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 this stamp! Beautiful pages as always Ali! Thank you!
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Very neat with the silver embossing on vellum.
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Well, I am adding the loopy flower pattern to my must have list!
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Wow this is really really gorgeous. I didn't even know I could heat emboss vellum! Thanks for sharing!
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Such a pretty little album! Love how you embossed on vellum!
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the embossing came out wonderful!I didn't realize you could do it on that!
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What a fun background stamp.....WANT!
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I never think to emboss on vellum. This is so pretty!
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Beautiful work! I love that stamp and it looks so pretty as an embossed background!
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Love the effect! Going to try this one out! :)
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Very elegant look to a fun stamp!
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This page is absolutely gorgeous!! I love it :)
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Looks awesome! Thanks for the inspiration!!
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Love what you did with the stamp and vellum!
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Wow this is awesome. LOVE to win.
Thanks Ali for this great giveaway.
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This is so beautiful, I love it!
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I really didn't know about embossing on vellum, but this looks fabulous! Thanks!
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The page is so beautiful.. Love the backround stamp, so versatile..
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Love that new bg stamp in silver - just gorgeous!
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I am glad I found the blog hop because I absolutely love your idea of a journal entry a day with a picture. I am going to have my daughter do this with me. Thank you for the inspiration.
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What a fun stamp!!
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Trying out new stamps is always so much fun.
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Wow! That December Daily page is gorgeous!
Love that new stamp!!
Can't wait to play with the new stamps!
TFS
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Love the silver embossing! Gives the background a whole different look!
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Lovely! The stamp set is so fun!
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