Hero Arts, Stamping Bella and Changito Monkeys!

Hi everyone! Hope you're all doing OK. I had a very exciting weekend picking up my new car and showing my Mum and sis round our (hopefully) house-to-be! I don't know about you but I think this cold weather is really starting to drag! Borrrrr-ing!! Roll on Spring, please!

So this card I've made for my other Auntie who was 80 last month. I've made it using these beautiful papers I got for Chrimbo in the DCWV Summer stack. I just love them! The two large flowers and the group of flowers in the left hand corner, I cut out of some paper within the stack to make them focal points of the card rather than just leaving them as paper. The stamp is a Hero Arts one from one of their large messages sheets. The butterfly would you believe was actually pink but I experimented by colouring black with copics- it worked! I then added a flower gem for contrast. The silver baubles were rescued from a Christmas cracker and I then trimmed the wire and twisted them around the ribbon.

I'm going to enter this for Cute Card Thursday who's theme is "Blooming Gorgeous".

Crafty stash used: Stamp (Hero Arts); Paper (DCWV); Assorted cardstock; Ribbon (recycled); Baubles (Recycled); Butterfly (?); Gem (Joanna Sheen); Copics

Onto my second make, a Valentine's card for my hubbie. I love this stamp from Stamping Bella as I thought it would be quite versatile. I thought you could mask out the hearts at the top and stamp different sentiments above her but for this one I thought I'd use her as she was intended! I coloured her with Lyra pencils and paper pieced her top, skirt and all the little hearts she is juggling. A bit fiddly and time consuming but I wanted the colours to match the paper exactly. The papers are by American Crafts. I then used 4 different stamps from the Elzybells Valentine tag sets I won (see last post). These sets are mega useful. I white embossed the decorative heart on pink paper and mounted on the "secret admirer" round stamp. The message at the bottom is 2 separate stamps which I stamped to form a sequence. Hope hubbie likes it!

I'd like to enter this for the following challenges:

Mojo Monday- sketch

Fussy and Fancy- "Hearts"

C.R.A.F.T.- "Paper piecing"

Pink Elephant- "Pink"

Sophisticat- "Love"

Secret Crafter- "Hearts"

One Stop- "Make it personal"

Papercutz- "Use pink on a male card"

Crafty stash used: Stamps (Stamping Bella; Elzybells); Paper (American Crafts); Lyra pencils; Assorted cardstock; Nesties; White embossing powder

Here is a little close up of my paper piecing. I also added some Lyra pencils to her skirt to add some depth

And lastly, my last post is for my friend's little boy who's birthday is up and coming. I got this Changito Monkey stamp and matching sentiment for Chrimbo and have coloured with Lyra pencils. I then used an embossing pen and clear glittery embossing powder to emboss the bubbles. The paper I think is Artic Frog (?) and the letter stickers are by Basic Grey. I embossed the brown strip to be reminiscent of bubbles.

I'd like to enter this for:

Cupcake Craft Challenges- "4 legged and furry"- do monkeys count? They walk on all fours??!!!

Unscripted Sketches- sketch

One Stop- "Make it personal"

Crafty stash used: Stamps (Stampendous); Lyra pencils; Paper (?); Assorted cardstock; Embossing folder (Cuttlebug); Stickers (Basic Grey); Clear glitter embossing powder