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Hero Arts Citrus Cards

Today I had fun playing with the Hero Arts Fresh Citrus Bold Prints background stamp and the Hero Arts Zest Wishes Stamp Set to create these fun and fresh set of cards.


I started by creating the backgrounds.  I used white cardstock and stamped it with the background stamp using VersaMark Ink.  I heat embossed the panels with white embossing powder.  Then, I used a foam blending tool and blended Scattered Straw, Squeezed Lemonade, and Twisted Citron Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks to ink the card panels.  For some panels, I used only one ink and other panels I used a combination of all the inks.  I cut the inked backgrounds down to 4" x 5.25" and matte each panel on a black card base.  


For one card, I used the excess strips from when I cut down the inked panels, and adhered these strips to a black card panel, leaving a little of the black background showing in between each of the strips.


I stamped all the citrus fruits, leaves, flowers, and branches on white cardstock using VersaMark Ink.  I heat embossed these images with black embossing powder.  I used a variety of alcohol markers to color in the images (see supply list below for colors used), and fussy cut around all the images.


I die cut a variety of sizes of circles from vellum, black, and yellow cardstock.  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiments from the stamp set on the circles using black embossing powder.  I layered up the circles and added the lemons, flower, and leaves.


For the Zest Wishes lime card, I heat embossed the sentiment on a rectangular piece of vellum using black embossing powder.  I die cut two thin rectangular frames from black cardstock and slightly offset them with the vellum rectangle.  Then, I added the lime, flower, and branch.


For the insides of the cards, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment with black embossing powder onto a white die cut rectangle.  I used scraps leftover from cutting down the inked card panels and glued a strip at the bottom of some of the cards and also used leftover citrus elements to embellish some of the cards.


I love the variety of different cards I was able to mass produce using the Hero Arts background stamp and Zest Wishes stamp set.  This was such an easy way to make a set of cards to give to a sweet friend or relative.


Citrus Cards
Supplies:
  • Accent Opaque White Cardstock 100lb
  • Recollections Cardstock - black
  • Vellum
  • Hero Arts Fresh Citrus Bold Prints Background Stamp
  • Hero Arts Zest Wishes Stamp Set
  • Versa Mark Ink
  • Recollections Snow and Ebony Embossing Powder
  • Foam Blending Tool
  • Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks - Scattered Straw, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron
  • Spectrum Noir and Copic Alcohol Markers
    • Lemon (CT4, CT3, CT2, CT1)
    • Lime(CG3, CG2, CG1)
    • Leaves (YG17, YG13)
    • Flower (C3, C0)
  • Spellbinders Nestabilities Standard Circles, LG
  • Sizzix Thinlits Geo Floral Frames
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