Colorizing Hero Paste

Hero Paste Stencils

Apr 12, 2024 Lydia Fiedler

Hi friends! Lydia here with a fun and simple way to custom dye your Hero Paste that will have you obsessing over custom color combos, I promise.

Hero has 57 Core Inkers for you to work with – so imagine how many unique combinations there are. Someone needs to do the math – but it is in the millions for sure.

I love to work with primaries, so for my Hero Paste experiment, I chose these reinkers: Ultra Pink, Summer Sky and Lemon Yellow.

Here's what I recommend doing as setup before you colorize your pastes.

Grab your white Hero Paste (or glitter or pearl), a Hero Palette Knife and your inkers of choice.
Apply temporary adhesive to the back of the card panel you will be working with and stick it onto a scrap paper that is larger than the size of your stencil..
Set up a paper plate, craft mat or other smooth surface to mix your paste on.
Grab some tape for your stencil and tape it on top of your card panel.

If you're using multiple colors, like I am, I recommend a ratio of about 1 tsp. of paste to one drop of inker. If you are coloring a full card front, a tablespoon and three drops of inker should be plenty.

Mix the inker into the paste with the palette knife – it will change the consistency a bit at first – but just keep mixing. When the color is even, the consistency will be too. However, a variation on this technique is to deliberately undermix the color so that you get darker and lighter streaks in the paste – just have fun!

Apply your colorized paste through the stencil like you normally do. I chose this fun and funky, modern Floral Trove Stencil – because the bolder and more open the stencil, the more color variation you will see, so keep that in mind.

Here's what mine looked like while drying – I wanted to see how the same colors looked on white and black cardstock. Notice on the black how it makes very bright colors look more pastel.