I wanted to make a special card for a young lady who I adore. I have been saving this butterfly ( I colored it while away on vacation ) so it was just waiting to fly into a card for a special person ....so that made it easy to assemble.The butterfly is a Hero Arts stamp and I colored with my Copics then I used a Spica pen to add the glittery dots and lines. I put a thick layer of Glossy Accents on the butterfly this morning to enhance it. It looks pretty cool in person. Thanks for looking!

Hero Arts is my favorite rubber stamp company. Each week they have a new challenge. Here is the link to their web sight so you can see for yourself.

http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2009/07/06/summer-vacation-here-we-come/

Hero Arts is giving away many prizes next week with many exciting things happening so check it out. I created this for the challenge this week. This travel keepsake journal's design was inspired by Claudine Hellmuth.
Here is her web sight. www.claudinehellmuth.com/
The book is from 7 gypsies & pp is Basic Grey. We will be traveling up the coast so I have waves and sand in the background. I used HA dots & flowers and dot flourish boarder. The arms and legs are stamps from Claudine's stamp set. I made clothes from BG papers. The bird & butterfly are from HA. For the suitcases I printed the destinations on checked paper from Amuse and cut rectangles and rounded the corners, stamped, distressed. For the handles I used the Cuttlebug tag. For the inside I jused Antique lined Ranger ink & dried marigold. Some of the stamping inside is from HA travel set (wood stamps 2008 but, there isn't a number)
Thanks for looking!! The inside is envelpoes so we can put business cards, theater ticket stubs, favorite resturant information...etc.

This is the first page in the travel journal. I made 8 suitcases for each page for each destination that we will be traveling to. They were really fun to make and I have a card in the works.

The globe is a 2008 HA travel set...wood block but, I can't find a number. After making all 8 suitcases I found the travel set in my drawer with a suitcase...LOL

This is a close up of the suitcases. For the background I used Hero Arts Dots & Flowers background stamp with Ranger's dried marigold ink. Then I distressed the edges in Ranger's antique linen ink. For the handles I used my Cuttlebug with the tags from Spellbinders. I added a glossy coat of Claudine Hellmuth's clear paint to give the suitcases a canvas look.

Well this is my first post so let's see how it goes...testing one..two....three...