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Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here. Thank you for stopping by! Today I am sharing a card I created showcasing the Falala Bold Prints stamp and Gold Trim Ornaments Hero Transfers. To create my card, I adhered a 4" x 5.25" Gold Glitter Paper panel to an A2 Cherry cardstock card base. Next, I stamped Falala in black ink onto a 3.75" x 5" Dove White...

Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I'm sharing a card and an envelope embellishment made with the new Wax Seals Stamp & Cut set. If you love the look of wax seals, this set makes it easy to recreate that look without having to worry about whether the wax will make it through the mail! For the card, I stamped a selection of wax...

Hi everyone! Ilina here! Today I am sharing a card that uses a single Bold Prints stamp, the Merry Christmas Letter Bold Prints. The stamp is used in two ways – for the background as well as the focal point message. You could use this same card design and change up your ink, cardstock, and embossing powder colors to get endless looks with just ONE...

Hi friends! Emily Midgett here with you today with some icy inspiration using the beautiful Merry Foliage Bundle, paired with my newest obsession: Iridescent Blue Embossing Powder. This embossing powder looks stunning on its own, on white or colored cardstock, but it also works beautifully when embossed over colorful ink as I've done here to create this crisp, wintry holiday card. Let's get started with...

Hello crafty friends! This is Mindy with you today and I am sharing inspiration with the new Peeking Bear Cub Fancy Die. This cute little guy could be peeking out from around so many different items or even the edge of your card. I have the Candy Cane Fancy Die that I thought would be adorable for him to be holding. The thing was, when...

Hello everyone. It's Dana here with you today. The new Hero Arts Holiday Reindeer has to be one of my all time favorite Fancy Dies. This die is small enough for your 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" cards but will also work with your larger 5" x 7" cards. Let's get into how I created this card. To begin, I die cut the Holiday Reindeer...

Hello and welcome to our Awesome Add-ons feature for the month of October! Here's a look at all this month's fabulous new offerings – just in time for holiday and winter crafting! Shop for the October MMH add-ons here Today we're delighted to have Creative Team member Jayne Nelson here to share some fabulous "beyond the kit" ideas for a few of the add-ons. Hi,...

Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I'm sharing a card featuring the Orange + Shimmer Tone-on-Tone Metallic Spray and Pumpkin Bunch stamp set. I started off by heat embossing the large pumpkin bunch image onto Dove White cardstock using Onyx pigment ink and clear Ultra Fine Embossing Powder. Heat embossing an image is a great way to seal ink so that it doesn't smudge...

Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here sharing a card I created with the fun new Glow-in-the- Dark Lacquer Pen. It is a simple embellishment that will add a sprinkle of magic to your projects. In the dark, it was difficult to capture the glowing element in my photo. My grandchildren did squeal however when they saw the glowing pumpkins. To create my card, I stamped Buffalo...

Hi friends! Emily Midgett here with you today, and I have some super shiny, colorful iridescent inspiration for you today using some of the newest products from the Hero Arts Holiday 2023 release! I did some hot foiling using the new Leaves and Dots Hot Foil Plate and used the blues and greens in the iridescent aqua foil as the basis for my color scheme...

Hey everyone. It's Dana here with you today. Sparkle up your background with a Hero Arts Bold Prints stamp and embossing. I love adding just a touch of sparkle to a background. Have you seen the new Acanthus Bold Prints from this month's release? It's absolutely beautiful and it's a great way to make quick and easy cards. Let's get into the card. I started...

Hi everyone! Ilina here! Today I have a card to share using the new Pumpkin and Leaves Hero Transfers to create an easy focal point for a Fall card. I combined the transfers with a sentiment from the Fall Fox stamp set and the Gingko Leaves Bold Prints background stamp. To make the card start by cutting out the Hero Transfers you would like to...

Hello there, Michelle here sharing a card using the new Ginkgo Leaves Pattern Bold Prints. This stamp can be used in so many ways, but for today's card, I thought that I would add a lot of shimmer and shine in autumnal tones. I started off my card by stamping Ginkgo Leaves Pattern Bold Prints onto a panel of watercolour paper using Clear Embossing &...

Hey everyone. It's Dana here with you today. We are speeding into fall very quickly so I decided to pull out my shades of brown and get ready for cooler weather. When making a monochromatic card, it's all about keeping the color tones to one palette. So let's take it up a notch and do no-line watercoloring as well. Here is the video for my...

Hello and welcome! Seeka here, and today I'm sharing a fun card featuring just one of four National Park-inspired images from the new Where To Next? stamp set. I started off by using Copic-friendly Intense Black ink to stamp the mountain image onto Dove White cardstock. I colored the image with Copic markers and then fussy cut the image out and set it aside. Next,...

Hello and welcome to our Awesome Add-ons feature for the month of August! We have 11 nature-inspired products to spark your creativity this month. Stamps, dies, stencils...lots of fun options to help you bring a touch of the great outdoors to your projects! You can check out the offerings HERE in our shop and take a peek below. Shop for the August MMH add-ons here...

I have a fun surprise for you today. I used just a single medium on this card - Hero Arts Liquid Watercolor. No ink, nothing else. That shows you how very versatile this medium is. And even more surprising - I used 99% Neon Brights! I did add in black, but it's amazing what you can do with neons. I started by cutting a circle...

