Case me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton

 Hello crafting peeps,

I'm here to share a card that I made to celebrate Michelle Lupton's annual christmas card event. 

It's been my honour and privilege to participate every year for several years now, and this year with all the ups and downs we've had, its important to try to keep some normality!

I didn't case a specific card but I decided instead to think of Michelle's cards and what some of her go-to moves are. I love that she uses diagonals and stencils so beautifully, but I decided to stick with something simple and striking.

I used the Hero Arts Protea Flowers stamp set, coloured it in with my prismacolour pencils. I then added some gold accents with a gelly roll pen. The sentiment is from an old set, but you could easily use any of the cute woodblock stamps that are available in the store here. 

For a last minute addition, I added some gold foil strips on either side of the panel, which was a genius suggestion from my friend Lisa. Totally saved the card!

To have a look at Michelle's card, go HERE and make sure to leave her some comment love. 

I hope you like the card :)

see you soon!

Linda 

On the Hero Arts blog

 Hi!

I'm up on the Hero Arts blog with this cute little card I made, check it out!

https://heroarts.com/blogs/hero-arts-blog

Hope you like it! Leave me a comment :)

Speak to you soon!

Linda x

Challenge time with A Blog Named Hero!

    Hi friends,

I'm dropping in to share a card I made for the new challenge over at A Blog Named Hero.

The new challenge is to make a project incorporating a 

We can't wait to see what you make! Be sure to join us, because you get a chance to win one of two gift vouchers thanks to our delightful sponsors, Hero Arts!

Here's a peek of the card I made

 

I'll be back soon to share the card I made for Hero Arts blog :)

See you soon!
Linda xx

A Blog Named Hero Challenges you to...

Hi there!

I'm here with another card for A Blog Named Hero. It's challenge time, so you'll have to stop by the blog to check out the rest of the Design Team's work --boy they always keep me so inspired! I love how different everyone creates using the same theme.

This month we're challenging you to

Fun right?! You get to dig out your old faves, and combine them with your new babies.

There's my card. Isn't that little cat cute?! I love him.

Anyhoo, be sure to check out the blog and enter the challenge, you are in with a chance to win one of two gift vouchers, thanks to our beautiful sponsors, Hero Arts!

See you again soon!

Linda

A Blog named Hero May Challenge!

Hi there

I'm here with a new card that I made, the first card I've made in my new house! Very exciting to break in my new little craft room!

The challenge this month is

Here's my card:

I might be more in love with this card than I've been in a card for a long long time.

I water-coloured the background wreath free-hand, then stamped several images repeatedly from the Hero Arts Flower Bouquet Pieces D1732 stamp set. I then watercoloured those with darker blues and aquas, so set off the background. The sentiment is an oldie but a goodie CL954 Many Everyday Messages (one of my most-used sets!)

I hope you like it and you'll head over to A Blog Named Hero, to check out the rest of the design team's creations, because they're GORGEOUS. Don't forget that your entry goes in to win one of two gift vouchers thanks to our beloved sponsors, Hero Arts.

See you again soon!
Linda xx

A Blog Named Hero challenge: WATERCOLOUR

Hi friends,

I hope you're all well and safe.

The newest challenge has just gone up on A Blog Named Hero, and here it is:

I hope you like it! Gotta keep this post short today sorry, craziness over here!

Enter the challenge HERE, for your chance to win gift vouchers from the ever-amazing Hero Arts.

Speak to you soon,

Linda

A Blog Named Hero: Challenge time!

Hi there!

It's time for another challenge over on A Blog Named Hero.

I've been big into Bullet Journalling lately (or Bujo as it's commonly known) and I'm loving the chance to use my stamps in my Bujo :)

Here's an idea of something you can do!

I used the super sweet Cup of Love stamp set, and coloured them with Prismacolour pencils.

Super easy and fun!

Hope you show us your "Anything but a card" projects over on the blog, be sure to enter for your chance to win one of two gift cards from Hero Arts!

See you again soon!

Linda xo

A Blog Named Hero Challenge: BIRTHDAY

Hi there friends

Its time for another challenge over at A Blog Named Hero, and this month we want to see your

Such a great time of year to really make a bunch of cards, ready for the year ahead!

Here's mine

I coloured in the delightful bouquet with Copic markers, and just added it to the background which I'd stamped with the concentric dot circle stamp, something I've had my eye on for such a long time.  Then I added a few little finishing touches with glitter gelly roll pen and white gel pen.

thanks for stopping by! Be sure to stop by the blog to check out the rest of the DT's projects.

Craft with you soon :)

Linda

New challenge at A Blog Named Hero

Hi friends,

Happy new year!

I'm back with a card I'm sharing over at A Blog Named Hero, for the newest challenge.

I used an older cling background stamp, and white heat embossed it before using the Colour resist technique with three Distress Oxide inks.  I then diecut the happy die, out of cardstock that I had coloured myself, using the Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Ink (and dried!) then another layer out of black cardstock.

For the final sentiment I used a tiny Hero Arts alphabet set called Alpha Tags stamp n cut which I also white heat embossed.

I set the layers up on a black notecard,  and added a few finishing touches with a white gel pen to make the 'happy' diecut look ore dimensional.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you'll join us for the challenge :)

See you again soon!

Linda xoxo