Hi everyone! It’s Tami here. Today I’m sharing another idea for our Stamp of the Week, Washi Lantern Background. As Sally showed yesterday, it makes a great tone-on-tone background for birthday cards. It’s also fun to “dress up” with extra details…like this!

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

I used just part of the background stamp and added a few simple touches to bring it to life:

• paper pieced lanterns
• bows and gems
• stitching (using the stamp lines as a guide makes it “sew” simple!)

Next I’d like to create an elegant version of this design with gold or silver embossed lanterns on a dark background. Or what about a rainbow of lanterns on a white card? So many possibilities with this one! What would you do with the Washi Lantern Background? I’d love to hear!

Thanks for stopping by today…I hope you have a wonderful day!

Hi everyone, Sally here! It’s Tuesday so you know what that means - I’m sharing a card that features this week’s Stamp of the Week, Life of the Party Birthday! Actually I have *two* cards for you today, both of them chock-full of birthday stamps featured this month for the My Monthly Hero program, including Big Ticket and the coordinating Frame Cuts die set, Ticket Frame!

Find out how to make these cards — click for complete supplies and instructions.

You’ll want to race on over to the Hero Arts Online Store and get yourself the Stamp of the Week, Life of the Party Birthday, while it’s 25% off! Woohoo! But hurry, it’s only 25% off this week!

And speaking of shopping - we’re happy to share that the four new birthday stamp sets released this month as part of the My Monthly Hero program are now available here in the Hero Arts Online Store! And best of all, online orders at our store are fulfilled by local stamp stores participating in the program.

Thanks for stopping by - tomorrow Julie will be here with a video, which no doubt will be full of giggles and fun!

Hello, Sally here and today I want to share some ideas for using our Add Your Message set, Happy Hello! The Add Your Message sets come with 12 printed cards and white envelopes, as well as four sentiment stamps. You can simply add your message and be done, orrrrr, if you’re like me, you can add a little more to it, to make it your own.  On this first card I added gems and some simple strips of paper. Still very quick and easy, but with a little extra somethin’-somethin’.

You all know how much I love to use embroidery floss on my cards. As I was looking at this cute little owl, I thought it would be fun to give her a snazzy little scarf, to coordinate with the background trees!

Find out how to make these cards — click for complete supplies and instructions.

If you’re looking for some quick & easy cards to have in your stash, I have some good news! The Happy Hello set is this week’s Stamp of the Week! This week only, find Happy Hello in the Hero Arts Online Store for 25% off!

See you here tomorrow - Julie will be sharing a technique video!

Hi all, and happy May! We have some exciting news to share: we’re launching a new program called My Monthly Hero! Each month we’ll have a theme, contests, and NEW stamps to go with the theme. May’s theme is “Happy Birthday”.

We’ll be sneak peeking the four NEW stamp sets for May here on the blog in the coming days, and they’ll arrive in our online store starting May 15th! But here’s the really exciting part! Participating local stamp stores have these new stamps plus a fabulous idea booklet in store already! Stores like Stamp On Over in Sunnyvale, CA, that is!

Stamp on Over is located at the Cranberry Hill Mercantile, an awesome one-stop-shop for crafts. In addition to ALL the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero stamps, including the four new sets plus the idea booklet, they also have fabric, paint, ceramics and MORE Hero Arts stamps (and stamping supplies, of course)! So why not stamp on over to Stamp On Over? Click right HERE for their hours, phone, and location.

We’ll be highlighting more participating stores in the coming days, plus we’ll have a whole list of participating stores for you too!

Now on to the May contest!

The May contest themes include birthdays, a color challenge and the technique is interactive cards. Fun! Click right HERE for all the contest details and find out how to enter to win one of MANY Hero Arts shopping sprees to be awarded this month. We can’t wait to see what you create!

We’re going to be featuring LOTS of great birthday stamps this month here on the blog so that you’ll have plenty of ideas for birthday cards for friends and family or to enter the contest! If you’d like to stamp along with us, the stamps we’ll be featuring are right HERE in the Hero Arts online shop! As always, orders placed in the Hero Arts online shop are fulfilled by local stamp stores — just one more way Hero supports local businesses!

And of course we have an example to share with you today! Here’s a fun pair of cards from Sally with images from Life of the Party Birthday. And we just love how Sally transformed a triangle of patterned paper into a party hat! So clever!

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

Both of Sally’s cards feature the Happy Definition background stamp, which is our current Stamp of the Week and one of the featured stamps in this month’s My Monthly Hero! You will find Happy Definition in the Hero Arts Online Store, this week only, for 25% off!

And don’t forget, you can check out all the stamps and supplies that will be featured this month right over HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today! Shari will be here tomorrow with one of her fabulous techniques!

Hey you guys, it’s Lisa here! Hope you’re having a great week so far, and hope that you’re enjoying the monthly challenge themes of Sunshine & Showers plus shaped cards and a sketch challenge too. (Check the link for all the details!)

