Hero Arts February Challenges

Hero Arts has a monthly set of challenges that I recently started playing along with, and here are my cards for their February challenge 2013A. The challenge for this card is "love and lace." I went with a pink & brown theme, using Ranger spun sugar ink along with brown and white embossing powders. I chose 3 different shades of pink card stock for the layered, punched border to add the lace look. The word "love" was done with my Quickutz.

Another challenge is this sketch, and here is the card I created by using it for inspiration.

The background was made by embossing a HA/Studio Calico lattice background stamp with white embossing powder, and coloring it in with a Ranger distress Antique Linen marker. To get that darker look here and there, I just colored over some places a 2nd and 3rd time. The horizontal panel is a piece of decorative tape I picked up at a dollar store years ago. I added some very tiny black rhinestones from Pizzazz Aplenty to the centers of 3 stars on that panel. The vanilla ribbon was stamped with a tiny heart from the Lawn Fawn My Silly Valentine stamp set.

And last but not least, I made another Christmas card by using the "fancy fold" challenge.

This HA tree stamp was embossed with silver ep and adorned with turquoise pearls. I used some heavy silver glitter paper that came in a pack of Halloween dsp from Teresa Collins, and added a star to the top of the tree along with a clear rhinestone to the center. Here's a close-up....

The Hero Arts monthly challenges run for the first half of the month, and again for the remainder of the month, and winners are selected twice for each round of challenges. I've won all of the beautiful Hero Arts stamps you see on these cards by playing along, so grab your HA and play along! You have nothing to lose! All of the details are right here.

Thanks so much for checking in, and I wish you all a wonderful weekend!

If I failed to answer any of your questions with the information below, please feel free to email me and I'll get back to you with your answers :)

Carol

card 1

stamps -HA patterned hearts, SU! doily

paper - unknown pink dsp from LSS, vanilla

inks - versamark, ranger spun sugar

accessories - brown and white eps, SU! ribbon (R) twine, MS doily punch, HA pink heart gemstones, Quickutz die cut letters

card 2

stamps - HA/Studio Calico lattice backgrounder, SU! teeny tiny wishes, SU! hearts a flutter, Lawn Fawn my silly valentine

paper - black, vanilla

inks - versamark, versafine onyx black

accessories - white ep, ranger antique linen distress marker, self-adhesive decorative tape, black rhinestones, SU! hearts a flutter dies & heart punch, SU! fancy fan ef, vanilla & black ribbons, cream pearls

card 3

stamps - HA tree image H5629, HA Believe sentiment

papers - K&Co Floral Dreams, Teresa Collins Haunted Hallows (silver glitter), turquoise cs, white

inks - versamark, turquoise, turquoise marker

accessories - SB labels 25 die, MB star of wonder die, Crafty Cutts diamonds die, SB ribbon tag die, turquoise pearls, clear rhinestone, silver metallic ribbon