Hello! The Hero Arts Creative Team is celebrating the release of the October Hero Studio with a blog hop! If you are hopping along with us, you have just come from the lovely Channin.

This month’s Hero Studio release is retro-themed “Merry Era”. I created two cards with this release. The first card using the October kit which has this big beautiful mirror ball die!

October Hero Studio Card Kit of the Month Includes:  

• Deck the Halls with Disco Balls 6×8 Stamp Set
• Deck the Halls with Disco Balls Coordinating Dies
• Have a Ball Die Set
• Gold Embossing Powder .5 oz
• 10 Sheets of Cardstock- 1 of each color, 5.5″ x 8.5″ (Poppy, Dahlia, Tutu, Blush, Alabaster, Beeswax, Tuscan, Fern, Seaside, Waterfall)
• Two Sheets of Gold Matte Paper, 5.5″ x 8.5″

I created a tri-fold card using the the big mirror ball die. I took a white side-folding card base and using the second to biggest circle die from the Nesting Infinity Circle die set, I cut only the front part of the card off-setting the circle a little towards the fold line.

Next, I die-cut the mirror ball out of gold matte paper, gold mirror paper and gold glitter paper. I took the gold matte outer frame and adhered it to the die-cut circle. Then with my picker tool, I paper pieced the mirror ball alternating different gold cardstock textures.

Next, I die-cut the large ribbon out of waterfall cardstock and ink-blended areas of the ribbon to make it look more dimensional. Then I added it to the top of the mirror ball.

To create a tri fold, I took another side folding note card and overlapped it on the inside and adhered to the back of the card.

Next, I took a 4.25″x5.5″ panel of Dahlia cardstock and ink-blended all sides with Taffy Reactive Ink. Then I gold heat embossed the sentiment “Deck the Halls with Disco Balls” on Waterfall cardstock and cut it out with the coordinating die. Then I ink-blended all sides of the sentiment with Blue Hawaii Reactive Ink. And for the finishing touch, I added die cut matte gold, mirror gold and glitter gold stars all around the sentiment. I then adhered it to the Tri-fold to create a background for the mirror ball.

For my second card, I used the October Layering Stencil of the Month “The Tree”.

I used the same color palette as my first card.

I ink-blended the tree but masked off the disco ball ornaments in each layer with washi tape. I used Taffy Reactive Inks just varying the pressure on the blending brush. But with one of the layers, I combined the Taffy Reactive ink with Fruit Punch Reactive ink to make it darker.

For the disco ball ornaments, I used different mediums for each layer. The first layer, I used gold embossing powder, for the next layer, I used gold glitter embossing powder from my stash and for the third layer, I used gold Hero Wax. And the fourth and final layer, I just ink blended using the Taffy ink.

Next, I fussy cut out the tree, added it to a 4.25″x5.5 panel of waterfall cardstock. Then added the sentiment “Have a Ball this Christmas, gold heat-embossed on Waterfall cardstock.

I hope you were inspired by the cards I created.

GIVEAWAY 

Hero Arts will give away a $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, October 5th at 11:59pm PT, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week. Leave a comment on all stops for more chances to win!

Have a wonderful crafty day!

Til next time!

❤️

Anna

Hop List:

Hero Arts
Nichol Spohr
Seeka
Rosie Lopez
Rachel Kleinman
Natasha Polite
Mindy Eggen
Michelle Short
Michelle Lupton
Lisa Tilson
Karen Brown
Jennifer Kotas
Jeannie Lieu
Charlene Madrid
Channin Pelletier
Anna Mahtani

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