Hero Arts 2012 Blog Hop

Welcome to the  Hero Arts 2012 Hero Hostesses Blog Hop!  The Hero Arts 2012 blog hop  is  all week long,  January 9th through Friday January 13th.   Along the way you will see wonderful  inspiration from the Hero Hostesses using the 2012 release! 

When I saw the new Fleurettes - K5597 Stamp and the Classic Tea Flower I was smitten. I love flowers and both of these are gorgeous.

I created a little card set with a purse to hold the cards: 

A close up of the wooden purse:

And a close up of the cards: (Click to enlarge)

Recipe:

1. Paint the wood purse using white acrylic paint. Dry. Repeat to create two coats of paint. 
2. Cut four 5" circles from white cardstock. 
3. Cut eight 5 1/4" circles from black cardstock.  
4. Stamp flowers using black archival ink on purse and on white circles.
5. Smear pink dye ink onto craft mat. Watercolor flowers using water brush. 
6. Smear brown dye ink onto craft mat. Watercolor flowers for shading using water brush. 
7. Stamp dragonflies onto tissue paper using archival black ink. Sprinkle black embossing powder over surface. Shake off excess. Heat emboss. Repeat for multiple dragonflies. 
8. Turn over dragonflies with embossed surface facing down. Paint with waterbrush and pink dye ink. 
9. Cut out dragonflies. Accent dragonflies with gem.
10. Attach dragonflies to background. 
11. Add highlights to flowers using white gel pen. 
12. Assemble cards. 
13. Smear pink dye ink onto craft mat and spritz with water until drops appear. Dip white seam binding into pink dye ink and turn the ribbon until covered in pink. Dry ribbon and attach to handle of purse.

Products:

• Classic Tea Flower
• Year Round Sentiments 
• Fleurettes
• All the Time
• Fern and Hummingbird

 The next card uses the same flowers but I turned it into a Valentines Card:

 I created a mask from the spellbinders heart die and stamped the image repeatedly into the heart shape. I then colored using watercolor pencils. The butterfly (Three Artistic Butterflies) was stamped on tissue paper and watercolored with the pencils.  The sentiment is from the Made with Love clear set.

I finished off my projects with a vintage tag: 

I used the fun Art of the Card cling set called Past Times.  I stamped the background with Watch Gears
 using glimmer mist chalkboard ink.   I added a few partial stamping of the Moments definition stamp.   The rest of the images were stamped in black ink and cut out and pop dotted.

Onto the important details: 

If you arrived here from Deborah Nolan at Society of Stamp and Scrap a holics you are in the right place, your next stop is the fabulous Donna Mikasa at Three Umbrellas!   If you didn't come here from Deborah you should head over to the Hero Arts Blog  and start at the beginning of the hop!

Hero Arts will be awarding prizes from randomly drawn comments. For a chance to win, simply comment on ANY of the stops along the hop on ANY day, including each day’s starting post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning!

If you find a broken link, you'll find a master list of the hop links at the Hero Club Blog. Also, please report broken links to Tami.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz