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December Challenge Winners

It’s time to announce the winners of our Winter Holiday Challenge, sponsored by Simon Says Stamp!

Number 30 was submitted by Lucie, and it’s a beauty! Congratulations Lucie, please contact us so we can get your information for your prize from Simon Says Stamp.

As mentioned in the Challenge blog post, we also have a die from Simon Says Stamp for a random winner, so let’s see who won that!

Trina P! Step right up, you’ve won the Sensational Snowflake Collage die from Simon Says Stamp. Please email us at ablognamedhero@gmail.com to claim your prize. Include your mailing address and I will get this out in the mail straight away.

We loved how many entries we received this month, and I wanted to highlight a couple that caught our eye. We’d love if it you placed this badge on your blog:

Betty’s Poinsettia is gorgeous! Fantastic coloring.

Ann’s beautiful card with classic Christmas colors.

That’s it for us for this year. We hope you all have a wonderful and happy, and most importantly healthy 2018.

We have many changes coming next year to the blog, and they’re all going to be amazing. We are very excited. Don’t forget, we have a Design Team call happening, you can get all of the details here.

Happy New Year!

Challenge: Winter Holiday with Simon Says Stamp, Part Two

Welcome to another post with inspiration for this month’s awesome Winter Holiday challenge theme! If it’s a Winter Holiday or event, it’s included. I know it’s a busy time of year, but take a little creative break and enter our challenge. There are prizes, and a bonus prize that is detailed at the bottom of this post!

Jess and I want to thank our wonderful 2017 Design Team. We have had so much fun working with these awesome ladies, and I know that you’ve enjoyed their inspiration. We are looking for our 2018 Design Team, so if you’re interested, we’d love to have you apply! We have some fun stuff in the works.

Now, some awesome inspiration for you, click on the pictures to go to the Design Team member’s blog for more details.

 


Bonus Giveaway:

Simon Says Stamp was generous enough to provide us goodies to work with this month for our collaboration. I wasn’t able to use mine as my travel schedule threw a wrench into my crafting plans. So, we are giving it away!

It’s the Sensational Snowflake Collage die, and it’s gorgeous. And it’s up for grabs. We will draw a random winner from our challenge entries, and it’s open worldwide.

 

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Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts

Sparkling Happy Holidays

Hello there!   Kimberly here today with another bit of holiday inspiration for you!   Can you believe how fast the holidays are approaching?!   I can’t!   I am super glad this month’s challenge theme is Winter Holiday  – it encouraged me to get a few more holiday cards finished and mailed!   This month’s collaboration partner is Simon Says Stamp – a big thank you to Simon for joining us this month!

I used one of my favorite Hero Arts holiday sets, Color Layering Snowy Tree, for this card.   Paired with the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp’s ‘Happy’, this card is such a pretty and traditional card!

For the focal point, I stamped and heat embossed the tree & deer with Wow! gold glitter embossing powder on vellum. Next, I stamped and heat embossed the snowy layer over the top of the previously embossed tree, and added the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.  I love that you can double emboss for such an elegant look!

I die cut the stamped & embossed scene with a Hero Arts Nesting Postage Stamp Infinity die, and adhered the vellum piece onto some patterned paper.   A tiny triple layered gold bow finished off the card!

Thanks for stopping by today!   I can’t wait to see what you create for our holiday themed challenge!

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Simon Says Stamp
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts

Rainbow snowflake

Hello! Michelle here to share a rainbowy Christmas card I made using a die from Simon Says Stamp and stamps from Hero Arts.  

I made a stencil by die cutting some scrap paper with the Bliss Snowflake Die from Simon Says Stamp, and adding a thin layer of Tombow Mono Multi glue to it and letting it dry – when dry, this glue becomes repositionable, so is great for creating masks. I then painted over the mask with a rainbow of Distress Ink colours, heat set the colours and removed the mask.

I used a sentiment from Hero Arts “Joy to the World”, but I mounted it in my MISTI on a curve to add a bit of movement to the design. I then mounted it onto a card base with two strips of glitter paper on either edge, and added a sprinkling of sequins.

Have you entered our December challenge?

There’s a prize up for grabs from our generous sponsor, Simon Says Stamp!

Thanks for visiting!

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Simon Says Stamp
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts

Evergreen Card

Hello happy first day of December and Friday.  Kelly here to share a  card using a new product from our December collaborating company, Simon Says Stamp.  I started this card by creating a background using Ranger Alcohol Inks and Yupo paper.  I have been seeing some gorgeous alcohol ink artwork on Pi-interest and the blue and pink pieces with touches of gold really caught my eye.

 

Yupo is a plastic paper for watercoloring but is very fun to use with alcohol inks.  The alcohol inks spread really uniquely on the Yupo paper.  When the alcohol ink was dry I added some dots of gold with a gold leafing pen.  The beautiful Evergreen Circle die is a new die from Simon Says Stamp.  I used the Merry Stamp and Cut set from Hero Arts for the sentiment.  I diecut the Merry 3 times from white cardstock, glued the layers together and colored the top layer with the gold leafing pen.

 

I finished off the card with some Wink of Stella on the trees and some Crystal Clear Sequins from Studio Katia.

Please come back Monday to see inspiration from more of the Design Team and for Decembers challenge theme.

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Simon Says Stamp
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts