Good morning! The 2018 Season of Wonder Collection from Hero Arts is now available and we’re celebrating with a big blog hop and giveaways! I’m sharing a few projects using new products from the release!
First up is this adorable polar bear duo! I’ve had a thing for polar bears since I was a young kid…most kids collect brown teddy bears, I only wanted polar bears (which weren’t always easy for my parents to find!). So when I saw this set I was SO ridiculously excited! To start I stamped the polar bears from Polar Greetings on white cardstock with versafine and heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder. I added a little shading with copic markers and then die-cut them with the coordinating dies! I also stamped the iceberg on vellum and heat-embossed it with silver glitter embossing powder. To create my background I blended bubble gum, dark quartz, pale tomato, cornflower, stone wash, and navy ink on a piece of strathmore bristol cardstock. I used post-it tape to mask the top and bottom while I blended to create the sky and water. Then I took a piece of white cardstock, ripped it to create a rough “snowy” ice cap and adhered it over the background to cover the line of ink blending. Finally I stamped the sentiment with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder!
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My second card uses the fun Paper Layering Neighborhood die to create a card with very little stamping! 😉 I started by die-cutting the paper layering die with white cardstock. Then I took a piece of vellum, laid it over the back of the die, and traced inside the outline of the die. I trimmed off the excess and then adhered it behind the die. Then I used a copic marker to color each of the windows. I let that dry for a bit so the ink wouldn’t smear on the vellum. While that was drying I stamped the sentiment onto dark navy cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. Once the vellum was dry I adhered my neighborhood to the navy card panel. Finally I added a little glue and snowfall glitter to the tops of each house and tree to create a snowy wonderland!
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My next card uses some of the gorgeous new dies in our release! To start I die-cut the Snowflake Edge Fancy die with silver glitter and white cardstock. Then I die-cut the Holiday Word Fancy die with pool layering paper. I stamped ‘happy’ onto a black card base with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. Finally I layered and adhered the dies to the card panel! Simple but striking…you could easily change up the colors for a more traditional red and green palette or go even more crazy with teal and pink…tons of options! 😉
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Here are a few more cards I created with the new release and if you click on the photo you’ll be taken to the tutorial!
To celebrate the Season of Wonder 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 Sunday, August 26th at 11:59pm PT and the winner will be announced the following week on the Hero Arts blog! Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:
- The Hero Arts Blog
- Yana Smakula
- Wanda Guess
- Nichol Spohr
- Michelle Short
- Megan Hoeppner
- May Sukyong Park
- Lydia Fiedler
- Libby Hickson
- Laurie Willison
- Kelly Latevola
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Jennifer McGuire
- Jenn Shurkus
- Janette Kausen
- Ilina Crouse
- Emily Midgett
- Clare Prezzia
- Amy Tsuruta
- Amy Kolling
Jess, love them all! Love your use of color.
What a wonderful release and I love your cards! Too cute!
I love ALL of your awesome cards! You create such adorable little winter scenes and they all look so cute!
AWESOME creations! I especially love the little bear atop his vellum iceberg!
Adorable cards to get me into the mindset of the holiday season! I love the snowflake border… so pretty! But also the scenes you created are awesome.
Beautiful cards, especially the polar bears on the iceberg!
Absolutely stunning. Love all the cards and the colouring is fantastic. Thank you for sharing.
Happy Crafting.
Tracey.x
Absolutely fabulous!!
What beautiful and creative cards! So much inspiration!
I feel like your cards are always an adventure! Love the backgrounds and the way you put them all together!
Love your coloring; so beautiful! My favorite is that absolutely adorable polar bear card!
Love the vellum iceberg! What a great idea. Wonderful cards.
The dies keep getting better and better.
Love the snowflakes. Fantastic release.
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Love all your gorgeous cards!
Thanks for sharing…
Very nice cards! I love the bear!
Each card is beautiful and unique. Love this release.
There are so many things I love about your happy holiday card. The layered border with silver and white, the beautiful font on the holidays die and black . . . my friend disagrees but I love black on Christmas cards.
I love all of your cards! Your winter scenes are wonderful. I don’t think I could pick a favorite from these, they are all so unique. Thank you for sharing and inspiring!
I love the new stamps and die sets. The background stamps are just beautiful. I think I need to win the lottery. LOL
Thanks for showing creative ways to use the new Hero Arts products!
Bold color choices.
Jessica, your projects are spectacular! Using vellum for the iceberg is genius. I always love black and white designs and the bright green holidays script really pops. Thanks for the inspiration.
Amazing creations, WOW!!!
WOW, there are so many great new releases and you’ve made gorgeous cards. I especially like the houses with that wonderful sky.
Love how you made an iceberg – clever! The last card is my favorite; such a stunning and gorgeous scene.