Birthday candles
Hi crafters. Before I ever saw a Jennifer McGuire video or ordered stamps online, I found this stamp. I was treasure hunting at the second hand shop and got lucky by finding this Hero Arts Five big candles woodblock rubber stamp. It was probably the first larger rubber stamp I owned. I often wonder about the person who relinquishes a second hand stamp – did they go into a nursing home or worse? I rarely see good craft items like this as crafters don’t part willingly with their items very often. I am sharing this for the Hero Arts’ 45th anniversary as they are having a show and tell about first Hero Arts stamps. I got mine to do birthday cards before I knew much about stamping. I still use it. As the current challenge at A Blog Named Hero is CAS, I made a couple of simple cards with it. The graphic bold lines make it useful for many styles of card. I plan to do paper piecing with it one day as I think it would work well with this stamp. It is a great CAS Stamp.
I’m focusing on the retro card here. I stamped onto retro paper with Versafine onyx black and black heat embossed. I also used a sentiment from the Hero greetings occasions set. I went over the candles and flames with a Zig wink of Stella brush. I matted it on black and rounded all the corners.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Hero Arts show and tell celebration
A Blog Named Hero:
Simon says Stamp Wednesday challenge: Anything goes
3 Comments
Cindy C.
This is a great find indeed! And your CAS cards made with it are just gorgeous!! Thanks for sharing.
Debby
What a great stamp and such fabulous cards you’ve made with it.
Thank you for joining us at Simon says Stamp Wednesday challenge.
luv
Debby
SkyPaperScissors
What wonderful cards! Thank you for playing in the A Blog Named Hero monthly challenge!