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Hi everyone! We’re back with our Awesome Add-ons feature for the month. Before we dive into the projects, here’s a look at all of the My Monthly Hero add-on products we introduced along with the January main kit... Shop for the January MMH add-ons here Today Creative Team member Ilina Crouse is going to share some fabulous (and adorable!) “beyond the kit” ideas for a...

Happy New Year! We are excited to start off 2018 with the launch of our January My Monthly Hero kit and add-ons! Our Creative Team has enjoyed making projects with these products this month and we think you will too! At the end of this post you will find links to a blog hop that will provide plenty of inspiration using this month's kit and...

Hello again! We've come to the end of our countdown, leading up to the launch of the January My Monthly Hero kit tomorrow, Monday, January 8 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Remember to comment on each and every post as we'll be giving away a kit on Monday morning, before the release! Now join Amy as she shares another idea using the main kit... I had...

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so today I'm sharing card idea using the Love Note Pair Fancy Dies. The package comes with two envelope dies -- one that makes a regular envelope and one that creates a cute heart scallop like on my card today. I started out by creating a background with watercolor paints. I used painter's tape to create a thin...

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…...

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...

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...

Welcome to our Creative Team Rewind where we show you the beautiful work that our Creative Team has been sharing outside of the Hero Arts blog! Love (and hugs) are in the air this time of year so we are focused on cards that are perfect for Valentine’s Day or to show someone you love […]

What could possibly be more fun than a tiny envelope die? Two dies that can be used alone or together to create delightful, little greetings!! The new Love Note Pair Fancy Dies set includes two dies for creating small notes - one die makes an envelope and the other die makes a heart-shaped note that fits perfectly in the envelope!

Good morning, Jessica here with two projects using the romantic Romeo and Juliet set from the 2017 Valentine’s Collection. I love the silhouette images of Romeo and Juliet but I wanted to focus on some of the smaller stamps in the set for my creations. I loved the roses in the Romeo and Juliet stamp […]

Wow…January is flying by! We’re back with our Awesome Add-ons feature for the month. First, here’s a peek at all of the My Monthly Hero add-on products we introduced along with the January main kit (which is very close to selling out at the time of this writing!) Shop for the January kit and all […]

When I was little, I used to obsess over all things mini - mini stapler, mini tape, etc., - and so the new Love Note Pair Fancy Dies were pretty much love at first sight for me (no pun intended ;)).

One of the things I love about this month's kit is how versatile it is - the flowers can be used a solid or outline layers, or double up on top of each other! For today's pair of cards, I layered up my flowers, but I did it using the same ink color for both layers.

Can you tell this is my first time making heart shaped cards? I wanted to create something different with a heart shape rather than an A2 sized top folding card. Then I ended up creating a set of congratulations cards. I started by die cutting the largest heart from Nesting Hearts Infinity Dies out of Pool Mix Layering […]

If you know me, you know I adore hearts. If I only had heart stamps the rest of my life I would be HAPPY! On this simple LOVE card I used Yes and Love stamp & cut sets. I just LOVE incorporating my die cuts with my stamping. I pick Snow Layering Paper a lot […]

Hello! Today I have two cards to share that feature repeated sentiment stamping. When you have a gorgeous sentiment why not take advantage and really make it the star of your card! This first card was featured in the 2016 Catalog and uses the Handwritten Thank You stamp. It really doesn't get much more simple than this -- all you really need are some gorgeous...

As Valentine's Day approaches, love is in the air! And yet, there are so many occasions every year to make and send cards with love sentiments. I've created a set of love themed cards for anniversaries, weddings, and birthdays, or Valentine's Day, using the beautiful stamp from the 2016 Valentine's Collection. To create these cards, I started by stamping the sentiment in a floral shade...

Have you seen the new Hero Arts challenge? Its all about using those fabulous flowers on our projects! And truth be told, in anticipation of Spring all I want to do is surround myself with stunning florals and bright colors. How about you? Hero Arts [hero_product_link sku="SA067" text="Bold Floral Stencil"] from the 2016 Catalog (coming to our store on February 8!) is a perfect tool...

One of my favorite Valentine's Day memories is exchanging valentine cards with my grade school classmates. Once I got to junior high, I continued to exchange cards with my close friends. So when my seventh grade niece asked me to make her some special valentines for her friends, I knew that I wanted to use the [hero_product_link sku="DI162"] to create cards that could be easily...

Today I'm gonna show you how to get some more use out of your inks - by using them to create custom colored paint! To create your custom color, smoosh your ink pad against an acrylic block (or some plastic acetate), and then add a couple drops of acrylic. I used some pearlescent white acrylic paint, so that I could also get a nice shine...

With Valentine’s Day being just around the corner I decided to make a fun Beary Valentine’s Day card! I haven’t yet put my Christmas stamps away so I grabbed this adorable bear image from the Holiday Animals set and stamped him in Hero Arts Intense Black ink. I love to use my Holiday critters all year […]

While Chameleon pens are perfect for coloring images (especially for the coloring-impaired such as myself), they aren't limited to just that. For my card today, I decided to use the pens to create an ombre look on my die cuts.

Hello and welcome to our second Friend Friday with Chameleon! We are honored that they've asked us to collaborate with them this month. Our artists will show creations each Friday in December, colored with the fabulous Chameleon pens - and over at their blog, the Chameleon design team is coloring Hero Arts images, too! So much fun! And of course there will be prizes! Keep...

I love to use my stamps to create unique hand stamped patterns. And today’s card features just that! Hero Arts Love Tattoos woodblock stamps are ideal for stamping some quick patterns for Valentine’s Day cards. I started by adding a pencil lines grid to my paper (I often do this to help me align and better […]

Today’s a fun day here at Hero Arts – we are launching our brand new Valentine’s Collection in the Hero Arts store! We know it’s a little strange to be thinking about Valentine’s Day while we’re in the midst of the busy December holidays, but trust us, February will be here before you know it. […]