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Hello and welcome to our fourth and final Friend Friday with Chameleon! We have had so much fun using these fabulous markers this month. Be sure to head over to their blog, where the Chameleon design team is coloring Hero Arts images, too! And of course there are prizes – keep reading to the end […]

Hello stampers! Today we're mixing it up with a mixed media art journal page created by a very talented guest artist. Please join us in welcoming Isha Gupta to the blog! Hello everyone! Isha here today. I'm so excited to share my project here on the Hero Arts blog as a guest designer. Thank you Hero Arts for this awesome opportunity. As soon as I...

When I was a kid, the summertime meant my family would go on "Sunday drives". After a while, my mom learned to pack an overnight bag when my dad gathered us in the car for one of his drives. We never knew where we'd end up! The [hero_product_link sku="CL973" text="Road Trip"] stamps from the Summer release brought back many happy memories of these family adventures!...

I think we can all agree - creating cards for guys is no easy task! However using the right colors and going with a simple flower-free design can make it much easier. Today I have a masculine Happy Birthday card to share featuring a bold stamped background and a fun watercolor cake. Do you remember [hero_product_link sku="CL982" text="Luggage Tag Alphabet"] add-on stamp set from Hero's...

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month, recognizing ice cream as a fun and nutritious food enjoyed by much of the nation's population. He suggested that the people of the United States observe the month with "appropriate ceremonies and activities". The best way that I can think of to observe this occasion is to send unexpected cards, perhaps with ice...

In today's world of texting and email, it's easy to send out a quick invite to a group of people. But I'm still a huge fan of receiving tangible invitations through the mail. And Hero Arts has two clear stamps to help you create invitations for any occasion! The [hero_product_link sku="CL974" text="Invitation Themes"] and [hero_product_link sku="CL975" text="Party Themes"] sets include a huge variety of messages...

I had so much fun watercoloring and creating a scene with the [hero_product_link sku="CL973" text="Road Trip"] stamp set for the catalog release blog hop, that I decided to do another version for the blog today! I made a video showing how I did the watercoloring for the blog hop, but here's a short explanation: - I sprayed the watercolor cardstock lightly with water, so that...

I was super excited to see the [hero_product_link sku="DI188" text="Fruit Salad Fancy Dies"] in the Summer 2016 catalog and after I got them in the mail I decided I wanted to decorate a couple jumbo paper clips to use as dividers in my planner and also as colorful bookmarks for the books I'm reading. I mostly use my planner at home and I rarely take...

Many of you already know that you can make stamps from your dies. But for those of you that don’t, here’s an easy way! I took our [hero_product_link sku="DI181" text="Paper Layering Daisy"] and a circle die and cut “stamps” out of children’s foam sheets that you can find in any craft aisle. Then I took my favorite new ink pack - [hero_product_link sku="AF348" text="Sally's Tropical...

I live in the beautiful state of Washington and naturally, I'm a big fan of anything Seattle or Washington. Today I'm featuring [hero_product_link sku="CL910" text="Kelly's Seattle"] set. It truly does include all of the major attractions that the city has to offer! I wanted to include as many of the images as possible and managed to do a pretty good job! If you've been following...

When I was blessed with the opportunity to select a custom set of ink colors that I would use with the [hero_product_link sku="CL886" text="Color Layering Fall Trees"] set, I knew immediately that I would choose inks that reflected the changing colors of autumn leaves - Lemon Yellow, Tangerine, Strawberry, and Pumpkin Pie. However, what I love most about these warm colors is that the coordinated...

Sending cards for holidays and birthdays are great, but I think the best cards are the unexpected ones! Today's card is perfect for that special person who simply makes your heart happy. The [hero_product_link sku="DI181" text="Paper Layering Daisy Die"] makes for a stunning focal point! This die includes the Paper Layering die, which is the portion that has the leaves popped up, as well as...

