Sea Views

I've got a couple of cards to share today using one of the new larger sized Lovely Legs sets from Colorado Craft Company - the new 6x8 sets mean you either get one larger focal image (like the tree on the reflections set) as well as the fab sentiments or two images as here on the Man's Best Friend set.

I am really enjoying colouring these images at the moment so keep finding myself turning to their new releases every month.  My favourite colouring medium at the moment is pencils and they work really well on these detailed image.  My added trick with these ones is I have sealed them with Distress Glaze which stops the pencil coming off on your hands when you've finished.  I used both images in the set and did two different cards with them.

For this one, I had the pets looking out over a sunset so added some yellows, pinks and purples to the sky and a little bit reflected into the sea.  After die cutting with a circle die, I extended the lines on the pier to fill the bottom of the circle (just a few squiggles so not really drawing) and extended the sky at the top to give enough space for the sentiment from the same set.  Then to create an interesting frame for the finished card I used the same die set going up one die size at a time and cut 3 layers of card using colours from the sunset to draw the eye to it.

For this second card I used the image with the people in and made an anniversary card (sentiment is finished inside - it says ....each other.  Happy Anniversary!)   I went with a day-time view this time so stuck to blues in the sky and again I did a little extending of the image this time to the sides so the horizon and clouds were as wide as the pier.  I also added a scribble of hair to the lady so I could crop the image straight across the gentleman's shoulders and it didn't look like part was missing.   Sentiment was stamped with my favourite detail inks - Versafine Clair.

NEWS FROM THE STORE

It's going to be a BIG week in the store this week, as the much anticipated Christmas releases from two of are largest brands are both going to be live in store on Thursday!   Lawn Fawn and Avery Elle will be in store that morning so stand by your beds! 

Release day for those brands is always mega busy, so whilst we do try and combine your orders normally when you place them on the same day and we spot them, please note we CANNOT do that on busy releases as we just don't have the manpower, so PLEASE take your time, and ensure you have EVERYTHING you want in your basket before you checkout, or be prepared to pay postage on every order.

We will also have The Stamping Village Holiday Seals set live that day for those that have been asking about it.

We will also have the latest release from Newton's Nook later this week.

That's all this week - also we are expecting the new Hero Arts release at some point before the end of August the dates are yet to be confirmed as we have to wait for the UK distributor to get it and send ours out.

That's all for this week

Thanks

Tara

From the Vault - Celebrating 45 Years of Hero Arts

I've got 3 fun cards to share today - all using fabulous new products from Hero Arts from their "from the Vault" collection where they have refreshed some of their older discontinued items to celebrate their amazing 45 years in the craft industry.

The first vault item that was a total must have for me was the aged shadow stamp - I love a good sized background stamp as they make it really easy to frame a simple stamped image as I did hear making the really simple stem from their From the Vault Flowers stamp into something special.   I used the sentiment from the same set to make a nice simple thank you card for the celebrant at the funeral next week.

All the stamping is done with my new favourite Versafine Clair inks - here I used Golden Meadow for the background and Rain Forest for the rest.

The From the Vault Flowers stamp features some of Hero Arts' favourite floral images from the past 45 years and I do think its got some fabulous little gems in it - so I did another card using the watering can image this time.

I stamped the image onto white card and coloured with pencils and used the co-ordinating dies to cut it out.  To create the card I started with a top folding sand base card and added a frame die cut with the new wood frame infinity dies from kiwi cardstock and mounted the image over the frame.   The sentiment again stamped in Versafine Clair Rain Forest, comes from the From the Vault Birthday stamp set.   I simply added a pencil border using the same orange I used on the flowers to frame the whole card and add balance to the design.

For my final card I wanted to keep the theme of "spilling out of frames" from my first two cards and to bring all the elements together.

Here I used the cheerful panda from the From the Vault Birthday stamp set and again cut him out with the co-ordinating dies after colouring him with pencils.

I stamped the aged shadow stamp onto a top folding ivory base card using Golden Meadow ink and then after wiping the stamp I inked up just the edges using Glamorous and then stamping it over the top to get that russet colour.  I picked cardstock scraps to match the colours in the card and die cut the two smallest frames of the Wood Frame Infinity dies and overlapped them all so I could stand the panda in the middle.   I finished with a sentiment from the Birthday stamp stamped in black into the frame and a few dots of Rhubarb stickles around the edges.      

Hope that's encouraged you to play around with frames and to check out the amazing range of items Hero Arts have pulled back out of their vault.........

NEWS FROM THE STORE


Please remember we will be closed all day on Wednesday for the funeral so bear with us whilst we catch up.

We are expecting the following this week:

• The latest releases from AlteNew
• The latest release from SugarPea Designs
• The new kit items and some restocks from MFT

I think that's everything, but to be honest my head is full of a million other things at the moment and I spent the day yesterday at a gin festival so I'm not fully awake so there may be things I've missed - we'll announce all arrivals on Facebook as always.

Catch you next Sunday

Tara
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