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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...

Welcome everyone! It's Mindy here with you today to show how I used the Rays of Color Window Fancy Die for a Christmas/Holiday card. I have a video tutorial that you can check out down below or HERE on the Hero Arts YouTube channel. This die can be used in so many ways! It's great for die cut inlay techniques, shaker cards, adding a rainbow...

When was the last time that you made a shaker card? I’m always surprised by how much joy an unexpected card, particularly a shaker card, can bring someone. This week, I was inspired to make a shaker card using the beautiful, new Elegant Window Fancy Die from the 2021 Holiday Catalog. This window die completely cuts out nine window panes and also makes some design...

Hi friends! I'm back today with a liquid watercolor tip for creating an underpainting with the new Skin Tone Liquid Watercolor Set. This is a stunning trio, and has a million possibilities in addition to beautiful skin tone ranges. I think that it can be intimidating to fill up white space anywhere - on your card, in an art journal, whatever. That blank page is...

Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful, since we've no place to go... wait, what? It's August and we're singing Christmas carols? Why yes we are! Because it may be a hot and sunny August day, but it's also the day we release the products from our wonderful 2021 Holiday Catalog! With over 65 new products to choose from, this...

Welcome back to our 2021 Holiday Catalog sneak peek party! The good news: just one day stands between you and the availability of all of these wonderful new holiday products. If you were waiting for the bad news, the only thing we can come up with is that it feels a bit too warm for hot chocolate at the moment. 😉 So grab your beverage...

Hello friends! Today we are excited to kick off our 2021 Holiday Catalog sneak peeks, leading up to the catalog reveal, product launch, and blog hop in just two days. That's right, on Wednesday, August 18 all of the season's newest products will be available at Hero Arts retailers and here in our online shop. Stay tuned to the blog today and tomorrow to preview...

Hi everyone! It's Mindy here with you today to share a rainbow shaker card for the Stay Crafty with Hero Challenge #26. For this challenge, you can include a rainbow image or a rainbow of color and I included both! While we would love for you to use Hero products, any and all entries are eligible. I'll be using the Rainbow Window Fancy Die for...

Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today sharing some rainbow inspiration featuring some of the latest products from the August 2021 release! I will admit that I am one of the few crafters who finds it difficult to create with rainbows. I think they're beautiful, and I adore what other people create with them, but (like critters) they're a little outside my wheelhouse, creatively-speaking....

Hi everybody! It's Maria here today and I've got a colorful stenciled card to share with you. I've combined some different and fun techniques to make the background using the Rays of Color Stencil then topped it off with the Love You Stamp & Cut XL and the Color Me Words stamp set. I started out with a watercolored background that I made using liquid...

Hi friends! Today we are sharing another installment of our monthly series, Celebrating Black Crafters, where we share artwork from Black artists who we'd love for you to get to know. Today our fabulous guest artist is Sheila Harper! Hello, I’m Sheila Harper, and I love making cards. My husband and I have two sons, one grandson and one granddaughter. Of course, I make cards...

Hello stampers! It's time to announce the winner from our August My Monthly Hero Release Day Blog Hop. Big thanks to everyone who participated, checked out the cards on the designers’ blogs, left lovely comments, and made this month's kit a success! If you haven't had a chance to grab your kit yet, we do still have a limited quantity available here. Our randomly selected...

Good morning! Jess here sharing five ways to add sparkle to your cards with a variety of fun products from Hero Arts! You can watch the video below or over on our YouTube channel. If you're having problems viewing the video please click HERE. To start I stamped the new Rainbow HeroScape with Hero Arts inks in Cotton Candy, Soft Cantaloupe, Soft Vanilla, Soft Pool,...

Today's post introduces the latest challenge from our friends over at A Blog Named Hero. We are so thankful for the support they give us, and the amazing creations the team creates. If you're looking for a fun challenge to play along with, check them out! Today team member, Kate, is sharing a few projects for their August challenge and they're fantastic! Hi! Kate here...

Hi crafty friends! It's time for another Stay Crafty With Hero challenge! This month we are challenging you to make rainbow cards! We want to see all of your bright and colorful rainbow creations, whether they include a rainbow color scheme or actual rainbow imagery! We'll include all of the details further down this post; but first, here's a beautiful card from Ilina to kick...

Hey everyone. It's Dana with you today. My card today features the newly released United People Bold Prints background stamp. I LOVE the design of this image and all the graphic lined faces. Let me share how this card came together. To begin, I stamped the image onto watercolor paper in Intense Black ink and heat set it with Clear Embossing Powder. I set the...

Hello and welcome to our August Awesome Add-ons feature. Before we dive into today's project inspiration, here’s a look at all of the exciting new add-ons that we've released along with the August My Monthly Hero Kit. Stamps, dies, stencils, liquid watercolors, paper – so much goodness that will have you dreaming up designs filled with color and made with heart! Shop for the August...

Hello, friends! It’s Channin here and today I’m creating a colorful watercolored card with the August 2021 My Monthly Hero Kit! In today’s video I will demonstrate how I created essentially 32 colors with just the three liquid watercolors included in the kit!! (If you are having trouble viewing this video, please try watching it HERE on YouTube.) To create this card I first stamped...

