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I just can’t believe how many birthday cards I am always making! And how did my granddaughter get to be six already?? Let’s join the current Stay Crafty with Hero Birthday Challenge and make a super easy card with some Hero Arts dies. To make this card stamp the Confetti Bold Prints background stamp in Rose Madder ink on Peony cardstock. Use Slimline & Bookmarks...

Hey there friends, Daniel, here with a fun spotlight technique featuring the Forest Shapes Bold Prints. Sometimes, I feel overwhelmed with a large amount of open spaces on a background stamp. What if I color the whole thing in and make a mistake on a section of it? What if I don't have time to color it in completely because I just learned I needed...

We at Hero Arts believe in the power of expression through creativity, and sharing is a pathway to connecting with others through the thoughtfulness of a creative community. To support these ideas, and to give back to the community we love, Hero Arts has multiple ongoing charitable campaigns. You can learn about each current campaign on our Giving Page. The best part? YOU help make...

Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here with you today sharing a card I created showcasing the new Flowy Stripes Stencil. This stencil can be layered with various Hero Arts inks to create beautiful designs that will enhance your projects. For today's card, I thought the stencil would make beautiful background paper. To create my card, I adhered two opposite sides of the Flowy Stripes Stencil onto...

Welcome back everyone! This is Mindy here with you today to share a clean and simple card using the fun new You Lift Me Up stamp set from Hero Arts. There are lots of great scene building elements included in this set with fun geometric patterns. I had my heart set on the hot air balloon and clouds the second I saw it! To draw...

Hi friends! Today we are excited to bring you the second installment of our monthly series, Celebrating Black Crafters - Honoring Black History Throughout The Year, where we share artwork from Black artists who we'd love for you to get to know! First, let's meet Robin! Hello everyone! I’m Robin Marshall Clark but you can call me The Delta Crafter. I have been a craft...

Hello stampers! It's time to announce the winner from our April My Monthly Hero Release Day Blog Hop. Big thanks to everyone who participated, checked out the cards on the designers’ blogs, left lovely comments, and made this month's kit a success! If you haven't had a chance to grab your kit yet, we do still have a limited quantity available here. Our randomly selected...

Hello there, Michelle here and today I have a card and video to share with you using the popped up die cut inlay technique. This is such a fun technique that steps traditional inlay a little. I am using the Birthday Message Cover Plate for my card today because not only does it work really well for the technique, it also fits in with our...

Today's post introduces the latest challenge from our friends over at A Blog Named Hero. We are so thankful for the support they give us, and the beautiful creations the team creates. If you're looking for a fun challenge to play along with, check them out! Today team member Kailash is sharing a project for their April challenge. Hi crafty friends. I’m so excited to...

Hello crafty friends! It's time to Stay Crafty With Hero! This month's challenge should be an easy one. It's one of the main reasons we create handmade cards. This month we are challenging you to make Birthday Cards! It can be any sort of style or design, and use any sort of stamp, die, stencil or whatever type of product you wish. Whatever birthday theme...

Hello, crafty friends! Seeka here and today I'm sharing a card featuring the new Graphic Reef stamp set and coordinating dies. These geometric images are perfect for a clean and simple ocean scene! I began by selecting a few colors of Hero Hues cardstock for my images. I chose Pumpkin for the crab, Papaya for the coral, and Kiwi and Meadow for the seaweed. Using...

Happy Wednesday and welcome to our April Awesome Add-ons feature! Have you had a chance to check out the new stamps, dies, and stencils included in the April add-on collection? So many of these will pair creatively with the geometric stencils in the main kit and of course can stand on their own, too! Take a look... Shop for the April MMH add-ons here Today...

Hello friends! It's Channin here and today I’m sharing a pair of cards I created with the new April 2021 My Monthly Hero Kit. In today’s video I demonstrate two different stencil combos and styles of ink blending with the rotating stencils and ink pads included in the kit. (If you are having trouble viewing this video, watch HERE on YouTube.) I started with the...

We're excited to put our own spin on stencil layering with the April My Monthly Hero kit. You can use the trio of geometric pattern stencils to create countless unique kaleidoscope-inspired designs by layering and rotating them at any angle. We've included three ink cubes to get your creative juices flowing, as well as one of our new blending brushes. Finish your project with the...

It's almost time to launch the April My Monthly Hero kit – release is coming up today at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific! We hope you’ve enjoyed all of the ideas our team has shared for using this kit. As promised, we have one kit to give away to a lucky blog reader, selected from comments left on the Countdown to Creativity posts. We’ve randomly selected a...

It's Saturday and only two days remain until our April kit is revealed! We can't wait to share it all with you on Monday, April 5 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Are you ready for more inspiration from our Creative Team? Channin, Pam and Ilina are here today with fresh cards that showcase the kit beautifully. As always, you can follow the blog links provided below...

Hello and welcome back to the April My Monthly Hero countdown! Release day is coming up on Monday, April 5 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Our Creative Team is here to share another round of fabulous cards today. You'll find even more detail about these projects on the designers' blogs - links provided below. Project #5 created by Maria WillisClick HERE to visit her blog for...

Happy April, friends! This month we are kicking off our My Monthly Hero kit countdown a day earlier than usual. (Surprise...no April fooling!) We invite you to join us right here on the blog for three days of inspiration and giveaway opportunities before the new kit and add-ons launch on Monday, April 5 at 1pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. The Creative Team has four fantastic cards...

