Hero Arts | Holiday 2023 Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello there and welcome to the Hero Arts Holiday 2023 Release Blog Hop! Hero Arts are releasing a plethora of new products today as part of the Oh Joy release, including new stamps, dies, foil plates, mediums and much more! 

PLEASE NOTE: This post contains affiliate links. Please see below for my full disclosure.

For my projects today, I was heavily inspired by Laura Bassen and her great skill with both colour and paper/cardstock strips. So I used them as a base for my other elements. 

For my first card, I started off by die cutting the Hero Arts Tree Pattern Cover Plate three times from Hero Arts Deluxe Smooth White Cardstock. I picked five trees and layered them up one on top of another to create dimension (so that the trees were three high). I then took the Hero Arts Sentiment Strips Fancy Die and cut it from Hero Arts Peony, Cherry, Cranberry, Paradise and Bermuda Cardstock. 

The strips were adhered to a 3.5" x 4.75" panel of white cardstock and the excess cut off the sides. The trees were then adhered on top using Hero Arts Precision Glue. The panel was then in turn adhered to a US A2 sized white card base with thin foam tape. 

I stamped the sentiment from the Hero Arts Christmas Sentiment Strips Set (this is one whole stamp with multiple sentiments, so that you can stamp and die cut all at once) and stamped it onto Hero Arts Pitch Black Cardstock using Hero Arts Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink. I applied Hero Arts White Detail Embossing Powder and heat set. It was then cut into a strip using the Hero Arts Sentiment Strips Fancy Die before adhering to the card with more thin foam tape. 

My next card uses the same base but with the Hero Arts Winter Foliage Stamp & Cut XL Set. I die cut the foliage from Hero Arts Kiwi, Paradise and Bermuda Cardstock. I cut the pine cones from Hero Arts Sand Cardstock. I added ink blending to them using Hero Arts Core Inks. I used Kiwi, Fresh Lawn and Pine for the green foliage and Bermuda and Nautical for the teal foliage. 

I blended Sand, Cup O' Joe and Espresso Core Inks onto the pine cones. I added the same cardstock strips to a 3.5" x 4.75" panel of white cardstock and then adhered the foliage on top using Hero Arts Precision Glue. The panel was adhered to a US A2 sized white card base with thin foam tape. 

I adhered the pine cones on top using a combination of thin foam tape (at the tips) and Precision Glue (at the bottoms). The sentiment from the Hero Arts Christmas Sentiment Strips set that I stamped for the first card was adhered on top with more thin foam tape. To finish off, I added a few white gel pen dots. 

BLOG HOP:

As mentioned, this post is part of a fun, inspirational blog hop (with prizes!). For the hop, you should have arrived here from Lydia. Next on the hop is Mindy. If you get lost along the way, please head over to the Hero Arts Blog. 

GIVEAWAY:

Hero Arts are giving away two $50 gift cards, drawn from the comments left along the hop. Comment on all the blogs for more chances to win! You have until Thursday 31st August 2023 at 11.59pm ET to enter. The winners will be announced on the Hero Arts blog. 

SUPPLIES:

 

Here are the links to what I have used on the projects. Affiliate links are used on some products. This means that if you make a purchase after clicking on my link, I receive a small commission with no extra cost to you. I truly appreciate your support when using these links. Please click on the logo below the product to shop at your favourite store. All products were personally purchased except those from Clearly Besotted, Hero Arts or those marked with an asterisk (*) which were kindly sent to me to use. You can read my full disclosure here.

Before I go, I wanted to let you know that there will be a new Holiday Stamp-Along happening in November. This is a virtual class with some of your favourite cardmakers!

You can find more information about the class here. Thank you so much for stopping by today, I really do appreciate it. I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day!