Welcome to the Hero Arts Hostess Hop, featuring fabulous stamps and dies from the Winter 2016 Catalog! If you’ve been following along, you should’ve arrived from Virginia Lu’s blog! Hero Arts will be awarding four prizes, including two $25 shopping sprees to the Hero Arts Online Store from randomly drawn comments from all the blogs along the hop and two surprise giveaways at the Hero Arts Blog. For a chance to win, simply comment on ANY of the stops along the hop on October 24th and 25th, including each day’s post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning! If you find a broken link, you’ll find a master list at the Hero Arts Blog.
I used four different stamp sets for my holiday card. The frames are from Holiday Messages and Tags, the animals are from Hipster Animals, the mason jar is from Hipster at Heart, and the snowflakes are from Holiday Animals.
Every stamped element was stamped with a pigment ink and heat embossed with various powders, including Hero Arts gold embossing powder and their new sparkle embossing powder for lots of sparkle and shine. Both the background and the Hipster Animals were watercoloured with distress inks.
Thanks so much for hopping with us! Be sure to leave a comment by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday, Oct 30, 2016 for a chance to win one of four $25 shopping sprees to the Hero Arts Online Store. Now it’s time to head to Sue McRae’s blog for more inspiration and beauty!
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Adorable! Love the sweet animals and how the mix of the framed images and sentiments!
Oh Emily, this is such a fun and adorable card! Wonderful design and details. I love the beautiful background you have created and the brilliant way you mixed the images! It has been great fun hopping with you again:)
A great card Emily, what a cute set of 'critters'.
So delightful and cute, love it!!!
This card sure says it all.
Like the mug and sentiment additions to this card! Great project and thanks for the inspiration! kReN@afourthlife
Itell you those Hipster Animals are just tooooo cute. Thanks for sharing!
Emily, this makes me smile….LOVE it.
Lovely card. The images are just too cute and I love the clever sentiments.
Well that is a fun card
Tons of fun, Emily! Love how you've combined all of these stamps to create a festive holiday card! Great video too!
Such a fun and unique holiday card. I love your out of the box thinking. Great fun!
Delightfully whimsical! Loving your design, Emily!
I really enjoyed seeing your process in this video! Thanks! Great use of the Hipster stamps and dies!
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Emily, this is sooo super cute! Love!
Let me try again with my comment – LOL – I'm a bad typist sometimes!
Anyway, Emily – just love your darling holiday hipsters! So perfect on that blue color washed background! Thanks for the fun video too!!
Very creative use of the critters!
Fun! Thanks for sharing on this fun blog hop!!
How cute..I'd forgotten how brilliant pigment inks can be. Thanks.
What a unique card! I love the pop of color.
Your cards are very creative
Can't go wrong with critters. Thanks for the video.
I think the frames are very versatile and I like that there is a mix of designs and sentiments.
What a cute and fun card!!
Cool card!
The Hipster animals are a riot! Nice way to use them on a holiday card.
Such a cute card!! Love the way you have used the hipster animals on a Christmas card!!
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
Too cute!
How unique!
Cute card, the hipster animals are my favorite from this release.
So stinkin' cute! Love these critters! Your design is a real stand out and this hop is so much fun! Thanks for sharing with us!
I think this would be an adorable card for an invite to a New Year's Eve party!!! So cute!!!!
Cute card!
Very cool with the Hipster Animals
What a fun mix of stamps, Emily! Love your color scheme, too! Such a joy for us all to be together again!
Heehee, a Christmas kitty in a top hat! So much fun! Enjoying your mix of stamp kits and pooling together to stretch your creativity. Lots of smiles for this card:)
Such a cute card, Emily! And what a clever design! So fun getting back together with you and all the hostesses!
Very cute Emily.
What a great card! All the embossing looks so beautiful and textured.
Thanks for showing this stamp set on a card.
Super Cute card!
Very cute!
Such a fun card.
Love your take on these stamps and dies, Emily! Thanks for a great video, too.
OMG the red hats on the hipster animals!!! Brilliant, I am so gonna make this card. Thanks for sharing, I just love it.
Super cute card, Emily! LOVE the little caps and hats on the critters!
Your card is darling
and love all the
embossing and
watercoloring.
Carla from Utah
So sweet. Love the sparkle of their hats.
What a fun design from these stamps. It's very cute and I love the background, too, adding to the dimension!
Super cute, my friend!! You are the master of all types of designs and I admire your work! So glad to hop with you again!
Oh my gosh how creative! Cute card.
Love your colours and mix of stamps. Very creative.
