Good morning! Today is the day… the new Hero Arts 2019 Catalog is finally available on the Hero Arts website! The Creative Team and some extra special guests are welcoming the new products to the Hero Arts site with a special blog hop, filled with tons of inspiration and a giveaway! You should have arrived here from Caly’s blog and your next stop is Ilina’s blog. Be sure to read all the way to the end to find out how to be entered to win our giveaway!
I have two projects for you today using some of the brand new goodies from the newest Catalog release! My first project features the new Color Layering Birthday Cake. I love the fact that stamps allow me to create my own patterned paper, in any color and in any amount! I stamped a cheerful pattern on a panel of A2 white card stock using the Color Layering Birthday Cake in a pink, mint, and yellow color scheme. I used the Life Changing Blending Brushes around the edge to blend a bit more pink to soften the pattern a bit.
After I had finished stamping the background, I used some of the (absolutely fabulous) new Azalea card stock to die cut one of the new Birthday Message Fancy Dies. I combined the die cut with some sentiments from the Color Layering Birthday Cake to create a custom greeting.
For my second project today, I wanted to do some coloring with the new Fairy Kisses stamp set. I love the movement in the skirt and the hair on the fairy, and wanted to add shadows and depth to the image. I began by stamping the fairy onto some Copic friendly white card stock using Intense Black ink, then used my Copic markers to color the image with pretty shades of pool and used the coordinating Fairy Kisses Frame Cuts to die cut the image.
For the background, I die cut the Floral Border Fancy die from some more white card stock, then used the smaller Life Changing Blender Brushes to add color to the flowers, foliage, and butterflies.
I cut an A2 panel of the new Paradise card stock, then used the Blending Brushes to blend some Aegean ink towards the top, the combination of which created a very pretty, almost lavender-to-turquoise ombre effect. I placed my fairy approximately where I wanted her, then heat embossed some sparkles included in the Fairy Kisses stamp set using Silver Sparkle embossing powder. I adhered the blended frame to the blended turquoise “sky” using liquid adhesive, then popped up the fairy and coordinating sentiment using foam adhesive.
I also added a bit of sparkle to the fairy’s wings and wand with some Wink of Stella to help enhance the magical, ethereal feel of the card.
Well, that’s all for my projects today! Now, Hero Arts is generously giving away not one, but FOUR $50 shopping sprees to four random commenters! The more comments you leave on the hop, the more chances you have to win! The comments will close on Sunday, February 17 at midnight PST, and the winners will be announced the following week.
Here’s the whole hop list, just in case you get lost:
The Hero Arts Blog
Caly Person
Emily Midgett
Ilina Crouse
Janette Kausen
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Michelle Short
Nichol Spohr
Yana Smakula
Amy Kolling
Debi Adams
Jennifer McGuire
Julee Tilman
Kathy Racoosin
Kelly Latevola
Laurie Willison
Lydia Fiedler
Maria Willis
Libby Hickson
Birthday Cake Supplies:
Fairy Supplies:
Awesome cards!
WOW! What beautiful creations and your coloring is outstanding!
Wonderful cards! The fairy one is my fav 🙂
Such beautiful creations, Emily. Wonderful inspiration!
Emily, I love both cards but the fairy one is my favorite! I’ve gotten obsessed with fairies lately. I was wondering which Copic Markers you used on her hair? So pretty!
love your cards – they are so beautiful:)
Love your cake card! That birthday die is awesome. Your fairy card is too cute!
I absolutely love the fairy card!
Love the background on the birthday card….really cute.
Awesome cards!
I love that first card and the great background you created. I mean, how can you go wrong with cake?
Such sweet cards. I love the cake background and that fairy is just precious. TFS!
Dear Emily wow both projects are gorgeous. Love the colors techniques and the love u put in to create them. Thank u so much. May u and your family be blessed with gd health and happiness. Love and hugs from Sri Lanka.
Lovely cards!
I just love the bright, fresh colors on your pretty cards! The pink one is my favorite! Awesome designs, as always!
