Hero Arts Holiday Catalog Release Blog Hop

Hi and welcome back to my blog for a fun and inspirational hop!

Today’s post is all about the Hero Arts 2023 Holiday Catalog release and it’s of course being celebrated with a fab hop. You can find the whole hop lineup down below, and if you leave comments on the stops along the hop, you will be entered into a giveaway for TWO $50 gift cards! You have until Thursday 31st of August, 11.59pm (I’m thinking this is Pacific time as Hero Arts is located in California)

Hero Arts

Channin Pelletier
Dana Joy
Emily Midgett
Ilina Crouse
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Lydia Fiedler
Michelle Short
Mindy Eggen
Seeka
Anna Mahtani
Arjita Singh
Erica A-B (This is me!)
Karen Boyce
Lounon
Michelle Lupton
Cathy Zielske
Daniel West
Jaycee Gaspar
Jenn Shurkus
Jennifer Kotas
Jennifer McGuire
Joan Bardee
Kelly Taylor
Laurie Willison
Meg Brooks
Nichol Spohr
Ralph Tyndall
Rebecca Keppel
Wanda Guess

Right, so with all the important stuff out of the way, let’s get to my cards. I have used the super adorable Peeking Snowman Fancy Die, along with some of the gorgeous big number dies. As I’m Swedish, and we celebrate Christmas on the 24th of December, I have used the Number Two Fancy Die and the Number Four Fancy Dies. 

I cut out a much bigger pile of snowman diecuts than I needed really, but I was in a mood to colour so why not? The spare bits are also good in case you mess up on one, then you can keep colouring without having to cut out new pieces. 

My first snowman got a blue scarf and mittens, plus a high top hat with a matching blue band. One of my favourite blue Copic combos are the B99-B91’s, so I used those for all the blue bits.

The background for this snowman is super simple, I just ink blended a little bit of Splash Reactive ink over the Snowflake Pattern Stencil, directly onto a card base. To give the snowman something to hold on to, I cut out the second biggest frame in the Journaling Photo Frame Infinity dies. These look like polaroid frames and are super cute!

The sentiment is from the Holiday Season Messages stamp set. This set comes as stand-alone stamps or as a stamp and cut bundle, if you prefer to have a coordinating diecut with your sentiments.
I heat embossed the Season’s Greetings in silver embossing powder, directly onto the photo frame, using Silver Metallic embossing powder from WOW! Embossing. The silver works so great with the blues, don’t you think?

The second snowman is a bright and jolly fella!! He’s all about the colours, with a rainbow striped hat, mittens and scarf. My husband said he looks like an Aussie beach snowman, as they have Christmas in the summer down under, LOL!

This background was made with some Hero Paste and the Sprinkled Dots Stencil, which might be sand flying all over the place if you go with The Man’s Aussie snowman thing. The sentiment here is also from Holiday Season Messages, only this time I heat embossed it in Rich Gold, again from WOW! Embossing. I also cut out the smaller 2 and 4 from the number diecut sets, two of each. One in white card stock and one in gold glitter card stock.

Could we take a second to look at the sparkle in that glitter card stock? Just look how gorgeous it’s shimmering in the sunlight. Look at all of those auras of sparkliness!

Ok, that’s it from me for today, but I hope you enjoyed these cards! Don’t forget to hop along and leave comments for your chance to win one of those $50 gift cards. The next stop on the hop is my friend Karen Boyce.

Down below you can find compensated affiliate links to some of the products I have used, at no extra cost to you. Thank you if you chose to support me by shopping with these links, I really appreciate it.

Peeking Snowman Fancy Die

Number Two Fancy Die

Number Four Fancy Die

Holiday Season Messages

Journaling Photo Frames Infinity Dies

Snowflake Pattern Stencil

Sprinkled Dot Stencil

Splash Reactive Ink pad

Medium Blending Brush

Compact Cutter

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope to see you soon again! If you prefer videos, I have a YouTube video up on my channel too. Click on the thumbnail below and it should take you to the video, but just in case that doesn’t work, you can also CLICK HERE.

Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica

PS If you like learning from fabulous crafters and actually craft along-side some of your favourites, why not join in the Hero Holiday Stamp-Along on Nov 4-5th? If you get your ticket before Oct 2nd, you get the early bird price of $45, instead of $50 too.

If you don’t have the products used for the classes, either use what you have or snap up the discounted bundle here. If you get the bundle you save over 10% of the cost of the products if you bought them individually.