Archives for January 2021

Hi crafty friends, 

I’m here today to announce the winners for our November and December challenges.

But first, thank you to everyone who applied for our 2021 Design Team, the successful crafters have been chosen and everyone we heard from has been contacted. It’s always such a hard decision to make, but we try to look for designers who will make an interesting team, in terms of style as well as look for crafters who all have different strengths, we don’t want 10 people who are all amazing copic colourists, but no-one who knows how to diecut!

We look forward to introducing you all to them in the second half of February.

But for now, on to the winners of the last two challenges of the year. 

For our November challenge of 

The winner of the $25 gift voucher to Hero Arts is  Michelle B with her sweet wintery fireplace scene.

The winner of the $50 gift voucher to Hero Arts is Cindy with her super cute Moose. 

for our December challenge,

The winner of our $25 gift voucher to shop up a storm at Hero Arts is Megan with her pretty tone on tone snowflake card. 

The winner of our $50 gift voucher is Fit Kitty with her sweet christmas kitten card.

Congratulations crafting friends!! A big thank you as always to our beloved Hero Arts for sponsoring us for yet another year! Big squishy hugs to you!

Winners, please contact me via ablognamedhero@gmail.com and we’ll arrange your gift vouchers with Hero Arts.

Thanks again everyone for joining us in 2020, we can’t wait to see what 2021 brings!

Happy crafting, 

Linda x

Hi friends, 

I’m here to announce that we are hosting a Design Team call! All the information is below, but if you have any questions you can either leave a comment or email us.

Here are the deets:

We are looking for designers who have a real love of Hero Arts (translate: you should already have a stash of Hero Arts goodies, including some that are less than 1 year old).  Given that we’re showing off the company, having product already is a must.

We want you to send us an email telling us above yourself. A bit about your life/family, as well as your crafting journey. Let your personality shine! Don’t be afraid to let your honest self shine through. Are you quirky with a weird sense of humour?! Let us see it! Are you a quiet achiever? Tell us about it.

We’d also like you to include as attachments or links, 4-5 projects that you feel really sum you up as a crafter. If you tend to lean towards Clean and Simple, super layered, heaps of coloured pencil, or inky designs, show us your best!  We want to know what YOU think is your best work.

If you don’t have a particular style and you make cards that run the gambit, show us those too 🙂

Please be sure to include any important information that may effect your design team life (e.g. if you’re moving to another country and will need a month off in the middle of your DT term). We understand that life comes first, but like to be ahead of the curve!

DT expectations:

We expect that as an A Blog Named Hero Designer, you will have a presence on social media of some sort (Instagram, facebook, blog etc). You do not have to have a blog, but if you don’t, other media platforms will be required, as we ask you to promote the challenge blog, and you need somewhere to show off your amazing creations!

Please link us to any social media/blogs you have so we can check you out:)

DT members receive a quarterly incentive from Hero Arts.  DT members will be expected to produce high quality photos of their work. Two projects per month (one is for a solo post, the other is for the challenge post.) Over the term (on year) you may be asked to provide one or two extra projects, for special events, but plenty of notice will be given.

English is our base language, so obviously, we need your English to be of a conversational level. 

We look forward to seeing your emails! This is a fun and exciting team to be a part of.

Please email us on ablognamedhero@gmail.com BEFORE January 21st. We will go through and make our selections, then notify successful candidates before end of January, with a view to starting ‘work’ on the team, in February/March.

Thanks!

Hello there! It’s Cha here with another post for A Blog Named Hero. I’ve been so busy the last few weeks but here I am with this card that I hope you are going to love. For this card, I used acetate but on the whole front of the card. This new challenge is about CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit). In my case, there have been many crafters that have been making this kind of card and I wanted to make this. So here it is!

First of all, Hero Arts will be releasing their new catalog in 2021 this month and with it, there is a new Hero Arts My Monthly Hero from 2020 included! The kit that is going to be released, is the My Monthly Hero January 2020. I’m going to use this kit for today’s card. First, I die cut all the flower pieces, using a die cutting machine and HA Dove Premium Cardstock. When I finished all the die cutting, I glued all the pieces on a piece of acetate and trimmed this piece with measurements 4,25 by 5,5 inches although I also cut a little bit from the bottom. 

Later, I picked a white notecard and trimmed the front, and just left a lap so that I could glue the acetate piece on this. I also trimmed a narrowed white strip and added it on top of this lap, so you cannot see the glue behind it. As the card was too white, I decided to pick a HA Peony Premium Cardstock and colored the edges with Distress Oxide Inks Picked Raspberry, using a blending brush. I scored at 0.25 inches on this pink cardstock and added adhesive tape in the lap that I have already scored. Now we can see the card with white flowers and there is a pink inside of the card but we can also open this part (the pink cardstock) and write the message inside, so, we cannot see the message that we’ve written when we gift this card. 

To finish this card, I heat embossed the sentiment with HA White embossing powder and die cut this sentiment with one of the dies that came with the kit. I added this to the front of the card with foam tape. Later, I added some shimmer to the flowers using the NUVO Aqua Shimmer Pen, Some confetti here and there, and finally, some drops of NUVO White Gloss.