Our Mixed Media Catalog is Here!! Blog Hop + Giveaway
Mixed media is a creative blend of materials, colors, and techniques. It can be collage, dimensional cardmaking, journaling, and so much more. Most of all, mixed media offers variety and play. With Hero Arts stamps, inks, pastes, embossing powders, sprays, papers, dies, and tools, creating mixed media projects is fun and easy. Don't be afraid to color outside the lines!
Our 2022 Mixed Media Catalog is an invitation to look at our supplies in a new way. We are introducing several fabulous new products today, but in this catalog, our Creative Team also jumped into their craft rooms with a new outlook - figuring out ways to stretch themselves creatively, and have fun playing!
The new products are linked at the bottom of the post, and you can flip page by page through our beautiful catalog below:
The products are also available in a collection on our website. We'll end the post with a blog hop, but before we do, let's take a look at a few beautiful projects created by Jayne Nelson. With this release, we invited our team to make a card, then use the same supplies for a mixed media project other than a card. The results were phenomenal!
For my first two projects, I’m featuring the versatile, new Months and Days stamp set to create a card and a frame. I started by layering assorted Nature and Sea Palette Reactive Inks onto Luxe Watercolor paper and then sprinkling them with water. Once dried, I randomly stamped across each background with stamps from the Months and Days set. I also stamped sentiments from the Dream Messages set with black ink.
Next, using circle stencils I made with the Nesting Circle Infinity Dies, I used acrylic paint to add white circles to cardstock pieces and the watercolored backgrounds. I stamped and die cut a collection of winged insects with the From The Vault Bugs stamp set, paired them with embossed sentiment strips, and then secured them to the card and the frame.
For my next two projects, a card and a wooden sign, I started by clear embossing the Luggage Tag Alphabet set onto watercolor paper. Then, I layered watercolors created with assorted Reactive Inks and water onto the embossed paper.
I painted pieces of white cardstock with pink and yellow acrylic paints, stamped them with the Circle Pattern Bold Prints background, and then die cut them with the Hello There Stamp & Cut die and the 5-Point Stars Infinity Dies. After securing the painted pieces to each project, I added Dream Messages sentiments and smaller images from the You Sparkle Bundle.
Now let's take a look at what our team has created! Be sure to leave comments along the way – every comment is an entry into our giveaway! Comment by Sunday, May 22, 2022 to enter. The winner will be announced on the blog the following week. We are giving away a prize pack of new products, valued at $68.
Hop along with our Creative Team:
Hero Arts
Channin Pelletier
Dana Joy
Daniel West
Debi Adams
Emily Midgett
Ilina Crouse
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Lydia Fiedler
Maria Willis
Michelle Short
Mindy Eggen
Pocono Pam
Seeka
Then join us tonight on either the Hero Arts YouTube channel or on our Facebook page for a live Mixed Media Catalog Spotlight! Libby will walk through the new products as well as the projects created by the team. If you cannot join us at 5pm PT/8pm ET tonight, May 18, the video will be available for replay after it finishes.
Oh and before we go – how about a little teaser for something coming soon? If you've looked through the catalog, you may have noticed something exciting at the back! Coming June 20, we are launching a new spectrum of color from Hero Arts! This launch will feature 57 Core Ink colors, ideal for everyday stamping and cardmaking. Core Ink pads offer a mix of updated current color formulas and 6 new colors. Each will have a matching Inker. Plus, many of the Core Ink colors match our Premium Cardstock, with 12 new paper colors also available. See the entire collection in our 2022 Mixed Media Catalog, and you can start buying as they become available at a store near you. Click "Notify Me" HERE, and we will email you when the Color System becomes available for purchase on our site starting June 20. Come back then to celebrate Color Week to get ideas and all of your favorite colors!
Happy Stamping!
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48 Responses
Karen Kirkman
May 22, 2022
Such fun things in the new catalog! I want to check out the wax, paste and scrubber block.
Alma Dirpaul
May 22, 2022
Such amazing products. Hero Arts is quickly becoming my favourite company.
Boucher
May 22, 2022
Great release. Love the Tiling Textures.
Amy Solovay
May 21, 2022
LOVE your projects, Jayne! I was super inspired by your “Dream Messages” projects, and I am totally kicking myself that I didn’t look for that stamp set when Joann recently had Hero Arts stamps on sale (I did get a couple of my other favorite sets, though, and am loving them).
Mixed media is SO TOTALLY my thing. I used to sell my collages and other mixed media art projects back in 2005-2009 (before the “Great Financial Crisis” — I stopped with that because my husband and I moved aboard a sailboat and went cruising, and it is really hard to paint or collage aboard a rocking sailboat….Plus I got a great freelance writing gig writing about crochet that took up all my time.) But now I am getting back into mixed media art, and it is harder than I thought it would be, That’s because there are so many more interesting mixed media products available now that it is a bit overwhelming to actually choose some to work with, sit down and start a project.
Speaking of which, the new Hero Arts mixed media products look amazing! I really look forward to trying the waxes, and the new inks are gorgeous! Funny thing, the “Peony” and “Mist” colors look similar to some of the colors in the floral printed clothes I just bought — right “on trend”.
I was especially excited to see that your post included projects other than cards — not that there is anything wrong with cards. I LOVE making cards, but it is great to branch out and try other types of projects, too. The picture frame and tag are both wonderful — LOVE them! I was thinking of buying some new picture frames, but you remind me that I might be able to make ones that would be even better than the ones I could buy. Thanks so much for the inspiration!
Manda Leong Johnston
May 21, 2022
I can’t wait to try the waxes!
Jill McLaird
May 21, 2022
I’m so excited to try the new wax!
