Hero Arts | Masculine Valentine’s Day Card Ideas + Selective Dry Embossing. Video + Blog Hop

Hello everyone and thanks so much for stopping by to help celebrate the launch of Hero Arts Valentine’s Day products (more about these new goodies, blog hop and giveaway below).

Even though Valentine’s Day is just once a year I think it’s important to make (and give) little love notes to each other throughout the year. I have several favorites in this new release and one of them is the Cherub stamp set with the sweetest little angels. I used this set to make both cards I’m sharing today.

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.

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CARDS & BACKGROUNDS DETAILS

I had a very simple card design in mind for these and to somehow spice my cards up I added selective dry embossing to my white stamped background panel and I made sure to avoid the area with the stamping. I didn’t use my die cutting machine or any embossing folder to add this dry embossing, but went with a good old manual embossing. I used my scoring board and a bone folder and added manual embossed lines to my background.

The idea was to avoid adding dry embossing to the area where you have a stamped image. And this is the beauty of this technique, because really you can dry emboss with anything as long as you have a die cutting machine, you can dry emboss with dies, embossing folders, die cuts, stencils, even little pieces of paper. But the technique I used doesn’t require the use of a die cutting machine and lets you do selective dry embossing.

I started working on my cards by stamping clouds from the Cherubs stamp set in the Soft Sky ink forming a little cloud cluster. Next, with the help of my bone folder and scoring board I added score lines to my panel avoiding the area where I had my stamping. I added horizontal lines to one of my cards (spaced at 1/2″ intervals) and diagonal lines (also spaced at 1/2″ intervals) forming diamonds. There’s not a whole lot of designs you can create using this linear scoring method, but there are a few.

I also stamped and die-cut the little angels for my card (I used Pool to Navy Ombre ink pad) and ink blended a blue panel for my card using same color of ink to match my stamping.

I trimmed by dry embossed panel to 3 3/4 x 5″, foam mounted onto the card, foam mounted the cherubs on top and added a “Forever Yours” sentiment heat embossed in white over black paper. Finally, I embellished my card using Frost sequins from Hero Arts.

HOP ALONG WITH US!

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Jessica Frost-Ballas
Janette Kausen
Amy Tsuruta
Ilina Crouse
Michelle Short
Clare Prezzia
Libby Hickson

GIVEAWAY!

Hero Arts is giving away three $25 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop. Comment by Thursday, December 21st at 11:59pm PT and Hero will announce the winners the following week.

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!

Hero Arts Cherubs Clear Stamps Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Cherubs Frame Cuts Die Set Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Soft Sky Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Ombre Pool To Navy Ink Shop at: SSS	Scor-Pal Mini Scor-Buddy Scoring Board Shop at: SSS
Martha Stewart Mini Scoring Board Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Snow Layering Papers Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS
Crystal Katana Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS	ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS	Ranger Mini Round Foam Refils Shop at: SSS	Ranger Mini Round Ink Blending Tools Shop at: SSS
Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS	Scrapbook Adhesives Black Foam Tape Shop at: SSS	White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS	Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Frost Sequin Mix Shop at: SSS
Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS	Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Shop at: SSS