A Blog Named Hero

Archives for April 2012

Please Say “Hello!” To Our Design Team

We are so excited to write this post! We never, in our wildest dreams, imagined that our (not so) little blog would be so popular. It really came about organically, just two girls who had a mutual love for Hero Arts–the products, the people and the ideals. We had no idea that so so many of you agreed with us!
We are so happy to bring you our Design Team, fellow fan girls who just happen to be talented designers as well. 
It is our pleasure to introduce you to The Chalk Inks & The Shadow Inks. 
The Chalk Inks will be bringing you the challenges that are posted on the 1st of each month and the Shadow Inks will be bringing you the challenges that are posted on the 15th of each month. Each member of the design team will also be doing an additional post each month–something fun, such as a step-by-step photo tutorial or a video. 
We’ve asked each member of the team to create a project saying “Hello” to you.
So without further ado, we bring you The Chalk Inks:
Cheiron Brandon

Cristina Martinez
Lisa Carroll

Melissa Shea
Simone Naoum
Stephanie Klauck
And The Shadow Inks: 

Danielle Walls
Kelly Latevola

Lucy Newton
Michelle Liimatainen
Stephanie Britt

Tina Basa
We have a truly International team, which is fitting, since Linda and Mary Dawn are half a world away from each other. (Below you will find a list of products used in each team members card.)
We chose these ladies because we felt they had a great variety of strengths and styles–something to suit everyone!

We hope you will join us in welcoming them. We are SO excited to have them on the team!

Products used in Cheiron’s card:

Products used in Cristina’s card: 

Products used in Lisa’s card:

Products used in Melissa’s card: 

Products used in Simone’s card: 

Products used in Stephanie K.’s card:

Products used in Danielle’s card: 

Products used in Kelly’s card:

Products used in Lucy’s card: 

Products used in Michelle’s card:

Products used in Steph B.’s card:

Products used in Tina’s card:

Thank you so much for bearing with us through this monumental and exciting blog post! Look out for our next challenge on May 1st!

Winners!!

Hi everyone!!

A quick post today full of winners!

First of all, our giveaway thanks to the amazing Hero Arts …

 

 
Vicki Dutcher!!

Congratulations Vicki!!

and onto the Window Card Challenge entries!

Wow we received 122 amazing entries! Thank you all so much for your inspirational projects!

The winner of

A big thank you to our generous Sponsors Simon Says Stamp! We love you guys!

and the winner of the gift voucher is

Lisa!! Her gorgeous card HERE is so fantastic!  Congratulations Lisa!

And here are a few of the cards we felt deserved Special Mention and will be awarded A Blog Named Hero HEROINES! 🙂

Sally

Katie

Mel

Alice

Lisa

Karen

Marie

 Just so gorgeous and SUCH fantastic uses of the ‘window’ style.

Ladies, please email us and we’ll get your Heroine badges out to you 🙂

 Lisa & Vicky (winners of the GV and giveaway), please email us on ablognamedhero@gmail.com to claim your prize!

Thanks so much for stopping by, we’ll be back VERY soon to introduce our first Design Team!!

Window Card Video tutorial

Hi there, Stephanie here! I’m taking over the blog today to share a video with you!

Remember my card with a view for Challenge #2?

Today I’m sharing a video of how I made the card. I hope it will inspire you to make a window card for the challenge!

Well, are you inspired? Are you heading to your craft room to make a window card right now??? 🙂

Just a reminder, you have until midnight EST on April 25th to submit a card for the challenge! One lucky winner will win…………………….

Thanks so much for watching and a HUGE thank you to Linda & Mary Dawn for having me as a guest designer!!

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

Have an amazing day!

Stephanie xx

How About A Giveaway?! Oh, and a bit of business ;)


First of all a couple of bits and pieces 🙂

1.Thank you to everyone who sent us a DT Application email, we were thrilled with the response and overwhelmed by the amount of talent that came pouring in! Our decision has been made, and we will be contacting everyone within the next few days (we will be replying to both successful and unsuccessful applicants). The announcement will come soon after that!

2. If you enter any of our challenges (via the inlinkz tool) and link us to a photo that is in a Splitcoast Stampers forum, we will not be able to comment on your project. (We don’t have an account in order to log in). Your project will still be included in the draw for any prizes etc, but there will just not be any comment from us.

3. When entering giveaways etc, please ALWAYS be sure to include your email address otherwise we can’t contact you!

4. To the winners of the Celebration Week giveaways, prizes will be mailed out in the next week. Sorry for the delay 🙂

 We still have not heard from 5 people who were lucky enough to win a giveaway prize. We have emailed the two who included their email addresses (thank you!) but the following three need to contact us at ablognamedhero@gmail.com within the next 3 days (so, by midnight USA EST Monday 23rd April) or we will do a re-draw and offer the prizes to someone else 🙂 (so please reply to us!!)

        (Day 3, Wednesday) 
        #137 Michelle W said…
Some wonderful cards ladies! I’m loving this blog. I love all the inspiration and that so many people are being featured. 
(Day 4)

#43 cardcreationsnz said…
Once again three stunning cards, yet all so different.
I love the layout of the first one and what a great way to use up scraps – but like you say, it doesn’t look like it.
The second one is so cute and I love the paper piecing.
The Hydranga looks stunning. What a clever idea to create the background with it too.
Thanks again for such inspiration!

Thursday, March 29, 2012  

(Day 5) 
#101 Therese D in Oz said…
I just found your new blog. It is great so far. Loads of inspiration. Thank you

Saturday, March 31, 2012

And now for the fun stuff!

Enter your name and email into the linky widget for a chance to win:

Prize courtesy of Hero Arts!
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Distress Watercoloring Tutorial with Chari

Hi Everyone, Chari here today to share with you a little tutorial about watercoloring with your distress inks & markers.  Distress inks are one of my favorite supplies but I only recently started watercoloring with them. In this video I will use the inks as well as the markers so no matter which you have in your stash you can use these techniques too.

I will apologize now for the beginning of my video, my phone did some funny stuff to the first few minutes of my recording…but we’re just going to call it super cool effects! 🙂 

Here is a shot of the finished card.  I only colored 2 flowers because I knew I would be cutting them off and wanted to waste as little as possible. The thing I like best about watercoloring is it leaves room for imperfections, and being the perfectionist that I am I need a medium that can be forgiving of my mistakes at times. It’s also easy to add and take away color with watercolor which is a nice feature as well (more wiggle room for correcting mistakes).

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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and it has inspired you to get out your favorite distress inks and some water and play!

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