December Daily™ 2012 | Day Thirteen + Hero Arts Blog Hop
Tags:In addition to sharing today's December Daily™ spread I'm also participating in 2013 Hero Arts Catalog Blog Hop.
The stamp I'm using from their set of new releases is the Looped Flower Pattern (CG504).
Here's a look at my spread with an embossed vellum page as an insert.
To create the vellum insert page I stamped the background stamp using Versamark on vellum and then dumped some Silver Zing Glitter (embossing glitter) on top before cooking it with the heat gun. I love that silver Zing. Love it.
The heat embossing worked really well on the vellum.
I then cut it to the same size as my photo (about 7.25 x 4.25) and added Hardcover Silver Thickers along the end (and stitched them down for good measure). Those Hardcover Silver Thickers are currently on clearance at Scrapbook.com. I picked these up at JoAnn's yesterday.
"Celebrating December" and "Tis The Season" are part of my December Daily™ stamp set and also got the same embossing treatment.
Here's a look at the back:
Behind the stamped vellum page I added an overlay from Hambly + some of those little silver stars I can't stop using.
I also added a little strip of the stamp (embossed) along the bottom of the journal card. The lines were drawn with a Faber-Castell Silver PITT Artist Pen (awesome).
On top of the photo I drew a line with that same silver pen and added a silver thicker + a cute button from the Studio Calico kit.
GIVEAWAY | Hero Arts will be giving away several prize packs, with winners randomly chosen from ALL of the blog hop comments received by midnight PST on Monday, December 17. Feel free to leave a comment below to enter.
NEXT UP IN THE HERO ARTS CATALOG BLOG HOPtoday is my wonderful friend Jennifer McGuire.
Remember, if you find a link that doesn't work, you can always hop back to the Hero Arts Blog for a list of direct links to all the blogs in the hop.
Here's a link of all my days so far for 2012:
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Oh Ali, I just love this creativeness :o), Thank you so much for sharing :o)
Ann
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That new looped flower stamp is unique! It's a new favorite for me.
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Just lovely, Ali. Thank you for your wonderful inspiration.
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Stmap with may uses. Love the way it works with vellum
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Looks great in silver!
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Seems like this stamp is everybody's favourite, including mine! Love how you've used the stamp and the silver embossing on vellum looks wonderful.
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I Totally love the album page you made on the vellum and love the stamp! Can't wait to get my hands on one. Thank you for sharing your talent!!
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Wow that looks great on vellum
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The stamp looks great embossed in silver! Love getting to look at your DD album, thank you.
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I would never have looked at this stamp as Christmassy,but it is actually very festive embossed in silver. Beautiful!
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Love the embossing on the vellum! Thanks for the chance to win, too!
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Your December Daily is so beautiful! And what an awesome giveaway! Thanks to you and your sponsors for always having the best giveaway.
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Absolutely gorgeous!
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Loving all the silver! I always fear warping when heat embossing on vellum, but yours turned out fantastic! Thanks for sharing!!!
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Love the looped look and I love embossing.
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Creating your own pattern paper using that lovely stamp turned out phenomenal!
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One stamp, so many different ways it can be used!
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Great way to use the background stamp!
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Great use of a background stamp!
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It is so good to be back at your blog. I've stopped visiting most blogs this year but this reminded me what an inspiration you have been over the years to me. Thank you. Love what you did here.
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