Hero Arts Winter 2020 Catalog Blog Hop

Hi, all! Super happy to be joining some of my favorite crafters in celebrating the latest release from Hero Arts. The Winter release is amazing, and I’m just tickled to be sharing a few cards made with the new goods.

First, if you are hopping along, you should have arrived here from Nina-Marie’s blog. (The next stop after mine is the blog of the lovely Wanda Guess!) If you just happened to have stopped by, welcome! Please join the hop! Lots of inspiration to be found, plus the chance to win one of three Hero Arts gift cards by leaving comments during the hop. Enter by leaving a comment between now and Sunday, September 6th at 11:59pm Pacific on this post or any of the other hop posts, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.

So let’s get to it. I have four (!!!) projects to share with you, plus quite a lot to say! (Wink, wink!)

Each of my projects use the new Love Ornament Fancy Die. Hero Arts included several cool ornament dies in the new release. I picked one for today’s post and challenged myself to show several ways to use it. (Pressure. Is. On. Let’s do this.)

The Traditional Ornament Cards

Meet card no. 1.

For this card, I created a simple shaker with the die. I paired it with a circle die to cut a window from a transparency, as well as the white background of the shaker.

I was kinda fancy with the shaker’s beads, only putting green seed beads above the word and red ones below it.

And meet card no. 2.

I once again created a shaker card. This time, though, you can see the inside of the card. Say what? How...

Here’s what I did. I created the background with the Circle Pattern stamp and then I temporarily adhered it to my card. I opened the card up, set a circle die on it and then ran it through my die-cutting machine, which created a circle window. I removed the stamped panel. I placed vellum on the card and permanently adhered the circle panel to the card. Easy peasy, although looking back at what I just wrote, it sounds way more (way, way, way more) complicated than it was.

Then I built the ornament shaker, using the vellum window opening as the shaker base. Again, it’s really cool to see the inside of the card with this one.

Even though these cards were made different, they have a similar feel about them. They look pretty cool next to each other too.

A Stamped Card Made With the Die

Ok, so let’s just jump to card no. 3.

I really wanted to stamp something under the “love” word so that’s what I did here. I stamped the images with the new Cozy Town set (plus a few hearts and a “sending” word from the previously released Acts of Kindness set) on a circle of cardstock.

Now, let’s just slow down for a minute and be real, real as can be. I could have just used the circle as it was and stacked several love words on top. No, friends. Why do it the easy way, Teri? Get ready for this. I got all complicated and die-cut the image with the love word and then did some tedious inlaid die-cutting/assembly work. Learn from me. Maybe do it the easy way.

I felt like this card could easily be used as a holiday card or a “just thinking of you” kind of card so I purposely did not use the ornament hanger with the “love” ornament. I wanted to have the option to send this card whenever I felt like it…. late November, December or February or March… or whenever!

A Thinking of You Card

Moving on. We’ve made it to card no. 4. Hope you are still with me.

I wanted to simply make a card with the Love Ornament die that had no holiday or winter feel to it at all. None! So I made this quick “thinking of you” card.

I simply cut the ornament from cardstock and then used my markers to add color.

This design was really easy to pull off and would be easy to recreate. I could see changing up the coloring scheme and adding some hearts to the design to mass produce some Valentine’s Day cards.

Alright! So that is it for this stop on the blog hop! I hope you have enjoyed the cards. Don’t forget that the next stop on the hop is the blog of Wanda Guess. Plus you’ll find all the blog hoppers on the Hero Arts blog.

Hero Arts products used on my projects today:

• CM470 Fawn and Friends set (*)

• CM467 Cozy Town set (*)

• CM468 Comfort and Joy Messages set (*)

• DI793 Love Ornament Fancy Die (*)

• CL911 Acts of Kindness set

• CG799 Circle Pattern Bold Prints

• CG731 Newspaper Bold Prints

• CG710 Love is Love Bold Prints

(* = Brand new product)