Welcome to Day 4 of the 2013 Catalog Blog Hop with the Hero Hostesses! I hope you’ve been enjoying the hop so far this week. I’ve been amazed by the level of creativity my hostess sisters have displayed so far. We are all featuring fabulous stamps from the new 2013 release! If you didn’t arrive from the Hero Arts Club Blog, please start there so you don’t miss a thing.

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I’ve made two cards to share using five different stamp sets. All supplies are listed below for your reference and/or shopping pleasure. 😉 This first card features the marvelous Tweed Pattern stamped on a kraft base and a large stunning stamp called Tall Flowers which I watercolored using distress markers on Hero Arts watercolor paper. I picked the smallest sentiment from Thanks A Bunch and nestled it in the space above the flowers.

Those of you who know me will smile when you see this next card. If Hero Arts makes a bike stamp, I must have it! This Bike With Basket was way too cute to pass up and what I love most about it is that it’s big enough to decorate with flowers, flags, etc. On the bike itself, I used distress markers and a watercolor brush in soft earth tones.

I created a cobblestone path using the solid hexagon from Hexagons. I used the rock ‘n’ roll technique with Soft Brown and Wet Cement shadow inks. The cobblestone path, bike and flowers are all adhered to the card with foam tape. The sentiment is again from Thanks A Bunch which is my new go-to stamp set for thank you cards. This set provides so many wonderful ways to say thank you in a vast variety of fonts and sizes. It’s simply perfect.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Your next stop on the Hero Arts Hostess Blog Hop is the amazingly talented Suzanne Czosek!

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295 thoughts on “{Hero Arts} 2013 Catalog Blog Hop with the Hero Hostesses”
  1. I love the beautiful watercoloring on your Tall Flowers, Em! And that second card is so fun! Brilliant idea to create a cobblestone path! 🙂

  2. A wonderful card duo – especially the bicycle. Wish I had a 'real' cruiser like that, to ride around our charming mountain town. Your showcase of the HA products is inspiring – off to add to my 'want' list…Thank you for sharing.

  3. Emily, the tall flowers are colored so perfectly and showcased so beautifully!! It's on my list of wants now!! And I love your bicycle on the cobblestones!! Your work is always inspirational!! So glad to share the hop with you.

  4. Love, love, LOVE what you did with the Tall Flowers! Adding the tweed behind them gives them an edgier look ! And your watercoloring on both card is wonderful, Emily! Beautiful work!

  5. Hi Emily! I LOVE your cards!!! The watercoloring on the flowers in your first card is superb! My wishlist became longer the minute I laid eyes on your bicycle card…so stinkin' cute! 🙂 I have a smaller bike stamp from years ago, but now I will have to get this one…love the size of this one. The cobblestone made with the hexagon stamp is very creative…love it! Love hopping with you!

  6. You featured some lovely stamps today. I'm particularly impressed with the different looks people have created with the Tall Flowers and I like your use of the hexagons, to create your cooblestone–very inventive!

  7. Hi Emily! Love your water coloring of the Tall Flowers image!!! And I adore your bicycle card!! Your cobblestone path made from hexies is genius!!! Robin:)

  8. You really know how to put stamps together Emily! I am in love with the Tall Flowers and that Tweed Background! You have potentially inspired me to spend money!

  9. WOW!! Great cards Emily! I especially love the bicycle card with your cobblestone path and the way the flowers are "flying" out of the basket! So, so cute!

  10. Awesome cards. I love your use of the Tweed Background on the Kraft card stock and it's perfect behind you beautifully watercolored Tall Flowers. The bicycle card is so clever and beautifully colored as well. Great job!

  11. Love the flowers with the loooong stems on the first card! hehe. And the colors are so pretty! And I love the hexagons on the 2nd card. And the flowers coming out of the bike's basket. Gorgeous and so creative! Have a great day Emily! 🙂

  12. Ooooo….I love both of these, Emily! The watercoloring is gorgeous in the first card. The second card is AMAZING!! Love the coloring and the hex path and that great sentiment. I like that set, too.

  13. The more I see these tall flowers, the more I like them and the bike is adorable. Decorating them with flowers on the "cobbled" street is genius.

