Hello. It’s Lucy here today with some great news about the Hero Arts digital lines. Did you know that we are launching a new line of digital products, available to download right here in our own shop. Not only will we be bringing back some old classics, like the Caption Art kit I used on today’s card, but we will have brand new offerings each month too! Such fun!

So, today I have a card to share that features the Caption Art kit. It was actually inspired by the fun preview of the kit - all those cute speech bubbles side by side got me thinking…

Find out how to make this card. Click here for full supplies and instructions.

I just love finding inspiration in product packaging.

That’s all for today, I hope you have a great weekend.

Earlier this week our very own Tami Hartley celebrated a birthday! You all know Tami from her Tweets and Facebook posts for Hero Arts, her active role in the Hero Arts Flickr Group, and the beautiful cards she shares here on the blog. Tami is such a wonderful friend and colleague. She keeps us all in line & keeps this blog running like clockwork. She does so much for Hero Arts, we couldn’t possibly let her birthday slip by without a little fanfare! So we’ve decided to hijack the blog today to share a bit of birthday love for our dear Tami!

From Lisa - “Happy Birthday, Tami! I know you had some cake already, but I think you should have some more, with extra frosting! You sure deserve it. Love working with ya. Big huge hugs!!!!”

From Libby - “Tami you are the very best coworker a girl could hope for. Wishing you the happiest of birthdays, dear friend!”

From Sally - “Happy Birthday “Swishes” to Ms. Tami… I hope you had a colorful day…”

From Jennifer - “Tami - my dear Tami! You are an amazing colleague and friend and no one deserves an awesome birthday more than you. I love you! XO”

Be sure to leave Tami some birthday greetings here, too!

Have a wonderful weekend,

On Wednesday we unveiled the new Stamp Your Story catalog and contest and today…we HOP! That’s right, six Hero Arts designers have joined forces today to celebrate the new release and get the creative juices flowing.

Here to kick things off is Sally Traidman!

Sally: “Hello everyone on this creative, wonderful Friday. I am bringing you MY story for today’s first stop of the blog hop. I LOVE bright colors and circles, so I got this idea to create the circle paint splotch from Texture and Shape stamped in many colors, with little designs stamped on top. Can you recognize some of the designs from Not Perfect? As for the message - an instructor of mine used those words in a quote, so I added them since they were the inspiration for the card.”

Find out how to make this card — click for complete supplies and instructions.

Every blog hop needs a fabulous prize, right? We think so! We’ve put together an assortment of new Stamp Your Story items to give away. Feast your eyes…

The lucky winner will be drawn at random from ALL of the comments received on all of the blog hop stops and announced on Friday, May 10th. Be sure to comment here and on all of the designers’ blogs to increase your chances of winning!

The Stamp Your Story products you’ll see featured today have begun shipping to local stamp stores and will be available in the Hero Arts Online Store starting May 15th.

Now that we have the details out of the way, let’s get hopping! Today we invite you to venture to the blogs of…

Shari Carroll

Lisa Spangler

Kelly Rasmussen

Tami Hartley

Jennifer McGuire

We hope you find lots of inspiration along the way. Thanks so much for joining us. Happy hopping and happy weekend, everyone!!

Hello, and a very happy Friday. It’s Lucy here, and today I have a floral card to share with you that fits in with our Just For Her theme for April.  I made this card for my mother-in-law, who just loves yellow flowers. I used the pretty Etched Daisy stamp, and colored it with my new Inktense watercolor pencils which I washed over with water mixed with Perfect Pearls. I love the vibrancy the Inktense pencils create. When you color with them they look pretty normal, but as soon as you add water… wow!

Find out how to make this card — click  for complete supplies and instructions.

And for a fun effect, I spritzed the background with the left over yellowy water from my painting. It coordinates beautifully with the daisy and is really shimmery.

That’s all from me, but check back later today for a sneak peek at our new catalog! Hooray for sneak peeks!

Have a great day,

Gold. It’s back in a big way — in fashion, accessories, home decor, and crafting too. So today I thought I’d bring my jar of gold embossing powder out of hiding and put it to use on a Mother’s Day card, to go along with our “Just For Her” challenge theme this month. Mother’s Day is May 12th this year but it’s never too early to start planning those cards!

Find out how to make this card — click for complete supplies and instructions.

I heat embossed the new Scripted Mother’s Day message in gold onto Eggshell paper and also added a bit of gold embossed Looped Circle Pattern to the bottom edge of the card. Die cut Flourishes and a Jeweled Flower finish it off. With a simple change of sentiment, I think this design could even work as a wedding or anniversary card…what do you think?

