Just Saying Hello
Hi bloggers! Happy Wednesday to you! I’m pleased to bring you a second day of inspiration from the new Hero Arts releases for 2014! Today we have Lisa Spangler as a guest, and she shows us some fun ways to use the paint daubers from Hero Arts! Don’t you just love that background?? A really neat outcome!
Anyhow, enjoy!
Hi there! It’s Lisa Spangler and I’m so happy to be here to share some of my favorite new Hero Arts 2014 stamps and some fun techniques with daubers!
First, here’s a look at my finished card!
I started off the card by stamping the new Five Line Background with Wet Cement ink on a kraft notecard. Love how it kind of looks like a basket!
Then I broke out a bunch of daubers and swiped them directly on to the Pattern Stripes background stamp, including the new pastel daubers. The colors blend together to form new colors, so I tried to stick to using colors that would look next to each other. I was having too much fun with this though, so I wasn’t always paying attention! ;)
Then I stamped it on white cardstock. The pastel colors are so soft and pretty — just perfect for a background! If you’d like an even lighter background and more blending you can mist the stamp with water before stamping — but I like it just like this.
*Designer Tip* If you happen to get a dark color next to a light one, just swipe your dauber a few times on scrap paper and it will clean right off.
Next I stamped “just saying hello” with black ink on cream paper, then positioned it on the background and stamped the bird over both layers. I stamped the bird two more times on white card stock.
Hero Arts daubers are water based, which makes them perfect for watercoloring techniques. Here I used them to color the bird. I started off by tapping soft peach, dark quartz and tide pool daubers on to a craft sheet, and then used a detail water brush to pick up the ink and then watercolor. The dark quartz and soft peach daubers blend really well together. To get the different shades of pool, I just added more or less water to the dauber palette.
Then I cut out one full bird and one wing and layered them to the card front. It just adds so much dimension.
To finish everything off I added some enamel dots from my stash in shades to match the daubers — and that was that!
Thanks so much for joining me today! — xo Lisa
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Ah, wie klasse, ganz toll sieht das aus
lg gila
Nice spring-like colors!
What a cool technique! I’ll have to give that a try – I ordered a couple of background stamps that should be arriving any day now!
Very pretty background!
These colors are gorgeous and that Pattern Stripes stamp is incredible. What a great shortcut to a background that looks complex and hand-painted but is actually quite simple.
Great background stamp but I adore the bird!!!
Love the stunning artsy background, gorgeous card!!!
Wow! Stunning creation! x
Lisa, what a fun technique. like the idea of just using part of the big background stamp. thanks for sharing.
stamping sue
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Awesome card! Love the sweet soft background!
Great card, Lisa!
What a beautiful card! I would never in a million years have chosen the Pattern Stripes background stamp as I thought it way too bold, but just look at the fabulous effect you got with it! Of course, now I have to buy some paint daubers to go with it. Hmmm…I’m in serious trouble here!
This card is gorgeous!
I wasn’t sure about this background stamp when I saw it in the catalog, but with the daubers and the muted tones it looks AMAZING!!!!
This is so pretty, Lisa! The color mix on the background is lovely. Love it!
Gorgeous Card! I love the Patterned Stripes Background stamp.
I love seeing that stamp used – sooo gorgeous, Lisa! Those pastel dauber colors are beautiful!
Beautiful card! I love the HA daubers- so much you can do with them!
Very pretty card–I love how you did the background.
Thanks for the holiday fun.
Very cool effect with the daubers – the pastels are really pretty!
Really beautiful card, Lisa. Such a fabulous technique with the bg stamp!
Great technique….thanks for sharing.
Awesome.
Love the FUN card!! Such pretty new colors!! Yeah!! Thanks for sharing and have a Fabulous Week!! ;)
Wonderful technique love the soft colors of this cute card.
so pretty!
Really a fun card. Love that bird!
gorgeous!!!!
love that daubber background
This is gorgeous! I really like the soft colors.
Such a beautiful card! Love those pastel colors…just gorgeous. :)
Cute cute cute !!!
Hugs from France
Lunéa♥
I adore this stamp, is amazing!!!
Wauw, the effect it gives on the card is really awesome. Perhaps I should get some daubers to play with.
Wow great card and technique TFS
Such a cool technique love it thanks for showing.
Love the background, can’t wait to try it
I love how the background turned out!! Looks so awesome.
The background is phenomenal. The beautiful bird really stands out.
Such a pretty card.
What a beautiful background!
Well, the pattern stripes background is definitely my favorite new Hero Arts stamp. Love this card, the background and bird look awesome! Great design. Thanks for sharing.
Katie B.
I think the five line background is one of the best I have seen . . . and the way Lisa put the colors on the stamp to make her background for the bird is so pretty!
The backgrounds look wonderful, and set off the bird and sentiment beautifully
Really, really, really love this blog — so many super ideas and it inspires me!
I LOVE everything about this card!!!
Fabulous card from Lisa. She always creates something spectacular!
Love!
The background looks amazing! I can’t believe it’s so easy to make – thanks for the inspiration.