December Daily™ 2012 | Day Thirteen + Hero Arts Blog Hop
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 HOP today 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:
- Day One
- Day Two
- Day Three
- Day Four
- Day Five
- Day Six
- Day Seven
- Day Eight
- Day Nine
- Day Ten
- Day Eleven
- Day Twelve
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Love it! I'm inspired again. The weather is supposed to be snowy tomorrow so I'm planning on scrapbooking or should I say catching up on my December Daily. I love this idea of embossing on Vellum.
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I really love your work Ali. You are inspiring. I vow that I will do Project Life one day. Thanks so much for sharing.
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Beautiful. Love the silver embossed vellum.
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What a gorgeous background stamp! Love it embossed on the vellum!
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Love how the Looped Flower Pattern looks embossed on vellum
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Really cool project!
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How creative, I love what you made with the stamp.
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Love the silver...It makes this stamp look much more formal!
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Love the silver embossing on vellum! Just bought a new heat gun today and will try this!
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I love the silver! Great piece!
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Love your use of this background, Ali. It's such a different look from the one Kelly did. You'd never know it's the same stamp. Gotta have this one
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Love the embossing on the vellum.
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The new stamps are fabulous and I love what you created with them. Thanks for the ideas!
Carol B
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Loved seeing the stamped used in a different way. Liked how you used it on vellum
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What a nice technique on vellum.
Thanks for sharing it.
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Love the looped flower stamp!
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so cool!
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Looks awesome embossed on the vellum Ali. Such a cute pic of Anna playing too.
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Love how creative you get with the different patterns! So inspiring.
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i love that silver zing too - i better get another bottle since mine is half gone!
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Great cards, love that looped flower background stamp!
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Embossing on vellum... what a beautiful technique! Thanks for sharing your how-to! :)
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Love the stamps!
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Neat take on the stamp with embossin with silver on vellum. So many possibilites.
Thanlk you.
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I was planning to buy this stamp set... this post confirms it!! It's so lovely!!!
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