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Hello crafty friends! I'm beyond thrilled to be hopping along with Hero Arts today to celebrate their 45th Anniversary. You should have arrived here from the blog of the very talented Amy Kolling. If you missed any of the stops along the hop, you can go back to the beginning at the Hero Arts blog HERE. If you missed Day 1 of this fun hop, you can find all those stops on this post.
45 years is such an amazing accomplishment for any business, Congratulations to everyone at Hero Arts! I am proud to say that Hero Arts were the first stamps I ever bought and I still love them today. I was lucky to be a Hero Arts Hostess back in 2012, and a member of the Design Team a few years ago as well. I always enjoy all of the innovative products Hero Arts comes out with each year, and look forward to paging through each new catalog. I am so glad Hero Arts has taken some of it's older designs "out of the Vault" for this celebration. There are such wonderful images. For my card today, I have tried out the new From the Vault Flowers stamps and dies along with the brand new Reactive Ink Pads in Taffy, Lemon Drop, and Pool Party.
To create my card, I used the Life Changing Blender Brushes to apply the inks onto a panel of Distress Watercolor Cardstock. I always start with the yellow when creating a rainbow and use more than I need, because I always cover up more than I should in the end. I dried the panel with a heat tool, then gave it a couple of sprays of water using my Distress Sprayer, then blotted the panel with a paper towel. Once that was dry, I put the three inks onto my non-stick craft sheet, sprayed them with water and flicked little splatters of color onto the panel with a paintbrush.
Once the panel was dry, I stamped the sentiment. I stamped and cut the flowers several times and arranged them around the sentiment to create a focal point, layering some of the flowers with foam tape. I adhered my finished panel onto a mat of Pitch Black cardstock, then onto a Dove White Top Folding Card.
Now for the prizes! There are SOOO many sponsors that have generously donated their wonderful products for the hop today. I love the sharing that is going on in the crafting community….
Hero Arts: 3 $145 Gift Certificates, 3 $45 Gift Certificates
Altenew: $50 Gift Certificate
Art Impressions: $25 Gift Certificate
Ellen Hutson LLC: $50 Gift Certificate
Gina K: $100 Gift Certificate
Jennifer McGuire Ink: $100 Hero Arts Gift Certificate, 5 Share Handmade Kindness goodie bags
Laurie Willison: 2 Card Hanger Dies
Lawn Fawn: $50 Gift Certificate
My Sweet Petunia: 1 Prize Bundle (Original MISTI, a set of Creative Corners, a Cut-Align, and a bar magnet)
Online Card Classes: 5 spots in the Stamp Happy In Good Company: Hero Arts class
Pink Fresh Studio: $45 Gift Certificate
Scrapbook & Cards Today: 3 copies of Scrapbook & Cards Today Summer 2019 Issue
Scrapbook.com: $50 Gift Certificate
Simon Says Stamp: $50 Gift Certificate
Winners will be drawn from people who leave comments along the blog hop over the three days – comment all three days for more chances to win! Comment by Sunday, June 2 at 11:59pm PST, and the winners will be announced on the Hero Arts blog next week. Your next stop on the hop is the wonderfully creative Claire Prezzia, make sure you hop on over to see what she has created for you today 🙂 All the stops on the hop are listed below in case you missed any:
Hero Arts
A Blog Named Hero
Amy Kolling
Cheiron Brandon
Clare Prezzia
Donna Mikasa
Jana Millen
Jenn Shurkus
Kathleen Graumüller
Laurie Willison
Lisa Spangler
Lydia Fiedler
Nichol Spohr
Scrapbook & Cards Today
Scrapbook.com
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Your colors are beautiful!Thank you for mentioning the type of paper, I just ordered some inks and wanted to know what is the best for blending❤
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That is such a beautiful colorful background.
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I like how the wreath is in black and white. It really stands out on the colored background.
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Such a sweet card! Inked backgrounds especially rainbows are my fav!
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I love this background- wow. Inspiration galore!!
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Great cards. Thanks for sharing
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Lovely background! I adore the bright colors, and then the black and white flowers!
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Love your card! Really like the inked background – the colors are perfect. Thank you for reminding me that not all images need to be colored to be effective!
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Love your color choice and the b/w flowers. Makes for a stunning card. Glad to know the type of paper you used.
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I love the black and white flowers against that gorgeous background. I can’t wait to try these new inks.
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Gorgeous backdrop! I love the melon colors and the black really makes it pop!
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So pretty! I love the b&w flowers – the background really helps them pop, simple as they are!
