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Thursday, December 8, 2016

Hero Arts Valentine's Collection Release Blog Hop


Today I'm hopping with Hero Arts as they launch their 2017 Valentine's Collection on the Hero Arts website. The new collection consists of ten fun new products - stamps, dies and even a stencil! All of the products are linked at the bottom of this post if you'd like to check them out!

I made my card today with the adorable woodblock set called Love Tattoos.


I stamped the little heart tattoo image repeatedly on watercolor paper with VersaMark ink, then embossed in black. Then I quickly watercolored around the images. The message is a new woodblock stamp called Smitten, I think it's so cute!


And now it's time to hop! Be sure to visit all of the blogs below - Hero Arts will be giving away two $25 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop. Please comment by Thursday, December 15 at 11:59pm PT and the winner will be announced the following week on the Hero Arts blog.

The Hero Arts Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Yana Smakula
Mariana Grigsby
Amy Tsuruta
Clare Prezzia
Jana Millen
Ilina Crouse
Libby Hickson (you are here!)

Thanks for stopping by!

Hero Arts Smitten
Hero Arts Smitten
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Hero
Hero Arts Love Tattoos
Hero Arts Love Tattoos
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Hero
Hero Arts Hugs
Hero Arts Hugs
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Hero
Hero Arts Destination London
Hero Arts Destination London
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Hero
Hero Arts Destination Paris
Hero Arts Destination Paris
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Hero
Hero Arts Romeo and Juliet
Hero Arts Romeo and Juliet
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Hero
Hero Arts Truly, Madly, Deeply
Hero Arts Truly, Madly, Deeply
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Hero
Hero Arts Heart Pattern Bold Prints
Hero Arts Heart Pattern Bold Prints
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Hero
Hero Arts Love Swirls Stencil
Hero Arts Love Swirls Stencil
Shop at:
Hero

156 comments:

  1. Super fun Libby! Love the watercoloring!

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  2. This is really great! The watercoloring pops of color are awesome

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  3. Awesome card. I like the how the watercolor looks.

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  4. The smitten sentiment is adorable! Also love the water coloring around the embossed image!

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  5. Such a cool and funky card. Love it!

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  6. I love this, especially smitten!

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  7. So creative and modern! Your color choices are wonderful. This is so fun and cheerful.

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  8. This is so adorable; cute design.
    I love the "smitten" (& "hugs") stamps;
    love their font & cute design.

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  9. Beautiful! I have never utilized this technique before but now I want to!

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  10. Really nice cards, love the watercolor effect. Nikki

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  11. Just love your colorful winged hearts, Libby - such fun!!

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  12. Such a pretty card. Great job!
    natgodfrey4@gmail.com

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  13. In love with the heat embossing.
    Melissa
    "Sunshine HoneyBee"

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  14. So nice , love the crisp finish Libbey!

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  15. Love the Smitten stamp and love the fun back ground that you created.

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  16. Smitten by your use of watercolor

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  17. I love the wings on the hearts. Very cute

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  18. A very cute card!
    dundas645@aol.com

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  19. Love this card! Totally unique. I must get that smitten stamp!!

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  20. OK, now I love that little heart! You made it look so cool!

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  21. Love the colors and technique in this card.

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  22. Love your embossed hearts background. Thanks for sharing!

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  23. I love the colors around the little winged hearts, so cute!

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  24. Such cute card - I think I'm smitten!☺

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  25. I love the heart with wings. So nice!

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  26. Darling idea.
    Love the splashes of color
    with the flying hearts.
    the color combination is great.
    thanks for sharing.

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  27. I'm smitten with your card and sentiment!! Thanks for sharing.

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  28. Love those flying hearts paired with watercolor.

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  29. What a fun, whimsical, colorful card!

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  30. Wow! I am falling in love with your beautiful card!

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  31. Super cute! I love the rainbow of colors.

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  32. Time to break out my watercolors

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  33. Cute card! You used some really fun colors. Jil

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  34. I love all the little individual watercolor washes - what a creative and different way to create a background pattern. Very cute!

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  35. This is an amazing card and I learned something different at the same time. Thank you

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  36. What a sweet pop of color! I love this. Thank you so much.

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  37. I just love the “Love Tattoos”. The one that spells out love, with the arrows is my favorite.A close second is the love stamp & cut set. I really *need* those asap. Time to fill up my Christmas list with lots of Hero Arts goodies!
    Betsy in the frrreeezzzing cold Seattle suburbs

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  38. Cute card. Love hopping and seeing all the ideas.

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  39. Oh how very cute!! Thanks for showing us how to use the fun stamps!!

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  40. So Cute and colorful!

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  41. So very cute!
    Love the water
    coloring.
    Carla from Utah

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  42. I think a guy would really appreciate this one!

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  43. Fun card with great pops of color! Thanks for sharing.

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  44. Love, Love the water color effect!

