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 the silver embossing! Need some new fresh, embossing powders. Anna is so adorable!
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So inspiring, Ali!
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The looped flower background looks fabulous embossed!
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The looped flower pattern is gorgeous embossed on vellum!!! Love it!
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Love what you did with the background stamp. What a wonderful page for your December Daily.
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Thanks for the lovely inspiration to use these amazing stamps!!!
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This is just beautiful!!!
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I love how you used this terrific background stamp!
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Wow! This looks stunning! I need to try heat embossing on vellum too!
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Great great stamp! Heat embossing is my all time favorite technique and with this stamp it is just amazing
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That is a beautiful page for your booklet. Very elegant.
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Great giveaway!Love Hero Arts stamps and I'm loving your December Daily album!
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very pretty, like the embossing.
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Beautiful! Love the silver embossing glitter, so pretty!
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This background is really great !!! The silver embossing on vellum is wonderful.
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Amazing idea so elegant and flawless. Love it, I have to try this too.
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That looped flower looks amazing on the vellum, another addition to my wish list!!!
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What a pretty idea! I love the Looped Flower pattern!
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GORGEOUS use of this HA background stamp!!!
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Thanks for the chance to win.
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Love that Bg stamp! Neat idea to emboss on vellum!
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oh so pretty! never thought to emboss on vellum! figured I have flames lolol...this background is so delish! will have to have it...now Im certain! ty ...luv luv your work...and your daughter is precious!
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I love the embossing on vellum. I am definitely going to try it on my DD. Thanks for sharing your techniques Ali.
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Yes, yes, yes! I have already vellum, stamp and embossing powder on my table! I have to try this!
Thanks Ali you are 100% inspiration!
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Awesome stamp! Love love the silver bling!
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