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Good morning! Emily here with you today for my first video for Hero Arts! For my very first post on the Hero Arts blog, I worked with my Prismacolor colored pencils on the Hero Arts Layering Papers and discovered that the papers work beautifully with pencils. The coating on the top of the paper allows the pencils to blend like butter, because the color stays...

Hello Hero Arts fans! Welcome back for another episode of the Color Layering video series! In this video & episode I am taking a closer look at a brand new Armadillo set! This time in addition to stamping my layering images to color them I also used coloring mediums to show different ways you can use your layering stamps. Watch the video tutorial below to...

Hi everyone! Ilina here today with a couple of cards using the new Art Deco Thank You Kit.  To create the cards you will need the kit, along with a few other supplies, such as Snow, Black  and Pool layering papers and note cards, Versamark ink pad, some pencils and blue gemstones. Watch the video below to see how these two cards were made, or...

Good morning, Jess here! Last month I shared several ways to use Hero Arts liquid watercolors on Yupo paper. You can find that post here. I had several requests to create a video with this technique so here it is using products from our 2018 Summer Catalog! I also have a video showing you how to use this technique.  You can watch the video below...

Welcome back for another episode of the Color Layering with Yana video series! In each one of my monthly videos I explore different ink pad and embossing powder color options for Hero Arts Color Layering sets and will hopefully inspire you to stamp! In this video I am taking a closer look at the Color Layering Caterpillar set. Hold your horses and don't click away just yet...

Happy Monday! It's May here with a fun shaker card featuring the Fresh Herbs Stamp Set, Thanks Stamp & Cut, and Champagne Sequin Mix.  I made a video tutorial to show you how to make this card from start to finish. You can watch it above or in HD on YouTube.  I started by ink blending the colors using Pink to Red Ombre Ink, Cotton Candy Ink, and Strawberry Bold...

Mother's Day is right around the corner, and if you are like me, you have more than one person to celebrate! Today, I am sharing a video tutorial on how I loosely watercolored our Flowering Nasturtium and Old World Courtyard die cut to create a card that expresses just how much they are appreciated. With a little patience and Smooth Bristol paper, anyone can tackle...

Hey there, and happy Monday! Today I'm sharing two quick watercolored cards using the Welcome Neighbor stamp set. The quirkiness of the houses lend themselves to quick, one layer cards and fast watercoloring! Watch how I did so in the video below... If you have trouble with the video above you can try this link HERE to watch in HD on YouTube. For the first...

Welcome back for another episode of the Color Layering with Yana video series! In each one of my monthly videos I explore different ink pad and embossing powder color options for Hero Arts Color Layering sets and will hopefully inspire you to stamp! In this video I am taking a closer look at the Color Layering Elephant set! Hero's recommended color combo for the Elephant set is...

Hello there, Michelle here and today and I am creating a cute scene using the Woodland Tea Party stamp set and coordinating Frame Cuts. I am creating a background for my card with Bold Inks and using different layers to create dimension.  I have created a video showing how I made the card, which you can see below: If you are having trouble viewing this...

Hi everyone! This is Lydia Fiedler, and I'm thrilled to be a guest on the Hero Arts blog today, talking to you about my favorite thing in the universe - watercolor. I know a lot of people are intimidated by watercolor, but in my opinion, it's actually the most forgiving art medium, and it's also so easy to use when you are out and about,...

Hi everyone, Ilina here today today with a fun interactive card and a video tutorial for you. For my card today I decided to transform 2-D die cuts into interactive pop-up elements. I started the card by creating the center pop up first, and then the front of my card. To create the pop-up in the middle of my card I used the Dragonfly Fancy...

Welcome back for another episode of the Color Layering with Yana video series! In each one of my monthly videos I explore different ink pad and embossing powder color options for Hero Arts Color Layering sets and will hopefully inspire you to stamp! In this video I am taking a closer look at a brand new Color Layering Nasturtium set! This set has 4 separate...

Hero Arts believes in investing in and supporting the communities in which we all live, especially when they are most in need, such as when tragedy hits. Given the number of recent natural disasters, we have expanded our series of Destination stamps to commemorate and honor some of the places impacted, including Puerto Rico, Florida, Napa Valley and Mexico. Hero Arts will donate 100% of...

Good morning and Happy Monday! Today I'm sharing a few cards using a technique I like to call impressionistic stamping with liquid watercolors and a few Bold Prints background stamps! The new liquid watercolors blend beautifully and this technique lets the paint do all the work for you!I also have a video showing you how to create this look.  You can watch the video below...

Welcome back to the 5th episode of the Color Layering with Yana video series! In each one of my monthly videos I explore different ink pad and embossing powder color options for Hero Arts Color Layering sets and will hopefully inspire you to stamp! In this video I am taking a closer look at one of my personal favorite sets - the Color Layering Mangrove....

