Hero Arts | Let Your Beauty Run Wild – Color Layering Tiger

Hello, friends! June kit from Hero Arts inspired me like no other and had me making a card after card. The project I have today was created using an add-on stamp set from this month kit – the Color Layering Tiger. I keep saying this, but I am always fascinated by the imagination of Hero’s illustrators – images they chose to use for their layering sets are always so clever and unique!

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CARD DETAILS

I started working on this card by stamping the tiger onto white paper using Hero Arts Butter Bar and Caramel ink pads. This image has only 2 layers and therefore doesn’t need a lot of colors of ink to look realistic. I used coordinating die and cut the tiger out in my Platinum 6 die cutting machine. I also stamped and cut out a few grassy patches to later use to complete my scene; I used Moss ink for stamping.

To create a background for this card I used one of the new stencils and texture paste. I first colored my paste with the help of Butter Bar ink to be a light yellow color (I pressed the ink pad onto my craft mat, next mixed in the paste with a palette knife to colorize it). I applied the paste somewhat unevenly onto kraft cardstock panel, let it sit for about 5 minutes and added white embossing powder on top. If you’d like to see a video tutorial for this technique (minus coloring the paste) I have one here.

The reason I added white embossing powder over the colored paste is simple – I didn’t like the color of paste I got. I wished it had been a bit more saturated, but for that it would have been better to use a re-inker and I didn’t have one. I didn’t do a good job covering the background with embossing powder (this was intentional) and I left just a few small sections powder-free. Next I used my heat tool, heat set the powder and bubbled up the paste underneath it. I love this bubbled up look here.

My kraft panel was trimmed to 4 x 5 1/4″ and foam mounted onto an A2 top folding card base. Next I foam mounted my die cut tiger and added a white heat embossed sentiment. I tucked in a few grass patches to add a bit of green to this card design.

Lastly, I added several black enamel dots from my stash to tie in the black sentiment strip.

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!

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