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Hello! Today I'm sharing a heart framed scene card with the Love Birds Stamp & Cut images and Nesting Hearts Infinity Dies. Watch the video below to see how I created both die cut and embossed heart frames with the Nesting Hearts Infinity Dies as well as how I did a little creative masking to the birds to appear to be "sitting" on the branch...

Good morning! Jess here with my first post for 2019! Today I'm going to show you a fun way to triple stamp a solid image using the Love Little Heart wood block stamp! To start I placed a piece of white cardstock in my MISTI and held it in place with a bar magnet. Then I placed the Love Little Heart stamp where I wanted to stamp it....

Oh dear me… I was assigned to work with heart stamps… my true LOVE. Of course ideas flooded my mind so I created three quick cards today! I was inspired by a recent trip to Japan, where design is minimal and simple. No wonder I loved every single minute! I'll start with the letter of love card. I stamped a piece of paper in Red...

Good morning! Jess here with a cutesy Valentine's card featuring our adorable Love Bandit set with a cheeky sentiment from I Love How You! There's only one house "chore" that I'm really reluctant to do and that's taking out the trash...I don't know, for some reason I just really don't like to do it. But thankfully my husband has decided it's best not to argue...

Good morning! Jess here using products from our new Valentine's collection for a modern New Year's card! I've enjoyed binge-making Christmas cards for the last few weeks but it was definitely refreshing to make a non-Christmas card today! I knew I wanted to make a tone on tone background but I wanted to make sure the sentiment would be visible. So I decided to spray...

If you are lucky enough to be on vacation today, perhaps you'd like to make some valentine cards. I'm sharing a pair of cards that feature several of the new, heart-shaped sentiment stamps. I really like how these love themed stamps can be paired with a heart die to create fun, sentiment panels for anniversary, wedding and valentine cards. To make my first card, I...

One of my favorite stamp sets from the new 2018 Valentine's Collection has the wonderfully fun name I Love You More Than Pizza. This little message set has LOTS of great uses. One is making little “love” notes out of tiny cards or tags. I began by die cutting several tags and envelopes out of paper scraps, and fancied them up with circles and eyelets…...

Well, only 4 days until Christmas. Are you ready? The days have flown by and I just didn't get all the cards sent out that I wanted to. As I popped my last cards in the mail on Monday, I know I need to make more postal friendly designs. I'm going to move on to Valentine's Day and hopefully make up for the cards that didn't get sent...

Hello there, Michelle here and today I am using the new Otter Family Stamp & Cut. What an adorable set! I thought it would be fun to create an alcohol ink background for my little guy to swim in. I started off with a piece of Yupo paper and applied Copic Refill ink on to the piece in three blue shades. I then applied some...

I love finding ways to get color in my stamped images without actually doing much coloring. Today's giraffe pair is just one way to do that! I stamped the new Loving Giraffes in Rose Madder on watercolor cardstock. I then added a light wash of pink using a pale pink ZIG brush and some water. And ta-da! All colored! I added a little more color...

Today I incorporated the shaped stamping technique into my Valentine's Day card. I started by drawing a heart shape on a piece of white cardstock with a pencil as a guide.  Then I stamped various images from following stamp sets: Cherubs, Love Notes, Love, and Peace. FYI, I used following inks for my stamping: Butter Bar, Lime Green, Fresh Peach, Tide Pool, Wet Cement. I added tiny dots using a tip of alcohol markers between my...

Today is an exciting day here at Hero Arts - we are launching our brand new Valentine's Collection in the Hero Arts store. It is the time that most of us are focused on the busy December holidays but Valentine's Day will be here before you know it! And you'll be looking for some fabulous new products for creating your Valentine's Day projects. To get...