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It's almost time to launch the June 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 almost time! The June My Monthly Hero kit launches tomorrow at 10am PT right here on heroarts.com. We can hardly wait to show you everything that's new this month! Get ready for loads of creative options for making birthday cards with the June kit and add-ons. Before we start counting down the hours until launch, our Creative Team is back to share four paws-itively...

Who's ready for a second round of countdown peeks? The new June My Monthly Hero kit will be available to order on Monday, June 7 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Yesterday the cats were the first to arrive at the party, and today some playful pups have showed up to add to the fun! Check out these adorable cards from the Creative Team and get more...

Hello and welcome as we begin the countdown to the release of the June My Monthly Hero Kit! The new kit and add-ons will be available on Monday, June 7 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. What do you say we get this "paw-ty" started with four adorable cards from our Creative Team? Be sure to visit each of their blogs (linked below), where you can find...

Hi everybody! It's Maria here and today I've got a fun card with a mixed media background to share with you. I wanted to use the new Art Deco Arches Stencil to create my background. I grabbed a piece of white cardstock and a bottle of Eggplant (purple) gloss spray. I sprayed my stencil (not the paper through the stencil, just the stencil itself) with...

When I was in high school, I had an outfit that was SO 80s-tastic that I'd wear it today if I still had it! For all you young peeps - the clothing store to end all clothing stores in the 80s was Benetton, and we had one in our tiny mall. I would save up the money I made working at McDonald's for $3/hour and...

Hi everyone and welcome back! This is Mindy here today to share with you a fun emboss resist technique using the Gel Press. I've done a few videos myself using the gel press and this is a new technique that I recently learned from Jennifer McGuire that I thought would look amazing with the Fireworks Bold Prints background stamp. If you are not familiar with...

Many thanks to everyone who joined us for the Summer Catalog Blog Hop! We appreciate you taking time to check out the new collection and of course all of the wonderful projects in the hop. We hope you came away with lots of inspiration for Summer stamping! As promised, we are giving away $50 Hero Arts gift cards to three lucky winners:• Jennifer Mitten, who...

Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I'm sharing two cards featuring the Barrel Waves HeroScape stamp set and coordinating dies (also available as a combo). With just a simple swap of colors, it's easy to change up this fun scene to fit any mood or time of day! For my first card, a daytime scene, I began by placing the large wave layer stamp...

Hey there friends! Daniel, here, with a birthday card any guy would enjoy. It features the new Looking Glass Canyon Lands Dies in a tri-fold setup. Watching Jennifer McGuire's video on using these Looking Glass line of dies inspired me to move beyond my basic single fold card to try a more complex set up. It looks hard but proved quite easy to accomplish. Supplies...

We loved reading all of your comments during our 2021 Summer Catalog sneak peeks last week! Big thanks to everyone who stopped by to check out the new collection. There's still time to enjoy the Summer Catalog Blog Hop so be sure to check it out if you haven't and get yourself into the drawing for more prizes! Here are the sneak peek winners, randomly...

Are you participating in the current Stay Crafty with Hero Challenge? I love participating in card challenges as I like the idea of using a given theme, provided by someone else, as inspiration. This month’s theme, Fun in the Sun, is a perfect opportunity to use your favorite summer supplies, anything that reminds you of fun and sunshine. Today I’m sharing a pair of sun-inspired...

Good morning everyone. It's Dana Joy with you today. Let's switch up our card design using only one stamp. The new Hero Arts Floral Strawberries Line Art is perfect for this kind of technique. Just a little bit of masking paper and your design will be totally new. For my cards today I'm going to share a card that is in the Hero Arts Summer...

Good morning! Jess here with a video featuring the new Color Layering Orca set and some bright and cheery ink blending for a fun ocean scene! 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 layers of the Color Layering Orca with Charcoal, Intens-ified Black, and Contour...

Hi everyone! Ilina here! I hope you are excited about the Summer Catalog as much as I am. I am so excited about the new selection of Looking Glass Dies and today I decided to use the Looking Glass Day or Night set and show you how changing the colors you use will change the look of your card. For my first card I used...

Today we are thrilled to introduce you to the Hero Arts 2021 Summer Catalog! There are over 50 new products in this release, including fun new Looking Glass Dies, and additions to our popular HeroScape, Color Layering and Hero Lifestyle lines. We are ready for some summertime fun in the craft room, and we're excited for you to see what's new! The catalog itself is...

Hello friends! It's time for our third and final sneak peek before tomorrow's 2021 Summer Catalog launch and we have a burst of sunshine headed your way. Here comes the sun! Whether you're stenciling, stamping or die cutting, we have some fun new designs that will bring sunny vibes to all of your projects. Let's start with the cheerful card on the left. This entire...

