A Blog Named Hero

Archives for March 2017

Happy Birthday with Studio Katia

Hi.. Friends, Swapna here with my post for A blog named hero using products from our March collaborating company Studio Katia.

I hope you have already entered to our March challenge which is Bling it up.

I used pencil image from Studio katia’s Teacher’s apple stamp and stamped it around the white panel with black ink. I used various soft inks from Hero arts to blend on a small panel and die cut happy word. I die cut few more words with black card stock and layered them.

Heat embossed co-ordinating sentiment from same set on black scrap. Foam mounted the panel with foam tape on card base.

Glued the die cut with glossy accent and foam mounted heat embossed sentiment. Added few sequins for blig it up.

 

Hope you liked my take on current challenge.

Thank you

Challenge: Bling It Up with Studio Katia, Part Two

Happy Monday to you! Hope you had a wonderful weekend. For those of you with snow, I hope it melted a bit for you. Enough to make it easier to get out, but not to that slushy stage. I never liked the slush. Either be snow or nothing. That’s what I always preferred when I lived in snowy areas.

Today we have some more inspiration from our design team using this month’s collaboration partner, Studio Katia. I love that their products can go from glamorous to adorable; I appreciate the range of designs.

Our challenge theme this month is “bling it up” and Studio Katia definitely helps with that. Without further distractions, here are the projects from our design team. Click on the photograph to be taken to their blog post with more information.

 

 

 

 

 

It’s now time to get crafting and Bling it Up for our March challenge!  One random entry will win a prize from our March collaborating company, Studio Katia. Please remember to follow all of our challenge rules so that you’re eligible for our prize.

The challenge ends at 11:59PM EST on March 30th and the winner will be announced shortly after.  Please add your card using the linky tool below. We can’t wait to see what you create.

Lisa’s:

Donna’s:

Kelly’s:

Michelle’s:

Coralynn’s:

I’m Here For You!

Hello again!   Kimberly here to share a card combining products from Hero Arts & this month’s collaboration partner, Studio Katia!

I began by stamping the Studio Katia brush strokes onto a piece of grey cardstock with Distress Oxide inks (the green is a Memento Luxe color).   I used the Studio Katia Stitched Notebook die to ground the rest of the elements on my card.   Once die cut, I cut off the notebook holes and used just the arched shape.   I blended some Distress Oxide ink onto the die cut and flicked on some water to create the droplets.    I added some of the awesome rain drop embellishments from Studio Katia as well.   Aren’t they fun!?!?

I stamped and heat embossed the girl and her adorable cat and colored them in with Zig watercolor markers.   I cut the umbrella away from the little girl and adhered it with foam adhesive.   I love the added dimension!

The sweet sentiment is from Hero Arts – I thought it was just perfect for this card – I was thinking about how even when it’s raining, there’s always a chance for a rainbow!

I hope you are able to play along with this month’s challenge, Bling It Up!    It’s so fun to add a bit of sparkle & shine to a handmade card – be sure to link up your project HERE!

Thanks for stopping by today!   See you again soon!

 

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Studio Katia Collaborations

Good morning!  This month we’re collaborating with Studio Katia and some of her fabulous design team members have decided to play along with us!  First up is Anna Kossakovskaya with a stunning duo of cards for the Bling it Up theme!  Here’s a sneak peek at one card but I hope you’ll head over to Anna’s blog and check out both cards!!

Sending Sunshine

Hello! Michelle Lupton here today to share a fun card I made using some goodies from Studio Katia and Hero Arts.

I began with a piece of watercolour cardstock, onto which I stamped the Hero Arts fresh cut raindrops background stamp, and embossed with white embossing powder, but not over the entire piece – I left the bottom left empty.  (This stamp is unfortunately now discontinued, but the Rainy Day Bold Prints stamp would work just as well.)  I then added a little bit of Distress Ink in various blues, and sprayed the panel with water.

I then stamped the little girl with her umbrella from Studio Katia‘s “Hello Alice”  onto some white cardstock, fussy cut and coloured her with Copic markers, then added a spot of white to her eyes. I then decided she looked a little lonely all by herself, so I also stamped and coloured the cute little kitty in the set.

Before assembling the card, I coloured a strip on the left side of the card with the same Copic marker I used for her jeans. I cut the watercolour card down so that it was a smidgeon narrower than the card front, and adhered it down to show some of the blue stripe.  I used some grey Copics to make a shadow underneath the girl, before adhering her and her little cat to the card.  I then used my MISTI to stamp the sentiment from Hero Arts “Thoughtful Messages” (This is also discontinued, unfortunately, but Hero Arts has so many wonderful sentiment stamps, and there are lots of sentiments that would work equally well on this card). By the way, the Copic colours I used are B37, B45, C3, C5, C7, C9, E00, E02, E08, E53, R20, R22, R24, R29, YR14 and YR27.

If you’ve seen the challenge theme for this month, you would know that it is the finishing touches that I added to this card that make all the difference! I added some Wink of Stella to the umbrella and to the blue strip on the left. I added some Star Dust Stickles to some of the raindrops, and I added some of Studio Katia‘s fabulous clear rain drops.  These seriously look like drops of water on the card!

Have you entered our March challenge yet?

There’s a prize from Studio Katia to be won!

Thanks for visiting 🙂

 

 

 


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