Hi everyone!  Wow, what a FUN week this has been!  We thought we’d answer a few questions that we’ve been getting about the new site, and then share some MORE inspiring designs!

First off, many of you asked how you can tell if a retailer is participating in the in-store pickup program.  And the answer to that is that it’s coming!  Soon you will be able to find participating retailers like The Stampin Post in Temecula, CA’s historic old jail courtyard.

Retailers are still signing up to participate in the program, and their information is being processed.  We’ll let you know just as soon as we can. And!  For the international stampers out there, we’ll let you know about that soon, too!

Next, we had many questions about the search box, and thought we’d clarify that there are TWO ways that it works.  If you are in the store at shop.heroarts.com and do a search, it will return products so that you can quickly add them to your cart.  If you are on any part of heroarts.com and you do a search, it will take you to a page where you can add the product to your WishList, to your cart if it is available, or look at ideas if it’s not.  Hope that helps!

Last question for today is regarding products — many of you are wondering what products are in the store and want to have MORE added.  And the answer is: the products that are currently in the store are all of those in the Spring, What’s Cooking, and Ink ‘n’ Stamp catalogs, plus favorites from the 2009 Catalog. We’ll be adding more all the time!

We’ll be answering more questions in the days to come, plus we’ll have videos too!

And remember to enter our fun challenge  - we have DOUBLE THE PRIZES this week! This week’s challenge is to create something that is inspired by anything on heroarts.com (our main website, not this blog). It could be a card, scrapbook page, technique article, or more from heroarts.com. For details, click HERE.  Here are some of our inspirations and creations…

Our newest teammate, Tami Hartley, always creates masterpieces that are inspiring in design and color, such as this card.  (Click to see in full.)

Our very own Jennifer McGuire wanted to play along again with our fun challenge, especially after seeing Tami’s card.  She loved the combination of colors and Butterfly Garden stamp.

Card by Jennifer McGuire.
Supplies:

• Butterfly Garden
• Everyday Greetings
  
• Black Staz-On ink
• Acetate Card
• Clear Gemstones
  
• Other: Sharpie Permanent Pens (to color on the back of the acetate piece after stamping), Creative Impressions silk ribbon

Speaking of Jennifer McGuire, she loves to include colorful details on her cards.  Click on these two peeks for some examples…

Hero Hostess Lisa Carroll was inspired by the first card’s dotted pearl background and the second’s color scheme.  Here is her gorgeous card.

Card by Lisa Carroll.
Supplies:

• Dots and Flowers
• Flower Blossom Borders
• Amazing
• Colorbox Primary Chalk Ink Queue and Colorbox Chocolates and Blueberries Chalk Ink Queue
• Spring Buttons
• Ranger Liquid Pearls (White Opal)
• Other:  ribbon, embroidery thread, pop dots

Jacki Jones is one of our creative Web Artists.  We just love her bird card.  (Click to see the details.)

Hero Hostess Kelly Booth created this card, inspired by Jacki’s.  We adore the sun!

Card by Kelly Booth.
Supplies:

• Birds and Branches
• Clouds
• All Occasion Messages
• Hero Arts Notecards
• Black Pearls and Sparkle Blossom Gems
• Spring Felt Buttons and Summer Card Buttons
  
• Soft Pool Ink
• Other: Sewing Machine, String, Copic Markers, Prima Flower, Pinking Sheers

Thank you for playing along in our fun week here at Hero Arts.  We thank you for visiting us and enjoying the world of stamping as much as we do!

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