Gina K. Designs & Hero Arts | Easy One Layer Floral Card with Minimal Coloring. Blog Hop + Giveaways
Hello, friends! Today I’m honored and excited to join the special Partners: Gina K. Designs & Hero Arts release blog hop. As you know, Hero Arts is celebrating their 45 year anniversary this year bringing us many fabulous stamp designs in collaboration with other wonderful stamp companies in the industry.
This month Hero Arts partnered with Gina K. Designs for a large stunning floral set complete with beautiful sentiments. As I am very much into heat embossing these days, I did a simple heat embossed card with minimal coloring.
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CARD DETAILS
This stamp set features a large floral cluster that easily fills an entire A2 card. Since I wanted to incorporate one of the larger sentiments from this set I positioned the floral cluster cascading from the top edge of the panel. I heat embossed it in Brass embossing powder on dark blue cardstock – I simply love the look of this embossing powder (or gold powder) or dark blue – it’s very classy and always looks stunning.
Next, I used my Tonic Studios Shimmer Pen and “colored” all of the leaves and flowers with shimmer. It’s a bit hard to see, but as the card is tilted in the light the shimmer becomes more apparent.
I also wanted to add some shading to the flowers so I used my Copic markers in B97 and B99 to just a bit of color. I was careful not to color over the heat embossed lines. Finally, to decorate this simple one layer card I used several sequins from Hero Arts Ombre Ocean mix.
BLOG HOP
If you arrived from Jaycee Gaspar the next stop on this hop is Michelle Short. Or start over on the Hero Arts blog.
GIVEAWAY
PR101 HA + GinaK Friendship Blooms stamp set. One winner will be drawn from the comments left across the hop. Comment by Sunday, August 4 at 11:59 pm PST.
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!
 HA + GinaK Friendship Blooms Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink Shop at: HA |
 Hero Hues Premium Cardstock Nautical Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Brass Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Sequins Ocean Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker B99 Agate Dark Blue Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker B97 Night Blue Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ | TS |
 Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Nuvo Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ | TS |
 Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS | WP9 | AZ |
 Scor-Tape 1/8 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS | AZ |
Denise Kasbohm
July 26, 2019Stunning Card!! Absolutely love this stamp set.
Kathryn Pickering
July 26, 2019So regal looking to have minimal coloring!!! It us just a beautiful card!!
Paulina P
July 27, 2019Another anazing card with this stamp set! I need it in my craftroom ❤
Kerry Myers
July 27, 2019Love this technique- beautiful stamp set and the sentiments are great!
Kirsty
July 27, 2019Great color scheme, gorgeous card!
Nandini Karmarkar
July 27, 2019Beautiful, gorgeous card. The new stamp set is fabulous and I love the card design.
Terrie D.
July 27, 2019Your card looks stunning! I love how you used this beautiful stamp set. 🙂
SD pooja
July 27, 2019Stunning card !! Loved the deep blue and gold combo and of course the pencil coloring !
Nicole Bell
July 27, 2019Blue is my favorite colour and this card is just stunning! It’s amazing how just a little bit of shading can create so much depth and dimension
Fonda Rush
July 27, 2019Your card is gorgeous! I love the gold and darker blue together.
Beth
July 27, 2019What a rich blue. The sentiments in the set are great!
Deepa Lakshman
July 27, 2019This speaks sheer elegance. Love it a lot. Very classy.
Kerry Myers
July 27, 2019I really enjoy coming to see your cards. Great job
Linda Clark
July 27, 2019Your card is absolutely gorgeous! I especially appreciate the minimal coloring since I’m tired of coloring things and I’m not that good at it.
Christine Healy
July 27, 2019Stunning card! I love the colors and your technique!
Amy Williams
July 27, 2019Wow! This is stunning. I am loving all the different ways to use this gorgeous floral!
Sandy G
July 27, 2019Beautiful card. I love how this simple technique created such a stunning card. Thank you.