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Wow! Gorgeous background!! Fantastic card! 🙂
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Love the colors, so vibrant
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Love the fun colors! 🙂
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Gorgeous colors…thanks for sharing!!
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Fabulous card!
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Love the color combo for your beautiful background! Pretty floral image too! Gorgeous card! Can’t wait to try the Reactive Ink Pads!
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What a striking card!
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Simple but beautiful card!
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What a pretty card- love the flowers.
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Such a gorgeous background and the colors are fabulous!
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Beautiful card. Love the dimension.
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The colors are beautiful.
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awesome card – so bright and cheerful:)(
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Love the colored background to set off the stamps/dies – interesting to start with yellow as I’ve always gone from the edges. Not any more 🙂
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The colors on your card are beautiful.
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Wow such gorgeous colors, so vivid and happy. beautiful card
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I wish I could get my hands on those new reactive inks. They look yummy!
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Love the black and white on the colorful background.
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Love the background for this card. The sentiment is versatile also. The colors just pop.
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What an awesome card. Love the color combo.
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I really like how you blended the reactive inks and stamped the floral in the dark neutral. Beautiful card!
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What a pretty card. The blended background is perfect as a back drop for the flowers/leaves.
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Beautiful! I am loving the new reactive inks!
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Just beautiful – love your background!
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What an awesome pop of color!!
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That looks so pretty with the blended background.
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Beautiful card!
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Wonderful card! Love the colorful background.
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Great card! Thanks for the inspiration!
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The splatter technique works so well. I often rush to colour in flowers, but this is so much more effective with the coloured backgroun, and leaving the stamped images plain.
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Sometimes I see the background first, and then with another glance, I see the floral images first.
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Such a beautiful card! Love the contrast of the background colors and the white flowers.
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Beautiful card! Love the awesome background colors.
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The newly released flowers work fabulously with their dies. The white really stands out against your gorgeous background!
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Blend blend blend beautiful beautiful beautiful! Paint splatters as well beautiful touch! Thanks for sharing!
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Beautiful combination of your great background and the black and white flowers.
I also like the font of the sentiment.
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The colors in the background are fabulous and make the sentiment stand out beautifully. Such an inspiration!
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Stunning card!! Love the background.
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Your card is so Beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration!
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Happy anniversary hero arts! 🎉
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Gorgeous ink blending and colors to showcase these pretty florals.
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Beautiful card, love the background. Great prizes from Hero Arts, I purchased my first stamp in 1984 from Hero.
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It is such a great idea to bring some of those stamps out of the vault.
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Love how bright these new inks are, makes your flowers really stand out!
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love the colors
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The background looks amazing!
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This is a beautiful background, and the black & white flowers just pop!
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Super background! What a fun card!
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Blending is so much fun. A beautiful job you have done here.
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Beautiful ! I love these bright colours !
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Beautiful colors = beautiful card!
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So pretty! Love how you made the background colorful and kept the die cut pieces simple. Thanks for the inspiration. 😀
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Beautiful background – really makes those stamp graphics pop!
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Wow.. Gorgeous card with the bright colors.. Thanks for sharing..
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Love the colorful background of your card!
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Just a beautiful card. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Very pretty card. Beautiful colors.
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What a bright colorful background!
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I like how you didn’t color in any of the flowers. Perfect with the background.
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So Pretty love the colors!!
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thank you for this giveaway ,, im in aww of the pretty cards being made and also all the tool being used happy 45 th anniversary hero arts
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Such a beautifully designed card! Amazing colors and love the floras stamp!
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I have had the pleasure to meet Cheiron in person at a class in NYC and she is even nicer in person! Pretty card Cheiron!
It seems like everyone who is a long time stamper will have Hero stories because they ushered in SO many people to the craft.
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Amazing card, love the colours and the focal point with those delicate flowers!
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Great card! Love the black and white layered flowers on the colorful background. Looks fantastic.
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Such a prett card!!
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Completely stunning!! Beautiful design!
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I love your colorful and Beautiful card!!!
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Love the color combo, great card!
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Love that you left the florals in black and white the contrast with the background is fantastic!
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beautiful background for the black and white image!
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That background is absolutely stunning!!!
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Love your card and the colors you chose to blend!
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awesome card and great colors
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Love the black and white with color!
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Lovely card with great ink blending.
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Gorgeous! I love the combination of the black & white and color!
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I love the beautiful background on this. With the white flowers it’s just such a pretty card.
