A Blog Named Hero

Challenge time!!

Greetings Crafters!

It’s challenge time and this month is another good one 🙂

This time we want to see you make something

Hows that for some inspiration? We hope you love what everyone made. I know I think that they’re all SUPER cute 🙂

Now its your turn! Thanks to our wonderful sponsors Hero Arts, you have the chance to win one of two gift vouchers to shop up a storm in their store!

Enter via the linky tool below by September 10th, 5pm and show us your creative cuteness!

 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter


Can’t wait to see what you make!

Thanks for joining us as always,


Linda 

Winners!

Hello crafty friends, 

It will be a double-post day today as I’m announcing the winners for June & July, as well as introducing the new challenge for August!

Let’s get straight into it.


The challenge for June was;

and gosh did we love what you guys came up with. It was great seeing those older Hero Arts goodies getting used.

The winner of our $25 gift voucher is Linda W with her lovely spring-inspired card.

and the winner of the $50 gift voucher is Maureen with her cutie card below.

 

For our July challenge, we asked you to get

you could choose to heat emboss or dry emboss, it was up to you!

 

The winner of our $25 gift voucher for this month was Greta H with this colourful creation;

and the winner of our $50 gift voucher was Nugicards with this oceanic loveliness.

Congratulations everyone!! Thanks so much to all of you who entered the challenges, they were all lovely creative entries and so inspiring. 

Big thanks as always to our beloved Hero Arts who sponsor us and let us offer these prizes to our lucky winners!!

 

Winners, please contact us on ablognamedhero@gmail.com to claim your prize.

 

Thanks for joining me! I’ll be back shortly with the new challenge post for August!

 

See you soon,

Linda

Heat Embossing and Dry Embossing

 
Hi everyone! It’s Cha here! I made a card for this month’s challenge, Embossing. I created a card combining two ways of embossing – dry embossing and heat embossing. I hope you like this card and participate in this challenge that ends on the 10th of August. Let’s do this!
 
 
I started creating the background of this card. I picked one 4 by 5,25-inch white cardstock piece (Hero Arts Dove Premium Cardstock). I added this piece on tab 1 on my die cutting machine, mine is the Big Shot by Sizzix, using the embossing pads in order to create an impression with dies. The die that I used was the Nautilus Fancy Die. I added two impressions, one at the top of the card and another at the bottom of the card. Then, I made some gold splashes with the Gold Metallic Glimmer ink. I glued this background to another piece from the same size to give it some dimension and adhered to a standard folded card. 
 
 
 
Using the same fancy die (Nautilus Fancy Die), I die cut three pieces on white cardstock (Hero Arts Dove Premium Cardstock). I glued two pieces together excepting one. I heat embossed this last piece with Gold Glitter Embossing Powder from Hero Arts and attached it on top of the other pieces. Later I glued this piece on top of the background, using liquid glue and adhesive tape. Moreover, I added some white accents (NUVO Drops Simply White) to the seashell in order not to be too gold. 
 
 
 
To create the sentiment, I die cut three pieces of the word ‘thank‘ and ‘you’. Each one of them, I heat embossed with the Gold Glitter Embossing Powder several times to get a smooth cover. I mean that I put both words on a piece of masking tape, added an Anti-static Powder tool, and rubbed the Versamark ink on them. Then, I added the embossing powder and heat set it. I repeated this process twice. These word dies are from a previous kit, My Monthly Hero kit March 2018. I attached all the pieces together and, at last, I glued the gold piece on top for standing out the sentiment from the card. I glued the sentiment on top of the seashell. 
 
 

To finish this card, I die cut a butterfly on white cardstock again and added to the card with some foam circles. Then, I added some gold glitter to it with the NUVO Aqua Midas Touch Pen. I added some white dots and some transparent sequins on the background. 
 
 
 
 
That’s it! This is my card for this month’s challenge that I hope you join us! You have the chance to participate and you could win a 50$ voucher for our sponsor Hero Arts! We are waiting for your cards! 
 
Thank you so much! 
 
 

Happy Holidays

Happy Monday everyone.  Has anyone started their Christmas cards yet?  I decided to create a Christmas in July card for today’s post.

 

I used the November 2019 My Monthly Hero kit stamps and dies to create my card.  I stamped, die cut, and colored my images with Copic markers.

I heat embossed the sentiment with red ink and clear embossing powder.  I also used a Versafine marker on the star and ornaments on the tree with some sparkly embossing powder.

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to join in on this month’s challenge!

 

Just Floating By To Say Hello

Hello! Seeka here and today we’re going under the sea with an ink blended sparkly background and a cute little guy from the new Need A Hand stamp set.

I started by blending Peacock Feathers, Mermaid Lagoon, and Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide inks, in a circular pattern, onto a panel of Strathmore Bristol smooth cardstock. After ensuring that the ink was dry (I happened to put this aside to dry for several hours while I worked on other things), I used Embossing and Watermark ink to stamp the School Of Fish Bold Prints background stamp over the panel. Then I poured Sparkle embossing powder over the panel and melted it with a heat gun.

Next I stamped the octopus in Copic-friendly Intense Black ink. After coloring him up with BV31, BV02, and BV13, I used the coordinating dies to cut him out. I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of cardstock and then backed both pieces with foam tape.

To assemble the card, I adhered the octopus to the background and then adhered the sentiment, tucking it under a couple of tentacles. I trimmed a little bit off each side of the panel and then adhered it to an A2-sized card base.

Thank you so much for visiting and be sure to visit this month’s challenge post to enter your project for a chance to win a gift card to Hero Arts!