Heart Flourish Thank You Card

Hello! Today I'd like to share a card that I made for a Hero Arts Catalog CASE challenge. Depending on who you ask, CASE is an acronym for "copy and steal everything" or "copy and selectively edit." In this case, our instructions were to change two or three things to make it our own.

I selected a tag on page 71 of the 2009 Hero Arts catalog. The tag was made by Sally Traidman and features the Heart Flourish stamp. I just acquired this stamp and I was itching to use it - so this challenge came at a perfect time for me!

I started with the tag made by Sally as my inspiration, but I decided to change the colors and to make the tag into a card.

My CASE of the Heart Flourish tag:
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To make the card, I started by taking a shipping tag and stamping the Heart Flourish image on it with VersaMark watermark ink. I covered the stamping with white embossing powder and heat embossed it. Then I stamped around the edges of the first impression using different pieces of the same stamp, until the tag was covered and heat embossed these areas, too.

Next, I took my non-stick craft sheet and applied both Worn Lipstick (pink) and Spiced Marmalade (orange) Distress Inks directly to the craft sheet. I misted the ink with water in a Mini-Mister until the ink beaded up. Then I dipped my tag face down into the ink and wiggled it a little. I turned it back right side up and dried the ink with my heat tool. Then I dipped the tag back into the droplets and dried the ink again. Afterwards, I buffed the areas covered by the white embossing powder to remove most of the dye inks. I just love how this tag turned out!

For the card base, I took some kraft cardstock and cut it to 4.25" wide by 11" long. Then I folded it in half to make a 4.25" x 5.5" card base (A2 sized). The fold for the card is along the top, instead of along the left side, for variety. I stamped a border around the edges using Vintage Sepia pigment ink and set it aside to dry.

Meanwhile, I took a 1 3/4" diameter chipboard circle and covered it with yellow paint. It took about 3 coats to get good coverage. Once the paint was dry, I distressed the top of it using Spiced Marmalade dye ink spritzed with water on my non-stick craft sheet. I dipped it in the dye ink, dried it with my heat tool, dipped it again, and dried it until I got an interesting pattern. Then I stamped the "thank you" sentiment on top in Vintage Sepia ink.

I used a Ranger Inkssentials Opaque White Pen to add accents to the stamped border of the card base. Then I attached two red gemstones in the lower corners where the borders meet. I attached a ribbon and a gemstone to the tag, and adhered it to the card base. Finally, I adhered the sentiment on the chipboard circle to finish the card.

Materials used:

• Avery pre-strung shipping tag: manilla


• cardstock: kraft


• chipboard circle, 1 3/4" diameter


• gemstones, large red (unknown brand)


• Hero Arts K5153 Heart Flourish


• Hero Arts CL288 Scallop Borders


• Hero Arts CL142 Thank You Messages


• Plaid Apple Barrel craft paint: 20219 Banana (yellow)


• Ranger Distress Ink: Worn Lipstick (pink) and Spiced Marmalade (orange)


• Ranger embossing powder: seafoam white


• Ranger Inkssentials Heat-It Craft Tool (heat gun)


• Ranger Inkssentials Mini-Mister


• Ranger Inkssentials Non-Stick Craft Sheet


• Ranger Inkssentials Opaque White Pen


• ribbon


• Tsukineko VersaFine pigment ink: Vintage Sepia


• Tsukineko VersaMark watermark ink

Thanks for stopping by!