Welcome to Day 4 of the Hero Arts 2014 Catalog Blog Hop with the Hero Hostesses! I'm delighted to be your first stop today. You should've arrived from the Hero Arts Blog. Hero Arts is giving away three big prize packages and winners will be randomly drawn from all hostess blogs each day as well as the five introductory posts at the Hero Arts Blog. The more comments you leave along the way, the more chances you have to win!
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My first card features the Tiny Triangles background, Spring Branch die and Good Luck sentiment set. I used the Pale Tomato, Soft Cantaloupe and Bubble Gum shadow inks.
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From start-to-finish, here's how I made the card:
In contrast to the soft and pretty card, I'd like to share a masculine version using the same Tiny Triangles background and Good Luck sentiment set.
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To create this background, I die cut circles of various sizes from a piece of scrap paper. Then I inked the background with the stamp facing up, laid the scrap on top and pressed the white cardstock into it so that only the ink coming through the circles would stamp on to the cardstock.
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After that, I used the die cut circles and some repositionable adhesive to hold the circles on the stamped areas and protect them from the embossing paste. Then I used the Hero Arts Numbers Background Stencil to apply metallic silver embossing paste. Once the stencil and die cut circles are removed, I end up with a funky mixed media background. After the embossing paste dries, I adhere the panel to a dark grey card base and pop on the sentiment with foam tape.
GIVEAWAYS
In addition to Hero Arts' generous giveaways, I have three of my own!
(1) This first prize consists of two Hero Arts background clings and the winner will be drawn randomly from my blog followers.
(2) This second prize consists of two Hero Arts background clings and the winner will be drawn randomly from my YouTube subscribers.
(3) This third prize consists of two Hero Arts woodblock stamps and will be drawn from all comments left on this post.
If you leave a comment here, follow my blog and are a subscriber to my YouTube Channel, that means you have three chances to win (well, four, since your comment here also qualifies for the Hero Arts giveaways)! You have until 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, January 26th and I will announce all three winners here on Monday, January 27th. Thanks so much for stopping by and good luck! :)
Your next stop is my sweet and talented friend Anita Recksiedler!
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289 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 289 of 289Wow, the silver embossed background with the circles is spectacular! Love all the fun details!! I am already a follower and am now following on You Tube
fabulous cards and awesome tutorials
Wow, such beautiful cards created. Simply great!
love your cards today, Emily. thanks for sharing the videos and your wonderful give-away!
Amazing! Great techniques on the backgrounds!
I love how you have done the backgrounds on your cards I will have to try this!
Thanks for the video love your cards
love the video!
awesome cards...you rock gf...
Beautiful cards! Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful cards! Amazing how you did the background on the second one!
Wow ... fantastic use of background stamp. Thanks for sharing. Cheers :)
How fun emily! Love your cards and the use of the paste, which I have some, just waiting for me to use this weekend!
Really interesting technique you came up with. So many ideas here, just love it. Thanks
Great cards...very unique!
These are so pretty and I love the silver embossing paste.
Wow! Very inspiring- you gave me some good ideas in combining stamps and other media.
Dee Ann Matthews
Thank you for showing us some wonderful techniques and your gorgeous cards!!
what fun techniques! I will definitely give them a try!
Lovely cards.
Always love a CAS card. Easier the better and yours are easy. Love them.
Wow, your cards are gorgeous. Love your background techniques. I especially like the masculine card. Thanks for sharing.
That man card is neat! You can never have enough ideas for a masculine card. I really enjoyed how you inked the backgrounds.
That was very interesting and different how you combined the inked background and the texture paste background.
Wow! What a great background technique. Love these cards.
I just love how you created the card. Love the background and the vellum leaves. Both the colour and the vellum give it such a 'soft' touch. Very nice
Great cards and super effect with the vellum! watched the second video to see what the steps for that card were and think it is a super technique. Think I want to use that one sometime, so big thanks! Inky greetings, Gerrina
Emily, love how creative you're withe the Good Luck labels! Wonderful cards!
Great cards, great techniques. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely cards! Thanks for the technique videos. ;-)
Love that silver embossed card the most! FAbulous!
Kris in Alaska
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Sweet backgrounds and fab cards! Love the texture and design! Beautiful Beautiful!
Fabulous cards Emily! TFS I follow your blog.
Your background stamping is gorgeous, pretty card.
So soft and pretty - stunning creations Emily.
