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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Love the sparkle on the fish!
What a beautiful card! I love the look of the water behind the fish – really makes them look like they’re swimming.
What stunning cards!! I LOVE that orange you used for the gold fish. It looks so real!!
This card is beautiful and your tutorial made it seem pretty simple. Thanks!
Love all the shine on those pretty fish. Cute card.
What a cute card – I like the sparkling embossing powder.
Wow, that card was a lot more work than it appeared at first blush! I like the fish.
Love the shine on those pretty fish! Cute card.
Nice card. I like how it all came together.
So Cool! Love the effect on the shiny fish. What a great idea.
I can picture these fish as betas with their beautiful aquas and purples
This is so cute and you make it come together so easily. Thanks for all the tips. Love your videos!
Nice cards.
There are so many wonderful new things coming from Hero Arts…can’t wait. thanks for your inspiration
Wonderful card! Love the layered gold fish! Thanks for the video!
LOVE the layered gold fish! Awesome card!
Thanks for explaining how to use the stamp layers using ombre inks.
Cute card and I love those fish! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome card, Thanks for the video! I love the window into the sea!
I really like how you use the ombre ink pads 🙂
Love that sparkle.
Looks great! I love the new stamps!
Awesome!! Never get tired of your cards! Love the assembly and the way you use thee stamps and the inks!
Love the fishes. Very colorful!
I haven’t seen this new stamp set before…so nice. Thanks for the inspiration.
This reminds me of an old song on a 45 record from when I was a kid and I don’t know how I remember it. “Goldie the goldfish swam around all day, and in her little goldfish bowl she passed the time away.” There’s more but I won’t bore you with it. That’s one stamp I don’t have, goldfish! I really like that stamp and what you did with it. If I win, guess what I am going to buy?
Beautiful card and I appreciate the great detail and tips in your video!
Love your card. Thanks for the inspiration.
So pretty! Love the fish card.
What a fun set! I love the glitter.
Such a cute card. Who would have thought fish could make such a cute card?? Love it, Thanks
Love the underwater background circle and sparkly fish.
I really enjoyed your card technique demonstration. I love the fish set as my father’s hobby was keeping beautiful goldfish in his aquarium. Great card!
Gorgeous card and
great work on the fish!
Carla from Utah
These are so beautiful! I love the colours, the layout and the sparkles! Thank you so much for sharing!
I love this card. The shimmery fish are awesome!
These goldfish are great! Lovely cards…
You are do, do talented! Thanks for sharing your gift with us. Those goldfish are do real looking. Your card is magnificient!
Just beautiful! I like the idea of the embossing powder over the fish!
Your goldfish are brilliant! I can’t wait to give them a try!
Love your different shapes of fish bowls and how you have them swimming out.
These goldfish are so bright and cheerful! Adorable!
Take care!
Michele
замечательные работы, рыбки шикарные!
Absolutely gorgeous!
I just love your fish card!
Love your creativity
I love your sweet fishy card! Such a great overall design of the card and I love the embossing!
Thanks for sharing!
Hugs,
Jo
How creative! I love it!
Love this fishy card–terrific fish and as usual, you make it look easy and fun!! These Hero Ombre inks are calling my name!
Love both these cards , gold fish remind me of summer as thats the best time to see the goldfish swimming in my garden pond , they come to the surface to bathe in the sunshine, thanks for sharing.