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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 comment from our Day...

Do you smell that? It's the smell of a freshly baked batch of cards from the kitchen! That's right...our Creative Team is back with one more day of May kit peeks before tomorrow's launch at 10am PT. For more details on their wonderful creations you can follow the blog links provided below each photo, and don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to...

Happy Saturday! What's cookin'? Our May My Monthly Hero kit countdown continues today with a second course of culinary creativity from our Creative Team. Just two days remain until the kit and add-ons launch on Monday at 10am PT! Don't forget to enter the giveaway at the end of this post, once you've feasted your eyes on these four delightful creations... Project #5 created by Debi AdamsClick HERE to...

Hello friends! We've been cooking up some creativity that we can hardly wait to share with you. Today the countdown to the May My Monthly Hero kit begins! The new kit and add-ons will be revealed and available for purchase on Monday, May 2 at 1pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. Ready? Grab your apron and take a look at some of the delicious cards our Creative Team has whipped up with the May kit....

Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here sharing a card showcasing the Script Thank You stamp.  I created a card inspired by my fellow Creative Team member Ilina Crouse. Did you see her beautiful Glittery Mother's Day card post here on April 11th? Her design and ink blended background inspired me to create a card for this month's Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero Challenge: "Blend It Up". The challenge encourages...

Hello there, Michelle here with a friendship card to share with you using Passing Clouds Bold Prints. This stamp can be used in lots of different ways and lots of different color combinations too! I have a love for blue and purple and thought it would make a nice dramatic sky. I started off my card by stamping Passing Clouds Bold Prints on to Dove...

Hello everyone. It's Dana here with you today. As Mother's Day approaches, it was time for me to create my Mother's Day cards. So let's see what I created using a few products from Hero Arts. My card today features the beautiful new Mother's Day Window Die and the Floral Border Fancy Die. These two products work wonderfully together. To start the card I die cut the...

Good morning and Happy Monday! Jess here with a simple and easy way to create a unique card design with endless customization options!  Watch the video below to see the full process or click HERE to watch on YouTube. To start I stamped the floral arrangement from Sweet as Honey onto a panel of Deluxe Smooth White cardstock using Navy ink. I inked the stamp and stamped it first on...

Did you know that Hero Arts offers a monthly card kit available exclusively at joann.com? It features a selection of carefully curated products that work together beautifully to create cards and projects. The April kit features a lovely mix of floral stamps, inks, cardstock and watercolor accessories to create cards sharing love and kindness with those special people in your life. Get a closer look at the...

Happy Earth Day! One of the many popular ways to celebrate Earth Day is to plant something - a flower, a tree, or even a garden. So today, I’m sharing a card inspired by a delightful, gardening background stamp. I’ve used the Veggie Medley Bold Prints stamp, filled with turnips, beets, peas, bell peppers, and onions, to make a fun, garden themed card for a...

Hey everybody! It's Maria here today and I've got a fun and easy way to "paint" the canvas on the Painting Easel woodblock stamp.  I started out by stamping the Easel on Luxe Watercolor Paper in INTENS-ified Black ink. Then I masked off the edges of the paper leaving only the easel's canvas exposed. I used my MISTI to stamp one of the stamps from the Meadow HeroScape onto...

Hi friends! Today we are here with an installment of our monthly series, CommUNITY, where we share artwork from artists who we'd love for you to get to know. CommUNITY is about embracing and honoring the creativity of individuals who are often underrepresented. By sharing art from a diverse group of creators, we hope to not only bring inspiration to this papercrafting community we all love...

Hi friends! I'm here with a springy wonderland and a fun look at some of the new Hero Tools that have just arrived in the Hero Arts shop. (Read to the end of this post and watch the video to learn more!) This is a really simple project to make, but it really gives a fun new twist on emboss resist cards.  I stamped the whimsical Flowers and...

With this post we are launching a new feature on the blog - From the Mind of Milagros! Milagros Rivera is the owner of a store in Puerto Rico called Paper Boutique. We are always amazed and inspired by what she does with Hero Arts products. We hope you will enjoy getting a little glimpse into her creative process, as she thinks outside the box - or in...

Happy Spring, Passover, Easter, Coachella and Cora Traidman’s 7th Birthday weekend!!! That's a lot to celebrate! The Hero frames really come in handy and I thought I would try to use them in a way you might not have thought of. By using Looking Glass Fine Art Frame on a diagonal it completely changes the look. I die cut it from Papaya cardstock, and put an Azalea mat inside of...

Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today, and I have some inspiration using one of the brand new sets from the April release! I was inspired by our fearless leader, the purple-loving Libby, to use lots of different shades of purple on this whimsical Mother's Day Vase image, but I kept the background seamless with lots of white cardstock. Let's get started with the details! ...

Hey there! Daniel, here, with a simple stenciled background to help bring attention to the focal point of your project. The Flower Circle Stencil features a ring of flowers around an empty center. This design leaves a great place to add a sentiment as I have done on my card today. To begin, I sprayed my stencil with some Pixie Spray and let it sit for a...

Good morning! Jess here with a simple but elegant card featuring the beautiful new Floral Mandala stamp set! To start I stamped the two largest designs from Floral Mandala onto Nautical and Dove White cardstock with Embossing & Watermark Ink and heat-embossed it with Brass Embossing Powder. Then I die-cut them with the coordinating dies and adhered them together with Precision Glue.  I also stamped a sentiment from Floral...

Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I'm sharing a card featuring an image from the sweet new Mother and Father Animals stamp set and some very easy masking for a clean and simple thank you card. I started off with the sweet kitty image by stamping it in Copic-friendly Intense Black ink onto Dove White cardstock. Then I did some very simple coloring, first solidly coloring the image using a...

Hello stampers! It's time to announce the winner from our April 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 winner will receive a $50...

Hi everyone! Ilina here! Today I am sharing Mother's Day card and a video using the new Mother's Day Window Die in a non-traditional way, along with some Iridescent EarthSafe Glitter and the Daisy Mosaic Stencil. To make the card, start by dry embossing piece of Dove White cardstock with the Daisy Mosaic Stencil. Tip: For a more prominent impression, I spray the cardstock with water before running...

Hello! The new April challenge at Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero begins today, and the theme is "Blend It Up" – in other words, we'd like you to use ink blending. You can use a brush, a foam tool, even your fingers if you like! As long as it involves some kind of ink blending, it qualifies. Here's some inspiration from our design team...

Hello crafty friends! It's Mindy with you today to share inspiration using the beautiful new Flowers and Swirls Bold Prints stamp. You know what one of my favorite ways to create backgrounds is right now? Using a rubber brayer. I like creating with my gel press and all but I found I liked the scratch paper I was cleaning my brayer on more then the background sometimes. Here's...

Hi friends! Welcome to our Awesome Add-ons feature for the month of April. If you haven't had a chance to check out the new add-ons introduced on Monday along with the April My Monthly Hero Kit, we've got you covered today. It is said that April showers bring May flowers, but we're so glad that April has brought its own flowers and other springtime wonders. See for yourself...! Shop for the...

Hello friends! It’s Channin here and today we are going to get inky with a faux watercoloring technique featuring the new April My Monthly Hero Kit! Watch the video below to see how I create a splashy watercolored background with the included stencils from this month’s kit and then add depth to the images with shadows and highlights. Watch below or HERE on the Hero Arts YouTube channel....

Our fun and floral April My Monthly Hero kit is a celebration of spring as well as the amazing people in all of our lives. It features a gorgeous cling background with bees and flowers. Three layering stencils make the coloring process easy; simply pair them with the inks and blending brush included in the kit, and you'll quickly have cards in fresh spring colors. Combine...

It's almost time to launch the April 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 comment from our Day 2...

The weekend has flown by and it's already time for our final countdown post before the April My Monthly Hero release on Monday! Tune in at 10am PT tomorrow for the big reveal of the new kit along with a host of wonderful add-ons, all highlighted in an inspiration-filled blog hop. Our Creative Team once again has the blog blooming with beautiful projects. Stop and smell the roses......

Hello and welcome to day two of the April My Monthly Hero countdown! Are you ready for another round of beautiful kit inspiration before the reveal and launch on Monday? Get a load of these floral delights from the Creative Team and click on the links below the photos for additional details! (Don't forget to comment at the end for a chance to WIN a kit...

Happy Friday...happy April...happy almost-kit-time! A new month is here and we are super excited to kick off the countdown to the April release. The newest My Monthly Hero kit and add-ons will be revealed and available for purchase on Monday, April 4 at 1pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. Let's wander through the garden and take a peek at some of the amazing cards our Creative Team...

Hello and welcome! Today we are hopping with many of our friends from the papercraft industry to show our support for Ukraine. The hop was organized by sweet Katia, from Studio Katia. The majority of her family is from Ukraine, and the situation there has been quite overwhelming for her, as you might imagine. We want to send our love to her as well as the...

Hi everyone! Ilina here today! Have you checked out the Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero Challenge for this month? The theme this month is Send a Hug, so I decided to make a card and send some hugs to someone. Let's be honest, we all can use a hug these days (and any day). For my card I combined the Hearts & Blossoms Cover Plate and the Peace...

Hello everyone! It's Maria here and today I have a glitzy, blinged out card to share with you. I started with a piece of A2 sized Pitch Black cardstock and I used my Abstract Frames Stencil to apply Glitter Hero Paste to it with a palette knife. This new Glitter Paste looks so cool on black cardstock! I set my background aside to let it dry...

Good morning everyone. It's Dana here with you today. Let's make a beautiful card doing some loose watercoloring on the Magnolia Branches Cover Plate. This cover plate makes one stunning card. You can view the video tutorial below or HERE on the Hero Arts YouTube channel.    I started out the card by die cutting the Magnolia Branches Cover Plate using the new Luxe White Watercolor Paper. This...

Good morning friends! Today we're sharing some creative March My Monthly Hero inspiration from our phenomenal Global Team! Erica used the trapped ink technique with the March My Monthly Hero kit and Reactive ink cubes to get those gorgeous bright splatters with that bold black background! She kept the rest of her card simple to put the emphasis on that colorful design. Lisa also used the March My Monthly...

Hi friends! I'm here today with a fun, easy, layered mixed media card. Layering makes the details on your cards so, so interesting, so let's walk through the layers on today's card.  I started by smooshing Fog and Purple Galaxy Reactive Inks onto my glass mat and stamping the image from Artichoke Blooms in Fog as well.  I used a waterbrush and the smooshed ink to color the artichoke....