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Create a travel themed mixed media card featuring a die cut bike, up-cycled Atlas map, and shopping bag.

Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today sharing some inspiration using new goodies from the August release! One of my favorite things about the Hero Arts releases is the fantastic standalone dies; you can use them in so many different ways and pair them with so many different techniques. I personally love customizing them by doing some selective trimming and/or adding detail to the...

Hey everybody! It's Maria here and I hope you're all doing well. I am so excited about the entire August release because it is a theme that is hitting me in my adventure-loving heart. Recently, my husband and I have been trying to get out of the house more often to enjoy this beautiful place we live in (California). Last month we drove up the...

Hello friends! It's Channin here and today I’m sharing a fun interactive card featuring the February 2021 My Monthly Hero Kit. In today’s video I will demonstrate how to create a peek-a-boo card and as well as color two tropical landscapes stamped with the kit! (If you are having trouble viewing this video, please watch HERE on YouTube.) To create this card I first trimmed Meadow cardstock...

Good morning! Jess here with a fun way to use up your gorgeous Hero Hues cardstocks scraps and create vintage-inspired cards! So I've been binge-watching tv shows set in the 80s and 90s this summer and some of the fashion reminded me of shirts I used to buy when I was in middle school. I'm pretty sure they were actually considered vintage back then inspired...

Good morning! Jess here with a fun way to create a "vintage" luggage tag that you can bring along on your travels! To start I stamped the From the Vault Travel suitcase onto Dove White cardstock with Intense Black ink and colored it with Copic markers in shades of brown before fussy-cutting it. I also stamped the sentiment from the same set onto Paradise cardstock...

Hero Arts believes in investing in and supporting the communities in which we all live, especially when they are most in need, such as when tragedy hits. Given the number of recent natural disasters, we have expanded our series of Destination stamps to commemorate and honor some of the places impacted, including Puerto Rico, Florida, Napa Valley and Mexico. Hero Arts will donate 100% of...

Hello there, Michelle here and I am sharing a card today using the new Go On A Safari set that was an add-on for the June My Monthly Hero kit. I started my card by taking a piece of Kraft Layering Paper. I inked up the Mud Cloth Bold Prints using Cup O’ Joe Mid-Tone […]

When I was a kid, the summertime meant my family would go on "Sunday drives". After a while, my mom learned to pack an overnight bag when my dad gathered us in the car for one of his drives. We never knew where we'd end up! The [hero_product_link sku="CL973" text="Road Trip"] stamps from the Summer release brought back many happy memories of these family adventures!...

I had so much fun watercoloring and creating a scene with the [hero_product_link sku="CL973" text="Road Trip"] stamp set for the catalog release blog hop, that I decided to do another version for the blog today! I made a video showing how I did the watercoloring for the blog hop, but here's a short explanation: - I sprayed the watercolor cardstock lightly with water, so that the colors would...

I live in the beautiful state of Washington and naturally, I'm a big fan of anything Seattle or Washington. Today I'm featuring  [hero_product_link sku="CL910" text="Kelly's Seattle"] set. It truly does include all of the major attractions that the city has to offer! I wanted to include as many of the images as possible and managed to do a pretty good job! If you've been following...

Background stamps, especially Bold Prints 6x6 Clings are always fun to use! Be it a portrait or a landscape A2 card - they work perfectly. Today I'm using [hero_product_link sku="CG695" text="Irregular Grid"] stamp and making only a partial impression to create map-like backgrounds for my cards. There's a fantastic card example in [hero_product_link sku="PS916" text="Summer 2016 catalog"] where dark brown ink is used over light...

When you travel to a new city, what do you love to do? I'm a regular tourist in New York since my son goes to college there. We tend to always, among other things: have coffee eat donuts go to museums So with my own tourist habits in mind, I designed this super clean + crisp card: I love the [hero_product_link sku="CL977" text="City Adventure"] set! Purely...

Nothing says summer more than heading “to the beach!!” For my fun beachy card, I started by pulling out my watercolors and making a giant “wave” with a beautiful turquoise color on watercolor paper. I stamped “to the beach!” in black ink using a favorite alphabet set - any font that you love will do! Then I took several of the icons from [hero_product_link sku="CL978" text="Beach"]...

The new Destination stamps collection is one of my favorites from the new Summer Catalog. The stamps that are part of it include some of the main cities of the U.S. and they are perfect to create cards, postcards, document your trips or even to use on your scrapbook pages.  Today I am sharing a couple of cards featuring  [hero_product_link sku="CL965" text="Kelly's Chicago"], which is one of my...

Hello and welcome! For the past several weeks we've been sharing projects made with our new Summer 2016 products, and you may have already found them at your favorite retailers. Today we are thrilled to be launching our new products right here in the Hero Arts store! We have a trio of fabulous cards from our creative team member Jayne Nelson to share with you. And at the end of...