cheiron's crafty life

tuesday trigger: watercolor butterflies

This dress is the inspiration for this week's Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World. Love the colors and the watercolor pattern, so I thought I would take out my Distress Inks and water brush and see what I could do! I painted a watercolor paper strip with the colors in the dress and added a butterfly embellishment. This layout is from a sketch featured in this month's contest over on the Hero Arts blog:

For the butterfly, I colored acetate with alcohol inks. To make the butterfly look more "real", I stamped a butterfly body on white cardstock from this set so it would show through. 

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tuesday trigger: happy happy joy joy

This week's Tuesday Trigger over on Moxie Fab World features these happy happy joy joy colors: 

My inspiration? The leaves, the colors and that fun cross-hatching texture. I used a stamp and die set from Hero Arts to make cutting out my sunflowers super simple: 

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tartan hello

Just a quick spring card using some stamps from the Hero Arts/Basic Grey Plumeria collection. I just love this Tartan background stamp and was looking for a fun way to pair it with the Garden Frames. By stamping the frame and masking it, then stamping the plaid over top I was able to add a layered look without too much bulk. Just a few Prima flowers and pearls to give it a little pop of color. Fast and easy! 

 

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every little thing

 

Another card for the February Hero Arts Blog contest. This time I decided to use another of the sketches, and came up with this:

I just LOVE this new Hero Arts Wet Cement ink. I can't stop using it on everything! I used some of my favorite Hero/Studio Calico stamps along with the Newspaper Skyline on the inside of the card (you can see it showing through the window.  

 

big eyes notecards

I thought I had enough owl stamps until I met Big Eyes! This new stamp from the Hero Arts 2012 release has to be one of my favorites, it just makes me smile. I was so inspired by the card that Shari Carroll made over on the Hero Arts blog yesterday, that I had to make some owl cards last night. This set also fits into one of this month's challenge themes over on the Hero Arts flickr group-card sets.


Here is a look at the entire set. Each owl was stamped and colored in with distress inks. I stamped each one again and the eyes were punched out with a 7/8 inch circle punch, and adhered with foam tape. Then I added a little bling to each eye. The beaks are cut out and I colored over them with a glaze pen to make them stand out.


I used the Envelope Pattern stamp on the background of each card, and another new sentiment-Need a Friend. Don't these just make you smile? I know someone who is going to just love these!

merry & bright

Just a very merry (and bright) card today to play along with the monthly challenge over at Hero Arts. Time for me to order more bling since I used it all on this card! I love anything rainbow, but I may have gone a little over the top on this one. 

Here's a closer look: 

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very merry circles

Just a last minute quick card for the October challenge over at Hero Arts this month. This month's themes are Holiday Cards, using non-holiday stamps to create holiday cards & a sketch challenge that has 3 fun sketches. Here are the sketches for this month:

You can get all the details over at the Hero Arts blog if you want to play along. I plan on trying out the other 2 sketches before the end of the month!  Make sure to upload your photos to the Hero Arts Flickr Group, the 1st round of entries is due tonight!