Love is in the air with Hero Arts - Valentine's release blog hop and GIVEAWAY

Hi stampers! 

Welcome to the Hero Arts Valentine's collection blog hop! As you might have noticed, I love Hero Arts products and I am honored again to be participating in this blog hop. 

For my projects I used 2 sets from the new collection Romeo and Juliet and Heart Pattern Bold Prints background stamp, and I got carried away. 

So bear with me, as I share my projects! 

If at any point you get bored, just hop onto the next blog :D (I will have the same list on the bottom of this post) which is Libby and I check her amazing creations!

The Hero Arts Blog 

Jennifer McGuire 

Yana Smakula 

Mariana Grigsby 

Amy Tsuruta 

Clare Prezzia 

Jana Millen 

Ilina Crouse > you are here

Libby Hickson

Giveaway:

We will be 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 we'll announce the winner the following week.

Now, lets move onto the projects! For the first one I made these little rosettes and attached doilies and stamped and cut circles for the middles. You can use these as decoration if you put a twine on it, or you can adhere is to a card as the sample below.

I decided to go little non-Valentine's-ish and make a thank you card using an Valentines set. For the background I did a technique I saw on Jennifer McGuire's blog. You ink you card stock using an shadow ink pad, and stamp with Versamark. Heat set and voila. Next I added the Thank you sentiment that was previously spritzed with shimmer spray. This technique is addictive and I want to make more of these cards.

If you could notice I decided to do different techniques with the background stamp. For this card I stamped it onto old newspapers , and added the sentiment then adhered to my red card base.

Once again, I decided to go with non-Valentine's card with this background stamp. I used the Hello Stamp and cut for the sentiment. The background was stamped in Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder

Here's another simple Valentine. For this one I stamped the background with Royal Red ink and let it dry. Then stamped my sentiment, cut the layer and adhered to my white card base.

Let's move to the Romeo and Juliet set. I had this background for quite some time now, so decided to use it. I stamped the images in Versamark and embossed with black sparkle embossing powder. Die cut the layer using the rectangle infinity dies.

Now, I went clean and classic! Black and White with pop of red.

This might be my favorite. I love all the glitter and that star confetti die.

And last, but not the least a simple card using couple Tim Holtz distess ink. 

If you survived to the bottom of this post, congrats! 

But, not it's time to head onto LIbby's blog and she what she has in store for you

The Hero Arts Blog 

Jennifer McGuire 

Yana Smakula 

Mariana Grigsby 

Amy Tsuruta 

Clare Prezzia 

Jana Millen 

Ilina Crouse > you are here

Libby Hickson

CG702 Heart Pattern Bold Prints	CM121 Romeo and Juliet	Nesting Hearts Infinity Dies	A6193 Hugs
C6192 Smitten	H6194 Destination Paris	F6191 truly, madly, deeply	DI331 Star Confetti Fancy Die (F)
H6195 Destination London	MINI MISTI	MISTI	Memory MISTI
PW104 Clear Embossing Powder	White embossing powder	Wagner Heat Gun	LP427 Love Tattoos
SA086 Love Swirls Stencil	DC175 Love Stamp & Cut	DI192 Thank You Pair Fancy Die (C)	DI199 Circle Infinity Dies (H)
DI198 Rectangle Infinity Dies (H)	DC151 Hello Stamp & Cut	Versamark	AF227 Grape Juice Mid-tone Shadow Ink
AF223 Tide Pool Shadow Ink	AF208 Bubble Gum Mid-tone Shadow Ink	Hero Arts Intense Black ink pad	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
Neenah Solar White #80	Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock	Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# LIPSTICK RED LR10	Neenah Solar White #110
Stampin' Up! Real Red card stock	Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad PICKED RASPBERRY	Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad MUSTARD SEED	im Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad SEEDLESS PRESERVES
AF225 RED ROYAL	Wink of Stella Clear

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