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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Great technique
So beautiful, love your background 💜
I absolutely love the background.
Thank you for the video and your card is fabulous
This is adorable! 😊
Beautiful
Cute card!
Beautiful card, love the background with this cute mermaid!
That is so adorable! And a laquer pen!!! Great little way to add shine.
Nice to know about using white reinker to soften the color. Thanks.
Adorable card! Love your background . Thanks!
Beautiful background. I love how you made the colors pastel showing how versatile the watercolors can be .
Love your technique to get the pastels!!!! Brilliant!
Beautiful!!! Your soft water colored background is stunning! And it’s perfect for the mermaid theme of your card.
I love how you applied the sequence too.
I love how you apply the sequence too.
THis is so pretty. I love the way the colors blended together.
I love that you did the background so soft. I always think more is better but not this time.
beautiful background – thanks for sharing your creativity
So ethereal looking! I love the idea of adding the white reinker.
What a beautiful soft mermaid card!
I’m not a gigantic fan of mermaids, but you you did a really nice job of presenting them in these cards.
love the background
The mermaid is wonderful.
Delightful application of great new products! Thanks for your artistry!