Thursday, January 26, 2023

Mixed Media Love with Hero Arts!

Hey everybody! I'm stopping for a quick hello and to share some mixed media love for some awesome Hero Arts products! This project is up on the Hero Arts blog today but I wanted to share it here too. For all of the details on how I made it please head on over to the Hero blog.
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I had the background in my stash so I grabbed a piece of vellum and heat embossed in Onyx Pigment ink using the Mini Hearts Bold Prints set. I heat set it with clear embossing powder, sprinkled a little gold embossing powder over that, and heat set it again for a cool, gilded look to my hearts.

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After that I used the Love and Florals Fancy Dies to create a die-cut sentiment. I added a little white detail to the letters so they would pop off of the card little more. All of the layers of the card are adhered with foam tape so there is a ton of dimension to this card!

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Ok! That was short and sweet but I hope you liked today's card. Remember, if you'd like more details please head on over to the Hero Arts blog to read more.

Have an awesome day!
Maria

Monday, January 9, 2023

Hero Arts My Monthly Hero Release January 2023: Blog Hop and Giveaway!

Hey everybody! The wait is over! It's time for the Hero Arts Januaray 2023 My Monthly Hero release and this month's kit is a fantastic, love themed bundle! 

Before I get to my cards, if you aren't familiar with the My Monthly Hero kit, it's a kit that is released by Hero Arts on the first Monday of every month. It always has a fun, themed, collection of stamps, dies and other goodies. The cost is just $34.99/month and the value is always much greater! This month's kit is valued at $77!

You have the option to subscribe (subscribing now means your first kit will be the February 2023 release), or, to buy your favorite kits as one-off purchases. Be aware that once these kits sell out they are gone for good. If you see a kit you like make sure to snatch it up quickly! There are also a ton of amazing add-on products! You can buy the add-ons as a bundle at a discounted rate or just pick up your favorite products. 

For my first card I decided to go with a mixed media look because this set as an amazing assortment of stamps that are perfect for layering up a cool background. So, I sprayed a piece of watercolor cardstock with liquid watercolors and then used Granite ink, black ink and white embossing powder to stamp my background using stamps from the kit. I also roughed up the edges with my fingernail then splattered the background with gold metallic ink and rubbed it with gold Hero wax.


Once my background was done I adhered it to a piece of Pitch black cardstock that I had splattered in gold.

The final steps were to heat emboss my sentiment with Onyx Pigment ink and clear embossing powder onto watercolor cardstock sprayed in pink liquid watercolor. Then, I cut some heart wands out of gold foil and adhered those to my card as well. I cut some of the ends off and glued those to the top left of the background too.

The add-ons this month are fire and I decided to  make a quick and easy card using the new Heart Flourish Plate and the You're Mine set.

I started by cutting the die out of Cherry cardstock and gluing to a Pitch Black cardbase.

Next, I heat embossed my sentiment in gold and added some gold embellishments to finish my card off. This is such and east but striking card to make and it could be easily reproduced with any colors and sentiment that you like.

If you haven't seen the card that I shared for the countdown a couple of days ago, here's a look at that. You can find full details HERE.

Ok, you guys, that is it for today but my Hero friends have so much more amazing inspiration using the January 2023 kit so please keep hopping along with us (blog hop links below) and make sure to enter the fabulous giveaway!

Have an awesome day!
Maria

GIVEAWAY:
We will give away a $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, January 15th at 11:59pm Pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.

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Saturday, January 7, 2023

Hero Arts Countdown to Creativity: January 2023 My Monthly Hero Release

Hey everybody! It's almost time for the January 2023 Hero Arts My Monthly Hero release and this month's kit is a fabulous kit for creating some really fun Valentine's and love themed cards!

If you aren't familiar with the My Monthly Hero kit, it's a kit that is released by Hero Arts on the first Monday of every month. It always has a fun, themed, collection of stamps, dies and other goodies. The cost is just $34.99/month and the value is always much greater! 

You have the option to subscribe (subscribing now means your first kit will be the February 2023 release), or, to buy your favorite kits as one-off purchases. Be aware that once these kits sell out they are gone for good. If you see a kit you like make sure to snatch it up quickly! 

Today is Day Two of the Countdown to Creativity and I've got an easy Valentine's Day card for you.  To make this card I started off with a piece of water color paper and I sprayed it with Pink Liquid Watercolor spray. I heat embossed it in black using Onyx Pigment ink and Clear embossing powder. Then I cut the piece down with a paper trimmer and matted it on black cardstock with some foam adhesive on the back. I set that bit aside so that I could work on the background.

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To create the background I used one of the stamps from the set (only the edges because it actually has a sentiment in the middle), inked it up in black and stamped repeatedly until my background was as full as I wanted it. Then, I adhered my pink Valentine focal point to the center of the card front.
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Next, I cut some hearts from the kit out of gold foil (on the bottom I only wanted one heart so i just snipped the other heart off) and glued them on to the sentiment piece on opposite corners.
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Well, that is it for today but make sure you check out the sneak peeks from other creative team members, and for a chance to win the kit before you can buy it make sure to head over to the Hero Arts blog.

Have an awesome day and I'll see you back here on Monday for the full release!
Maria

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