Hero Arts | 3Dimensional Snowflakes Card and Video. Holiday Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

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Hello everyone and thank you so much for stopping by today to help celebrate Hero Arts Holiday 2016 Release (more about this below).

Hero Arts 2016 Holiday catalog (browse it here or below) is filled with amazing inspiration, beautiful products, and better yet fantastic products. The one product that stood out most and the one I loved most was the set of Paper Layering Snowflakes dies. Paper Layering is a unique line of dies that create only partial die cut designs and allow for beautiful 3D effects. If you are a subscriber of my blog you might have already seen my cards with the Paper Layering Palm Tree and also Paper Layering Pineapple dies.

Today I’d like to share a closer look at the Paper Layering Snowflake dies and show you a Clean & Simple card created with their help.

VIDEO TUTORIAL

I’ve filmed a video tutorial where I am sharing everything in detail. You can watch it below or on my Youtube channel.

Like this video? Please give it a big thumbs up and share with a crafty friend! Drop me a comment too, I love hearing from you!

CARD DETAILS

The Paper Layering Snowflake dies can be used with or without the outer frame die (watch my video above to see the difference). To achieve the look I have on my cards you’ll need to use just the snowflakes, no frame dies. Here I layered 3 snowflake dies onto a panel created out of white cardstock and taped them in place with washi tape, I die cut one corner of my panel, flipped the dies and taped them onto the other corner and die cut again.

I wanted to add a bit of shine and sparkle to this card, so I layered silver glitter paper under my die cut panel so that silver glitter would show through the snowflakes. I’m sharing another card below where I’ve layered gold glitter paper.

To create my sentiment I used two stamp sets – Holiday Messages and Tags and Christmas Messages. I heat embossed my images in Platinum embossing powder onto white cardstock and cut out with my scissors (there are matching dies available).

After I foam mounted the frames onto the die cut panel and foam mounted my panel onto a light gray card base I adhered a gold sequin inside each snowflake and also added a small clear droplet from Pretty Pink Posh. I also adhered several clear beads – they create the illusion of snow that is about to melt.

When creating a card like this keep in mind that it would need to be hand delivered and mailed in a box to preserve the 3D effect these snowflakes provide.

SIMILAR CARD FROM HERO ARTS HOLIDAY CATALOG

Like I mentioned I have another similar card using the same supplies. The difference here is in the colors of glitter paper and cardstock and also embossing powder. My frames were heat embossed onto vellum here and only the top frame was foam mounted.

ADDITIONAL INSPIRATION

I had a blast creating projects with the new products from Hero Arts. Here are a few additional cards I made using new goodies.

Season’s Greetings – using same Holiday Messages and Tags stamps and Snowflake Bold Prints background stamp. Images heat embossed in Brass Embossing Powder.

To My Dearest Friend – using Color Layering Deer stamp set, a sentiment from the Christmas Messages set and the following ink colors: Soft Vanilla, Soft Apricot, Pumpkin Pie, Cup O’ Joe to stamp the deer.

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GIVEAWAY (NOW CLOSED)

Hero Arts is giving away three $25 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop. Please comment by Sunday, August 28 at 11:59 pm PT, winners will be announced the following week on Hero Arts blog.

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 Paper Layering Snowflakes with Frames DI196 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA	Hero Arts Holiday Messages and Tags CL983 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA	Hero Arts Christmas Messages CM100 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA	Hero Arts Snow Layering Papers PS610 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Platinum Embossing Powder PW117 Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ	Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine Shop at: SC | SB | AZ
Simon Says Stamp Fog Gray Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology 2015 Deco Sheets Shop at: SSS | AZ	EK Success Craft Tweezers Shop at: SSS | AZ	Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ	Best Creation Big Squares 3D Foam Tape Adhesive Shop at: SSS	EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ
Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Mixed Media Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS | AZ	Sakura Quickie Glue Pen Shop at: SSS | AZ	Be Creative Tape 3MM ROLL Double Sided Sookwang Shop at: SSS	Pretty Pink Posh 4MM Clear Droplets (small) Shop at: SSS | PPP	Pretty Pink Posh 6MM Metallic Rose Gold Sequins Shop at: SSS	Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Seed Beads Shop at: SSS