These cards are fabulous, Emily! I love the textured background on the masculine card.
Emily, these cards are amazing! Thank you so much for the video tutorials. The backgrounds are so cool!
Sweetly elegant! :)
I really love your artful compositions Emily! Thanks for sharing your talent!
Beautiful cards -such great backgrounds. Thanks for sharing.
So romantic! Thanks for the inspiration!
I really like the texture and sheen on the masculine card. Mahalo for the tutes.
Very elegant.
Great cards Emily! Really like the backgrounds
Some really cool techniques. I love the valentines card. Thank you for a chance to win.
i like the use of the die cut on the first card!
These are both such amazing cards! I love the colours of the first one and how you chose to ink the background stamp -- adds so much interest! The more masculine background of the second one really is jaw-dropping -- love it! And wow, Emily -- you are being so generous with your giveaways, on top of all the inspiration!
Love the cards, always looking for new ways to use the background stamps.
Love the texture you utilized in your cards.
Both of your cards are so gorgeous!
Love the background techniques - and the use of the stencil. Thanks for sharing!
Love all the new ideas!
I appreciate "funky" I like your choices for color, the silver metallic really defines the card. Thanks so very much for offering me a chance to participate
Wow! I love the effect of only covering part of your stamp with the inks, and the molding paste over those stencils is so cool! Love all of the texture you gave to both cards. Thank you for sharing your techniques!
Wow! I've never seen the technique you used on your second card. It's amazing! I can't wait to try it! Thank you for the videos.
Beautiful cards. Love the layers and the technique you used with the embossing folder and circles.
Thanks for sharing!
I feel fortunate to have found your blog through this hop. I am now following your blog and your YouTube!
Gorgeous pair of cards!
What a fantastic background technique!! It looks amazing on both of your cards and really love the colour combos on both cards too!!
I love how you combined the graphic and the ornate. Very cool.
Amazing Cards and Fantastic Videos! Thanks so much for sharing and for the giveaway goodies. I'm a follower on your blog and YouTube. AJ@queenofmynest
Great cards ! thanks for the tutos and for the giveaways too !
I love your cards especially the background techniques.
I love the background on your cards, Emily! Thanks for sharing the technique!
i like the colors of the shadow inks in the top card especially. great work. thanks.
Gorgeous cars, Em!! I love how you made them so feminine and elegant! And I'm so excited about your YouTube channel! I'll have to sign up for that, ASAP!! Thanks for all you do for the hostess sistahs! Can't say it enough!! XO
The dimension in this card adds so much interest! Nice!
Love your stunning designs Emily!
great cards! love the backgrounds!
Emily, thank you so much for the two very informative videos!! You take papercrafting to a whole new level. I'm thinking I need that background stamp!
Great cards Emily! And thanks for the videos!
OMG!!! You've some amazing creativity going on there. Both the cards are Stunning. Thank you so much for the videos too. That touch of vellum gives pretty feminine touch to your gorgeous bg. The masculine card is über cool cos of the colors and the silver paste. TFS!!
You have really created a bunch of beautiful cards, Emily. Thanks for sharing!
Oh, Emily! The 2 background techniques you showed are really wonderful. I can't wait to try them myself. Thanks so much for sharing.
Great background techniques! Thanks for the inspiration!
Perfect colours, perfect layout, perfect everything!
Beautiful cards, Emily! I just adore those backgrounds and your videos are so helpful.
Fantastic cards Emily. Thank you for your great videos on their creation. I love your background technics - amazing results.
Wow, both of your cards are amazing! I love what you have done with the backgrounds and how you used the solid sentiment stamp to center the card. Thanks for sharing your techniques too. Thanks for sharing.
Katie B.
Cool techniques! Thanks for the videos!
I had never seen this technique--with the cut out circles as a template on top of a background stamp. How fun! Can't wait to try it!
FABULOUS designs! As Always! LOVE your cards Emily!
Love both cards. Your tips on stamping through the circles are fab. Must try that. Thanks for sharing
I am in love with the LOVE card! Gorgeous backgrounds you have created!
Thanks for the videos. I like how you inked up only parts of the BG on your first card.
Thanks for sharing your great techniques
Love the she/he card. Thanks for the give away.
Beautiful creative cards! Thank you for the video tutorials.
The colours are great, as well as the designs. thanks
Fabulous tutorials. Thank you for sharing your great ideas.
Elena
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