Happy Monday! Sally here with a card featuring a fun & festive stamp that you may not necessarily have thought of as a birthday stamp - Washi Lantern Background! It’s featured this month as part of the My Monthly Hero program birthday collection. You can find all of the fabby stamps we’ve been featuring here. Stamping this background on your card just yells “celebration”, doesn’t it?

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

Not only is Washi Lantern Background part of the My Monthly Hero program, it also just happens to be our Stamp of the Week! You can purchase Washi Lantern Background at the Hero Arts Online Store for 25% off, this week only.

Before I go, I also have some happy news to share - the winner of our giveaway during last Thursday’s Social Club post! One lucky commenter wins the fun Life of the Party Birthday set, and that person is… drumroll please… commenter #11, ujjwal, who said: “Wonderful cards but what else is expected of the fabulous hostesses They have all done an amazing job!”

Thanks for stopping by today!

Welcome back to the blog everyone! It’s Shari here. First I want to say that I hope you had a fabulous Mother’s Day weekend!

I’m here to bring you another birthday theme card idea using stamps from the My Monthly Hero program for May. This is a fun one, quick and easy, perfect for making in batches and even great for letting the kids help.

I stayed with the monthly challenge colors by using pool, orange, green and brown. I stamped my papers with the Zig Zag Background then used the Circle die to cut out my circles. Piece of cake!

Here’s a closer look.

Complete instructions and supplies can be found HERE.

Need to know where to get our new stamps for our My Monthly Hero Program? HERE is a complete list of participating stores. If you can’t find a local store near you, not to worry, tomorrow we will have all the stamps available in the Hero Arts Online Store. Orders placed in our online store are fulfilled by our retailers to support local business.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!

Hi everyone, it’s Lisa here today, and I’m here to share one of my favorite new My Monthly Hero sets, Sparkle Birthday!

Click for complete materials and instructions right here.

Isn’t that little ellie just the sweetest thing? Love how you can make her hold the sparkler to send down a shower of good wishes!

I also love how the Big Ticket Frame Cut matches the tickets on the BasicGrey Life of the Party paper pack. Just too fun. And I couldn’t resist adding some touches of trendy NEON papers and markers to really make this card pop!

And the best thing is that the Sparkle Birthday set is available at participating local stamp stores now — stores like Stamp Antonio Arts in San Antonio, Texas!

In addition to the My Monthly Hero stamps in the photo you’ll also see Stamp Antonio Arts’ framed sign – this year is their 20th anniversary! Stamp Antonio loves to let folks know that they have been a family owned business for these 20 years, under three different owners!

Much like Hero Arts, these families have brought a personal touch to this unique stamp store!

Stamp Antonio Arts has a monthly Hero Arts Club which has been in existence for over a year. These devoted Hero Arts stampers LOVE Hero stamps and meet monthly to create, have fun and share their ideas. Why not join them? Click HERE for all the info about Stamp Antonio Arts.

Wishing you happy, neon bright day,

Hi everyone! It’s Kelly here with one more card to share for the April Contest theme.

I created a happy little scene using the Clouds and Life of the Party Dots stamps along with the flower image from the Thanks Flowers stamp set. And the Hello Sunshine sentiment seemed pair perfectly with the rainbow color combo.

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

To add a little more interest to the card, I stamped my background on some zig-zag strips of paper that were created with a decorative border punch.

Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to come back tomorrow for the announcement of our May contest!

Have a great day!

Hi everyone, it’s Sheri here! Nothing says “Spring” quite like a wonderful collection of blooms. Today’s layout share includes a subtle tone on tone stamped floral background featuring Etched Flowers, paired with an elegant floral patterned paper, and a colorful collection of Art Flowers. Combined, they are the perfect accents to frame those sweet, springtime photos.

Find out how to create this layout — click for complete supplies and instructions.

Lisa will be here tomorrow with a card featuring our Stamp of the Week - see you then!

Hi…it’s Kelly here! Today I have a card to share based off of one of the sketches included in this month’s contest.

I love sketches because they give me a jumping off point for starting a card. Often times once I get going I don’t follow a sketch exactly how it was drawn, but that’s the beauty of it — each person can interpret a sketch however they want. But for today’s card I ended up following this sketch very close.

