Hello Birdie

Hi everyone! It’s Kelly here today with a fun bold card based on one of our August sketches.

One of my favorite ways to use my background stamps is to create a tone-on-tone effect as I did here with the Square Pattern and Envelope Liner images. It adds a lot to a card without being too distracting from the focal point. And speaking of a focal point isn’t this birdie adorable?!?! I white embossed the image and then colored it in with some watercolor paints.

The decorative border down the center was created with a postage stamp border punch. I just lined up the blue and green panels and let a bit of the white card base show through to create this unique element — so fun!

Find out how to make this card — click for complete supplies and instructions.

And great news — the Untitled Love stamp set that I used on my card is our Stamp of the Week!

Now through Sunday, September 2nd you can get Untitled Love at 25% off ($9.00) in the Hero Arts Online Store. (No promo code required.)

Have an amazing day!

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   Linda W. said: August 28th, 2012 at 5:55 pm

   Love how you did the white border, Kelly! Great tone on tone for your backgrounds too!!

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   Linda Beeson said: August 28th, 2012 at 7:39 pm

   I love that simple combination of colors and stamps, cute!

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   clear business cards said: August 29th, 2012 at 3:23 am

   Oh…that is just the cutest thing! No, I don’t have an eclips…*sigh*…but now it’s going on my list too!

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   Sue Givens said: August 29th, 2012 at 5:23 am

   This card is too cute–love the colors and that bird is cute, too.

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   CarolynG said: August 29th, 2012 at 6:34 am

   Beautiful card!! I love the birdie and the colors!!

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   Buffe said: August 29th, 2012 at 8:38 am

   Love the color scheme, the bird and ESPECIALLY that back to back postage border trick. Fabulous. Thank you.

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   Mary Bee said: August 29th, 2012 at 10:15 am

   Thanks for the incredible ideas,Kelly. The border punch aspect is tremendous and I can’t wait to try it. Anxious to try other borders,too. Love the colors.

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   Karen said: August 29th, 2012 at 2:33 pm

   Love the freshness of this card! Thanks for the great idea of using back-to-back border punches to create that interesting midline detail.

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   jaemom said: August 30th, 2012 at 2:28 pm

   I love the bold color scheme, and the use of the postage stamp border punch is genius!

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    Pamela Haskin said: August 31st, 2012 at 2:38 pm

    I love what you did with this little bird. Such a great idea!

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