Good morning! The Valentine’s Collection from Hero Arts is now available and we’re celebrating with a big blog hop and giveaway! I’m sharing a few projects using new stamps and tags from the collection!
Of course I love all things pink and red for Valentine’s Day so I started out with some very traditional tags! I started by stamping the Love is Love cling stamp onto the tags with versamark and then heat-embossed them with white embossing powder. Then I blended Strawberry, Crimson, and Rose Madder bold hybrid inks onto the tags in an ombre pattern. I spritzed them with the new pink shimmer spray from Hero Arts and set them aside to dry while I worked on the rest of the tags. I die-cut the Love die from an earlier release with white cardstock and the rest of the sentiment from older Hero sets. Once the tags were totally dry I adhered the word dies with regular adhesive and the rest of the sentiment with foam mounting tape. Sparkly, shimmery, easy, and perfect to adhere to a sweet treat for the holiday!
My second card uses the cheeky We Go Together stamp set for a fun, punny card! I stamped the banana repeatedly with versamark to create a “patterned paper” and then heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder. I watercolored the bananas using the Hero Arts dot palette and then stamped the sentiment on a coordinating strip of yellow cardstock. I adhered the sentiment to the banana panel and then adhered it to a white card base! I think I’ll give this to my husband this year for Valentine’s Day and it’s kinda an inside joke because our rabbit ADORES bananas but our shelties HATES them. So I’ll have to tell him that I’m ‘bananas for him’ in a bunny way not a dog way! 😉 Ha!
To celebrate the Valentine’s Collection release Hero Arts is giving away three $25 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop. Please leave your comments by Thursday, December 21st 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
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Janette Kausen
- Amy Tsuruta
- Ilina Crouse
- Michelle Short
- Clare Prezzia
- Libby Hickson
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I love crafting for Valentine’s Day! Your projects are super-sweet!
I love the banana card!!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the banana card!…If I make one purchase it will have to that!!
Very pretty tags and love the banana card.
The tags are lovely. Attach it to a sweet and it’ll be an easy project. I also love the “We Go Together” set. These are great and not just for children. Cute card.
Cute Valentine’s day tags!
The tags are lovely but I think the Bananas card is amazing! Cheers.
What a fun banana card! Nice use of repetition.
Those tags are beautiful and that banana card is so cute! The ink colors on the tags are lovely, and now I need more ink pads, even though I have more red and pink ink than any other color.
Super cute, Jessica!
I love the sentiments from the we go together stamp, you can make a lot of cards for Valentine’s Day.
I love the bananas. So cute and could be used in bunches of ways.
Wow! I LOVE these quirky bananas! They are so bright and cheerful! That splash of yellow looks great!
Cute card and cuter story!
This card is adorable! I’m a bandana lover myself so I can appreciate this card. Thanks for sharing.
CUTE bananas card and pretty heart tags!
There are so many cute sentiments in the We Go Together set and I can see using them throughout the year for cute cards and notes. Love your banana card!
Thanks for sharing your ideas! Love the bananas cards!
Love the banana card! Sooo cute!
Your bananas card is so fun! And I just love the heart tags 🙂
Fabulous work on the
tags and cute card. We
had a bunny that loved
bananas as well!
Carla from Utah
I love how you used your red/pink ink. It blends so nicely!!!!!
I love the colors you used on the tags and the background stamp is wonderful, too. I’m a sucker for a good background stamp! 🙂
Love the tags and the banana card! Great job!!
Cute and creative way to express Love to one’s Loved one. Banana “pattterned paper” background makes a great intro to a pop up card with a monkey inside holding the die cut heart “hidden” inside along with a confetti fling filled with bananas…