Take care!
Michele H.
crimsonowl@comcast.net
love putting the cake stamp in repeat.
Who doesn’t love pink frosted birthday cake! The fairy is divine. Thank you for the opportunity!
love your colors and ideas!
Love the fairy card and that GORGEOUS birthday card! Just wow!
Lovely display of cards!
Beautiful cards!
I especially love your fairy card!
I loved your cards. The fairy card was sweet and liked the cake background. Very nice.
Lovely card!
Love the birthday cake background! That’s definitely a stamp with lots of options.
Amazing cards! Magical!
Pretty Cards! Thanks for sharing!
Love your cards. Beautiful coloring on that dress!
The fairy card is so pretty–I like the flowers being colored so delicately
The cake makes a great background. I have never made anything like that before.
Sweet fairy and lovely coloring.
I love the oval cutout. So pretty.
Pretty cards! I love the background on the birthday card- so festive!
Beautiful cards..Love the fairy one so much…
I love the card with the birthday cakes in the background. So perfect for any age
Love that Fairy card
Oh so sweet! Happy, festive and wonderfully magical. Fabulous cards!
Love the cards! Thanks for posting the supply list!
I really want this Birthday die!
I love the birthday card. Great Job
Such gorgeous cards!
Beautiful cards. Love that scripty birthday!
I love your Fairy Kisses Card. Love the die cut background frame.
Wow.. such beautiful and fun designs. Such pretty color as well.
Just lovely
Pink cakes and fairies! What fun, lovely cards.
Love that birthday cake card! What fun. Eat more cake!
I love the monochrome birthday card! Just gorgeous!
Oh be still my heart, your fairy princess is sooo gorgeous! Thanks for sharing both projects!
Oh, I’ve gotta have that lovely Fairy Kisses frame!! I love how you added just a touch of color to highlight it!!
The cards are awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Really like the stamped birthday cake background and that Fairy Wishes card is exquisite!
I love your fairy card! Beautiful work!
I love the fairy. Oh the cake, I never have enough Birthday stamps!
What a gorgeous birthday card!
I love the colors you used in the cards.
Those birthday sets look like lots of fun and present many possibilities!
Fairy Wishes is wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
Hero Arts is one of my favorite companies, and this release is wonderful. Love your card using the Color Layering Birthday Cake, and pink happens to be my favorite color. However, I think my favorite from this release is the New Day Butterflies.
Awesome cards! Thanks for the chance to win.
Super sweet cards – loving the lavender-to-turquoise ombre effect!
Your created patterned paper is awesome!
So inspiring and fun. I love anything Hero Arts! Thank you for sharing. Have a beautiful day.
Such amazing designs! Love Hero Arts, thanks for the inspiration.
Carol B
Thanks for the inspiration!
That fairy card is just beautiful, love your coloring.
Love the fairy card. Your blending with the brushes is awesome. What a beautiful job!! Love this new release!
Great cards! Love your colors! The birthday one is great!
Gorgeous cards! Love that birthday cake card and the coloring on the fairy card is beautiful, just enough to draw the eye in to the center where the fairy rests. TFS.
Beautiful colors. Love the ones you chose. Awesome job. Thanks for sharing.
The fairy card is really elegant!!!!! Thank you for sharing
I adore the fairy. Great cards
Fabulous cards Emily, love the color layered cake background! Thanks for the inspiration!
Card with Fairy Kisses is gorgeous! Love both cards.
Great cards. Thanks for sharing your inspiration.
Great inspiration! Love the cake background.
Great new products! I love your creations, especially the Floral Boarder Fancy die card!
Love the fairy card
I really like the color layering birthday cake!
I love both of your cards. One is fun and the other is beautiful. Love your style! Thanks for the inspiration. 😀
Very creative cards. Thanks for the inspiration.
Cute cards, especially the fairy blue one! Loved how you blended that background… Tfs!
Love the birthday card!
Emily your Birthday card is yummy and your Fairy card is magical, I love them both. I am also loving the new Cardstock colors, just gorgeous! (mardy14@bellsouth.net)
Want the birthday die. Such a nice focal point!
