A Blog Named Hero

Let’s Celebrate!

May 21, 2019

Hi, everyone, it’s Lee Ann here. I hope you are all having a great week! Today I’m sharing another Celebration Birthday card featuring some of the first stamps that I picked up over 5 years ago at the Hero Arts Factory Store. This card for me shows that you can create something completely new even from your older stashed items.

I am loving the current trend of black and white left uncolored with a bright pop of spring colors. This palette in the center of the card is made up of, Hero’s Mid Tone Dye Inks Butter Bar, Bubblegum, Fresh Peach, Pale Tomato, and Soft Vanilla. I used a long paint strip stamp from my stash and over-layed the pretty pinks and yellows, then white heat embossed on top and added white gel pen details. I slipped this strip under the partially cut circles that I stamped in black ink with the top part of the tree stamp. I added some small illustrations copied from the stamp set with a black micron pen to fill in the blanks.

I used white gel pen and some nuvo drops in coordinating color for small embellishments and trimmed the corners for finish.

Be sure to check out our 45 years of Hero Arts celebration and join our May challenge! Click here for all the details.

Thanks so much for stopping by, More details on my blog if you are interested!

– Lee Ann

You’re My Lucky Star

May 18, 2019

Hi everyone it’s Jessica here. Happy Saturday! Today I’m sharing an out of this world encouragement card featuring Lucky Star.

But first, be sure to check out our 45 years of Hero Arts celebration and join our May challenge! Click here for all the details.

Now on to today’s card, I started by die cutting an A2 sized rectangle with Bristol Smooth Card Stock.

I wanted an emboss resist effect so I treated the card front with an anti-static tool and heat set the constellations with white embossing powder.

Now it’s time to get inky and I blended Distress Inks in Black Soot, Chipped Sapphire and Wilted Violet. Once I was happy with the blend, I added drops of water to activate the ink.

Next, I stamped and coloured the main images using Spectrum Noir TriBlend Markers. To finish off the card I added a sentiment strip, coordinating sequins and 3D foam tape for dimension.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

– Jessica

May Challenge!

May 15, 2019

Hello again crafty friends,

First of all we’d like to wish our beloved Hero Arts a VERY happy 45th anniversary!!! We’re so proud of the beautiful images you make and what a positive force you are in the crafting industry.

It’s time to get your crafty thinking caps on today because for this month’s challenge we want you to CELEBRATE! Any kind of cards that are geared towards happiness, celebration and congratulations! Have fun with it!

Our Design Team have been getting crafty to provide you with inspiration!

What do you think?! Lots of different styles huh!?

We do hope you’ll join us for this challenge, its’ so fun to go back through some favourite stamps!

Please join via the linky tool below, and we can’t wait to see what you create! You have until 5pm on the 10th of next month (June) to enter!

April Challenge Winners!

May 14, 2019

Hi there crafty friends,

I’m here to announce the winners of our April challenge!

There were some really beautiful creations this month and it was really hard to pick one!

We have two winners each month. Our chosen challenge winner will win a $50 gift certificate to Hero Arts and a randomly chosen winner will win a $25 gift certificate to Hero Arts! Winners, please send us an email at ablognamedhero@gmail.com and we’ll set you up with those prizes! And, of course, many thanks to Hero Arts for sponsoring our challenge!

Our winner chosen by random.org was Jenny Hall

You win a $25 Gift Voucher! You watercoloring is gorgeous!!

and our chosen winner was Hannelle from Desert Dive with this amazingly unique card!

We were blown away with your design! You win a $50 gift voucher to Hero Arts!

Please send us an email to the address above to claim your prize 🙂

Thank you all for joining us and I hope you’ll come back on the 15th for our next challenge!

See you then 🙂

Poppies in Venice

May 13, 2019

Hi everyone. I’m on the blog today to thank you all for wonderful entries in our Clean and Simple challenge the last month. We are stunned by all your wonderful makes.

I am ending this month’s Clean and Simple theme by showing you the card below using all kinds of Hero Arts goodness.

I started this card by cutting white cardstock to a long rectangle that made my image panel. I then stamped my poppies using the Color layering poppy stamp set. For the flowers I used the colors: Pale tomato, Red Royal and a red reactive from the My Monthly hero July 2018 kit. For the stems and buds I used the colors Forever green and Green hills.

I arranged the flowers on the rectangle and tied a red bow around the whole panel before popping it up on foam tape on a white card base.

I used one of the dies from the My Monthly Hero April kit and cut the white Venice buildings and glued them directly on the card base to make it look like it goes across the whole card.

To finish this poppies in Venice card I stamped the sentiment “Wishing you the best” also from the April My Monthly Hero kit.

Be sure to come back tomorrow to see the winners of the Clean and Simple challenge and the 15th to see the reveal of the May challenge.

I hope you have a wonderful day. Make it a good one.