Hello all and thank you so much for joining us for the Hero Arts 2016 Catalog Blog Hop!
Hero Arts always comes up with the most fun and adorable color layering stamp sets (if you are not familiar with Color Layering, please take a look here). The new Color Layering Gold Fish from the 2016 Catalog is no exception and is a super fun set to play with. It lets you easily create beautiful dimensional-looking fish and with a little bit of heat embossing you can make your “fishies” sparkle and shine like a real wet gold fish!
The card that I am sharing today was also shared at the Hero Arts Make and Take in their booth at CHAW’16 show. The one we made there was slightly different with the window die cut using a heart-shaped die (using one from the Floral Stamp & Cut set by Lia) and slightly different colors of ink (all are listed below), here’s a quick look at that project:
I don’t have the same colors and the same heart die that I used to create my original card (I am in Ukraine at the moment and my supplies are somewhat limited), but I really wanted to do a video for that project so I used similar products.
I used 3 colors of ink to stamp my Gold Fish – Butter Bar, Dark Quartz and Pale Tomato for the original card and Soft Vanilla and Butter Bar to Orange Soda Ombre for the card I’m sharing on my video. I also did a few additional test impression using various yellow, orange and red inks just to see what color combos I like best (I’m sharing a closer loot at the in my video). While I only tried stamping fish using yellows and oranges it can also be stamped using other colors; think about tropical fish (here’s a fun link on Pinterest to explore) and all the fun and vibrant color combos – pinks and blues, greens and purples. There are lots of options.
I liked the idea of having my fish swim in water so I created a little aquarium for them using ink blending. The idea is to die cut a window in a panel and blend the blue and green inks onto another piece of paper to go behind that panel to look like water. I also used various seaweed images to fill in the background and make my water look more realistic. I used the same colors of ink for stamping seaweed and for blending the background. Some stamped images were stamped using lighter colors and some using darker making it look like they are located further away.
A card like this can also be turned into a shaker by simply adding a layer of clear acetate and some sequins and beads.
To make the fish appear like a real gold fish and also to make it appear wet and shiny I used Hero Arts Sparkle Embossing Powder. I usually like to use it for snow (on Holiday cards) or sugar (on fruits cards), but it works great for this as well. I only added one layer of this powder to my fish, but you can add more if you like. Here’s a close up of my heat embossed fish, I just love that sparkle!
VIDEO
I’m also sharing a video tutorial today showing how to create this card! You can watch it at the top of this post or on my Youtube channel. If you like it, I would appreciate you giving it a thumbs up and sharing. Thank you!
BLOG HOP
Want more inspiration using products from the Hero Arts 2016 Catalog? Join the blog hop! Start at the beginning on Hero Arts blog or follow the hop order below:
- Hero Arts
- Lia Griffith
- Kelly Purkey
- Jennifer McGuire
- Yana Smakula – this is me!
- Lucy Abrams – your next stop!
- Kristina Werner
- Kathy Racoosin
- Mariana Grigsby
- Debby Hughes
- Nichol Magouirk
- Joan Bardee
- Lydia Fiedler
- Sandy Allnock
- Julie Ebersole
- Amy Tsuruta
- Kelly Rasmussen
- Suzanne Dahlberg
- Wanda Guess
- Clare Prezzia
- Tami Hartley
- Libby Hickson
GIVEAWAY
Hero Arts is giving away four $25 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop. Comment by 11:59pm PT on Sunday, February 14, and Hero Arts will announce the winners on the Hero Arts blog the following week. Hop along and comment for more chances to win!
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What a neat card idea! The fish are so cute and the sparkle is great!
Those fish are so cool!
Love that sparkle! 🙂
This is such a fun, cute card! I love the little underwater scene you created! Thanks so much for sharing with us! I am also pretty excited I have a new blog to follow!! 🙂
Beautiful fish card! I’ve seen these inks before and was very intrigued. Guess I’m going to have to purchase some.
Wow, so realistic. I want to reach out and touch them.
Fun card with pops of color!
Love this card and thanks for the inspiration!
I love these goldfish.
Love Hero Arts!
Lovely set, great idea, dimension and texture. Thank you.
I’ve never done a blog hop before. It’s fune to see the different design.
your goldfish looks great!
I’m always a fan of Hero Arts products.
I love your cards! 🙂
The layer stamps make it easy to get such a beautiful effect. Love those fish!
Love this card~! I’ve always loved goldfish and koi. Will definitely have to add this to my collection!
Beautiful goldfish. The sentiment is perfect with awesome card design.
Love the sparkly goldfish.
Hope to be able to replicate your cute little fishies!
That was such a nice tutorial. The card came out so nice.
I hope the stamps are made. You did such a great job with them now I want the set. Thanks for sharing.
Great card, thank you!
You are so talented and an amazing card!
Beautiful coloring on your super cute card! Always love your video tutorials, thanks again.
A very fun card. Thanks for the video. Stay blessed.
I love the fish! So cute!
Very nice, fun card. Thanks for sharing. Stay blessed.
Love our creative way of using the stamps!
Great video & a gorgeous card. Love those sparkly fishies!
I love your card and the subject matter. Will have to get this set.
What a gorgeous card, Yana!! I love the sponged sea you created behind the fish – they truly do sparkle!
Love the card and thanks for the tutorial on using layered stamps.
Adorable card Yana. Love those little goldfish swimming in their bowl. Awesome job on the coloring. Thanks for sharing.
This card is so much fun. TY for the video!
What a cool card you showed us how to make.
Great video and love your card!!! Thank you!
Oh gosh I love goldfish and love your card.
Gorgeous cards! Loved the glitter embossing powder as scales/wet.
Thanks Hero Arts for the chance to win.
I love the fishes stamp and die…and especially like the use of glitter embossing on the fish to resemble water! Beautiful ideas!
Very fun cards. Love your sparkly fish. Thanks so much.
What a great card!!
What a beautiful effect the glitter embossing powder adds. I love this card!
great card. . . like the coloring
What great cards! Love the fish!!
This card is absolutely cute. I love it !
I’m really happy about this blog up, I found your website and YouTube channel, and now I’m sure that I need to give a try to the Hero arts inks, I hope I will find them in France.
Fun card.
beautiful..love your card!
LOVELY cards, and such unique images – LOVE!!!
Very cute card. I love the fish, they look so realistic. Color layering stamps really make the images realistic, and I love the addition of the embossing powder.