Good morning, all!
I had the pleasure once again to be asked by Jennifer McGuire at Hero Arts to do a little feature over on Hero's blog for their "Mini" Week! Today is Mini Monday and the feature is Mini Cards. For my part, I did a little 5" x 4" card using BasicGrey's awesome 6x6 pad in Ambrosia along with a few Halloween themed stamps from Hero! It was so much fun! And for those of you that haven't tried them yet, let me just enable you with these fun 6x6 pads - they are absolutely perfect for card makers! Not only are they already pre-cut to 6", but they are the full sized designs just shrunk to miniature! Awesome!
Here's how it came together:
First I used pigment ink to stamp onto the orange (Citrus) paper with the spider web stamp from Hero's Owl-oween set. I then embossed with black embossing powder and once it was dry, colored the webs in with my white opaque pen. Next, I punched out the webs with a circle punch and mounted them onto a circle piece of chipboard the same size for a little added dimension. To get the "Happy Halloween" only from this Hero stamp, I created a little mask the covered the spider, then turned the stamp sideways. I only had to do it twice to completely span the length of the 5" width of the card. I finished up by cutting along the curve then adding an orange scalloped border with my deco scissors.
Supplies:
BasicGrey Ambrosia 6x6 pad (Pome, Fresh Squeezed, Citrus, Ebony, Rind)
Hero Arts Owl-oween Clear Design Stamps
Hero Arts Dots and Lines Clear Design Stamps
Hero Arts Spider Border
Other: Ranger Embossing Powder, Ranger's Inksentials (Big & Bossy) Pad, Rubber Stampede ink, Clearsnap (Colorbox) chalk ink, Uni-ball Signo pen, ribbon, Marvy Uchida circle punch
And just to enable you further, Hero is giving away some awesome stamps and goodies including an Ambrosia 6x6 pad on their blog, so click HERE to be entered to win that. AND...it gets better! I'm also giving away the awesome Owl-Oween stamps I used to make the above card along with a Sugared and Archaic 6x6 pad to get you started on your own cards! Simply leave me a comment telling me about your favorite fall activity and you'll be entered to win! I'll leave the comments open until Tuesday, October 28th at 11:59 p.m.
Happy Stamping!
k.
216 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 216 of 216It has always been carving pumpkins but this year my son (who is 15 months old) was soo busy discovering all the warm goodness of fall... that my new favorite right now is just watching him play in the leaves... he LOVES it and I LOVE watching him!
My favorite activity for fall is going for a drive to see the pretty leaves as they change color.
This fall we took a drive along the North Shore and climbed waterfalls and took lots of pictures. It was beautiful with all the different colors. Now at home I like to have the fireplace going and drink hot cider on chilly evenings.
Fall is the best season!
great card! favorite fall activity is raking up the leaves and jumping in them like a kid with my kids. (also love the smell of them burning)
My favorite fall activity is raking the leaves into a huge pile and watching the young ones jump and play in the leaves.
Here in Florida we don't experience Fall in its usual form - my favorite Fall activity is opening up the house when the weather finally cools enough to turn the a/c off!
Kelly, i don't know if you will see this, but Basic Grey have just accepted my design for their gallery, using the fabulous new Wassail and now my little card is sitting alongside all your fabulous projects!!!! I am so excited i could almost burst ;-D
Thanks for your wonderful inspiration, i am soooo happy!
Hugs
Carol x
I think the owl in the ghost costume is a hoot!
After living for years with NO real season changes, I love watching the trees going all different colors.
Fall activity,,,,cutting designs in pumpkins and making Fall theme cards........
My favorite fall activity is taking my girls to have their pictures taken at the pumpkin farm and just having a great time while we are their doing some of the fun activities.
Super cute card, Kelly!
My favorite thing to do is sit around a campfire roasting marshmallows(sp).
Our church has a small Fall Festival and we do just that along with a hay ride. Love it!
And, I loooove love LOVE the SMELL of burning leaves in the crisp Fall air. No clue why but it really makes me happy and Fall is my favorite season :)
What a wonderful idea! Now I know what to do with those 6x6 paper pads I've picked up along the way! My favorite fall activity is hands down carving pumpkins!
It's so hot and humid in NC in the summer... I SO look forward to finally being able to go outside in the cool fall air and walk through the woods at our local nature preserve, taking in the beautiful colors!
Cute card!!
I just love your card! I know that I am too late for the contest, but I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed seeing how to integrate patterned papers with Hero Arts stamps. I'm keeping a copy of this card handy!
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