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
Your Happy Holidays card is so striking!!! I love it!!!!
I really like the deep blues behind the mountains and cable cars! You can feel it snowing 🙂
Your cards are fabulous, love the black background one especially.
Beautiful cards! I especially love the last card… so elegant with that gorgeous snowflake border!
Wow, what a wonderful collection of cards! I particularly like the polar bears and the happy holiday cards. Thanks for showcasing so many of the new products.
Thanks for giving us so many samples. They are all spectacular but my favorites are the Holiday and cabin scene ones.
I really like all of your cards. And I love the way you used the snowflake edge die.
So beautiful!
Each card you made is great, but I especially like the polar bear and rustic cabin cards!!! They are very different from the typical Christmas cards and are truly lovely!! Thanks so much for sharing them on the hop!!
My favorite is the polar bear card but ALL are beautiful. Gorgeous cards. Thanks for the inspiration
Wow, gorgeous cards, all of them. Can’t pick a favorite. So glad you shared them all on the hop and the different techniques.
Awesome new HA release! Thanks for the inspiration and fun blog hop!
Wonderful cards and wonderful release! So many things I want to buy!
Love the cabins… maybe because I live in Alaska!
There is so much to love here! I love the white snowflakes against the black with a mint green sentiment! and that adorable baby bear on the ice burg… love how you did that!!
I love every one of these cards. That layering neighbourhood is definitely calling to me.
Thanks for sharing so much lovely inspiration.
Gorgeous cards!!! Loving the Neighbourhood die and the snowflakes border die! 🙂