Hero Arts | Watercolor Paris & London Valentine’s Day Cards. Blog Hop + Giveaway

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

The Hero Arts Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Yana Smakula  – you are here!
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