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It’s always good to keep a few gift card holders handy during the holidays! Today I will show you a few new ideas with a basic star and tag dies, plus one with a tree. Let’s start with the 5-Point Stars Infinity Dies. I used the biggest one to cut my reindeer. I wanted to use felt but I had no brown, so I used...

Good morning friends! Today we're bringing you some gorgeous crafty inspiration from our Global Team, with a focus on some of our recent holiday release products! First up, Santa makes an appearance with this festive card by Lisa! She used the Snowflake Pattern Hot Foil Plate to dry emboss that bold pattern into a panel of Cherry cardstock. Then she created a background for her...

Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I'm sharing a card featuring a sentiment made using the Kraft Holiday Tags Printable. This printable file includes ten versatile tag images that can be resized and printed over and over. Of course it's perfect for creating quick and easy gift tags, but it also works beautifully for cardmaking. You'll never run out of tags or holiday sentiments...

Hey crafty friends! This is Mindy with you today to share inspiration using the Poinsettia Flowers Bold Prints background stamp. I also have a video tutorial that you can view down below or HERE on the Hero Arts YouTube channel. While this background is beautiful for coloring or ink blending, I'm going to show you a quick and easy way to use it on your...

Hi, have you had an opportunity to make a new card for the current Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero November Challenge? This month’s theme is “The Great Outdoors” and I’ve used this inspiration to create a pair of floral thank you cards using the beautiful Floral Silhouettes stamp set (currently 20% off along with all clear stamps!) and the equally lovely Foliage &...

Thanksgiving offers us a special time to reflect on all that we have to be grateful for and to remember all of the wonderful people in our lives. We at Hero Arts are grateful for YOU. Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your creative journey. We send our warmest wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving! 🧡A quick housekeeping note: Hero Arts will...

As we enter the holiday season, we give thanks for family, friends, and our wonderful customers. Your support and loyalty throughout the year means the world to us. We at Hero Arts wish you and yours peace, happiness, good health, and of course a very Happy Thanksgiving! Today through November 28, you are invited to shop our Season of Thanks Sale and save 20% on...

Hi friends! Jessica here with a sparkly, shimmery winter birthday card featuring the gorgeous Snowflake Pattern Hot Foil Plate and some of my favorite snowflake products! To start, I hot foiled the Snowflake Pattern Hot Foil Plate onto an A2 panel of Nautical cardstock with a beautiful shimmery opal foil. I trimmed it down and adhered it to a White Top-Folded Card Base. Then I...

Hello Crafters! It's Kelly Taylor here and I'm super excited to be sharing this fun scene card with you today. Combining digital stamps with products we already own is a great way to stretch our supplies! (If you are having trouble viewing this video, please watch HERE on YouTube.) For this super cute card I combined our new Christmas Elves Printable with our Birch Trees...

Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here. Thanks for stopping by! Today I am sharing a card showcasing the newly released Snowman Gift Tag Fancy Die. YES! A gift tag die for a card! It was quick and fun to create! To begin I stenciled Sprinkled Dots onto a 4" x 5.25" Pitch Black cardstock panel in Dove White ink and adhered it to an A2 card...

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...

Hello there, Michelle here. Today I have a fun project to share with you creating ornaments using felt. These work great as ornaments or tags on their own but can also be added to gift card holders and cards! Since I did not want to add any stuffing to these, nor sewing, I also die cut the elements from cardstock, so that I could adhere...

Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today, and I have some slimline inspiration to share with you using some of the beautiful hot foiling products from the 2022 Hero Arts Holiday Catalog! I know that we cardmakers tend to stick to A2 sized cards, but so many products lend themselves beautifully to slimline size, particularly the Holiday Greenery Foil & Cut, and what fun...

Hello stampers! It's time to announce the winner from our November My Monthly Hero Release Day Blog Hop. Big thanks to everyone who participated, checked out the cards on the designers’ blogs, and shared kind comments! The kit has sold out, although we still have plenty of fun add-ons for you – and those are always restocked! Our randomly selected winner will receive a $50...

Can you believe we are almost at the holidays? I can't! I've leaned into holiday cards this year – maybe more than I've made in any other year, so I'll have lots of colorful mail to send after Thanksgiving. One of my favorite types of cards to send is card with texture – when I receive cards with texture on them, it makes me happy...

It's time to make room for new and exciting 2023 products and you can save BIG while helping us clear some space! Join us for a rare Hero Arts Factory Store Sale on December 3 and get massive discounts on clear, cling, and wood stamps, dies, stencils, inks, mystery bundles, and much more! • Free parking• Come early for the best selection• Credit/debit cards only...

Our next LIVE Make-Along event is this weekend! Join Channin from our Creative Team to make along with the October My Monthly Hero kit. Gather your supplies and create this gorgeous card from start to finish.👉🏼 When: Sunday, November 13 at noon PT/3pm ET👉🏼 Where: Hero Arts Facebook and YouTube Supplies & Instructions for Channin's card: MH1022 October 2022 My Monthly Hero Kit PS303 Cherry...

Welcome back, everyone! The Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero November challenge is here! The theme this month is "The Great Outdoors". You could interpret this in a number of different ways. Maybe you could depict an outdoors scene on your card? Or you could have a window or a door on your card? Or you could say that anything from nature represents the...

