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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This is such a pretty card!
lovely card today thank you
thanks for the inspiration today
pretty card today thanks for sharing it with us
Love the colors for the card and the technique.
LOVE the muted colors and the cute birdie! Beautiful and sophisticated card, Lisa!
Oh so PRETTY!
I love the soft look the background gives to this card. Very pretty indeed!
Beautiful card! I love the background, pastel colors are my favorite! Great release from Hero Arts!
Beautiful bird and that background is fabulous!
That stamped background is so interesting and amazing. Looks fantastic!
Beautiful! Love the basket look and the background stamp (I have that one! Yay!). The bird is beautiful with the water coloring and I love that sentiment with the large hello!
Such a gorgeous card Lisa! I love the background and that bird is so sweet :-)
Lisa’s card is oh so lovely! I the pastel dauber background and I love the layered bird!
gorgeous card. love what you did with the background stamp and the ink dauber.
lovely card. great background
The colors on your card are so pretty and light. I love how you put your card together. Thanks for sharing.
Stunning card:)
your pastel dauber technique is gorgeous!
I so love the new soft colors of the daubers!
That new HA stamp caught my eye in the new catalogue. I love the pastel daubers! So lovely. I follow the blog by email.
Gorgeous!
Great to see how these daubers in action
Oh this is pretty! I love
the technique used on
it. Lovely.
Carla from Utah
What a great card. I love the subtle watercolor look with the new stamp. Great idea! Just beautiful!
I just love how you used the daubers on that stamp. What a nice background it made. Very nice card. Thank you for sharing you’re ideas.
Love the soft colors and thank you for sharing the technique…beautiful card.
A very pretty card!
What a beautiful card! Thanks for explaining how you did it.
The colors are so subtle and pretty :)
Love this beautiful card! The background paper is perfect with that bird image!
Love this card! Think I need to add some daubers to my next order.
Beautiful card today! Love the dauber technique!
What a lovely card. The new background stamps look great and I love the daubers!!
Beautiful card and a great technique! Thanks for the tutorial!
Lovely card! Love the stamping and painting with the HA Daubers. ;-)
So pretty – love the pastel background
LOVE LOVE LOVE this! I love the colors, stamp, techniques..love it all! I wish those daubers came in sets! It will take forever to amass all of them LOL
This is a pretty card and a great technique! Thanks!
LOVE this card!! The soft colors are so pretty. Both the background stamp and the bird are on my wish list!
A beautiful card and the new daubers look great!
Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing Lisa!!
What a pretty card! I love the colors, thanks for sharing.
What a fun card!
Dauber background is neat! Love the detail of the bird too!
This is a lovely card…love the colors!
Love the dauber background technique!
Absolutely gorgeous, loving the colors!
So pretty! I love that soft watercolor pastel background.
Another good use for the daubers-which I already love! LOVE that background.
Thanks so much for sharing!