2019 Oh What Fun Catalog Release + Blog Hop
Last month we introduced our 2019 Oh What Fun Winter Catalog, full of brand new stamps, dies, stencils, embellishments and more. Oh what fun it is, indeed!
Today is the day we've been waiting for - all of the wonderful products from this new release are available in the Hero Arts store right here on our website! Browse more than 70 new items and get ready to create for the upcoming season!
And of course, what's a release without a ton of inspiration? We've gathered together our talented Creative Team and some of our fabulous blogging friends for a blog hop to introduce all of the must-have products!
First, let's see what our friend Kelly Rasmussen has shared today...
My favorite new product from the catalog is the Merry Christmas Cover Plate die. This die-cuts a beautiful intricate winter scene that is sized perfectly for an A2-sized card. For my card today, I'm combining masking and Reactive Inks to create a simple Christmas card that I made in under 20 minutes (which may be a record for me)!
First, I die-cut the Merry Christmas Cover Plate die from masking paper and placed it on a panel of Dove White cardstock. Next, I used Blue Raspberry, Blue Hawaii and Berry Smoothie Reactive Inks along with a blender brush to create the gradient of color over the background. Make sure to overlap each color by about an inch to ensure a seamless blend!
Then I removed the masking paper to reveal the perfectly crisp lines. Anyone else get giddy when removing masking paper? It's truly a thing of beauty. :)
I trimmed the panel to be slightly smaller than a standard A2 card and then mounted it on a Dove White Top Folding Card with foam adhesive. The card would be perfect as is, but I just had to use some of our new Enamel Dots. I chose colors from the Aquas, Blues and Purples packs that coordinated perfectly with my ink colors. I just love these little accents so much! They come in the perfect sizes and colors!
Thanks, Kelly! And now it's time to hop! Today we're joined by both our wonderful Creative Team, and some great industry friends. Be sure to visit every blog and leave a little love - we will give away $50 gift cards to the Hero Arts shop to TWO lucky winners drawn from all comments left across the hop. Comment by August 31 at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.
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Jessica Frost-Ballas
Julee Tilman
Laura Bassen
Libby Hickson
Lydia Fiedler
Mariana Grigsby
Nichol Spohr
Wanda Guess
Yana Smakula
We're so excited about this release - we hope you love it!
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100 Responses
Renee Vanepps
So beautiful!!!! This is one of my top 5 faves from this release :)
Carol Jones
I definitely LOVE this new release! And nothing more fun than a great Hop with beautiful inspiration!
Edina
Nice card, lovely vivid colours. Great inspiration, thanks for sharing!
Barbara Rokke
Love getting ready for Christmas cards!! Love this card idea!
Marisela Delgado
awesome cards
Barbara H
A great blog hop with lots of inspiration from the designers and great products. Thank you for the opportunity to win the giveaway.
janine mendez
beautiful and bright! love the colors used in this card
JMN
Especially love the Merry Christmas cover die card. Fantastic new release Hero Arts.
Karen L K
So much fun in this release! My wish list is long! The die used on this pretty card is one of my favorites.
Pamela Edwards
This is a great group of stamps and dies. Love the medieval theme. Your kits are always fantastic.
Beverly Jordan
Wow! Fun and colorful card! Love the new releases and have such a long list of wants!
Elizabeth Hunter
‘Very curious — I am a calligrapher hoping to learn more about these wonderful tools.
Denise Kitts-Wadlow
I am head over heels for this release! So many fun & wonderful products! Love the I k blending with the new inks, and this cover ate die is a defi.ite must have. Thanks Hero Arts for this wo derful release!!!
Alma Dirpaul
Thanks for the opportunity to win
Marilyn Pool
This is my favorite die from this release. I first saw it on Jennifer Mcquire’s channel. This card is beautiful. Never thought of using masking paper to leave the design behind.
