A Kid Christmas Card for A Blog Named Hero

I LOVE everything bright and cheery and if I can put a rainbow on it...

even better!

Today's card is for the latest A Blog Named Hero Challenge:

I decided to make a Christmas card filled with color
perfect for any kid!

I used one of my FAVORITE stamp sets from the Hero Arts Holiday catalog
Merry Cactus To You inked up in Lawn Fawn inks.
(Lawn Fawn inks work PERFECTLY with solid stamps)
I created a scene to make the penguin from Lawn Fawn's Toboggan Together set look like
he was placing the star on the top of the cactus!

I first inked up the pots and stamped them upside down to create a pile of pots
for the penguin to stand on.
Then I stamped the cactus and colored in copics.
I die cut the scene with Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle die and
then adhered to a panel die cut with Lawn Fawn's Scalloped Rectangle Stackables using
Lawn Fawn's Let's Bokeh in the Snow pattern paper.
The cream colored bokeh pattern paper is also from the same paper pad.
Lastly the sentiment was stamped up from Lawn Fawn's Let's Bokeh set.

Here's a close up...

That's my card for today!
I hope you'll join our challenge for your chance to win a

A big shoutout to Simon Says Stamps for being our generous sponsor and
of course Lawn Fawn  for letting us play with their amazing products this month!

Can't wait to see what you all create!

Mahalo!!

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Rainbow Aloha

Thanks to the hubby I've been able to get some time in for me to play!

So happy to finally have a day off from work and oncall and

 just be able to spend time in my crafty space. 

It truly is so therapeutic...haha.

I wanted to jump in to the latest Avery Elle Challenge

This was totally my kind of challenge as I realized I don't usually use too much white for 

my card bases.  I do love COLOR and went with this idea that popped in my head...

The Stay Fresh stamp and die set is one of my favorites from Avery Elle!

Super easy to do with die cutting a rainbow of cardstock from some scrap pieces and adhering 

to a black cardbase with multi medium matte glue.  Then I heat embossed the pineapple on 

vellum using Ranger Liquid Platinum powder and adhered with the same glue 

(tip: to keep the glue from showing through, I placed tiny dots 

in places where the stamp lines would cover).
I'm gonna enter this in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge as well:  Make it colorful!

Hope you liked this fun way to use your dies and a non white card base!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Glitter and Sequins!

Happy Saturday folks!

Hope your weekend is off to a great start.

Today I'm over at 

A Blog Named Hero

playing with our latest challenge using this fabulous collage from Pinterest

RAINBOWS!  My FAVORITE color and theme for cards!!

Here's a sneaky peek of my card...

I pulled out the glitters and sequins to make a super fun and cheery card!

I hope you'll come on over to check out the full card using these fun supplies...

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Mahalo for stopping by!!

Finally...a video!

Aloha friends and family!

I FINALLY did it!!

You guys left such awesome comments about this 

fun foiled card and I knew my photography skills

was not doing any justice.

Lawn Fawn Party Balloon Dies, Lawn Fawn So Much to Say,

Therm o Web Deco Foil and Peel n Stick sheet, Pentel Metallic Silver Gel Pen,

Versamark, Silver embossing powder

Please be gentle with me...lol

I'm not normally a shy person until 

the camera is on!

Who knew editing would take FOREVER,

but I hope you all enjoy!

I have another video in the works 

(needs to be edited)

using the same foil but with a word die instead!

ENJOY!

Lawn Fawn and Deco Foil

The challenge junky in me will be linking up to
Scribble and Scrap Challenge Blog

All questions and comments welcome!!

MAHALO for stopping by!!

Picking Up the Pieces Vol. 14: Rainbows and Sequins!

Having a good weekend so far?  Yay for the 3 day weekend and being able to continue some quality crafting time!  Today's card has two of my favorite things...RAINBOWS and SEQUINS.  Entering this card in
A Blog Named Hero: ROYGBIV

I was inspired by Retro Sketches

And my card...

Hero Arts You're A Rainbow, Avery Elle sequins, Crate Paper Maggie Holmes, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, My Favorite Things Rainbow die-namics

The cloud pattern paper totally made this card super quick...I kept trying various ideas like cloud embossing, then stamping and decided to just go with this look.  That's it for me today!  Mahalo for stopping by!!