This is the last day of my week and I want to go out with a bang…hold on to your seats my friends, cuz I’m gonna make this one Fantaublous FUN FRIDAY!

First I want to share a card with you. I asked my friend Wendy Vecchi to come up with something for our Collage challenge theme. Wendy is a designer for Maya Road…and I just knew she would throw in her awesome influence with some of their product. I love how Wendy pays attention to detail too. She adds her signature style like hand drawn dots around the stamped scrolls. Also the layering of the stamped grungeboard and how she bends the flower and leaf tips up…so cool Wendy! If you visit Wendy’s blog today, she has a special giveaway that I’ve hooked her up with. :o)

Supplies:
• Hero Arts:
• Flourish Flower
• Fancy Scrolls
• Branches
• 3 mm Pearls
• Black Staz-On
• Maya Road:1 page from the sheer round scallop book, Chipboard tag,
  Trinkets Elements Blossom (metal flower), Sheer ribbon (diagonal plaid)
• Ranger:Jet Black Archival ink, Black Soot, Peeled paint and Broken China distress inks, Adirondack dabber paint (willow)
• Advantus:Tim Holtz Grungeboard
• Paper: Mustard Moon
• Misc: Sakura Glaze pen black, Glossy Accents, Art Glitter glue, Fiskars Border punch

And as an additional treat…I also asked my friend Robin Beam from Ranger to do one of her famous bandanna techniques with our stamps…she absolutely rocks the house!!! Love her colors and depth. The technique involves using her white pen to finish the highlights…this is a must have for your tool box. Thanks Robin!

Supplies:
• Hero Arts DesignBlock Tree
• Hero Arts Fancy Bird
• Tim Holtz™ Distress Ink™, Shabby Shutters, Broken China, Peeled paint, Faded Jeans, Dusty Concord, Worn Lipstick, Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmalade, Ranger Industries, rangerink.com
• Adirondack® Pigment Ink Stamp Pad, Pitch Black, Ranger Industries
• Inkssentials™ White Opaque Pen, Ranger Industries
• Inkssentials™ Non-Stick Craft Sheet, Ranger Industries
• Inkssentials™ Heatit™ Craft Tool, Ranger Industries
• Inkssentials™ Mini Mister™, Ranger Industries
• Perfect Pearls™, Perfect Pearls (Metallic Kit), Ranger Industries
• Watercolor Paper
• Old Book Paper
• Black, matte cardstock
• Border Little Flowers, German Scrap, Paper Artsy, paperartsy.co.uk
• Glue Stick, Pioneer Photo Albums, pioneerphotoalbums.com

As promised, I told you I would show you a storage idea. I am a visual person and if something is out of sight, it’s surely out of mind…so I need to have my supplies displayed so I can see them. Most of my items are stored in clear containers like these canning jars.

Okay, it’s time to announce the winner of my Collage Card giveaway from Wednesday…the number I picked was post #8 which is Anne A.

And finally, the winner of a signed copy of my book “Layers” from yesterday…the number I picked was post #37 which is Lynne.

Please use the Hero email link to the right to leave your mailing addresses. Also, if you could put Book or Card in the subject line, I ‘d appreciate it. Congratulations!

Don’t forget, you have until 11:59 PM PST on Sunday to enter this week’s Collage Challenge!

This has been a wonderful week for me, it was a pleasure to share my love for stamping with all of you. I hope you have been inspired to step out of your box to try something new. Continue creating and enjoy the gift of art….stamping style!

We’ll see you Monday for another great week of Hero Arts!

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