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Hello there, Michelle here and today I have a card to share with you using Poppy Field Bold Prints. Bold Prints are essentially background stamps, but they can be so much more! If you take a portion of the background image, it automatically creates a focal point.  I started off my card by stamping Poppy Field Bold Prints on to a panel of Perwinkle cardstock using...

Hello friends! This is Mindy with you today to share inspiration using the Looking Glass Greenhouse die set. I had an idea to create a scene filled with florals and beautiful Spring colors. To start my scene, I applied Granite ink through the Brick Wall Stencil using a blending brush onto Deluxe Smooth White cardstock. It didn't have to be perfectly blended through the stencil. I personally like when areas are...

Hello Crafters! It's Kelly Taylor here to share a sweet and simple sympathy card. These cards are often the most difficult to make but the most meaningful to receive.  The Color Layering Dove is a perfect image for any sympathy card. I used the Color Layering Dove Bundle but you could certainly just use the stamp and stamp layers onto your card base. I stamped the...

Hello and welcome! Seeka here today to share an easy and colorful birthday card featuring the Yay! Birthday Bundle that would be a cinch to mass produce. I started off by stamping the slice of birthday cake in Copic-friendly Intense Black ink onto Dove White cardstock. I colored the image and then I used the coordinating die to cut out the image. For the background, I stamped "Hooray!" four times...

Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today, and I have a project featuring lots of ink blending, including a masked, stenciled window created using the Leaf and Floral Stencil. I love using this technique to ground a focal point. Let's get started with the details!  I began by using some masking tape around the edges of my white A2 card front. I simply lined...

Hi friends! Lydia here with one of my favorite coloring techniques – it's a selective focus technique with colored pencils.  By selective focus, I mean a technique that is similar to a spotlighting technique, but it's more like portrait mode on an iPhone – it creates a sharp, focused foreground, with a soft, fuzzier background. If you are a photography buff, it's a similar effect...

Break out those sunglasses! 😎 Today I have some bright cards to share featuring our new Neon Brights Liquid Watercolors. There are so many techniques you can do with these watercolors! In addition to coloring images and creating painted backgrounds, here are a few of my favorites: Mix with Hero Paste to create neon-colored pastes. You can use it through stencils or just swipe on your project with a...

Hello there my friends! It's Maria here and today I've got a sweet watercolor card to share with you. I started out by stamping images from the Garden Critters Bundle onto Luxe Watercolor Paper. Then I watercolored the images with Hero Liquid Watercolors. I mostly used the new Neon Brights (Pink, Orange, Yellow, Chartreuse, Green) and I used Black to watercolor the cat. Here's a...

Good morning! Jess here with a trio of cards using the gorgeous new floral Fancy Dies! These flowers are generally thought of as spring flowers but by changing up the cardstock and ink colors you can stretch them into summer, fall, and winter as well! I used a variety of Hero Hues cardstocks for each of my cards and then did a little ink blending...

Hola everyone, Pocono Pam here! Today I am sharing a card using one of the new Delicate Butterfly Fancy Dies. I have also included the newly released Petal Burst Stencil from the Spring Catalog.  To create the card, use Unicorn Ink to stencil Petal Burst onto a 4" x 4" piece of Amethyst cardstock with a blending brush. Next, die-cut the cardstock with the third largest Nesting Heart...

Hello there, Michelle here and today I am creating a see-through window card using the newly released Wisteria HeroScape Bundle. You can watch the video below to see how I made the card, but I also have written instructions and photos below too.  (If you are having trouble viewing this video, please watch HERE on YouTube.) I started off by stamping the Wisteria HeroScape flowers and leaves....

Hello Crafters! It's Kelly Taylor here to share a fast and easy Spring background with you. Anyone else ready for warm weather and pretty blooms?  The Flowers and Bees Bold Prints was originally released as part of the April 2022 My Monthly Hero Kit along with the Color Layering Rose Stencil, the Amazing Fancy Die, and the Thank You for Everything stamp set. It won our favorite...

Hi everyone! Ilina here! Have you had a chance to take a look at the two new catalogs and products? There are so many new and amazing products.  For today's card I used two of the new products, the Floral Envelope woodblock stamp and the Friendly Messages stamp set and coordinating dies. To make the card, start by stamping the image on an A2 piece of Deluxe Smooth White cardstock using Intens-ified...

Hello and welcome! Today we are continuing to celebrate the release of our Spring and Creative Essentials Catalogs with our amazing Hero Arts Global Team! Our artists from around the globe have created projects to share on their blogs, and we hope you'll hop along for more inspiration! But before you do, a few also created projects for this blog post. Let's take a look:...

Hello friends! Today is the culmination of several months of hard work here at Hero HQ - the day our beautiful new Spring 2023 Catalog launches in our online store, and at participating retailers. The release is packed full of new stamps, dies, stencils, hot foil plates and more! At the bottom of this post you're invited to join our blog hop, where our Creative Team and...

Welcome back to day two of our 2023 Spring Catalog sneak peeks! The new collection launches this coming Monday at 10am PT and we are excited to take you inside the catalog and give you a little taste of what's coming. We hope you enjoy today's previews. Don't forget to enter the giveaway at the end of this post for another chance to win a gift card!Let's flip to pages 16 &...

Hi friends! Who's ready to see some sneak peeks from our upcoming 2023 Spring Catalog? We are so excited to let you know that the full catalog reveal, product launch, and blog hop is coming up next week! Mark your calendars for Monday, February 20, when all of the the new products from our biggest release of the year will be available at Hero Arts retailers as well as in our online shop. Stay tuned to...

The new 2023 Spring Catalog is being introduced next month and we have some exciting news – you can find a sampling of pre-release products from the new collection in select stores now! Join us for a detailed look at the products included in the ShopBox pre-release by watching the video below or on YouTube. To find retailers who have opted to participate in our 2023 ShopBox program,...