Super cute card. Thank you for sharing your ideas and techniques.
So cute-love the animals along with the mason jar.
Love the images you have used to create this fun card:)
Cool hipster card! Thanks for the inspiration.
Very hip!
Your critters are just adorable with their cute little hats. Love the sentiments!
Love the owl with the bowler hat!
Such a cute card! Love those fun critters!
Love the color combo and collage-y composition!
Cute card. Love those bears.
So very cute!
Wow! I would have never thought of using all four frames in one card. That was awesome! TFS.
Cute and fun card! 🙂
so very cute!! totally need to apply this to some cards for this year!
I love the punch of color you gave the hats!!
fun mix of stamps!
Very cute card – thanks so much for sharing and for the video!
Emily, the mix-and-match of animals, framed images and sentiments makes for festive fabulous! And cute; definitely cute!
~carol
Super cool and fun! Never would have thought to combine these stamps together! Thanks for the inspirations!
So so cute! What an original holidays card – love it!!
This is super cute!
I didn't know the hipster animals were making Christmas cards. Very cute.
Super cute!!!
Awesome ensemble of these HA stamps and dies! Your video is fabulous, Emily! Happy to be hopping along with you!
Oh I love the way you've mixed these stamps and dies… it looks so fresh!
So cute!!
Love the hipsters with their
fancy hats.
Darling card.
thanks for sharing.
Super cute card. tfs
So, So cute. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Fun card! Love all the embossing.
So, So cute. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Great card! Love your combination of "critters."
such a fun cute card Emily!
So creative! Love the colorful hats on these adorable critters.
So super cute and creative. I didn't think that I needed this set …
My first time on your blog, I love your video so easy to understand and I can see everything you are doing. The background with the snowflakes is my favorite and I can see this used with all sorts of stamps.
Fabulous card, Emily! Great design!
Cute, cute card!
What a fun cute card Emily, love it.
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Great job on the card!
I love the sentiment panels and the backgrounds done in gold!
Super cute images!! I love the background too!
That card made me smile!!
Love the bear on the glass made me laugh, reminds me of the putting the family on the elves. Cute.
Gorgeous card – I love the embossing and that sparkle from the EP, super cool!!! The layout is so whimsical and happy. Love this!
Darling animals. Cute card!
Fun card!
thank you for sharing Cute Card
Such cute animal faces. Especially love your aqua background.
Hi Emily! How fun are these guys? VERY!!!
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Love the cute animal faces – a different approach to a holiday card. The gold embossing with the water coloring is perfect. Thanks for the wonderful ideas.
Such a fun holiday card!
Animals are so cute! Love this light-hearted card. So much fun!
Very cute–card love all the critters–drinking and being merry!
I , too, love your watercolour background. Very different use of stamps for this card. Thanks for the inspiration.
Very imaginative and fun card!
Fun and unique design! The embossed gold elements are a pretty touch.
Very cute card!
The hipsters in their hats are so awesome! Great combined with the frames. Beautiful watercoloured background as well.
Cute card 😊
What a fun card, and so clever!
Cute card!
Super cute and fun card!
Such a fun and cute card! Love the critters! 🙂
Super cute Emily!
Oh my goodness, what a cute card! Cute stamp sets also
Super cute card, Emily! Thanks for sharing!
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What a fun card.
This is a really cute set. Love the card.
Cute card. What perky, little hats!! Thank you.
Cute card Emily Charming characters.
Thanks for sharing this cute card!
Cute card.
Your card is totally adorable.
Cute critters & card.
Melissa
"Sunshine HoneyBee"
Oh my gosh, so cute, darling, sweet, just outrageously fun. I never know what to do with these cute animals. You sure know your way around the animals. :))
SO fun to be hopping with you again.
Fun cards!
Such a darling card!
What an adorable card!
Such a cute card! Love all those critters!
Cute card!
Such fun cards!
Really cute card.
So So very cute!! Love that sparkle embossing powder. I would love to get some.
Your card is really cute!!
Very creative and unique. Well done.
Nice card. Thanks for sharing your design process.
so hipster!
Emily, I appreciate that you are sharing your creativity. I enjoy seeing how you didn't limit yourself to one stamp set. Also, it seems you have a sense of humor with using the animals and that sentiment.
Thanks for letting me see your creative work.
Cheryl
I really enjoy the whimsy and fun of your card. It is so inspiring. Thanks.
What a great card! It just screams FUN. Thanks for reminding me to add a little whimsy from time to time.
Nice thanks for sharing 😊
Very whimsical and cute. Good work!
