With our 10th birthday celebrations happening all year it only seemed fitting to have an hour designed to birthdays! Read on to see what Stacy Cohen, Nancy Damiano and special guest Yana Smakula from Hero Arts has in store for you!
"For World Card Making Day I made a feminine birthday card with lace, bling, a doily, and a vibrant pink fabric flower
I love to use flowers on my crafty projects, but I can’t always find the exact size or color that I want. So what do I do? I make my own flowers! These burnt edge fabric ruffled flowers are pretty easy to make. Here’s how:
- Get some polyester fabric like satin, chiffon, charmeuse, etc. It should be 100% polyester since this will melt rather than burn. I usually buy “lining fabric” at my local fabric/craft store. It comes in many colors and it’s inexpensive. You only need ¼ of a yard to make a whole bunch of these flowers.
- Use a pencil to lightly sketch flowers in varying sizes on your fabric. These do NOT need to be perfectly shaped flowers since the edges are going to curl up and change shape in the end. For the pink flower on my finished card, the largest flower layer was about 3½ inches. Cut 4 to 6 flower layers, depending on how full you want your flower to be.
- Grab a candle and a pair of tweezers. Working one piece at a time, carefully hold the flower about 1 or 2 inches above the flame until the edge starts to curl.
- Slowly rotate the flower around over the flame as each section starts to melt and curl. Be careful not to singe the edges too much!
- Layer the flowers on top of each other with the largest on the bottom and the smallest on top. Adhere the layers together with a dot of fabric glue. You can either make a small fabric flower layer to fill the center, or add a decorative jewel, button, cluster of rhinestones, or other embellishment to the center.
Enjoy an amazing day!" ~ Stacy Cohen
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Ink Blending + Nuvo Drops!
Hi cardmakers, Nancy here with a National Card Making Day celebration including some fun new products and a technique! Nuvo Drops are a fun way to create your very own enamel dots in a rainbow of colors.
The fine tip applicator makes it easy to get just a drop of embellishment in all of your projects. Here I filled all the tiny circles in this cut with little bursts of color. This frames out the center of the card and adds some texture.
To create a pretty, soft background try ink blending. You will need a foam ink blending tool and some pigment inks. Ink blending is made of many, light layers of color. Use a gentle touch and dab off excess ink on a scrap piece of paper. Continue to blend inks together until you have a nice, smooth gradient.
This birthday card comes together with a fairy stamped image that was watercolored. Use pop dots to attach the stamped image so it can really stand out.
Combining the new Nuvo drops and some ink blending is a beautiful way to create a pretty greeting. It's easy to create multiple cards for different occasions at the same time. Remember to use a soft touch with the blending and experiment with different color combinations!" ~ Nancy Damiano
4:00 pm special guest – Hero Arts!
Color Layering stamps offer endless possibilities! I used Hero Arts Color Layering Hibiscus stamp set and stamped several large and small flowers using purples and a few leaves using greens. Images were cut out using coordinating dies and arranged onto an A2 panel framing a Birthday sentiment.
To create this sentiment I used "Birthday" from the Happy Birthday Script woodblock stamp, masked off the "Happy" and stamped it in black ink. I also added a layer of clear embossing powder for a shiny and raised look.
Several of the die cut images were foam mounted for a pop of dimension.
Lastly, I added a white heat embossed "Happy" from the You Are My Happy stamp set and embellished this card with a few metallic dots!" ~ Yana Smakula for Hero Arts
Thank you Yana for creating this gorgeous card! And guess what? Our friends at Hero Arts would love to offer the stamp and die set that Yana used to create this card. The winner of this hour's prize package will win the CL868 Color Layering Hibiscus stamp set and DI136 Color Layering Hibiscus Frame Cuts!
For an opportunity to win, please leave a comment below by October 8th! A winner will be randomly selected and announced on October 10th! Good luck!
Please join our friends at Hero Arts on their Facebook page and share a little "thank you" with them for another amazing prize!
Next at 6:00 pm – It's all about the holidays!
I absolutely adore all of Hero Arts’ layering stamp and die sets!!! This would be a wonderful prize to win!! Especially since Winter is on it’s way and if I won this flowers would be blooming all year long!! Fingers crossed and thanks for the fun day!
