Hero Arts Wintertime Fun Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello there, today we are celebrating the launch of the new Wintertime Fun catalogue from Hero Arts. It is filled with wonderful new winter and Christmas products but lots of them can be used all year round too, as you will see in one of my cards below. The new products are available to purchase from the Hero Arts Shop now.

 

If you are following along with the hop, you should have arrived here from my amazing teamie Amy. If you get lost along the way, I have the full list of participants below. For my cards today, I wanted to create a Christmas card and a non-seasonal card.

 

My first card uses lots of new products from the catalogue. I started off by taking a piece of Bristol paper and cutting this using one of the Rectangle Infinity Dies. I took various shades of Distress Ink (colours listed below) and blended these over the piece. I then took the tree images from the new Winter Silhouettes set and stamped these on top with Intense Black ink. I then splattered over some Copic Opaque White.

 

On a separate piece of cardstock, I took the reindeer from the Jingle All The Way Stamp & Cut and stamped this with Intsense Black Ink, coloured it with Copic Markers and then used the matching die to cut him out. He was added to the background piece with foam tape. I took one of the sentiments from the new Off-Beat Holiday Messages set and stamped this on to a piece of black cardstock with Versamark ink. I applied white embossing powder, heat set and then cut in to a strip. This was also added to the panel with foam tape.

 

 

I took the Snowflake Confetti die and embossed this on to the front of an A2 white card base. I then added the image panel on top with foam tape. To finish off, I added two sequins from the new Frosty Sequin Mix plus a few gems. I also added Tonic Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the bells on the reindeer's collar.

SUPPLIES:

Here are the links to what I have used on the card. Affiliate links are used on some products. This means that if you make a purchase after clicking on my link, I receive a small commission with no extra cost to you. I truly appreciate your support when using these links. Please click on the logo below the product to shop at your favourite store. Products marked with an asterisk (*) were kindly sent to me to use.

COPIC MARKERS: E59, E57, E55, E53, R00, R89, R37, R29, R27, R14.

My next card uses the new Seal Family wood mounted stamp. There are lots of animal family stamps in this catalogue and I thought it would be fun to use the seal one for a baby card.

 

I started off by taking a piece of Yupo paper and applying TH Alcohol Inks to it. I wanted an ombre look so I used Sailboat Blue at the bottom, followed by Turquoise in the middle and Aqua at the top. I loved how it came out! I added this piece to a white A2 card base and then added white cardstock strips to the sides with foam tape.

 

I took the Seal Family stamp and inked this up with Intense Black Ink and stamped it on to a piece of white cardstock. I coloured the seals with Copic Markers and then fussy cut them out with scissors. Once cut out, I added black pen to the edges to neaten them up. They were added to the card with foam tape and tape runner. I took the 'new baby' sentiment from the Congrats Stamp & Cut and stamped this on to a piece of black cardstock with Versamark Ink. I applied white embossing powder, heat set and cut this in to a strip. This was also added to the card with foam tape. To finish off, I added dots of Tonic Nuvo Jewel Drops.

SUPPLIES:

Here are the links to what I have used on the card. Affiliate links are used on some products. This means that if you make a purchase after clicking on my link, I receive a small commission with no extra cost to you. I truly appreciate your support when using these links. Please click on the logo below the product to shop at your favourite store. Products marked with an asterisk (*) were kindly sent to me to use.

COPIC MARKERS: W7, W4, W2, W0, R000.

BLOG HOP:

Hero Arts Blog

Jennifer McGuire

Cathy Zielske

Wanda Guess

Kathy Racoosin

Ilina Crouse

Clare Prezzia

Yana Smakula

Lydia Fiedler

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Amy Tsuruta

Michelle Short - you are here!

May Park

Libby Hickson

GIVEAWAY:

Hero Arts are giving away three $25 shopping sprees to three lucky winners. The winners will be drawn from comments left across all of the blogs in the hop. Please leave a comment by Wednesday 30th August at 23.59 (PT). Hero Arts will announce the winners over on the Hero blog the following week.

 

As you can see the next in the hop is the amazing May. Thanks so much for visiting me today. I hope you have a great day!