Welcoming September!
Hi everyone! As you know, a new month brings a new theme here on the Hero Arts blog, and we’re excited today to announce the September contest theme: Everything Autumn! This includes anything Fall-related — Harvest, Halloween & Thanksgiving, to name a few. And for some added fun, our featured technique/project for the month is Simple Gift Bags (of any theme.) Be sure to check out Lisa’s technique article and accompanying video where she shows how to create a gift bag from an envelope.
The first round of entries for the September contest are due Thursday, September 16th. Upload your creations to the Hero Arts Flickr Group with the tag September2010A for your chance to win one of several $50 shopping spree to the Hero Arts Online Store. Below is a calendar with all the important dates for the month. View the complete contest details here!
Now, let’s continue on with some more masking inspiration. Jennifer McGuire created a video using Glossy Accents as a permanent mask. Yep! A permanent mask. The technique is much like resist, but gives the results of masking with some added shine.
Card by Jennifer McGuire. See the complete supplies and instructions.
What an amazing card — thanks Jennifer! I can’t wait to try this technique on some holiday ornament images.
Did someone say “holiday”? The moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived — all Jingle All The Way Holiday 2010 catalog stamps and accessories are now shipping! Click on over to the Hero Arts Online Store and start shopping the latest in clear, cling, and wood mounted stamp designs! For those of you who already placed a pre-order, orders will start shipping today. Now there’s a reason to be merry!
And finally, we have one more big announcement — the winner of our September $100 Wish List Shopping Spree! Congratulations to Nancy Ward! She won with her August 20th comment, selected randomly from all of August’s blog comments. For a chance to win next month’s $100 shopping spree, simply comment here on the blog throughout the month of September. Each comment you leave gives you a chance at the prize!
Be sure to stop by tomorrow when we will crown the second group winners from our August contest!
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DeniseB
Huge congrats to Nancy! What a treat!
The card is lovely…. such rich fall colors!
DeniseB
Greta H
Love the theme for September! Hope I can get some good projects entered in the challenge. Love the masking you showed!
Cheryl Taylor
What a fabulous technique and video.
Beautiful card Jennifer, thanks so much for sharing this idea with us all.
Cheryl
Beautiful card! I love my Glossy Accents and use it often.
AnitaRex
Oh how much I love that stamp set you used today Jennifer! Love this video. I love to emboss and now I don’t have to worry if I don’t have the color of embossing powder or pigment ink! Yay!
Donna Przybylowski
Thanks Jennifer for the masking technique, that will help a lot. I also love that leaf stamp, can not wait to get it, just ordered it!!!
yvonne
Love the card!
stefanie.hombach
A great challange, I just uploaded my project.
And thank you for all this inspirations!
Terri
Hi!
Twinkling H2O’s how fun! I am so in trouble with the new things I see on this website…
thanks,
Terri
November Card Fun « Coloradoleen’s Weblog said: November 23rd, 2010 at 8:48 am
[...] The first card I tried is an idea from Jennifer McGuire called permanent mask. For this technique Jennifer used Glossy Accents, but I achieved the same results with 3D Crystal Lacquer. Here’s a link to the post over at Hero Arts, as well as a video of the technique: Permanent Mask [...]