Hero Arts 45th Anniversary Blog Hop- Day 3

Welcome back!

Today, I am so honored to be included in a very special blog hop celebrating a very special company. Just about everyone I know has a few Hero Arts stamps in their collection. I remember going to my local scrapbook store and seeing the huge shelves of Hero Arts woodblock stamps and wanting every single one of them! Hero Arts was special then and they are special now.

I absolutely love the heart behind this company. If you haven’t had a chance to meet Aaron Leventhal, the owner, put that on your bucket list because I guarantee you that he will leave you a better human than he found you. 🙂

Although they are still a small, family-owned business, you will find Hero Arts stamps just about everywhere. The quality speaks for itself once you create with their products. And they are always right on trend. But even more important, the heart behind this company, the generosity and help they provide and the love that they show to their customers and competitors in almost unheard of.

The stamp sets that I used for this hop were both from the vault! These were stamps from many catalogs ago that are back for a limited time.

This card was created using the From the Vault Flowers stamp set. I decided to use this beautiful pot of daffodils and I colored them with Copic markers. I used a swiss dot embossing folder and created a clean and simple card which puts all the focus on this beautiful image.

For my second card, I repeated the same layout with a different shaped die and I colored this vibrant can of flowers and vines with Copic markers as well. By sticking with the clean and simple layout, the focus is once again on that gorgeous image.

Here is a full look at this stamp set:

I also had an opportunity to create with the beautiful throw-back set From the Vault Celestial and this set was calling for some Hero Arts Gold embossing powder.

I added a little skinny Washi tape to border the image and used the “Make every day one to remember” greeting. I love all the encouraging greetings in this set as well as all of the beautiful celestial images.

Here is a full look at this stamp set:

We have a lot of prizes up for grabs from this list of sponsors:

And here is a list of the company links along with their prizes!

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 11:59 pm PST, and we will announce the winners on the Hero Arts blog the following week.

Ready to continue on the hop? NEXT UP: Jenn Shurkus

And here is the entire hop list:

Hero Arts
Amy Tsuruta
Art Impressions
Cathy Zielske
Debby Hughes
Gina K. Designs – YOU ARE HERE
Jenn Shurkus
Jennifer McGuire
Kristina Werner
Lawn Fawn
Lisa Stein
Megan Hoeppner
Sandy Allnock
Simon Says Stamp
Tasnim Ahmed
Wanda Guess

I hope you enjoyed today’s inspiration and a HUGE congratulations to Hero Arts on their 45 years of success! Make sure you stop by their store for a little shopping and I hope to see you again soon! Happy Stamping!

Hugs,

Gina K.