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2011 Hero Arts Hostess Blog Hop, part V

Hello and welcome to the final day of the 2011 Hero Arts Hostess Blog Hop (or Hoppin' with the Hosti, as I like to call it.)

If you're just joining us, the blog began on Monday and has continued throughout the week. Order of the Apron alumni have been sharing their take on the new 2011 stamps - and we've all been sort of standing around scraping our jaws off the ground (mine may never close again). To start at the beginning, visit the Hero Arts blog and click back to Monday.

Spouse gave me cling stamp CG266 Dancing with Flowers silhouette stamp for Christmas. I had some sort of brain malfunction when I stamped it on this card, though. For some reason, I used VersaFine black ink which is totally wrong to lie down atop a background wash of Twinkling H2O watercolors on cold press watercolor paper! So I had to darken everything with a black marker - which meant some loss of detail, but the stamp is very kind to those of us with ink issues!

The second stamp I played with is another cling - CG271 Large Blossom. This is what I call a "fooler." I looked at it's black and white register mark and and was totally uninspired. But then once I actually stamped an impression and started adding colors, I became quite fond of it! For this card I heat embossed with white detail embossing powder onto kraft paper and then used Prismacolor pencils. (By the way, if you didn't know it, ColorBox Frost White is the BEST white ink for stamping, in my humble opinion.) The "white marks" on the flower petals are Stickles - they look really nice in person.)

Now, on a slightly related note, I rewrote the lyrics to Let it Snow and posted them on the Hero Arts Flickr discussion board. A number of people requested I perform this today here on my blog. Gigi was game but we both felt goofy trying to sing to the camera, so we filmed something else to watch as we sang (acapella) Love to Stamp. 

This is probably why amateurs shouldn't be allowed to own video cameras.

Just remember... you people asked for this!

(Eat your heart out, Madonna.)

Please remember to leave comments as you hop along; every comment left at every blog gives you a chance to win new Hero Arts 2011 stamps!

If you find a broken link, please hop back to the Hero Arts blog for the master list of blog links: http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/. Also, please email tami@heroarts.com and provide the blog address with the bad link so she can fix it. Thanks!

 Your next stop is the uber-talented Vera Rhuhay - you're in for a treat!

Blog Bacon: Rube Goldberg, Eat Your Heart Out!

Seeing how it's Thursday and all, I thought I'd share another video!

And I think it's safe to say that I am now officially enamored of OK Go - check out their bio!

Despite what it looks like, I assure you our singer here is covered in red paint - which will become obvious by the time the video finishes.

I SO love these guys!

Blog Bacon: Not Your Mama's House of Cards

Is it my imagination, or are Thursdays sort of turning into Fun With Videos Day? (Anybody remember the original Mickey Mouse Club? Thursday was Circus Day - so I think I'm sort of keeping with that tradition.)

Anyway, check out the guy in today's video.

I have a few questions for him... like...

How many decks of cards did this take?

Did he buy these cards or were these decks donated?

And, finally, is he playing with a full deck?

('Cause it's hard to imagine investing that kind of time in something so tedious AND that requires 423 decks of cards.)

Blog Bacon: OK Go is So Much More Than OK!

Now here's a video from OK Go that you'll want your kids to see - put a smile all over my whole face, it did!

Was that great or what?

Never Say "No" to a Panda

Okay - anybody who needs a laugh, I got one for ya! Spouse's cousin's wife brought this video to my attention.

Please learn from my mistake, and DON'T drink anything while you're watching it.

Just Some Stuff & a Piece of Kevin Blog Bacon

Okay, first of all, Gigi has added some new books to The Bible while attempting to memorize some of its original books, to wit:

• Colossians has been replaced with Galoshes.
• Colossians has also been replaced with Colostomy. (Where she even heard this word is beyond me.)
• Thessalonians has been replaced with Theso-linoleum.
• Philippians is still being referred to as Philipity.
• And then, of course, there is an entirely new book, Amphibians (added when we couldn't remember what came after Ephesians)

This photo was taken at Gigi's pre-school graduation, but it pretty much captures what she still looks like when she's trying to remember what comes after Galatians. (We finally solved this by noting that Ephesians sounds very much like a sneeze if you work it right... Eee-eee-eee-phe-SIANS!)

In addition to a Gigi snicker, Please do go and check out this amazing piece of art I'm offering up as a piece of Kevin Blog Bacon:

Big Bang

This is a film of an ongoing and - shall we say, mobile? - painted depiction of the creation of the world. It shouldn't matter whether you are a creationist or an evolutionist - this artistic endeavor is jaw-dropping. And if you know anything about film and animation, you will quickly realize that this film probably took no less than 6 months to film....

Have a nice day!!!

Copic Tutorial - Part 1: Coloring Vivi's Face

For those of you who wanted me to do a Copics tutorial, here it is - the first part in a series. I filmed my coloring all of her, but it would be too long for one video, so this one shows how I colored the face of Vivi, a stamp I purchased from The Greeting Farm. (The rest of her will come later.)

A small caveat here. I am not Copic-certified, although I will be by the end of March (yaaaaay)!

So follow me at your own risk. 

;~D

I'm a little unorthodox as I tend to use four/five colors instead of the traditional three. For this tutorial I used Copics:

• E0000
• E000
• E00
• E21 
• Signo white pen
• A surprise ingredient - my "secret weapon"!

Please let me know what you think I should do to improve in the future.

Enjoy!