Partial Embossed Wedding Card with Hero Arts

Aloha friends!  I'm over at the a2z Scrapbooking blog sharing a kinda cool technique with background stamps.  What's partial embossing you ask?  Well head on over to the a2z Scrapbooking blog to check it out!!

I love background stamps for a quick card front, but sometimes it can be pretty busy and no where to put the sentiment.  With partial embossing you can get a tone on tone look with a bit of color with embossing powders!

All right enough of my explaining...you just have to go check it out!

Mahalo for stopping by...

Congrats Cranes for A2Z Scrapbooking

Happy Aloha Friday friends!  I'm over at a2z Scrapbooking blog today to share some watercoloring and heat embossing...a winning combination in my book...hehe.  Would love it if you stopped on by!

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Here's a little sneaky peek...

I would love it if you stopped on by!  My supplies can be found over at the a2z Scrapbooking store. Use code NICKI15 for 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.  

Mahalo!!

Balloon Animal Fun!

Happy Monday friends!  Hope you all had a beautiful Easter (if you celebrate) and are refreshed to start off the week.

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I always need birthday cards so today I'm playing with the Hero Arts Balloon Animal Birthday.  I wanted to watercolor them I heat embossed them with Hero Arts Platinum embossing powder and used Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers and a water brush pen to spread the color.

Sometimes I get so excited for a stamp set that you just have to use all the stamps!  I had some scrap pattern papers around so I heat embossed the sentiment with the same embossing powder. 

 Isn't that confetti stamp so fun?!  It's been a while since I entered a challenge and linking up to Seize the Birthday!

Mahalo for stopping by and I'll be announcing my random winner from the Spring Coffee Blog Hop soon!  Stay tuned.

Pinata Fun!

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Aloha friends!  Today I'm playing with this fun wood mounted stamp from Hero Arts called Pinata.  Are you a fan of wood mounted stamps?  I think I will always have a special place in my heart for them.  This one especially because it is just too fun!

I thought of watercoloring it, or copic coloring the image, but then I thought using my embossing powders would be fun.  I first inked up the image with Versamark ink and then stamped on black cardstock.  I used a variety of Zing! embossing powders in rouge, apricot, butter, leaf and wave. Each color I spooned on with a palette knife to get just a small amount of powder in small sections of the image.

I really liked how striking it looked against the black.  I wanted to enhance the colors so I took some matching cardstock and die cut the edges using Lawn Fawn Stitched Scalloped Border.  I thought it was a little plain once I glued the layers, so I decided to stamp an older background stamp from Hero Arts called Life of Party Words inked in Wet Cement.  Added a bit of twine and some enamel dots and adhered slightly skewed to my card front.

That's it for me today!  Have a fabulous Monday and MAHALO for stopping by!!

Embossing on Colored Cardstock

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Hello friends!  I'm back over at the a2z Scrapbooking blog with some embossing on colored cardstock for a fun, colorful look.  I'd love it if you stopped on by.  Here's a little sneaky peek...

If you've got a project that is using any kind of embossing and Hero Arts products, be sure to join us HERE for your chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the a2z Scrapbooking store!  Can't wait to see what you all create.

Just want to shop?  Don't forget to use code NICKI15 while shopping for 15% off your entire purchase.  A portion of the proceeds goes to the Celiac and Behcets communities to help educate and fund camps for those effected and their families.

Shimmery Wedding Congrats

My apologies friends!

I completely spaced the winner for the 

Summer Coffee Lover's Bloghop.

I truly enjoyed hopping around and seeing everyone's coffee inspired projects.

Even more fun was receiving your comments!

They totally made my day!!

So without further ado...

butterfly843 is the lucky winner of the 

Lawn Fawn Scripty Love die!!!

I have contacted her through email.

Again a big MAHALO to everyone that stopped by and left a comment!

On to today's card...

I love the Scripty dies from Lawn Fawn and know that I'll be collecting

every word they come out with...LOL!

I die cut the word twice from the DCWV Glitzy Glitter Matstack and 

again in black to create some shadowing.

The ring was stamped, colored with a silver pen and fussy cut

 from Lawn Fawn's Happily Ever After.

I did a little snip, snip to create the plain wedding band.

The background is a Sizzix Mini Hearts embossing folder.

Tried to keep it simple with all the bling and shimmer.

I'm in love with the Neenah Metallics Cardstock which was found at my

local Wal Mart...can you believe it?!

I'll be entering this in the latest 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Anything Goes

and using this for inspiration

I went with a Clean and Layered look.

I hope you'll come back on Friday for an exciting blog hop

with the Lawnscaping Challenge!

There's tons of prizes from some great sponsors!!

Mahalo for stopping by!!!

Amazeballz!

Happy Saturday friends!

I've been going crazy over the latest Lawn Fawn release...

you've seen it right?  

When I saw the gumball machine 

and the alphas

I had a bunch of fun ideas running around in my head.

Here's today's idea...

I envisioned gumballs rolling down a hill to tell that special friend

they are...AMAZEBALLZ!

Entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

I first stamped and embossed the gumball machine in silver on watercolor paper.

I used the Lawn Fawn inks in Mermaid, Wild Rose, Sunflower and Freshly Cut Grass

to color in the gumballs by smooshing the inks on an acrylic block

and using my waterbrush pen to pick up the color.

After drying, it was die cut with the matching die.

I took Lawn Fawn's stitched hillside border die and inked it up with 

Freshly Cut Grass and adhered to the card front.

Then started to stamp out the letters in the matching Lawn Fawn inks.

(the inks stamp amazingly crisp with solid images!)

I sponged on some Simon Says Stamp Surf Blue in at the top of the card

for added color. Then adhered the die cut machine with foam tape.

Finally I silver embossed the "you're" for the finishing touch.

(the "A" was die cut and adhered to the machine because it ended up being hidden...hehe)

Here's a closeup of that fun gumball machine...

I LOVE how it turned out with the embossed silver!

The Lawn Fawn inks work great as watercolor 

but here's a tip...

to spread the color evenly I first wet the area I wanted to color with water,

then picked up the ink off of the acrylic block and colored away.

Hope you're all having a great weekend and

MAHALO for stopping by!!