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July 5, 2016July 4, 2016

SIP Challenge 55 – A Sketch and Final MMH Sneak Peek!

I trust that you all had a safe and happy 4th of July! I spent most of my day catching up on projects and straightening up the house some more! It feels so good to get back some control over the chaos! I still have a long way to go but I’m getting there! Around 3:30 I headed over to Brian and Kim’s for a small little BBQ with a group of friends. Taylor and Kiera stopped by too! Brian made some really good eats and I had some Innis & Gunn Rum Cask Beer! One of my favorites! I came home at 8:30 to stay with Winston, he hates fireworks and shakes like you wouldn’t believe! And let me tell you, it sounds like a war zone around here from 8:30 until well past midnight usually but the rain started at 11:00 so it ended a little early!! You would never know that fireworks are illegal here! Today is a very busy day here on the blog! I have my SIP post this morning and then a fun Blog Hop at 1:00PM EST to celebrate the release of the July My Monthly Hero Kit! Be sure and come back for that! You are sure to see some of my favorites hopping along!

To get things started today I have my Design Team card for this week’s Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge! It’s also my last Sneak Peek of the MMH Kit before the launch later on today! Here is this week’s sketch from Sandy…

I think that I can safely say that the Octopus from the Add-On Set is my favorite, well him and the Jellyfish! I had to use him one more time! My card base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. I covered the front in a piece of the Silver Swirl Text Weight Paper from the Kit. Down the right side is a piece of the Aqua Lagoon Metallic Card Stock, also from the Kit. I do love to stamp some of my own patterned paper and the Coral from the Main Set is perfect for that! I stamped two of them in Hero Arts Tide Pool and Charcoal Ink adding some bubbles stamped in Soft Pool. After trimming down the piece I adhered it to the card with Fun Foam and E-Z Runner. That fun super detailed Octopus is stamped in Soft Pool for the first layer and Tide Pool for the second. I matted him with some Dark Gray card stock and adhered that panel to the card with more E-Z Runner. My greeting is from the Add-On Set and is heat embossed in Hero Arts White Embossing Powder on more Dark Gray and adhered to the card with Foam Tape. He needed a little shine so I adhered a few of the Star Sequins from the Little Things by Lucy Mermaid Exclusive Mix with some Multi-Matte Medium. Love the softness of the colors and the Silver Swirl Paper is so cool! I hope that you enjoyed my Design Team card for this week’s Stamp, Ink, Paper Sketch Challenge and my final Sneak Peek for the July My Monthly Hero Kit! Stop by the Stamp, Ink, Paper BLOG to see the rest of the Team’s cards and enter yours in the gallery! Thank you for coming by today and I hope to see you back here at 1:00PM EST for the MMH Blog Hop!! Until then, have a super Tuesday! 🙂

Products used:

My monthly Hero Kit for July and Add-On Sneak Peek

Ink: Tide Pool, Soft Pool and Charcoal (Hero Arts)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: White (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah) and Basic Gray (Stampin’ Up!)

Specialty Paper: Silver Swirl Text Weight and Aqua Lagoon Metallic Card Stock (July My Monthly Hero Kit)

Embellishments: Mermaid Sequin Mix – MMH Exclusive (Little Things by Lucy)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner (Home & Hobby), 3M Foam Tape and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Heat Tool (Hero Arts) and Fun Foam

July 4, 2016July 4, 2016

Mojo Monday 455 & MMH Sneak Peek 4!

Happy 4th of July to my American friends! I hope that you all have some fun stuff planned for today! I’ll be heading over to Brian & Kim’s for a BBQ later on. Yesterday was another lovely day here! I got up late and went to get Heather so we could take a ride to The Apple Store. Her iPhone has been acting up so she wanted to get it checked out. They suggested… yes… a restore! I could have told her that! LOL! From there we went over to see Kim and the kiddies for a bit and enjoyed some pizza for lunch! I had said that I wanted to run into Manhattan quickly to pick something up from Isabella so Heather and I hopped in the Convertible and made our way in. The traffic was pretty light going in and we found a parking space on the street. I got to say hello to Diego who was there enjoying his sports on TV! He just got back from a bike trip in the Pyrenees! How cool is that?! The traffic on the way home was a little heavier but not too bad. I dropped Heather back off at George’s and then came home and got some of my cleaning started. There is a lot more to do but I did make a little dent! Phew! That was a busy day!

