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Jump Start the Holidays with Hero Arts

20 Oct

Good morning!  Today we are hopping to celebrate all things fall and winter – and to rev up your holiday cardmaking motors!  We are also joining Lea Lawson during her month-long Crafty Comeback Party. Lea is an amazing designer, and we are thrilled to support her!  Tune into her blog every day this month – she began the party on October 7, and there have been many beautiful cards and fabulous giveaways along the way!  To make this party extra fun, we invited along the fabulously talented team at A Blog Named Hero and I’m proud to represent both teams! 😉

We will be giving away a $25 gift certificate, randomly chosen from all of the comments left at every stop along the blog hop. For the most chances to win leave a comment on all the hop stops by by Friday, November 10th at 11:59pm PT, and the winner will be announced on Lea Lawson’s blog on Sunday, November 12th!

Here’s what I created:

Sending Winter Wishes by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Hero Arts

I love that adorable little penguin from our holiday release!  All that fabulous dimension and texture is simply created by layered stamping with different inks!  I started by stamping him with soft granite, charcoal, and intense black ink and then die-cut him with the coordinating die.  I also stamped his cute little bowtie with versamark and heat-embossed him with silver embossing powder.  Next I blended picked raspberry, salty ocean, and wilted violet distress ink onto a piece of white cardstock and let it dry completely.  Then I stamped the Hand Drawn Snowflakes cling stamp with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder.  I die-cut the snowy mountains using one of the dies from the October My Monthly Hero kit and stamped the sentiment from Color Layering Penguin and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder.  Finally I adhered the mountains to the background and adhered the penguin with an action wobbler!  So now he can shiver while waiting for those Warm Winter Wishes!! 😉

Warm Winter Wishes by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Hero Arts

And that’s it!  I hope this gives you some holiday inspiration!  Don’t forget to hop along with Hero Arts and A Blog Named Hero for a chance to win a $25 gift card to Hero arts!  Here’s the hop list:

  • Hero Arts
  • Lea Lawson
  • Ilina Crouse
  • Jana Millen
  • Jessica Frost-Ballas
  • Lisa Stein
  • Coralynn Murray
  • Donna Idlet
  • Emily Midgett
  • Kelly Szafron
  • Kimberly Rendino
  • Melissa Chipperfield
  • Michelle Lupton
  • Swapna Patil 
  • Tracy Freeman
  • Libby Hickson

Thanks so much for visiting and happy hopping!  I hope you have a wonderful day!

Interested in the products I used?  To make them easy for you to find, I have listed them below. (Affiliate disclosure can be found here). Your purchases help keep my blog running and I thank you for the support!!

SB167 Color Layering Baby Penguin…
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CM188 Color Layering Baby Penguin |…
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DI415 Color Layering Penguin Frame…
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AF404 Ink & Emboss Penguin | Hero Arts
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CG685 Hand Drawn Snowflakes Bold…
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AF226 Soft Granite Shadow Ink | Hero…
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AF236 Charcoal Mid-Tone Shadow Ink |…
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AF345 Intense Black | Hero Arts
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Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad…
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Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad SALTY…
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Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad…
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Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS…
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Simon Says Stamp Action Wobble MINI…
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Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH…
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Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink…
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Inkadinkado EMBOSSING MAGIC Powder…
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Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD…
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PW104 Clear Embossing Powder | Hero Arts
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PW101 Silver Embossing Powder | Hero…
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Sizzix BIG SHOT PLUS MACHINE Gray And…
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Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun…
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3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE…
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Comments

  1. Denise says

    October 31, 2017 at 11:54 am

    I love your use of color in your very wintery penguin card–he is so cute!

    Reply
  2. Nandini says

    November 5, 2017 at 3:49 am

    Wow! The background is stunning!

    Reply
  3. Janis in ID says

    November 10, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    Fabulous colors and how fun to have the pengie be on a wobble base!!
    <3 J

    jwoolbright at gmail dot com
    HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com

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