Welcome to the blog hop celebrating the Hero Arts 2017 Catalog release in the Hero Arts store. Starting today you can see and buy all of the wonderful new products here in the store. You should have arrived from Michelle Short's blog. If you want to start the hop from the beginning? You can start at the Hero Arts blog to see all of the inspiration today.
I used the Hydrangea and frame cuts set. I love that you can create the hydrangea in three dimension with several layers!
To create today's card stamp the hydrangea image three times on Bristol Smooth Paper using Versafine black ink. Color it with a Zig Clean Color Violet brush using a water brush. Use the frame cuts to die cut the middle and top layers. Add dots of white gel pen to the center of each flower. Stamp the leaves and stem and color them with a Olive Zig Clean Color brush. Then die cut the image. Set these aside.
Create the background by temporarily adhering a piece of white cardstock to a piece of grid paper, at an angle. Use a greeting from the Birthday Messages stamp set to repeatedly stamp in Hero Arts Soft Leaf ink. Draw little hash marks off to the side of the cardstock on the grid paper so you know where to stamp the greeting and have it equally spaced.
Create the greeting by stamping it using Versafine black ink on vellum and heat embossing it with Hero Arts Clear Embossing powder. Cut it into a thin strip.
Adhere the leaves and the bottom/largest hydrangea to the card front. Add the second and third flower image, stacking them and using foam tape to attach them and add dimension.
To attach the greeting strip wrap it around the card front and adhere it with adhesive on the back. Adhere the card front to a Hero Arts note card base.
Thank you for stopping by today! Be sure to leave a comment on my blog (and all of the blogs in the hop) to be entered into a giveaway. Hero Arts will be giving away three $25 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop. Be sure to leave your comments by Tuesday, February 21st at 11:59pm PT. The winner will be announced next week.
You have reached the end of today's hop! If you missed any of the inspiration here is the list of all of the artists hopping along today.
The Hero Arts Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Laura Bassen
Wanda Guess
Amy Tsuruta
Clare Prezzia
Yana Smakula
Kathy Racoosin
Debby Hughes
Kelly Purkey
Lydia Fiedler
May Park
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Heather Ruwe
Libby Hickson
Michelle Short
Jana Millen - you are here!
Hero Arts Large Hydrangea stamp
Hero Arts Large Hydrangea Frame cuts
Hero Arts Large Hydrangea stamp-die combo
Hero Arts Birthday Messages stamp set
Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad VF-82
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker OLIVE GREEN RB6000AT043
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker VIOLET RB6000AT080
*Tim Holtz DETAILER WATER BRUSH Ranger Watercoloring TIP33080
Strathmore BRISTOL SMOOTH 9 x 12 Paper Pad 365096
Hero Arts SHADOW Ink Pad SOFT LEAF Green AF123
Simon Says Stamp VELLUM SSSVEL12 STAMPtember
EK Success POWDER TOOL Applicator 54-04002
Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark VM-001
Hero Arts EMBOSS CLEAR EMBOSSING POWDER PW104
Simon Says Stamp LARGE GRID PAPER Pack Pad SGRID1 The Color of Fun
3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent
Hero Arts 12 MIX NOTECARDS FOLIAGE Cards PS570
Wink of Stella clear glitter pen
Signo white gel pen
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