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
Jessica, your cards are very beautiful. I love all of the examples of your work that you posted. It’s given me a lot of inspiration. Thank you.
Jessica, I absolutely loved all of the card examples you posted. You have given me so many new ideas to create cards of my own. Thanks for the inspiration.
I love all your cards! So much fun!
I love your cards, especially the cabins in the woods!
Love the Happy Holidays card using that stunning edge die!!!
I am glad that we do not have to chose a favorite card….I would not be able to do it….I have found so many along this hop that I would love to recreate…..so beautiful..thank you so much for sharing…hugs
Love the way the black background makes the snowflakes and sentiment pop.
Beautiful background for the bears. I love what you did with the snowflakes–what a huge impact. In fact all of them are very cool. Thank you.
Wonderful cards!! I love the house scene, it looks so warm and cozy. Excellent work!!
Love the Happy Holidays card with the various white & silver snow flakes! Elegant!
Just absolutely gorgeous cards!!
All of your cards are amazing! Love the polar bears and your choice of colors. And then the two cards at the bottom–the gondolas and the cabin scenes are breath taking!!! Thanks for sharing and have a great day!
I love the black/white theme.
Great ideas with the new sets. I love the last card scene.
I don’t even think I can find the right sentiments to express my appreciation of your cards. Every one of them just “Wowed” me. Honestly! Love your style, love your sense of balance, the sparkle, the colour…
There are just so many products I’d love to own from this winter catalogue. The Polar Bear ranks right near the top of the list. I, too, have a “thing” for polar bears. TFS.
Love all your cards especially the happy holidays one. It is beautiful.
I always love your cards! I’m so glad when I start my day with an “All the Sparkle” email 🙂
Beautiful cards! I love the black & white, so pretty!
All of your cards are wonderful but the polar bear one stole my heart!
Very cool cards! Thank you for sharing!
I love all of your unique creations! Thank you for sharing these great cards.
I love this card. It reminds me of the Colorado winters. I really miss them.
Love your cards!! They’re all fabulous!
Like Polar Bear creation, pop-up houses & more. Like to watch Polar Bears swim.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Super cool set of creations!! 🙂