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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Really fantastic how you used the background stamp on vellum! Thanks for the inspiration!
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I never though you could emboss on vellum, beautiful and great stamps to do it!
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Well played Ali--that looped background takes on a completely different aura with the silver embossing--could be funky and fun, or formal!
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I LOVE this new stamp, too! And adding the embossing makes it really pop!
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Such great stamps -- love the embossing on vellum too.
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Gotta get some silver zing AND some elf jammies for my 4 year old!!! Merrrrrrry Christmas!
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Love those stamps & your pages! Checking for your new pages is one of the happy times of each day in December!
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The silver embossing looks amazing! Love your work!
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I love the backgrounds and the Zing embossing powder is one of my favorite!
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the new stamp set is so fun and the silver embossing gives it a different look this could be used forever. TFs.
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fabulous use of the open flower stamp! It looks beautiful embossed in silver. TFS!
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I love Hero Arts background stamps - I love how you used embossing powder with them. Such a beautiful effect!
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Wow, love that look! The silver is awesome on the vellum. Thanks for sharing.
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What a great idea stamping and embossing on vellum! Might just have to try that! Thanks for sharing, your album looks great so far!
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That loopy background is a big hit! Love the silver on vellum.
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Cool stamp! Very nice demo of how you used it on vellum. Great story too. Thanks Ali!
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Love using embossing powders. Will definitely need to start investing in more. Also, I love how you implement the initial about items. I'm trying to do that more with my scrapbooking.
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Love your use of them background stamp on vellum. So simple yet so beautiful.
Love your journaling to that picture. Making mental note to do something like that for my little girl =)
Thanks for sharing. <3
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He, thanks for sharing! Love to see what you did with the new stamp!
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love how you embossed the vellum!
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