Good morning! I am so honored and thrilled to share a secret I’ve been keeping for a little while! I am joining the Creative Team at Hero Arts! Eeeek! I’ve been pinching myself ever since I received Jana’s invitation and I cannot wait to get started! To celebrate, I created a card to say hello! 🙂 And don’t forget to stop by the Hero Arts blog to meet the other new Creative Team member! 😉
And I discovered something new in the process…the Hero Arts hybrid inks blend gorgeously on cardstock! To begin I blended Orchid, Crimson, and Mulled Wine hybrid inks onto my cardstock with a blending tool. Then I flicked it with a little gold spray and set it aside to dry. Next I die cut the City Skylines from black cardstock. I pressed a versamark pad over the bridge die-cut and then heat-embossed it with Brass embossing powder. Once my background panel was dry I adhered the skyline and adhered the bridge with foam mounting tape. I liked the brass embossing powder so much that I wanted to find another way to use it on my card. I took a few diamond embellishments, smooshed them into my versamark pad, and then heat-embossed them with brass embossing powder to create matching metallic embellishments.
Finally I used the Luggage Tag Alphabet to stamp my sentiment with Intense Black ink and then adhered my colorful panel above! If this is your first time visiting my blog I feel like this is a fairly good representation of my style: colorful with just a little bit of sparkle! 😉 I hope you’ll stop by again and I look forward to sharing Hero Arts creations with you very soon!
I have two Hero Arts stamp sets to send to one lucky commenter! Please leave a comment and let me know what techniques or types of cards you’d like to see from me! I’ll pick a winner on January 5th, 2017 so please leave your comment before 11:59PM EST on January 4th!
Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day!
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Congratulations. Love Hero Arts and your blog is one of my favorites. I am always in awe of your talent and look forward to whatever you decide to create.
I love your style. Love your colour blending, I find it so hard to do. I think its because of my heavy hand. Congrats are joining Hero Arts, they have amazing products!
Congrats on your new endeavor! I love your style & can’t think of any card you have created that I didn’t like. I love learning new background techniques & love your awesome designs. I’m looking fwd to seeing all your new creations!
Congrats. Striking card.
Congratulations!! This is so cool. I am going to follow your blog. Love your beautiful card. I would love to see more cards like these. The beautiful background, I wish I could blend like that. Also love the sparkles and simple style :o)
Have fun!
Gorgeous card!! I love the background 🙂 Congrats on Hero Arts!! Hope to see lots of technique posts with a focus on water coloring and ways to stretch supplies. Thanks a bunch!
Cheers and Happy New Year
Preety
I would say just keep creating from the style that inspires you. I love to view variety.
This is a gorgeous card. I love the contrast between the very vivid colours and the blacks and whites.
Congratulations! Beautiful card–I’ve actually been seeing that color of pink mixed in w/ blues & grays in sunsets here in Texas as I’ve been driving home from work the past couple of weeks. It’s stunning!
I love seeing funny/punny cards, and I always like learning new tips, like the one you shared about embossing the little embellishments–I wouldn’t have thought to do that!
Congratulations! Your card is stunning! I have been following you on Instagram for a while and I like your style a lot. I would like to see more ink techniques. I’m inspired by your colorful cards.
Wow!!! Congrats!!! So Excited for you!!! I love all your creations, it’s impossible saying what I prefer!!!
Congrats! Excited to see your cards! I would love to see watercolor techniques! This card you made is gorgeous! I love it…. San Francisco is my home town.
A beautiful, thought provoking card. Makes me want to travel. I would love to see copic coloring and ink blending especially with a variety of inks.
Congratulations….what a gorgeous card, love your beautiful sky!
Congratulations, very well deserved! I love all of your cards, so my request is to keep them coming! 🙂
Congratulations, Jessica!! Can’t wait to see your work over at Hero Arts! You are such a talented designer and they are so lucky to have you on their team along with the rest of their awesome creative team. 2017 is going to be a banner year! I love what you did with the embellies so I guess I’d love to see cool / alternative ways to use what we already have in our stash.
Congrats Jessica! This card is gorgeous, really love the colors you chose for the sky! I would like to see coloring! Mostly watercoloring 🙂
Hi I started following you since I saw your interactive penguin card on Jennifer McGuire’s blog. Congratulations on joining Hero Arts team. I love HA! If this beautiful skyline card is your style, then I would love to see more of your style. Thank you for sharing your ideas. Sparkle is always a good thing.
Yay!!!! So thrilled for you, thats a huge secret to have kept quiet, I would have burst at the seams! I haven’t seen much at all about the Hybrid inks so would love to see some cards created with those!
CONGRATULATIONS, Jess! This card is absolutely awesome and cool!
I would love to see more of inlaid and layering cards and technique 🙂
Congratulation Jess on joining the HA team!! I would love to see any types of techniques and coloring. Videos would be great too!
Hi Jess, so exciting congrats! Beautiful background, blended to perfection. I love that color combo, it’s my fav. Thanks for sharing and always inspiring.
Your cards are Beautiful I would love to see something for a beginner with just the essentials needed to make the card so I know where to begin & what supplies to start with. Thank you for sharing all of your Beautiful work
Congrats on your Design Team role! I love the bold colors in your card. I’ve been wishing more people would incorporate mixed media designs into their cards. Id also like to learn more about stretching supplies you already own.
Best of luck, I know you’ll rock it out!
Water colors and embossing are my two favorite techniques to see. Love your beautiful card, thanks for sharing!