Hero Arts | Watercolor Paris & London Valentine’s Day Cards. Blog Hop + Giveaway
Hello everyone! Are you ready to start thinking about Valentine’s Day? I am! Truth be told I still need to decorate our apartment for Christmas and put up a Christmas tree (we don’t even have ornaments yet) but I am ready to switch gears a bit and shift from the red, white and green to pink, white and red. How about you?
Today we are celebrating Hero Arts 2017 Valentine’s Day Release – a collection of fun new products to play with and create (more about this below)!
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I made quite a few cards using new goodies and I’ll be sharing them here on my blog over the next few weeks, so stay tuned! Today I’d like to share to very simple watercolor cards made using Hero Arts London and Paris destination stamps.
I used Arches watercolor paper (there simply is no better watercolor paper in my book) and stamped my images using versamark ink, next I added white embossing powder and heat set it with my heat tool.
I wanted to create little watercolor prints of Paris and London, but I didn’t have a lot of time to work on these, so instead of carefully painting every single detail I did a simple ombre watercolor wash using Distress inks (I am listing the colors I used below in my supply list).
After my panel was was dry I did come in and accentuated some of the elements on my heat embossed panels to help them pop. I used same colors of inks, they were simply watered down less, so ended up looking a lot more vibrant.
To complete these cards I trimmed my panels to about 3 3/4 x 5″ and foam mounted them onto A2 top folding landscape cards made out of Simon’s Fog cardstock. I also wrapped some May Arts natural twine around the front panels and added a few Sparkling Clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.
Here’s a look at my watercolor London card – same idea, same layout, same technique, just a different stamp.
You could easily turn these into travel greeting cards by adding sentiments like “Bon Voyage”, “Happy Vacation”, “Greetings From” etc.
HERO ARTS VALENTINE’S DAY RELEASE
Hero Arts Nesting Hearts Infinity Dies Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Hugs Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Smitten Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Heart Pattern Bold Prints Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Romeo and Juliet Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts truly, madly, deeply Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Destination Paris Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Destination London Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Love Tattoos Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Love Swirls Stencil Shop at: HA |
HOP ALONG
The Hero Arts Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Yana Smakula – you are here!
Mariana Grigsby
Amy Tsuruta
Clare Prezzia
Jana Millen
Ilina Crouse
Libby Hickson
GIVEAWAY
Hero Arts is 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 Hero Arts will announce the winner the following week.
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!
Hero Arts Destination Paris H6194 Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Destination London H6195 Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
Arches Cold Press Watercolor Pad 9×12″ Shop at: SSS | AZ |
Simon Says Stamp Fog Gray Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS | AZ |
Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Spun Sugar Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Picked Raspberry Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Abandoned Coral Shop at: SSS |
Ranger Studio Paint Artist Brushes Shop at: SSS | AZ |
May Arts IVORY Twine String Burlap Shop at: SSS |
EZ Runner Grand – Permanent Shop at: SC | AZ |
EZ Runner Grand – Permanent – Refill Shop at: SC | AZ |
EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix Shop at: SSS |
Sakura Quickie Glue Pen Shop at: SSS | AZ |
Kim Smart
December 8, 2016Such a beautiful card with soft colors!!
Tam
December 8, 2016Oh oh oh the cards are gorgeous and I can see me needing the two stamp sets right away. TFS
Denise Kasbohm
December 8, 2016Beautiful!! I have always been intimidated by watercolor but love the idea of using ink and not paint. You made it look so easy I will have to try it.
Jackie
December 8, 2016That’s beautiful and so easy to do! Thanks for the inspiration.
Nancy K.
December 8, 2016I love the London and Paris cards. Great colors!
Lisa A creations
December 8, 2016I love that watercolor technique you used! I can’t wait to try it with one of my stamps!
Cherri B
December 8, 2016What a great idea to use a watercolor wash, then highlight select items – perfect for that ‘card in a hurry’! Going to give this a try!
Kirsty Vittetoe
December 8, 2016Sweet cards, and I just can’t enough with the city scene collection!
Angela
December 8, 2016love the color combo – so soft and pretty!
Samantha Coleman
December 8, 2016I love the look of your ombré card!
