Some more Hero Arts

I just love this little Hero Arts bird. It's one of my favorite HA stamps. All the stamps you see in today's post are from Hero but all the paper you see is from A Muse. Cuz you know...Hero and A Muse make a GREAT pair! Behind the orange circle is a white circle. The green brad holds the two together. You can swing the front to the left or right to reveal your hidden message. I also created a little stand behind the white layer so the card can stand on its own. Just a cheery little note...

Now don't forget there's some prizes to be had! There's a chance here, here, and over on the Hero Arts blog.

A Muse/Hero Arts Designer Swap

Have you been browsing the A Muse News and Hero Arts blogs for the A Muse/Hero Designer Swap posts? Both teams have been doing a FABULOUS job!! I am a HUGE Hero Arts fan (next to A Muse, of course). Here's a card I posted on the Hero Arts Flickr group a while back.

Love this poppy stamp!! Can't wait to see and share more stuff!

Hero Arts Holiday Dolls

Stamps: Hero Arts

I ordered a set of the 3 holiday dolls from Hero Arts while they were taking pre-orders and they arrived not too long ago. I just think they are so adorable, especially cause they're Asian like me. I plan on using them for my Christmas cards to my Japanese relatives. I also recently picked up a 6x6 pad of Holly Jolly by Cosmo Cricket at my LSS. Cute paper!! For this card I used an A Muse Blush 4-bar notecard, layered the patterned paper onto some teal cardstock, then added the rest of the details. The trees were punched using a Paper Shapers tree punch out of some A Muse patterned cardstock. I used a multiliner pen to outline the trees. The little girl was colored with Copics. You can't see it but there is that Pink Paislee coconut glitter I've been talking about along the top edge of the snow. Fun, don't you think?

Japanese Christmas

Today I thought I'd share with you the card I made for my aunt and uncles back in Japan. Hero Arts sells a small clear set that spells Merry Christmas out in a few different languages. I'd never seen Merry Christmas in Japanese before so I had to pick up the set! I also picked up this cute little birdhouse tag set because I felt it was "Japanese-y". You can't see it in the photo but I also stamped blue snowflakes from the birdhouse tag set next to the Merry Christmas and I glittered up the layers of "snow". Papers from A Muse, of course!

Well, despite the snow I'm almost done Xmas shopping. I just need to find a small gift for my sister, then wrap everything up. My house is a disaster, though, and I really need some time to clean. It's been mayhem around here.

Just a shout out to my buddy, Joyce. It's her birthday today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOYCE!!!!

World Card Making Day

I started off spending World Card Making Day at my youngest son's flag football game. On the way home to get my oldest son dressed for his football game, we stopped at a fast food joint. Not long after, my little guy was complaining of a stomach ache and when we got home, he was getting sick. So, DH ended up taking our oldest son to his football game and I stayed home with the little guy, which is how I ended up actually making cards on WCMD!

Dawn, an A Muse Addict, is collecting cards for the troops. Her nephew is in Iraq and requested some cards to share with his fellow soldiers to send home. I wanted to get as many cards done as I could so I dug through my stash and found some designs that I thought were really easy to replicate and didn't involve a lot of coloring or detail. I ended up making 5 each of 6 different designs. Dawn, you have 30 cards on their way! If you want to participate, click here for details.

Just for fun, I played with the Hero Arts clear sets I recently picked up. Of course, I paired them with A Muse papers.

And one last note...did you know my fellow A Muse Instructor, Michelle Clark, is doing the 3-day for Breast Cancer? I know she could really use your help to reach, and hopefully surpass, her goal this year. I know times are tough but just think.....if everyone just gave her $5, how quickly that could add up! That's just one latte or even one stamp (most cost even more than $5)! If you can help Michelle, you can donate here. If you can't, then just think good thoughts for her to reach her goal.

Have a great week!

GET OUT!!!

Did you see this post on the A Muse News blog? Oh my gosh, I totally passed out when I saw it. A Designer Swap between Lisa Spangler at Hero Arts and our own Julie Ebersole here at A Muse!!! Get out!!! You have got to see these. Go here and here to see everything. And it looks like there are some giveaways. I think I peed my pants.



ETA: I happened to have some of the same Hero Arts stamps that Julie used on this card so I had to quickly run into my craft room to create one of my own. I think this is probably the first cased card from the Hero/A Muse Designer Swap!




All images by Hero Arts with exception of the brackets, which are in a Studio G $1 set from Michaels. All papers by A Muse Artstamps, Inc. I also used my new Martha Stewart Lace Doily Edge Punch