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May challenge winners

Hi there!

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


Thank you all for playing along, we got some lovely cards made, 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:

https://handcraftedbyjoy.com/lets-make-the-mimosa-out-of-this-day/
Joy we just loved the bright vivacious colours you used! They really embodied the idea of CELBRATION!

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

Viv from veesea_creations


Congratulations Viv! We really love the adorable little scene you created and all the work it must have taken! The colouring and shading is lovely too.

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!

Let’s shell-ebrate

Hello all lovers of Hero Arts. I’m here today to thank you all for celebrating with us the last month. We have received lots of beautiful projects and you sure do make the selection of the winner hard for us. Stop by tomorrow to see who will win the Celebration prize.

I also want to show you my last inspiration card for the Celebration theme made using the “Pet turtle” stamp set as my inspiration jump off. I stamped and colored the relaxed turtle using my copic markers and then I needed to create the rest of the card.

I remembered the layered sea stamps that I got in my June 2018 My Monthly hero kit and that you can also buy separately now and I thought it would be perfect as a relaxation spot for my turtle. I stamped the ocean using the Deep ocean, summer sky and soft sky ink blocks and also lightly colored the sky using the summer sky ink. I cut a slit in my sea and put the turtle in.

I stamped the sentiment “Let’s shell-ebrate” from the “Pet turtle” stamp set on the top part of my card panel. And now I needed a few more bits and pieces. I stamped and colored the clouds and flying seagull from the “Seas the day seagulls” set and glued them close to the sentiment and I also stamped an colored the bottle with the message from the “You & me by the sea” set and placed it on the sea as well.

I thought I was done at this point and glued my card panel to a white card base and then I saw a leftover light post from a previous project lying around on my desk (The light post is from the MMH October 2018 kit). The light posts bottom part looked just like the handle on a fishing rod, so… with minor surgery it became just that. I drew on the fishing line and hook and “attatched” the fishing line to to the bottle. A perfect last detail to the card.

I wish you all a lovely day.

Fairy Window Fancy die

97FBAFEF-96C1-4BB4-B93A-BBE43D150123Hi all, its Gwendolyn here today to share a card I made to incite you to join our latest challenge “Celebrate”, cause we’re celebrating Hero Arts 45th anniversary! You still have a day to enter your cards here as the challenge ends on the 10th of June. Any cards with a celebration theme will do, so birthdays, anniversaries, graduation…Fairy window fancy die products.pngI played with my alcohol inks on Yupo paper today and created a coloured panel from which to cut my Hero Arts Fairy Window Fancy die, which was adhered to my card base which I previously stencilled on using Hero Arts Spiral Petals stencil. To adhere the intricate diecut to my paper, I used a glue/varnish used for the napkin/decoupage projects and brushed it onto the back of my diecut. So even if it borders over to the front of the die cut when I’m brushing it on, it doesn’t matter as its transparent.Fairy window fancy die cuI stamped on the sentiment from Hero Arts My Monthly Hero December kit, (which is sold out by the way, but which I am giving away as my way of celebrating Hero Arts 45th anniversary! See my post here to see how.) using Hero Arts mulled wine ink as I wanted it to look as if it was part of the diecut. I even extended the tail end of the “S” in “wishes” so that it would connect to the diecut.Fairy window fancy die mainThis card took me all of 30mins so I hope this will inspire you to make a card too and join in our “Celebrate” challenge. Looking forward to seeing your wonderful projects here! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful crafty day!

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Watercolor Butterfly Birthday Card

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Hi Friends! Kristina here for my solo post of the month! I’ve created another card to go with out current Celebrate theme – You have a few more days to get your projects linked up! Here’s what I’ve come up with, it i’s Hero Art’s birthday after all…

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I fell in love with this butterfly set the moment I saw it. These images are drawl beautifully. While I have lots of colorful plans for them, I wanted to keep the coloring simple.

I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens for all of my watercoloring. I started by coloring my main butterfly, and once dried, I went around the white space fading it in from the edges of the card and the main butterfly.

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I glued this panel down to some fun foam for sturdy dimension, and then only an a2 sized card base. To finish I went over all of the black and white butterflies with a shimmer pen. Lastly, heat embossed my sentiment onto pink card stock with white embossing powder and adhered it onto the card with foam tape.

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Thank you for stopping by today, I hope I’ve giving you some inspiration to enter our challenge!

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ABNH May Challenge 2019 Cha Lionart

Hi there! It’s Cha here on the blog A Blog Named Hero for the May challenge 2019 in which we want to congrats Hero Arts company in their 45th anniversary! There are a few days left to join this May challenge for the chance to win a 50$ or 25$ voucher for Hero Arts store!

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For today’s card, I picked a past My Monthly Hero kit. If you don’t know these kits, Hero Arts kits (known as My Monthly Hero kits) have been a good investment for new cardmakers in these years because they come with different, new and limited products (see here). The My Monthly Hero kit that I used for my card has to be a must-have product because of the sentiments and word dies that come with this kit… yeah! I’m talking about the My Monthly Hero kit March 2018… and it is still available! Yeah! I invite you to visit their online store and take a look because you can create beautiful and emotive cards with just one kit! In the case that this kit was not available anymore, you could find some alternatives here and here.

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First of all, I picked a piece of 5,5 by 4,25-inch white cardstock. For stamping, I just used a medium-size acrylic block. I stamped the small sun that came with the kit here and there until I had my whole panel completed, using different colors inks. I used the inks that came with the kits along these years but they are very similar colors of the Hero Arts ink: mulled wine, navy, aquatic, red royal, rose madder, soft sky, summer sky, butter bar, orchid, orange soda, tangerine, deep ocean, soft granite, cup o ‘joe, pumpkin pie, just rust, and green apple. Now that my piece was full of suns, I also stamped the flower that came with the kit. I stamped this flower on every sun that I’d previously stamped. I followed the chromatic color wheel in order to change the color. For example, if I stamped the sun with butter bar ink, I stamped the flower with orchid or orange soda ink. Also, there were some suns that were so dark, as the navy ones, so I decided to stamp the flower on each of them using the unicorn pigment ink. When I finished stamping all the flowers over the suns, I decided to fill the gaps with some hearts here and there, too.

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Later, I used my mini MISTI for stamping the sentiment because I wanted to stamp it several times. I designed the phrase choosing each word from the kit before stamping. When I was satisfied with my phrase, I stamped with black ink and then, heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

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Next, I trimmed the sides of the panel just a half inch and glued over a 5,5 by 4,25-inch black cardstock that I attached the whole piece to an A2 white notecard.

For some details, I gave some shine to the flowers with a shimmer pen. I also added some dimensional dots on the center of each flower with the lacquer pen.

I didn’t add anything else due to the shine of the card!

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I hope you’ll join this new May challenge 2019 at A Blog Named Hero to a chance to win 50$ or 25$ voucher from Hero Arts! We are waiting for your creations!

See you!

CHAXI ABNH

Cha