We invite you to color your world in friendship with our August release! Celebrate human connections, kindness, and the colors that make our world go 'round. Our main kit combines clear stamps, dies, a cling background and a stencil with primary colors in the form of Liquid Watercolors. You'll have everything you need to mix a rainbow of colors and create cards for all of...

It's almost time to launch the August My Monthly Hero kit – release is coming up today at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific! We hope you’ve enjoyed all of the ideas our team has shared for using this kit. As promised, we have one kit to give away to a lucky blog reader, selected from comments left on the Countdown to Creativity posts. We’ve randomly selected a...

It's a beautiful day for another round of countdown peeks! Let's take a look at three wonderful cards from our Creative Team before Monday's kit launch at 10am PT. For more details, you can follow the blog links provided below each photo, and don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win a kit too! Project #9 created by Pocono PamClick HERE to...

Color us happy to be able to share more August kit peeks with you today! Release day is coming up on Monday, August 2 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Our Creative Team is back with four fabulous cards that showcase lots of different elements from the kit. We've packed this one to the brim with a clear stamp set, a cling background, a stencil, dies, and...

Hello and happy Friday! August is just around the corner and you know what that means – it's almost time for a new My Monthly Hero Kit! The August kit and add-ons will be available on Monday, August 2 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. To kick off the countdown, our Creative Team is here with some top-notch card inspiration! Be sure to check out their blogs...

I've been hand feeding a squirrel named Clarence since March! And as it turns out, Clarence is a girl, and had two babies in the spring, who I also feed now! Clarence is the sweetest little squirrel, and sits right next to me to eat her little peanuts every day. So I'm bringing you an ADORABLE little Christmas Squirrel today! I used the gorgeous new...

Hello there, Michelle here and today I have a card to share with you using the Decorate A Cake set that I made in to a shaker card. I thought this would work perfectly with our current Stay Crafty With Hero Challenge, which is to make an interactive card. I started off my card by taking a panel of Dove White Cardstock and stamping the...

Summer is flying by so quickly, I want to embrace every minute of the warm weather and sunshine. In that spirit, today I’m sharing a pair of “sunny” summer cards that I made with some simple stenciling. I used the Clouds and Grass Scenic stencil and the Waves Scenic stencil to create two cards with different backgrounds and large suns. I’m hoping that these cards...

Hello! Daniel, here, with a bit about the Hero Arts Ink Blending Brushes. These versatile tools have a permanent place in my paper crafting arsenal. I like the white bristles, so I know exactly what ink color they hold. The handles flex with the strength you apply so you get the intensity of color application you want. I use them to create ink blended backgrounds...

Hello friends! Did you miss out on all of last weekend's Hero Summer Stamp-Along fun? We are excited to let you know we've decided to make the event available for replay access! Now you can join the Stamp-Along at your own pace with an all-access pass. You'll get:✔ Access to the private Hero Summer Stamp-Along Facebook group✔ 8 video classes taught by some of your...

Welcome everyone! It's Mindy here with you today to share a beautiful shaker card for the Stay Crafty With Hero Challenge #25. It's really easy to play along. All you need to do is create any type of shaking, flipping, sliding or special fold card to be eligible. While we would love to see you use Hero products, any and all entries are eligible. I...

Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I'm sharing a best wishes, and perhaps bon voyage, card featuring the Looking Glass Canyon Lands Dies from the Summer Catalog. I started off by using the Alignment Tool Stencil to position and temporarily tape each of the three dies in the set, with the same relative placement, over three 4.25" x 5.5" panels of white cardstock. I...

Good morning, Jessica Frost-Ballas here! It seems like wedding season is slowly coming back and you might be needing congratulations cards again! If so, hopefully this easy but elegant design will give you some inspiration. To start I took a piece of Classic Vellum Layering Paper cut to an A2 panel and tore each of the four sides. If you have a torn edge or...

Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here! Today we are celebrating the one year anniversary of the Unity Collection release - a collaboration with Hero Arts, Dana Joy and myself. Our collaboration is a pathway for everyone to see themselves in their art. Dana and I are honored Hero Arts invited us to work with them in a conscious effort to be intentionally diverse and inclusive. The...

Hi friends! Lydia here with a magical little fairytale forest video for you today. I thought that these gorgeous Mushrooms and Ferns Fancy Dies would look really neat as a stencil, so I kept the piece of watercolor paper I cut them out of and used a blending brush and Wet Cement ink to create a shadow background, and then watercolored the die cuts with...

Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today, and I have some vibrant projects for you featuring some of the newest (and some older!) products from this month's release. I love adding black accents to colorful card fronts. The stark contrast makes things look so polished and clean, in my opinion. Let's get started with the details on my projects! Both of my projects feature...

Hello everybody! It's Maria here and today I am sharing a bright galaxy card and sending you all some intergalactic fairy kisses! I started out by selecting a galaxy background that I made on a Hero Arts Live last week. I did a session all about creating galaxy backgrounds using Hero Arts mediums and you can check it out by clicking here. For this background,...

Hey everyone. It's Dana here with you today sharing some watercolor inspiration. I haven't played with my Hero Arts Liquid Watercolors recently so it was a great opportunity to break them out and get creative. To create my card I pulled out a piece of watercolor paper and stamped the image from the new Magical Forest stamp set in Intense Black Ink. Before the ink...