Hello, and welcome to the Hero Arts 2017 Winter Catalog Blog Hop. If you came from the amazing Michelle Short’s blog, you are right on track! To celebrate a release of 2017 Winter Catalog Collection, I created FOUR cards. Here are what I came up with:
For my first card, I placed my stencil over the A2 size Fog Gray cardstock and applied some Wendy Vecchi embossing paste over the Pop Pattern Stencil on partial areas. Then I applied some gold embossing powder and heat set it to add some texture/shimmer.
I stamped leaves and berries from the Color Layering Holly stamp set on a piece of white cardstock with following Hero Arts inks: Soft Olive, Moss, and Strawberry. I heat embossed the detail layer of leaves with gold embossing powder and fussy cut the leaves using scissors.
Next, I gold embossed the banner, stamped the sentiment in black, die-cut the banner using the Christmas Banner Stamp & Cut. I finished off the card by mounting the leaves, berries, and sentiment banner on the card front using foam tape.
For the second card, I created a random background by stamping the images from the Santa Snacks Stamp & Cut. Then I colored the images with Copic markers and added some dots between the images with Altenew Artist Markers Set A: Jet Black.
Then I stamped the sentiment from the Jingle All The Way Stamp & Cut with watermark ink on a piece of black cardstock. After heat embossing the sentiment with white embossing powder, I die-cut a tag using Hero Arts Numer It Stamp & Cut and pop it up using foam tape on the card front.
I also created a watercolor card using the Angels stamp set. I stamped the images with Intense Black Ink on Arches watercolor paper and watercolored them with Mijello Mission Gold Watercolor Set. I applied some ink splatters to add some interest to my background. The sentiment from the Angels stamp set was stamped in black.
For my last card, I used my favorite cardmaking formula: one-layer stamped background. After stamping the sentiment at the bottom of the card front, I stamped the images from the Winter Silhouettes stamp set with following Hero Arts Inks: Soft Cantaloupe, Green Hills, Soft Brown, Aegean, and Cotton Candy.
That’s all for today. Make sure to visit the Hero Arts Store to check out their brand new 2017 Winter Catalog Collection.
Giveaway
Hero Arts is giving away THREE $25 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop. Be sure to leave a comment below by Wednesday, 8/30 at 11:59 pm PT and we’ll announce the winner the following week.
Blog Hop
It is now time to head on over to the talented Libby Hickson’s blog to see what creation she has to inspire you all. Thanks so much for stopping by. Happy hopping!
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Hero Arts Christmas Banner Stamp & Cut Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Santa Snacks Stamp & Cut Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Angels Stamp Set Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Winter Silhouettes Stamp Set Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Pop Pattern Stencil Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Soft Cantaloupe Ink Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Green Hills Ink Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Aegean Ink Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Black Ink Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Hero Arts Moss Ink Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Strawberry Ink Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Soft Brown Ink Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Hero Arts Cotton Candy Ink Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Arches Cold Pressed Watercolor Pad Shop at: SSS | AZ | EH |
Hero Arts White Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Wagner Embossing Heat Tool Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Versamark Watermark Ink Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Mijello Mission Gold Watercolor Set Shop at: SSS | AZ |
Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Hero Arts Snow Layering Papers Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Copic Sketch Markers Shop at: SSS | AZ | EH |
Silver Black Velvet Brush #2 Round Shop at: SSS |
Silver Black Velvet Brush #12 Round Shop at: SSS |
Hero Arts Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Hero Arts Number It Stamp & Cut Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Hero Arts Soft Olive Ink Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Spellbinders Platinum Diecut Machine Shop at: AZ |
3M Foam Tape 1/2 Inch Shop at: SSS | AZ |
Viva Palette Knife Set Shop at: SSS |
Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste Shop at: SSS | EH |
Simon Says Stamp Fog Gray Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
nancy
Beautiful cards and color combos. I love how you added the dots to fill in the space between the cookies.
Aug . 23 . 2017Gail Scott
All creations here are stunning =- like sending prayers and the gingerbread layout a lot TFS
Aug . 23 . 2017Teri S.
I really like all of your cards. That angel is beautiful. I think the one that grabbed me most is the first one. What a beautiful sympathy card.
Aug . 23 . 2017Christi Conley
Beautiful cards!! I need that Christmas Banner set! Thank you so much 🙂
Aug . 23 . 2017ambecoming
Beautiful, fun, celestial, and great use of some iconic images–in that order. Thanks for so much great inspiration today,
Aug . 23 . 2017Kris in Alaska
Just stunning! I can’t believe all the inspiration through this hop!
Aug . 23 . 2017Beverly Sizemore
Four lovely cards….I love the gingerbread one. 🙂
Aug . 23 . 2017Lori Kobular
Wow! You have been busy making beautiful cards! I love the elegance of your first card! Your second card is adorable and it makes me want cocoa and cookies! Your angel card is exquisite! And I love the pastel winter scene card too!
Aug . 23 . 2017Sabrina Radican
Very cute!!
Aug . 23 . 2017Colleen Balija
Oh to chose, to choose! I really love that 1st and 4th one, but they are ALL beautiful!
Aug . 23 . 2017Liz McAllister
Oh that background on the first card. Amazing!
Aug . 23 . 2017Linda Patti
You have been busy! Love them all
Aug . 23 . 2017Dawn Becker
Your cards so pretty especially the angel!! You always do such nice work on your cards!
Aug . 23 . 2017Binte Yousuf
both the random-stamping cards are my favourite!
Aug . 23 . 2017I have never used hero arts inks till now, but after this blog hop, i am surely buying some for myself (and if I win , that’ll be awesome!)
Lisa
All of your cards are beautiful! Don’t know if I could pick a favorite. Maybe it would have to be the angel, she is just so gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your talent with us!
Aug . 23 . 2017Enna
All of the cards are so much fun! I can’t wait to get going on my holiday cards!
Aug . 23 . 2017Kathy McConnell
Beautiful cards, May, as always!!
Aug . 23 . 2017geri S.
Love them all and such terrific coloring! Thanks for the ideas!
Aug . 23 . 2017momrc
Such a great variety of cards – thanks for the awesome inspiration.
Aug . 23 . 2017Franka
Loved the backgrounds you made May.
Aug . 23 . 2017Viveca V.
It’s still summer, but I am already thinking of Christmas thanks to your fabulous cards!
Aug . 23 . 2017Martha Miller
Love them all, but the sending prayers and the angels are my favorites!
Aug . 23 . 2017Rema DeLeeuw
Fabulous cards!
Aug . 23 . 2017Donna Ligon
each of your cards is so unique and beautiful!
Aug . 23 . 2017RitaMaria Castillo
Wonderful texture, color and designs, I love your cards!
Aug . 23 . 2017