Good morning! Today the 2018 catalog is now available at Hero Arts and we’re celebrating with a giant inspiration-filled blog hop!
Mermaid Kisses was one of our most popular My Monthly Hero Kits ever and by popular vote we are rereleasing it!! I was excited to pair it with our new beautiful liquid watercolors for a peaceful ocean scene. If you missed the kit you can finally add the gorgeous mermaid to your collection! You can watch the video below or in HD at my Youtube channel!
I wanted to keep my card simple and let the watercolors speak for themselves. I also wanted to figure out a way to get a soft, more pastel look from the normally bright and bold watercolors! I added a few drops of unicorn white pigment ink reinker to the liquid watercolors and created a watercolor wash for my background. Then I added a few dabs of white pigment ink across the waterline to create seafoam and waves. I heat-embossed that with white satin pearl embossing powder for a little extra shimmer.
Next I watercolored my mermaid using the same liquid watercolors but in a much more saturated form. I added a little sparkle with a spectrum noir clear glitter brush and then added a little extra shine to her tail, shells, and hair ornament with the new lacquer pen. Then I stamped the sentiment from Mermaid Kisses onto the background with versamark and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder. I adhered my little mermaid to the card with foam mounting tape and finished it with a few sparkling clear sequins.
To celebrate the 2018 release Hero Arts is giving away $50 shopping sprees to three lucky commenters randomly selected from the comments across 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 leave your comments by 11:59PM PT on February 22nd, 2018! Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:
- The Hero Arts Blog
- Jennifer McGuire
- Kristina Werner
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Yana Smakula
- Cathy Zielske
- May Sukyong Park
- Nichol Spohr
- Michelle Short
- Wanda Guess
- Amy Tsuruta
- Lydia Fiedler
- Heather Ruwe
- Laurie Willison
- Clare Prezzia
- Iliana Myska
- Emily Midgett
- Janette Kausen
- Jenn Shurkus
- Sean Fetterman
- Simon Hurley
- Joan Bardee
- Megan Hoeppner
- Lisa Stein
- Ilina Crouse
- Amy Kolling
- Rubeena Ianigro
- Kelly Latevola
- Libby Hickson
- Lucy Abrams
Your next stop on the hop is the amazing Yana Smakula! Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy the hop!
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Gorgeous card. Adding the white reinker is an awesome idea
I love how you used pigment ink to soften the background!
I love the mermaid. Also the background colors are beautiful.
Beautiful background!
Lovely! These watercolors look fantastic. I love the way you used them. TFS.
Great idea to use the Unicorn white reinker and Satin Pearl powder to create sea foam. I need to order that powder!
Pretty background Jess! It’s perfect for the mermaid!
This card is stunning, and adding re-inkers is brilliant. Thank you for sharing!
Lovely watercolor mermaid card!
love your darling mermaid card – thanks for sharing
Beautiful colors
Beautiful card, great techniques!
Really cute card!!!
Beautiful, I love the colors on this card.
So pretty – love the mermaid and the soft background colors.
Wow this card is unbelievable!!! It’s gorgeous!! I love the colors you created with the new Hero Arts watercolors!!!! So smart to add Unicorn Reinker to soften the color. Your Ariel is beautiful!!! Amazing job!!! Well done!!
Gorgeous card, the background looks fabulous!
There are so many stamps I love from this release!
Your water coloring is so beautiful! It made me want to go to the ocean! LOL Very pretty card. TFS
Glad to know the white Reinker trick! Great card!
What a great mermaid stamp. And I love the colors you used.
Gorgeous card with the soft background and lovely mermaid!
Love your mermaid card with the awesome sentiment in silver!
Thanks for sharing your card. I have this stamp and die set and love it.
What a beautiful card with a striking sky and gorgeous Mermaid!