Good morning! I am so honored and thrilled to share a secret I’ve been keeping for a little while! I am joining the Creative Team at Hero Arts! Eeeek! I’ve been pinching myself ever since I received Jana’s invitation and I cannot wait to get started! To celebrate, I created a card to say hello! 🙂 And don’t forget to stop by the Hero Arts blog to meet the other new Creative Team member! 😉
And I discovered something new in the process…the Hero Arts hybrid inks blend gorgeously on cardstock! To begin I blended Orchid, Crimson, and Mulled Wine hybrid inks onto my cardstock with a blending tool. Then I flicked it with a little gold spray and set it aside to dry. Next I die cut the City Skylines from black cardstock. I pressed a versamark pad over the bridge die-cut and then heat-embossed it with Brass embossing powder. Once my background panel was dry I adhered the skyline and adhered the bridge with foam mounting tape. I liked the brass embossing powder so much that I wanted to find another way to use it on my card. I took a few diamond embellishments, smooshed them into my versamark pad, and then heat-embossed them with brass embossing powder to create matching metallic embellishments.
Finally I used the Luggage Tag Alphabet to stamp my sentiment with Intense Black ink and then adhered my colorful panel above! If this is your first time visiting my blog I feel like this is a fairly good representation of my style: colorful with just a little bit of sparkle! 😉 I hope you’ll stop by again and I look forward to sharing Hero Arts creations with you very soon!
I have two Hero Arts stamp sets to send to one lucky commenter! Please leave a comment and let me know what techniques or types of cards you’d like to see from me! I’ll pick a winner on January 5th, 2017 so please leave your comment before 11:59PM EST on January 4th!
Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day!
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Congratulations on joining the Hero Arts team Jess, so well deserved! You have a style that I really like, crisp and clean, not too minimal, so I’d just ask for more of the same please, and thanks for asking x
Congratulations!!!! I am so happy for you!!! Your card looks amazing!!!!
Love your work. So happy for you.
Gorgeous card! I love the colors you blended together for this pretty effect! Looks fabulous with the black cityscape and embossed bridge!
I want to learn more about the hybrid inks you used, and also watercolor backgrounds!
Congratulations, and I love your card! I look forward to seeing more of your work!
Congratulations! Love the ink blending on this card. I am a sucker for new techniques and clever ways top use stamps.
I love the cityscape card. The copper bridge is a real stand-out! Congratulations on becoming part of the Hero arts family. I’m brand new to your blog and look forward to seeing more of your work. I like your style; no preference on techniques.
Cheering and applauding that Hero Arts has recognized your amazing talents and have brought you on board! So well-deserved! Exciting for you and, especially, for us who will have even more opportunity to enjoy your creativity! Your card: gorgeous! I’d like to see more ink blending and die-cutting techniques, much as you’ve done here (I’d ask for water-colour but water-colouring and I do not cooperative very well at all….sighh…). You and HA = recipe for magic!
~carol
Love your card. Looking forward to seeing more in the future..
I would like to see a combo of shaker and blending. I like both of those kind. All your cards are beautiful. You do an amazing job.
Congratulations! I think their brand fits your style perfectly.
Your card is gorgeous as usual.
I love your style just as it is, which I need to learn more
about how to do that myself.
Love your card ! I’d like to see more ink blending, and shaker cards.
Congrats Jess! I love your style of cards, and also ink blending, so I’d love tips on that, like you suggested with using the Hero Arts hybrid ink for blending.
Congrats on joining the
Hero Arts team! Love your
creations and I’d like to
see more about water
coloring. Happy New
Year.
Carla from Utah
Congrats! Love the ink blending. Lovely card.
Congratulations! Hero Arts always have had a strong following. It’s great that you can find them at your local craft store too! I am a floral nut but I have a young granddaughter so I’ll be looking for lots of ideas for cards and pages featuring my fav subject! Keep up the great work! Many blessings on your crafting future!
Congratulations!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
I would love to see you use background/all over stamps or several small stamps to create a background. Congrats on joining the Hero Arts design team!
Hi Jess
First time on your site and I love your work!! I would love to see more on copic markers
Thanks
Congratualtions Jess! Well deserved accomplishment. You should be very proud of yourself.
Gah! How do I delete that? Ha! Congratulations. Oy.
Would love to see multiple cards from one stamp. Thanks for the chance to win!
How cool for you! Congrats! I love Hero Arts. Your card is amazing by the way. So graphic and pretty! I would love to see watercoloring and lots of texture/dimension (doesn’t have to be on the same card). I am always searching for good sympathy cards so that could be helpful. Birthdays and Thank Yous are my favorite cards to make.
The background sky is beautiful. I also like the brass bridge embosssing.
More ink blending please … I just love the way you’ve done the sky on this card. Thank you?
Congratulations!!! I on,your found you a few months ago on a hop, and I have followed you ever since. Such exciting news, congrats again!!!