Hello, friends! Today I’m honored and excited to join the special Partners: Gina K. Designs & Hero Arts release blog hop. As you know, Hero Arts is celebrating their 45 year anniversary this year bringing us many fabulous stamp designs in collaboration with other wonderful stamp companies in the industry.
This month Hero Arts partnered with Gina K. Designs for a large stunning floral set complete with beautiful sentiments. As I am very much into heat embossing these days, I did a simple heat embossed card with minimal coloring.
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CARD DETAILS
This stamp set features a large floral cluster that easily fills an entire A2 card. Since I wanted to incorporate one of the larger sentiments from this set I positioned the floral cluster cascading from the top edge of the panel. I heat embossed it in Brass embossing powder on dark blue cardstock – I simply love the look of this embossing powder (or gold powder) or dark blue – it’s very classy and always looks stunning.
Next, I used my Tonic Studios Shimmer Pen and “colored” all of the leaves and flowers with shimmer. It’s a bit hard to see, but as the card is tilted in the light the shimmer becomes more apparent.
I also wanted to add some shading to the flowers so I used my Copic markers in B97 and B99 to just a bit of color. I was careful not to color over the heat embossed lines. Finally, to decorate this simple one layer card I used several sequins from Hero Arts Ombre Ocean mix.
BLOG HOP
If you arrived from Jaycee Gaspar the next stop on this hop is Michelle Short. Or start over on the Hero Arts blog.
GIVEAWAY
PR101 HA + GinaK Friendship Blooms stamp set. One winner will be drawn from the comments left across the hop. Comment by Sunday, August 4 at 11:59 pm PST.
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 HA + GinaK Friendship Blooms Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink Shop at: HA |
 Hero Hues Premium Cardstock Nautical Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Brass Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Sequins Ocean Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker B99 Agate Dark Blue Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker B97 Night Blue Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ | TS |
 Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Nuvo Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ | TS |
 Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS | WP9 | AZ |
 Scor-Tape 1/8 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS | AZ |
Stunning Card!! Absolutely love this stamp set.
So regal looking to have minimal coloring!!! It us just a beautiful card!!
Another anazing card with this stamp set! I need it in my craftroom ❤
Love this technique- beautiful stamp set and the sentiments are great!
Great color scheme, gorgeous card!
Beautiful, gorgeous card. The new stamp set is fabulous and I love the card design.
Your card looks stunning! I love how you used this beautiful stamp set. 🙂
Stunning card !! Loved the deep blue and gold combo and of course the pencil coloring !
Blue is my favorite colour and this card is just stunning! It’s amazing how just a little bit of shading can create so much depth and dimension
Your card is gorgeous! I love the gold and darker blue together.
What a rich blue. The sentiments in the set are great!
This speaks sheer elegance. Love it a lot. Very classy.
I really enjoy coming to see your cards. Great job
Your card is absolutely gorgeous! I especially appreciate the minimal coloring since I’m tired of coloring things and I’m not that good at it.
Stunning card! I love the colors and your technique!
Wow! This is stunning. I am loving all the different ways to use this gorgeous floral!
Beautiful card. I love how this simple technique created such a stunning card. Thank you.
I love the dark colors of the cards the blue is awesome. Good job.
Gorgeous card!
This is an awesome stamp set. Love how you used the dark blue colors, truly stunning.
Love the blue cardstock with a gold embossed image.
Oh my GOODNESS! This is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! My favorite color!
The brass embossing powder on the blue card stock is stunning!
Love the beautiful embossing. Adding the
touches of color makes for a wonderful
bouquet. thanks for sharing
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You always do such beautiful work, Yana. This card is gorgeous! Makes me want to own this great stamp set. Thanks so much for sharing with us and for participating in this fun blog hop and giveaway.
Great color combo!
Gorgeous – I love the various blues and the gold embossing. This is such a gorgeous, elegant card!
FABULOUS card and stunning color!
I love the gold on blue. Your cards are beautiful.
What a fantastic way to use this set! The gold and that blue and the minimal coloring makes quite an impact… love this!
Ohh, I like the blue. How do you decide where to put the sequins?
Very pretty card!!!!!
I simply love the Monochromatic feel of your card and the pop of gold! ❤️
Very pretty card! This stamp set is amazing. Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas!!
Your card is absolutely beautiful! I’ve been enjoying heat embossing recently, too, & I need to try this technique. I love things that aren’t too time intensive, but have such amazing results! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome idea to emboss on that pretty blue Cardstock, but then your added Copic details really put this beauty over the top, Yana!
I love the gold embossing on the blue cardstock. Make it stands out.
I love the gold embossing on the blue cardstock
I love to hop along and see all of the amazing creativity. This set is so versatile and I truly love the sentiments included. Your take on using this with deep rich colors is incredible!
Lovely card. Very elegant and simple.
A wonderful card, Yana! Gorgeous colour choice. Love the idea for a one layer card! Thanks so much for sharing and the wonderful inspiration!
Beautiful color combination.
Beautiful card! LOVE the blue and gold!
Love how you combined these colors. It turned out lovely.
Gorgeous Set. I like your demonstration.
Your card is lovely in it’s simplicity. That stamp set is wonderful. It can be used so many ways.
Gorgeous card, Yana. This is a beautiful stamp set with such lovely sentiments, and you’ve showcased is wonderfullly.
Yana, this card is just simply stunning!!! And I love the bonus tip that I found…..you shared with us how you photograph your cards. Your cards are always photographed perfectly so loved your tips!
I love the brass embossing on the dark blue cardstock! I rarely cover that much area with embossing powder, but I will have to try it, it looks beautiful.
Wow! Those flowers are stunning and look great on the background!
Love the brass and dark blue. So vibrant.