Love the hibiscus card! This flower always makes me think of Hawaii and other gorgeous locales.
Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Ooh, fabulous cards! Thanks for the inspiration.
I love Hero Arts, so thanks for the chance to win such a fantastic giveaway.
Very pretty. Sitting with the girls that taught me how to make cards 16 years ago?
Thank you Hero Arts!!!!
Love the stamp and die set. Lovely cards.
Love this card! Thank you for the inspiration!
Beautiful cards. Love the hibiscus layering set.
What a pretty collection of cards. I love seeing all the sweet inspiration.
Love all the cards, so much inspiration and techniques. Thanks
Lovely cards by all! Love Stacy’s pink flower and will have to try that. Nancy’s cards are adorable. And Yana’s card is beautiful. Love Hero Arts and would love to win this set!
Beautiful flower and I like the Nuvo drops. Very pretty Hero Arts card.
These cards are amazing
Truely awesome cards.
Lovely way to make flowers
on the first card and love
the fairies and inking on
the next cards. The stamping
on the last card is so pretty.
Carla from Utah
Lovely way to make flowers
on the first card and love
the fairies and inking on
the next cards. The stamping
on the last card is so pretty.
Carla from Utah
Wow! What neat ideas!!! Beautiful cards and I absolutely LOVE the Hero Arts stamp and die cut set! Awesome how the stamp sets layer!
Thanks for these tips on creating texture. Beautiful cards on this post. The Hero Arts layering stamps look wonderful!
Yana’s card is beautiful. I love how she achieved all the shades of purple by constant layering. She’s
a real pro!
I absolutely love the singe technique. It makes such
a beautiful edge! Definitely going to try this idea!
Beautiful cards. I loved the soft look the blending gave on the fairy cards.
Thanks for sharing the great inspiration and giveaway!
Love this gorgeous card!
Oh wow 3 beautiful cards and all different. Stacy Cohen, Nancy Damiano and Yana Smakula from Hero Arts have talent and we are happy that they don’t mind sharing their knowledge. Love these cards. Thanks you.
Love the techniques shared here. So inspiring! Thank you.
Beautiful cards ?
I LOVE Hero Arts’ layering stamps! The Hibiscus card is gorgeous (my favorite color!). Thank you HA for the chance to win this fabulous prize set.
Beautiful cards! Thanks for sharing!
Another bunch of beautiful cards!
These are all beautiful. That burnt flower is so pretty!!
These birthday cards are wonderful! Today is my mom’s 88th, but I am thinking of converting one to just an everyday card to send to her! Thank you!
Stunning cards! I am so going to try that nuvo trick from Nancy, love it!
Love the purples in the hibiscus card. Cool how you did the dots, Nancy.
So much inspiration! I adore Hero Arts and would be so happy to win. Thanks for the opportunity!
Once I saw the Hibiscus card, everything else just kinda went away! I would love to win the stamp and die set!!!
These are just lovely!
Great cards. I need to try those drops.
Beautiful cards!! I love the technique with the flowers – thanks for explaining it! Can’t wait to give it a try!
Lovely cards and a big thank you to Hero arts.
Love the hibiscus stamps and dies – lovely cards
Wow, what amazing techniques!
Thank you for the flower tutorial. The edges look real.
And I love the dots from Nuvo Crystal Drops.
Now I can go play.
Wow – love the flowers! Such gorgeous cards. I am inspired!!
Fabulous cards! I’d *almost* offer to have another birthday to get one!
These are some fabulous birthday cards! I love Stacy’s technique with the fabric and I can’t wait to try it (and hopefully not burn down my house! ). I’ve been wanting to get my hands on some Nuvo drops! That is such a pretty card..I love the colors!
I love Yana’s coloring and her layers for the hibiscus card! That’s such a lovely stamp set! Thanks for the chance to win.
Love Hero Arts stamps and dies and they’ve really outdone themselves with this hibiscus set. It’s absolutely gorgeous.
Beautiful! My favorite color is purple so you had me with the hibiscus card.
Wow-so many great tips in this post! Using the flame, and using those Nuvo Drops-so very cool!
Oh WOW!! I am in love with each and every design. Stunning cards!
