Lisa Stein

paper crafter, quilter, crochet addict, book reader, golden retriever lover, vegan

Hero Arts Blog Hop

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Today I am honored to be a part of the Hero Arts + A Blog Named Hero Holiday Blog Hop! You likely came here from the wonderful Libby Hickson’s blog. I’m so thankful that I got to meet Libby this year. She’s super sweet, and fun, and I wish we had had more time to spend together. Maybe next year. 🙂

This year’s Holiday Release from Hero Arts is just spectacular, and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on some (if not all) of the new goodies. Here’s a card I made using one of the new background stamps, Candy Stripe bold prints. It’s such a great stamp, and I know it will see lots of use from me, year round. Paired that with one of the Lia Griffith wood block stamps, Merry & Bright by Lia. I’m hoping that there are stamps in this format for every release that Hero Arts does going forward. They’re perfect for an elegant, simple sentiment, and I will use these for a very long time.

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I stamped the sentiment with versamark onto some vellum cardstock, then used the new platinum embossing powder from Hero Arts. It’s just the perfect shade of metallic for my taste. The background was stamped onto some paper and also embossed with the same embossing powder. I then used two shades of Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers to color the stripes. If you notice, the top left is a stronger, darker color, and it fades out to the bottom right. I did that by coloring with the markers in the top left, and then using a waterbrush to drag the color down.

So that you could see the sentiment on the vellum better, I hand stitched it onto a piece of white cardstock, and then popped that up onto the card front. I used metallic thread for that, to match the embossing powder.

Here’s a list of the blog hop participants, I hope you’ll stop by everyone’s blog. We have some amazing projects for you, and there’s a giveaway! Hero Arts has stashed away THREE of the November 2015 My Monthly Hero kits to giveaway to readers of this hop. The winners will be randomly chosen from all of the blog hop comments, across all blogs, received by 11:59pm PST on Sunday, November 22nd. Check the Hero Arts blog for the announcement of the winner on Tuesday, November 24th.

Next stop on the hop is Niki Garcia. I’ve had a peek at what she’s made, you’re going to love it.

Hero Arts
Linda Trace
Libby Hickson
Lisa Stein
Niki Garcia
Amy Tsuruta
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Mateja Povse
Suzanne Dahlberg
Michelle Lupton
Bhavana Kesarkar
Mariana Grigsby
Chitra Menon
Gayatri Murali
Isabel Rivera Ruiz
Clare Prezzia

If you happen to find a link that doesn’t work, you can hop back to the Hero Arts Blog for a list of direct links to all the blogs in today’s hop.

Thanks for hopping by!

 


Comments

  3. GORGEOUS card Lisa!!!
    WOW – LOVE your BEAUTIFUL vellum sentiment panel and stitching, ADORE your STUNNING background, your embossed & coloured stripes look AMAZING!!!
    THANK YOU for sharing your CREATIVE INSPIRATION 🙂

  6. Beautiful card! That background stamp is awesome. Your heat embossing and stitching is great. I really need to try the Hero embossing powder. Thanks for sharing about it.

  18. Oh Lisa! I could not be more in love with this card! From the stitch work to that fabulous embossed/watercolor background…and now I’m off to purchase that background stamp…hahaha

  20. What a fabulous idea to hand stitch the vellum! Beautiful way to showcase your sentiment. 🙂

  22. Gorgeous watercolored and embossed stripes! I love this idea, they are so festive! Looks like expensive wrapping paper!

    • Ha! It does look like wrapping paper that I always want to buy but will never spend the money on… you’re giving me some ideas. 🙂

  28. Beautiful card!! I too have come to the realization that I LOVE bold sentiments as the maiin focus on a card with a colorful background!!

  38. I really like the gold hand done sewing on the border. It compliments the piece so well

  44. Lisa, “Merry and Bright” describes your card perfectly! I love anything vellum and anything gold, so you got me on both counts. Thank you for sharing your lovely creation.

  46. Hi Lisa ~ What stunning colors you’ve chosen for your card….absolutely love the non-traditional color combination. I’ve never been brave enough to try free-hand stitching on my cards but love the effect you achieved here with yours. Thanks for sharing your outstanding talent with the rest of us paper crafters.

  47. 😀 I started reading and scrolling down…and those gorgeous colors just jumped out at me! Got a “wow” from me! Your background is fantastic…I love the way the colors fade out from top to bottom. Very creative!

  61. Don’t you love that background stamp? I had to have it as soon as I saw it! I love seeing it used in another way besides just red and white candy cane stripes! The coloring between stripes is a great idea!

  66. I love how you used this background stamp, and colored the embossing with the Zig pens in an hombre effect! I also think that stitching the sentiment panel on with the glitter thread made the whole thing pop! Thanks for the inspiration.

  67. Beautiful card! Love the striped background and how you colored it! The embossed sentiment really looks great with the hand stitched gold thread framing it! Wonderful Christmas card!

  71. Gorgeous, stunning card! That background stamp is on my wish list. Love the bright colors you have used to offset the elegant sentiment!

  86. I like everything about this card–the clean look of the stripes, the platinum EP, and the way you varied the intensitiy of the brightly colored stripes. Beautiful card.

  92. Love the sentiment, simple and not crowded. The colors are bright and seasonal too. Thanks.

  94. This is a gorgeous, elegant card! I love the variation in color of the background stripes & the hand stitching is a perfect addition!

  98. love the card and how all the parts are put together — coloring the candy strip background the way you did, adding the stitching around the stamped text — all really awesome! great card and good ideas to use …
    TFS

  99. What a wonderful, unusual card. Thanks for the explanation of how the stripes were done.

  104. Your card lives up to the sentiment Merry and Bright! I wouldn’t have guessed that you used Zig brush pens!

  108. What a fun, bright card! I love the candy stripes and gold sentiment. Thanks for the inspiration.

  117. I really love the way you worked the stripes, the going dark to light… Beautiful card, just Beautiful…..

  120. Oh my goodness. I absolutely love this card with the bright colored stripes and the stitching on the sentiment card is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

    Linda D.

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