When I first started making cards, I picked colors with no rhyme or reason… and although that is absolutely fine, sometimes, it just needed look cohesive. The trick is to incorporate the same color palette throughout!
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I love all the detailed images from a red rubber stamp but sometimes it’s a little too much to color! It’s easy to stamp a bunch on them to create an easy background paired with a simple sentiment.
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I’m used to blending brushes or a ink blending tool, but these pint sized pouncers are great for stenciling but also for creating skies! I love the effect of these pouncers for mimicking clouds!
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I love fall and this background is so subtle and pretty with ombre leaves — I also created a border of sunflowers down the card panel. I just can’t help but use copic markers to color up my die cut images.
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A little ink blending provides color and also makes for a quick background to stamp on!
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You always can create a mini scene when you have a smaller stamp set or small images. I set it up on the top portion of my card, heat embossed, ink blended, and then added the sentiment along with colored images. It’s an easy layout that you can use with all your sets!
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Black cardstock is so fun because it gives you a huge contrast against your colors — but the problem is usually, markers won’t color on black. These Sharpies though! It’s definitely fun for simple coloring!
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Let’s start by taking a closer look at the November Card Kit of the Month.
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Includes:
CK1024C Clear Stamp Set, 6” x 8”
CK1024D 16 Coordinating Dies & 1 Hole Punch Die
1 Window Die
Holiday Treats Words Cling, 6″x 6″
Washi Sticker Pack, 22 Pieces
Embossing Ink Cube
5 sheets each, Kraft, White & Red Cardstock, 5.5″ x 8.5″
Gold Embossing Powder, 1/2 oz.
White Embossing Powder, 1/2 oz.
Peppermint Embellishments
There’s a ton of inspiration and the full blog lineup can be found on the Hero Arts blog. You should be coming from _____’s blog and your next stop will be _______. The full blog list will also be updated below!
I have two cards to share with you today featuring this month’s kit and one of the Extraordinary Extras.
The first card focuses on the Card Kit of the Month. This Card Kit contains a ton of fun pieces. First and foremost, I’m a coffee drinker so I’m automatically drawn to the coffee cup die cut. I die cut that out of white card cardstock and color it up with copic markers. I also used one of the snowflakes in this Card Kit to stamp with Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink along with White Embossing Powder directly on the cup for decoration. When you color up die cuts, it looks like no line coloring, so I decided to stamp the owl from the main stamp set with Contour Ink, and did more no line coloring with copic markers. I also wanted some pops of red, so I stamped and colored the berries and poinsettia as well. For my background, I used one of the stencils from the card kit with Crimson Core ink to ink up on Sand Cardstock. I popped the images on Ivory cardstock so they would stand out against that background and I love how the stenciled pattern still stands out. Lastly, I stamped a sentiment on the Ivory Cardstock using Intens-ified Black Ink.
My second project focuses on the stamp set from the Mini and Extraordinary Extras, Winter Foliage Pattern. How this stamp set is set up is that it’s to be paired with the Winter Foliage Pattern Cover plate and it’ll die cut all the images, which is really cool and convenient because you don’t have to line each image up with the die. But I wanted to share a quick and easy card with just the stamp set. I went and did ink swiping with the colors of a Christmas rainbow using the Hero Hues Reactive Glitz inks: French Pink, Spanish Orange, Naples Yellow, and Byzantine Green. Then I just stamp the Winter Foliage Pattern right on top. To finish off the card, I stamped with Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink and heat embossed the sentiment using White Embossing Powder on Pitch Black cardstock. I also trimmed down my panel so I could mat it with the same Pitch Black cardstock.
Here’s a little video for this one:
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed the two cards I shared today using some of the new Hero Studio collection. Hope you were inspired to create!
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Sometimes, within a release, I want to mix and match all the sets. It’s the best way to use your sets because you have more flexibility than just sticking with one set only.
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A little ink blending goes a long way and just adding a bit of black distress ink around the edges really finishes things off!
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Easy cards are quicker than you think — using a bold stamped image is the best!
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I love silhouettes — when there’s die cuts that make it easy (using black cardstock), it makes it so easy!
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