Heart Flourish Art Card

Hi there! Today I'd like to share a card that I made during Hero Arts' distress challenge. This kind of "art card" could be used for a variety of card-giving occasions.

My Heart Flourish Art Card:
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To make this card, I started by cutting out a 4" x 2.75" piece of fadeless art board. Fadeless art board is like posterboard only it comes in smaller sheets. It has a shiny side that accepts dye inks well.

Next, I spread Spiced Marmalade (orange) and Broken China (blue) Distress Inks directly onto my non-stick craft sheet. I misted the inks with water until they beaded up. Then I placed the shiny side of the fadeless art board down into the ink and wiggled it a little. I turned it right side up and dried the ink using my heat tool. I dipped the card back into the remaining blots of ink a couple more times, drying it in between.

When the ink was dry, I stamped the Heart Flourish image onto it with VersaMark watermark ink. I sprinkled white embossing powder over it, shook off the excess, and heat embossed it. Once the central image was completed, I repeated the process to stamp bits of the same image onto the edges and heat embossed these areas also.

Next I trimmed a piece of aqua cardstock to be a bit larger than the embossed piece. I adhered the embossed piece to the aqua cardstock and wrapped it with matching metallic elastic cord. Then I trimmed a piece of cream cardstock a bit larger than that, and adhered the aqua piece to it. Finally, I mounted the whole thing to a textured, burnt orange card base (4.25" x 5.5" or A2 sized).

Materials used:

• cardstock: cream, aqua, and textured burnt orange


• Fadeless art board (like posterboard)


• Hero Arts K5153 Heart Flourish


• metallic elastic stretch cord


• Ranger Distress Ink: Spiced Marmalade (orange) and Broken China (blue)


• Ranger embossing powder: seafoam white


• Ranger Inkssentials Heat-It Craft Tool (heat gun)


• Ranger Inkssentials Mini-Mister


• Ranger Inkssentials Non-Stick Craft Sheet


• Tsukineko VersaMark watermark ink

Thanks for stopping by!