Hero Hostess Week Finale

We've come to the final day of the Hero Hostess Take-over on the Hero Arts Blog.  And it ended on a high when my Irish friend Heather featured her gorgeous vellum flower and butterflies on some gift wrap.  Truly inspiring!  I swear I'll try it for a special gift someday - maybe for my mother.  Mom's the type to carefully unwrap a gift and extract it, then wrap it back up to its original state!  She did this with a Mother's Day gift we gave her one time - that perfectly re-wrapped box sat in the living room corner for about a year!!

My favorite gift to give these days is the boring GIFT CARD!  Just have to think which places the recipient likes, pick one up and pop it inside a greeting card and I'm done!  Bad, aren't I?  While we were on the cruise one of the kids turned 13 (I call him my nephew but he's really my BIL's grandson from another marriage).  Had to give him cash - yikes!  And sorry I forgot to photograph his card but he loved it.  I used a bicycle from Hero Arts and put some birthday balloons coming off it as others in our HA Flickr group have done.

Here's a birthday card I whipped up tonight after work. 

Just had to try a vellum butterfly and I had a scrap of this really thick vellum that was just the right size for the Hero Arts Heart Winged Butterfly, an old fave.  I was lucky enough to get that stamp along with some other products when I was a new Hero Club member back in '09.  I was so excited to get that package!!  But I digress... Got a bit too close with the heating tool and the vellum began to bubble up like someone blowing a bubble - yikes!  Moved the tool away quickly and the bubble went away - weird.  Other Hero Arts stamps used - Large Fabric Design, Happy Definition, and the Large Happy Birthday (vintage 1995 but new to me).  Used a Hero Arts carnation folded card - love these cards with their slight shimmer and white insides.

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