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Love the distress ink background. The sentiment is perfect and looks like handwriting!
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The black and white flowers on the bright ink blended panel looks so lovely!
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I love the background!! Beautiful!! The black and white flowers look great against that colorful background. Fabulous!!
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Beautiful card. I enjoy seeing the new reactive inks and how they blend so beautifully and how everyone is using them.
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lovely background – these inks look like they are a must!
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That background is lovely
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The flowers pop on that background, love it!
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Very pretty card -love the blended background.
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This From the Vault stamp set is so sweet. I started out stamping when I was a kid with Hero Arts. Takes me back!
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What a beautiful background.
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This is GORGEOUS!
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Beaytiful card!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
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Lovely background and card!
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Love your card! I love the background!! Beautiful! the colors are perfect.
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Beautiful card with a great scene!!
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SO cute. Thanks for sharing
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This is a beautiful blend of colors!
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Nice background using the Hero Hues ink. I/m considering purchasing them soon.
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Fabulous background and it makes the flowers stand out!
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Beautiful card! I love the background you created with those stunning colors and the flowers really pop on it!
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Love the colours on your card. Beautiful card ❤️
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Great work!!!!
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I love the mix of Vintage with new products and think those inks are a must have. It USA beautiful card! Happy Birthday Hero Arts!
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Wonderful card !! Loved how the flowers pop on vibrant colored bg !
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Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful. I love the colors of the background and those white flowers look so dreamy!
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Beautiful card, wonderful blended background!
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Beautiful background on your card!
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I love all of the new ideas!
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thanks for sharing your creativity.
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Super pretty card! I love the colors!
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Beautiful card. Your blending is gorgeous!
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So pretty…thanks for the inspiration!
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Love the background
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Wow, so beautiful – that background is to die for! 🙂
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THese colors are so beautiful, and awesome blending job. When I looked through the catalog, I must have missed these flowers – I will have to go back and look again!
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Gorgeous card!!
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Beautiful card!!
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Your color combination is beautiful. And then adding the simple outlined flowers on top – perfect!!!
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Great cards!
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Fun design and YUMMY colors!
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Such a beautiful background!
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The color on your card is beautiful!
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Thank you for the lovely inspiration! Congrats to Hero Arts!
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Pretty. Olof background, thanks for sharing
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I think this looks like a lovely stamp set. You are right, it would be great if H.A. reintroduced some of the old stamps as they are wonderful. Your card is so pretty with those blended background colours. Thanks.
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I just got those blending brushes myself and am excited to try them out – these inks look wonderful and I love your background!
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I like that lily stamp!
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The white flower against the colorful backdrop really pop!
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So pretty! Love the black and white images on the colorful background!
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Love the color in the background with black and white image!
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Your card is so pretty! Congrats Hero Arts on 45 years of making great stamps!!
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love all the new reactive ink colors and you’ve used them beautifully, Cheiron!!
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Such a beautiful blended background!
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Beautiful card. I’m so excited about the new Reactive Inks and I can’s wait to give them a try. Your colors and blending are gorgeous.
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Such a beautiful combination with the flowers from the vault set and reactive inks. I really like how you blended it so nice!
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Your card is beautiful! I love how you ink blended the background and then added splatters of the inks over the top. The black & white flowers add lovely dimension to the card. 🙂
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PRETTY card! I think we all started out having Hero Arts stamps! 🙂 It’s been fun walking down memory lane in helping Hero Arts celebrate their 45 years in business. 🙂
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The background colors are a perfect blend and I love the flowers from this stamp set. This all resulted in a beautiful card.
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Love the background with the stamped flowers!
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LOVE the gorgeous background with those monochromatic florals!
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Love the ink blending!
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Love your bright color background and black and white flowers! Beautiful card!
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Love Hero Arts! And, I love the beautiful card you’ve made today, Cheiron!
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Such a lovely card! Beautiful background with such a pretty color combination.
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I’m just crazy about these beautiful new inks. Can’t wait to try! Happy Anniversary to Hero Arts!
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What a unique idea – leaving the flowers un-colored and putting them on a bright background. Love it!
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very pretty. love that colorful blended background!
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Neat card. I like the light flowers with bright background.
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Pretty card. The black and white stamp is really set off by the colorful background!
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What beautiful colors.
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Congrats to HeroArts and best wishes; congrats & thanks to you for the beautiful inspiration!
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Great colors! Great stamps!
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I always love seeing what new goodies Hero Arts has come up with. Thanks for sharing these wonderful stamping ideas.
