A Blog Named Hero

Challenge #2 Cards with a View

Hello there

We’re so excited to be bringing you our second challenge.

This challenge will run from today, April 15th till midnight (USA EST) April 25th.

The theme is:

And onto the inspiration cards for this challenge!

Linda:

Linda Trace

a different angle so you can see the window:

Linda Trace_closeup

Mary Dawn:

Steph:

Stephanie Britt

Chari:

Chari Moss

Libby:

Libby Hickson

another view so you can see the gorgeous vellum window:

Libby Hickson2

We hope these cards have offered some inspiration to get your creative juices flowing!!

A big thank you to our guest designers for showing us such amazing projects!!

And now it’s your turn–make a project that incorporates a window into it and link it up via the inlinkz tool.

This challenge will close April 25th, midnight USA EST.

All ‘terms and conditions’ of the challenge are available on the T’s and C’s page of this blog. (just click the tab)

thank you so much for joining us! We can’t wait to see what you make!

Linda and Mary Dawn xxx

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Challenge #1 PLAY FAVORITES winners!

Hello!!

What can we say?! WOW!! We had 218 amazing projects submitted to our first challenge, you really all made incredibly beautiful cards!! We’re so very excited to be bringing you the winner of our first Challenge!!

The winner will receive:

 

A big thank you to our generous sponsors at Simon Says Stamp!

And the winner of the $25 gift certificate (as chosen by randomgenerator.org) is;

While we would haev really loved to give out a gift certificate to all the entries (they were really all winners) we couldn’t, BUT we have also chosen a few cards that we felt deserved special mention 😉 the following cards have been awarded A Blog Named Hero HEROINES!!

CHEIRON

DONNA

DOREL

KELLY

SIMONE

THERESE

TINA

MICHELLE

We just love how all these ladies used their Hero Arts stamps in interesting ways!

Congratulations ladies! We will get a graphic for you to display on your blog/sites asap!

We’ll be back tomorrow with our second challenge!!

Thank you do much for stopping by.

Linda and Mary Dawn xx

Celebration week giveaway WINNERS!!

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!!

lol. I always thought that phrase was WEIRD 🙂 (maybe that’s why I like it)

Just quickly, we wanted to announce that due to a technical glitch (in our brains LOL), the inlinkz collection closed early on our First challenge, so we’ve extended the deadline an extra 24 hours. You now have till midnight April 11th to submit! Our apologies for the mix up!

OK without further ado, here are the winners from our amazingly huge/wonderful/generous/awesome giveaway from all the comments we received in our Celebration Week posts!!

An equally big/huge/wonderful thank you to Heidi from everybody’s favourite

and Jennifer McGuire for offering up these prizes!! LADIES–we *heart* you!!

Day 1: 
 

#86 Barbara said…
I love Hero Arts! It always makes me happy to find blogs that feature their products and this one is great! Love all these cards today!
#277 Kelley said…
Just arrived from Jennifer McGuire’s blog. Great cards and inspiration.
#46 A Crafty Person said…
I just love all three cards that you posted today. What an exciting week!

Day 2

#158 Cynthia B. said…
Gorgeous cards! I especially like Nichol’s with the shape and the multicolor flowers. TFS, ladies!
Friday, March 30, 2012
#122calamity jane said…
WOW!!! I love all of these cards!! Thanks Nicole for the video too..amazing stuff going on there! This is so fun!
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
 #72 Karen said…
You ladies are doing a fab job…loving it!!
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Day 3

#178 Lyn S said…
Truly beautiful cards, love them all!
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
#137 Michelle W said…
Some wonderful cards ladies! I’m loving this blog. I love all the inspiration and that so many people are being featured.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
#94     Holly Saveur said…
LOVE the hydrangea card stunning!

        Thursday, March 29, 2012 

Day 4

#15   AmyJ said…
Beautiful cards. I love the Hydrangea card. The colors are stunning…Thanks for sharing.
Thursday, March 29, 2012

#43 cardcreationsnz said…
Once again three stunning cards, yet all so different.
I love the layout of the first one and what a great way to use up scraps – but like you say, it doesn’t look like it.
The second one is so cute and I love the paper piecing.
The Hydranga looks stunning. What a clever idea to create the background with it too.
Thanks again for such inspiration!
Thursday, March 29, 2012

#71    Katarina said…

All three cards nice in their own unique way. I love Kelly’s use of scrap and Lin’s hydrangea is stunning too.
Friday, March 30, 2012

Day 5

#127  smahrty said…
Beautiful projects to start my morning! Thank you!
Saturday, March 31, 2012
#118 creativearts said…
Love these cards, especially the resist! I love those flowers and it is needed in my stash! Great blog.
Saturday, March 31, 2012 
#101 Therese D in Oz said…
I just found your new blog. It is great so far. Loads of inspiration. Thank you
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Congratulations to you all!!

Winners, please email us on ablognamedhero@gmail.com to claim your prize! (Please include your home address and be sure to use the email address you used when commenting, so we can confirm we’ve got the right people!)

 All winners were chosen by random.org (I have the fifteen screenshots to prove it! lol). Prizes will be sent out randomly to each of the winners. The prizes are a Hero Arts Newspaper Eiffel Tower cling background stamp (offered by Jennifer) and a Hero Arts ‘Goodie-bag’ to the value of $20 (offered by Heidi)!!

(Please note we will not be able to send specific prizes out to specific people if they request it, as the prizes are already packaged up and we have no way of knowing what is in each envelope/parcel).

 Thank you so much to everyone for your amazing support and really lovely comments, and of course to the fifteen incredible crafters we featured!

Take care and we’ll be back SOON!

Mary Dawn & Linda xx

Giveaway winner!

Hello sweeties!

There are only a few hours left to play our first challenge!! We’re so thrilled with the number of participants, but we’re being greedy and want more! The entries so far have just been AMAZING, we’re so blown away! **I just checked the clocks, and there is just under 9 hours left!! Get crafting lovelies!! There’s still time!**

OK!  The winner for our A Few of our Favourite Things Giveaway has been chosen!

According to random generator:

 
Dasa!!!

Congratulations Dasa!! Please email us at ablognamedhero@gmail.com to claim your prize!!

A big thank you to the wonderful Heidi at

Thank you to everyone who entered and for all your exciting, lovely comments!!

We’ll be back VERY soon with more Hero Arts magic 🙂

Linda & Mary Dawn. xx

More of Libby’s Favorites + a Tutorial!

Hi there, it’s Libby! I’ve taken over the blog today to share a technique I combined with some of my very favorite Hero Arts stamps. If you know me at all, you know that I looooove bicycles! And Hero Arts has a ton of bicycle stamps. And I happen to own most of them. And that makes me very very happy!


I’ve been having fun lately getting my fingers all inky with Distress Inks, which is totally new to me. But so much fun! For this card I combined Distress mists with a Balzer Designs template to create the clouds. I couldn’t let all the good ink leftover on the template from the above card go to waste, so I collected it on cardstock for a second background:


I thought it would be fun to make a little tutorial to show you how I did this. Please be gentle with me, it’s my first time attempting to make a video in years. Literally!!

Hooray for Hero Arts bike stamps!! Have you created a card with YOUR favorite Hero Arts stamps yet? You still have time to play the first challenge! Entries close tomorrow, Tuesday April 10 at midnight EST!

Thanks for stopping by!