Hero Arts Holiday Tag Challenge

Hello my friends! Hope you had a great weekend. I was finally able to put up our Christmas decorations and tree on Saturday. I plan on sharing some photos with you soon. Today, I am waiting for some snow! My town is under a sever winter storm warning and there's talk of a lot of snow. Just trying not to get my hopes up too much in case nothing much happens.

The last challenge over at the Hero Arts blog was to create Holiday Tags. I really enjoy making tags so I couldn't pass the challenge up. Here is what I came up with... I went with an unusual but fun Christmas color combo of: Spring Moss, Aqua Mist, Melon Berry and Gray. I kept them super simple by stamping and cutting out an image (from Winter Swirls), stamping a sentiment (from Hero Arts Holiday Messages) over the stamped image and the tag, then attach the image with dimensional adhesive. Finished the tag off with satin ribbon tied to the top with embroidery floss.

Here is the Melon Berry tag, with a snowflake button...
Here is the Aqua Mist tag, with an ornament hung from embroidery floss...

Lastly is the Spring Moss tag, embellished with a rhinestone star topped tree...

Well, thanks for stopping in today. Hope you enjoyed and have a wonderful start to your week.

Maile

Merry Christmas Tags: (All PTI unless noted)

• Stamps: Winter Swirls & Hero Arts Holiday Messages
• Ink: Melon Berry, Aqua Mist, Spring Moss & Gray
• Cardstock: White
• Accessories: Melon Berry, Aqua Mist & Spring Moss Satin Ribbon, DMC Embroidery Floss, Snowflake Button, Rhinestone Star & Creative Memories Tag Punch.

Glittery Season's Greetings

Hello! Today's card was one I made for the last Hero Arts Glitter Challenge, I wasn't able to submit it in time but thought I would share it with you anyways.I cut a raspberry flag, attached it to the kraft card base and embellished it with raspberry buttons. The scalloped striped circle stamp was one that I received from an Honorable Mention in the Paper Tearing Challenge, this was my first ever and so far my only submission into any of the Hero Arts Challenges. One of these days I will try another one of their challenges and submit it on time. Anyways, the circle was stamped in aqua, cut out then I ran glitter along some of the stripes.

The wreath was stamped in green and raspberry (for the bow), punched out then glittered. Layered the sentiment over the wreath once it was dry.

Well thanks for visiting today, hope you enjoyed!

Maile

Season's Greetings: (All PTI unless noted) Card Measures 5 1/2" X 3 1/2"

• Stamps: Signature Christmas (Sentiment), Hero Arts Striped Circle & Inkadinkado Wreath
• Ink: Aqua Mist, Spring Moss & Raspberry Fizz
• Cardstock: Kraft, Raspberry Fizz & White
• Accessories: Raspberry Fizz Vintage Buttons, Rangers Stickles Glitter Glue & Marvy Uchida Circle Punch

Paper Tearing Challenge

Greetings! Over at the Hero Arts Blog they were having a Paper Tearing Challenge. So I had combined the Hero Arts Challenge with the latest colors from the Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #18... I don't own very many of their stamps. But this seamed like a great opportunity to create something using minimal Hero Arts stamps since I only own one Christmas set, a sentiment stamp set.

The tree was created by tearing layers of cardstock, adhering them together then cutting away the excess to form the tree shape. Then embellished with a raspberry star and rhinestones.

The snow was torn from cream cardstock, crinkled then adhered to the card base and then the torn edge was lifted for a little dimension. The card base was stamped with a few snowflakes from Winter Swirls set in Versamark.

Hope you enjoyed your visit with me today, have a wonderful day!

Maile

Happy Holidays: (All PTI unless noted)

• Stamps: Winter Swirls, Tree Trimming Trio (Star) & Hero Arts Holiday Messages (Sentiment)
• Ink: Raspberry Fizz & Versamark
• Cardstock: Kraft, Vintage Cream & SU Wild Wasabi
• Accessories: KaiserCraft Rhinestones, DMC Floss & Corner Rounder