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Day 4 of Our Love-fest with May Arts Ribbons & Trims

We’re back with four more projects from the design team pairing their favorite Hero Arts with some gorgeous May Arts ribbons. I love how you can give a group of talented designers the same product and they each bring something fresh and fabulous. It makes me so happy when our girls rock it out like they are doing this week.

Kelly Latevola

Christine Drogt

Michelle Liimatainen

Michelle Liimatainen

Don’t forget to leave our designer’s some comment love on each post this week. It’ll get you 5 chances to win one of 3 May Arts prize packs!

There’s also still time to enter our current challenge, do that too! Entering the challenge puts your name in the pot to win a $25 voucher from our fabulous sponsor, Simon Says Stamp! 

Kelly’s Supplies:

Christine’s Supplies:

Michelle Liimatainen’s Supplies:

ABNH loves May Arts Day 3

We’re back with three more beautiful, inspiring projects pairing two of our favorites: Hero Arts & May Arts. 

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Jess Larsen
Cristina Martinez

Melissa Shea

Don’t forget to leave a comment on each post this week for 5 chances to win a bundle of beautiful May Arts ribbons & trims! We’ll announce our 3 winners on Sunday, May 26th.

And don’t forget to enter Challenge #24: Clean Up Your Act!

Jess’ Supplies:

Cristina’s Supplies:

Melissa’s Supplies:

A Blog Named Hero LOVES May Arts Day 2!!

Hello friends!

Welcome to day 2 of our week-long May Arts week!

So this whole week, we’ll be pairing May Arts ribbons, with Hero Arts products! They work so beautifully together!



Wanda’s Supplies:

Lucy

       Lucy’s supplies:
Cheiron

Cheiron’s supplies:

How fun are these?! Hero Arts and May Arts just go hand in hand with each other, such gorgeous products!!

Be sure to leave a comment on every May Arts/ABNH post this week for 5 chances to win one of 3 May Arts Prize Bundles!

 See you tomorrow!

A Blog Named Hero LOVES May Arts Ribbon & Trim

This week, we’re pairing our favorite stamps with our favorite ribbons & trims from May Arts.

And they go together like peanut butter & jelly, peas & carrots, Forrest & Jenny! 
We’ll have inspiring projects from our design team every day this week!
Here they are:
Linda Trace

Leslie
Leslie (again)
Michelle Lupton

Be sure to leave a comment on every May Arts/ABNH post this week for 5 chances to win one of 3 May Arts Prize Bundles!

Linda’s Supplies:


 

Leslie’s Supplies (card 1):

Leslie’s Supplies (card 2):

Michelle’s Supplies:

Antique Flowers!

Hi friends! Wanda here on the blog today to share a card, and some of my favorite tips for making “antique” cards! How are you today? Thanks for coming by to see us at A Blog Named Hero! We love it when you visit us! And, a new challenge went up a few days ago – make sure you enter!
My card today was inspired by a beautiful dogwood tree I came upon a few weekends ago while out taking pictures. It was the loveliest shade of pink….and I knew I wanted to make a card using the Hero Arts Dogwood stamp!

I stamped my image twice in brown ink onto watercolor paper and let it dry overnight (because I knew I wanted to watercolor). Then I used Distress Inks and my water pen to gently color pink onto the petals. I cut out a flower from my second image and layered it on my card.

Turns out that those beautiful flowers I saw are exactly the same color as Victorian Velvet Distress Ink! To watercolor using your ink pads, gently press the lid down into the pad so that some ink goes onto the lid. Then just dip your water pen into the ink! Instant watercolor paint! 


These new HA sayings are my favorite font ever! I use them all the time. I stamped part of a big word stamp up in the corner for some more visual interest…

Here is a view of my layers….

Wanda’s tips for ‘antiquing’ cards:  Use brown ink instead of black ink to stamp your images and sentiments,  Distress the edges and corners of your cards with ink – and try folding up part of the layer,  Add some text overlay,  Try watercoloring for soft and old looking images, and finally, use cream cardstock or watercolor paper!

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