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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Beautiful card and I love the watercolor washed background. The sentiment is fabulous as well! TFS!
Such a beautiful card! I’ll have to give those watercolors a try.
Thanks for showing another fun and beautiful way to use the watercolor inks! I love seeing what they can do and am considering adding them to my stash of coloring mediums! 🙂
Beautiful card with a fabulous colour palette.
Really cute, can’t wait to get those water colors and mermaid stamps!
Lovely card! I’ll have to remember that about lightening up watercolors!
Love adding the white pearl ~ what a concept! Thanks Jess!
as always, your card is beautiful!!
Very pretty card. I love how the background colours reflect the mermaid’s colours.
Interesting that you mixed the inks
Very beautiful card!!!
I love how the background came out – very soft!! I really love these liquid watercolors!!!
This is so very pretty! Thanks for showing how to do your background. It’s is wonderful! I love the mermaid set.
White pigment ink into watercolors – who knew??? Now I do and I sure do appreciate that information. Your card is beautiful and soft in a different way but that would be the white. I also really liked the dauber and Versamark with the satin embossing, so subtle yet you just have to look a second time I bet or touch it. Thank you so very much for the inspiration, isn’t a blog hop GREAT!
The card is lovely, and I especially like the texture you created on the water with the embossing powder.
Lovely card, Jessica. The Liquid Watercolors made a beautiful background.
The updated color ways with the new watercolors are beautiful 😁. Love seeing it and how you used them.
Your background is simply incredible !
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So pretty
You made a darling card. I am going to subscribe to your blog. Thanks for showing us your use of the new liquid watercolors.
Love your background, the inks look great with the white mixed in.
great inspirations for these mermaid cards. My granddughter was so upset that I missed this release that I am getting it for her birthday.
Awesome card! Great tips about adding white pigment reinker… I bet that made them more opaque too. Would be fun to try on darker cardstock. Loved the technique of adding embossing powder to the line of sponged pigment ink! Filing that away to use in the future!!! Brilliant 🙂
Lovely card, I especially like the way you painted the little mermaid. Thanks for sharing.
So pretty