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Miss You Monday – Tree of Love

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Another card today for Sarah, using the cutest stamp set from Hero Arts, called ‘whoo loves you‘. I’ve used two of the stamps, the tree and the little birdie. I made the shaped topper element using a nestabilities die from Spellbinders, and blended a little ink onto the white card stock to create a subtle colour to represent sky and grass.

The flourish part of the card is another one of my fave Hero Arts stamps, used with Perfect Pearls to create a little shine, and speaking of shine, a little touch of stickles add a bit of sparkle to the card too.

I am so glad that I topped up my supply of glue dots before making this card, as they really were indispensible. I used the glue strips to adhere the lace, the pop up dots to adhere the topper and to create dimension, and the didi dots were perfect for the little tiny butterflies. Awesome!

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Products Used
Corner chomper from We R Memory Keepers
Cuttlebug
Spellbinders Nestabilities
Tan embossing mat
Blending tool
Distress inks – Shabby shutters, broken china
Archival Ink black
Hero Arts stamp set – whoo loves you
Fine pigment pen
Marvy butterfly punch
Lace
Ranger stickles
Hero Arts heart swirl flourish stamp
Perfect Pearls
Glue Dots

Tags: Acrylic stamps, blending, card, corner chomper, Cuttlebug, distress ink, embossing, glitter, glittler glue, glue dots, heart, hero arts, ink, lace, love, marvy, Miss You Monday, nestabilities, owl, paper punch, perfect pearls, pigment pen, Ranger, rubber stamp, spellbinders, Stickles, tim holtz, we r memory keepers
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Grunge Paper Book Marks

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

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Ohhhh these are fun!

Not my original idea by any means, but it was one of those times when your mind explodes as your creativity opens up into a world of possibilities!

I got some Grunge Paper a little while ago. I was looking forward to getting it for soooo long, but then once I got it in my hands I had lost interest a little. But that was my own foolishness! Sometimes I can be a daft numpty!

The Grunge paper is so very cool in many ways – you can do so much stuff to it, ink it, stamp it, die cut it, mould it, mist it….. and probably much more that i havent even tried yet! So I am loving it, not to mention the fact that the smell reminds me of a pet store – in a good way, not in a ’someone needs to clear out the pen’ kinda way!!

These grunge paper bookmarks are an ideal gift because they are ‘out of the box’ unusual, and they are really quite quick to make, not to mention the fact that you can create some fantastic textures which give these bookmarks a hugh PAZAZZ factor!

You really need to give these a go – but just two quick tips. Make sure you ink your grunge paper before cutting the fringe at the bottom as this will give a better inked result, and also please know that when embossing onto grunge paper, this may warp / curl slightly. If this bothers you, you may want to make the bookmark out of grunge board – but as this material is thicker than the grunge paper it may not dry emboss as well and will certainly not be able to be used with your die cuts.

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Here’s the products I used to make them:
Green Bookmark
Grunge Paper
Distress Ink
Cuttlebug & Cuttlebug embossing folder
Perfect Pearls
Corner Chomper
Quickutz butterfly die
Glossy Accents
Stickles

Blue Bookmark
Distress Ink
Heroarts stamps
Gold embossing powder
Versamark Clear Ink
Stargazers mica based (pearlescent) paint by ArtQuest

Tags: acrylic, Acrylic stamps, bookmark, butterfly, corner chomper, Cuttlebug, die cut, distress ink, embossing, glitter, glossy accents, grunge paper, heat embossing, hero arts, paint, pearlescent, perfect pearls, provocraft, Ranger, Stickles, tim holtz, versamark, we r memory keepers
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Blog Candy & ‘High Tide’, A Fun & Versatile Card!

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

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Ever want a card that is a little different? Well, this card is funky, fun and perfect for both boys, girls, ladies, men and kiddies too! I’ve called this one, ‘High Tide’ and it could be used for a birthday or even for a Bon Voyage card.

In the video, I walk you though how I made this card, and I use a number of my favourite card making techniques – masking, using distress inks, rubber stamping, adding a special touch with Perfect Pearls. I hope you enjoy the video and will give it a try yourself. (You can see the HD version on YouTube)

But before you watch the video, I think its time for something exciting…well, two things really.

Firstly, now that the holiday season is over, the Paperclipping Monthly challenges are back! So hop on over to the challenge section of The Crop Circle to see the challenge topics for this month, and some great examples by kristyn. This is a great way to get back into the creative swing again.

Secondly….

after Christmas I decided that it was time to do a little purging of the craft room, so I think it is time to have a giveaway – well, everyone loves some blog candy don’t they?

I’m gonna put together a mix box of crafty goodness, who knows what will be in it, but I already know that there will be paper, embellishments, stickers…. and lots more!

Here’s what you need to do:

Leave a comment on this post for one entry.

Tell your friends. Link to this post on your website / blog / facebook for more entries. Make sure to leave another comment here linking to where you have posted it so I can check it out.

Tweet about the blog candy & please link back to this post and mention @hungryheffy so your entry can be counted. And don’t forget you can follow me at www.twitter.com/hungryheffy

If you enter this months Paperclipping challenge before Sunday 17th then you will also automatically gain an entry to win this blog candy. So what are you waiting for???

A winner will be picked randomly next Sunday 17th Jan.

Leave me a comment here.

Enjoy and Good luck everybody!!