Hero Arts You Light Up My Life Lamp Cards

This card & the following instructions were designed by Nancy Taylor from Hero Arts. It's not one that you'll find on their web site, so I wanted to take this opportunity to share it with you.

Can these cute little lamps be sophisticated? You bet they can. Did you notice that each lamp is accented with a different technique? The lamp with the cut out leaves and matching shade uses images stamped with a different ink, cut out and glued over the existing images. The middle lamp uses metallic Décor on the base for a dimensional accent. The lamp with the plaid shade uses a yellow colored pencil for a hint of light and a pearl heart for a lamp pull.

Instructions:

1. Stamp all the lamps in a dark brown ink from the Pumpkin Patch Ink Queue. Trim each lamp into the same size paper.
2. Stamp the lamp with the leaf base in a rust colored ink queue on a separate piece of paper. Cut out the shade and around the leaves (leave a bit of color around the leaves as you cut). Glue the shade and the leaves over the matching images on the lamp. Add metallic décor accents to each of the circles on the base of the middle lamp. Using a black fine point marker, add a chain (out of little dots) to the remaining lamp and a bit of yellow (to simulate light) with a colored pencil. Attach a pearl heart to the end of the chain.
3. After gluing the lamp images to a wide strip of Latte cardstock add a few wraps of twine around the bottom of the card securing the twine with a knot on the front of the card.

Tip:
Whenever you are going to add gemstones, accent hearts or other items with sticky back, try not to add over colored pencils. The pencils leave a bit of wax on the paper and the accents may not stick as well.

Hero Materials:

CH173		Hearts Accent Pearls
CH202		Pewter Metallic Decor
MS204		Colorbox Chalk Queue - Pumpkin Patch
PS572		Earth Folded Cards
LP176		Decorative Lamps

Other Materials:
White cardstock, twine, scissors, paper trimmer, yellow colored pencil, adhesive and a fine point black marker

Three Lamps Card

If you prefer bright colors, here's another card using the same lamp rubber stamps:

Instructions:

1. Stamp the lamps with black ink on a piece of Snow layering paper.
2. Stamp the images again with various colors of ink on Snow layering paper. Cut out the lamp shades and attach over the black stamped lamps.
3. Trim the Snow piece and mat with Carnation layering paper.
4. Stamp the Canvas Stripes with Poppy ink on a Daffodil folded card.
5. Cut a strip of Carnation layering paper and a piece of Poppy layering paper and attach to the folded card.
6. 1. Attach the Snow piece to the card and embellish with Colored Gems.
   Hero Materials:

   CH128		Lavender Gemstones
   CH129		Teal Gemstones
   CH138		Pale Pink Gemstones
   CG196		Canvas Stripes
   AF101		Memories Ink Pad - Black
   AF179		Chalk Ink: Iris
   AF180		Chalk Ink: Punch
   AF181		Chalk Ink: Poppy
   AF183		Chalk Ink: Cerulean
   PS556		Daffodil Folded Cards
   PS597		Carnation Layering Papers
   PS599		Poppy Layering Papers
   PS610		Snow Layering Papers
   LP176		Decorative Lamps

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