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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: 

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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

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June Challenge Winners

July 11, 2019

Hi there!

I’m excited to share with you the winners of our May Challenge.

Thank you all for playing along, some gorgeous projects were submitted this month, truly inspirational!

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! 

The winner of the $50 gift certificate to Hero Arts and DT choice is:

Jess FrancisoJess Franciso shared this beauty that blew us away. Look at that ink blending!

 

The winner of the $25 gift certificate to Hero Arts via random.org, is:

Gail submitted this clean & simple sympathy card with a pop of color!

 

Congratulations 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!

We’ll see you all again very soon for the new challenge that starts on the 15th!

 

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April Challenge Winners!

May 14, 2019

Hi there crafty friends,

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I’m here to announce the winners of our April challenge!

There were some really beautiful creations this month and it was really hard to pick one!

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 winner chosen by random.org was Jenny Hall

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You win a $25 Gift Voucher! You watercoloring is gorgeous!!

and our chosen winner was Hannelle from Desert Dive with this amazingly unique card!

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We were blown away with your design! You win a $50 gift voucher to Hero Arts!

Please send us an email to the address above to claim your prize 🙂

Thank you all for joining us and I hope you’ll come back on the 15th for our next challenge!

See you then 🙂

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March challenge winners!

April 14, 2019

Hi there crafty friends,

I’m here to announce the winners of our April challenge!

We were so excited to see your beautiful creations and it was really hard to pick one!

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 winner chosen by random.org was Jennifer from Crafting with Aloha

You win a $25 Gift Voucher! We love your embossed rainbow!!

and our chosen winner was Helen F with her really striking card,

Seriously gorgeous colouring Helen! You win a $50 gift voucher to Hero Arts!

Please send us an email to the address above to claim your prize 🙂

Thank you all for joining us and I hope you’ll come back on the 15th for our next challenge!

See you then 🙂

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Dragonfly friend

April 13, 2019

Hello everyone. My name is Lise Mariann and let me tell you how excited I am to be on the new design team here at A Blog Named Hero. Beyond the moon, I tell you. First I would like to introduce myself and then tell you about my project.
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I live in Trondheim, Norway with my husband, two children and two cats, but I originally come from the cold and far north of Norway. I have been scrapbooking since 2004, but have been gravitating more and more to cardmaking the last couple of years. Today I am mostly making cards, but love creating pages for my scrapbooks as well. When I am not crafting I work as an archaeologist and museum educator and I also like reading, embroidering, drawing and singing as well as hanging out with my family of course. You can also find me at my blog and on Instagram.

For my first project on the team I made the dragonfly card below using the “Color layering dragonfly” stamp set.

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I decided to only use the image edge stamps to create the water lilies and the dragonfly since I wanted to color them using my Copic markers, so I stamped it using a Versamark stamp pad and embossed it using gold embossing powder. After stamping and coloring the images I cut them from the paper using the matching frame cuts.

For the background I used patterned papers from my stash to suggest water and sky and cut them to size with a stitched rectangle die. I attatched the water lilies in layers raising the top one up using foam tape. I also glued the dragonfly using foam tape. I wanted to have the dragonfly “flying” off the page to create some extra movement in the card.

I then stamped and embossed a sentiment from the same stamp set as the images.

When all of the images and sentiment was placed I found a piece of white embroidery thread and hand stitched a flying trail from the dragonfly through the sentiment and behind the flowers.

To finish the card I glued the panel on a white card base raising it up on foam tape.

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And before I leave you today I am hoping you will take a look at the A Blog Named Hero Facebook group where we also have lots of lovely makes by our Facebook design team. if you haven’t been there already I urge you to find it.

Make yourself a wonderful day.

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