Hi everyone! It's Maria here and I hope you are all having a wonderful day. Today I've got a fun card to share with you using the new Winter Wishes Bundle. This set is perfect for building a beautiful focal point on your cards and you could also use it to make tags or paper ornaments. I started out by stamping the image on white...

Hello friends! Along with this month's new kit, we have some wonderful November My Monthly Hero add-ons to share with you. Whether you're making holiday cards, tags, decorations, or other festive projects, there's something here for everyone! Presenting all things merry & bright... Shop for the November MMH add-ons here Today we're delighted to have Creative Team member Jayne Nelson here to share some fabulous...

OK, how else can we say this: We made a mistake. So sorry! It turns out one element of the November kit has been delayed – we previously received just a partial amount – and we will receive it soon. What this means is that you can still order the kit, despite it temporarily displaying as "sold out" yesterday! It is NOW available HERE, while...

Hello friends!! It’s Channin here and today I create a couple of holiday tags with the November 2022 My Monthly Hero Kit. Check out the video below to see how I watercolor die cuts with Reactive Inks and and then add frosty details to create festive tags. Watch the video below or HERE on the Hero Arts YouTube channel. To create these tags I first...

'Tis the season... for making holiday tags and decorations! Our November My Monthly Hero release is packed full of darling products you can use to create handmade ornaments, tags, cards and more! The kit includes a large set of 31 scene-building dies that can be combined in countless ways. There's a message set featuring holiday essentials. The kit is rounded out with ribbon and sequins...

It's almost time to launch the November 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 and welcome to the final day of our November kit countdown! If you missed the first two days of inspiration, we invite you to circle back and check it out here and here. There's just one more sleep until the kit and add-ons are revealed on Monday at 10am PT. Mindy, Daniel and Dana are here today with some irresistible eye candy. As always,...

Are you ready for a holly jolly dose of holiday cheer and creativity? You're in the right place! The Creative Team is here to show you more of the November My Monthly Hero kit that launches on Monday. Take a peek at their beautiful projects below, and follow the links for all of the festive details! Project #5 created by Jessica Frost-BallasClick HERE to visit...

Hello and welcome to day one of the November My Monthly Hero kit countdown! We're so excited to share the new kit and add-ons with you on Monday, November 7 at 1pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. The blog will be packed full of festive holiday goodness now through Sunday, as our amazing Creative Team shares what they've been making with this fun kit. Are you ready?...

Hello and welcome! Seeka here and today I'm sharing a card made using a combination of Gold Hero Paste and Berry Hero Wax. These two media play so well together! I began by positioning the Leaf Circle Stencil over a 4.25" x 5.5" panel of Deluxe Smooth White cardstock and using low-tack tape to temporarily hold the stencil in place. Next, I used a palette...

November is here, and while that technically means our month-long HeroFest celebration has come to a close, we got to thinking. What better way to "put a bow" on all of the HeroFest fun than with a few random surprises? We've selected the following three customers, who were active during HeroFest, to receive a bonus of 500 Hero Arts Rewards points! • Rachel Merril •...

Hello crafters! It's Kelly Taylor here and I have a super easy two for one technique to share with you today. I don't know about you but when it comes to making multiples I appreciate anything that saves me some time. (If you are having trouble viewing this video, please watch HERE on YouTube.) These cards showcase our Winter Scenics Bundle. The beautiful solid images...

Hello friends! Big thanks to all of you who took the time to vote for your favorite kit in celebration of My Monthly Hero's 7th anniversary! We love bringing these kits to you each month and look forward to all of the creativity that happens once the kits are in your hands. Today we're bursting with excitement – it's now time to share the poll...

Hello there, Michelle here and today I am sharing how to enhance stenciling by dry embossing first. I also share how to partially die cut the Small Penguin Tag Fancy Die so that it is no longer a tag. You can watch the video below. (If you are having trouble viewing this video, please watch HERE on YouTube.) I have found that by dry embossing...

Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here sharing a Thanksgiving card featuring the Grateful Pumpkin clear stamp set. This beautiful fall themed set also comes in a bundle that includes Frame Cuts designed to work perfectly with the stamps. To begin, I splattered a 4" x 5.25" Cup O' Joe cardstock panel with Bronze Glimmer Metallic Ink and adhered it to a top-folded white card base. Next,...

Hello friends!! It’s Channin here and today I created a holiday card featuring the beautiful Holiday Sparkles Bundle. This card features simple ink-blending to create a stunning background studded with golden ombre stars. To create this card I first stamped the stars from the Holiday Sparkles stamp set in Embossing & Watermark Ink onto Deluxe Smooth White cardstock. I poured gold embossing powder over the...

Hi friends! Lydia here. Make some cider, put a sweater on and get ready for more holiday crafting today! I have the SIMPLEST of mixed media cards for you today using these mediums: Acrylic paint Embossing powder Embossing ink Glitter I love to make cards where there are different shimmery textures, and this card is no exception. I used the Wishing You Tree Bundle to...

Looking Glass die sets are invaluable tools for creating intricate, layered scenes easily. The new Looking Glass Nativity set is perfect for creating the classic Christmas nativity on your holiday cards. Although the dies can be used most simply with plain cardstock colors to create beautiful scenes, enhancing several of the die-cut layers with ink will create unique and custom designs. To make today’s card,...