Hero Arts A Little | D.Ann's Crafting Whims

Welcome back to my second post for the Fall Coffee Lovers Hop.

I thought I’d start by sharing with you something cool that came my way recently. Knowing I love tea and tea parties, my cousins surprised me this fabulously beautiful and unique Burton + Burton teapot/cup for one, and a terrific loose-leaf brewer/strainer with a bunch of wonderful Teavana teas, including a DIVINE chocolate decadence oolong. What a bunch of sweeties they are!! The teapot came from an amazing tea house called Batar, near Seymour, Indiana. Check out their website to see their amazing edible cookie gift boxes and other fun stuff. Worth stopping by if you’re travelling through!! (They serve regular tea-bag teas, but their food was delish and the shopping delightful for any tea/coffee lover!!)

Now, on to today’s card. I have a fun shaker tag on it with a concealed gift card for a coffee drinking friend:

I think most gals with CFS feel that chick most days – talk about hitting the wall! lol! If I were making this for me, I’d’ve put ‘chocolate’ instead of coffee. : )

Among other things that inspired this card were the Bellarific Friday {Mojo}Bella Card Sketch (#19) and color inspiration photo:

A quick note on how the leaves were made: I love how the Color Burst pigment powders do just what their name says… you sprinkle just a little on your paper, then spritz with water and the colors really do burst on the scene!

Now, I could’ve added more color and spritzed again, but I wanted that just for some natural variation in the fall leaves. I then cut them out and colored the rest in with Copics and distressed them, folding in the veins. In real life, they look pretty realistic!

Oh, one other quick note… I had a brand new Hero Arts ombre pad that came unglued from the base. A while back another manufacturer’s petal point ink pad did the same and they told me just to glue it back on. I wrote Hero Arts asking the best way to glue theirs back on and they quickly wrote back saying that they stand by their product and would replace it for me. It was in the mail the very next day. THAT is customer service, folks!! This pad has worked fine ever since. Now I love Hero Arts all the more!

Supplies:

Hero Arts – A Little stamp set
Stamping Bella – the chicks who “couldn’t even” stamp set
CAS-ual Fridays – Scallop Tag and Acorn Fri-dies
Hero Arts ombre Butter Bar to Orange Soda dye ink pad
Color Box Cocoa pigment ink (for COFFEE)
Ranger clear embossing powder (over the cocoa ink)
Memento Rich cocoa ink (bird and sentiment)
Ken Oliver’s Color Bursts: Sepia, Burnt Orange, Yellow Ochre
Copic Markers:
- Bird & wall: C1, 3, 5; Y13, 15, 17; YR04, 07; R29, 89; W1, 3
- Leaves: E29, YR02, 04, 07; R29, 39
Pebbles, Inc. Basic Brights Chalks
Dreamweaver Picasso tool (for clouds)
Martha Stewart Crafts Vintage Leaf Glitter – Brownstone
Core-dinations cardstock – white & orange
Tombow: Xtreme permanent adhesive and foam tape
Misc. seed beads
Starbucks gift card