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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Beautiful!
Awesome card! The ocean background does look peaceful.
Beautiful card Jess! Love that mermaid and your background is beautiful. I think I need those liquid water colors. 😀 Such a fantastic hop with so much talent and inspiration! As always, thanks for sharing yours!
Cute card. Love your background.
Lovely mermaid card. I appreciate the tips for new ways to achieve special watercolor effects.
So cute. Good tip with diluting the watercolors with unicorn white ink.
What a sweet card. I loved it.
Thank you for sharing your talent!
Absolutely love this watercolors backround!
Beautiful blending with the water colors.
Thanks for sharing some special coloring tips for creating this beautiful card!
Love the watercolored background you created for you card! So lovely!
I am in love with those liquid watercolours. Thanks for the video so we will know how to use them!
Beautiful card
The card that you made with the background stamp with the Simon background stamp was PHENOMENAL! Oh my goodness! You blew me away!
Beautiful card. I love the watery look you achieved using the lacquer pen. I’ve got to try it! 🙂
I love the mermaid kisses stamps and dies. I hope to be able to purchase them soon and use some of your beautiful techniques. Thank you!
I love the watercolor background that you made for this card. So perfect.
Beautiful card. Love the background colors and the mermaid is so pretty. Thanks for sharing..
Breautiful coloring!
Love your idea to use a laminated piece of white card stock for your palette, great idea!
The card is cute! Thank you for the video!.
Love your projects!
I’m seriously loving the look of the liquid water colors! I must get some and try my hand at these beautiful ideas.
That soft background is just perfect, Jess! Can’t wait to get some of those watercolours!
I like the idea to combine the pigment ink with the watercolor wash.