A Blog Named Hero

The official Hero Arts challenge blog!

Archives for February 2014

Love YOU more!

Hi there, friends! Stephanie here. I am so sad to say that I am no longer part of the Design Team here at ABNH, but I am thrilled to be here today as a guest designer!!

Today I have a couple projects to share with you that feature some lovely Hero Arts products (of course!), as well as some fantastic products from Elle’s Studio! As I’m sure you’ve seen all month long here on ABNH, Elle’s Studio products are just lovely!! The kits are so great for scrapbooking and Project Life, but also for card making!

I made this sweet card using a combination of Hero Arts & Elle’s Studio:

I used a couple of the adorable patterned papers over a Hero Arts notecard (stamped with the polka dot background in Wet Cement). The sentiment is cut out from an ES paper page, and I stamped the people from the HA “Hey Y’all” set onto some kraft cardstock and cut out with a circle punch. I added some doodles with my white pen and some twine and done! Super simple!

I also made this extremely simple Project Life page:

I was surprised and quite thrilled to find out just how well the pieces from the Elle’s Studio kit matched with some of my Hero Arts papers! I was able to mix in some Daffodil, Wet Cement and Tide Pool to match perfectly!

I added just a few bits of stamping (mostly background stamps), but tried to stick with my usual method — quick and simple!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed my projects and all of our projects this month during the Elle’s Studio collaboration! And a HUGE thank you to Elle’s Studio for their generosity! We all enjoyed working with your lovely, amazing products so much!!

Supplies:

February Winners!

Hello lovelies!!

Here with our winners for the month of February!

http://ablognamedhero.com/2014/02/challenge-37-flowers/ 
with a big thanks to our fantabulous sponsors, 
http://www.simonsaysstamp.com/servlet/StoreFront 
who are offering one winner (per challenge) a 
 http://www.simonsaysstamp.com/servlet/StoreFront
Now without further ado, the winner for challenge 37 is
Karin Akesdotta
And the winners of our Heroine badge are
May 
Linda Van Vliet 
Nonni 
Amy Tsuruta
 
and now for Challenge #38!
Heather Doran!!
you have won a 
http://www.simonsaysstamp.com/servlet/StoreFront
 The winners of the Heroine Badge (who we feel are worthy of special mention) are
Anita
Maria
Tanja
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Will the winners please email me at ablognamedhero@gmail.com and specify
in your email (or subject line) that you’re a winner (either of the
Heroine Badge OR the Gift Voucher).
Thank you so much for playing along!!
We hope to see you again soon!
Linda x

A Video: Bookmark with dimension

Hi everyone!
It’s Christine with a brand new video.

Do you like reading? I wish I had more time to read, but I can’t stop crafting in my free time. 🙂 I still love bookmarks and they also make a nice little gift for friends who love to read.  So I took out some Hero Arts goodies and some of the awesome supplies from Elle’s Studio and created a video on this bookmark:

Don’t you think this makes reading even more fun? So check out the video so see the how-to (and also the beautiful back with paper from Elle’s studio – so sorry I have no photo of that).

I love to play with all kinds of watercolor to create ombre effects or rainbows. Well, this is only a part of a rainbow, but it looks bright and makes me smile. 
Remember to get out you stash and play along in our current challenge. It’s all about rainbows! There’s Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher to be won 😉



Using Pre-made items with Hero Arts stamps

Hey everyone it’s Michelle here today and I am showing 2 cards and a scrapbook layout that incorporate both Elle’s Studio and Hero Arts. The “Love you more” line from Elle’s studio is absolutely AMAZING, INCREDIBLE and INSPIRING. I cannot say enough about this line. I had so many ideas. Here are just a few:

This card has lots of texture and dimension without being too “worked” I started by white embossing the white background with a Hero Arts background stamp.   I used two Hero Arts dies (Heart and Big Ticket) to mat the Big Ticket I just cut it out of patterned paper and then hand trimmed the gray cardstock that I matted it with. For added punch, stamp your sentiment on a piece of patterned paper.

 I layered hearts for dimension. I also added white tick marks on the large heart cut out of patterned paper, and added Glossy accents to the wood heart.

 This card was very simple also. I started by masking the flower on the patterned paper (Note: Post-it notes work great for this type of masking when your image is already on a surface) and then stamping the Tweed Background stamp on it in Tide Pool for a tone on tone effect. I used a pre-made tag for my sentiment.

 I used modelling  film for the flower with some Alcohol inks. It looks so amazing in real life. The camera didn’t catch all the shine.  The brad is an old, old Basic Grey.

I layered many of the papers from Elle’s Studio. I love them. I couldn’t decide which to use. Every one of them worked for this layout. I took a strip of yellow cardstock and stamped the Canvas Stripes in the new Hero Arts Vanillla.  I stamped the butter fly with Butterbar and a definition stamp.

 A simple way to add to a layout is to use a pre-made frame around a picture. Elle’s Studio has some great ones. I used “Picture Perfect” here. I die cut flowers from my Silhouette and stamped the definition stamp on them also.

 The title was die cut using my Silhouette and I used my clear Wink of Stella pen on it. I also did more tone on tone stamping with the patterned paper by Elle’s Studio and the Floral background by Hero Arts stamped in Pale Tomato.

I double cut the letters out of gray to give it dimension and a shadow.

One way to make an embellishment your own is to add a stamp. I added the Hero Arts XOXO onto this little ticket from the Bits and Pieces set Elle’s Studio has.

I hope I have inspired you to combine pre-made items with your Hero Arts Stamps.

Don’t forget you still have time to enter our latest challenge. You could win a FAB gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp.

Supplies used: 
Love you more card:

Forever Card:

Layout:

Trio of hearts

     Hi friends! Following the theme of love and with the limited supplies I had on hand (I am in the middle of moving out!), I did something simple, but hoping you’ll understand: