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Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are ONE HUNDRED special guests – each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where […]

I’m loving buffalo plaid lately, and today I’m going to show you how you can easily create this pattern and incorporate it into your holiday cards. I started with piece of red and white grid patterned paper from Kelly’s Designer Paper Pad. This small grid provided the perfect guidelines for stamping. I simply counted six […]

Cheers! It’s time to celebrate the launch of our December My Monthly Hero kit and add-ons! This calls for a party, wouldn’t you say? We invite you to scroll down to the end of this post – we’re hopping with some fabulous artists to share even more inspiration. And we’re giving another kit away, too! […]

It’s almost time to launch the December My Monthly Hero – release is coming up today at 1pm eastern! We hope you’ve enjoyed all of the ideas for using this fun kit. It certainly has put us in a mood to celebrate! As promised, we have one kit to giveaway to a lucky blog reader, […]

And here it is, our final Countdown post before launching our December My Monthly Hero kit and add-ons tomorrow, Monday, December 5th at 1pm eastern/10am pacific. Libby is here sharing a few more ideas for using the main kit. This month’s kit is so much fun! There are stamps and dies for celebrating, congratulating, inviting […]

We are back with our third day of ideas for using our December My Monthly Hero kit and add-ons, leading up to the release on Monday, December 5th at 1pm eastern/10am pacific. We’ve been sharing ideas for using the main kit and the optional add-on products all weekend! In this post, Jayne introduces us to […]

We back with more from our December Countdown to Creativity, leading up to the release of the latest My Monthly Hero kit on Monday, December 5th at 1pm eastern/10am pacific! This month’s kit has several fabulous optional add-ons, perfect for celebrating! We're calling this month's MMH "the Sally kit", and here she is to show you a couple of the Sally-inspired products… How excited I...

We're back again with another idea to share, leading up to the release of the December My Monthly Hero Kit on Monday, December 5th at 1 pm/eastern/10am pacific. This time Amy is here sharing a card idea using some of the kit's stamps. The December kit is perfect for any celebration! I decided to design a clean and simple card to make the stamps the...

Hi there! Today I have a simple technique to share with you that is both fun and addictive. You’ll only need a few supplies — a stamp with lots of solid area (I’m using the Forest Background), watercolor paints, water, a paintbrush, and cardstock. We’re going to paint right onto the stamp!

When I first saw the new Origami Happy Holidays, I immediately knew I wanted to do a "stained glass" sort of card. As I was making the card, I realized how versatile images are!

Every now and then we like to share a Creative Team Rewind blog post- a look at some of the wonderful work our talented team is sharing outside of the Hero Arts blog. Today’s rewind post has a very festive, holiday theme! The first card is from Yana, and features one of our favorite woodblock […]

As you probably know, my favorite cardmaking technique is creating my stamped background using small images from various stamp sets. It’s a great way to get more out of your small stamps. This time I pulled out three stamp sets from 2016 Winter Catalog: Holiday Mittens, Build a Wreath, and Color Layering Wreath. To add some […]

Hello! When we launched our Holiday Cardmaking Challenge a couple weeks ago, I shared a little pop-up box card I had made using the Holiday Cheer stamp set. I never got around to cleaning up the supplies on my desk (oopsie!) so I just had to have some more fun with them!

Welcome back to day two of the Hero Hostess Alumni Blog Hop! We had so much fun yesterday hopping along checking out the beautiful creations from the Hostesses and hope you did too. Are you feeling the holiday crafting spirit? Lucky for all of us, the Hostesses have another batch of stampy goodness to share […]

Hello and happy Monday! Today we’re super excited to be part of a special blog hop reunion of our wonderful Hero Hostesses! This is actually the last stop on the hop — you’ll want to start from the beginning at Virginia Lu’s blog and work your way here consecutively so that you don’t miss a […]

I can’t believe that we’re over half way through October. The days are just flying by. It’s a great time to start making those holiday cards. You can make a couple a week and finish off with a pretty good stash of them. Make them a clean and simple design and you can easily create […]

Hi stampers! We have loads of inspiration to share with you today in a new feature we’re calling “Awesome Add-ons.” As you may know, along with each My Monthly Hero kit release, we introduce several new add-on products that can be used with the kit or on their own. October’s add-ons include holiday and winter […]

Today I have an idea for stretching your planner stamps to make them work in other ways. They’re not only for planners – I like to try using them for birthday cards, too. I love tailoring birthday cards specifically for the person. One way to do that is by taking their special day and making […]

In case you haven’t yet had the chance to take a look at Hero Arts Planner Catalog and products – I highly encourage you to do so. Even if you are not a planner person, but a “die hard cardmaker” – you’ll love them! Today I’m mixing planner products with previously released Kelly Purkey Holiday […]

It won’t be long before the holidays are here and it’s never too early to start on those holiday cards! So today I decided to get a jump start on my holiday cards and play along with our new Holiday Cardmaking Challenge.