Tammy
July 27, 2019I love the dark colors of the cards the blue is awesome. Good job.
Barb Holtberg
July 27, 2019Gorgeous card!
Sharon Roselli
July 27, 2019This is an awesome stamp set. Love how you used the dark blue colors, truly stunning.
Sherri Little
July 27, 2019Love the blue cardstock with a gold embossed image.
memalagene
July 27, 2019Oh my GOODNESS! This is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! My favorite color!
Rachelle Lee
July 27, 2019The brass embossing powder on the blue card stock is stunning!
Mary Holshouser
July 27, 2019Love the beautiful embossing. Adding the
touches of color makes for a wonderful
bouquet. thanks for sharing
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Debbie A.
July 27, 2019You always do such beautiful work, Yana. This card is gorgeous! Makes me want to own this great stamp set. Thanks so much for sharing with us and for participating in this fun blog hop and giveaway.
Erika Jennings
July 27, 2019Great color combo!
Bonnie Eng
July 27, 2019Gorgeous – I love the various blues and the gold embossing. This is such a gorgeous, elegant card!
Marisela Delgado
July 27, 2019FABULOUS card and stunning color!
Carol Tidrow
July 27, 2019I love the gold on blue. Your cards are beautiful.
Lisa Bzibziak
July 27, 2019What a fantastic way to use this set! The gold and that blue and the minimal coloring makes quite an impact… love this!
JL
July 27, 2019Ohh, I like the blue. How do you decide where to put the sequins?
Amy Lombardo
July 28, 2019Very pretty card!!!!!
annamahtani
July 28, 2019I simply love the Monochromatic feel of your card and the pop of gold! ❤️
Leanne in Cali
July 28, 2019Very pretty card! This stamp set is amazing. Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas!!
Diane Dupont
July 28, 2019Your card is absolutely beautiful! I’ve been enjoying heat embossing recently, too, & I need to try this technique. I love things that aren’t too time intensive, but have such amazing results! Thanks for sharing!
Kathy Mc
July 28, 2019Awesome idea to emboss on that pretty blue Cardstock, but then your added Copic details really put this beauty over the top, Yana!
Bonnie Blake
July 28, 2019I love the gold embossing on the blue cardstock. Make it stands out.
Bonnie Blake
July 28, 2019I love the gold embossing on the blue cardstock
momsnoozy3
July 28, 2019I love to hop along and see all of the amazing creativity. This set is so versatile and I truly love the sentiments included. Your take on using this with deep rich colors is incredible!
Margery C
July 28, 2019Lovely card. Very elegant and simple.
momentsofcrafting
July 28, 2019A wonderful card, Yana! Gorgeous colour choice. Love the idea for a one layer card! Thanks so much for sharing and the wonderful inspiration!
Sharon C
July 28, 2019Beautiful color combination.
Karen Baldwin
July 28, 2019Beautiful card! LOVE the blue and gold!
Nana Griffin
July 28, 2019Love how you combined these colors. It turned out lovely.
Liebmann. Michaela
July 28, 2019Gorgeous Set. I like your demonstration.
Karen L Hetherington
July 28, 2019Your card is lovely in it’s simplicity. That stamp set is wonderful. It can be used so many ways.
Cyndi Morris
July 28, 2019Gorgeous card, Yana. This is a beautiful stamp set with such lovely sentiments, and you’ve showcased is wonderfullly.
Patti Bailey
July 28, 2019Yana, this card is just simply stunning!!! And I love the bonus tip that I found…..you shared with us how you photograph your cards. Your cards are always photographed perfectly so loved your tips!
Ashley Benoit
July 28, 2019I love the brass embossing on the dark blue cardstock! I rarely cover that much area with embossing powder, but I will have to try it, it looks beautiful.
Annette Reed
July 28, 2019Wow! Those flowers are stunning and look great on the background!
Toni F
July 28, 2019Love the brass and dark blue. So vibrant.