Those red hats really make the images pop. Very cool!
Quite different and refreshing. Thanks.
Your card is adorable. I love it.
Cute card! Those are sweet critters.
Super fun, love the layering!!
The animals are such fun! I like that you have two sentiments and the mason glass goes with your sentiment. Very nice!
Adorable card!
Just loving the gold embossing, so nice.
Very cute card.
Such a fun and cute card!
CUTE, CUTE, CUTE!!
Stellar Background you've created here..love it all.
cute and very festive
So cute!
Fabulous card Emily. Very cute
Love the layers! Great use of non holiday stamps!
Wow! Cool card!!!!
So very cute!
Love those critter faces!
Super fun and cute card, love those hipster animals with the sparkling embossing powder, so festive! Oh so pretty background with the watercolor wash and the frames.
Cute cards!
Super cute & fun holiday card!
Your card is so cute!
A very "hip" card, Emily! Love the mix of stamps and the non-traditional colors – it all works.
What a unique card Emily. Love the red hats and that jar… great arrangements of the images.
So cute!
Cute card for sure!
Darling card!
Cute and clever, thanks for sharing
Such a cute card, love how the animals pop out at you, I love using embossing powder and dies, it makes things pop,
Great card !
So hip and cute!
cute card! love how you did your background
What a fabulous design! Love your glitter and holiday ready critters.
What a cute and fun card – love the animals
So darn CUTE!
Very cute and fun card Emily. Thanks for sharing a video with us!
Such a smart way to use the Hipster Animals stamp set! Totally adorable.
I'm totally into little animals these days so this is right up my alley. So cute!
Such a fun design x
This is so cute! Love the use of the labels and all the sparkle, and especially the masons jar!
How cute this is!
Awesome quirky festive card!!
Great card, love the creative twist~!!
I wasn't too keen on the Hipster Animals until I saw your card.
Very hipster indeed. Really "cool" vignette. Cheers!
Super fun card! Thanks for the inspiration!
What a fun card! I really like the contrast between the quirky, monochromatic animals and your soft, water-coloured background. The red hats really pop!
Cute card, I like the use of the watercolor paper to make the background.
Very cute card! Thanks for sharing.
I know I can use my distress inks for w/c, so why don't I ever think of that! I do love what happens when water and pigments mix! It never gets tiresome. For very tiny images like this, my favorite is a scribble of marker on a plate or scrap plastic picked up with a damp brush. I feel very artistic when I mix my own shades!!! Thank you for this very fun card.
Very cute cards! Thanks for sharing.
Great video, Emily! I'm so glad you shared your techniques for adding color to the images. Your card is absolutely charming, love it! So happy to be part another hostess hop!
Very cute card, the embossing really is a great detail!
The hipster animals are darling! Thanks for sharing!
Such a fun design and I love the colors on your card! All the embossing really makes the card pop! It's been such fun hopping with you again sistah! 🙂
Adorable!
Adorable card – thanks for sharing with us.
The images are so cute I can imagine them sitting in the woods and having a great time chatting. Thank you.
Very cute!!
Cute card.
AWESOME card Emily….so Fun~~ xoxoxoxo
Love these animal faces!
These little critters are the cutest! I just LOVE this adorable card!
Great card
Thanks for posting and sharing your technique with us! I really liked the tutorial.
Cute card!
This is such a cute animal card!
Such a cute card!
I love the coloring of this card. The grey-scale animals and the gold and then light blue background. What a great way to color in animals!
I like that it is a non traditional holiday card.
Cute little critters!
Cute card – great inspiration.
Adorable!!! 🙂
Who would have thought – a hipster Christmas card! Just wonderful!
Aww these snimals are too cute! Great way to use distress inks – For watercoloring! I'l need to try that!
That is one cool card!
What an awesome masculine holiday card!
Your card is fantastic and adorable too!
Cute! I am loving all the layered elements and your placement!
Such cute cards!!!!!
Adorable holiday hipsters! Thanks for sharing how you turned non-holiday images into festive ones!
I love the layering of the card. What cute Critters! My most favorite is the tags! You could use these for anything! Cards, Project Life, even presents! Love!
Cute card Emily! I love your coloring! Thanks for the inspiration and for the opportunity to win!
Such an awesome, hip and chic layout and card!
This is such a cute card. It is not something I would think of making.
That is why I like the design so much. Cute little animals..Thanks….
WHAT A FUN WAY TO USE THEM.
Such a cute fun card! I love our work!
Very whimsical card! Thanks for sharing.