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Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today, and I have a twofer featuring the new Love and Florals Fancy Dies! These new dies are so much fun, giving you the option to create custom sentiments, sentiment or shaker windows, and adding the delicate little florals to help accent the sentiment. I have created two different cards with two different techniques, so let's get started...

It's time for our Awesome Add-ons feature for the month of January! Have you had a chance to check out the new add-ons introduced on Monday along with this month's kit? The creative possibilities are endless with this lovely collection – stamps, dies, stencils, hot foil plates, and even rub-ons! We can't wait to see what you'll create with them! Shop for the January MMH...

Hello friends!! It’s Channin here and today I create a fun and EASY interactive card with the new January 2023 My Monthly Hero Kit. Check out the video below and/or read the following post to learn how I use the matchbox dies to create an opening box that reveals a fun surprise. Watch below or HERE on the Hero Arts YouTube channel. To create this...

With Valentine's Day right around the corner, the January My Monthly Hero Kit celebrates the "perfect match". The centerpiece of this kit is dies to create a faux matchbox, which lies flat on your card or project and can be decorated and filled with the numerous stamps and dies included in the kit. But don't stop there, let your imagination go wild with all of...

Welcome to 2023! The Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero challenge is back for another year, with a brand new challenge theme. (Yes, we're a bit earlier than usual, to give you plenty of time to join in!) This month is "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". We want to see Valentine's cards, hearts, cupids, anything related to love! Here's some inspiration from our design...

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...

Hey, everybody! It's Maria here and I am so excited that I get to share some really special products with you today. What makes them so special? Well, once a year we all get to vote for our favorite My Monthly Hero kit from the previous year. Once the votes are tallied the most popular kit gets brought back so that we can all get...

Spread some love to those special people in your life with a sweet handmade Valentine's Day card! Today I have two cards to share using some of the wonderful products from the January release. The first card features the adorable Flower Girls stamp set. I stamped the sweet little girl holding a heart bouquet on watercolor paper and colored the image with Zig Clean Color...

Good morning! Jess here with a cheery card and a reminder that you CAN cut your stamps to customize a sentiment. I promise it won't hurt them! I started my card by blending Pale Tomato, Soft Apricot, and Butter Bar ink onto an A2 panel of Dove White cardstock with Blending Brushes. I concentrated my blending on the top half of my panel as I...

I love HEARTS! I think the whole world knows that! And this month I took pleasure in maxing out the Nesting Hearts Infinity Dies. I tried using them in many ways! I will chat about all of these but give you instructions for a few. The others are easily replicated by looking at them!! My first and favorite is the “cut out hearts” on a...

Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today, and I have some Valentine inspiration to share with you using some of the new goodies from the January release. I used my colored pencils with the Key To My Heart stamp and die bundle to create this intense, tone-on-tone project with Pitch Black cardstock. Let's get started with the details! I began by embossing several of...

Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here today sharing a card I created showcasing the new Chain Linked Fence and Locks Fancy Dies. My card came together quickly and would make a perfect Valentine's Day card! To begin, I adhered a 4" x 5.25" Cherry cardstock panel onto an A2 card base. Next, I adhered a 3.75" x 5.25" Pitch Black cardstock panel onto the Cherry cardstock....

Hey everyone. It's Dana here with you today and I'm going to show you how to use the new Peonies Bunch stamp set and the Color Layering Peonies Bunch Stencils. Working with these stencils will help you make stunning cards with very little work. If you are having trouble viewing this video, please try watching it HERE on YouTube.) To start this card I stamped...

Hey, everybody! It's Maria here and today I get to share a really fun and easy way to make a card. As I was putting my card together I was in a little bit of a hurry but I still wanted to make a card that had a wow factor to it. Cover Plate dies to the rescue! Hero Arts has so many gorgeous cover...

Hello there, Michelle here and happy New Year to you. Today I am here to share a card and video using the Looking Glass Heart dies. These are so fun because you can use all three layers, one, two or a combination. I love when products are so versatile. For my card today, I am using all three layers. Here is the video showing how...

Hey everyone. It's Dana here with you today. I'm sharing a card using the Looking Glass Girl With Balloon die set. This set is so pretty and makes a wonderful layered look for your cards. For my card I used I started by die cutting the three layers. The first layer was die cut from Cherry cardstock. The second layer was die cut from the...

Hi everybody! It's Maria here and today I've a got a fun, out-of-the-box Valentine's Day card to share with you. I think it can be really fun to look at the stamp sets I have and figure out how to create a unique card instead of a more traditional one. For today's card I started out with the new Water Ripples Bold Prints background stamp....

