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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Love the tree stamp and card
That Nordic one is divine!!
Very dramatic, colorful cards! Thanks for the ideas – new to goache myself, so your experiments are helpful!
Jessica, I love the tree card, it’s stunning!
I love your beautiful card <3 I hope I will win so I can get some of these goodies
awesome cards
These are beautiful! I Love the blue PEACE what a cool design!
Beautiful trees stamp!
Beautiful job and what a lot of work!! How long it must have taken you! I hope you don’t plan on making like 50 copies as your Christmas card this year — although I’d sure love to receive one!!
Your intensive card is stunning, very inspiring!
I love your Christmas card inspirations! So cute!
The dimension you achieved with the trees, amazing!
You cards are always some of the best! Thank you for sharing them with us. You inspire me!
Beautiful cards! The Nordic backgroud is amazing!
LOVE this card! So bold and beautiful (both actually but I’m talking about the second one here). The vivid colors and bright white embossing make this a real winner.
Both cards are just so beautiful! Using the gouache on card #2 was a brilliant idea!
I love that forest. You used it beautifully.
Think it’s timr I tried gauche too! It looks great!
Love all the cards, but gouache card is awesome!
Both of these cards are beautiful. Love the colors you used with that trees stamp.
Love both cards.
For your first time using gouache it looks amazing. I love this card. Looking up to the sky through the trees made a beautiful card.
Jessica, You are so very talented! Thank you for sharing your beautiful style and artwork!
Beautiful cards! I love them both. Thanks for the inspiration.
I love the look of how you made the Nordic card… WOW. Really has a zing to it, but festive and traditional as well. Love it !❤️😎👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