Good morning! Today the 2018 catalog is now available at Hero Arts and we’re celebrating with a giant inspiration-filled blog hop!
Mermaid Kisses was one of our most popular My Monthly Hero Kits ever and by popular vote we are rereleasing it!! I was excited to pair it with our new beautiful liquid watercolors for a peaceful ocean scene. If you missed the kit you can finally add the gorgeous mermaid to your collection! You can watch the video below or in HD at my Youtube channel!
I wanted to keep my card simple and let the watercolors speak for themselves. I also wanted to figure out a way to get a soft, more pastel look from the normally bright and bold watercolors! I added a few drops of unicorn white pigment ink reinker to the liquid watercolors and created a watercolor wash for my background. Then I added a few dabs of white pigment ink across the waterline to create seafoam and waves. I heat-embossed that with white satin pearl embossing powder for a little extra shimmer.
Next I watercolored my mermaid using the same liquid watercolors but in a much more saturated form. I added a little sparkle with a spectrum noir clear glitter brush and then added a little extra shine to her tail, shells, and hair ornament with the new lacquer pen. Then I stamped the sentiment from Mermaid Kisses onto the background with versamark and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder. I adhered my little mermaid to the card with foam mounting tape and finished it with a few sparkling clear sequins.
To celebrate the 2018 release Hero Arts is giving away $50 shopping sprees to three lucky commenters randomly selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop so make sure you leave a comment at each hop stop for the most chances to win! Please leave your comments by 11:59PM PT on February 22nd, 2018! Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:
- The Hero Arts Blog
- Jennifer McGuire
- Kristina Werner
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Yana Smakula
- Cathy Zielske
- May Sukyong Park
- Nichol Spohr
- Michelle Short
- Wanda Guess
- Amy Tsuruta
- Lydia Fiedler
- Heather Ruwe
- Laurie Willison
- Clare Prezzia
- Iliana Myska
- Emily Midgett
- Janette Kausen
- Jenn Shurkus
- Sean Fetterman
- Simon Hurley
- Joan Bardee
- Megan Hoeppner
- Lisa Stein
- Ilina Crouse
- Amy Kolling
- Rubeena Ianigro
- Kelly Latevola
- Libby Hickson
- Lucy Abrams
Your next stop on the hop is the amazing Yana Smakula! Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy the hop!
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Love the effect you achieved with adding white ink to these awesome watercolors.
I like the idea of making the colors more pastel. I definitely will have to try that.
I love all of your cards and videos! These were wonderful! hugs, treen
Love the inks with the white pigment, great trick!
What a stunning background!! I love how you muted the colors – I’m filing this away for future reference! You’ve also made me look at the set in a different way because it was one of the MMH kits that I didn’t particularly care for. Thank you for the new inspiration!
Thanks for sharing your card. You have shared some simple ways to get started with watercolors and I truly appreciate that.
The background looks awesome and the mermaid is so cute.
Very Pretty!!
Love these liquid watercolors. The pastel effect is cool!
LOVING these backgrounds with the liquid watercolors!!!
Love the background!
Beautiful all…thnks for sharing
Great card!!
Thanks for sharing!
Great background! I like the seafoam idea. You gave us another way to use those watercolors.
I always appreciate your coloring! and sparkle!
Thanks for showing us 2 ways to use the new liquid water colors. Pretty card,\.
So beautiful!
Beautiful card! Fun to see the new water colors in a muted and more saturated form.
Beautiful work! so soft and striking!
Jessica you made a gorgeous card, love the colours you used!
Hi, Jess. Thanks for your ideas. The mermaid is beautiful. I too love the sparkle.
Gorgeous background
Very nice Jess! Nicely done on that background. So soft and a great idea to add the white pigment ink. Also very clever how you did the wave. I love that many uses are being shown for those fun liquid watercolors.
I love the tip about adding a bit of white to soften the colors – what a great way to stretch the colors and really love the shade of teal you made.