Good morning! The 2018 Season of Wonder Collection from Hero Arts is now available and we’re celebrating with a big blog hop and giveaways! I’m sharing a few projects using new products from the release!
First up is this adorable polar bear duo! I’ve had a thing for polar bears since I was a young kid…most kids collect brown teddy bears, I only wanted polar bears (which weren’t always easy for my parents to find!). So when I saw this set I was SO ridiculously excited! To start I stamped the polar bears from Polar Greetings on white cardstock with versafine and heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder. I added a little shading with copic markers and then die-cut them with the coordinating dies! I also stamped the iceberg on vellum and heat-embossed it with silver glitter embossing powder. To create my background I blended bubble gum, dark quartz, pale tomato, cornflower, stone wash, and navy ink on a piece of strathmore bristol cardstock. I used post-it tape to mask the top and bottom while I blended to create the sky and water. Then I took a piece of white cardstock, ripped it to create a rough “snowy” ice cap and adhered it over the background to cover the line of ink blending. Finally I stamped the sentiment with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder!
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My second card uses the fun Paper Layering Neighborhood die to create a card with very little stamping! 😉 I started by die-cutting the paper layering die with white cardstock. Then I took a piece of vellum, laid it over the back of the die, and traced inside the outline of the die. I trimmed off the excess and then adhered it behind the die. Then I used a copic marker to color each of the windows. I let that dry for a bit so the ink wouldn’t smear on the vellum. While that was drying I stamped the sentiment onto dark navy cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. Once the vellum was dry I adhered my neighborhood to the navy card panel. Finally I added a little glue and snowfall glitter to the tops of each house and tree to create a snowy wonderland!
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My next card uses some of the gorgeous new dies in our release! To start I die-cut the Snowflake Edge Fancy die with silver glitter and white cardstock. Then I die-cut the Holiday Word Fancy die with pool layering paper. I stamped ‘happy’ onto a black card base with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. Finally I layered and adhered the dies to the card panel! Simple but striking…you could easily change up the colors for a more traditional red and green palette or go even more crazy with teal and pink…tons of options! 😉
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Here are a few more cards I created with the new release and if you click on the photo you’ll be taken to the tutorial!
To celebrate the Season of Wonder release Hero Arts is giving away two $50 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop. Please leave your comments by Sunday, August 26th at 11:59pm PT and the winner will be announced the following week on the Hero Arts blog! Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:
- The Hero Arts Blog
- Yana Smakula
- Wanda Guess
- Nichol Spohr
- Michelle Short
- Megan Hoeppner
- May Sukyong Park
- Lydia Fiedler
- Libby Hickson
- Laurie Willison
- Kelly Latevola
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Jennifer McGuire
- Jenn Shurkus
- Janette Kausen
- Ilina Crouse
- Emily Midgett
- Clare Prezzia
- Amy Tsuruta
- Amy Kolling
That holiday snowflake card is so elegant, love it!
Happy Holidays card is my favorite… The Snowflake die is so beautiful.
Thank you for making some suggestions for other color combinations…
Gorgeous cards, the color combo is great, but the black and white is awesome.
The black and white is SO striking. I’m smitten. I sure enjoyed hopping with you today! <3
lovely cards – love the glow your added to the houses!!
Fab cards! Love that Paper Layering Neighborhood die!
Lovely cards. I especially like the card with little houses.
Amazing cards Jessica. Love this release. And this blog hop is so inspirational. Can’t wait to get my hands on some of this beauties 🙂
Wonderful card designs, especially love your Happy Holidays card!
Beautiful cards. The Holiday release is Awsome
Love the polar bears. Very clever the way you used the iceberg.
Your cards are spectacular–especially love the dark backgrounds. And that die–that village is enough for an entire card!
Great job on all of these. I have got to have the Holidays die you used in the 3rd card.
Love all your cards. The polar bear is my favorite. Your inkblending is always amazing.
I can’t choose a favorite. I love what you have done with these stamps and dies!
Wonderful cards Jessica! I am inspired with lots of ideas! Thanks for sharing.
I love the Happy Holidays card with the snowflakes! The colors used are so unique. It is beautiful!
Lovely cards! I especially like the little tram cars going up the mountain!
Very nice cards. Thanks for inspiring us with your creativity.
Your cards are all beautiful! Love the snowflakes and the polar bears. The houses are great too!
Sooooooo incredibly BEAUTIFUL and ELEGANT! Thanks for sharing!
I really like all the snow use!!!
What gorgeous and creative cards
Nicely done with great inspiration – TFS!
Your cards are beautiful and very inspiring !