Archives for 2020

January Challenge!

January 15, 2020

Hi there crafty peeps!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We’re excited to be back again with a fresh new year and a fresh new set of challenges!

To kick things off, we’re going with the theme

Keeping it easy breasy and open-season!

Literally anything goes, make a card, a bookmark, a scrapbooking page, whatever you want! The choices are endless, just be sure to use Hero Arts products!

Let’s check out the Design team’s work;

What do you think?! Super inspiring, right?

One winner will be selected by our DT, and win a $50 gift voucher, a second winner will be chosen at random to receive a $25 voucher!

Be sure to enter the challenge (via the linky tool below) by 5pm on the 10th of next month, to be in the running for one of the TWO gift cards from our delightful sponsors, Hero Arts!

See you again soon!

Linda

The world to me

January 13, 2020

Happy new year, everyone. I am here today sharing a card using the January My Monthly Hero kit.

I was dying to try the biodegradable glitter from the kit so I started by stamping the earth and sentiment using black ink and colored the earth quickly using copic markers.

I then covered all the green parts in liquid glue before I attatched the green glitter to it. I also used my wink of stella glitter brush to cover the rest of the earth. The result is a very glittery image, but the green parts even more glittery and a little dimensional as well.

After coloring the image I cut the card panel to size and wrapped the brown string from the kit around it a couple of times and tying a cute bow. I then glued three wood veneer stars around the image.

I finished the card by popping the panel up on foam tape before I glued it on to a grass green card base.

So that was our last glimmery, glittery card before the new challenge will be here the 15th. I hope you will come back then.

I hope you will have wonderful day.

November & December Winners!

January 11, 2020

Happy New Year everyone! We’re here today with the winners from our final challenges of 2019 – And we’ll be back in a few days with your first challenge of 2020!

First up for November, Our chosen winner this month was Creative Pixie Designs with this gorgeous muted tone card:

Hero Arts November Kit

And our randomly chosen winner was entry #5 Steffi H. with this cute snowman!

And for December, Our DT chosen winner was Greta with this Sparkly creation:

Hero Arts Poinsetta

And our random winner #19 Experiments in Craft with lots of sparkly Hero Arts embossing powder

Congrats everyone! Please send an email to ablognamedhero@gmail.com, leaving the month and prize (Chosen Winner / Random Winner) in the subject line

Sparkle Sympathy card

January 9, 2020

ChallengeSparkle Hi all, Its Gwendolyn here to share a card to inspire to join in our Sparkle challenge. You have till tomorrow 10th to link up your card here and be in the running to win either a $25 or $50 gift voucher to the Hero Arts store! I decided to make a sympathy card using the Hero Arts Fairy Window die against a sparkly blue background, which is incidentally Pantone’s colour of 2020, blue! To create my background, I sponged my card base with Hero Arts Blue Hawaii Reactive ink and then sprayed it with Hero Arts white iridescent shimmer spray. I kept the centre of the card free of ink so as to add some interest to my background. I cut the die from a Hero Arts Arctic cardstock and once it was added on top of my shimmery background, I added a clear sparkle to the whole die cut using Hero Arts glitter lacquer pen. Its a pity you can’t see the shine, but this card it truly sparkles!

Well, I hope you’ll join in our challenge and I look forward to seeing your gorgeous creation in the link-up here.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Hugs, blog signature

Happy New Year with Hero Arts

January 6, 2020

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I hope you had a wonderful end to 2019 and holiday extravaganza’s. The last 2 months were a whirlwind, I’m just now catching my breath. Would you believe I never actually got around to sending holiday cards ( I know right! ) so I’m going New Year cards instead. Beautifully enough, most of your Christmas supplies can double over to New Year’s cards as well.

My Process

Add a double sided adhesive (like Stick It) to the back of a white a2 sized piece of card stock and run it through your die cutting machine with your snowflake background die.
After weeding the negative space, adhere down to your background paper, for me, this was glitter paper 🙂
Next I stamped and die cut 3 images from the Wonder and Magic of Christmas stamp set and planned my arrangement.
Once I knew where everything would go I adhered down a small piece of vellum backed with more double sided adhesive sheet, to add a place to stamp a sentiment.
After adhering down my stamped images, I used my stamp positioning tool to stamp my sentiment. You’ll need to stamp a few times since we’re stamping on vellum, or use a solvent type ink.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and don’t forget you still have time to enter our Sparkly challenge for December.

Supplies

Hero Arts Christmas Messages Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Wonder & Magic of Christmas Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Wonder & Magic of Christmas Dies Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Snowflake Pattern Die Shop at: HA
DCWV Glitzy Cardstock Metallics Shop at: AMZ	Neenah Solar White Shop at: SSS \| AMZ	Hero Arts Intense Black Ink Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Thistle Reactive Ink Shop at: HA
Hero Arts Taffy Reactive Ink Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Pool Party Reactive Ink Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Vellum Shop at: HA	Hero Arts Precision Glue Shop at: HA