Completely stunning layers
OMG! the hibiscus card is so pretty, such a simple technique. I can do this
Wonderful cards and a great prize – everything from Hero Arts is worth having!
Such beautiful cards. Love the feminine theme.
WOW!!! Great tips! I can hardly wait to try making my own flowers! Thanks for sharing!! And the cards have been breathtaking!!!! The hibiscus card is just stunning. Thank you.
I love all the cards! Thanks so much for the great techniques! I love learning new things for making cards.
Those are beautiful cards and that stamp/die set would be so useful in my craft room.
Beautiful projects! I would really love to try the Nuvo Drops…it looks like so much fun! Thanks for the stamp giveaway this hour!
Thank you for keeping me inspired and creating all day long!
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Love the material flower tutorial! Going to go try to make one now! Thanks to Hero Arts for an amazing prize!
Three great ideas, love Hero Arts supplies, thanks for the chance to win another great prize and especially for all of the inspiration and ideas today.
Loved all the 3 cards and the techniques used . My standing ovation to all the 3 designers for such fabulous cards .
Each card is a beauty! All so different and unique!
Hero Arts has THE most wonderful layering stamp sets and this one is fabulous!!
Love the stamp set!Lovely card!
Hero Arts layering stamps are fabulous. I would love to win those purple inks!!!
Love the fabric flower, and I can think of several ways to use it. Hero Arts has so many fantastic stamps and dies, one is always part of my go to pile. Thank you for the chance to win.
Gorgeous stamp set and gorgeous card!
What a beautiful card. I would love to win these stamps.
Great cards.Nuovo is a fun product.Two step stamps make amazing cards.Love it all!
Great cards and really wonderful ideas!
The violelts are so pretty.
I just purchased the Nuvo drops but
haven’t had a chance to use them.
They look so colorful on Nancy’s card.
Glad I have them.
Thanks to everybody for sharing
Happy WCMD
OH so much sweetness! I love that flower tutorial! Thank you, Stacy!! Nancy’s fairy cards are the cutest things ever!!! And Yana’s card is most beautiful!!! So much amazing and gorgeous inspiration!!!
LOVE the hibiscus card in my favorite color purples! Thanks Hero Arts for the chance to win.
Gorgeous cards! I’m looking forward to making my own flowers! Thank you!
I feel so inspired today! My brain is overflowing with wonderful ideas! I love Stacy’s flower too! Thanks for the chance to win some Hero Art goodies! I am a big fan!
Wow amazing cards ladies, so beautiful in every way! Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful cards and great tutorials. Happy Birthday, Hero Arts!
Love these different techniques!! Beautiful cards!
Om Goodness This would be such a blessing I would love to win a Hero Arts Layering stamp and Die set! I have wanted a layering set FOREVER! keeping my fingers crossed! Loved the cards that was made. THe ink blending was an awesome tip! I will definitely have to try that and THe flower burning is a cool little tip! Thank you for the inspiration!
WOW! What fabulous cards! Love the tutorial on making the flower for the first card. Melting polyester – who knew?!!! I love the angel card and the hibiscus card, too. So much inspiration – Thanks!!! 😀
such amazing and innovative ideas!!! loved the fabric flower. will definitely try it. thanks for sharing!! and happy 10th birthdayy!!! 🙂
Lovely cards! Thanks for the tips.
stunning cards ….absolutely love love the color combo!
Such a pretty card. I would love to win the supplies to create it.
I love Hero Arts. I love layering. I love hibiscus flowers. I’d love to win. Thanks SCT and Hero Arts for the chance.
Lovely flower and thanks for the tuitorial. Beautiful card with it too. Adorable card with the Nuvo dots. And Yana’s card is just so pretty with those flowers, color combo and sentiment. Would love to win this stamp set to make some lovely Birthday cards.
All beautiful creations. Really love what I am seeing today. Thank you.
I absolutely love the hero arts hibiscus and it gives so much bright and cheery feeling. Than you SCT for so much inspiration for my cards.
Wow! Fantastic cards as always Hero Arts. Love the layering stamps and have been wanting to try those Nuvo drops.
Amazing inspiration!! The hibiscus stamps are gorgeous! Thanks for the chance to win!
the flower curling technique is very interesting
Yana’s card is beautiful. I love how matching dies and stamps make fussy cutting a breeze!!!
