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"Dare to be different" is like my theme song when it comes to cardmaking. I break the rules a lot! HEY, that’s creativity, right? I had a lot of fun breaking the rules and looking at things a little differently for these cards today! Using the stamp set Weird and Wonderful and our Liquid Watercolors, I made three Dandelion blobs of color and one Strawberry....

We loved reading all of your comments during our sneak peeks and 2018 Summer Catalog reveal last week! Big thanks to everyone who stopped by to check out the new collection. Here are the giveaway winners, randomly chosen from each day's comments:• Sneak Peek Day 1 - Henriëtte, who said "Gorgeous cards Clare. Who doesn’t love Floral stams and I am so glad that stamps...

Good morning! Jess here with a random assortment of cards using a really fun technique! A few months ago I shared a card here using Bold Ink pads on Yupo paper...and a few weeks ago I heard a rumor that you could use liquid watercolors on Yupo for a similar effect to alcohol inks, and you know I just HAD to give it a try!...

Mother's Day is right around the corner, and if you are like me, you have more than one person to celebrate! Today, I am sharing a video tutorial on how I loosely watercolored our Flowering Nasturtium and Old World Courtyard die cut to create a card that expresses just how much they are appreciated. With a little patience and Smooth Bristol paper, anyone can tackle...

It's Friday. It's catalog reveal day. Double hooray! Today we're excited to introduce our new 2018 Hero Arts Summer Catalog! Ready to check it out? You can flip the digital pages and see everything new for Summer by clicking HERE or on the image below. Here are just a few of the highlights: • A garden of creativity with the Hero Florals™ collection, including some...

It's time for another round of 2018 Summer Catalog sneak peeks and we're shifting gears from yesterday's flowers to something completely different, that's a whole lot of fun! Saddle up and say howdy to a few of our new Western themed products... Creative Team member Emily Midgett's first card features two new stamps. The first is a 4" x 6" clear set called Cowboy Life...

Hello and welcome to the first day of 2018 Summer Catalog sneak peeks! We're so excited to share peeks and giveaways with you today and tomorrow, leading up to the full catalog reveal this Friday, April 20. The theme for today is one that many stampers will enjoy -- flowers! Hero Florals™ is a new collection of flower stamps and dies that offer a garden...

Today I'm sharing a Tea Party with you. I started off with a panel from the Midnight Mixed Layering Papers package. I inked up the Into The Woods Stencil with Unicorn Pigment Ink. There is a perfect touch of contrast in colors, don't you agree? The path has been inked up with Charcoal Mid-Tone Shadow Ink. I trimmed down the stenciled panel to 4 inches...

Hey there, and happy Monday! Today I'm sharing two quick watercolored cards using the Welcome Neighbor stamp set. The quirkiness of the houses lend themselves to quick, one layer cards and fast watercoloring! Watch how I did so in the video below... If you have trouble with the video above you can try this link HERE to watch in HD on YouTube. For the first...

Did anybody else hear that in Barbra Streisand's voice in Funny Girl? I love that movie. Hi there! Emily here with you today to share a project using the pretty Swans and Cattails stamp and die set from the most recent catalog. This set has so many pretty swans and scene-building pieces that it was difficult to choose which ones to use! To start, I...

Hello there, Michelle here with a simple scene card using the Wishing Well stamp set. This is such a beautiful set that can be used for lots of occasions. For my card today, I decided to go with a get well card. I started off by taking a panel of Copic-friendly white cardstock and die-cut this with the fourth largest of the Rounded Rectangle Infinity...

Hello to you. Thank you for joining us here on the Hero Arts blog today! We are talking about creating garden scenes. Let's get to it! Combining stamps sets is a fun way to build a scene exactly the way you envision it. I'm featuring the Trellis Fancy Die along with mushrooms from Woodland Tea Party, leaves from Color Layering Rose and a sentiment from...

Hello stampers! It's time to announce the winner from our April My Monthly Hero Release Day Blog Hop. Big thanks to everyone who participated, checked out the cards on the designers’ blogs, left lovely comments, and made this month’s kit a success! If you haven't had a chance to grab your kit yet, we do still have a limited quantity available here. Our randomly selected...

The Hero Arts line of Bold Prints cling stamps can be used in many different ways than just background images. One way to change up the look is to create a mask, then stamp the Bold Print image to eliminate a portion of the background. Today I've used the Floral Mandala Bold Prints to demonstrate this technique. I began the card by creating a watercolor...

Welcome back for another episode of the Color Layering with Yana video series! In each one of my monthly videos I explore different ink pad and embossing powder color options for Hero Arts Color Layering sets and will hopefully inspire you to stamp! In this video I am taking a closer look at the Color Layering Elephant set! Hero's recommended color combo for the Elephant...

I'm not a brave crafter when it comes to color. I like to keep my backgrounds almost exclusively white, and layer from there. However, I was so inspired by fellow creative team member Janette Kausen's stunning black die-cut background, that I just had to give it a more dramatic background. I die cut the background from Midnight Layering paper, and then backed it with a...

The new Hero Arts Summer 2018 release is being introduced later this month and we have some exciting news -- you can find a sampling of pre-release products from the new collection in stores now! The theme? Floral. Just in time for Spring and Summer stamping! Retailers who opted to participate in our Summer ShopBox program are displayed below alphabetically by state, with international locations...

