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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I love your card. It is so pretty. I’m really loving these watercolors.
Such ingenuity, adding the white pigment ink. Your card is beautiful.
Beautiful!
Beautiful! I love the new catty and watercolors!
Very nice card. Your water colored background is gorgeous.
WOW ! Your card is stunning ! Thank you for all the tips.
Love the mermaid! So cute and background is beautiful-thanks for the inspiration!
Your card is so eye-catching with the range of colors from very light to intensive. The mermaid image is so cute. Thank you for explaining how you created the card, as well as the tip on creating the watercolor wash.
I love these new watercolors from HA, your card is so sweet.
I love how the card seems to move! Awesome!
So beautiful!
What a great idea to put the pearlescent powder on the top of the water! That really plays up the look of the water. And the mermaid is wonderful too; great job getting the different intensities of pigment so the mermaid could stand out! Thanks for sharing.
Love the background and adore your mermaid. She’s definitely on my list because yes, i missed the kit. So happy she’s back. Your card is beautiful Jess
Beautiful! I love the new Hero Arts liquid watercolors!
Gorgeous scene and
love the colors you
used.
Carla from Utah
Beautiful background with the watercolors!
Lovely coloring!
Pretty watercolor tones!
Nice techniques for the water colors.
A beautiful card! Love the mermaid.
I really like how you created that awesome background by adding the white to the watercolors!
Beautiful background. I never would of thought to use the reinker.
Great tutorial. I learned a lot. She has such a sweet face.
the backgrown is very pretty and dreamy
I just love the rainbow design. I will be giving this a try soon…