Good morning! The 2018 Season of Wonder Collection from Hero Arts is now available and we’re celebrating with a big blog hop and giveaways! I’m sharing a few projects using new products from the release!
First up is this adorable polar bear duo! I’ve had a thing for polar bears since I was a young kid…most kids collect brown teddy bears, I only wanted polar bears (which weren’t always easy for my parents to find!). So when I saw this set I was SO ridiculously excited! To start I stamped the polar bears from Polar Greetings on white cardstock with versafine and heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder. I added a little shading with copic markers and then die-cut them with the coordinating dies! I also stamped the iceberg on vellum and heat-embossed it with silver glitter embossing powder. To create my background I blended bubble gum, dark quartz, pale tomato, cornflower, stone wash, and navy ink on a piece of strathmore bristol cardstock. I used post-it tape to mask the top and bottom while I blended to create the sky and water. Then I took a piece of white cardstock, ripped it to create a rough “snowy” ice cap and adhered it over the background to cover the line of ink blending. Finally I stamped the sentiment with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder!
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My second card uses the fun Paper Layering Neighborhood die to create a card with very little stamping! 😉 I started by die-cutting the paper layering die with white cardstock. Then I took a piece of vellum, laid it over the back of the die, and traced inside the outline of the die. I trimmed off the excess and then adhered it behind the die. Then I used a copic marker to color each of the windows. I let that dry for a bit so the ink wouldn’t smear on the vellum. While that was drying I stamped the sentiment onto dark navy cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. Once the vellum was dry I adhered my neighborhood to the navy card panel. Finally I added a little glue and snowfall glitter to the tops of each house and tree to create a snowy wonderland!
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My next card uses some of the gorgeous new dies in our release! To start I die-cut the Snowflake Edge Fancy die with silver glitter and white cardstock. Then I die-cut the Holiday Word Fancy die with pool layering paper. I stamped ‘happy’ onto a black card base with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. Finally I layered and adhered the dies to the card panel! Simple but striking…you could easily change up the colors for a more traditional red and green palette or go even more crazy with teal and pink…tons of options! 😉
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Here are a few more cards I created with the new release and if you click on the photo you’ll be taken to the tutorial!
To celebrate the Season of Wonder release Hero Arts is giving away two $50 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop. Please leave your comments by Sunday, August 26th at 11:59pm PT and the winner will be announced the following week on the Hero Arts blog! Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:
- The Hero Arts Blog
- Yana Smakula
- Wanda Guess
- Nichol Spohr
- Michelle Short
- Megan Hoeppner
- May Sukyong Park
- Lydia Fiedler
- Libby Hickson
- Laurie Willison
- Kelly Latevola
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Jennifer McGuire
- Jenn Shurkus
- Janette Kausen
- Ilina Crouse
- Emily Midgett
- Clare Prezzia
- Amy Tsuruta
- Amy Kolling
Love your beautiful cards!
Wow Jessica I was blown away with your first card. The polar bear greetings is awesome and I love how you showed that ice berg below the land line. Too cute. So many cards and so many great ideas had me scrolling back and forth for a while. Thanks for inspiring and sharing your beautiful designs. Although I loved all the cards the last one is so beautiful it won my vote.
I love all your cards but I think the Cable Car card is too cute! Love the whole release!
I’m already in love with the Neighborhood die and then I got gobsmacked. The snowflake edge creation of yours is GORGEOUS. Now that edge die is on my list.
I love the technique used for the iceberg. My favorite is the Paper Layering Neighborhood card, I love this die. TYFS
Beautiful, wonderful ideas with the new stamps
Such wonderful cards! I love those polar bears and the vellum iceberg!
Great variety of cards. My favorite is the last one.
All your cards are exceptional (as always lol) but I really love the Happy Holidays (black with teal) that one is truly stunning. It will definitely be in my Christmas Cards this year, thank you for the inspiration.
Great cards, love the polar bears, as soon as I saw the set it went on my wish list. Brilliant release again from HA.
I love your cards! All is gorgeous!!!
Amazong cards! I love the snowflake die! Thank you so much for leading us through each card with a tutorial! Very creative, informative and inspiring!
I always lean towards snowflakes. Love your card with the die cut border of snowflakes
Gorgeous cards – my favorite is the middle one. The blue sentiment just pops on the black background and the white snowflakes.
Lovely cards–just gorgeous! The polar bear one reminded me of when our daughter was very little–she loved to tell jokes about an “orange polar bear”–we never understood the joke, but she’d just laugh like crazy and we’d just laugh along with her. Now that she’s an adult, we’ve asked about the joke and she has no clue what it meant! Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Your cards are wonderful!
Love these cards Jessica–I’m so excited by these new die cuts!
Wow! Yet another amazing collection of xmas cards on the hop! Hero Arts sure chose a great member in you when they chose you for their design team! Thank you for sharing!
Your cards are so beautiful! I really love the polar bears and the snowflake edge fancy die 🙂
Bold and festive cards. Simple fantastic!
Wow, your cards are just gorgeous! I love the white on black, it is so stunning. Your cabin cards just make you think of warm Christmas nights.
Love your cards… Very inspirational. Thank you for sharing.
You have such an interesting use of color! Non-traditional, but beautiful. It’s hard to pick a favorite!
Oh so beautiful! I’ve only been crafting a couple years and try to send cards every week to whoever I feel needs a pick-me-up. Thank you for the inspiration & chance to win!
So many beautiful cards! I love the one with Paper Layering Neighborhood and the cable car one is gorgeous!