Wonderful cards. I like the cake background on the first one.
Beautiful cards! I love the birthday ones!! The colors are so pretty!
Beautiful Cards Emily, really love that Birthday Card.
Lovely cards and great new release from HA!
Very beautiful cards Emily. I love the fairy – colouring is awesome!
So pretty Emily! Great colours and designs! Thanks so much for sharing and your wonderful inspiration!
Your work is wonderful – love your cards!
The birthday cake looks good enough to eat. I also love the big birthday die!
Fun, magical card. The birthday cake layer stamp is awesome! Thanks for sharing a great idea to make our own pattern paper.
Love that birthday die! Good choices for some new thoughts on birthday cards!
Gorgeous cards Emily, I can’t say which one I love most. They are each special with these beautiful new products. Thank you the inspiration and sharing.
I really like the fairy and die cut frame with the beautiful colors and the pretty cardstock. Love all the colors you chose.
Lovely! Thank you!
Love your cards! Totally different styles, but I love them both!
Beautiful cards, the fairy is stunning!
Beautiful cards!
Those garden dies are awesome and just love adding the fairy too. Thank you for sharing. Your projects are always a delight!
Love, love the birthday die.
Beautiful cards word die is a must have in anyone’s craft room. The fairy card is so beautiful . I love all of the background dies that Hero Arts make they cut and layer so beautifully.
Both cards are so pretty. The colors are gorgeous. The birthday card looks like a party!
I love the softness of color and movement in the fairies dress.
That birthday die is awesome.
Beautiful cards! Love them all.
Oh these are both so pretty! I love your cake background on the first one…awesome!
Beautiful cards. Love the mint on the pink birthday card. It really pops.
Absolutely adorable cards.
OH MY…. What a bright color on your first card. I absolutely love it and your second card is just so lovely!!!!
Such beautiful color combinations. Thanks for sharing your hard work
Such lovely creations!
Emily, I am so liking the way you created the background using the slice of layered cake stamp. It’s subtle & doesn’t overpower but is so effective. That large birthday die is wonderful & that Azalea paper is beautiful & I’m not even a “pink person”. Your fairy card is so pretty & I see what you mean about the way the dress seems to flow. Thanks.
Beautiful projects. Love how the cake was the background for the card.
That fairy card is stunning!
Beautiful coloring on the fairy. Nice work!
Your cards are lovely!
Beautiful cards.
Beautiful cards. Great colors. The fairy stamp is a must have, my 2 granddaughters would love cards with the fairy on it.
Beautiful cards – I love the coloring on the floral border fancy die and that gorgeous fairy
Awesome cards!
Such pretty and colorful cards. I did not want the layering came until I saw the card you made.
Beautiful cards! The fairy card is stunning! And I love how you created the background for the birthday card!
The fairy card is adorable!
That floral border fancy die is beautiful! Love the colors on that fairy card!!!
I really like how pretty the written birthday die made your card so cute.
The fairy card is beautiful.
Thank you Emily for your beautiful cards and inspiration to get back to the Copic blending world with many new stamps from Hero Arts. Can’t wait to get my first order.
I sure like the looks of that scripty ‘birthday’. I need that die! Fun release too!
Love the background on the birthday card. I like the detail in the fairy stamp; she is is pretty.
Love the Birthday Cake card. Great technique and cute card!
Emily I love the cards especially the fairy one. Can’t wait to try one like that.
Your fairy is so perfectly colored.
Love your cards! Both give me great ideas.
I just ordered the birthday cake layering stamp set, thanks so much for the inspiration!
You have created works of art — I love the fsiry card and the cake looks good enough to eat! Thanks for sharing!
The birthday card was stunning. I love the layering stamps from HA
Very pretty cards! Love the Fairy card.
I love ve the big bold size of the birthday die and really like the oval floral die too.
The fairy is lovely, especially paired with the yummy new card stock!
Lovely projects!!