Hello and welcome! We’re so happy to have you joining us here for the launch of our 2016 Planner Catalog in our online store! This release features 40 new products to get you organized while on the go, all with a hint of style and flair! You’ll find stamps, dies, wood sets, stencils, inks and […]

Hello everyone, we’re back this afternoon with a giveaway winner’s announcement and also the results of a recent poll! First, thanks so much to everyone who participated in the October My Monthly Hero launch and blog hop, left lovely comments on the designers’ blogs, and made this month’s kit a smashing success! The randomly chosen winner […]

The holidays will be here before you know it and this week we’re excited to kick off a brand new challenge here at Hero Arts! The theme is Holiday Cardmaking. You can read all about it and add your project links by clicking over to our challenge page HERE. Enter your newly-created holiday cards between […]

Whenever I find myself in a rut creative-wise, I have a couple fall backs, such as heat embossing and watercoloring. When I got the chance to play with the new Paper Layering Maple Leaf die, I just knew it would look gorgeous with some watercoloring.

Creating Holiday cards can be so much fun specially if you add an unexpected detail to them. The Paper Layering dies are quite a unique way to do that, by adding extra dimension to your projects.

Our October My Monthly Hero Kit features some great (and timeless, too!) add-ons! Today I'm using one of them, Circle Confetti Fancy Die, to create a background for my Winter Wonderland Snowglobe card.

Update: The October kit has now sold out, but add-on products remain available. Join us on November 7th for our next kit release! Release day is here! We hope you’ve enjoyed all of the peeks leading up to today’s launch of our  kit and add-ons! Be sure to scroll down to the end of this […]

In a few short hours we’ll be launching My Monthly Hero for October! We’ve enjoyed your wonderful comments all weekend, and now we have one kit to give away to a lucky blog reader, selected from comments left on our Countdown to Creativity posts. We’ve randomly selected a comment from our Idea #3 post ~ […]

Hello and welcome! We’re back with our second post for the day, sharing more inspiration for using our October My Monthly Hero kit! And remember to comment on each and every post – we’ll be giving away a kit on Monday morning, before the kit launches at 1pm eastern/10am pacific on Monday, October 3! Now join Clare as she shares a glittery […]

Welcome to Day 3 of our Countdown to Creativity, leading up to the launch of our October My Monthly Hero kit on Monday, October 3rd at 1pm eastern! Let’s see what May made with this month’s kit! I know that October My Monthly Hero Kit includes some amazing products that are perfect for creating a snow globe shaker […]

Welcome to Day 2 of our Countdown to Creativity, leading up to the launch of our October My Monthly Hero kit on Monday, October 3rd at 1pm eastern! In this post, Mariana is showing how you can combine one of the optional add-ons with the main kit.

Welcome to Day 2 of our Countdown to Creativity, leading up to the launch of our October My Monthly Hero kit on Monday, October 3 at 1pm eastern! Today we are showing how you can combine the optional add-ons with the kit’s contents, or use them on their own! In this post, Jayne introduces us […]

We’re back with our second post for the day, sharing more inspiration for using our October My Monthly Hero kit!  We’ll be posting all weekend long – leading up to the kit launch on Monday, October 3 at 1 pm eastern/10 am pacific.  Let’s see what Amy made with this month’s kit! This month’s My […]

Hello and welcome! Today begins the countdown to the release of our October My Monthly Hero kit. Stay with us throughout the weekend as our artists show off projects made with this month’s kit. And remember to comment on each and every post – we’ll be giving away a kit on Monday morning, before the kit launches at 1pm […]

As we get ready to begin the countdown to our next kit, we have a bit of celebrating to do! Our My Monthly Hero kit debuted back in October 2015. Can you believe it’s been a year already? We would like to thank all of YOU for the wonderful excitement and enthusiasm you’ve shared with […]

Stencils are a great tool to have in your stash to create backgrounds and there are so many ways you can use them. Today I created a stunning background that took less than two minutes using . To create the background I placed a piece of kraft cardstock in a cardboard box and laid the […]