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 these hearts!
Beautiful heart tags and lovely card.
I love the tags… and I have the Love die! yay me! And your banana card cracks me up! I know my husband would laugh!
Love the bananas!
Great tags and card. Thanks for sharing…
Love your cards Jess! The banana one is adorable! I didn’t realize you have,a bunny too. Ive wanted one since age 3 & 45 yrs later I still haven’t gotten one 🙁 but, I can pretend my neurotic boston terrier is one in the meantime! LOL
Fabulous tags! I love the bananas card!
I love your tags Jessica, and the bananas Card is just so adorable!!!!!
I love your Bananas card! So cute! The tags are lovely too, but I prefer the fun of the card!
Lovely creations…
Love both these projects. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Love the banana card… so cute!
I love the bananas card! The tags are adorable!
These are so fun! The ombre pink makes for the perfect little tags for a sweet Valentine treat, and the banana card is charming. You did a great job creating an evenly-spaced background; I always seem to have card tilt in these situations. But lovely coloring, and thanks for sharing some simple but really effective ideas!
I went bananas for your banana card…and in love with your heart tags!
very cute cards