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When trying to come up with a great masculine card design sometimes a striking background is all you need! I used one of the new add-on backgrounds from August MMH release – the It’s Just A Phase Bold Prints one and simply heat embossed it in white onto black. I am running very low on […]

Hello stampers! It’s time for this month’s Awesome Add-ons feature. Before we check out the project inspiration, here’s a look at all of the add-on products introduced in conjunction with the August kit — 14 in total! They’ll take your creativity to out-of-this-world levels… Shop for the August MMH add-ons here Today our Creative Team […]

Have you ever admired the cards with beautiful backgrounds painted from scratch, and then bemoaned your lack of time, dedication, and/or mad skills to do the same thing? Well, I’ve got good news for you – the Brushstroke Bold Prints background stamp makes getting such a look super easy, super quick, and it’s also a […]

We are excited to bring you the launch of our August My Monthly Hero kit and add-ons! Our Creative Team has been so inspired by these products and we think you will be too! At the end of this post, look for a link to a blog hop that will give you many great ideas […]

We are back, sliding in one more Countdown to Creativity post before launching our August My Monthly Hero Kit and add-ons tomorrow, Monday, August 7th, at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Libby is showing a fun and different way to use the stamps from this kit – thinking outside the card! I absolutely love this month’s kit […]

Hello! We are back with another Countdown to Creativity post before launching our August My Monthly Hero Kit and add-ons on Monday, August 7th, at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. We’ll be giving away one kit on Monday morning, before the kit launches, so be sure to comment on every countdown post! Now join Yana as she […]

Hello, we are back with another Countdown to Creativity post before launching our August My Monthly Hero kit and add-ons on Monday, August 7th, at 1pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. We’ll be giving away a kit on Monday morning, before the kit launches, so be sure to comment on every countdown post! Now, join Amy as […]

We are back with another look at the August My Monthly Hero release! the kit will be available on Monday, August 7th at 1pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. We’ll be sharing ideas for using the main kit and optional add-on products all weekend long, so stay tuned for inspiration! Now let’s join Michelle, who is sharing […]

Hello! We are back with our second Countdown to Creativity post before launching our August My Monthly Hero Kit and add-ons on Monday, August 7th, at 1pm eastern/10am pacific. We’ll be giving away one kit on Monday morning, before the kit launches, so be sure to comment on every countdown post! Now join Jayne as […]

Hello and welcome as we begin the countdown to the release of the August My Monthly Hero kit! Release day is Monday, August 7th at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. We’ll be here all weekend long, 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 […]

Hello! Tami here to share a card featuring the Enjoy the Journey stamp set. I hadn’t yet inked this set up, and let me tell you, it’s a fun one! It’s packed with a boatload of images and sentiments that make it super versatile. I mixed and matched several of them to create today’s card. […]

It’s time once again for the Hero Arts Creative Team Rewind — when we highlight beautiful creations that our talented Creative Team Members have shared on their blogs or Flickr. We have a variety of products and styles to share this month and we know they will give you plenty of creative ideas. First up […]

A set of handmade thank you cards can be a great gift idea to give to a special friend or teacher in your life. With the start of school soon approaching for my kids, I thought a cute set of animal-themed cards packaged with some fun pens or markers would be a nice little treat […]

The Brushstroke Alphabet stamp set features beautiful lowercase and uppercase letters as well as numbers in a stunning brush stroke font. As I was looking at this set it reminded me of old handwritten letters; think XVIII and XIX century old. And not just letters, but letters written in a foreign language, where the writing is very beautiful, […]

Happy Friday! It’s May here with a fun card featuring various succulent images. I started by stamping the images from the Stamp Your Own Succulents stamp set with Butter Bar Ink on some yellow cardstock from Sunshine Mix Layering Paper. Then I stamped the Potted Succulent image with black ink on some white cardstock, colored it […]

My postbox is constantly bombarded by travel brochures, and that gave me my latest idea. Being that I also love postage stamps and have collected them for creating paper collages, I decided to make an Australian-themed card. I used Destination Australia and some real Australian postage stamps. Our Nesting Postage Stamps Infinity Dies were the […]

Before creating today's card, I looked up the definition of the word "magical". Although there are many different meanings, I think that my favorite definition for magical is "surprisingly wonderful". So, with that definition in mind, I decided to create an unexpectedly colorful, shaker card.

Hello! This afternoon we’re dropping in with some happy news and a big thank you to all who entered our 2017 Wintertime Fun catalog reveal giveaway last week! We appreciate all of the lovely comments on our new release and can’t wait to see the creative ways you use the new goodies this coming holiday […]

Hello there, Michelle here and today I have a card to share using the beautiful Summer Garden Stamp Set. This was part of the My Monthly Hero Add-On collection for July. It is such a pretty set filled with lovely sentiments and lots of little images. I wanted to use lots of the images on […]