Hello everyone, I’m here today with our final winners announcement. Before we to the winners, the final markdowns have been taken in the store, the remaining store inventory is at 70% off or below. Embossing powders under $2, stamp sets under $5, be sure to head other and check it out! I would also like to once again extend our deepest gratitude for your support, patronage, and friendships all these years. The Sugartree Stamps line of digital stamps has been taken over by Chic Chickadee Crafts, you can find them also on etsy at chicchickadeecrafts.etsy.com. Our blog will remain active, so you ..read more

Howdy! Today I have some sparkly and shiny fun for Christmas. I created two cards with the Hero Arts Merry Christmas Cover Plate Die. The first one here is all glittery. Glitter cards are hard to photograph and the light was kind of diminishing on me so the photo isn’t the best. Anyway… The first thing I did was stick a double sided adhesive sheet to a piece of Neenah paper. I placed my die on the paper so that the adhesive would end up on the top of the design. That way I could get that glitter to stick to it. I used microfine glitter and dumped that all over the design over a coffee filter ..read more

Greetings friends and fellow crafters. LeeAnn here with a throwback for Hero Arts and some products from the past. Ths card was so fun, and since Central Florida doesn’t get much winter, I figure I would confront the hot days we have been having with this nice winter scene card. First I printed the now retired digital images and cut them with my Scan N Cut. The background snow drifts are from Lawn Fawn dies. The sentiment is from a 2012 Hero Arts and Studio Calico stamp set. which I used Hero Arts Intense Black ink to stamp. For the background I used a stencil and BoBunny Silver Glitter Paste ..read more

I’d say these Christmas Mice were saying Happy Holidays to you.  I grabbed a piece of 6″ X 6″ paper and cut it down to fit on the A2 size card for a different look to a holiday card.  I had a “Happy Holidays” panel cut a bit short in my stash that I wanted to use, so this is how I arrived at the design.  Add two mice and a couple dots of Nuvo and we’re done.  This looks great in real life. Be sure to join in the challenge and visit the store for some outrageous sales at A2Z Scrapbooking. Remember to enter the challenge and visit the store. Please join us in this month’s “holidays”, any holi ..read more

    Have you played our final challenge – Holidays yet?  It could be any Holidays. For me I am adding another card to my Christmas card stash. https://fresh.inlinkz.com/js/widget/load.js?id=d1626941e732cbb79b50 To create the background of this card I used one of the tree image and stamped in Soft Grey, like so: Then I layered the white heat embossed and glitter gold heat embossed trees. And I topped the trees with red flower gem. I hope I’ve inspired you to play along our final challenge.  Click here or the Current Monthly Challenge Button at the top to get more details.         Hero Arts ..read more

Hi Everyone, I’m here today with LOTS of winners. We’ve got September challenges winners & coffee hop winners YAY! Let’s start with the September Top 3 as chosen by the design team JENNIFER   ASHLEY   LINDA And the random prize winner is…. Karthikha   From the coffee blog hop, the random comment winner from the a2z blog, winning a $20 gift card to the store is: Celeste Herrin And the coffee hop digi winners from our design team’s personal blog posts From Arlene’s Blog: Karen Letchworth From Cindy’s Blog: Melissa (Sunshine HoneyBee) From LeeAnns Blog: Shandelynn Rowe From Karen’s Blog ..read more

In keeping with our challenge theme I created a holiday card. Halloween is a fun holiday for me. I like decorating around the house and the front yard. My card is a combination of using digital images, ink blending and stamping. The first thing I did when creating my card was take the haunted house from the Hero Arts Haunted Digital kit and had my Cameo cut it out. I had to change the png image by using trace and then I resized it. It did take a while to cut because it has all this tiny holes in the house for a distressed look. Then I did some ink blending with 1 Hero Arts Reactive Ink and 3 ..read more

We must thank Kristina for the wonderful farewell graphic for our last challenge.  Be sure to visit the shop for big discounts. Again, I’m using non-traditional colors to make a Christmas card.  I couldn’t help it, the “mice” made me do it!  In this case, it was one mouse, but I’m holding her responsible.  I cut the sentiment in two.  I know, I lose small stuff too, but I had to do it.  I think this is a fun card and I still think it’s cute after letting it sit overnight on my desk.  I don’t know if anyone else has to step back and look with new eyes at their creations, but sometimes I do.  I ..read more

Today is a sad day, but let’s go out with a bang and have our biggest and best challenge ever! October will be our final challenge, and the blog will close down with our final post being the winners announcement for this challenge early next month. This month is somewhat of an anything goes, holiday edition! And we have a special prize this month (below). We’re looking for holiday cards, ANY holiday. We would also like to take this time to thank each and every person that’s ever participated in challenges, shopped the store, designed for our design team, worked behind the scenes, and had any h ..read more

  Welcome to a2z Scrapbooking and Happy National Coffee Day!!  We are so happy to be part of the National Coffee Day Blog Hop orgainized by the amazing Amy Tsuruta. Before we get to the fun, we have an announcement to make. If you are a regular blog ready you’ve already heard that a2z scrapbooking co-founder and store director Linda Crissman passed away earlier this month following a long fought battle with Behcets disease. That being said, our store will be closing and sadly our blog will as well. So here’s what you need to know Store will close October 31 or while inventory remains. Store ..read more