Mary Bee
Love your technique, Kelly. And the colors are beautiful. I’ll have to try. Thanks for the inspiration.l
Robiw
I always look forward to a new Hero Arts catalog!
Lauryne Cunningham
Wow! What wonderful, new products! Can’t wait to start the blog hop!
Arlene
That die could be used in so many different ways and colors. Love it.
ruby
Such a pretty gradient, really makes the white POP!
Linda Bolhofner
Love the cool winter colors on the card.
Maureen Bozek Herrera
I love that Christmas cover plate! It’s very intricate and beautiful. I also love the array of colors used for the cover. The color combination is very harmonizing and goes beautifully with that background.
I would love to be able to win one of the gift cards, it would give me a little jump start towards replacing all my supplies that I lost during the Harvey storm. I haven’t been able to start replacing them except for maybe the very basics.
Good luck to everyone and thanks Hero Arts! 😃
M Lugo
This will be amazing for next crop/scrapbook day. Thanks Hero Arts.
Elizabeth Nichols
Beautiful!
Diane K McCracken
I love these cards!
Julie Booker
This release is just fabulous!!! So many things have been added to my wishlist sigh Such a beautiful card. The lovely background just makes the white from the masked cover plate just pop. Gorgeous!
Janet Trieschman
love the colors
Zlatka K
Beautiful card! I love this release!
Kathy Dippner
Beautiful die cut! Love the background it’s on.
Jody
Love the ombre look of this card.
Crystal Lewis
This looks like a fun set.
Cynthia Finn
I love Christmas and love all the things I see to embellish my ornaments
Becky Isaac
I love this Christmas cover plate and the card you created!
Rose Mary Smalley
Beautiful card. Lots of new goodies coming…thank you Hero Arts!!
Angela
The colors are so pretty on this card. Coverplate is so festive.
Penny Hanuszak
Sooooooooooo many great ideas in the Winter catalogue and I’m loving the blog hop. I’m totally head over heels with the Winter Village with Circular Peek-A-Boo Doors dies. What fun! Thanks for sharing.
Louanne Collins
Love these release blog hops – so much inspiration and creative ideas! Wonderful holiday products in this release — can’t wait to see what your designers created.
Susan Vitti
Love this release! So many cool options!
Maureen Turner
What a wonderful collection for making winter and holiday cards!
Bridget Haig
Love your card, the colors are perfect with each other and the outline is so clear.
Cecilia IP
Great Winter Collection, we can have fun for this Christmas, thank you for making so gorgeous products 😍😍
Carol B
I always love seeing the new release, so much fun! Thanks for sharing all this inspiration!
Carol B
Linda W. (ScrappinBari)
What a beautiful stenciled background, Kelly!! So many great items in the holiday catalog but those cover dies are so versatile! Thanks for showing them as a stencil.
Carol b
Unique die to make a card quickly.
Carol b
Cheryl Barrios
A lovely Christmas card. I love the white as the feature of the card and the colors that add to the beauty.
Debbi
Beautiful!
Pam Joiner
Can’t wait to get started on the hop! Just the glimpses of the new products has me excited to see what wonderful projects everyone has created with them! I don’t know how I will ever decide what to purchase….everything?!
Mary
Love the blending.
Virginia Ellison
Kelly, this is an awesome card and I love the colors you chose. Can’t wait to continue on for more inspiration.
Amy Peacock
Wonderful cards and products!
Jan T
The Merry Christmas Cover Plate is my favorite too! I might need to get the berry and smoothie colors to go with it! So Pretty!
Jan T
Love all those berry and smoothie colors used, makes the card so pretty!
Tina C
Beautiful card and looking forward to seeing all the new products at play!
Sam Burnett
Beautiful card, Kelly; I never thought of using a cover die with the masking paper – brilliant! And I love that cover die!
Cindy Classen
The new release… wow! Can’t wait to see what beautiful ideas are voming my way. Thanks. You’re my Hero (arts)! 😉
Cindy Classen
This looks amazing Kelly. Beautiful card. Tfs!