Background stamps, especially Bold Prints 6x6 Clings are always fun to use! Be it a portrait or a landscape A2 card - they work perfectly. Today I'm using [hero_product_link sku="CG695" text="Irregular Grid"] stamp and making only a partial impression to create map-like backgrounds for my cards. There's a fantastic card example in [hero_product_link sku="PS916" text="Summer 2016 catalog"] where dark brown ink is used over light...

Flamingos are fabulous birds! They have beautiful pink feathers, long slender legs, gorgeous S-shaped necks and amazing balance. Plus, they live by the water with their equally fabulous friends. Today I'm using the new Color Layering Flamingo stamp set to create images of this extraordinary bird for a pair of fun and feminine cards. To make my first card, I created a leafy frame by...

Today I'm sharing some stamps from the summer release that just plain make me smile. Say "hello" to the emojis!! There's a little tub full of them. So cute! The little tub is, of course, my eight year old daughter's favorite thing in the summer release, too. [hero_product_link sku="LP407" text="Emoji Icons Mini Tub"] also comes with a fun little sticky pad of thought bubbles, and...

Making cards for the men in your life can be quite fun when you have in hand a stamp set apt for that purpose. Today I am sharing a card using a stamp set named [hero_product_link sku="CL948" text="Dapper Dad"], which is perfect to create Father's Day cards or other masculine projects. I thought a simple card design would be right to showcase this fun set....

Nothing says summer more than heading “to the beach!!” For my fun beachy card, I started by pulling out my watercolors and making a giant “wave” with a beautiful turquoise color on watercolor paper. I stamped “to the beach!” in black ink using a favorite alphabet set - any font that you love will do! Then I took several of the icons from [hero_product_link sku="CL978"...

Yesterday, Mariana shared two fabulous ideas for using the Waves Stencil and today I'm back to share three more ways to use this versatile stencil. More often than not, I use my stencils to create full and partial backgrounds on my cards instead of patterned paper. And what I really love about stencils is the variety of both soft and bold patterns that you can...

The new Destination stamps collection is one of my favorites from the new Summer Catalog. The stamps that are part of it include some of the main cities of the U.S. and they are perfect to create cards, postcards, document your trips or even to use on your scrapbook pages. Today I am sharing a couple of cards featuring [hero_product_link sku="CL965" text="Kelly's Chicago"], which is...

Today I wanna share a pair of cards and a video showing several different ways to spice up your die cuts. Watch the video below to see how I made them! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRRzuxwlL5o] If you have a problem viewing this video, please try watching it HERE on YouTube. For this first card, I stamped a background using the anchor from the [hero_product_link sku="CL957" text="Hipster at...

Believe it or not, the school year is wrapping up here in Georgia next week, and it's time to finalize some teacher gifts! Every class at my kids' school has a nickname - The Monkeys, The Hippos, The Butterflies, etc. My son's teacher this year is Ms. Carroll, and her class is called Carroll's Campers. I knew when I saw some of the new summer...

Ice cream, sherbet, sorbet, gelato...I've never met a frozen treat I didn't love! Naturally, when the [hero_product_link sku="CL963" text="Color Layering Ice Cream"] set came out, it was an immediate favorite and has since become my go-to set for birthday cards. It works for anyone! Today's card was inspired by some of the yummiest raspberry gelato ever... I started with a very light background wash of...

Ever since Hero Arts added an outer frame die to the Paper Layering die collection I can't stop playing with the new designs, the [hero_product_link sku="DI187" text="Palm Tree"] die in particular. There are two main ways I like to use these dies in my cardmaking and I'd like to share both in this blog post, so keep on reading if you'd like to learn more!...

I'm a big fan of clean and simple one layer cards. It’s really fun focusing on the basics of cardstock, stamps, ink, and very little else to create cards. But CAS one layer card doesn't mean that it's easy to make sometimes but requires attention to detail, right? For today's card, I created a fun summer card with non-traditional summer colors. I tried to mimic...

