Archives for 2019

Hello Beautiful!

March 24, 2019

Happy Sunday crafty friends! Kim with you this morning with my last post for A Blog Named Hero! The year has gone by so fast and it has been such fun! Before I get to my card for today, I wanted to thank Lisa and Jess for asking me to join this fantastic team and a special thanks to my talented teammates from this last year 🙂 You can always find me at my blog Paperpawz.com!

The current challenge is embossing, which I regularly use on all of my cards!

I chose to use one of the newer large Cling Flowers: Overlapping Petals. I love the scale of these flowers!

I stamped my flower with a pale Kraft coloured ink using my stamp platform so that I could re-stamp it to add my embossing powder. I pulled out my Tombow markers (haven’t used those in a long time!)

Once that was dry, I used my rose gold embossing powder on the flower and the leaves.

I decided to die cut a frame using my rounded rectangles and I added some Salty Ocean Distress Ink on the background with some water splatters for added texture.

I put my card together using some foam tape.

I added my sentiment and some clear drops to finish off the card! Thanks so much for taking the time! You still have time to play in the challenge!

Kim

Challenge: Embossing

March 15, 2019

Good morning! We hope you are having a wonderful month of March, so far, and are looking forward to the weekend. Our new challenge starts today and it’s all about Embossing! Heat embossing, dry embossing, whatever you’ve got up your sleeve, it works for our challenge.

As always, there are two prizes this month, one for a random winner and one for a chosen winner, both are gift cards to the Hero Arts store. Thank you Hero Arts! Below are some cards that we hope inspire you for this month’s challenge. Click on the picture to go to the Design Team member’s blog for more details.

This month we have a very special person joining us, Linda Trace! Linda started this blog many years ago with our friend Mary Dawn Quirindongo and then entrusted it to Jess and myself, Lisa, for the last couple of years. Well, guess what? Linda is coming back! She’s taking over, starting TODAY! So please leave a lovely comment welcoming her back. I know she’s got big plans for the blog, and I’m excited to see it grow.

Linda has chosen a new Design Team for 2019 and they are going to knock your socks off! It’s an amazing team and we are very excited to see their projects each month. Introductions will start soon, so make sure to check back frequently or subscribe to the blog via email over on the left side of this page.

Challenge Winners: Love Is In the Air

March 11, 2019

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! 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!

Our random selection is Nicole, with this beautiful card. We love the unexpected use of our color palette.

Our chosen winner is Experiments in Craft with this simply elegant card. We love the use of the ink pads direct to paper. Something about a brush stroke just speaks to us.

Please send us an email to claim your prize.

Our new challenge starts on the 15th, can’t wait to see what you make!

Sending My Love

March 8, 2019

Hey there, it’s Juhi with my post for the month. Today, I’m sharing a floral watercolor card, it features one of my favorite floral stamps – the gorgeous flowering magnolia stamp from Hero Arts.

I started off by stamping the magnolia flower on a watercolor cardstock panel with black ink, masking it and stamping a few more flowers in the background with grey ink. I then watercolored the focal image with zig clean color real brush markers. Everything was going great until now but I managed to spoil it (as I usually tend to do when things are going great!) by splattering some purple distress oxide ink. I tried to salvage the piece by spraying water and dabbing with a paper towel which made it worse. I then added lots of green watercolor paint to camouflage the purple splatters.

I finally finished off the card by cutting the watercolor panel in two around the flower and mounting the two pieces with a little gap in between on a pink cardstock base.

I hope you like how my card finally turned out. Do you also mess up perfectly beautiful projects while trying to add something extra or is it just me?

Supplies Used:

MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Embossing Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Intense Black Shop at: Hero Arts	CM261 Hero Florals Magnolia Shop at: Hero Arts
DI198 NESTING RECTANGLE INFINITY DIES Shop at: Hero Arts

I Melt for You

February 27, 2019

I hope you are having a wonderful day. I’m still trying to figure out where February went lol. I know it is a short month but it went so fast. Anyway, I hope that you have a chance to play along with us in our current challenge “Love is in the Air” using the beautiful color pallet below.

Here is my card for the challenge using the new Pearl Alcohol Inks paired the Hero Arts Color Layering Ice Cream set.

I used the alcohol inks on Yupo paper and blended them with the Alcohol solution until I was happy with the look. These inks have a beautiful pearl shimmer to them and were fun to play with.

Once the ink was dry, I used the Alcohol Lift Ink and stamped the “Love” sentiment from the Hero Arts Snarky Mix & Match set. I stamped the ice creams and cones on some white card stock using some and fussy cut them out. I added the sentiment using Versamark ink and white embossing powder.

For added sparkle I used some sequins in my stash and randomly placed them on the card. I hope you get a chance to play along with us and I can’t wait to see what you create! Thanks for stopping by!

SUPPLIES

Want to find the products I used? They are listed below for ease of reference. (Affiliated links are used at no cost to you. Thank you!) Click on the icons below each product picture to go to a favorite store.

Hero Arts – Color Layering Ice Cream Shop at: HA	Hero Arts – Snarky Mix and Match Messages Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Embossing Powder – Detail White Shop at: HA	Tsukineko – VersaMark Ink Pad Shop at: HA
Hero Arts – Wagner – HT400 Precision Heat Tool Shop at: HA