Today’s card is all about getting more from your stamps! You see, from the moment I saw the Plano stamp I thought it would make a great rainbow. So happy to finally get to give it a try!

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

I decided the rainbow needed a little sun to go with it, so I grabbed one of the flags from the Studio Calico Hooray set and stamped them to form the rays, then added a punched circle for the center. Of course I had to have some clouds to finish it off! But, the woodgrain one just wasn’t working right until it hit me to stamp it in reverse, first. And then the whole card came together in a flash after that.

And! I thought I’d mention that the Studio Calico Hooray set is on sale for 25% off this week only in the Hero Arts Online Store!

This is one of my favorite Hero Arts-Studio Calico sets of all time, and I love it even more after making today’s card.

Wishing you a day full of sunshine and smiles,

Hi Everyone! It’s Sally and I am here today with an idea for using our Polka Dot Cards with Messages! I was thinking about our themes this month - shaped cards, clouds & showers - and it came to me! I altered one of the preprinted dot cards into a different shape, creating a shower of dots! I just cut the curved scallop edge with my large scallop scissors and added my message. Then I added it to an Iris card stamped with the Happy Definition background. Finish up with a few gems and a button tied with floss! How easy was that? Like a two minute creation!! OK, maybe five!

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

If you’d like to try this quick and easy card technique, I have some great news! This great card and stamp combination is our featured Stamp of the Week! This week only, save 25% on Polka Dot Cards with Messages in the Hero Arts Online Store!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Tuesday, everyone!

When I first saw this background stamp, I immediately thought of a sunshine. So I gathered some bright papers and inks and created a card that I am hoping brightens the day of a dear friend…

Card by Jennifer McGuire. Find complete supplies and instructions here.

And by the way, that great message stamp? It is a peek at one of the new Hero Arts + BasicGrey stamp sets that will be released very soon.

Like the bit of sunshine? It’s your lucky day! This background stamp is the  Stamp of the Week! You can get the Radiant Banner for 25% off this week only in the Hero Arts Online Store.

Hope you have a day full of sunshine and stamping,

Hi all! I’m Kristina and I’m back with another idea for an Add Your Message kit. For today’s card, I used the Striped Add Your Message Kit.

Like with yesterday’s card, I started out by stamping the card using only the supplies in the kit and some dark gray ink.

To step up the card, I first cut the bottom area off to create a square card. Then I stamped three hearts from the Untitled Heart stamp set and cut them out. I stamped and embossed one of the sentiment stamps from the kit onto black card stock and trimmed it out. Then I adhered the hearts and sentiment to card. To finish it off, I applied some glitter over the pink heart.

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

I’d like to tell you about our Stamp of the Week! You can get the Flowers and Vines Stamp & Emboss combo for 25% off this week only in the Hero Arts Online Store. Regularly $20.00, it’s priced at $15.00 through Sunday, April 1st.

For tomorrow’s post, I have another card idea and video to share. See you then!

Kristina

Hello and happy first day of Spring!! The grass is beginning to green and the birds are singing once again. Yay! To celebrate the arrival of Spring, I have another flowery card to share with you today.

It features a cluster of roses watercolored with Distress Inks, as taught by the amazing Shari Carroll in this technique article. As you can see, I picked some of the brightest, and in my mind, happiest colors from the Distress line for this card…

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

Did you notice the pattern peeking out from behind? It’s the Lattice Background stamp from the Hero Arts - Studio Calico Spring collection, and it’s NOW shipping to retail stores around the world! I know that will be music to the ears of many who have already placed it atop their wish lists.

Those lovely roses are from CL596 Pattern Hearts and Flowers, which our Stamp of the Week! You can get this set (part of the gorgeous BasicGrey Plumeria line) for 25% off this week only in the Hero Arts Online Store. Regularly $15.00, it’s priced at $11.25 through Sunday, March 25th.

Thanks for joining me today. Tomorrow is Watch It Wednesday…see you then!

Stamp something Springy,

Welcome back! I’ve got a cheery birthday card to share with you today using some of the amazing new Mid-Tone Shadow Inks.

These inks are perfect for images that have a lot of solid area like the gorgeous Silhouette Vines background stamp. On the card below I inked up this image with the Butter Bar Mid-Tone Shadow Ink and the result was phenomenal! Once the ink dried I was left with a perfectly smooth and crisp stamped image. I just love this shade of yellow!

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

The birthday sentiment circle from the Untitled Word Shadow stamp set is a perfect match for this background. And since it is a solid area stamp too, I used the Wet Cement Mid-Tone Shadow Ink to get a smooth image once again.

The versatile Untitled Word Shadow stamp set is also our Stamp of the Week! You can get it for 25% off this week only in the Hero Arts Online Store — no promo code needed.

I’ll be back tomorrow with a video. Have a great day!