Hello, friends! Thank you so much for stopping by today as we celebrate the launch of Hero Arts Color Layering Catalog and new ink pad sets.
This is what Hero Arts says about Color Layering:
Color Layering uses the technique of stamping progressively, building color and detail, resulting in an elegant, dimensional look. We’ve asked our talented group of artists to recommend their favorite colors to best highlight each Color Layering stamp set. The results have been developed into 4-cube ink packs, featuring the championing artist’s name. While the inks were developed with a specific stamp set in mind, the packs offer wonderful and rich versatility; you’ll find they work well with most any set and often produce stunning and unexpected results.
We’ve also introduced a fabulous new Color Layering stamp set with this release – the Color Layering Pineapple and coordinating Color Layering Pineapple Frame Cuts. There’s also an ink cube pack for this set, Hero’s Pineapple.
I was so thrilled to contribute to this catalog and even more trilled to work with two my favorite Color Layering stamp sets from Hero – Gold Fish and Flamingo. It was not an easy task to pick up the right colors for these images, I did a TON of test stamping to see what colors would work best and also what colors I would like best for these sets. I also included a technique for each of my cards (and ink cube packs) that really lets you get more out of your inks.
GOLD FISH COLOR LAYERING & YANA’S BOLDS INK CUBE SET
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I’ll start with Gold Fish and my Yana’s Bolds Ink Cube Set (its so weird to see my name on a product! but good weird for sure). The colors of ink in the set are Dandelion, Strawberry, Green Apple (all 3 are new hybrid inks) and Unicorn White (pigment ink).
The white ink is used to “mute” the bright yellow and red. By using this technique I’m able to reverse where the bright colors are on the fish. See THIS card example (and video) to see how you stamp these images differently.
Here’s the step-by-step breakdown of the stamping process:
- Step 1: ink the fish bottom layer (first layer) using Dandelion. Ink the tail using Strawberry. Mix the colors on the stamp with your fingertip or a q-tip. Stamp the image. When mixing ink with a fingertip you’ll get visible fingerprints on the image, but after you add next layers they will become invisible.
- Step 2: Stamp again with Dandelion only (this helps to mix the colors even more), use MISTI stamping tool for precise stamping.
- Step 3: Ink the fish detail layer (second layer) with White Pigment ink, stamp. Heat set or set aside for ink to dry on its own.
- Step 4: Die cut using a matching die or cut out with scissors.
- Step 5: Ink up the die cut with embossing ink, heat emboss with Sparkle embossing powder to make the fish look wet.
I also included Green Apple ink in my ink set – I love to use this color to stamp sea grass, although its a great option to try for the fish too, it works beautifully with Dandelion.
To create my card I stamped & die cut fish, sea weed and sea floor; to create the background I did ink smooshing with watercolors over watercolor paper and finally I heat embossed “Just Keep Swimming” in white embossing powder.
You’ll notice I added quite a lot of clear droplets, these are from Pretty Pink Posh – I think they work beautifully here adding faux air bubbles to the card.
FLAMINGO COLOR LAYERING & YANA’S SUNSET INK CUBE SET
My second card and set is using Flamingo and Yana’s Sunset ink cube set. The colors of ink in the set are Soft Cantaloupe, Ultra Pink, Unicorn White and Red Royal. All but Unicorn are dye inks, Unicorn is pigment.
Whenever I think about flamingos I picture a vibrant sunset background and lots of bright colors, so that picture in my mind inspired this card. I also have another card HERE using Flamingo stamp and slightly different ink colors.
Here’s the step-by-step breakdown of the stamping process:
- Step 1: Stamp bottom layer + legs of flamingo in Soft Cantaloupe.
- Step 2: Stamp middle layer in Unicorn White. Stamp middle layer again in Ultra Pink.
- Step 3: Stamp top layer in Red Royal.
You can also use black or another dark color to stamp the beak, but I skipped this step. To create the background I did some more ink smooshing with my watercolors and also stamped grass in black ink. My sentiment, I’ll stand by you, was heat embossed in white right next to the flamingo.
GIVEAWAY
Hero Arts will give away a Color Layering Bundle of the winner’s choice to FIVE lucky blog readers – selected from comments left across all blogs in the hop.
Comments close Sunday June 19 at 11:59pm pt, Hero Arts will announce winner the following week.
BLOG HOP
If you arrived from Kelly Rasmussen (and her gorgeous Kelly’s Flower set), the next stop on this hop is Amy Tsuruta (and her amazingly unexpected Shades of Green’s set). If you get lost, start over at The Hero Arts Blog.
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!
 Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Snow Layering Papers PS610 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Ranger .5 Oz. Multi Medium Matte Adhesive Shop at: SSS | PPP |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS |
 ScraPerfect Perfect Crafting Pouch Multi-Purpose Craft Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles Dies Shop at: SSS |
 Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Spellbinders Artisan X-plorer Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS | SC |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS | HA |
Hero Arts Sparkle Embossing Powder PW105 Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 24 COLOR SET Shop at: SSS |
 Arches COLD PRESS WATERCOLOR PAD 9×12 inches 012852 Shop at: SSS |
 Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix Shop at: SSS | PPP |
 Pretty Pink Posh 4MM Clear Droplets (small) Shop at: SSS | PPP |
 Hero Arts Color Layering Gold Fish Stamp Set CL945 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Color Layering Gold Fish Dies DI176 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Color Layering Flamingo Stamp Set CL962 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Color Layering Flamingo Dies DI183 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Mini MISTI Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Color Layering Yana’s Bolds Ink Cube Set AF357 Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Color Layering Yana’s Sunset Ink Cube Set AF361 Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Color Layering Yana’s Flamingo Bundle Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Color Layering Yana’s Gold Fish Bundle Shop at: HA |
Beautiful cads. Those are the two stamps that I am saving for.
Kathleen
Love the fish!
Such wonderful creativity. Love your colors and beautiful cards. Thanks for sharing. I can’t seem to leave a comment in the box below, so I hope this counts.
Those fish are beautiful and I love the flamingo!!
WOW, love the cards!!
Gorgeous cards! I love the flamingo and you are so right about using the white ink pad to mute the colors. Such beautiful results.
WOW! Love that flamingo!!!! Have the die and waiting for the stamp to arrive!!!! Looking forward to lots of pink FUN!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
I love it! Such a beautiful flamingo and black grass is brilliant! So beeutiful.
Love the added touch of the glitter embossing powder to make the fish look wet.
love the gold fish and flamingo beautiful cards and colors
I love the glittery fish with those wonderful new colors! Your cards are gorgeous with the watercolors!
Loved the goldfish and the flamingo! What fun
Very cute card ideas!
Your two card scenes are beautiful! I just love these new ink combos.
Well…the fish had been my favorite stamp until
I saw the beautiful sunset with flamingo . Well done.
Beautiful cards! 2 of my favorite HA layering sets! Love them both ♥
Your cards are gorgeous! Love the fish!
Gorgeous coloring on
your cards! Love the
flamingo colors.
Carla from Utah
Love the colours in your 2 ink sets and the cards you’ve made with them!
Yana, you are definitely one of my favorite card makers! I love your style!!! these cards are just fabulous!!!!!
Wow, the fishes are so nice, love the fish set too 🙂
Wow I love the fish. Love the colors just gorgeous. Tfs and the chance to win.
Great colours & cards
Both cards are beautiful and you did a great job with colors! I am not usually too crazy about flamingos, but doing it against that warm sunshiny sky is just beautiful! I love these stamps! The little fishies are amazing. And the clear drops are just perfect! Thanks so much.
I love all if your card designs and the ink color sets that you put together. Your cards are always so unique and beautiful and live watching your blogs.
Love your card designs and the color ink sets that you put together.
Love both these designs Yana, the flamingo is such a fun summer card and the aquarium is just super cute.
Great cards and colors.
Awww!!!! As always your cards are breathtaking!!!! Simply gorgeus!!!
Both of them are absolutely perfect!
Gorgeous cards! Love the fish and the flamingos are lovely. The colors you chose for your name look great and make the images really pop.
Wow, gorgeous cards!!! I love the fish.
Kym
I can’t decide if I like the fish better or the flamingo! In any case these colors are amazing! I love the way that you blended the colors on the stamps and the addition of white pigment ink is a great idea! The bubbles, the background, the “wet” embossing powder, so much detail. I think these are my favorites so far! Great job!
Love both the cards. I love the idea of the ink cube set to match the layering stamps.
I think the flamingo is cute
I really like your cards. The colors are so good together.
I love the glitter on the fish. Beautiful card.
Like how you coloured the fish! Nice card.
Love the gold fish, colors are great!
These are my favorite cards so far! TFS!
TOTALY FUN AND FABULOUS cards! WOW!
Love both your sets and the cards you created. I would never have thought of using white over the top of a stamped image to tone down the colours.
Great cards! I purchased the fish set and love the effects! Need to flamigos…they are great!!!
Love all of these. You are an amazing designer and colorist. This is a great new release from HA and is a fun blog hop! Thanks!
Love these two sets and the inks!!! So glad I found your blog awhile back! Love your style!!
Love those colors! I have a goldfish stamp set and need those, but probably need the Sunset set also. Hero is coaxing the dollars out of my pocket! LOL
Very gorgeous cards Yana ! The gold fish layering stamp set is one of my favorite (with Orchid sets) and it is already on my wish list (with so many others !). Your colors combos are great too, I love this Green Apple ink, so bright ! Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win.
Such wonderful creativity. Love your colors and beautiful cards. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful cards! I love the goldfish and flamingo sets. I recently ordered the flamingo set and can’t wait to receive it. Wish I could get all of the coloring layering sets!
Awesome cards! Thanks for the inspiration!
I love both your cards but especially the flamingo card. The colors in the background are just beautiful.