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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Nicely done. I love embossing on vellum, it always looks crisp and beautiful.
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Fabulous idea...thanks for the reminder about embossing on vellum!
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Great Card
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LOVE that stamp and love what you do with it!
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Wow! This looks awesome! A must have!
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That looped flower is one of my favorite new stamps and seeing it embossed on the vellum in silver makes me want it even more! FANTASTIC!
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Beautiful result on the vellum Ali. I'm liking that looped flower design a lot. Thanx for a chance to win.
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Adorable,as always!
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This is a very versital stamp.
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I love how that background stamp looks over vellum, specially using silver embossing powder!
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Ohhhh! I love the silver!
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Can't wait to try embossing vellum!
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Love the little album!
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WOW! Stunningly beautiful photo book page.
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You are so creative! I love the stamps. Thanks for sharing!
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Ali, love the way you have used that looped flower stamp! Thanks for sharing!
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Consider this PINNED! Love, love, love!!
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Love this so much, Ali! Very honored to have you hopping with us! Big hugs, and wishing you a wonderful December and a very Happy New Year! xo
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I am really starting to love the looped flower. Totally different look from Kelli's card tfs and now to hop on....
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Too cool for words... that stamp is definitely on my wish list now.... as is embossing vellum!
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That looped flower background just gets better and better. Silver makes it very elegant.
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Loved the silver embossing on vellum!
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That stamp + the silver zing = amazing!
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Wow, what a great treatment to the background stamp! I thought it was a die cut at first because it looked so delicate. Gonna have to get me some of that embossing powder too. I can't believe your little girl is so big! Seems like just yesterday I was reading about you expecting her. Time flies. Which is why you scrap, right? :)
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I love what you did on the vellum with the Hero Arts Looped Flower Pattern stamp and the silver letters. It looks great using that glitter embossing powder.
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