Good morning and Happy Thursday! Jess here with some sparkly tone on tone inspiration for you today! I love how this card turned out but it was not easy to photograph. I wish you could see all the sparkles in person! Anyway, I started by stamping the Abstract Honeycomb Bold Prints background cling stamp onto Pitch Black cardstock with Embossing & Watermark ink. Then I...

Good morning everyone. It's Dana and Pam with you today sharing cards made with the Floral Love stamp set and coordinating Floral Love Frame Cuts. We had so much fun creating our take on this stamp set. Working with the 2021 Pantone Colors Of The Year of gray and yellow, Pam and I set out on a path of creating our cards. The first card...

Hi friends! It's time for another Stay Crafty With Hero challenge. Did you know that just 45 minutes of creative activity significantly lessens stress in the body, regardless of artistic experience or talent? That is why we started this challenge last year, when the pandemic appeared and our lives were turned upside down. And now here we are in 2021, still in need of crafty...

Hello everyone. It's Dana Joy here with you today. I can't believe we are at the end of 2020. Whew what it a year it has been. I'm finding I need quick and easy cards with a punch. Let me show you how to make a striking card with just a few supplies. The supplies I'm using today are: Hero Arts & Honey Bee You...

Hi everybody! It's Maria here and I've got a bright, colorful, and just a little bit grungy card to share with you today. I love making grungy, distressed backgrounds and pairing them with bold images that will pop off of the background. For today's card I paired the You Shine stamp set with the Galaxy Peek-a-Boo Parts background stamp. I started out by ink-blending a...

Good morning! Jess here with a pretty rainbow of stacked coffee mugs in a slimline card!! The perfect jolt of caffeine to start your Wednesday! ;) I love the hearts spilling out of the mug in the Cup of Love stamp set and thought that'd be the perfect topper for a stack of coffee mugs! To start I stamped the plain mugs onto a stack...

Our Shimmer Mists are a great way to create quick backgrounds using stencils. Today I've used the Pink Metallic Shimmer Mist along with the Spiral Petals Stencil to create a background that I used for two different cards. The traditional way to use the stencil is to lay it on your cardstock and spritz the Shimmer Mist over the top. But while doing this, I...

Hello, friends! It’s Channin here with a new card and video to share! In today’s video I create a fun Valentine’s themed card featuring the Candy Hearts Peek-a-Boo Cling Stamp and Circular Peek-a-Boo Doors Fancy Die. However I take a slightly atypical approach with these incredible stamps and dies! Please check out the video below to see the whole process. (If you are having trouble...

Hi, Friends! It's Caly with you today sharing a card using the Loving Messages stamp set - which is an add-on this month. I'm pairing it with the Window on Love Confetti Fancy Die to give my card a colorful background. I stamped my Loving Message and colored it with Copic markers. This set does not come with dies and I fussy-cut, but it wasn't...

It's monthly release time and we're excited to introduce you to the first My Monthly Hero kit of 2020! Love is in the air, and our January release is full of products for celebrating Valentine's Day and beyond! The kit is filled with stamps and dies that will allow you to build your own beautiful bouquets. "Wrap" flowers with the paper wrapper die, tuck them...

Hello and welcome as we begin the countdown to the release of the January My Monthly Hero Kit! Release day is Monday, January 6 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. We will be here all weekend long, sharing inspiration before the launch on Monday. Now let's join Caly for the first look at this beautiful kit! Hi, friends! Welcome to today's countdown to the next My Monthly...

Hello! Have you seen the newest additions to our Hero Hues Premium Cardstock line? This month we have added two new colors -- Meadow and Lapis. Below I have some comparisons to colors currently in our line so you can see where they fit in. Meadow is a great grassy green color that fits in between Kiwi and Pesto. And Lapis is a beautiful blue...

Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today sharing some "sweet" Valentine's Day inspiration! I get lots of inspiration from different baking and cake decorating accounts on Instagram, and I thought the beautifully detailed hearts in the new All My Love Decorative Hearts stamp set from this most recent My Monthly Hero release reminded me of those gorgeous sugar cookies that you see on Instagram!...

Hello and welcome to the Hero Arts Blog! Janette here to share a little insight on using multiples to create impact. Today we feature hearts for Valentine's Day, but creating with multiples in various shapes and sizes ups the drama factor all year though! Begin by applying a raspberry and a pink shade of Nuvo Glimmer Paste to an A2 cardstock panel. While that is...

Good morning, Jess here with a whale of a Valentine’s card using our beautiful Color Layering Blue Whale stamps! To start, I stamped the sentiment from Color Layering Blue Whale onto red cardstock with Versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I used the Cherry Hero Hues cardstock that will be available very soon! I also die-cut a heart using the Nesting Heart Infinity...