Hello stampers! We’re delighted to have a super talented guest artist joining us from across the pond today. Please give Taheerah Atchia a big Hero Arts welcome and enjoy her trio of gorgeousness!
Hi! I’m Taheerah. I’m a geek. And I like to make stuff.
I live in the UK with my wonderful cats, and I work in IT, building and testing software. I’m a scientist at heart (I have a degree in Astrophysics), but I’ve always also been creative. I like to balance all the technical, thinking work I do in my day job with doing something with my hands, which is where crafting comes in! I love combining designs/products in think-outside-the-box ways, as well as mixing it up with a varied style and capitalising on the latest trends. I’d love it if you stopped by my site and learned more about me!
I’m so thrilled to be guesting for Hero Arts today to share a trio of Christmas cards!
I had a ton of fun making a couple of different backgrounds using some heat embossing techniques – and then finishing off with a vintage-inspired card for something different altogether!
For my first card, I blended Red Royal ink over some shimmery cardstock to create an ombre look! When my ink was dry I then stamped the beautiful Hand Drawn Snowflakes Bold Prints stamp and heat embossed it with Gold Embossing Powder.
I added a sentiment from the gorgeous Happy Holly Days set and heat embossed that onto gold cardstock for a coordinating look.
For my next card I heat embossed the stunning Forest And Deer Bold Prints stamp onto shimmery cardstock again, then swiped my Navy ink pad all over the panel to cover it entirely. I watered down some Silver ink and then watercoloured a little over the panel for some extra shimmer. Then, for the grand finale, I ironed off the embossing powder to reveal the original cardstock colour beneath!
Another sentiment from Happy Holly Days finished off the card beautifully, this time heat embossed using White Embossing Powder.
For my final card, I wanted to use the mistletoe image from the Happy Holly Days set to create a dimensional vintage card!
I stamped the mistletoe onto my card base (did you know Red Royal Ink and Forever Green Ink, inked together on the same stamp, make a great vintage-y brown?!) and then watercoloured it, adding a little shimmer to the berries.
The sentiment was made up by selectively inking two different sentiments from the set so I could make the ‘kissmas’ word. I added a very fine line of glue to frame the card and heat embossed with Gold Embossing Powder.
I stamped and watercoloured a separate mistletoe image, then fussy cut it apart and used some pieces of it to add some dimensional leaves and berries. The finished look is so stunning and really adds to what is otherwise a very simple card!
I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my work here today! If you’d like to see more of my creations you can find me on my blog and follow me on Instagram! Thanks again to Hero for having me here today – I’ve had a great time!
Thanks for stopping by today, and big thanks to special guest Taheerah for the beautiful dose of holiday inspiration!
TAHEERAH!!!!!!!!!! I’m soooo excited for you and WOWZA!!! Love all three of your gorgeous cards! Your use of color and the stamps = perfection!
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these are all gorgeous. love Taheerah’s style
All three of your cards re very beautiful.
Very pretty! Would certainly enjoy being on the receiving end of any of these cards!
Very stunning cards.
Beautiful cards! Love the ombré snowflake card, great for mass producing, the deer-in-the-forest background with navy ink is so wintry and cozy, and the mistletoe card is super fun and cute!
Wonderful cards! I love these!
Beautiful cards thanks for sharing
Welcome Taheerah at Hero Arts!!! I’m already your follower and I’m happy for this amazing collaboration!!! I love so much your cards!
Taheerah’s cards are stunning! I love the navy deer in the forest card and especially the dimensional mistletoe one. Thanks for the inspiration (again)!
Three beautiful cards, Taheerah! Just love all your beautiful inking!!
BEAUTIFUL work, Taheerah! Your cards and display are true eye candy for our eyes! Brilliant job!
Wow! What beautiful work! Thanks for sharing you inspiration and techniques!
Gorgeous work
on all the cards,
so pretty!
Carla from Utah
All three cards are gorgeous!! Wow!
STUNNING! As always I am awed by your creativity!
Taheerah, your cards are absolutely gorgeous. I’m off now to look at your blog!
Terrific card trio Taheerah!! I {heart} them. Thanks for the inspiration, I pinned to CASE later. :)
woo hoo, Taheerah! I found your blog last year for the wonderful Advent ‘event’ you hosted. SO MUCH FUN! I have been a stalker, er a follower, ever since. Love to see your special touch on the Hero Arts Blog! LOVELY ART, as always!
I already loved Taheerah’s work with Pinkfresh and others, so I’m delighted to see her here! These cards are so perfectly wonderful!
Beautiful cards–thanks for the inspiration!!
Very pretty
Yay Taheerah! Congrats on your awesome GD post! Fabulous cards, I love your first card, the forest scene on your first card reminded me of a Scandinavian children’s book, and I love your colors on the second one. TFS
Gorgeous!
All three are so gorgeous, especially the red one.
Your trio of cards is so beautiful, Taheerah! I especially love the gold snowflakes with pink ink!
WOW! Lovely cards! I especially love the deer & forest print and it is beautiful in blue! Thanks for sharing your talent with all of us!!
Your cards are so beautiful. Love them all.
You are very talented.
Beautiful cards to inspire and create! Love the blue and white!
Wow what lovely cards! I’m glad you shared the here!
WOW WOW WOW
Each one is unique and beautiful!!!
Stunning cards! They’re so different, but all are very beautiful. Love techniques used. TFS!