From Our Home to Yours

Happy Wednesday.  I am popping in quickly to post a holiday card I made this morning.  I created a blended night sky and used two die cuts worth of the Hero Arts Paper Layering Neighborhood to create my focal point.

I am entering this card at Stay Crafty with Hero #16, the Card Concept #144: Holiday Home (clean & layered style), A Blog Named Hero: Glitter & Sparkle (the sky is splattered with Lawn Fawn Liquid Stardust), The Paper Players #517: Hooray for the Holidays, Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Happy Holidays, and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Christmas or Winter.

Here is a closer look at the sky and you can almost see all the shimmer I added.

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A Deep Dive into Hero Arts + 2 More Cards

This week I pulled out my MMH kit from April, 2019 and set to work playing around with this kit to make a bunch of cards that I will enter in the Stay Crafty with Hero Challenge #10: Create a Scene.  I was so excited to get this kit last year, but haven't done much with it....until this week.


This card is kind of busy, so I left a sentiment off.  I will stamp something inside when I send it.  I had Venice at night in mind for this scene.

I decided to leave the background white on this next card, another scene from Venice, this one during the day.

Next up are some cards I am also entering at A Blog Named Hero to Combine Old and New.

On this card, a scene in a Venice neighborhood, the new is the Venetian Neighborhood cling and old is the happy birthday sentiment from Chalkboard Birthday.

On this Venice scene, the new(ish)  is the MMH April, 2019 kit and old is the birthday sentiment from Chalkboard Birthday.

On this birthday card, the old is the Paper Layering Neighborhood die and the new is the dog and balloon from Birthday Paw-ty.

OK, the last of my Hero Arts cards for today....this one uses the Venice dies as new and the sentiment from Birthday Messages as old (This birthday messages is one of the very first stamps I ever bought, and I still pull it out to use all the time.)

I am also entering this card at Addicted to Stamps and More #394: Clean and Simple.

Moving on, this card was inspired by the colors and black and white stripes in the inspiration photo at Inspired By...Fresh Morning, the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch #377 and Addicted to Stamps and More #394: Clean and Simple.

 Last up is a card to send a friend off onto a road trip adventure.  I made this card using stamped and die cut bits sent to me by my bestie, Kim, so I am entering it at Shopping Our Stash #422: UFO's.  I am also playing along at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Summer Fun (roadtrip adventure) and Addicted to Stamps and More #394: Clean and Simple.

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My Crafty Week

Hang on....I've had a crafty week.  First up is a card using Warmest Wishes, and I am playing along with PTI Create Along With Us and CASE-ing this card by Heather.

I got a fun new abstract cityscape stamp from Hero Arts, and I used it to play along at The Male Room #94: Geometrics.  When I saw how this stamp looks, I was struck by all the squares, rectangles and vertical and horizontal lines.

I used Poppystamps Brevilla Houses die for my next card, which I am entering at Poppystamps Challenge #48: Anything Goes and Addicted to Stamps and More #309: CAS.

This card is inspired by the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch #289.  I used PTI Fence Line Spring.

My next card uses one of my favorite quotes for a housewarming card--an Irish Blessing from a retired Verve stamp set.  I used In the Woods die by PTI and popped up a couple of birds.  I am entering this card at Addicted to CAS #145: Tweet and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Pop it Up.

My next 3 cards use Hero Arts Paper Layering Neighborhood Die.  What a fun die.  I used it for a birthday card that I am entering at Seize the Birthday, where the topping is Die Cuts or Punches.  I used Copic Markers to create a pink ombre on the layer that shows beneath the windows.

I used the color challenge at Just Us Girls #458 for my next card.  My 3rd color is white.

Last up for today is another neighborhood, this one inspired by the challenge at Color Throwdown #510.

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