Jess Yuan
May 20, 2022
These are fantastic! I can’t wait to play with the wax and new colors!
Neva Heatt
May 19, 2022
The colors are fun and soothing at the same time. Love the projects.
Nancy Knapp
May 19, 2022
Wow! My mind is churning to come up with a project for the mixed media rather than a card. I’m going to have to think hard to decide which stamps to use… Hmmm! The steampunk owl and bold print clock with the novel prose stamp.
Jeanne Beam
May 19, 2022
I love mixed media. I watch the live last night and there was so many gorgeous projects. Such great designers. Thanks for sharing.
Mary Holshouser
May 19, 2022
Love the mix of blue and green on the
first project. It was an amazing hop.
thanks for having it. txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
Patti Tucker
May 19, 2022
Mixed Media just makes my heart happy! So glad to see it coming more into the card making arena!
Stacey Kowbel
May 19, 2022
Such a fantastic catalogue of products! And fabulous prize!
JoAnne Silva
May 19, 2022
This new catalog and the projects are inspiring.
Stephanie Severin
May 19, 2022
Fabulous mixed media projects
Janet M Lebeau
May 19, 2022
Everything looks so fun! I cannot wait to try some of these new products especially the wax and the brick stencil!
RobiW
May 19, 2022
I love this new release! The mixed media projects are gorgeous!
karenladd
May 19, 2022
I’m determined to work more often with mixed media this year and am feeling so inspired by the beautiful DT samples. That dragonfly and butterfly shadow box project is so beautiful
Alexandra Young
May 19, 2022
That is such a fantastic prize pack! Thank you for the chance to win!
Penny Peck
May 19, 2022
Very inspiring. I liked the using the alphabet letters clear embossed and the dates and months background just to name a few.
Mary Hansen
May 19, 2022
I love catalogs, they are inspiration over and over again. Thanks!
Christine English
May 19, 2022
So much wonderful inspiration!
Sue D
May 19, 2022
Wonderful variety of mixed media projects.
Tina Anderson
May 19, 2022
These products are fabulous! I can hardly wait for the next Stamp Along!!
Jane Smith
May 19, 2022
OMG I am going to be broke! Love it all! The samples are amazing ! Thank you for this! I need to start playing!
Wendy Chan
May 19, 2022
Wow! Love these new products! Can’t wait to create with them.
Amy Golliver
May 19, 2022
The inspiration is fantastic. I love this mixed media feel.
Amy Cooley
May 19, 2022
Gorgeous projects! I can’t wait to see all the inspiration from the team with these new mixed media products.
Kendra T
May 19, 2022
I love these colors and your projects. They are absolutely beautiful!
Kendra T
May 19, 2022
I love these colors and your projects. They are absolutely beautiful!
Sheri Kempke
May 18, 2022
Beautiful projects and the new inks with matching papers look terrific. I had a quick look at the catalog, so many wonderful stencils!
Dawn Vinson
May 18, 2022
I love this new focus and am very much looking forward to Color Week!
Lauren Sheridan
May 18, 2022
I would love to make a card with an Asian theme using the CG880 Calligraphy Bold Prints. Using a gold embossing powder would be very elegant. The card examples above are so inspiring. Looking forward to trying some items from the catalog.
Barbara-Jean Kubik
May 18, 2022
Such wonderful new products!
Jeanne Rice
May 18, 2022
Love the release. Can’t wait to see all the inspirations!
Annette Reed
May 18, 2022
I am very excited about this new release. I have always loved mixed media and journals, but I’ve never really done a whole lot with either. I love these new products and am looking forward to seeing everyone’s projects. These ones look great. I especially like that first card with the color scheme and stamping.
Denise Bryant
May 18, 2022
Beautiful catalog! I love looking at the fabulous samples! So far, the Floral Silhouettes stamp set is really catching my eye, along with the stencil designs!
vicki dalton
May 18, 2022
I hopped and left comments for everyone
all the projects were Great!
My very fave was Debbi’s journal!
Linda Crowley
May 18, 2022
Browsing through the catalog, I discovered I am a Hero Arts addict, lol, I think I have about 85% of what is in there! I don’t do mixed media, but I love seeing it.
Meghan Kennihan
May 18, 2022
I love the butterflies and the colors! Gorgeous stenciling above! What a great hop! So much wonderful inspiration!
Nettie McFarland
May 18, 2022
So excited for the new line. Have started an Art Journal and can’t wait to the the new stuff!!!
Donna L Walls
May 18, 2022
I’ve recently re-started creating Art Journal Pages and Mixed Media Mini Canvas projects so I’m thrilled to bits for this new release! Great inspiration projects here and I’m looking forward to hopping through the remaining DT projects.
Sharon Gullikson
May 18, 2022
The Cobblestone stencil is my favorite. I love the irregular look. I would use it often.
Melissa SunshineHoneybee
May 18, 2022
Mixed media creations are wonderful. One of the reasons I like Tim Holtz (Like I said earlier I hope that I do not get put in timeout for c mentioning/complimenting others).
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Lori Lehnen
May 18, 2022
WOW! You have really knocked it out of the park with this fabulous new release!
I LOVE all of the Mixed Media items, so excited to find more inspiration along the hop!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Jennifer Ingle
May 18, 2022
These projects are stunning!
Phyllis Freese
May 18, 2022
There’s so many great products in your new catalog. I’ve never done much with mixed media, but your catalog inspires me to try it. Great card samples, too.
Mary Smith
May 18, 2022
This looks like a fun new catalogue! I’m excited about the new inks. My original inks when I first started stamping nearly 20 years ago, we’re from Hero Arts. They are starting to show their age! I may need to start over with brand new inks!😄