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A Graphic Holiday - Hero Arts

2021 Holiday Catalog

A Graphic Holiday

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Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I'm sharing a card featuring the Graphic Lines Holiday stamp set. This set also includes pretty ornaments and a sentiment in a modern font, but I kept things very simple today. I started off by stamping the largest tree image in Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink onto three colors of cardstock: Mist, Peony, and Kiwi. Then, I heat...

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Steampunk New Year - Hero Arts

Bold Prints

Steampunk New Year

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Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here today, sharing a mini slimline card I created showcasing the Steampunk Holiday stamp set and the coordinating Frame Cuts. This set features steampunk-inspired gears, border elements, a bird, an angel, and a top hat-wearing owl, along with four sentiments. The time pieces and gears in the set are perfect for a New Year card. My card came together quickly and...

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Video: Gift Shop Peek-A-Boo Christmas Card - Hero Arts

Christmas

Video: Gift Shop Peek-A-Boo Christmas Card

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Hey there, Daniel, here, with a video showing you how I colored in the new Gift Shop Background Cling stamp and turned it into a peek-a-boo card! Sometimes I color something and it turns out ok, but other times I fall in love with the project. This one I love! What makes one coloring project stand out more than another? Let me know in the...

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Santa's Coming to Town! - Hero Arts

Bold Prints

Santa's Coming to Town!

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Hello there, Michelle here and today I have a card to share with you using the new Vintage Toys Fancy Dies. You can use these dies in so many different ways - cut them from colours of cardstock, ink blend, watercolour, colour with markers - the sky's the limit! For today though, I thought I would keep them simple and paper piece them with some...

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All Aboard the Winter Express! - Hero Arts

Backgrounds

All Aboard the Winter Express!

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Welcome everyone! Mindy Eggen here with you today and it's time to board the Winter Express! Have your tickets ready, here we go! Do you get into Hallmark movies around the holidays? It's a guilty pleasure of mine and when I first saw the Winter Express Bold Prints, it reminded me of a cover for one of those movies. What came to mind was the...

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Subtle Stenciled Poinsettia Background - Hero Arts

2021 Holiday Catalog

Subtle Stenciled Poinsettia Background

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Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today, and I've got some fun, tone-on-tone holiday inspiration for you today featuring a sparkling stenciled background that works perfectly with this month's Stay Crafty With Hero challenge - stenciling! I love using stencils to create subtle backgrounds that add a little bit of "something" to the area behind the main focal point. For today's project, I've paired...

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A Simple Happy Holiday - Hero Arts

2021 Holiday Catalog

A Simple Happy Holiday

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Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I'm sharing an easy holiday card featuring the new String Dots Bold Prints background paired with some classic ornament shapes. I started off by using Dusty Blue Shadow Ink to stamp the background onto a 3.75" x 5" panel of Dove White cardstock. Next, I created three ornaments by using dies from the Holiday Ornaments Frame Cuts set...

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Frosty Woodland December Greeting - Hero Arts

Die Cutting

Frosty Woodland December Greeting

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Hey there! Daniel West here with a fun use of the December Word Fancy Die paired with the Winter Woods HeroScape stamp set. Hero Arts creates a Word Fancy Die for each month (see them all here) and this December die reminded me of an Alpine scene. So I went for a snowy tree line and added the foreground with the deer and snow from...

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Peek-A-Boo Gift Tags - Hero Arts

Christmas

Peek-A-Boo Gift Tags

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Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here sharing gift tags I created with the fun and versatile Gift Peek-A-Boo Infinity Parts clear stamp set. This set can be used alone or with the Square Peek-A-Boo Doors Mini Infinity Dies. For my tags, I first created three tag bases with Dove White Cardstock using one of the Tag Infinity dies. I chose the die that would fit the...

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Stamped Christmas Wrapping + Mason Jar Ornaments - Hero Arts

Christmas

Stamped Christmas Wrapping + Mason Jar Ornaments

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Happy December! I decided to take a break from making my holiday cards and put some holiday stamps to use on a few non-card projects. First up a fun gift wrapping idea! For smaller special presents, I think it's fun to create custom stamped wrapping paper. I like to keep rolls of plain white and kraft wrapping paper on hand just for this reason. You...

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Fuzzy Winter Animals and an Easy White Wonderland Scene - Hero Arts

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Fuzzy Winter Animals and an Easy White Wonderland Scene

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Hi everybody! It's Maria here and I am so excited to get to share a card using the Fuzzy Winter Animals set today. This set is full of beautiful animals drawn in a fun, sketchy style. I decided to use the moose and the sweet little fawn. I started by stamping them and the moon onto watercolor paper using Intens-ified Black ink. I watercolored using...

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You Are Deer To Me - Hero Arts

Die Cutting

You Are Deer To Me

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Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here sharing a card I created with the adorable Love You Deerly stamp set. Though it is a holiday set, the sweet images and sentiments can be used for various occasions. To create my card, I stamped one of the deer from the set with Intense Black Ink onto Hero Hues Premium Dove White cardstock and colored it with Copic markers....

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Shadowed Letter Set Holiday Card - Hero Arts

2020 Winter Catalog

Shadowed Letter Set Holiday Card

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Welcome everyone! It's Mindy here with you today to share inspiration using the Shadowed Letter Set. I love being able to customize my card with any word of my choice. It adds a personal touch to the card. The Shadowed Letter Set steps it up a notch by adding a unique shadow detail. I started by stamping my letters from the Shadowed Letter Set and...

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Background vs. Foreground - Hero Arts

Holiday

Background vs. Foreground

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One of the hardest art lessons I had to learn was the concept of light and dark for background and foreground images. For some reason, I always tended to reverse them, and make my backgrounds dark and my foregrounds light. But it you go to the park and look around, you'll notice that the trees that are farther away from you are lighter than the...

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Video: Contact Paper Masks and Shaker Cards - Hero Arts

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Video: Contact Paper Masks and Shaker Cards

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Hello friends! It's Channin here with a new video and few cards to share featuring the November 2020 My Monthly Hero Kit. In today’s video I will create several shaker cards and share some of my tips and tricks for masking! (If you are having trouble viewing this video, please try watching it HERE on YouTube.) To create these cards, I first cut a 2...

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Starry Slimline Card With Stair-Step Effect - Hero Arts

Christmas

Starry Slimline Card With Stair-Step Effect

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Hola everyone!! Pocono Pam here with my take on the current Stay Crafty With Hero Challenge - slimline holiday cards. Slimline cards have been around for a while, but they are making a strong comeback and we are having soooo much fun with this trend. A typical slimline card measures 4 1/8” x 9 1/2”. However, any long and narrow card that fits into a...

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