All such lovely cards. Love the ideas. I just love the hibiscus card. What a great stamp and die set. How I would love to make these flower cards.
All of the creations are absolutely gorgeous! I love that idea to heat that paper to get a more realistic flower petal! Thank you so much for the chance to win the prize also, it will create wonderful cards using the flowers!
love every one of these cards!
I love hibiscus! We buy a couple to put in pots outside every summer on the deck. They remind me of trips to the tropics. What a great prize package! Yana does such great cards.
Fabulous cards! what a great way to make your own flowers! I’d love to try Nuvo drops – they look so pretty. The purples of Yana’s card are amazing!
Wonderful cards. Great technique ideas.
Thank you Yana for the beautiful card and thank you Hero Arts for the opportunity to win the stamps. Yay!
Oh, the cards are really inspiring! The no drops seems to be a must have. Thank you for the inspiration and for the great giveaway.
Thank you for the inspiration and giveaway.
Wonderful cards!
Beautiful blending of colours.
Thanks for the chance to win the stamp and framelits
Sheree
fun colors usinng the black/hot pink colors on the celebrate card
I love Hero Arts, so thanks for the chance to win such a fantastic giveaway. The cards are wonderful!
Wow! Awesome cards!!! I love Stacy’s flowers!!!
I just love those Nuvo drops! The colors on the Hero Arts card are just yummy. I just love everything purple.
As a card marker, I’m loving all the great ideas being presented today. I tried the Nuvo Drops are ScrapFest recently and they are very cool. The Hibiscus card is stunning.
Love the flower idea, I think I will try this.
Beautiful cards, love the burnt flower! Thanks for the chance!
WOWsers what beautiful and sweet cards! Thanks so much for inspiring us, Yana, and thanks to Hero Arts for such a generous giveaway prize! Big hugs, Kristina
Beautiful cards!
I love the Hibuscus stamps. Thanks for the chance to win such a gorgeous stamp set. The cards are amazing.
Really cool card ideas! Thanks for sharing!
Such pretty cards and I love the technique that was shown!! So much talent!!
SCT….always inspiring us. Love the techniques used here especially the flower.
Thank you Hero Arts for the opportunity to win.
wow—what awesome techniques–cannot wait to try!
Great! Love colour layering, Hero Arts and especially their Hero of the Month kits! Thank you for this opportunity. Xx
what a neat idea to make the flowers lover the shocking pink and black combination- thank you to Hero Arts for the opportunity to win the stamp and die set..
beautiful inspiration! Thank you for the opportunity to win…what a lovely stamp set!
Thanks Hero Arts, those hibiscus stamps are beautiful.
Wow, lots of great tips and inspirations here! Thank you for sharing the no-tools needed singed fabric flower, such great technique! The layering of stamped images and the ombre sponged inking method are something I need to pick up and emulate, the effects are magnificent!
Pretty cards. Love the hibiscus set, how fun to win
Pretty cards and some great ideas here. Hugz
Wow the inspiration! I love each idea presented today. Hero Arts has such wonderful ideas. Thanks for the color layering ideas.
Thanks for sharing the great inspiration and giveaway! Such a pretty way to show texture in each card!
Fabulous cards. Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win the materials to reproduce them.
Beautiful cards!!!
Always in need of birthday card ideas! Thanks to Stacy, Nancy and Yana for creating such awesomeness.
All of these a just lovely! I really must try burning my tissue paper for that cool flower look!
These cards are so sweet and the frame add an additional element of cute 🙂 Thank you for the festive greeting and Giveaway 🙂
Wow. fabulous card and tutorial! Love todays giveaway!
Eeeek! Love the burning flowers tutorial! I love to use my heat emboss tool to burn mesh or tulle for my projects. Will definitely have to try this. Thanks so much for sponsoring this hour, Hero Arts!
how lovely!
Wow! This hibiscus set looks amazing when stamped in purple. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Oooh, I love that hibiscus stamp and die set. Thank you for the tutorial on making fancy flowers from fabric
Lovely cards! Thanks for sharing instructions for the fabric flower – it is gorgeous!