It’s always best to start off the week with a new Mojo Monday sketch, don’t you agree…

This is also day 4 of my sneak peeks of the July My Monthly Hero Kit! I decided that I needed to use the jellyfish again. I just think that they are such pretty ethereal creatures! To start my card I used a piece of the Metallic Teal Card Stock that comes in the Kit, cut it to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and used a stitched Rectangle to cut out my window. I put that on a piece of Neenah Solar White 80lb and traced so I would know just where to stamp the jellyfish. He is stamped in Hero Arts Tide Pool for the first layer and heat embossed in Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder for the second. I added some Foam Tape to the back of my Teal piece, sprinkled in some of the Little Things by Lucy Exclusive Sequins Mix included in the Kit and then added my back panel to create my shaker. In the upper right is a piece of Gold Mirror Card that I used a stitched circle to cut out and in the lower right is a piece of Desert Storm 80lb, heat embossed with the Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain Background Stamp and some Hero Arts Clear Embossing Powder. The greeting is from the main stamp set in the kit also and is heat embossed in more Gold onto some Black 110lb. All of the pieces are adhered to the shaker and then that is attached to a base of Solar White 110lb to finish the card! I do really love that jellyfish and I think that he looks quite neat with his little shaker bits! I hope that you enjoyed my Design Team card for this week’s Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge! Head on over to the BLOG and see the rest of the Team’s cards and enter yours in the gallery! That is also my 4th sneak peek of the My Monthly Hero Kit! Come back tomorrow for still more peeks! I wish you all the most marvelous Monday ever! 🙂

Products used:

My Monthly Hero Kit for July Sneak Peek

Stamp: Designer Woodgrain Background (Hero Arts)

Ink: Tide Pool (Hero Arts)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: Gold and Clear (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb and Desert Storm 80lb (Neenah) and Black 110lb (Recollections)

Specialty: Teal Metallic (MMH) and Gold Mirror Card (The Paper Cut)

Dies: Stitched Squares and Circles (Simon Says Stamp)

Embellishments: Mermaid Sequins Mix (Little Things by Lucy – Exclusive to MMH)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner (Home & Hobby) and 3M Foam Tape

Tools: Big Shot and Heat Tool (Hero Arts)

July 3, 2016July 3, 2016

Undersea Coral & Octopus MMH Sneak Peek 3!

Ahh… the first real weekend I have had in a long time! The Stamp, Ink, Paper Store was nice yesterday! We had some peeps stop by including my friends Sandy and Louis! I played around with stamps and got a few more projects finished. The ride home was fabulous and yes, it was topless! LOL! I had dinner with my Parent’s and then headed over to Heather’s sister’s block party. We had a great time, I got to hang with George and we had a good laugh! This morning I’m off to the Apple Store with Heather and then I want to try and run into Manhattan for a bit, we’ll see how that goes! I’m trying to cram too much into my two days off!

My card that I have to share with you today is my third sneak peek of the July My Monthly Hero Kit! I made what is essentially a one layer card! To begin I used my Mini Ink Blending Tool to add some Hero Arts Tide Pool Ink to a piece of Neenah Solar White 80lb Card Stock. Next up I used my Mini MISTI to stamp the super detailed Octopus from the Add-On Set. The first layer is stamped in Hero Arts Soft Granite and the second layer in Charcoal. I used my Heat Tool to make sure that he was nice and dry and then brushed him over with my Powder Tool before stamping the first layer of the stamp again over the top with Versa-Mark, adding Hero Arts Clear Embossing Powder and heat setting it. My coral along the bottom is from the same Add-On Set and is stamped in Red Royal and Orange Soda. The greeting is then stamped in Red Royal and I adhered the finished panel to a Solar White 110lb Card Base. So technically it is a single layer card! I think that the detail in that Octopus is so life like that if you look quickly at the card you may mistake it for a picture! So amazing what you can do with a little ink and some stamps! I hope that you enjoyed my third sneak peek of the July My Monthly Hero Kit, I know that I’m having fun sharing them! Remember, you can purchase the Kit staring on July 5th at 1:00PM EST directly from Hero Arts! Thanks for coming by and I’ll have another look at some more of the Kit tomorrow! Have a stupendous Sunday! 🙂

Products used:

My Monthly Hero Kit Add-On Sneak Peek

Ink: Tide Pool, Soft Granite, Charcoal, Red Royal and Orange Soda (Hero Arts)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: Clear (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner

Tools: Heat Tool (Hero Arts), Mini Ink Blending Tool (Ranger) and Mini MISTI

July 2, 2016July 1, 2016

Freshly Made Sketches 243 & MMH Sneak Peek 2!

Oh we are gearing up for a nice long weekend here! It was an overcast day on Long Island but that didn’t dampen any of the fun at the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store! Renee and Angie were there and we crafted the day away! Around 4:30 the heavens opened up and it bucketed down! My trusty Dark Sky App let me know that I would have a window around 6:00 to make a break for the car and head home so that’s just what I did! Around 7:30 Anthony and Bill came by to get me so that we could go and have some Friday’s! I had a nice New York bacon cheeseburger and it was delicious! The fries were well done, just how I like them too! Once back home I crafted for a bit before watching a little TV. Today I have a bunch of things to get finished before the store is closed for two days! Not that I will not be doing any work! LOL!

