Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Making Cards for Hero Arts

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Have you seen the post at the Hero Arts Blog showing the cards several of us made for Hero Arts?   Every year at the beginning of December, Hero Arts stores have Catalog Debut Parties.  At these parties, stores show the brand new Hero Arts products from the big new annual catalog.  Each store gets sample boards that have card samples using the new stamps, and we got to make these cards this year!  I was so tickled to be a part of it, and wanted to share just a couple photos of the card I worked on.


I like to think of this as the "L" card.  Lisa Spangler designed it, Lisa Carroll and Lisa Stein cut out all those flower heads, and I put all the pieces together - 199 times!  Many, many thanks to Lisa and Lisa for all that cutting; they saved me lots and lots of time!

Here is a picture taken at our local Archiver's in Fairlawn, OH at a catalog debut party on December 10,  showing the board with my card on it!  I was so thrilled to see it there!


And here's a picture of all of them before they were sent to Hero Arts:


If you're wondering how long it took me to get these finished, I worked at them for 10 consecutive days in November, and produced them in an assembly line, first cutting out all the pieces to size, then stamping the flower, coloring the leaves and stem, then popping the cut-out flowers on top and then adding the sentiment strip and the pearls.  I finished them before Thanksgiving.

Many thanks to Hero Arts for allowing me to be part of this new catalog debut!

26 comments:

Virginia L. said...

You AMAZE me! I love love that HA chose YOU to make this particular card! You did it so SPLENDIDLY!! What a sight to see all the same beautifully crafted cards displayed together!( Now that's one shot I missed!)HUGS to you for an excellent job done!

Dotty Jo said...

Wow Lin, these look fabulous - amazing work, Jo x

CinnamonSally said...

Wow Lin what a chance to make this sample card for Hero Arts, love Lisa's design and what a fabulous photo of all your finished cards.

Auntie Em said...

Congratulations!!! Oh my! That is so many beautiful cards! Quite an honour to be chosen to have your card featured but it's certainly a lot of work! :D
Thanks for sharing! :)

Ellie Knol said...

I also attended a catalog debut party at our local store on the 15 th of december... and there was one of these boards with the three cards!

You did a great job, all you L's!

Anonymous said...

These are amazing! Thanks to all the "L" s hard work!

Savannah O'Gwynn said...

WOWOWOWOWW! I can't believe how many you made!! I LOVE that flower with the pearls--AMAZING! You rock!!!

Janet a.k.a. swanlady21 said...

Awesome job! That was a lot of colouring.

Isha Gupta said...

WOW!!! Amazing!!! No wonder you were asked Lin. You did an awesome job...they look so pretty together. Wish I had a chance to see them in real.

Pam W Merwin said...

WOW - that is amazing! The card is beautiful. I put this stamp on my wish list when I saw it on the "card" in the catalog. Well done to all of you - isn't it so sweet when you have such sweet spirits to help you :)

Sue McRae said...

Wow, that's a whole lot of cards Lin! Big congrats on helping out Hero Arts!

Trinh said...

Love that shot of all the cards together, Lin! You did a fantastic job with the cards. I love how you colored the flowers!

Mona Pendleton said...

Holy Smokes Lin! What a beautiful collection of cards! Happy Holidays!

Dawn T said...

this is a beautiful card Lin and you worked so hard to make this many... very impressive.. How did you manage to make all the other cards you posted at the same time...

Cathy A said...

Wow you have been busy! Lovely work Lin, love your bingo card too!

Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas
Hugs
Cathyx

Karen B. said...

Absolutely beautiful, absolutely amazing!

Suzanne C said...

Stunning card and what an achievement!

Petti said...

This is huge pile of card! Beautiful cards!

Emilia said...

Wow, so many!!! Well done!

Lisa Carroll said...

WOW... it's amazing to see them all finished like that! That is a HUGE accomplishment, Lin, and I was honored to have been able to help. :)

Many hugs to you, Lin! Merry Christmas! xo

Tomo H. said...

Very lovely card! I looked your name on HA blog post about this card.
Really amazing to finish all the card! The photo at the bottom is quite a spectacle!!!

Lorraine A said...

Oh wow !! gorgeous card Lin and it's fabulous to see them all in one photo !! AWESOME !! and so nice to have been chosen by Hero Arts !! :-) Well Done :-) xx

Hope you had a lovely Christmas xx

luv
Lols x x x

Tiffany Ervin said...

Lin! What an amazing amount of work on these cards! I love this card the most because of the flower! Thanks for sharing with us!

donna mikasa said...

What a labor of love! I saw the board at my LSS and was trying to guess who did which card! I guessed correctly that you did the flower card!

Kathy said...

Oh my Lin
this was my favorite out of all of them. wah hoooooo
amazing work
xxo

Didi said...

Hi Lin,

today I have received my first shipment of HA Debut Collection (well, things go a bit slowlier here in Europe :D) and I´ve also received 3 different displays with sample cards. Just found your blog hunting for stamp images and I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK WHILE ASSEMBLING THE CARDS! I really appreciate that! All the cards are amazing!