When I first saw [hero_product_link sku="CL958" text="The Adventure Begins"] stamp set, I immediately thought about summer camping weekends, trips "up north" to the cabin, and holiday barbecues. Whether I'm a guest or the hostess, I love to give my friends and family small thank-you gifts or themed party favors to show my appreciation. So, today I'm sharing a card and several gift tags inspired by...

I have found a favorite new product for creating birthday cards -- the [hero_product_link sku="SA072" text ="Sprinkles Stencil"]! It can be used on a card for a person of any age and you can easily change the look by the technique you use to stencil and the colors you choose. Today I've created a colorful background using some bright ink colors and [hero_product_link sku="MI002" text="sponge...

Hello and welcome! For the past several weeks we've been sharing projects made with our new Summer 2016 products, and you may have already found them at your favorite retailers. Today we are thrilled to be launching our new products right here in the Hero Arts store! We have a trio of fabulous cards from our creative team member Jayne Nelson to share with you....

New baby cards are pretty much my favorite type of cards to create; combining cute animal images with pretty papers and ribbons is just my style. So, for my card today, I decided to create a new baby card featuring the adorable [hero_product_link sku="Di180" text="Paper Layering Hedgehog Die"] which is available at retailers now, and will be arriving in our own store tomorrow. I just...

I love creating with Hero Arts Color Layering stamp sets and ombre inks as the colors of ink in these have been carefully selected and always work so great together for Color Layering (among other things). However, sometimes I want to alter the colors of the ink slightly, for example make the final image a bit lighter, but I don't always have the right shade...

Summer by far is one of my favorite seasons. I like the warm weather, and the cold homemade fruit beverages that I always crave. Today I am featuring a fun set that is all about these type of drinks and it is called [hero_product_link sku="CL960" text="Let's Get Fresh"]. What I like the most about this set, is that it includes lots of images and sentiments...

Mass production, it's not something that I gravitate towards but sometimes it's super easy to accomplish the task. Have you looked through the Summer Catalog? The products are available at retailers and will hit the Hero Arts shop one week from today, on May 11th! Today I'm featuring the [hero_product_link sku="DI188" text="Fruit Salad Fancy Dies"]. I could easily be a fruitarian. I love fruit and...

One of my favorite things to do with detailed flower images is emboss them. It seems to be able to capture a little bit of that etherealness flowers have. I stamped the [hero_product_link sku="CL980" text="Happy Mother's Day"] flowers all over a piece of [hero_product_link sku="PS619" text="light purple cardstock"] using Versamark, then heat embossed them with [hero_product_link sku="PW118" text="White Satin Pearl embossing powder"]. This stuff looks...

Hi there! Today I'm sharing one of my cards that was featured in the 2016 Summer Catalog using the [hero_product_link sku="CL963" text="Color Layering Ice Cream"] set. I used a little bit different technique for the layering part and I love how it turned out! I started out by stamping the cone and two scoops of ice cream using Antique Linen Distress Ink. Then I used...

Here we are, at Day 5 of 2016 Summer Catalog sneak peek week! We hope you've enjoyed all the new goodies we've shared, and you're as excited about our new catalog as we are! Today we are sharing some of the new stamps from the "Adventure" section of the catalog. We love to get out in the great outdoors during the summer, and these products...

Calling all hipsters! Today's sneak peek from the 2016 Summer Catalog features our "trend" section of the catalog. Records, pipes, mustaches, coffee? Yes, please! The record and pipe images pictured above are part of a super fun stamp set called CL957 Hipster at Heart - a collection of all of our favorite hipster icons. Another great new set is CL948 Dapper Dad, perfect for those...

We have been enjoying all of your wonderful comments on our previous two days of 2016 Summer Catalog sneak peeks - welcome to Day 3! Today we're showing the latest additions to our popular line of Paper Layering dies! In the 2016 Summer Catalog, we've added four new Paper Layering dies - pictured above are DI180 Paper Layering Hedgehog, DI181 Paper Layering Daisy and DI187...