Coffee Bean Christmas Tree with Hero Arts

Can you believe it's that time of year already!?  The Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is upon us and I'm super excited to join the fun!!  Amy and friends work super hard to make this the best blog hop filled with awesome inspiration and crazy generous prizes!  Not familiar?  Hop over and come join the fun!!

My coffee go-to set is by Hero Arts called Kelly's Coffee and Donuts and I decided to make a coffee bean Christmas tree.

I used Hero Arts Ombre ink in Light to Dark Brown and stamped out the coffee beans after creating a triangular stencil out of some scratch paper.  The little coffee cups were colored with copic markers and individually cut and adhered to appear as Christmas ornaments.  The little star is a die cut from silver glitter paper.

The card front uses Hero Arts Snowflake Border Background Stamp for a tone on tone look.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts Christmas Messages (my go-to holiday stamp set this season) and heat embossed in Hero Arts Silver Embossing Powder.  Best part?  It's on sale over at a2z Scrapbooking!

The gals over at a2z Scrapbooking  have some delicious looking projects...go ahead and take a peek!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Christmas Gift Card/Money Holders with A2Z Scrapbooking

Aloha and happy Thursday friends!  I'm feeling the pressure to finish up the Christmas shopping and finding that gift card/money holders will have to do... especially for my older nieces and nephews..

Today I'm over at A2Z Scrapbooking using this fun Hero Arts Christmas Messages 

This set is perfect for tags, cards and gift card/money holders.  Here's one of them...

 Just about any project could be jazzed up with these sweet sentiments.  Best part?  It's on sale over at A2Z Scrapbooking!!

Stop by the blog to see more.  There's still some time for shopping and gifting so don't forget to use my code NICKI15 for 15% off any purchase over $25.

Mahalo for stopping by!

Love this Hero Arts Christmas Stamp!

Aloha and happy Sunday friends!
I'm over at a2z Scrapbooking blog today to share my favorite Hero Arts Christmas stamp this year...

Stop by the blog to check out a quick and easy way to make a ton of Christmas cards for the guys and gals in your life!

You can find this stamp and all the amazing Hero Arts stamps over at a2z Scrapbooking.  Don't forget proceeds benefit the Behcets and Celiac's Disease community and if you spend over $25 you can use code NICKI15 for a 15% discount.

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Hawaiian Christmas

Hope you all are having a great weekend.  Quick post to share that I'm over at a2z Scrapbooking blog to share a fun way to use those Hero Arts Destination stamps!  I've added a couple of Hero Arts stamps from the Winter Catalog...can you spot them?

Got a tag or a project with a tag on it using Hero Arts goodies?  Join us for our monthly challenge for your chance to win $25 to a2z Scrapbooking!!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Christmas Envelopes with Lawn Fawn

Happy Monday friends!

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I actually found some time this weekend to play with my new goodies from Lawn Fawn!!  Vanessa from Butterfly Reflections Ink hooked me up...I totally recommend her store for speedy service and huge selection of goodies!

I played with the Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Envelope die using some glitter paper and used some scrap cardstock to create scenes and cover panels (just by using the envelope die to cut the panel I needed).  These envelopes will be perfect for holding gift cards or money for the holidays!

On the left uses the Lawn Fawn Scripty Merry die and I made a little banner with the sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Cheery Christmas set inked in Lawn Fawn Yeti ink.

On the right uses the Lawn Fawn Cheery Christmas and the sentiment from Lawn Fawn's Tiny Tag Sayings inked in Lawn Fawn Fish Tank ink.

With all that glitter paper and texture I wanted to enter the latest Lawnscaping Challenge...

Mahalo for stopping by and hope y'all have a great week ahead!

Coffee Tree for A Blog Named Hero

Aloha friends and happy Saturday.

Haha, anybody else ready for a do over just to have more time?

Time flies when you're having fun! 

I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving, and if you don't celebrate, I hope it was at least relaxing!

I'm over at 

A Blog Named Hero today using these supplies

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Here's a little sneaky peek...

I hope you'll stop by to see the entire card...it's so fun!

Also this entire month A Blog Named Hero is giving our commenters
a chance to win 1 of 2 Hero Arts $25 Gift Certificates!!
Enter the rafflecopter over on the blog!

Mahalo!

Hearted Christmas Tree for a2z Scrapbooking

Happy Monday friends!

I'm over at

a2z Scrapbooking 

using this fun and inexpensive Hero Arts Stamp Set

Baked by Lia

I used that heart to create a sweet little Christmas tree!

Hop on over to check it out!

There's also an AWESOME sale going on, so now's the time 

to get that item you've been eyeing!