Patty McMurray
All of the new things are just gorgeous.
isabel z
Can’t wait to create with these amazing new sets! You have done such an amazing job creating with them.
Savannagh Kacey
Happy Birthday, Hero Arts! Thanks for getting this release out in plenty of time for us to create our Christmas cards.
Peggy Pighetti
Love this look!
Giselaine Ellison
Very pretty card Kelly. I love the cover plate. Looks like it took a while to do but 20 minutes…yay! I do love masking paper to.
Penny Klie
Beautiful card… this release has so many beautiful dies and stamps… hard to choose.
Cary Lombardo
Can’t wait to look through the whole release. Beautiful card.
DebbieP
thanks for the hop. Looking forward to all the inspiration
Shawn Harcrow
Spending my day off looking at all the new products and making my wish list.
Vikki H
Oh, can’t wait to begin crafting with new stuff, especially Hero Arts goodies!
Dana M
Aptly named – Oh what a fun release! Fantastic products.
Denise Monteith
What a gorgeous release. Can’t wait to see what creative ideas your team have come up with.
Mary Holshouser
The catalog is fantastic. The DT did
a wonderful job using some of the
products in it. thanks for having
the hop. txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
Cyndi Morris
Hard to believe it’s time to start thinking about Christmas, the this catalog will surely get me in the spirit. That Merry Christmas cover plate is wonderful.
Kerry
Thinking about what to create for my holiday cards… great time for holiday release
Carol Wortman
It’s official. Christmas is on it’s way, and beautifully done.♡♡
Bonnie Eng
Oh, my fingers are itching to do Christmas crafting – there are so many things in this release that I so want!!!!
Debbie Corker
What a great new collection!!!
Jennifer Rasnick
What a beautiful release!
Jen Pence
I would love to be able to purchase some new things!!
Sheila
Great hop!
Sue D
I like the beautiful colors.
Terrie D.
What a beautiful card! I love the ink blended background. :)
Deeps Lakshman
I am loving the new products especially the reactive inks. I can’t wait to see what the others have created.
Cassie
I really love the reactive inks, they are so vibrant. They make perfect backgrounds for all kinds of cards.
Michelle Hackett
I love masking too. This card is gorgeous, and I love the new enamel dots.
Eva K Walker
Came to visit your site after meeting you today on SCT blog. This is a beautiful card but not sure what masking paper is? We don’t get winter/snow here in the south so hard to find good Christmas card making items.
Teri S.
Oh what fun is right! This die is beautiful & I’m really looking forward to seeing the rest of the blog hop. HA is a fabulous company.
Bonnie King
Cute! This die is great and I love the new enamel dots.
Jennel dohrn
Wonderfully beautious stamps dies and embellishments. Awesome products.
Holly Jackson
I absolutely love the new goodies!
Holly Flores
This is so fabulous, thank you for sharing your creative ideas and inspiring me. Love all the great projects from the design team.
Heather Mills
This is so pretty! Love the beautiful background!
Judy Inukai
What a lovely card. I like the idea of using masking paper for the intricate die.
Janelle Espinoza
Thank you for the wonderful opportunity to see new products and a chance to win some wonderful prizes!
Melody
So cool!! Must try this very soon!
Lindar C
Beautiful blending, great card!
Jackie S
I have never thought to use my dies on masking paper. Thanks for sharing!
julia
Love the Cathedral of Trees!
Carrie Rhoades
I love SOOOO many of the things in this new release!
Anna
This is so pretty and I like that the colors are a little “non-traditional.” Are those enamel dots matte? The whole look is gorgeous.
Pai
Love all the snowflakes!
Sherri Little
Oh What Fun It Is to be on a Hero Arts blog hop!
Noreen Patterson
New to the Hero Arts experience and enjoying the great ideas along with products. Thanks
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