Hello everyone! Are you ready to start thinking about Valentine’s Day? I am! Truth be told I still need to decorate our apartment for Christmas and put up a Christmas tree (we don’t even have ornaments yet) but I am ready to switch gears a bit and shift from the red, white and green to pink, white and red. How about you?
Today we are celebrating Hero Arts 2017 Valentine’s Day Release – a collection of fun new products to play with and create (more about this below)!
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I made quite a few cards using new goodies and I’ll be sharing them here on my blog over the next few weeks, so stay tuned! Today I’d like to share to very simple watercolor cards made using Hero Arts London and Paris destination stamps.
I used Arches watercolor paper (there simply is no better watercolor paper in my book) and stamped my images using versamark ink, next I added white embossing powder and heat set it with my heat tool.
I wanted to create little watercolor prints of Paris and London, but I didn’t have a lot of time to work on these, so instead of carefully painting every single detail I did a simple ombre watercolor wash using Distress inks (I am listing the colors I used below in my supply list).
After my panel was was dry I did come in and accentuated some of the elements on my heat embossed panels to help them pop. I used same colors of inks, they were simply watered down less, so ended up looking a lot more vibrant.
To complete these cards I trimmed my panels to about 3 3/4 x 5″ and foam mounted them onto A2 top folding landscape cards made out of Simon’s Fog cardstock. I also wrapped some May Arts natural twine around the front panels and added a few Sparkling Clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.
Here’s a look at my watercolor London card – same idea, same layout, same technique, just a different stamp.
You could easily turn these into travel greeting cards by adding sentiments like “Bon Voyage”, “Happy Vacation”, “Greetings From” etc.
HERO ARTS VALENTINE’S DAY RELEASE
 Hero Arts Nesting Hearts Infinity Dies Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Hugs Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Smitten Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Heart Pattern Bold Prints Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Romeo and Juliet Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts truly, madly, deeply Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Destination Paris Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Destination London Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Love Tattoos Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Love Swirls Stencil Shop at: HA |
HOP ALONG
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Mariana Grigsby
Amy Tsuruta
Clare Prezzia
Jana Millen
Ilina Crouse
Libby Hickson
GIVEAWAY
Hero Arts is giving away two $25 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop. Please comment by Thursday, December 15 at 11:59pm PT and Hero Arts will announce the winner 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 Destination Paris H6194 Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Destination London H6195 Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
 Arches Cold Press Watercolor Pad 9×12″ Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Simon Says Stamp Fog Gray Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Spun Sugar Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Picked Raspberry Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Abandoned Coral Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Studio Paint Artist Brushes Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 May Arts IVORY Twine String Burlap Shop at: SSS |
 EZ Runner Grand – Permanent Shop at: SC | AZ |
 EZ Runner Grand – Permanent – Refill Shop at: SC | AZ |
 EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix Shop at: SSS |
 Sakura Quickie Glue Pen Shop at: SSS | AZ |
Yana, how beautiful…love the sweet watercoloring.
This is lovely. I love the soft watercoloring.
I like the colors you chose for your background… soft and pretty.
Lovely soft cards.
Beautiful elegant card! Love the ombré water color!
These are just gorgeous; love the colors you used. Very romantic.
I love the beauty and simplicity of your card. Great inspiration!
I love these city stamps. They work great with the colour palette.
Your cards are always gorgeous! This technique is so simple, but so beautiful!
Love this cards! I love these products are so versatile. Favorite product is HA Nesting Heart Dies.
Stunning card, love it. Nikki
Beautiful cards. Simple and lovely
Such beautiful color combo Yana! TFS
Lovely cards! I like the color combo.
Such an elegant twist Yana , very classy indeed .
Great cards as usual.
Beautiful cards! The watercolor is so soft behind the images.
Like the city stamping. I have the Washington DC city stamp and need to get it out & use it. Wish that the city stamps were done in cling & not only wood rubber.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
what a sweet idea. Love the colors
Wonderful soft looking cards that could be used for several occasions.
Beautiful cards. Love the ombre watercolor. The city stamps look like so much fun.
I love the unstated elegance of this beautiful card.
Like many of the previous comments, Love your water coloring!
Such a lovely card…
What a beautiful and elegant card! Gorgeous!
Beautiful card
so pretty – beautiful soft watercoloring very effective!!
Beautiful card!
Love the soft watercolor look with the white heat embossing! Thanks for sharing on this fun blog hop!!
Yana, they’re beautiful! I love the pink background and the pops of red!
Love the softness of the colors, you used on your beautiful cards. The nesting heart dies are one of my favorite Hero Art item.
Such soft, dreamy colors!
Your cards are so beautiful! I love the fact that they weren’t a huge amount of work, but yet they’re absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for this fabulous inspiration!
Love the idea of incorporating the romantic cities on the card. It would be especially perfect if the loved one’s gift is a trip to one of the location on their card or a marriage proposal suggesting cities for the honeymoon. Thank you for sharing!
This is such an elegant way to use these cityscape stamps!! I love the gradient colors your achieved with the distress inks.
So soft and pretty!
Love your cards, the colours are so soothing.
I really like the simplicity of these and the non-standard color palette. Very nice and romantic. Makes me want to try a rainbow of cities!
This is seriously one of the most stunning cards I’ve ever seen! Just gorgeous!
Love the pink with the white embossing!
Love those soft pretty cards
They are so elegant!
Beautiful card! Love the colors of the watercolor.
Love your white embossed scenes of Paris and London. Beautiful watercolor! Thanks for sharing!
Those city stamps are so cute! Makes me want to travel!
Beautiful cards! The stamps themselves are very pretty, but I just adore that watercolour look and your choice of colours.
We tend to use stamps the same way over and over…until pros, like you, remind us to think out of the box! Thank you for what creativity you add to our art. 🙂
Oh love these, they
are gorgeous and
love the coloring!
Carla from Utah
Elegant & understated…Lovely!
wowzers!! i love love love this card 🙂 so elegant!! thanks for sharing
cheers
preety