Watercolored Holly - Happy Holly Days
For my first card I used the beautiful holly stamp from CL998 Happy Holly Days. I stamped the holly four times with distress ink (antique linnen) and then watercolored them. But any type of coloring will be amazing with the images from this set! The sentiment is from the sweet new CM103 Holiday Animals
Supplies:
CL998 Happy Holly Days
CM103 Holiday Animals
Warm Wishes and Eskimo Kisses
Another super sweet set from the new catalog is the CL989 Warm Hugs. With just four of the stamps from that set I created this little arctic/winter scene. I started out by inking my sky background and then stamped and cut my images. I then cut some snowyhills from white cardstock and layered them so they would make a nice hilly scene for my images. When I knew how I wanted them I held them in place with some washitape and the bottom part of them all together. I stamped my sentiment to my sky bg and then adhered my hills with foam tape to get lots of dimension. The images are also attached with foam adhesive so even if it doesn't show in the picture it is a very 3d-y (!) card!
Supplies:
CL989 Warm Hugs
Ink: AF248India Ink Black
Vintage Tag
There are so many wonderful new sets in this Hero Arts launch - something for everyone and everyone's styles. I usually don't do vintage but couldn't resist playing with the beautiful stamps from
CL997 Color layering Snowy Tree and CM101 Vintage Christmas Wishes . For a super fast little Christmas gift get a vintage notebook and make a beautiful tag to go with it. For my tag I started out by stamping the snowman and then masked him with maskingpaper before I stamped the tree. I used ink for it and let that dry completely before I stamped the second layer, the snow with white pigment ink and embossed with white opaque embossing powder while the mask was still on.
I stamped my sentiment and then diecut my tag. Did you see the new Hero Arts nesting tag dies? They will be perfect for these kind of projects and so many sizes to choose from - just awesome!
I inked the edges with antique distress ink and then stamped some snowflakes afterwards. When I get the time I will stamp a whole forest of those beautiful trees - I just LOVE them!
Supplies:
CL997 Color layering Snowy Tree
CM101 Vintage Christmas Wishes
CM102 Vintage Christmas Post
Dies: DI197 Nesting Tag Dies
Embossing Powder: PW110 White
Ink: AF210 Field Greens, AF249 Unicorn White
Holiday Greetings (from San Francisco)
Last I couldn't help but share a card where I've combined Kelly's San Francisco stamp with the sentiment from CM102 Vintage Christmas Post. I think they work so well together . The nesting rectangles that are released today too will be great for similar looking window designs.
Supplies:
CL971 Kelly's San Francisco
CM102 Vintage Christmas Post
Time to hop on to Amazing Yana Smakula but befor you leave I must make sure you know this (-: : Not only is there amazing talent and AWESOME inspiration in this hop - there is a great GIVEAWAY too:
Hero Arts will be giving away 3 $25 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop . So make sure to comment on everyone´s blog by Sunday, August 28 at 11:59pm PT. The winners will be announced the following week.
Here's the hop list:
The Hero Arts Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Kathy Racoosin
Wanda Guess
Lydia Fiedler
Alice Wertz
Amy Tan
Cheiron Brandon
Debbie Olson
Laura Bassen
Debby Hughes
Heather Ruwe
Ilina Crouse
Isha Gupta
Jenn Shurkus
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Joan Bardee
Karin Akesdotter
Yana Smakula
Kelly Rasmussen
Amy Tsuruta
Clare Prezzia
Mariana Grigsby
May Sukyong Park
Libby Hickson
Have a wonderful day and a great inspiring hop!
Hugs, Karin
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236 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 236 of 236Your watercoloring on the first card is spectacular.
Wow - so many great cards. Love all those adorable penguins. Thanks for sharing!
Love your cards and tags. They are all very nice.
Amazing set of cards and tag. Your first card is a classical beauty, fabulously colored, wow!
Your lovely tag looks truly vintage. Love the row of houses on a hill and the fab eskimo card!
Great cards and such a cute tag!
I love your water colored holly, but the SF Victorians (Kelly's San Francisco) takes the cake! I guess working for the SF Chamber for 10 years makes me a LITTLE biased, but come on, aren't they just darling? Great depth on the card, too!
Oh WOW! I knew I loved the greenery, but you have taken it up way too many notches! It is simply elegant. Your coloring is so beautiful. Thanks so much for inspiring me to keep trying!
Your creations are all awesome. That Eskimo is so cute.
Love your cards and the tag..so beautiful. Thanks for sharing
Gorgeous coloring on that first card and love your vintage tag.
Love your coloring on the mistletoe stamps!
After I opened your post and saw it was you, I knew the work I was about to see would be fabulous. Wow! I LOOOOOVVVVEEE your holly card. It is so traditional that it reminds me of my childhood. The water coloring is so beautiful. The Christmas tag is vintage and marvelous. LOOOVVEE it!
I love your cards. I really love the San Fran scene with the houses.
I love EVERYTHING about your Hero Arts projects! The vintage tag is stunning and I love the watercoloring of the holly, like one of your paintings! And the sweet whimsical houses and Eskimo, so sweet and colorful!
Your watercolor detail is amazing. Love how you spaced the penguins and the vintage tag is perfect. Thanks for sharing!
Really beautiful cards and tag you created! I love the way you coloured all of them but your Holly card is just stunning.
I love all your ideas! I especially like the holly one!
The vintage tag is my favorite.
All of these are beautiful - my favorite is the realistic look you were able to achieve on the holly and berries and I absolutely HAVE to make the vintage looking tags!
Thank you for sharing your cards! Love the tag!
Oh my you have created such beautiful cards! Amazing stamps and die sets for this 2016 Holiday Season, I do love my Hero Arts Collection and I love adding to it every year. We still send out about 100 handmade seasonal cards.
Very nice! I love the vintage look of them!
My favorite is the vintage set. The tag you made is lovely would make a pretty bookmark.
Great cards...love the variety!
Lovely cards. All so well done. I will choose the first as my favorite but really they are all equal in my eyes.
wow, your holly card doesn't look stamped, but more like a painting. stunning!
So many great samples! All of them great, but the first card really knocked my socks off! Just stunning!!!
Karin, all three cards are beautiful and so is your tag. What a fun hop showcasing fabulous new products!
I love the tag. I never think to make a tag. Beautiful.. I think I will make a few this year!
Love the variety of cards that was made!!
What a wide array of coloring techniques--all beautiful, by the way. I love the simplicity of the holly wreath. All your projects are so different, which just goes to show your wide range of talent. Thanks for putting it on display for us. LOTS of inspiration here.
Your vintage tag is pretty. I'd like to make some of those. I love the row houses card, they look perfect so much like them.
love the penguin set, that is very cute. Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win!
Lovely cards! That holly looks so darn nice! What a great watercolor job. The penquin eskimo scene is really nice too. Finally the Vintage Christmas Wishes shows up on the tag and it looks great. And.. San Francisco got love that it is about 45 minutes from me.
The eskimo and penguins are my favorite, and the houses are so neat too.
Thanks...
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