When I make cards, I often start with a beautiful background stamp as my inspiration. For today’s card, I’m using the delightful Park Background Bold Prints stamp to create a simple, summery card. This stamp is chock full of park sights and activities--hot air balloons, food carts, park benches, leafy trees, bright sunshine, puffy clouds, picnics, kites, bikes, and swings. It’s an ideal background for...

Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here. Thanks for stopping by! Today, I am sharing a card I created with two fun products released in the Summer Catalog: Textured Compliments and Zigzag Texture Bold Prints. I love how these sets work so well together. To create my card, I adhered a 4" x 5.25" Bermuda cardstock panel to a white A2 card base. I then stamped the...

Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I'm sharing a quick and easy card featuring a beautiful rainbow of wildflowers made with the new Wildflowers & Bugs Hero Transfers. Transfers are a fun, no-mess way to add gorgeous images to your projects! I began by using an oval die from the Nesting Oval Infinity Dies set to die cut a piece of Dove White cardstock....

Hi friends! Emily Midgett here with you today, and I have some inspiration to share using the super fun Weaving Fancy Die! I will admit, this die intimidated me a bit when we first received it. I am not one of those clever types who can mentally put things like this together, but after playing with it a bit, I found it to be extremely...

Hi friends! Greetings from insanely hot Texas! Today's card is aspirational, because there's no way anyone in their right mind would have a picnic right now - so I'm dreaming of cooler days with today's project. One of my favorite challenges at Splitcoast is when a host asks us to do black & white plus one color - you need just the right image to...

Hey everyone. It's Dana here with you today. Let's do some heat embossing with the new Park Background Bold Prints stamp. Let's start with the background of our card. I stamped the Park Background Bold Prints onto Dove White cardstock with Embossing and Watermark Ink. To keep the crisp white image, I sprinkled on Clear Embossing Powder and heat set the image. Next it was...

Good morning! Jess here with a cheerful card featuring the cutest ladybugs from the new Hello Lady stamp set! To start I stamped one of the ladybugs from Hello Lady three times onto Dove White cardstock with Embossing & Watermark Ink and heat-embossed them with Detail Black Embossing Powder. I colored them with Copic markers and then die-cut them with the coordinating dies. I also...

Welcome friends! This is Mindy back to share inspiration on using your background stamps for a subtle look. Backgrounds are quite fun because they can be used for many different techniques and purposes on your card projects. Normally, I let the background be center stage of the design. Today, it's going to be a little more subtle. Of course, one of my favorite ways to...

Today we're excited to share creativity from a very special guest – Jenn Shurkus! If you know Jenn, you know that she loves creating with the Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils. The way she combined them with our stamps and dies is simply magical. Let's take a look... I created these three cards using watercolor pencils and watercolor cardstock. First, scribbling directly onto the Rough...

Hey friends! Mindy Eggen with you today to share inspiration using the Journaling Photo Frame Infinity Dies. I am a huge fan of frames and this new set that looks like a Polaroid picture is such a fun new look to add into my card making projects. You can add journaling to them, create a scene, or frame them with florals. I started by creating...

Good morning! Jess here with a fun and slightly messy mixed media card featuring some of our new Summer Catalog release products! I've been playing around more and more with mixed media projects and have realized that mixed media is not as complicated as I used to think. It literally just means mixing at least two different mediums. Did you ink blend and heat-emboss a...

One of the great things about Bold Prints background stamps is that they are a canvas for oh-so-many techniques, so I have a fun and easy one for you today, combining on-stamp ink blending and masking. The Espalier Fruit Tree is a mirrored Bold Print and has so many possibilities! I decided to lean into the fact that the image essentially brings its own reflection,...

Finally it’s Spring outside which means FLOWERS! Inspired by the blooms, today I used the Floral Envelope and Lily of the Valley woodblock stamps with the ever versatile Burlap Bold Prints for my cards. I LOVE that burlap stamp!! It makes a fast background, envelope liner, cross stitch grid, squares to punch and MORE. Let’s start with Floral Envelope. Stamp it in black ink on...

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...

Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I'm sharing a cozy card featuring the new Tea Kettle Fancy Die. I started off by die cutting the tea kettle's body, lid, and handle from a matte silver metallic cardstock. I cut the lid and handle again from Paradise cardstock and then cut off the two teal handles and glued them to the silver pieces. Then I...

I remember the very first time I saw something unusual when a stamp set was upside down on my desk and turned that into a card. It taught me something I still use to this day which is to look at EVERY product from multiple angles to see if another use pops out at me. That is exactly what I did with the Arches Infinity...

Hello Crafters! It's Kelly Taylor here and today I'm sharing two different watercolor techniques you can use for beautiful backgrounds. (If you are having trouble viewing this video, please watch it HERE on YouTube.) The first step to creating these beautiful watercolor cards is the Flower Market Bold Prints stamp. I stamped it onto our Luxe Watercolor Paper using Unicorn Pigment Ink. I then sprinkled...

Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here! Today I am sharing a card I created with the newly released Doodles clear stamp set. I am a doodler and love the images in this set. I was inspired by the swirl in the set and immediately wanted to make lollipops. For my card, I first stamped Mini Hearts Bold Prints in Granite Ink onto a 5" x 4.75"...