Now we’re going to shift gears for a little Friday surprise! I’m so excited about what I get to show you next. It’s a sneak peek (the very first one!) from our upcoming catalog, which will be revealed in full on May 1. How’s this for FUN…!?

This awesome new collection of stamps will help you express your style, tell your story, and have tons of fun in the process. We can’t wait to share more about it in the weeks ahead! Look for sneak peeks throughout the month, leading up to the May 1 release.

Happy, happy weekend everyone! Enjoy it!

Hello and TGIF everyone! Since every day here in the desert of sunny southern California is like spring (only hotter!), I am always in flower mode. Right now the heavenly smell of orange and lemon blossoms are filling the air! And they inspired me to stamp this card.

Find out how to make this card — click for complete supplies and instructions.

I love the gorgeous, subtle background you can create just by stamping Everything Flower tone on tone. Just Saying Hello is a message I pull out of my stash often, as I like to send cards simply to let a friend know I’m thinking of them. The beautiful leaf ribbon from May Arts makes a lovely stem for the Scalloped Flower stamp. And I mounted it all on a Snow Folded Card to “crisp it up”.

I have some good news before I go! A new month begins on Monday, so that means today we get to announce our two $50 Wish List Shopping Spree Winners, randomly chosen from all of the blog comments we received last month.

• Sherri Q with her comment on February 1: “I really like the mostly neutral card with just a hint of soft color. Very striking.”

• Jennifer Seubert with her comment on February 8: “Such a cute card, Tami!  Chocolate with peanut- butter!  YUM!!!!”

Congratulations, Sherri and Jennifer! Please email us at the winner’s address located over in the sidebar and we’ll get you all set up to shop. For a chance to win one of next month’s shopping sprees, simply join the Hero Club (it’s free!), then comment here on the blog throughout the month. Each comment you leave gives you a chance at the prize!

Happy Easter weekend everyone! Eat a piece of dark chocolate for me!!

Hello there, Joy here to bring in the Spring season and share some Easter tags with you. Easter is just around the corner, can you believe it?

By adding some stamped and embossed layering paper to a white tag with a cute punched out butterfly and an Easter sentiment, you can create a perfect addition to an Easter basket or gift.

Find out how to make this project — click for complete supplies and instructions.

I hope that these tags give you some inspiration for your Easter projects and also for using the colours for this month’s challenge help you to create more projects for us all to view.

Happy Easter everyone!!

Hugs

Hello, and a very happy Friday to you. I am here today with a pair of cards made with this week’s digital release: Birthday Bash. The first card uses four of the colors in this month’s color contest - charcoal, soft green, soft yellow and soft sky. Such a pretty combination… I printed the balloons onto scraps of patterned paper, then again onto the grey paper with a sentiment which is also in the digikit.

Find out how to make this card. Click for full supplies and instructions.

And my second card, a simple celebration card with a teal and grey color combination. Yum.

Find out how to make this card. Click for full supplies and instructions.

So there you have it - two cards from one very pretty and very useful digikit. And here’s the kit, available in our digital shop at twopeasinabucket.com.

Enjoy your weekend, and we’ll see you next week. Thanks for stopping by,

Welcome back to the blog everyone! It’s Shari here with a lot of goodies to share!

First off… It’s MARCH!!!! That means we start a NEW contest and challenge. You can find all the details HERE on the contest information page. There are many fun options to choose from this month — “hello” cards, Spring and Easter themed projects, a fresh color challenge, and a technique that I’m sharing more about in my blog post today!

As part of the March technique, I’ve decided to use letter sets to create tiles on pattern paper. This is a great way to use up your scraps plus get perfect alignment of your letters! Here’s a look at my cards.

Love using my scraps for bright and cheery cards!

And now for your viewing pleasure!

Here’s a way to personalize your cards by adding a name!

I was having a throw back moment and brought out my old eyelets!

You can find more details of this technique Here.

Thanks for joining me today, hope you all have a fantastic week-end!

Hi, it’s Sally here. I have some exciting news to share! It was my birthday earlier this week, but you’re getting a present today - new reinkers and Studio Calico stamps and papers have arrived! Woohoo!

Since today is Fun Friday, I played with some bright new NEON reinkers… perfect Palm Springs colors if I do say so myself!

Find out how to make this card — click for complete supplies and instructions.

I had many thank you notes to write this week so I decided to try something. I inked up a felt scrap with the neon yellow, orange and pink reinkers, and then used this homemade “ink pad” to ink up a circle stamp. Then I inked up some stamps from the new Studio Calico Sundrifter Love This set and went to town. I love how the texture of the felt makes it look like scribbled crayons!!

Now head on over to the Hero Arts Online Store and check out all the new goodies! And have a happy weekend… go out and play!!