I combined lots of old and new stamps to create this card:

• The background is stamped with Line Dots using Splash Chalk Ink.
• The tag is stamped with the awesome border image from the My Happy stamp set.
• The sentiment is a mix of greetings from Everyday Sayings and Hello There.

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

I can’t seem to get away from the yellow and pool…it’s such a happy color combo!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Hi everyone, it’s Lisa here! You know the old saying “April showers bring May flowers”? Well, April showers bring so much more than that here at Hero Arts! What all do they bring, you ask?

First, they bring a brand new contest! This month’s theme is “Sunshine & Showers” and you can interpret it however you like, from a sunny get well soon card to a baby or wedding shower! Plus there’s an awesome sketch challenge and Shari’s technique is shaped cards! Read all about it, and hope that you enter!

April showers also bring a rainbows! For this one, I just had to break out some Hero Arts-Studio Calico stamps — both new and old — and a colorful array of Distress inks to make this cheery card!

(Find out how I made this card plus complete materials and instructions.)

Here’s a closeup of the clouds so that you can see them better:

April showers also bring the NEW Hero Arts-Studio Calico stamps HERE in the Hero Arts Online store, including one of my *many* new favorites, the Lattice background. Here I embossed it in white to really make it pop.

As always, orders placed in the Hero Arts store are fulfilled by local stamp stores!

And that’s not all! We’ve decided to mix things up here on the blog and have the artists host blog days instead of weeks. This way you’ll get to see more creativity and more stamping styles. Jennifer will be here tomorrow, can hardly wait to see what she’s stamped up.

Thanks so much for joining me today, and happy April!

Hi all! Kristina Werner here, and I’m so happy to be guest blogging here at Hero Arts this week! I’ll be sharing some ideas for how to use the Add Your Message kits. For the first card this week, I chose to use the Flourish Flower Add Your Message Kit.

First, I created the card using only the printed card, one of the four sentiment stamps, and a dark gray ink pad.

Then I decided to step up the card by first cutting out the scallop oval shape. I had a smaller area of rest of the printed pattern to work with so I cut it into strips and adhered it to a card leaving gaps. This was the perfect way to stretch the pattern across the card.

Cards by Kristina Werner. Find complete supplies and instructions here.

I’ll be back with another idea tomorrow! See you then!

Kristina

Hello and happy Monday! It’s Tami here, with a week of flower-filled inspiration to go along with our challenge theme for the month. Today I’m kicking things off with a bit of mixed media fun, playing with paint and materials I might not typically use for cardmaking.

My mixed media card starts with a background created with tissue paper, paint, and of course…stamps! Here’s a peek at the background in progress…

You can read exactly how it was created in the step-by-step instructions HERE, but basically I built up layers of wrinkly tissue paper (adhered with matte finish Mod Podge), painted a wash of craft paint over top, then stamped our fabulous Newspaper Background on top of that.

And here’s the finished card, bursting with happy colors and most definitely inspired by the change of seasons…

Card by Tami Hartley. Find complete supplies and instructions here.

There are so many ways you could color the Pom Pom Flower. Since I was aiming for artsy, I went with a messy splash of pink paint, applied with the sharp edge of a foam brush prior to stamping the flower. Talk about the ultimate quick coloring technique!

Thanks for stopping by — see you tomorrow for more flowery goodness!

Hi! It’s Kelly here and I’ll be your hostess this week on the blog to share a new project with you each day focusing on the “Fabulous Flowers” theme of this month’s contest.

With spring soon approaching where I live, I was immediately drawn to the gorgeous Newspaper Tulips image. I colored the image with some Blush, Sunshine and Foliage markers and then stamped it onto a piece of ledger patterned paper.  Then I topped it off with a sentiment from the new Be Happy stamp set using Cup O’ Joe Mid-Tone Shadow Ink.

Card by Kelly Rasmussen. Find complete supplies and instructions here.

And see that frame die cut? It is actually the large ticket die from the Tickets Frame Cuts. And it worked beautifully as a place to stamp my tulips!

Hope your week is off to a great start. See you tomorrow!