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We at Hero Arts wish you and your loved ones a Happy Thanksgiving! We are grateful for all of YOU and your continued support. May your Thanksgiving be warm with joy and filled with blessings! Housekeeping note: Hero Arts will be closed today and Friday. Customer service and shipping will resume on Monday, November 30. Happy Thanksgiving,

Good morning! We're back with another "Spotted!" feature and we have some fantastic creations to share with you. We are searching out Hero Arts creations and featuring some of our favorites each month. And the best part, one of our spotted features will receive a $25 gift card to the Hero Arts online shop! First up is this festive card from Kalyani! We love all...

Hello there! It's Seeka, and today I have a card featuring the sweet Color Layering Gingerbread House. This cute little house has four layers, one for the walls of the house, and three for the roof, windows, door, and trim. Think of all the color combinations you could use! I started off by stamping the house walls in Caramel Bold Ink onto Hero Hues Dove...

Hey there my friends! Daniel West here with a really fun set of gift tags featuring the Ornament Fancy Dies and Hero Arts embossing powders! The Ornament Fancy Dies come in Joy, Wish, Love and Cheer (not pictured). I made a video tutorial for you to accompany this post. You can watch it here: (If you are having trouble viewing this video, please try watching...

As we enter the holiday season, it is a time to give thanks to the people who matter most. We at Hero Arts are thankful for family, friends, and our wonderful customers. Your support and loyalty during this past year has meant the world to us. We wish you and yours peace, happiness and good health. Now through November 30, you are invited to shop...

Hi there crafting friends! It's Linda and I’m excited to be here today, to introduce the latest challenge on A Blog Named Hero. It’s heading towards the holiday season, so adding some sparkle will be right on time! For my card, I started with a plain white card base, then I took some texture paste and scraped it over the Glorious Petal Stencil. I then...

I haven’t even finished my Thanksgiving cards yet (SOON!!) when this assignment came along. I love working with word stamps, so let me show you a few ways to use them. I focused on Happy Holiday Mixed Font and Joy To The World Mixed Font woodblock stamps. I chose Ornament Peek-a-Boo Infinity Parts for my images. It’s hard for me to use non-traditional colors for...

It's time for another Stay Crafty With Hero challenge. With Thanksgiving in the US coming this month, we decided to make the theme Thank You Cards. This has been, without question, an incredibly difficult year. But one way to get through it is to think about all of the things you still have to be thankful for. Gratitude can lift spirits and help heal. And...

Welcome everyone! It's Mindy Eggen and today I'm sharing some inspiration with the Snowflake Swirl Bold Prints background stamp. Typically, you would see this stamped in some traditional winter sky colors but I thought I would change it up today for a fun holiday scene. I'm starting by stamping the Snowflake Swirl Bold Prints onto Hero Hues Premium Dove White cardstock cut to 4 1/4"x...

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...

Good morning! Jess here with a clean and simple ink-blended Christmas shaker! As we're headed into Christmas card crunch time, I thought I'd share a way to quickly create an interactive card! I started by blending Soft Pink, Stone Wash, and Navy ink onto Hero Hues Dove White cardstock with a blending brush. I kept my hand light for a soft background. I let it...

Good morning everyone. It's Dana Joy here with you today. For today's card we are going to do a little bit of stenciling using the new Woodland Forest stencil along with texture paste and Hero Arts inks. Watch the video below to see how this card came to be (or click HERE to watch on YouTube). To create my card I used the Woodland Forest...

Hello, crafty friends! It's Seeka and today I have a card featuring a dressed up Greenery Medallion die cut wreath. I love how beautiful this detailed wreath is! I began by die cutting the wreath from Dove White cardstock. Using a light teal-colored Copic marker, I quickly colored in the greenery, leaving the berries and the inner and outer frames white. Next, I added a...

Hey there! Daniel West here with an easy light effect for the lamppost in the Winter Woods HeroScape stamp set. I adore all of the HeroScape stamp sets and this one in particular. It features a a few snow shadow stamps that absolutely rock! The snow-laden trees could not layer more easily. Steps to Create this Card: To begin, I stamped out the lamppost image...

Although making and sending holiday cards is a priority right now, I love the idea of stretching holiday themed stamps for all occasions. Today, I’m sharing a pair of non-holiday cards made with the new Holiday Blessings sentiment set and the Christmas Rose Bold Prints stamp. For my first card, I started by stamping the beautiful Christmas Rose Bold Prints background onto a piece of...

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....

Hello stampers! It's time to announce the winner from our November 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! Our randomly selected winner will receive a $50 gift card to use in the Hero Arts online store. And the winner is... Henriette...