Such gorgeous cards! Hero Arts is an amazing company with amazing products! Thanks to the talented ladies who have shared their ideas and creativity to inspire all of us. The Hibiscus stamp set and die has been on my wish list for far too long. It would be a great bunch of products to win! Thanks for the chance 🙂
Love the hibiscus card!
WOW – such WONDERFUL cards and EXCITING techniques!!!
I’m INSPIRED by the melting fabric, rainbow of inset dots and layers of inky awesomeness!!!
THANK YOU ALL for sharing your CREATIVE TALENT 🙂
Lovely, lovely cards!
Love the different ideas on the cards! Thanks!
wonderful cards
Beautiful cards!! Loving Nancy’s use of the Nuvo drops!! Pretty!
The cards are just getting better and better as the day goes on! First of all, Stacy’s homemade flower is stunning! I would never have thought to make my own – this is totally doable! Thank you for the idea! Nancy’s Nuvo Drops card is cute, cute, cute! Loving the die she used too – perfect for the drops! And I’m already a huge fan of Yana’s – her card is gorgeous! Thank you to Hero Arts for an awesome giveaway! I would love to try layering stamps!
I feel intimidated by all this awesomeness! But, I’m willing to give it a try!
Wow, what beautiful cards! And… Nuvo drops, where have you been all my life? 🙂
3 absolutely STUNNING cards and would love to play with this fabulous stamp set from Hero Arts. Of course, I will never be as talented as Yana!! Her card is gorgeous!!
Three beautiful cards, all using different techniques. I must try the fabric flower card by Stacey and hope I don’t burn the house down! Never heard of Nuvo Drops, I need to get out more; love what Nancy did with them. Hero Arts in another of my favorite companies; all my flower stamps seem to be roses. Would like to add a hibiscus, especially this one. Beautiful job on this card Yana! Thank you Hero Arts for the chance to win this gorgeous set!
Beautiful, colorful cards 😀
Great ideas this hour! I’m crossing toes & fingers as I would so love to win the color layering hibiscus set!
I have learned SO MUCH from these posts – thank you! (All bookmarked for future reference.) Thanks for the chance to win! Cheers, Louise
Thanks for the tutorial on making those gorgeous fabric flowers and for the chance to win a beautiful stamp set!
So many great cards and ideas!! Thanks for the chance to play : )
That hibiscus card is so beautiful! Thanks for all the great tips and inspiration
I love layered stamps. So gorgeous!
Such beautiful cards! Thank you for sharing the techniques!
More wonderful ideas!
What a spectacular card – the images, the colors and the design!
Oh my – beautiful!!!
how cool is that candle trick?!?
What a gorgeous floral set! Thanks for the chance to win.
Oh my goodness, the purples in the flower card from Hero Arts are AMAZING! Love them! Thanks for the chance to win!
Pretty cards and fun techniques
Wow, Love the layering Cards & my favorite color too !!!!
Absolutely love everything
I have done – can do – Many techniques, but am always pleased to learn new ones – Thank You – The above are all Lovely! ;-}
I absolutely adore all of Hero Arts’ layering stamp and die sets!!! This would be a wonderful prize to win!!My first go to is flowers.
I NEED those drops!! Fabulous giveaway – thank you?
I love it.
the cards are very pretty and I especially like how the petals of the flower was made (very cool technique) and nuvo drops on the second card
Wow so much inspiration! Love them all ladies!
Love this stamp and the floors used
Debbie Copeman
I meant to say love the colors used
What a beautiful stamp set!
What a beautiful stamp and frame.
Those cards are really cute….? I love the nuvo card. And the hero arts purple ink pad is aweeesome
love the Techniques that are used in this card!!!
Such beautiful cards! An interesting technique for creating the flower. Hero Arts is one of my favorites! 🙂
Thanks for the technique idea! Great stamps too!
Beautiful work by everyone!!!
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Really love all the new things Hero Arts is coming out with, especially all the layered stamps and dies. All the samples give such great ideas and inspiration – thank you!
Great idea. Love these cards!
Very pretty cards! Thanks for the giveaway!
Love Hero Arts! Thanks for a chance to win.
GORGEOUS – Love these layering stamps and how beautiful these cards are!!
All of these cards are so pretty and colourful – thank you for the great crafty tips! Thanks also to Hero Arts for the awesome prize!
Gorgeous cards!