Good morning and welcome to the Hero Arts 2017 Wintertime Fun Catalog Blog Hop! All of the catalog products are now available at the Hero Arts shop and we’re celebrating with lots of inspiration from our creative team and special guests! I have two cards to share today and many more to come in the next few weeks! 😉
My first card uses the gorgeous Holly and the Ivy wood-mounted stamp. I’ll be honest, I totally read the title of the stamps as Holly and the Ivy, apparently didn’t process that, and decided it was a poinsettia in my mind. But when I realized I colored a holly pink I went googling and discovered that there are a few holly variaties that have light pink or red leaves. So um, yeah that’s totally what I was going for! 😉 Ha!
Anyway, with that, first I stamped it several times on a piece of maroon cardstock and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder. Then I stamped it once on a piece of vellum and once on a piece of light pink cardstock and heat-embossed them with gold embossing powder. I added a little bit of pale pink and rose pink shading with copic markers and then added spectrum noir clear sparkle to the pink cardstock and to the vellum. I die-cut them with the coordinating dies and then used a stylus to curl up the edges.
I adhered the vellum and pink cardstock to the maroon panel with foam mounting tape. Then I stamped the sentiment with versamark and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder on white cardstock. I trimmed that to a fishtail label and tucked it under the pink cardstock. Finally I added a few champagne sequins and applied a layer of nuvo crystal glaze to the berries to finish the card!
My next card uses my absolute favorite stamp set from the catalog, the adorable Color Layering Fox! I have a thing for foxes and this is one gorgeous stamp!
I decided to create a wintery fox and stamped the layers in shades of grey. I die-cut him with the coordinating die and then set him aside while I worked on the rest of the card. Next I blended Summer Sky, Indigo, and Deep Ocean hybrid ink onto a piece of white cardstock and added a tiny bit of black ink around the top edges. I stamped the whole panel with versamark and heat-embossed it with sparkle embossing powder.
Then I stamped the sentiment from Poster Christmas Carols onto a piece of white cardstock and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder. I tore the white cardstock twice to create rough edges. I swiped the edges with my versamark pad and heat-embossed them with white puff embossing powder. I adhered the white cardstock to the ink blended background and then adhered the fox with foam mounting tape.
To celebrate the release Hero Arts is giving away $25 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 August 30th, 2017! Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:
The Hero Arts Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Cathy Zielske
Wanda Guess
Kathy Racoosin
Ilina Crouse
Clare Prezzia
Yana Smakula
Lydia Fiedler
Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
Amy Tsuruta
Michelle Short
May Park
Libby Hickson
Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy the hop!
Interested in the products I used? To make them easy for you to find, I have listed them below. (Affiliate disclosure can be found here). Your purchases help keep my blog running and I thank you for the support!!
 Hero Arts Poster Christmas Carols Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Color Layering Fox Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Holly and the Ivy Shop at: HA |
 Simon Says Stamp Copic Markers Shop at: SSS |
 Versamark Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Intense Black Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Summer Sky Hybrid Ink Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Indigo Hybrid Ink Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Deep Ocean Hybrid Ink Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Blackboard, 4 cube pack Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Silver Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Sparkle Embossing Powder Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts White Puff Embossing Powder Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Champagne Sequins Shop at: HA |
 Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Smooth Solar White Cardstock 25 Sheets Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Snow Layering Paper Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Simon Says Stamp Vellum Shop at: SSS |
 Fiskars Titanium No. 5 Micro Tip Scissors Shop at: SSS |
 Inkadinkado Embossing Magic Powder Bag Shop at: SSS |
 Wagner Precision Heat Gun Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Sizzix Big Shot Plus Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Ink Round Blending Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Foam Refills for Mini Ink Blending Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Mini MISTI Precision Stamper Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Studios Crystal Glaze Shop at: SSS |
 Scotch Foam Mounting Tape Shop at: SSS |
 Scotch ATG Adhesive Shop at: SSS |
Love the sparkle in your cards
Holly & the Ivy… I’m SO glad you took artistic license and colored the flower pinkish with gold trim. To me it is the best holiday flower I’ve ever seen. Thank you.
Beautiful job ! The fox is awesome!
Lovely traditional poinsettia card and Very cool fox card! You are very talented.
Like the glimmer shine of the embossing.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Love both your cards, the gold on the burgundy is beautiful and your fox is so sweet. Thanks for sharing your inspiration.
Love how you made the blue background which Really showcases the Beautifully colored fox! Fox (looks more like a friendly wolf) looks so real and friendly. Great work of Art…Well done!
Stunning cards! Love the warm red and go,d of the first one and the vibrant blue to highlight that wintery fox.
Both your cards are beautiful. That gold embossing is so stunning on the dark cherry cardstrock.
Beautiful cards! Love the embossing!
In a word… STUNNING!!!!!
Your cards always impress me. Stunning.
Beautiful cards, love the pop the gold embossing has on the red cardstock!
I love the Holly & Ivy card, especially the card stock colour with the gold embossing and the hints of pink.
Just gorgeous.
The layering sets they keep coming out with get better than the last ones. Great little fox.
Your Poinsettia/Holly and the Ivy mix up did make me laugh! My first ever stamp that I bought was a layering Poinsettia, that had a matching glitter set, that was 15 years ago and it’s still my absolute favourite, but it’s going to have to share my attentions with this gorgeous new Holly and Ivy stamp, I can’t wait to get my hands on it and it’s matching dies, I can’t tell you how many Poinsettia layers I’ve fussy cut with scissors over the years! Thank you for showing us such a beautiful card, it’ gets my “viewers choice” vote from the blog hop!
OMG, your cards are FABULOUS! I love the Poinsettia card it is so sophisticated, but I love, love the Fox cards. Foxes are my thing and to do a gray fox is brilliant.
Such a great idea adding the sparkle powder to the background of the fox card – it looks extra unique!!
Beautiful cards!!!
Loving your pink holly and ivy card, how you’ve used both aspects of this set, the dimensional on the front and the sparkling base that you’ve embossed, FANTASTIC!!! You’ve made this a must-have set on anyone’s Christmas Hero Arts wish-list!!!
Best wishes,
Joanne Lowe
What a wonderful sky on your fox card!
Fabulous cards! The fox looks like he’s looking at me! Thanks for the inspiration.
Lovely cards. Love the elegance of the first card. And the fox cards, love the blue as it really is eye catching! That fox is a must on my wishlist!
Lovely card. Love the fox!
Love both of these cards and like I said on your Instagram the one reminds me of game of thrones so I love it even more!!!!!