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Fabulous backgound!
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Love your card, beautiful background with the new inks. Happy 45th Anniversary Hero Arts.
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Pretty card, love your blended background. Congrats Hero Arts.
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Very pretty ink blending on your card!
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I’m going to have to get me these inks. I’m sad that they’re not on the SSS page yet – for the monthly hero deal.
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Pretty card. Happy Birthday Hero Arts!
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Beautiful card! I love the colors you used for the background!
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Beautiful card – the background is so lovely!
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I’m in love with the colors on this card. It’s just beautiful.
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Stunning background and beautiful pop of color Happy 45 Hero Arts! Thanks for sharing.
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Awesome backgrounds love the overlay of die cut images.
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Wow what a great card. The vibrant background with the black and white Stunning.
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Love this card! Thank you for your amazingly wonderful inspiration!
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Beautiful card Cheiron, gorgeous background
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A bright and pretty background for those pretty flower swags you created.
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Such an eye catching card! Hero Arts is definitely a fav company of mine!:)
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I love your awesome card, Cheiron! That ink blended background is gorgeous…can’t wait to try those new reactive inks! Happy 45th Anniversary, Hero Arts! I have always loved your products and continue to use them regularly in my crafting!
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Very cute, i love the color combo!
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Really beautiful card. I love lilies….and this stamp set is just so pretty. I am really in love with all of the ink pads also….what nice backgrounds I have seen today….lovely.
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Nice to see the old designs being redone again. Love what you created.
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Gorgeous blend of colors! Congrats to Hero Arts on 45 years.
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Those colors are so gorgeous. They really set off the black and white floral images
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Such a beautiful card. Thanks for all the tips on how you made your background. I love this From the Vault Flowers set.
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the background is stunning. very beautiful card
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Love the wreath around the
sentiment. The mix of
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Stunning background, lovely card!
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Cool card. The black and white just make the bright colors brighter!
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Love the bright, colorful background!
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These reactive inks look fantastic, love your combo of the colors.
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The colored background really sets off the black and white flowers. Love it!
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Beautiful card. Lovely blending in the background
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So pretty card! Awesome colours 🙂
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Awesome Cheiron how you combine your gorgeous coloured background with the black and white flowers. I love that idea. Thank you so much for sharing your awesome inspiration.
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Absolutely beautiful! I love how the stamped flowers pop against your gorgeous background.
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Stunning ink blending background!
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Nice card. I love ink blending
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Love the colors on the inked background for these pretty flowers.
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Gorgeous card with a beautiful background!
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Beautiful, I love the background.
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The colors blend so well on your bright, cheerful card!
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Hi Cheiron. The result you get from those Blender Brushes with the new inks looks so smooth and vibrant. I will have to get myself some. Also I love that simple handwritten look sentiment. It works so well on your card
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Love the uncolored florals paired with the blended background.
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well, I think I can make this card, I just need to get some of the wonderful new iks. Love the black and white look of the main image. Great card.
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Love that background, it’s a beautiful card!
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Such pretty colors on your card and very interesting with the black and white flowers.
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Very cool! Love me a gradient and some black-and-white flowers! And a big hooray to HeroArts for 45 impressive years in the industry!!
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Your background is fabulous! Thanks for sharing how you do it. Those coloured splatters is such a neat idea, and just makes it more alive.
And adding the uncoloured flowers, it is just sooo cool, love the idea and I am going to case it some time in future! THANKS for the inspiration.
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Hi Cheiron 🙂 Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! Your card is absolutely lovely!!! Thanks for sharing the inspiration 🙂
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this is a very pretty card. Love the blending
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I love the colorful blended background contrasting with the black and white flowers. Very eye-catching!
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Love that blended background!
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Wow! Wonderful card and colouring!!!
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Very pretty card! Love the contrast between the colorful background and black and white flowers.
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Beautiful card love the blending nice work.
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Love these pretty flowers and your colorful background really sets them off! Thanks for the hint about using more yellow on your rainbow colors- these new inks look like they would be great to work with!
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So much gorgeous color!
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Love you inky background behind your layered flowers. Those inks do look fabulous.
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Beautiful card! I love the colourful background!
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What a stunning card! I love the back and white stamp agains the bright colored background. Thanks for sharing.
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Just purchased some Life Changing Blender Brushes – they are true to their name!!! Love your colors!
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Beautiful vibrant card.
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I really love this card and the choice of colors. Gorgeous!
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such a great background to start any card with thus making a neat card—thanks for sharing
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