Happy June, friends!
It’s that time again, where we challenge you to create something beautiful!
This month we thought we’d challenge you to something a little different, something that can be a bit more difficult to create at the time it’s needed most. Having a few of these cards on hand can be very convenient, especially when your heart is hurting.
Hi there!
I’m excited to share with you the winners of our May Challenge.
Thank you all for playing along, we got some lovely cards made, truly inspirational!
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!
The winner of the $50 gift certificate to Hero Arts and DT choice is:
The winner of the $25 gift certificate to Hero Arts via random.org, is:
Congratulations 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!
We’ll see you all again very soon for the new challenge that starts on the 15th!
Hello all lovers of Hero Arts. I’m here today to thank you all for celebrating with us the last month. We have received lots of beautiful projects and you sure do make the selection of the winner hard for us. Stop by tomorrow to see who will win the Celebration prize.
I also want to show you my last inspiration card for the Celebration theme made using the “Pet turtle” stamp set as my inspiration jump off. I stamped and colored the relaxed turtle using my copic markers and then I needed to create the rest of the card.
I remembered the layered sea stamps that I got in my June 2018 My Monthly hero kit and that you can also buy separately now and I thought it would be perfect as a relaxation spot for my turtle. I stamped the ocean using the Deep ocean, summer sky and soft sky ink blocks and also lightly colored the sky using the summer sky ink. I cut a slit in my sea and put the turtle in.
I stamped the sentiment “Let’s shell-ebrate” from the “Pet turtle” stamp set on the top part of my card panel. And now I needed a few more bits and pieces. I stamped and colored the clouds and flying seagull from the “Seas the day seagulls” set and glued them close to the sentiment and I also stamped an colored the bottle with the message from the “You & me by the sea” set and placed it on the sea as well.
I thought I was done at this point and glued my card panel to a white card base and then I saw a leftover light post from a previous project lying around on my desk (The light post is from the MMH October 2018 kit). The light posts bottom part looked just like the handle on a fishing rod, so… with minor surgery it became just that. I drew on the fishing line and hook and “attatched” the fishing line to to the bottle. A perfect last detail to the card.
I wish you all a lovely day.
Hi all, its Gwendolyn here today to share a card I made to incite you to join our latest challenge “Celebrate”, cause we’re celebrating Hero Arts 45th anniversary! You still have a day to enter your cards here as the challenge ends on the 10th of June. Any cards with a celebration theme will do, so birthdays, anniversaries, graduation…
I played with my alcohol inks on Yupo paper today and created a coloured panel from which to cut my Hero Arts Fairy Window Fancy die, which was adhered to my card base which I previously stencilled on using Hero Arts Spiral Petals stencil. To adhere the intricate diecut to my paper, I used a glue/varnish used for the napkin/decoupage projects and brushed it onto the back of my diecut. So even if it borders over to the front of the die cut when I’m brushing it on, it doesn’t matter as its transparent.
I stamped on the sentiment from Hero Arts My Monthly Hero December kit, (which is sold out by the way, but which I am giving away as my way of celebrating Hero Arts 45th anniversary! See my post here to see how.) using Hero Arts mulled wine ink as I wanted it to look as if it was part of the diecut. I even extended the tail end of the “S” in “wishes” so that it would connect to the diecut.
This card took me all of 30mins so I hope this will inspire you to make a card too and join in our “Celebrate” challenge. Looking forward to seeing your wonderful projects here! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful crafty day!
Hi Friends! Kristina here for my solo post of the month! I’ve created another card to go with out current Celebrate theme – You have a few more days to get your projects linked up! Here’s what I’ve come up with, it i’s Hero Art’s birthday after all…
I fell in love with this butterfly set the moment I saw it. These images are drawl beautifully. While I have lots of colorful plans for them, I wanted to keep the coloring simple.
I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens for all of my watercoloring. I started by coloring my main butterfly, and once dried, I went around the white space fading it in from the edges of the card and the main butterfly.
I glued this panel down to some fun foam for sturdy dimension, and then only an a2 sized card base. To finish I went over all of the black and white butterflies with a shimmer pen. Lastly, heat embossed my sentiment onto pink card stock with white embossing powder and adhered it onto the card with foam tape.
Thank you for stopping by today, I hope I’ve giving you some inspiration to enter our challenge!
 Hero Arts New Day Butterflies Where to buy: HA |
 Hero Arts Greetings Occasions Where to buy: HA |
 Neenah Solar White Where to buy: SSS |
 Bristol Strathmore Smooth Paper Where to buy: SSS | AMZ |
 Hero Arts Azalea Cardstock Where to buy: HA |
 Hero Arts Intense Black Ink Where to buy: HA |
 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens Where to buy: SSS | AMZ |
 Wink of Stella Clear Where to buy: SSS | AMZ |
 Nuvo Crystal Drops White Where to buy: SSS |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder Where to buy: HA |
 Art Institute Glitter Glue Where to buy: AMZ |
 SA 3L Foam Squares Where to buy: SSS | AMZ |
 Hero Arts Acrylic Block Trio Where to buy: HA |
 Wagner Heat Gun Where to buy: HA |
 Scor Pal Where to buy: SSS | AMZ |
 MISTI Where to buy: SSS | AMZ |
 Teflon Bone Folder Where to buy: SSS | AMZ |