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  45. great pops of color
    upnurse at aol dot com

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  46. Cute cute and so colourful thank you for sharing

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  47. A surprise. Love the different take! Love the new release. You make me unsure if Destination Paris is still my favorite!

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  48. What a cute little card! Easy to make so I could produce quite a few cards with this technique! Soooo adorable!

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  49. Awwww!! What a super fun cute card...Love it!

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  50. LOOOOOOVE the water coloring!!! It adds such a NICE TOUCH to your card! (Water colors coming for Christmas here.....) LOL SUPER JOB!!!!!!!!!!;)

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  51. Love that loose coloring! Great card!

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  52. Great color combination and coloring!! What can I say? I am smitten ;-)

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  53. Lovely card! Thanks for the inspiration and for the opportunity to win!

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  54. Beautiful card, love the loose watercolor spots with the black embossing on those cute winged hearts.

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  55. Love this card that it's different and especially that cute word, SMITTEN! Thanks for your inspiration.

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  56. Cute takes my back to punk rock love it

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  57. Tattoo stamps are fun ... and your card is too.

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  58. I love that little "smitten" stamp and you nailed it's use with this card. So adorable and it has watercolor, too! Perfect!

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  59. How fun! The flying hearts in a variety of colors is wonderful, but my favorite was the use of the word 'smitten'. It's a great word from years ago that you never hear. Thanks for sharing.

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  60. Libby, another creative card using simple yet impressive stamps. Using black hearts created dynamic card and it changes from the use of red and pink. Thanks for sharing..

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  61. So edgy and fun. Love that!!!!!!

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  62. Very cute! Love the retro vibe on those cool tattoo stamps!

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  63. Libby I am definitely "SMITTEN" by your ADORABLE, BRIGHTLY COLORED CARD!!!!! The colored hearts just POP off the page...how fun is that! This blog hop has been lots of fun..and I am really wanting to go shopping AGAIN at HERO ARTS...I see some things I gotta have!!! XOXO

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  64. Really...how cute is this Card! Just enjoy the word'"smitten"!Thank you for sharing!!

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  65. Love your tattoo treatment. Way cuter and less painful than the real deal!

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  66. Love the artsy look of this design, Libby! Gorgeous colors indeed! Well done!

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  67. OMG, I love those flying hearts!

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  68. I love this fun and colorful card!

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  69. Great card,love the water colour look. Such an easy card to make

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  70. Funky and colourful - will defo appeal to my daughter!

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  71. What a. It's card and one I can duplicate. Thank you for sharing.

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  72. So beautiful! Love the colors, unique but still so Valentine's :) The winged heart stamp is so sweet, I just love this release!

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  73. OMG!!! What a fun and funky design... love it!!

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  74. Fabulous card! Love the colours and how you spotlight that little heart tattoo with them. Love it!

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  75. Pretty card and LOVE the water coloring - it really gives it a unique feel:)

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  76. Very pretty water coloring. Thanks for sharing.

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  77. Clever card, Libby! Love the watercoloring. Thanks so much for sharing with us and for participating in this great hop and giveaway.

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  78. This would be a great masculine card to make for Valentine's day or to mass produce! So fun!

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  79. Such a BEAUTIFUL Card!! I LOVE the Design and the watercoloring!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)

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  80. Super cute! Awesome use of color!

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  81. Such a cute and fun card. And I love the sentiment!

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  82. Love your card! The winged hearts are so colorful and pretty!

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  83. I love these blog hops. It is so much fun to see the style changes from blog to blog. Your card shows a fun style. Lovely.

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  84. Fun card! Love the colors an the 'smitten' sentiment!

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  85. Beautiful! that smitten is so cute!

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  86. Fun design! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  87. What a fun set, Love Tattooes. I haven't seen a set like this before!

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  88. you've used my fav color, the purple ... and this is such a fun stamp set; thanx for the inspiration and blog candy opp!

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  89. well done. the black hearts look great against the colors.

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  90. Love that Smitten stamp and how you framed it up on your sweet card!

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  91. This card is very cute ! The watercolor makes it look so free and sweet ! TFS !

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  92. Very cute stamp and a good use of it.

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  93. Wow that pops. What a fun card. play with colour and words. fab job.

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  94. Awesome release!
    Lovin' all the examples! Your card pops!
    ~God bless

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  95. This Love inspired HA release is quite endearing. Such an assortment for endless possibilities. Thanks to the designers for their inspiration. Cheers!

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  96. Unique card you have with watercolor look.

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  97. Great card! Love the flying heart.

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  98. I would not have Given that little heart 5 minutes attention and you took it and made a lovely card out of it. Good for you now I look at it differently ...

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  99. Bright and happy card!Beautiful!

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  100. Such a fun card, Libby! I love the watercolor behind the heart tattoo.

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  101. Love this card! The watercolor splotches highlight those flying hearts perfectly!

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  102. Love the steampuck-y winged heart. Love your card - Thanks!

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  103. Lovely Card! Thank you so much for the generous gift and a chance to win!

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