Hi everyone! Ilina here! Today I am playing along with our current Stay Crafty With Hero Challenge to create a slimline card. You still have 10 more days to enter for a chance to win a Hero Arts gift card! I decided to use the Tri-fold Edge Village Fancy Die set to create a tri-fold slimline card along with the Holiday Blessings set and the...

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...

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...

Hello friends! It's time to announce the winners from the third and final Favorites from the Vault giveaway! The 5 randomly chosen winners will each receive stamps and dies from the sold out October 2015 kit: • Shelly Robertson• Rebecca McKeon• Maresa Welke• Lynn Gauthier• Amy Armington Congratulations to all! Please send an email to info@heroarts.com to claim your prizes and include "Vault Winner" in...

Welcome to our November Awesome Add-ons feature! As you may know, along with each My Monthly Hero kit release, we introduce a handful of new add-on products that can be used with the kit or stand on their own. November's add-ons include a bit of everything for holiday and winter crafting -- clear stamps, Frame Cuts, Fancy Dies, cling background stamps, a stencil and even...

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...

Welcome to a winter wonderland! Inspired by beautiful linocut art, the November kit is wonderful for your holiday crafting, and beyond! The unique style will keep you stamping all winter long. The kit also introduces a fun new idea for stamping - masking dies! Easily layer your stamped images with the masking dies included in this month's kit. These dies work on their own, or...

It's almost time to launch the November 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...

Just one more day until our November kit is revealed! We can't wait to share it all with you on Monday, November 2 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. And of course we'll have some fabulous add-on products to go along with it! Now let's take a peek at some more inspiration from our Creative Team. For more details on their lovely projects, you can follow the...

Welcome back to the November My Monthly Hero countdown! Release day is coming up on Monday, November 2 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Our Creative Team is here to share another batch of beautiful cards today. You'll find even more detail about these projects on the designers' blogs - links provided below. Project #5 created by Debi AdamsClick HERE to visit her blog for more details....

Happy Friday and welcome to the first day of our November My Monthly Hero kit countdown! We are happy you're here and can't wait to share this fabulous release with you. The kit and add-ons will be available on Monday, November 2 at 1pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. Join us right here throughout the weekend for plenty of inspiration before the launch! We're also giving a...

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...

Hello friends! I’m Debi Adams and today I am featuring a couple of my favorite die-cutting sets from the new Hero Arts Winter Catalog... Paper Layering Poinsettia, Joy Ornament Fancy Die, and Gift Card Holder Fancy Die. Although Christmas colors are traditionally red and green, I like going outside of the box so I chose pink and aqua for my palette. I have a new...

Hi everyone! Ilina here. Christmas is my favorite time of the year for crafting and it's less than two months away, so today I am sharing a Christmas card with you using the new Christmas Folks stamp set, the coordinating Frame Cuts and the Holiday Graphic Pattern Bold Prints. To make the card start with a piece of Sand cardstock and stamp the background using...

Hello there, Michelle here and today I wanted to share an easily mass-producible holiday card with you using the Christmas Lights Border Fancy Die. In general terms, I do not mass produce cards. I maybe will make two of a card design and change up the colour, but that's it. However, for Christmas and the holidays, I find it easier to pick a couple of...

The minute I saw the new 5-Point Stars Infinity Dies, I knew I had to try making them into hanging, sculptural ornaments! How easy and fast these became my fall centerpiece. I already had a branch to decorate, but you can probably find them outside. Mine lights up, or you can add tiny “rice” lights that are battery operated. If you want, spray the branch...

Happy Saturday! We're back with our third and final Favorites from the Vault giveaway opportunity! During a recent warehouse cleaning session, we were happily surprised to find some hidden treasures -- a handful of past kit items. We gathered every last piece from a few select kits, and now you have a chance to win some SOLD OUT My Monthly Hero kit products! We may...

Hi friends! It's time for another Stay Crafty With Hero challenge. Have you tried the latest trend of making long, skinny cards referred to as "slimline" cards? We are seeing them everywhere, and they look like so much fun! So, we want to challenge you to make Slimline Holiday Cards! If you aren't familiar with slimline cards, they are generally sized to fit into a...

Good morning! Jess here with a card using one of my most favorite Bold Print stamps ever that just happens to pair beautifully with one of this month's add-ons, the Crowned Swan Fancy Die! I just love all the details of the Crowned Swan Fancy Die and I thought she'd be perfect for some die-cut inlaying! To start I die-cut the swan twice from Hero...