Have you checked out my Valentine's Day card that I created using the Window On Love Confetti Fancy Die for January 2018 My Monthly Hero blog hop? This time I wanted to use the die as my stencil to create another Valentine's Day card. After applying some embossing paste over my paper stencil, I heat embossed the stenciled background using gold embossing powder. I stamped the images from the Love Birds Stamp...

Hello there and welcome to Monday on the Hero Arts blog! Today, I'm sharing some tips on blending ink backgrounds with Hero Arts inks, featuring the adorable Stealing My Heart thieves. Before I started blending my background, I stamped and colored the thieves using ZIG Clean Color Real Brush pens. I then placed them over a cardstock panel I had trimmed down to 4x5.5, and used them to get...

Hello there and welcome to Monday on the Hero Arts blog! Today, I am sharing flick style coloring with pencils featuring the blissful Bouquet wood mount stamp. As wedding season draws near I'm working on building my stash of congratulatory cards. I have zero in my stash. My mojo goes out the window when I "need" to create so working ahead and leaving the inside...

Welcome back to the 4th episode of the Color Layering with Yana video series! In each one of my monthly videos I explore different ink pad and embossing powder color options for Hero Arts Color Layering sets and will hopefully inspire you to stamp! In this post and video I'm taking a closer look at the Color Layering Rose stamp set and I have several...

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...

Good morning! Jess here with a video tutorial using inked stencil and dry embossing to create a faux letterpress look for your holiday cards!   I started by inking the Festive Star and Bauble stencil with Silver Shimmer Delicata ink. Then I placed the stencil onto an A2 card panel ink side down and ran it through my die-cutting machine using an embossing pad instead of...

I can't believe that Christmas is almost a month away. If you are like me, you haven't finished your Christmas cards. I always think there is time, and then I realize Christmas is month away and most of my family lives in Europe, so cards take forever to get there.  Today I am exploring different looks of white on black backgrounds using the Christmas Poster...

It's no secret that Hero Arts Color Layering stamp sets are very popular! They are a favorite of mine as well - each set is always expertly designed and has everything a stamper needs to create a stunning hand-stamped card.  Welcome back to the 2nd episode of the Color Layering with Yana video series! In each one of my monthly videos I will explore different...

Have you started making your holiday cards? Today I have a fun winter holiday shaker card to inspire you all, combining 6 different stamp sets.  I created my background by ink blending with 4 colors of Distress inks. To give a feeling of snow falling, I added some ink splatters with Hero Arts Unicorn White Spray to my inked background.  I stamped my images from the following stamp sets: Santa’s...

I used to love making shaped cards, so when I saw the beautiful Fir Tree Infinity die set, I just knew I had to use them for that! Watch the how-to below...   (If you are having problems viewing this video, please try watching it HERE in HD on You Tube) I started by heat embossing the Holiday Florals Bold Prints background in White on green...

Hello there, Michelle here. I love stencils! They are really versatile. You can ink blend through them, spray through them and you can even use them to emboss. Which is what I am sharing with you today. I am sharing two clean and simple cards that show how adding embossing to the background, really brings the cards together. You can see in the video here,...

Hero's Color Layering sets have been favorites of mine for years. I am always anxiously looking forward to a new release to see what new sets there are for us to play with.  That being said I'm very excited to introduce a new, special feature for the Hero Arts blog and YouTube channel called "Color Layering with Yana". In each one of my monthly videos I...

Good morning! Jess here to share a card using the Joseph's Coat technique with the Sugar Skulls set and ombre ink pads! I made a video tutorial showing how I created this card.  If you’re having a problem viewing the video below, please try watching it HERE on our YouTube channel! This is an old technique but one that I think gets forgotten and I really love...

I like to think outside the box and stretch my stamps to create projects that go beyond cards. When I saw the little hanging ornaments in the catalog I fell in love with them and thought that along with the Winter Silhouettes stamp set they are match made in Heaven. The images from the Winter Silhouettes fit perfectly in the ornament to create cute winter...

Hello there, Michelle here and today I have a card to share using the Zodiac Birthday stamp set which was released as an add-on for the August My Monthly Hero kit. I started off by taking a piece of paper from the Pool Mix Layering Papers collection and die cut this using the 5th largest die from the Rectangle Infinity Dies set. I then took all of...

Hello, Jess here with a yummy sweet card to celebrate National Ice Cream month! I’m featuring the Color Layering Ice Cream set along with the Marble Bold Prints background stamp! Watch the video tutorial below to see how I created my card! If you have problems viewing the video please try watching it on YouTube. To […]

Hello there, Michelle here and I have a fun kindness card to share with you today. I am using the A Bit Of Kindness Fancy Die as my main focal point, along with the Heart Pattern Bold Prints to create a fun background. I started off by stamping the Heart Pattern Bold Prints on to […]

Hello, it’s May here with a fun monster card. To create my own scene, I used the Monster Greetings Stamp + Die Combo combining masking and ink blending techniques. After stamping the sentiment with Intense Black ink, I masked off the areas with some scrap paper and applied Soft Granite ink with mini ink blending tool. I […]