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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Lovely layout. Your Anna sounds so much like my Lilly. What an awesome age - I am truly savouring the holiday season this year with her.
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This background stamp is gorgeous embossed in silver. Just love how you incorporated it in my journeling. So lovely but simple too.
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Love the look of the stamp on vellum. I'm with you about the Zing EP - I love them all.
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I like the loofed flower heat embossing on the vellum.
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I forget about vellum sometimes... It really looks gorgeous! :)
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Love this stamp!
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Great project.
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That background stamp is so elegant embossed in the silver!
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lovely!
Sandra ltb
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What a truely versatile stamp - love how you've used it!
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What a neat idea to use the embossing with glitter on vellum. Loving that.
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Your thoughts on Anna are so sweet! Love embossing; just wish it weren't so messy!
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love the stamps & embossing! beautiful pages :)
thanks for the giveaway!
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love your use of velum! i think i need to break down and get a heat gun.....
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Love that this design looks different from different angles.
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Love the stamp, can be used so many ways.
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I love heat embossing a background stamp, especially on vellum! Thanks for the inspiration Ali, as always!
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That is a gorgeous stamp! I'm loving all your December pages!
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Wow, that looks simply stunning!
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The vellum looks fabulous!! I will certainly be trying it. Thanks!
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Oh boy! This stamp is awesome!!! I guess I will buy if I don't win! :-) Love your page (always admiring the way you make your layouts, it's so inspiring). Thanks Ali.
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It looks really, really cool. Love it..
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I love this background! And embossed with glitter on vellum...I just died! :)
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I too love that silver! Very nice page using the vellum
thanks
Holly
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Awesome booklet and thanks for all your instructions. Love those big background stamps.
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