Good morning! The Oh What Fun Winter release from Hero Arts is now available and we’re celebrating with a big blog hop and giveaways! I’m sharing two cards using some of my favorite new products from the release!
My first card uses the GORGEOUS Cathedral of Trees bold print background stamp! I just love that feeling of looking up and seeing the tops of trees and a peek of the sky in the distance! To start I blended Cornflower and Navy ink onto the edges of a piece of Periwinkle cardstock. Then I stamped the Cathedral of Trees stamp onto the panel using my MISTI and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I placed the panel back inside my MISTI, stamped it again, and heat-embossed it with sparkle embossing powder. It just adds a fun little pop of sparkle to the card!
I trimmed the panel down to 4.25″ by 5.5″ and adhered it to a card base. Then I stamped a sentiment from From the Vault Home Scene onto Nautical cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I trimmed it down and adhered it to the card with foam mounting tape. Finally I finished the card by adding stars (or snow!) in my night sky with a white gel pen and a posca paint pen!
My second card is a little more labor intensive and a bit of an experiment than the first! I just loved the look of the Nordic Holiday Bold Print background stamp and thought it would be fun to try to create the pattern using gouache on a dark background! So I started by stamping the Nordic Holiday onto a piece of black cardstock with unicorn white pigment ink. I blasted that with my heat gun to set it and then carefully painted over some of the shapes with gouache. It was my very first time using gouache and I definitely didn’t quite have a handle on how much to use or how much water to add but it was fun to outline the shapes and color them with opaque paint. Once the paint was totally dry I stuck the panel back inside my MISTI and used a versamark pen to carefully ink the snowflakes, bunnies, and deer. I stamped them onto the panel and heat-embossed them with white detail embossing powder. I trimmed the panel down and then adhered it to an A2 base of Adriatic cardstock. I stamped the sentiment from Color Layering Nordic Tree onto Cranberry cardstock, trimmed it down to a thin label, and adhered it to the card with foam mounting tape to finish the card.
I highly recommend checking out the new release! Besides these fun products there are now reinkers available for our Reactive Inks!! We also have new Halloween and Christmas stamps and dies and some fabulous new enamel dots and glitter embellishments! I’d love to know your favorites from the new release!
To celebrate the new 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 August 31st at 11:59pm PST and the winner will be announced the following week on the Hero Arts blog! You should have arrived from Jennifer’s blog and Julee is your next stop! You can also head to the Hero Arts blog for a list of all the hop stops!
Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy the rest of the hop!
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The folk images look just wonderful. It is a favorite look for me!!
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Wow! Your second card is stunning!
Oh my, that tree stamp will be a hot seller!!! Great cards 🙂
Gorgeous cards!!
The first card gives you chills – all those icicles.
It is a beautiful card. The other card reminds
me of a block in the Baltimore Album quilt.
Great cards. thanks for sharing
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Beautiful cards! And thanks for sharing your use of the gouache. I havent used it either and this will help.
Just love seeing the skies through the trees. A real stunner in white!!!!!
Wow! I just love these cards! I feel a “little “ shopping spree coming on 😄
I don’t know how you come up with such beautiful cards!
The cards are fantastic! Love the reindeer/bunnies/Christmas tree card!
Love the tree stamp! Love the folk images! I’m so impressed with your artistry.
OH WOW! These are fabulous!
What a cool idea to color over the stamped area with paint! I never would have thought of that, but so much fun! Thanks for the great idea!
Your tree card is stunning! The Nordic card looks great too. I like the way you colored some images and white embossed the others. It looks very pretty.
that tree forest makes me want to be there!!!!!!
Love your cards! Thank you for sharing.
These cards feel like they were the perfect uses for those stamps. Lovely!
Oh what fun making Christmas cards will be with this new release!
love the card that it looks like you are in the middle of the trees looking up as the snow comes down.
Beautiful cards thanks for sharing.
Love your take on traditional Nordic! ❤️💚
Fabulous cards! I really love that Cathedral of Trees stamp!!
What a beautiful card the cathedral of trees stamp creates
Great cards. The Nordic card is unique.
so beautiful really stunning – I love the first card with the white trees
Great cards. This HA Christmas release is fabulous.
Stunning cards! I especially love the embossing on the first one. Thanks for sharing.