A Blog Named Hero

A challenge blog dedicated to our love of Hero Arts!

Archives for January 2019

Design Team Call – 2019

We are looking for our Design Team for 2019 and would love for you to apply.

Requirements:

  • Must love Hero Arts products. We are a challenge blog that started because we loved Hero Arts. You should have a large supply of current Hero Arts products to use in your projects.
  • Must be a Team player. We want this to be fun, and love when we have a great group of Designers that encourage and support each other.
  • Have an active blog, instagram account, and be able to use Facebook to interact with the team in a private Facebook group.
  • Create two posts per month.
  • Comment on assigned challenge entries.
  • Take quality photographs of your projects.
  • Promote our blog and posts on social media. Must be active on social media.
  • Be able to meet scheduled deadlines.

Benefits:

  • Quarterly stipend for product

How to apply:

  • Send an email to ablognamedhero@gmail.com, with Design Team Application in the subject line. Include the following:
    • three to five photos of your recent crafting projects that you feel best describe your style. These should be from projects made within the last six months. Please make sure that these include Hero Arts products.
    • A link to your blog address and your instagram account.
    • Tell us about yourself. Where are you from? Why you love Hero Arts? Are you serious? Quirky? Speak five languages? Arty? Only like to do CAS cards?
    • Are you on any other Design Teams? Tell us about them.
    • Tell us why you’d like to join our Design Team.
    • Any other information that you think is important for us to know.

This design team call is open worldwide, however, if you do not reside in the USA, you will be asked to pay for shipping.

Application deadline is February 21, 2019 5pm EST. 

We can’t wait to see the applications!

Congratulations Roses

I hope you have had a chance to play along with us on our current challenge Crafter’s Choice? I can’t believe that January is almost over. The good news is that we are headed towards spring!

Here is my card for Crafter’s Choice bringing a little spring into the winter weather.

I stamped the Hero Arts Antique Rose twice on some Copic friendly paper and used some yellow Copics to color in this beautiful flower. I then fussy cut the flowers out and started working on the background. I went through several versions of backgrounds trying to figure out what would complement these roses the best.

In the end, I decided to take some heavy stock Kraft paper and stamp it with a script stamp in some Antique Linen Distress Oxide. I used the sentiment from the Hero Arts Peony set in Versmark in and heat embossed it in gold.

I added a couple of leaves I had left over from a previous project and adhered the roses to the card base with some foam tape. I finished the card off with some gold sequins to make a pretty spring Congratulations card.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you get a chance to play along with us in this month!

SUPPLIES

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Hero Arts - Antique Rose
Hero Arts – Antique Rose
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Hero Arts – Peonies
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HA		 Hero Arts - Embossing Powder - Gold
Hero Arts – Embossing Powder – Gold
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HA		 Tsukineko - VersaMark Ink Pad
Tsukineko – VersaMark Ink Pad
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Just for You

Happy Thursday! Kim with you this morning sharing some inspiration for the Crafter’s Choice Challenge!
I had to play with the new Flower Garden Fancy Die, I am in love with the detail on this die! I die cut it from white glitter cardstock and decided to pair it with some Desert Storm Cardstock to make the white glitter pop.
I paired it with the fantastic New Day Butterflies stamps and dies, I thought this was the perfect accompaniment! I decided to color the butterfly with my Polychromos pencils on Kraft, one of my favourite coloring effects. This is a different color palette for me, I usually love bright colors, this is unusually muted for me but I love the way it turned out!
The sentiment I chose is also from the New Day Butterflies and I die cut a small tag die and stamped and embossed my sentiment with gold embossing powder I then added my Butterfly and sentiment to the card using foam tape and added a little twine to the tag.

To finish off my card, I used a mix of jewels in espresso and some turquoise Tonic glitter drops.

Rosy Thank You

The possibilities are endless when the theme is Crafter’s Choice! My last card was a sweet fishing scene and I decided to change tact for this card.

Starting with a piece of White Cardstock cut to 5×4.25, I used the Hero Arts Spiral Stencil and Hickory Smoke distress oxide ink to blend a patter to the left most side of the card. On a piece of Bristol Smooth White Cardstock, I stamped the Rose Stamp & Cut image in a water friendly ink.

Using my Zig Real Color Brush Pens and a water brush, I colored in my rose using blues and purples for the petals and orange and yellows for the center. With the coordinating die, I cut the rose and added white gel pen to the center of the flower. I temporarily positioned my rose so that I could decide on where to black heat emboss my sentiment which is from the My Monthly Hero March 2018 kit. The rose was added with foam tape and I included some clear gems for additional interest.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you join us for this challenge this month!

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.

Challenge: Crafter’s Choice

Hello and welcome to the first challenge of 2019 here on A Blog Named Hero! We’ve made it an easy one, so we can all have some fun while recovering from the rush of the end of 2018.

We’re calling it “Crafter’s Choice”, which means as long as you use products from Hero Arts, you’re good to go! Make sure to read our challenge rules so that you are qualified to win one of our two monthly prizes sponsored by the wonderful Hero Arts!

And now for some inspiration from our Design Team. Click on the picture to go to their blog for more details.

The challenge runs until February 10th and there are two prizes up for grabs. A $50 gift certificate and a $25 gift certificate to Hero Arts!

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