Hi stampers, it’s time for this month’s Awesome Add-ons feature! Before we dive into the project inspiration, here’s a look at all of the add-on products that were introduced along with the April kit -- 3 clear stamp sets with coordinating Frame Cuts, 4 Fancy Dies, 1 Bold Prints background stamp, and let's not forget Purple Liquid Watercolor. Oodles of fun and festive options for...

Hello! Today I have two cards to share with you, featuring some of the fabulous new dies introduced with the April My Monthly Hero release. These dies are so much fun to use for your festive cards - great for birthdays, congratulations, retirements or any other celebrations! My favorite die from this release is the Paper Layering Pinata! It's so adorable. I didn't use them...

Welcome to the release of our April My Monthly Hero kit and add-ons. This calls for a fiesta! At the end of this post you will find this month's blog hop, full of inspiration using this month's products. It's time to celebrate and this is the kit to get the party started! We've got festive images galore, with oodles of coordinating Frame Cuts to match....

It's almost time to launch the April My Monthly Hero kit – release is coming up today at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific! We hope you’ve enjoyed all of the ideas our team has shared for using this kit. As promised, we have one kit to give away to a lucky blog reader, selected from comments left on the Countdown to Creativity posts. We’ve randomly selected a...

A very Happy Easter to those who celebrate, and a lovely Sunday to all!

We're back with our final countdown post, leading up to the release of the April My Monthly Hero kit! Release day is Monday, April 2nd at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Please note, we will be taking a break from the countdown on Easter Sunday. Don’t forget to comment on each and every post as we’ll be giving away a kit on Monday morning, before the kit...

Good morning! We're back with even more festive fiesta inspiration for you to get you ready for the release of our April My Monthly Hero kit! Release day is Monday, April 2nd at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Don’t forget to comment on each and every countdown post as we’ll be giving away a kit on Monday morning, before the kit launches! Here's Emily with a project...

We're back for another countdown post, leading up to the release of the April My Monthly Hero kit! Release day is Monday, April 2nd at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Don’t forget to comment on each and every countdown post as we’ll be giving away a kit on Monday morning, before the kit launches! Now, let's join Ilina with another idea using the kit... Hi everyone. I...

We're back for another countdown post, leading up to the release of the April My Monthly Hero kit! Release day is Monday, April 2nd at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. We’ll be sharing ideas for using both the main kit, as well as new optional add-on products that will be available on Monday. And don’t forget to comment on each and every post as we’ll be giving...

We're back for another countdown post, leading up to the release of the April My Monthly Hero kit! Release day is Monday, April 2nd at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Don’t forget to comment on each and every countdown post as we’ll be giving away a kit on Monday morning, before the kit launches! Here’s May with another card using the kit... Hello, crafty friends! It's May...

Hello and welcome as we begin the countdown to the release of the April My Monthly Hero Kit! Release day is Monday, April 2nd at 1pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. We are beginning a day early this month in observance of Easter and will be here for the next three days, sharing ideas for using both the main kit, as well as the new optional add-on...

Good morning! Jess here with a card showing two fun techniques: repeat stamping using my MISTI and shadow (or second generation) stamping using the cute Headline Messages set! To start I stamped the adorable pup from the Headline Messages set and heat-embossed him with detail black embossing powder before coloring him with Copic markers and die-cutting him with the coordinating dies. Next I stamped the...

Hello there, it's Amy here with a card that combines four stamp sets, while keeping the overall design clean and crisp. The center panel is 3 inches x 4 inches. I love working with smaller palettes to make the images pop. Starting with the panel from the Earth Mix Layering Paper pack. It has been stamped with the CG727 Antique Keys Bold Prints in Soft...

Hello there, Michelle here and today and I am creating a cute scene using the Woodland Tea Party stamp set and coordinating Frame Cuts. I am creating a background for my card with Bold Inks and using different layers to create dimension. I have created a video showing how I made the card, which you can see below: If you are having trouble viewing this...

Good morning! Emily Midgett here with you today to share a card featuring the Color Layering Swallowtail stamp set, along with a few complementary sets. Let's get started with the details! For my project, I wanted to use the Color Layering Caterpillar stamp set to show the progression of the caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly... the process of becoming a butterfly is fascinating to me,...

Hello there, Michelle here and today I have a card to share using the Flower Confetti Fancy Die, along with Liquid Watercolors and the White Iridescent Shimmer Spray to create an interesting background. I started off with a piece of watercolour paper and applied a layer of clean water to this. Using Deep Ocean, Indigo and Moss Liquid Watercolors, I added colour to the panel...

Hi everyone! This is Lydia Fiedler, and I'm thrilled to be a guest on the Hero Arts blog today, talking to you about my favorite thing in the universe - watercolor. I know a lot of people are intimidated by watercolor, but in my opinion, it's actually the most forgiving art medium, and it's also so easy to use when you are out and about,...

I probably send out more birthday cards than anything else, but with an alphabet you can send any greeting you wish. I love how versatile alphabet dies (and stamps!) can be. I was recently making a birthday card with this technique, then thought I should make some Easter cards for my grandkids, too. EASY. Just take every scrap of paper you own and start die-cutting...

Hi everyone, Ilina here today today with a fun interactive card and a video tutorial for you. For my card today I decided to transform 2-D die cuts into interactive pop-up elements. I started the card by creating the center pop up first, and then the front of my card. To create the pop-up in the middle of my card I used the Dragonfly Fancy...