DT Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero challenge

Hi friends,

It's September and it's time for a new Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero challenge. This month we challenge you to create a project with clouds. Please read all the way to the end for a fun Hero Arts workshop coming up!

I immediately thought of one of my favorite Hero Arts stamp sets: Color Layering Sunset over Waves. You can create beautiful ocean scenes with this set and it has a great clouds stamp in it, that you can use for sunsets or more daytime colors. I have created quite some sunsets with this set, so this time I went for a daytime scene with an adorable doggy running along the shoreline.

All the images are stamped with Core Inks and I created the beach with Sand Embossing Powder. 

We hope you'll play along with this month's challenge and you might be our lucky winner of a $50 gift card to the Hero Arts store!

On October 18th Hero Arts has a super fun event planned: Hero Handmade Holiday Workshop. Some of my favorite crafters in the industry will be teaching classes and the class kit is now available HERE!

The Hero Arts events are always so much fun and class kits are packed with awesome goodies. If you're considering joining, don't wait too long to get your kit as they usually sell out fast.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day!

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Hero Arts Very Merry collection

Hi friends,

I have one more card to share with the new Hero Arts Very Merry collection. 

This time I went for Christmas greens along with the Color Layering Tree Stencils. I used Core Inks Kiwi, Green Apple, Fresh Lawn, and Pine. 

The sentiment from the Modern Holiday Greetings Stamp & Cut set is gold heat embossed on Hero Hues Shamrock cardstock. I used two Candy Canes from the A Little Merri-Mint stamp & cut set and placed them behind the sentiment.

For a finishing touch I added some Translucent Pinks Hero Hues Enamel Dots to create tree ornaments.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day!

Disclosure: this post contains affiliate links. I receive a commission when products are purchased through links in this post, at no extra cost to you. All products linked are the actual products I used in creating my projects. I do not share or review products that I would not personally recommend or use.

Hero Arts Very Mery collection

Hi friends,

Today I'm sharing a shaker card with the new Hero Arts Very Merry collection. 

I used the Color Layering Tree Stencils with Core Inks Pale Tomato, Cherry, Crimson and Cranberry. The Hero Hues Core Inks reds are such great Christmas colors! I die cut the tree out of the stenciled shape with the Festive Tree Die Set to create a shaker window.

I also die cut the star from this same die set out of Hero Hues Paradise cardstock. The sentiment from the Modern Holiday Greetings Stamp & Cut set is stamped on Paradise cardstock as well.

The background in the window is Glitter Metallic Cardstock from the Silver Assortment Treasured Cardstock pack, which gives the card a festive sparkle. For shaker bits I used the Frost Sequins Mix.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day!

Disclosure: this post contains affiliate links. I receive a commission when products are purchased through links in this post, at no extra cost to you. All products linked are the actual products I used in creating my projects. I do not share or review products that I would not personally recommend or use.

Hero Arts August release Very Merry

Hi friends,

Today I'm sharing a card with the new Hero Arts Very Merry collection and this time I combined the Merry Letterpress & Foil Plate with last month's Candy Cane Toss Up Stencils.

I used the Merry Letterpress Plate on a sheet of Hero Hues Palm Cardstock with a bronze pigment ink. The sentiment is from the Modern Holiday Greetings Stamp & Cut set and I heat embossed it with Brass Embossing Powder on Hero Hues Plum Cardstock. As a finishing touch to this front panel I added some Clear Hero Hues Enamel Dots.

For the background I used a sheet of Hero Hues Plum Cardstock and used the Candy Cane Toss Up Stencils on it. I did he first layer with Hero Hues Unicorn Pigment Ink and the second layer with Berry Hero Wax.

I'll be back soon with a shaker card that I created with the Very Merry collection.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day!

Disclosure: this post contains affiliate links. I receive a commission when products are purchased through links in this post, at no extra cost to you. All products linked are the actual products I used in creating my projects. I do not share or review products that I would not personally recommend or use.

Hero Arts August release Very Merry

Hi friends,

Today I'm sharing a card with the new Hero Arts Very Merry collection and this time I used the Color Layering Tree Stencils a little differently.

I moved the stencils in different directions to randomly add the shapes to my Hero Hues Arctic cardstock background with Core Inks Mist, Paradise, Aegean and Bermuda. This way you don't have to use these stencils only to create a Christmas Tree and you can create backgrounds with these stencils for any occasion!

I die cut the small tree from the Festive Tree Die Set three times out of Hero Hues Plum cardstock and once out of Glitter Metallic from the Silver Assortment Treasured Cardstock pack. The sentiment is from the Modern Holiday Greetings Stamp & Cut set and I Silver heat embossed it on Hero Hues Arctic cardstock. 

The Modern Holiday Greetings set also has some snowflake and star stamps and I heat embossed a few of them with White Satin Pearl embossing powder. For my card front I used Plum cardstock to match the die cut trees.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day!

Disclosure: this post contains affiliate links. I receive a commission when products are purchased through links in this post, at no extra cost to you. All products linked are the actual products I used in creating my projects. I do not share or review products that I would not personally recommend or use.