Hero Arts Blog Hop with your Hero Arts Hosti!

• Welcome to the Hero Arts Hostess Hop, featuring fabulous stamps from the new 2015 release!

• If you’ve been following along, you’ve just arrived from Tiffany Ervin .
• Hero Arts will be awarding prizes from randomly drawn comments.  For a chance to win, simply comment on ANY of the stops along the hop on ANY day, including each day’s starting post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning!

Let me tell you the plants on my card look much better than the plants in my house.  And yes I cut out every one of those plants and pots.  I over-water my houseplants, but the ones below don't have to worry about that at all.  The cutting was actually therapeutic, a calming exercise for sure.  I pictured a shelving unit on which to sit the pots, so this is what I came up with.

I couldn't have planned the colors of my card better to match the

 main colors of the Hero Arts banner.  

I think you can see the changes of color more on the second view below.

Wonderful new 2015 stamps hit the spotlight here.

Tropical Background, CG659

Stamp Your Own Succulents, CL839

Baby Animals Stamp & Cut, DC148 (sentiment)

Panel is glossy white paper which I embossed with VersaMark ink

Hero Arts Orange Soda, Fresh Peach and Soft Cantaloupe Ink Cubes 

were used directly on the panel. (Lots of Ink Cube sets at Hero Arts)

Some of the plants themselves are stamped over more glossy paper inked with 

Hero Arts Orange Soda, Fresh Peach, Soft Cantaloupe and Soft Pool Ink Cubes..

I decided to stamp the cute baby animals on patterned paper, like all kinds of little stuffed toys..  I had so much fun playing with them. I also had fun using my Hero Arts Ink Cube too.  I embossed the panel and ran the ink pad over the leaves to bring out spots of color.  There are the cutest little sentiments to go with this set too.   AND there are two dies.  I love sets that have dies included or that you can purchase to match the stamps you buy.

Baby Animals Stamp and Cut DC148

Hero Arts Orange Soda Ink Cube

You can always use a Birthday card, so I thought background and Sentiment

Tropical Background, CG659

Happy Birthday to You F6058

Die-Namics Stitched Ovals

Green and a red gem

Remember that Hero Arts will be awarding prizes from randomly drawn comments. For a chance to win, simply comment on ANY of the stops along the hop on ANY day, including each day’s starting post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning!

I will be awarding a prize package of Hero Arts stamps also.  There will be a random draw for my prize package on Friday.  Happy Hopping!

• If you find a broken link, you'll find a master list of the hop links at the Hero Arts Club Blog.   Also, please report broken links to: blog@heroarts.com.

• Your next stop on the Hero Arts Hostess Blog Hop is Sarah Moeman. NOTE: Make this text bigger, bolder, a different color, etc. so it stands out and can easily be found by hoppers.)

Hero Hostess Day 3!

Hero Arts is hopping again.  We Hosti are hopping with excitement because of the new Hero Arts stamps.  

I'm loving the new stamps and how versatile they are and have been sharing the new stamps at Die Cut Divas.  

I have 3 cards for you today.

The blog hop begins with Hero Arts blog with a list of my fellow happy hostesses (past hostess in name only).  Once you're a Hero Arts hostess, you're always a Hero Arts hostess.  You should have arrived here from  Heather Doran, (Stamping and Stitching).

Hero Arts will be awarding prizes from randomly drawn comments. For a chance to win, simply comment on ANY of the stops along the hop on ANY day, including each day’s starting post at the Hero Club Blog. 
The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning! 


Is there a background stamp in there?  Yes, I went background crazy.  A little bit of everything, from Rangers Distress Paints in White and Victorian Velvet, Adirondack's Cool Peri, Blue Denim and Eggplant.,  then a bit of green.  I then lightly scattered some glitter embossing powder and Egyptian Gold embossing powder on the card.  Surprised myself and love it.  The flower petal is the result of a happy accident with fine glitter and Glossy Accents.  Some Red Stickles made it into the center of the flower.  All new stamps on this card.  Love the stamps and matching dies!

Can you see the background?

I love the new Hero Arts stamps and dies.
Hero Arts Butterfly and Flower (CL750)
Hero Arts Flower and Butterfly Frame Cut (DI090
Hero Arts Pattern Stripes K5884
I added Glitter & Red Stickles

Using the same background stamp, I stamped it in Hero Arts Soft Blossom Shadow Ink and then brushed the ink on the die-cut panel as I didn't have my sponges with me.  It works!  The yellow is a PanPastel (yes the banner IS darker).

Recipe:

Hero Arts Pattern Stripes K5884

Hero Arts  3 X 4 Frame DI084
Hero Arts Soft Blossom Shadow Ink

My third card - no muss & no fuss.  I could make mountains all day long.  I love the different ways you can use the mountains to make valleys, layer ranges, create your own unique backdrop.  Everything on this card is a stamp from the set.  Great guy card and you could use this for anything.  What a guy and inside any of the following sentiments and more (iHappy Birthday), (Congratulations), (Thank you), or to someone who loves to fish, hike, is an adventurer).

Recipe:

Hero Arts OWN What a Guy! (CL753)

Hero Arts cubes (inks) in 2 greens, the fish in Grape Juice

Mountains stamped in Memento London Fog, the eagle in Memento Rich Cocoa

Be sure to leave a post because Hero Arts will be giving away prizes and if you don't comment, you won't win..  I will be giving away this cling set, Surprise (CG428)  and clear set Florentine Message Bordor (CL530) to a lucky winner who posts a comment by 9:00 p.m.Friday, Pacific time in sunny California.  I'll post the winner on Saturday, January 25th, 2014. Sets donated by my LSS, The Stamp Art Shoppe.  Wish I could send you chocolate too.
  
Your next stop along the way is Marcy Kaminski, (En Papillote Arts) who will knock your socks off!  I did peek, you see.

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