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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❤️. Love every card
Love the background!!!
this background is gorgeous and I loved the idea of embossing to add waves ! Thanks a lot 🙂
Great card. Your background is so soft and love the addition of the sequins.
Beautiful, sweet and calming
Oh, so pretty!
I love that mermaid! Thanks for the great tip mixing in the white pigment reinker for a softer look
Lovely color wash. Thanks for the tip on creating waves.
Liquid watercolors are so versatile
Smitten with these new liquid watercolors! Your ocean look is so realistic!
Love your card, that mermaid is so cute! I like that you showed adding reinkers to the colors, adding the white really made a pretty background and the embossing powder over the white really made it look like water! Thanks for showing us different things we can do with the liquid watercolors!
I’m loving that sweet mermaid against your fab soft watercolor backgound!
What a pretty background and sweet card! Those paints look so fun!
Love your blended background! Thanks for sharing!
What a great suggestion to mute the colors with white! I so want to try this. Thanks for your inspiration using these new HA Liquid Watercolors!
What a lovely mermaid card. The background is gorgeous.
Love the versatility of these watercolors.
Gorgeous background.
What a sweet scene and I love the added texture to the water from the pearl embossing powder!
What a great idea to make pastels with white reinker. I love the soft pastel look!
Jess what a beautiful little mermaid you’ve created with the HA watercolor liquid inks. I love the soft wash you’ve created and the glimmer details you’ve added. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
I love this …. thank you for sharing your talents with us and inspiring us
Very cute card.
Love the background. The mermaid is just beautiful!
Thanks Jessica! I am fairly new to the kits and are so very happy they are re-releasing this one because I missed it. The watercolors are a perfect combo for this stamp set.