Hello and welcome to an inspirational blog hop featuring the 2016 Hero Arts Valentine’s Collection.
This new collection is full of great products that are perfect to create cards and other Valentine’s projects. Of course, as part of this release, Hero Arts has a fabulous GIVEAWAY that consists of one collection of clear stamps and dies from the release. ONE lucky commenter will be picked from comments left on the participant blogs. You have until 11:59pm PST on Sunday, December 13th to leave your comments. The winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog next week.
As part of the festivities, I created a project using two wonderful sets from the collection: Love Stamp & Cut and Floral Heart Stamp & Cut by Lia
… and here is the card that I created with them:
I began by making the background using the Floral Heart shape, some sponges, and a few Shadow Ink colors. Here is a one minute video where you can see how I did it:
After that, I adhered the panel over a black card base. Next, I die-cut the word Love twice from black card stock and from black foam. Then, I adhered them onto the card. I also stamped a complementary sentiment with black ink. Finally, I embellished the card with some yummy enamel dots.
Well, that is all from me today. It is time for you to continue finding more inspiration:
Hero Arts
me>>>Mariana Grigsby<<<me
Amy Tsuruta
Yana Smakula
Suzanne Dahlberg
Jayne Nelson
Libby Hickson
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.
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Thanks for stopping by • Good Luck to all! 🙂 Have a wonderful crafty week!
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Mariana, love the colors that you’ve incorporated! Simply Gorgeous!
Love the sponged blocks with gorgeous heart, great! Thanks for sharing!
this looks to be a fun technique with sweet results !
Love this card! The colors, the composition, everything!
Love that background. Thanks for sharing.
Very pretty card and colors!
I love this background & definitely want to try it. Very sweet & pretty card.
What a fun technique and loved the colors! Such a pretty n cool card!
What a clever technique. Thanks!
Love the crazy checkerboard background to accentuate the Hero Arts Heart and Love die!
This is so lovely, Mariana! I adore these happy colors! Great video!
Like all things heart shaped. Like the rainbow colored background & the
pretty heart die.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Love the card and great technique!!!!!
What a fun technique! And the stamps and dies are so cute!!
Such a fun card and background technique, Mariana. Thanks for sharing this lovely release. Cheers!
Great card! I’ve got to try this. Thanks
Love the artsy background and this beautiful card.
What a super background! some times the less detailed way is the best way. Love the card. Thanks
That background is so fun and happy!
LOVE the sponging! The background is absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for sharing the video, Mariana!
Love this and thank you for the tutorial. Beautiful colors!
I love how you used the diecut as a mask, Mariana! Very cool!
This project looks like so much fun and I really like the layering of elements.
I had never heard of sponging, but this technique looks so fun.
Great color combination and love the mask.
Love it! Great idea using he fun foam to pop up the word!
Love your patchwork background and the die ‘LOVE’ just sets it off beautifully!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
How fun and it looks
so easy to do! Great
looking card.
Carla from Utah
So pretty, Mariana! Love how you used the die as a stencil and make up sponges?? Genius!
What a great technique!
love your sponge background technique. . .
Beautiful card!
Love the card and great technique
This is SO fun, Mariana! I LOVE it! And what a cool technique!!
What a bright happy love card, Mariana! Beautiful!
Gorgeous …. love the background you created with the die as a stencil.
Lovely card–I love the new heart die!!
How very lovely! The beautiful die makes a gorgeous stencil too!!
What a gorgeous background and fun release!
Great video and inspiration of the new release!!
Gorgeous colors!
Very pretty, I love the color background which makes the heart and word love really pop! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful card. I love the idea of using die cuts as stencils and will need to pick up some sponges soon to play with this fun idea.
Thats realy pretty. Thanks for the technique video!
WOW Mariana, how pretty. What a fantastic idea using the sponges just as a stamp for the background. I really love how you used the heart as a stencil. Great work!
Lovely card.
This background is fabulous!
Wow that looks so easy to do but really amazing.
Love the sponged rainbow squares in the background for your heart, such a soft and pretty card!
Stunning background!
I love making Valentine’s Day Cards, thanks for the inspiration!
Carol B
ciaoitalia2007(at)gmail(dot)com
Such a pretty background! I love it!
Your card is so beautiful! I love the colors and background, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing how to do that great background.
Love the unique background. Beautiful card!
What a great collection! I really love that heart die with all the detail!
Colors are gorgeous and the background is fabulous!
Super design!
cute card… I like the soft colours u have selected…. Thanks for sharing…..
Wow, die cut foam n cardstok to create dimensional wordart…what a brilliant technique! Thank you for the tips, i have learned something new today.
love the background! such a beauty, Mariana!
adorable hearts!
love the beautiful background sponging…a brilliant technique indeed!
What a fun technique to create a wonderful background!
That heart is so gorgeous and I LOVE your background!
Love this. Looks like so much fun to do & such a pretty card!
That’s a great technique! I’ll have to give it a try! Love this card and that die is just WOW!
i love your background, is so pretty!
WOW! I am totally in love with this release. Your card is SO beautiful and I love how you made the background. Thanks so much for the chance to win!
Hugs,
Snoopy 😀
I would have never thought you used makeup sponges. I love it. Love the card and the stamps. Thanks for sharing.
Love this background stamping technique. This release is awesome. I love valentines day cards. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful make, lovely release, love the dies and stamps, and you made such a cute card to showcase
I have never seen this background technique before. Thanks for sharing it. I love your card, It is stunning.
So beautiful and cheery! TY for sharing! Thanks for bringing back a vintage Hero Arts technique! They invented the sponge background, didn’t they?!🙂
How beautiful! Love the video 🙂
This is so pretty and so unique!!
What a fun and easy idea to try out…thanks for the great inking technique. Love love the card.
I LOVE the new love dies! They would go with anything!
Take care!
Michele
What a great card! I love how you did the background!
That makes for a very fun Valentine!
can’t wait to try this background! Love all these colors on this sweet card!
Love this technique and your video! Can’t wait to try it.
Awesome colors! Love the die you used!
Very pretty! Love the happy colors.
Lovely cards, I really like the colorful background.
thanks for the video, love the bg!
Wow. I love the bright and cheery hues of your card. It would be sure to cheer anyone who received this card up! 🙂
Your card is so pretty! :)))
I love the masking you did. Your card is stunning! 🙂
Love the soft colors, great idea for using the sponge
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