Hero Arts Stamp Your Story Blog Hop — part 2!

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Hola! Welcome to my stop on the Hero Arts Stamp Your Story blog hop!  You should have arrived here via Michelle Wooderson’s blog — hi Mish! If you’re just joining us or you encounter a broken link you can head back to the start at Hero Arts.

I’ve got four one layer cards to share with you today, all featuring one of my favorite sets in the Stamp Your Story collection:  Stamp and Build. This set may not look like much at first glance. But oh, the possibilities. They are endless.

Hero Arts Stamp and Build (LP282)

One little trick I wanted to share:  if you plan to use a stamp positioner like I did, mark the side of the square and rectangle that goes against the positioner with a bit of washi tape.  The edges aren’t perfectly even, so this will keep you from stamping it the wrong way like I did! Ooops! (Triangle tape preferred if you have it, ha!)

Now on to the cards! First I had to play with the triangle — because I’m really into triangles at the moment. Have been for a while now, as evidenced by my pinterest board. (Come back and check it out after the hop for lotsa ideas.) I wanted to make a card that would cure the summertime blues — ha! — so I used a whole lotta blues, including neon!

The Cure for the Summertime Blues by Lisa Spangler

(Colors used: soft sky, soft granite, navy, cornflower, stone wash, neon blue, and silver.)

This was so easy to do! I just broke out my trusty stamp positioner, then stamped a bunch of rectangles in the background. Then I overstamped them with triangles. There’s something relaxing about using a stamp positioner and blue inks. (Either that, or maybe the heat is getting to me ha!! — it’s been HOT here in Austin, Texas!)

The Cure for the Summertime Blues by Lisa Spangler

The message on the side reads “you’re the best…in the west”. Just love that! It’s from this Hero Arts/Studio Calico set. These are two separate stamps — I added the “…” with a black pen. :)

And I just had to use a silver metallic triangle on the neon blue square. Just because.

The Cure for the Summertime Blues by Lisa Spangler

Next, that sentiment gave me the idea to make the card again, but using southwest colors. Something like you’d find in a hip boutique here — and pay like $25 for a set of 4 cards. :)

Southwest Triangles by Lisa Spangler

(Colors used: pale tomato, soft peach, wet cement, charcoal, soft sand, mint julep, neon orange, gold.)

But this time? This time I gave that mint julep rectangle a gold triangle.

Southwest Triangles by Lisa Spangler

Love how the Hero inks smooth into the paper and blend together. It’s almost like suede.

Next I decided I wanted to use the square stamp, and play with overlapping colors. So I came up with this:

Hello There by Lisa Spangler

Hello There by Lisa Spangler

(Colors used: butterbar, cornflower, mint julep, tide pool, fresh peach, pale tomato.)

You can really see how the inks overlap to form new colors on this one! Note I didn’t use any green or orange inks —  those stripes you see were made just from the overlapping colors! And the sentiment is from this set.

And I still couldn’t stop until I used every last stamp in the set. As I was pondering what to do, I was thinking about how triangles look like mountains, and came up with this one. It reminds me of Mt. Fuji!

Hope to get back there someday when we can stay longer and hike the whole way to the top. :)

Fuji-san by Lisa Spangler

Fuji-san by Lisa Spangler

On this card, I used the kissing technique to give the skinny rectangles a little texture. It’s really easy to do — first I inked the skinny rectangle with soft sky and then I inked the envelope pattern stamp with navy. Then I kissed the skinny rectangle to the envelope pattern stamp and finally stamped it on my card front. So cool.

Then to get the little snow cap on top of Mt. Fuji I used my stamp positioner to stamp it twice. First I inked the triangle with cornflower and navy inks and stamped it. Then I cleaned it off and inked it with silver and stamped it again.   Really love how this came out, so peaceful somehow.

Sure hope you liked my one layer cards! In case you haven’t heard, I issued a one layer card challenge over on the Hero Arts blog HERE! It runs now through July 15th — hope you can join in the fun! And if you need some more triangle inspiration, check out the CASE Study Challenge blog this week for two more cards from me (using different supplies, ha ha) and amazing cards from the DT! :)

Before you go, be sure to leave a comment — Hero is giving away a great prize pack with the winner chosen randomly from all the pool of comments left on all the blogs in the hop. The more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win. Woo!

Now then, on with the hop! Your next stop is the amazing Kristina Werner — I just can’t wait to see what she’s made! (I know it will be awesome — just like her.) Take it away, K!

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322 Replies to “Hero Arts Stamp Your Story Blog Hop — part 2!”

  1. Debbie Eslinger says:

    you definitely showed the possibilities with these stamps thanks for the many ideas that are swimming around in my mind

  2. pam h in oregon says:

    Beautiful cards.. so impactful.

  3. i love the colors and the way the card turned out

  4. Miriam Prantner says:

    These cards are wonderful! I love how the first card changes so drastically just based on the colors used. My favorite is the diagonal strips of the rectangle stamp though.

  5. Lisa, love your simple approach – smashing!

  6. To say these cards are gorgeous would be an understatement ! And with just a simple little stamp set, love them!

  7. Lisa, you are amazing! These cards are simply fantastic!!!

  8. Carole Hepburn says:

    LOVE the graphic designs – looks marvelous !!!

  9. Cynthia B. says:

    You’ve done an amazing job with this set! Great blending of colors!

  10. Gloria R. says:

    Lisa, you’re fabulous…besides liking donuts, you make great cards!

  11. Great cards! They are simple yet stunning!!

  12. When I first saw this set I was a bit skeptical that it was all that useful, but all of these cards are beautiful. I especially like the mountain and sunshine on the last one. Thanks so much for sharing.

  13. Love these graphic designs!

  14. Donna Cala says:

    I love graphic cards so I flipped for this blog post. They would make an awesome gift given as a set.

  15. LauraJane says:

    Very modern ARTSY cards today Lisa!
    Diggin’ your TRIANGLE love!

  16. Tammy Bachmeier says:

    Lisa, I love how you used all of the stamps from the stamp set! Very imaginative. I think my favorite of your creations, is the “Hello There” card, where you used the square stamp at an angle.

  17. beautiful cards with awesom stamps,loved it,simple and clean

  18. Brenda Becknell says:

    Love your cards! I really want to try the overlapping colors technique!

  19. You are right. I would have chose this as one of the last stamp sets to purchase and yet you made it so fun and inspiring. thanks.

  20. Love the basic shapes and the wonderful cards you made. Need to remember what color plus what color equals ______! That one would be so much fun to make.

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