Hello and welcome back to our Summer Catalog sneak peek extravaganza. Click here if you missed the first peek yesterday and read on for another chance to win a gift card! Let's shift gears from stamps to dies. How about a look at some fantastic new dies that our Creative Team has fallen in love with? Our Looking Glass Die collection is growing and today...

Our new Summer Catalog is coming soon -- this Thursday, May 20, to be exact! Today we're "berry" excited to kick off three days of sneak peeks leading up to Thursday's catalog reveal, product launch, and blog hop. Stay tuned to the blog this week to see the newest of the new, as well as a gift card GIVEAWAY each day! We can't think of...

Who knew I could create a sandy, underwater scene while stamping in the desert?? All you need are the new aquatic stamps and dies from the May release! And a bit of my backyard desert sand for the perfect prop! Let’s begin with die cutting the Swirling Tide Border Fancy Die from Mist cardstock. Put a card base created from Paradise cardstock under it. Stamp...

How about both? Hi there! Emily Midgett here today sharing a card with almost no stamping, but lots of color and dimension using the new Looking Glass Underwater Reef dies. Let's get started with the details! I began by die cutting all three windows from the Looking Glass Underwater Reef dies from the center of three pieces of A2 cardstock in shades of Mist, Paradise,...

Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here with you today sharing a seashell shaker - say that 5 times fast - I created showcasing the In a Pinch clear stamp set. The images, sentiments and coordinating Frame Cuts are perfect for sea-themed cards, scrapbook pages and other paper projects. To create my card, I die-cut a circle onto a 3 3/4” X 5” Dove White cardstock card...

Hi friends! I'm here today with a video showing you how to use our new Looking Glass Dies with one of the nifty Alignment Tool Stencils. This tool lets you perfectly align every Looking Glass Die set for your cards and is available in two sizes: A2/A6 and slimline. These dies create dimensional, layered scenes that are just so stunning, and for my project today...

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 Mirisha Dean! I have been a faithful crafter for as long as I can remember. Growing up in Virginia, my first project was sewing by hand, which was...

Hello stampers! It's time to announce the winner from our May 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...

Hello there, Michelle here with a card using the new Hero Lifestyle Mermaid dies. These work with the Hero Lifestyle Forms Fancy Dies to create merpeople. I created a mermaid today but you could create a merman too! I started off my card by creating the mermaid. I die cut the body from the Hero Lifestyle Forms Fancy Dies using Antique Ivory Cardstock (cutting off...

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 beautiful creations the team creates. If you're looking for a fun challenge to play along with, check them out! Today team member Meg is sharing a project for their May challenge and it is stunning! Hello everyone! My...

Who's ready for summer and a little Fun in the Sun? We sure are. So we've made it the theme of our next challenge! You can interpret this theme however you'd like - any sort of imagery that makes you think of sunshine, summer, having fun - you name it! We'll include all of the challenge details further down this post, but first, here's a...

Welcome everyone! This is Mindy here with you today to share some inspiration using the new Nautilus Pattern Bold Prints background stamp on your cards. There are many different techniques but I will be focusing on just one in particular. In fact, I was able to create five different cards with this technique and could have done more! I have a video showing you step-by-step...

It's time for our Awesome Add-ons feature for the month of May! Have you had a chance to check out the new add-ons introduced on Monday along with this month's kit? There's an ocean of creative possibilities with all of these stamps, dies and stencils. We're also excited to introduce a brand NEW product collection -- Looking Glass Dies and coordinating alignment tools that double...

Hello friends! It's Channin here and today I’m creating a gateway fold card with the May 2021 My Monthly Hero Kit. In today’s video I will demonstrate how to use partial die-cutting to create a custom card base as well as how I Copic color many images from the kit’s stamp set! You can watch the video below or HERE on the Hero Arts YouTube...

With our May My Monthly Hero release, we're offering you a healthy dose of "vitamin sea"! The large 6x8 clear set will take you on an inky trip to a coral reef, featuring some of the most beautiful creatures to inhabit the ocean depths. There are also matching dies for the images in the kit as well as two of our most popular inks. Intens-ified...

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

Hello friends, we're so happy to "sea" you here for the final day of the May kit countdown. Just one more day until the kit and add-ons launch at 10am PT on Monday, May 3! A new round of cards also means another giveaway opportunity, so be sure to leave a comment below (one per person) to get your name in the drawing for a...

Hello and welcome back to the May My Monthly Hero countdown! Release day is coming up on Monday, May 3 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Our Creative Team is here to share another round of "fintastic" cards today. You'll find even more detail about these projects on the designers' blogs - links provided below. Project #5 created by Channin PelletierClick HERE to visit her blog for...

Hello and welcome as we begin the countdown to the release of the May My Monthly Hero Kit! The kit and add-ons will be available on Monday, May 3 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. We're excited to dive right in and share four amazing cards from our Creative Team with you today! Be sure to visit each of their blogs (linked below), where you can find...