Spring is finally here and with it, beautiful, seasonal inspiration. Today, I’m sharing a pair of spring rainbow inspired cards that I made with the Strong Anchor Stamp & Cut set using one of my favorite, tried and true stamping techniques—stamping images with water and Reactive Inks to create colorful watercolor designs. I started by selecting five, rainbow colored Reactive inks for each background. To...

Hi there! Emily Midgett with you today, and I have a super springy project to share with you using the Hero Florals Poppy stamp set from the latest Spring Catalog release! This time of year always puts me in a peach and navy mood. There's something so clean and fresh about that color combination. Luckily, poppies come in such a huge variety of colors that...

Hi everybody! It’s Maria here and today I’ve got a really fun and easy technique to share with you. I’m calling it a Faux Watercolor Technique and I’ll be showing how to do it with your background stamps. This technique will work best with stamps that have some surface area to the design vs. being detailed stamp designs with fine lines. For today’s cards I’ve...

Hi friends! Lydia here today with a card design tip - FINGERPAINT! My friend Jeanne told me to just fingerpaint clouds with white acrylic paint several years ago, and I was a changed woman - it's so easy to get wispy, sweet, partially transparent clouds with your built in paintbrushes that I rarely do them any other way. I used acrylic paint to paint a...

Hey there friends, Daniel, here with a really fun design featuring the new Book Window Fancy Die. I chose a fairly neutral palette of cool and warm grays, some sand and a touch of dark red. You can color any of Hero's Fancy Dies. They do have some lines embossed in them after die cutting them, to help guide your coloring. This window die, in...

Hola everyone! Pocono Pam here with you today sharing a card I created using the Flower Shop Background Cling. This delightful red rubber stamp is A2 size - perfect to stamp onto a card base. Though the stamp has several windows, sills and flowers to color, I wanted to create a clean and simple card spotlighting two of the windows. I started by stamping the...

Hello there, Michelle here and today I have a bookmark to share with you created using the new Slimline & Bookmarks Infinity Dies. These dies work perfectly for creating slimline card layers, bookmarks and also the smallest of the layers are perfect for die cutting sentiment strips too. They are extremely versatile! Today, I thought I would create a bookmark. I started off by die...

Welcome back everyone! Mindy here with you today to show you how to use the new Hero Arts Contour Ink for no-line coloring. If you are not familiar with no-line coloring, it simply means that your images are stamped in a light color of ink and as you color the image in your favorite medium, the lines of the image seem to disappear. This technique...

I am honored to host the blog on this first day of SPRING!!! It is MOST welcomed this year! And on this first day of spring, I'm inspired by this month's Stay Crafty with Hero blog challenge - Bring on Spring! Life Is Beautiful is one of my favorite sets because it has so many possibilities. So let’s show you a few cards you can...

Hi everyone! Ilina here. Today I am sharing super fun card using the new Balloon Window Fancy Die and adding color to it. To make the card start with a piece of Dove White cardstock measuring 4" x 5 1/4". Die cut the Balloon Window Fancy Die in the center. Next using alcohol based markers (I used Copics) color each of the balloons. I decided...

Hey everyone. It's Dana Joy with you today. I have a quick card for you featuring the Book Stacks Bold Prints background stamp and the Literary Quotes clear set. Having a large image as a background makes card designing a breeze. To start my card I stamped the large Book Stack on Meadow cardstock with embossing ink. I sprinkled on gold embossing powder and then...

Welcome everyone! It's Mindy here with you today to share something a little different. The moment I saw the Novel Prose Bold Prints background stamp, I knew I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and try my hand at a little mixed media. It's new (to me!), unpredictable and a ton of fun! The latest release featuring books, ties well with some previously...

Hello stampers! It's time to announce the winner from our March My Monthly Hero Release Day Blog Hop. Big thanks to everyone who participated, checked out the cards on the designers’ blogs, left lovely comments, and made this month's kit a success! If you haven't had a chance to grab your kit yet, we do still have a limited quantity available here. Our randomly selected...

Hi friends! Today we are excited to kick off our new monthly series: Celebrating Black Crafters - Honoring Black History Throughout The Year. The idea for this series came about while planning our celebration of friendship and unity during Black History Month. We felt that Black History is American History, and should be celebrated throughout the year, not only during February. In that spirit we...

Good morning! Jess here with a fun interactive card using the new Typewriter Fancy Die. When you pull the paper the full message is revealed! And I have a video for today's card that you can watch below or over at our YouTube channel HERE. If you cannot view the video please click here to go to our YouTube channel. To start I die-cut the...

Today's post introduces the latest challenge from our friends over at A Blog Named Hero. We are so thankful for the support they give us, and the beautiful creations the team creates. If you're looking for a fun challenge to play along with, check them out! Today team member Rosie is sharing a project for their March challenge. Hi crafty friends! I am so excited...

Hello crafty friends! Are you ready to Stay Crafty With Hero? We don't know about you, but we are ready to Bring on Spring! So that's the theme for this month's challenge. Whatever spring means to you - brighter days, buds on trees, flowers blooming, or perhaps even rain? Whatever spring means to you, let that inspire your cardmaking or creative time this month. We'll...

Hello, crafty friends! Seeka here and today I'm sharing a card featuring the sweet Library Card Stamp & Cut XL set. This set makes me feel so nostalgic for my childhood library; I can still feel the extra tug it took to pull out tight wood card catalog drawers, and I can hear the sound of the librarian stamping due dates! I began by die...