Good morning! I am so excited to be hopping along with the Hero Arts Creative team and other special guests for their Winter 2016 Release! There are SO many gorgeous and adorable stamps and products in this release! You should have arrived from Jenn Shurkus’ blog but if not, you can head to the Hero Arts blog to start at the beginning! I created two cards using some of my favorite Christmas stamps from this year and last year’s Winter releases! My first card uses the new Color Layering Cardinal with one of my favorite holiday background stamps from Hero Arts.
Isn’t that cardinal gorgeous!? It’s really easy to line up the stamps and you get that great layered look just by using different inks! I stamped the cardinal, branch, and pine sprigs and then die-cut them with the coordinating dies. Then I inked the background stamp with versamark and pressed a piece of kraft cardstock over the stamp. I heat-embossed it with white embossing powder and then trimmed it down to an A2 card base. I stamped the sentiment on vellum and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. Next I trimmed it down to a fishtail banner and layered it over red cardstock. I adhered them to my kraft base and then tucked my cardinal and branch around the sentiment. I finished the card by adding a little spectrum noir clear sparkle to the vellum.
I decided to make a shaker for my second card using one of the tag dies from last winter’s release. I die-cut it from white cardstock and then added a layer of acetate and foam mounting tape behind the cardstock. I filled it with a mixture of silver and sparkling clear sequins and beads and then sealed it with a white cardstock backing.
Next I stamped the same snowflake background stamp onto white cardstock and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder. Then I blended Cracked Pistachio, Evergreen Bough, and Peacock Feathers distress ink over the background. I adhered the distress inked background to a white card base and then adhered the shaker over it. I am really becoming fond of nontraditional colors for Christmas cards and I love the sparkle and shimmer from the embossing powder and shaker!
To celebrate the release Hero Arts is giving away three $25 gift certificates to comments selected from all of the blogs in the hop so make sure you leave a comment at each hop stop for the most chances to win! Please comment by Sunday, August 28 at 11:59pm PT and we’ll announce the winner the following week. Your next stop on the hop is the wonderful Joan Bardee! Here’s the full hop list in case you get lost!
The Hero Arts Blog
Jennifer McGuire
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Wanda Guess
Lydia Fiedler
Alice Wertz
Amy Tan
Cheiron Brandon
Debbie Olson
Laura Bassen
Debby Hughes
Heather Ruwe
Ilina Crouse
Isha Gupta
Jenn Shurkus
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Joan Bardee
Karin Akesdotter
Yana Smakula
Kelly Rasmussen
Amy Tsuruta
Clare Prezzia
Mariana Grigsby
May Sukyong Park
Libby Hickson
Thanks so much for visiting and have a wonderful day!
Fun shaker card! I never tire of them when I see other crafters create them 🙂
Love the distress ink blending combo you’ve used!
Love your shocker card !
I really love the snowflakes. I think they are so neat!..going to have to get that set! Thank you for sharing with us.
WOW! Beautiful cards! Elegant! Great job especially, snowflake “shaker” card! Well done!
Wow, a wonderful set of stunning cards. Love the cardinal!
Love your cards, thanks for sharing.
Jess your cards are beautiful. Well done!
Love the ombré shaker card. Super cute!
Awesome new products and projects!
Just beautiful, Jess! I really love your snowy background against the kraft cardstock. It’s so striking! ♡
So FUN! ?
Your layered cardinal is beautiful in front of that embossed winter background.
Gorgeous cards, love the snowflake background and your less traditional color combos. The cardinal stamp is my favorite!
Your choice of colors are such a pretty combo. Love the shaker card idea. Such awesome projects and release from Hero Arts. Thank you for sharing.
I liked how you showed two different ways to use the snowflake background stamp; both are wonderful!
Love your cardinal card!
Lovely cards
Love the snowflake background on the cardinal card.
The sentiment is perfect.
Beautiful cards! I especially love the shaker card and also love the very different looks that you achieved with the same background stamp.
Love the snowflake backgrounds – great cards.
Love the backgrounds on the cards!
Your cards are beautiful!
So many great new products!
Awesome card! I love your creations!
I love your cards especially the blue and silver shaker. I love snowflakes and they look so good on both cards.