Angelique Vela
December 8, 2016Sweet looking card!
Jil L.
December 8, 2016Beautiful! I just love the soft water coloring you did. Everything about your card reads romance. Jil
Hannah
December 8, 2016Absolutely adore this soft and pretty card. Breathes and glows romance in every way.
Betsy
December 8, 2016I just love the “Love Tattoos”. The one that spells out love, with the arrows is my favorite.A close second is the love stamp & cut set. I really *need* those asap. Time to fill up my Christmas list with lots of Hero Arts goodies!
Betsy in the frrreeezzzing cold Seattle suburbs
Barbara
December 8, 2016Thanks for sharing the beautiful card.
Teresa Doyle
December 8, 2016Oh my goodness Yana, these are really beautiful! I am not ready for Christmas yet either! Working on it though:)
Kathy Thisted
December 8, 2016lovely scene for this card. thanks for the inspiration.
Cindy C.
December 8, 2016Love the soft romantic colors, the perfect backdrop of the Destination Paris image!! <3
Becky Smith
December 8, 2016So pretty! These are gorgeous stamps and the soft watercolor wash works perfectly!
Z Sullivan
December 8, 2016So soft and pretty! TFS.
Mary Holshouser
December 8, 2016Beautiful card.
Love how some parts are highlighted.
the shading and the colors are great.
thanks for sharing.
Paula Wolfe
December 8, 2016Beautiful cards! I never would have known what to do with those stamps.
char
December 8, 2016So soft and pretty!
Sue R
December 8, 2016Very nice, love the soft colors.
Sphoorti
December 8, 2016Lovely cards! 🙂
Debbie Eslinger
December 8, 2016beautiful soft pastel colors
anne mcl
December 8, 2016this is a beautiful example of use of the stamp which I would love to try. thank you
Jamie Moeckly
December 8, 2016Love the white embossing with the distress ink! So beautiful! Christmas isn’t even here and I’m already excited for Valentine’s Day!
Nives K
December 8, 2016Awesome cards!
kartelene531
December 8, 2016Very nice colouring and splendide result thank you
Melissa Edwards
December 8, 2016Thank you for such a sweet and soft card! So lovely and versatile!
Barbara Baxter
December 8, 2016Beautiful card; I love your work and this is no exception! It is so soft looking. I love the white embossing powder on the white paper and the ombre shades of pink/orange. The sequins add a bit more pizazz! Thanks for sharing.
Cynthia Koop
December 8, 2016Oh La La! Love them!
Debbie Fricke
December 8, 2016I really love what you did with the Paris and London stamps! And I also have become a big fan of using distress inks to watercolor. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Susan Johnson
December 8, 2016Such pretty cards, thank you for sharing!
Cynthia Cole
December 8, 2016Gorgeous Valentines cards!
Linda Johnson
December 8, 2016Wonderful card! Using my favorite stamps in the release!!
Andrea A
December 8, 2016Your cards are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
mandalj
December 8, 2016Absolutely beautiful cards! Love the colours!
Patty Eifert
December 8, 2016Ooooooh!! I really love this embossed in white with subtle color water colored over it…just beautiful!
AK Laurie
December 8, 2016I love the Paris stamp.
Becky Green
December 8, 2016ROMANTIC!!! CAS & just ROMANTIC is all I can say! I LOOOOVE IT YANA! VERY INSPIRING for VALENTINES!! (I LOOOOVE to do Valentines!) 😉
Jacquelyn Harmon
December 8, 2016These cards are both romantic and sweet. Love the pinks.
Carol b
December 8, 2016Such a dreamy card. Love it!
Carol b
Rachel T
December 8, 2016Love the subtleness of the the image in comparison to the watercolor.
Miriam Prantner
December 8, 2016Loving the soft sweetness of these cards! Wonderful watercoloring!
Rosemary O
December 8, 2016very different but pretty cards
Varada Sharma
December 8, 2016Such beautiful, soft cards. Love what you did here. Thanks for sharing!
Sharyn Davis
December 8, 2016Love the background you created. Beautifuk cards.
Melissa Friedrich
December 8, 2016These watercolor destination cards are sooo pretty with the soft colors and light gray cardstock.