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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Lovely card! Beautiful soft background with the liquid watercolors and the shimmer!
love that soft background and the idea of using the re-inkers to blend color.
I always live alll if your beautiful work but also know I am almost always going to learn something from watching or reading how you used a product or technique. This time it was adding the white re-inker to the watercolors. Then you used the dauber to add the waves which worked perfectly! Thank you for another 2 lessons!
That was a gorgeous watercolor card. Love that mermaid stamp. Thanks for talking through the coloring for skin tone and other blends of watercolors. Very helpful.
Those backgrounds were just perfect for your pretty mermaid
Beautiful background Jes!
Super cute! Love the techniques!
Fabulous card. I love that mermaid.
Watercolour is so not my strong point despite my wishing it was! But the background here looks so smooth in transition maybe I could actually do it!
Definitely give it a try…watercolor is also NOT my strong point! Which is kinda why I wanted to show it…because if I can do it, anyone can!! 😉
Your sweet card is Mer-Mazing 😉 Lovely card
Beautiful card! I’m really excited about the liquid watercolors! Lovely background you created with them!
This is an amazing card! I love mermaids and the bacground you made is beautiful!
lovely …. beautiful coloring
This card is amazing! Love the mermaid stamp set and your background is amazing.
Fabulous oceanic mermaid scene!!!
Fantastic oceanic scene! Gorgeous!
Love the background. Very soft looking.
This is such a pretty card. The watercolor background is stunning.
I love the soft background on your lovely card!
Oh I have this kit! All I need are the watercolors!! Your card is delightful 🙂
Love your card. I just can’t get over how well the background blended and looked. Those inkes are wonderful and that stamp…I’m in love❤
Wow! Your card is simply stunning!!!
I love your colouring!!!
Beautiful colors Jess – love the result