Hi there, and welcome to my little stop on the Hero Arts 2012 Catalog Blog Hop! You should have arrived here via the amazing Kelly Purkey’s blog, so if you took a wrong turn or encountered a broken link you can head back to the start of the hop!
For my hop cards I just had to break out the new Hero Arts Zig Zag Background Cling stamp (CG422) — love this stamp so much! You see, I’m a bit (!) of a chevron nut, and have been dreaming of loads of ideas for this stamp — some of which I’ve saved on my chevron Pinterest board. (Are you on Pinterest? Let me know, I’d love to follow you!)
So to start off, I just had to try white embossing the stamp on a white notecard and then brushing on watercolors. First I used a cheery palette of pink, yellow, and orange and it really made me smile!
Isn’t it great how watercolors blend together to make interesting new colors? I just used an old cheapy Crayola set for this card — first one that I grabbed! — but I can’t wait to try this with Twinkling H2O’s!
Next I had to try the same technique again, but this time with a tranquil blue, lavender and pool color combo. Isn’t it peaceful?
Next I wanted to try some clean and simple cards where the Zig Zag Background would truly take center stage, and I came up with these!
I just stamped the Zig Zag Background off the edge of the card — no need for masking! Love how these came out. Even though they do make me hungry for something minty! Ha ha ha!
I could go on and on and on making cards with this stamp! (But I better stop, or you’ll never make it to the end of the hop! ha.)
Here are a few things I can’t wait to try next:
- Embossing in white and rubbing with Distress Inks
- A tone-on-tone background — or even doing tone-on-tone on a bunch of colors of cardstock, cutting them in strips, and putting on a card!
- Bright yellow on white (for another cheery card!)
- Brown ink on a kraft notecard for a masculine card
- Stamping once in one color, then inking the stamp up with a different color and positioning it down a bit from the first stamping!
- Inking the stamp with multiple colors of inks, misting with Perfect Pearls in water and stamping!
I have a feeling this stamp is going to be my “go-to” stamp for quite a while now!
Your next stop on the hop is Her Royal Rubberness, the super duper fab-u-loso Julie Ebersole! Take it awaaaaaaaay, Julie!
Thanks for hopping by,
I love all your wonderful ideas on using this one stamp! Thanks for using it several ways to make some fantastic cards!
must have chevron stamp!
Very cute cards. I love them all. Can’t wait to try out this stamp.
Truly love the zig-zag stamp set so dramatic!
I’ve aded the zig zag background to my wish list as I have a feeling this will be my go to background too. Thanks for sharing
Thanks, Lisa, for so many pretty examples using this stamp. And for all the extra ideas too.
Beautiful cards!! I love the clean and crisp look!
this stamp has so many possibilities, thank you for sharing.
Wow..you sure are creative and I love what you did!
AAAHHH i LOVE this stamp so much!!! And I about died when I saw your Pinterest board – a whooooole board for CHEVRON!! I love chevron. A lot. SO i’m totally following you now!
Oooooh my, totally awesome cards. I don’t think I would of thought of all these variations for this versatile stamp. I can see why it would become your “go to” stamp!!
Thanks very much for sharing your gorgeous cards with us! ~ You are always so inspiring!
Also, thanks so much for a chance to win!
What fun projects! I love the colors!
Carol B
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Love your cards! Great job! Especially love the ‘stripes’ of color and how nicely they all blend!
Oh my goodness! I agree with you about that background stamp – your cards show how versatile it is.
WOW love the way you used this stamp especially embossing it on the snowflake card with non-traditional Xmas colors!
I am loving all of your cards. Hero Arts always makes the best background stamps, this one will be coming home with me soon.
I can see that the zigzag stamp will be a must have. I love the cards you did with it. Thanks for the great ideas.
I absolutely love the red zigzag background w/the Christmas tree! So simple.
These are really great cards from simple tools, I just love that!