Stay Crafty with Hero Challenge #19 and Simon Says Stamp’s Wednesday Challenge

The following cards were inspired by Hero Arts’ Stay Crafty with Hero Challenge #19 to include a heart and Simon Says Stamp’s Wednesday Challenge to layer it up. My main focal point of the cards was Hero Arts Renaissance Heart Die. It’s a beautiful die and I used it to create die cuts and to make an impression on the card front. The cards are shown below along with the supply lists in the photo captions. Hope you are able to get some crafty time in this weekend!

Using pink watercolors, I combined various colors of pink watercolors on watercolor cardstock and let it dry before die cutting the heart from it using Hero Arts’ Renaissance Heart die. The white card base was sprayed with gold spritz/spray and left to dry. The be mine sentiment was die cut from cardstock using Penny Black’s Be Mine die and then heat embossed with gold tinsel embossing powder. The card was assembled by attaching the heart die-cut to the card base, a strip of tracing paper was stapled to the card base, and the be mine die-cut was glued to the tracing paper.

Hero Arts’ Renaissance Heart die was used to emboss the gray cardstock. The love die-cut was cut from some watercolor washed cardstock using Papertrey’s Wet Paint love die. The You Always sentiment from Papertrey’s Wet Paint stamp set was stamped on a thin strip of pink cardstock. The heart impression gives the look of an added layer without adding additional cardstock.

The gold heart die-cut was cut from gold shimmer cardstock using Hero Arts’ Renaissance Heart die. The banner was die cut from ivory cardstock using Simon Says Stamp’s Tilted Banners die and stamped with Happily ever after from Papertrey’s Love Lives Here stamp set. The sentiment was attached to the heart die-cut and then attached to a layer of ivory and gold shimmer cardstock and then attached to an ivory cardstock card base. The edges of the upper square card front were distressed for some texture.