Miss me? My final Storytelling class and story performance went well yesterday! I told my bee phobia story, complete with buzzing sound effects! I shared a few bee incidents & described the hair salon I use; it just remodeled & changed its name to Hair Hive (ouch). People got a laugh from it! I'm glad the class is over, since I have so many other things going on, but I'll miss my classmates. Some of them plan to stay in touch, though, so that'll be nice.
On to cards - I have Wednesday's, Thursday's and today's HeroFest Holiday Cheer Card Drive cards to share, plus some I made for my own stash while I was at it. **Warning - photo heavy post ahead!** First - Wednesday's cards, using some fun new Tim Holtz Christmas stuff I got at JoAnn's on Monday:
Supplies: Paper - Park Lane A2 card;
Poptone Black Licorice;
Tim Holtz Worn Wallpaper Scraps
Other - Tim Holtz Christmas Label Stickers;
Hero Arts Clear Glitter Lacquer
I embellished the village here and there (tree, rooftops) with some glitter lacquer - so pretty in real life! Next - a slimline card for my own stash using more TH Wallpaper (the poinsettias are included in the package!). I added some gold pearls to the flowers as well as some glitter lacquer:
For Thursday, I made a card for my own stash that would work at the
November Christmas Kickstart Challenge where Jo and her Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers are doing cards with trees. I still had the embossing folder out that I used for Jo & Gail's October Let's Squash It!
Challenge card so used it again.
Supplies: Paper - Spellbinders A2 card; Paper Studio vellum & Holiday;
Poptone Black Licorice; Hero Arts Glitter Basics
Other - Tim Holtz Christmas Label Stickers
While I was at it, I embossed another panel & made a different version for the card drive, this time adding an Authentique stag ephemera piece that I double matted. I glittered the antlers - very quick and easy!
Today for the card drive I played with a fave Hero Arts Paper Layering Santa Tag die (retired). I cut him from Hero Arts Handmade Watercolor paper and watercolored with the Altenew 24 pan set (still sitting there from my October Diva cards). I used more of the TH wallpaper and another label sticker.
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I die cut and watercolored a second Santa for my own stash. But when I went to flatten out those little bumps made by the die holes, he stuck to the Vagabound plate and ripped. Oh well. Moving on... I used a new Hero Arts stamp set
Wishing You Tree. You may recall I used a leaf die from the coordinating die set
HERE but hadn't used the stamps. I stamped and embossed two - one on plum and one on watercolor (saved for future). I rubbed some unicorn ink to lighten up the plum card and it dulled my embossing, despite wiping and reheating the ep. Oh well... I still like it! Added some sparkle lacquer to the star & a sentiment. Another quick and easy one. The ombre card base is from a pack of heavyweight watercolor print paper I found at Hobby Lobby - love it!!
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I'm adding my tree card to Darnell's
November NBUS Challenge since my stamp is new, and also to Stay Crafty with a Blog Named Hero's
October Challenge Merry Everything. They only allow one card per post; I supposed I could upload them all to my Flickr account and share from there but I'm too lazy!
I'm very excited to be doing the
Hero Arts Holiday Stamp Along this weekend! I'll be busy creating on Saturday and Sunday but hope to be able to post those cards in future.
Thanks for hanging in there for this long post! Happy crafting!!
12 comments:
What a fabulous bunch of cards Linda! Hugs, Kate!
Great set of cards today Linda. I particularly like the ones with the tree embossing folder. Great work. Glad you got your story done and that it went down well. These things can be very nerve wracking xx
WOW Linda, you have been busy. All of these are just delightful. Loving the Tim Holtz papers. Just fabulous.
Oh my goodness you have been so busy Linda, a group of fabulous cards!
These are all so fun, Linda - each one so different! Well done!
Your class sounds delightful! The colors, textures, and patterns of these cards are wonderful.
what a fantastic array of Christmas card, Linda - especially love the Santa!! Meant to tell you I was a storyteller in my other life - had a couple of favorites my grands really love - I often made puppets to go with my stories.
These are all great! Thanks for entering the challenge!
Whoa! You’ve been busy with your Christmas card making. Fab collection.
Wow you have been busy. Thanks for entering in our crafty challenge at Hero Arts.
Oh wow! Talk about awesome eye candy! I love all of your cards and I'm sure Hero Arts will as well. Thanks for sharing with us over at NBUS. Hope to see you again. Bonnie GDT
Another gorgeous selection of cards! You are so talented, Linda. Thanks for playing at Christmas Kickstart, I'm sorry I'm a little behind with my visiting! Jo x
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