Saturday, April 4, 2009

Happy Birthday Hero Arts!!



This week was the 1 year blog celebration over at Hero Arts! I can't believe its already been a year since the blog started and almost a year since I started my OWN blog!

To celebrate the challenge this week was to create one layer cards- other than embellishments and ribbons- no pretty patterned papers, no extra layers of cardstock etc. This was super tough for me- had a couple of re-dos before I came up with cards that I am happy with in the end!

I decided that I wanted to keep these one layer cards as simple as possible. For the first one I did knew I wanted to use these two elements together:

Supplies: Four Dolls; Asian Frames, All Occasion Messages (all Hero Arts), Prima flowers, Pearl Gems (Q & Co.), Copic markers, Scorpal- for gridlines

This second card I used a nestability to frame out the center and embossed the outside using a Cuttlebug embossing folder using this "trick" found here.

Supplies: So Sweet; Tree, Bird & Messages (both Hero Arts), Scalloped Oval diecut (Nestabilities-Spellbinders), Swiss Dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug-Provocraft), Prima flowers, Flower gems (Hero Arts), Copic markers

Now... this card was one that had me re-doing a few times over! I had this idea and really wanted to work it out and on the third try I think it was- finally worked out for me! Again, I used a rectangle nestability to emboss the center, stamped & masked the butterfly & floral background.

Supplies: Heart-winged Butterfly; DesignBlock Outline Flowers (both Hero Arts), gems, pearls, Stickles, buttons, Copic Markers

And after that- this idea popped into my head and was able to throw it together faster than any of the others since it didn't require and coloring!

Supplies: Patterned Hearts; All Occasion Messages (both Hero Arts), gems, buttons, Ribbon (American Crafts)

Thanks for stopping by!

7 comments:

  1. You kicked the pants off single layers! These are awesome!

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  2. Great cards! Congratulations!

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  3. your cards are beautiful....you sure know how to rock those one layer cards...

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  4. wow - what amazing cards. You certainly "tamed" the one layer monster. Love how you coloured the embossed circle. Love that technique

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  5. Wow these one layer cards are fantastic!!! I love what you came up with.

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  6. I hope you don't mind, but I have nominated you for the lemonadestand award.

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  7. Hi, Lysa! Gorgeous one layer cards! :-)

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