Use code NICKI15 and save an additional 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

Keep in mind that your purchase helps auto immune communities build awareness and programs

to help those with Behcets and Celiac Disease!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Tis the Season with Hero Arts Blog Hop

Aloha and welcome to my blog!

I'm Niki G. with A Blog Named Hero and can't wait to share
my love of Hero Arts and their latest Holiday collection with you!

Going in blog hop order you came by way of the awesomely sweet,
Lisa Stein!

I've got some cards today filled with sparkle!
I'm a huge fan of multi-colored lights to trim the tree,
 but my husband prefers white lights.
Do you have a preference? I would love to know!

In today's first card I got to trim my own tree using
Hero Arts Sparkle Borders and Hero Arts Shadow inks.
Take a look...

I simply made my own triangular mask out of typing paper and used a sponge dauber
to define the Christmas tree edge, then stamp out my string of lights (leaving the mask in place.)
  I used a sponge dauber and some Hero Arts Shadow inks to color in the bulbs
 and stickles in coordinating color for more bling!
The "pot" is from Hero Arts Merry Cactus to You
 inked in Hero Arts Sand to Chocolate Brown ombre ink.
I lined the edge of my card base with some red glitter tape,
stamped the sentiment on the card front panel and adhered with foam tape.

Here's a closeup...

and just for fun I made a "white light" tree for the hubby
with Hero Arts Silver Shadow ink.

I have one last card to share for the upcoming New Year!
Can you believe we're that close to 2016?!

For my background I used the Hero Arts Sparkle Borders
heat embossed in Hero Arts Silver Embossing powder.
The sentiment (shine brightly) is from the same set
 (to get the "in" I just masked "sh" and "e")
The numbers is from Kelly's Outline Letters.
I'm thinkin' I'll be making a few of these in different colors!

Ok that's it for me!  MAHALO for stopping by!

Next up is the super fabulous
Amy Tsuruta
have fun hopping!!

 If you happen to find a link that doesn't work, you can hop back to the Hero Arts Blog for a list of direct links to all the blogs in today's hop or check below...

Hero Arts
 Linda Trace
 Libby Hickson
Lisa Stein
that's me-----> Niki Garcia 
Amy Tsuruta
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Mateja Povse 
Suzanne Dahlberg
Michelle Lupton 
Bhavana Kesarkar 
Mariana Grigsby
Chitra Menon
Gayatri Murali
Isabel Rivera Ruiz 
Clare Prezzia

and you've finally made it til the end!

GIVEAWAY 

We stashed away THREE of the November 2015 My Monthly Hero kits to giveaway to readers of this hop. The winners will be randomly chosen from all of the blog hop comments, across all blogs, received by 11:59pm PST on Sunday, November 22nd. Check the Hero Arts blog for the announcement of the winner on Tuesday, November 24th.

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Critters and Cacti for A2Z Scrapbooking

TGIF!

Today I'm over at A2Z Scrapbooking with a combination of 

Hero Arts stamp sets that is sure to make you smile!

I would love it if you stopped by and left me some comment love!

Here's a little sneaky peek...

I used these fun Hero Arts sets...

Ok!  Hope to see you over at A2Z Scrapbooking!

There's also an awesome sale going on to help kickstart your holiday projects.

Remember that proceeds go towards helping the Behcets and Celiac autoimmune communities.

Use code "NICKI15" for 15% off your entire purchase!

Happy Friday and have a great weekend!!

Mahalo for stopping by!!!

A Kid Christmas Card for A Blog Named Hero

I LOVE everything bright and cheery and if I can put a rainbow on it...

even better!

Today's card is for the latest A Blog Named Hero Challenge:

I decided to make a Christmas card filled with color
perfect for any kid!

I used one of my FAVORITE stamp sets from the Hero Arts Holiday catalog
Merry Cactus To You inked up in Lawn Fawn inks.
(Lawn Fawn inks work PERFECTLY with solid stamps)
I created a scene to make the penguin from Lawn Fawn's Toboggan Together set look like
he was placing the star on the top of the cactus!

I first inked up the pots and stamped them upside down to create a pile of pots
for the penguin to stand on.
Then I stamped the cactus and colored in copics.
I die cut the scene with Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle die and
then adhered to a panel die cut with Lawn Fawn's Scalloped Rectangle Stackables using
Lawn Fawn's Let's Bokeh in the Snow pattern paper.
The cream colored bokeh pattern paper is also from the same paper pad.
Lastly the sentiment was stamped up from Lawn Fawn's Let's Bokeh set.

Here's a close up...

That's my card for today!
I hope you'll join our challenge for your chance to win a

A big shoutout to Simon Says Stamps for being our generous sponsor and
of course Lawn Fawn  for letting us play with their amazing products this month!

Can't wait to see what you all create!

Mahalo!!

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