dots   Foam adhesive; EK tools, Scotch Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape


I also want to point out that US shipping is always just $5 and international shipping is ONLY $10! I just LOVE that!!!!

Have a great day, hugs, Karin