  14. I always love your cards, Em, you inspire me to try new things, like I am LOVING that bicycle and have it on my wish list. I'm going to get it because it's so versatile! Love the hexies for the bike path – BRILLIANT! And those sweet tall flowers are perfectly colored! So proud of all you've accomplished!

  15. Oh what beautiful and adorable cards, Emily! I love the texture and your wonderful colouring on the first card! Your second card is so sweet, again wonderful colouring and design! Love seeing what you created with your new stamps!

  16. Terrific rock 'n' roll technique on the hexagons – your stamping is so precise! I'm really loving the tall flowers stamp. Some terrific creative ideas using it.

  17. The tall flowers stamp gets more appealing every time I see it. The water colouring looks fabulous. Beautiful colours too. I too love bicycles. Love your cobbled path, must learn that technique

  18. FABULOUS cards, Emily!! I loooove the Tweed pattern in black on kraft and the flowers are great. The bicycle is so sweet on its cleverly awesome hexagon path, but the sweet scattered flowers seal the deal!

  19. Your flowers are fab and I love the little pop from the tweed bg too! And your bike card is so cute – I love the basket of flowers and your clever path! Beautiful cards, Emily!!!

  20. Hi, Emily! You always have another trick or two up your sleeve and these cards prove just that! That small border of the tweed pattern framing your gorgeously colored tall flowers is the first trick. But, you are probably the only one I know who would think of using the hexagons for cobblestones! It's amazing how your mind works!!!! Thanks for sharing your enormous talent with us!

  21. Emily: Thanks for sharing your beautiful, elegant and warm cards. I understand how you feel about bikes because this is how I feel about owls. Best wishes.

  22. The Thank you flower card is marvelous – simple and bold.

    I love bicycles too! I see you are so right about decorating that bike. 🙂 Clever use of that hexagon stamp too. I never would have thought of it.

  23. Thank you for sharing your two beautiful cards with us all. I love that during this process I'm finding new blogs that I will be visiting a whole lot more, so many talented women. Take care and Happy New Year!

  24. Love your cards! Love the thank you card with the tweed background and your bike card is wonderful love the flowers in the basket and those hexagons! Thanks for sharing!

    Katie B.

  25. Emily, I agree that the new sentiments stamps work so well with a variety of cards. Your tall flowers are lovely and the bike and path look so welcoming!

  26. The coloring on those flowers is beautiful. I love flower stamps. I like how you used the tweed stamp in the background too. Using the hexagon for the sidewalk on the bike card was a very clever idea. Thanks for sharing

  27. Emily, WOW and WOW! I love the tall flowers and the clean and simple design of your card. I also love that bicycle card, just so pretty! Thanks for a great day of hopping!

  28. I LOVE your Tall Flower card, Em. It's on my wish list! I also love the cobblestone and the beautiful bike card. Awesome! It's been such fun hopping with you this week, sister. 🙂

  29. Emily, each of your cards is delightful. I'm especially loving hexagons at the moment. What a good idea to use one to create a path. Thanks for sharing.

  30. I love your cards. This is my 1st hop and what a great opportunity to see all the creative blogs and new Hero Arts products. Great job!

  31. Nice cards. You did a great job with the bicycle stamp. I find bicycle stamps a little hard to work with so even more impressive to me. The flowers on the watercolor paper look great, I am really liking that stamp.

  32. Wow! Lots of comments on these cards! And I can surely understand why! They are gorgeous! I especially love the first one, with the flowers so high on the card, that's wonderful! And fabulous colors!!
    Hugs, Wendy

  33. Wonderful cards, Emily! LOVE the colors you used on your first card, and your watercoloring is perfect! The bicycle card is so adorable.. love how you have the flowers trailing out of the basket. Genius! It has been such an honor hopping with you! 🙂

  34. Fabulous! Love the way you've frames these with fabulous patterns. The coloouring on those flowers is gorgeous and you rocked the bike (as always)!

  35. Both these cards are swoon-worthy! I love the tall flowers and how delicately you've coloured them. And it's so good to see a bicycle card on here again! I like the flowers blowing out of the basket. Hexagons as cobblestones? Brilliant. 😀

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