Hello there! Laura Bassen here and I’m very honored to be joining the fine folks at A Blog Named Hero for their Christmas series. I have a couple of projects featuring some of my favorite Hero Arts products right now.

This first card features the drop dead gorgeous Swirly Background cut file that I used with my Silhouette machine. I added some color behind using Audrey Blue & Mint ink by Simon Says Stamp. I know this is probably a pretty nontraditional Christmas looking card, but isn’t she pretty?
For my next card, I went hog wild with the Triangle Background die.
I die cut four different shades of green card stock and pieced them together to create this cool pattern. Then I used my craft knife to cut a triangle into my front panel to pop up over the design. This was so fun to do. I know it looks like it would take a long time, and it did, but I loved every minute of it.