It’s been awhile, little blog. Does anyone still read this?

According to my blog stats, I get a lot of views thanks to this embossed vellum card which is wildly popular on Pinterest. Everytime I check this page my heart does a little song and dance.

I was planning a few little pins for our Paperie Pinterest board and I couldn’t find these cards I made a few years back on either this blog or The Paperie blog. Time to rectify that! These two cards are oldies but goodies using some older Hero Arts floral stamps.

Both of these cards feature two of my favourite things, VersaMark Pen and the White Uni-Ball Pen. For the card above, I stamped the same floral image in two sizes on the kraft card base using Rich Cocoa Memento Ink. I also stamped the larger flower on a scrap of white cardstock and a scrap of pink cardstock, and cut out the two layers popping them up on the card with foam tape. I used a VersaMark Pen to outline the brown flowers on the kraft cardstock and shade the centers to make them pop a little. The white border was cut from an AccuCut album borders set.

The second card is a longer card which fits in a business size envelope. This might just be the only card I made in this size, but I liked it so maybe I’ll try again someday. Again I repeated another Hero Arts floral stamp in Rich Cocoa Memento Ink on Kraft cardstock and shaded the centers and outlines with VersaMark Pen, accenting with my fave White Uni-Ball Pen. The focal flower was stamped three times on pink, blue and orange cardstock and cut out the three layers of each stamp to create a multi-color flower.

Love these notecards that Amber made on the Damask Love Blog with the VersaMark Pen – check them out!

This weekend I’m hoping to participate in The Hero Arts Challenge, I borrowed the sketch for The Paperie’s Mojo Monday challenge to motivate customers and tomorrow we’ll feature a colorful card submitted by Denise Tilley. Here’s the sketch, from Heroarts.com…

You should play along too if you have a chance. Hey! Just noticed that my first card vaguely resembles this sketch. I’m planning a little Spring Florals card class for May at The Paperie, perhaps I’ll use this sketch as inspiration for the first card. Stay tuned!