Love the layered cake. I can think of so many ideas for birthday, maybe even wedding
Your cards are totally amazing!!! Wonderful colouring!!!
I love these sweet cards! Your colors are beautiful too!
Love your cards Emily. I am really loving the way you did your fairy card…..so pretty…thank you so much for sharing your wonderful cards…..
Hi Emily! Your cards are really beautiful and I love your staging/photographs of them as well, all of the details count.
Your birthday cake card is so cool.
Great cards! I love the colors on the fairy one and the pretty die cut.
Beautiful samples
Very cute cake card but my favorite is the die on the fairy card. Gorgeous.
Emily, your cards are beautiful!
Great cake card!
The cards are marvelous and the colors wonderful.
Beautiful cards, love the fairy card.
nice cards
Super sweet cards.
Gorgeous cards!
The birthday card is so unique. I like the layering cake stamp.
Love these gorgeous cards and the beautiful colors you chose to use! 🙂
Love both of these cards – especially what you did with the layering birthday cake!
Such pretty cards! Love how the Color Layering Cake makes a perfect background for the birthday die.
Beautiful cards. Love the fairy.
Thanks for sharing…
Love your cards! The fairy card is my favorite!
Lovely cards, Emily! After seeing your color layered cake card, I think that stamp would be perfect to decorate a plain gift bag or kraft wrapping paper. The fairy card is simply gorgeous!
So pretty! Love your beautiful cards!
The soft background cakes work so nicely with the birthday text!
The cake layering image is yummy 😋
Such fun and cheerful cards! The fairy is sweet. Love the birthday die and the great background you created with the layered cake die. Thanks for sharing!
You made a great background for the Birthday card; it is really a happy card !
Great colouring on your second card !
Thank you for sharing your talent !
I really like your birthday card. I need those stamps and dies as I make lots of birthday cards.
Love the fairy card! Love how you colored the Floral border with fancy frame die using the life changing brushes.
Emily, your work never ceases to amaze me! I love the background in the birthday cake card and the colors! That fairy card takes the cake though! So amazing!
Lovely cards. I especially like the details on the fairy card.
I am glad you didn’t ask which card we liked best because I like both. The birthday cake made a perfect background which can easily be done in guy colors. The fairy is perfect.
Love the background you made with the cake slices.
Fun idea. The little fairy can sprinkle dust at my
house any time. Wonderful cards.
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Beautiful palettes on your darling cards. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Your cards are beautiful! I especially love the fairy! She is so beautiful and I can’t wait to use her!
Beautiful cards. I love those dies, particularly the script Birthday — so elegant.
Beautiful cards! Love the new catalog.
Fabulous cards! I love the background for your birthday card and the fairy is gorgeous!
Your cards are lovely. I really like that background paper that you made with the cakes and balloons. It looks so fun. Your fairy card is very pretty. The coloring and blending is lovely and I like the Oval die.
I love your beautiful fairy card. The coloring in the skirt especially is awesome! Your birthday card is so colorful and fun!
The Floral Border die is sure popular among the DT! I like how you decorated it.
I saw the birthday cake background paper and thought where can I buy that…beautiful!!!!!
These are all amazing! I love the birthday layering stamp!
I especially loved the fairy!
Fantastic cards, Emily! I can’t pick a favorite, that cake one is awesome and the fairy one is so beautiful!
Very pretty & festive cards. I know quite a few little girls who will love that fairy card……even a few grown-up girls!
Love the birthday card!
Awesome cards. Thanks for sharing.
I love both of your cards, but the birthday card (cake) is particularly striking!
Both cards are gorgeous! But that fairy card…wow!
Love that birthday cake set and Birthday Message die! Thanks for sharing!
Love both cards. That birthday background that you stamped is so great! Love the pink. Looks PERFECT!
Love em both!
Beautiful!!!
I’m crazy about the cake layering stamp
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Oh my! I am going to have to have that fancy floral die!
I like both cards, though the first one seems like it would be more fun to make, since there are more steps/skills involved.
Great colors on the fairy card!