Today I have my second sneak peek of the July My Monthly Hero Kit to share with you! It’s also for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge…

Today’s card all started with another Ink Blended Background! I used my Mini Ink Blending Tool to add Hero Arts Cornflower Ink to a piece of Neenah Solar White 80lb Card Stock. The two images are from the Main Stamp Set from the Kit. They are Color Layering Jellyfish and are stamped in Soft Pink for the first layer and a new just too cool for words Ombre Ink Pad for the second layer. I adhered a piece of Fun Foam to the back of the panel to get it ready to add to the base. That base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock and along the bottom I stamped some of the Coral from The Main Stamp Set in more of that super cool Ombre Ink! My main panel is then adhered to the card base. The greeting is again from the Main Stamp Set and is heat embossed onto a piece of Vellum with Hero Arts White Embossing Powder. A little Kool-Tak Clear Foam Tape holds it to the card. Finally I added a few Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear, Ballerina Pink and Pansy Purple Sequins to complete the card! I must be in a tropical frame of mind with all of my Ink Blended Backgrounds in the gorgeous soft blues, pinks and purples! I hope that you enjoyed your second sneak peek at the July My Monthly Hero Kit and my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge! You can purchase the Kit staring on July 5th at 1:00PM EST directly from Hero Arts! Thanks for coming by and I’ll have another look at the goodies in the Kit tomorrow! Have a simply marvelous Saturday! 🙂

Products used:

My Monthly Hero Kit Sneak Peek

Ink: Cornflower and Soft Pink (Hero Arts)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: White (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah)

Specialty: Vellum (The Paper Cut)

Dies: Just for You Labels Lawn Cuts (Lawn Fawn)

Embellishments: Sparkling Clear, Ballerina Pink and Pansy Purple Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner (Home & Hobby), Kool-Tak Clear Foam Tape and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Big Shot, Heat Tool and Fun Foam

July 1, 2016July 1, 2016

Paper Players 301 & Special Sneak Peek!!

A very happy Friday to you all! The weather here has been just amazing this week! I keep sneaking out of the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store to enjoy some sunshine! Renee was off yesterday enjoying a day with her children so I was manning the fort alone! I did have quite a few visitors! My friend Dianne stopped by and another friend that I haven’t seen in a long came by too and we had a nice long chat and g0t all caught up! Customers were in and out all day picking up special orders and discovering new goodies! Oh how I love my job!! When I got home my Parent’s were still out at my Brother’s spending time with Daniel so I had a sandwich for dinner and then headed over to see Heather for a the evening. We ran out and did a few errands and then just sat outside and enjoyed the evening! And here we are at the end of the week before a nice long Holiday weekend! I have off on Sunday and Monday! YAY! I can catch up on some things around the house! LOL! 😛

Today I have a very special treat for you! I have a sneak peek of the My Monthly Hero Kit for July and it is just awesome! You are going to love it! I can’t stop playing with it! So many cool goodies! As soon as the kit goes on sale July 5th at 1:00pm EST you are going to have to move fast because it’s going to go QUICK! The first card that I made with the kit also happens to be for this week’s Paper Players sketch challenge…

To create my card today I took a piece of Neenah Solar White 80lb Card Stock cut to 6″ x 4 3/4″. To it, I added some Hero Arts Cornflower, Soft Lilac and Soft Pink Ink with a Ranger Mini Ink Blending tool creating a nice Ombre background (I was inspired by one of the items in the kit!). On background I stamped a few of the images from the cool Stamp Set in Hero Arts Charcoal Ink. The panel is then trimmed to 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and adhered to a card base of Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. My turtle is also from the stamp set and is stamped in Hero Arts Wet Cement Ink, there are coordinating dies for the stamps but I used my trusty Scissors for this guy! A piece of Vellum has one of the greetings from the set heat embossed in Hero Arts Platinum Embossing Powder. I put a little Foam Tape on the back of the turtle to adhered him to the Vellum and then another layer behind the Vellum to adhere my panel to the card. A piece of twine is tied in a bow around the lower half of the Vellum and some Kool-Tak Clear Foam Tape is placed behind the greeting to keep everything in place! Just for a little sparkle I added a few Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Sequins around the turtle and the card is done! I love that turtle, isn’t he neat?! The shadow images of the fish and turtles against that cool background are so much fun too! See, didn’t I tell you that it was awesome! I hope that you enjoyed your little sneak peek of the July My Monthly Hero Kit and my card for this week’s Paper Players Challenge! I’ll have more sneak peeks of the Kit through Tuesday, July 5th when it officially launches on the Hero Arts Store! You can see even more sneak peeks over at the Hero Arts Blog so be sure and check that out too! Thank you for coming by today to share in some of my excitement and I wish you all a fantastic Friday! 🙂

Products used:

July My Monthly Hero Kit Sneak Peek!

Ink: Wet Cement, Cornflower, Soft Lilac and Soft Pink (Hero Arts)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: Platinum (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah)

Specialty: Vellum (The Paper Cut)

Embellishments: Sparkling Clear Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh) and Twine (May Arts)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner (Home & Hobby), 3M Foam Tape, Kool-Tak Clear Foam Tape and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Big Shot, Heat Tool (Hero Arts) and Mini Ink Blending Tool (Ranger)