Hello everyone and thanks so much for stopping by to help celebrate the launch of Hero Arts 2018 Catalog Products (more about the catalog, blog hop and giveaway below). You might have already seen these goodies in several online stores such as Simon Says Stamp, today these products also become available from Hero Arts online store!
I have a few fun and easy to make cards using Hero Arts Welcome Neighbor stamp set. Hero has a ton of gorgeous stamps to play with in this new release, however I have always been a huge fan of little houses and buildings so I was immediately drawn to this stamp set and decided to make a few cards (I do plan to share more projects using new catalog goodies soon, so stay tuned!).
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.
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CARDS DETAILS
I started working on my card by stamping 3 out of the 4 houses in Intense Black ink onto white cardstock. To add color to my houses I used Copic markers but I didn’t do any shading or blending, I simply used one marker to apply each color. I went with some of my favorite colors which are Y17 Golden Yellow, RV10 Pale Pink, YG95 Pale Olive and finally a bit brighter pink – RV14 Begonia Pink.
I did make my houses multi color – I colored different sections of the houses using different markers. I used just those 4 and I think that they work well together as a nice an Spring or Summery color combo. I didn’t color the windows or the shutters or the doors, I just colored the walls of my houses.
Next, I used coordinating dies and cut these out in my Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting and embossing machine.
I wanted to add trees to my buildings, I was feeling a bit wild, I didn’t want to go with the little tree that comes in this Welcome Neighbour stamp set. I wanted to add larger trees to my cards so I grabbed the new Safari Wild About you stamp set and stamped a tree in Hero Arts Soft Olive ink. I used coordinating die for the tree image and cut all of these trees out as well. I wanted to make sure I had at least 2 for each card to place in between the houses.
Next I started to arrange the pieces on a white cardstock panel. I didn’t make colorful backgrounds for my cards but let the houses take center stage with both their bright colors and design. I build my scenes from the bottom up – one house in the front, a tree behind it slightly above, next house – once again slightly above the tree, another tree and the final house in the back. So these look like as if they are standing on a hill and you are looking up the hill from the foot of the hill.
Once I was happy with how everything was placed I foam mounted my stamped and die cut pieces in place. I also stamped my sentiments in black ink and went with “Thanks For Making Us Feel Right At Home” and “Welcome To The Neighbourhood”. I also “framed” my stamped sentiments with little stamped and die-cut clouds.
I have quite a few City-style stamp sets in my collection so I pulled City Adventures set and stamped a bicycle on one of my cards and a taxi on another one.
For my last card I decided to use the leftover mangrove trees that I had on my desk.
The Welcome Neighbour stamp set has a bunch of cool little pieces you can add to your houses – balconies, flower pot and flowers, lamp post, fence and other stings. To little bits and pieces that let you customise your houses. I stamped a few of those in black ink to finish this card.
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SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 Hero Arts Clear Stamps Welcome Neighbor Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Frame Cuts Welcome Neighbor Die Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Clear Stamps City Adventures Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Clear Stamps Safari Wild About You Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Frame Cuts Safari Wild About You Die Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Clear Stamps Color Layering Mangrove Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Color Layering Mangrove Bundle Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Color Layering Frame Cuts Mangrove Die Set Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Soft Olive Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
 Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL | AZ |
 Hero Arts Snow Layering Papers Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ink Pad Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Scor-Tape 1/8 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker Y17 Golden Yellow Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker RV10 Pale Pink Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker RV14 Begonia Pink Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG95 Pale Olive Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Stamp Platform Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS | SC |
Love the colors you used on your buildings. They do pop out on your cards. Love the bright colors, they really do look like real buildings. Love love them all. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful week.
Great cards Yana! And I love the creative use of the mangrove stamps.
Very cute.
Cityscapes! Love buildings, houses and making cityscapes!
I love your cards. Those townhouses are adorable. They remind me of parts of Boston. Thank you for explaining how Hero Arts released new versions of the safari set. I thought I was losing my mind. LOL
Awesome cards! Thank you for sharing
Gorgeous cards……..love the depth you created!
Amazing card as always Yana. I love how you come up with such creative ideas for your cards.
Love your work always. thanks for sharing.
Your cards just make me happy, Yana! This stamp set is so unique and I love what you’ve done with it.
These cards are awesome and I love the colors! Thank you for sharing.
Great cards. Love your layouts. The townhouses are adorable. Love Hero Arts new releases.
So sweet Yana, I would love to live in these lovely neighborhoods. Wonderful…..
I would never have thought to tuck the safari trees among the houses.
I love how you used the trees from the other sets in the city scene. A mangrove and a tree from the Savannah? The worked perfectly!
You created great scenes, love your cards!
So pretty! Love the colors you chose!
darling little city scenes, Yana – wonderful colors!
Love these scenes and how you combined different sets to make them.
I love the colors and scenes you used. Thank you for sharing. I follow you on Pinterest.
These houses are really neat! Thanks for sharing your fun cards.
I was wondering about that Safari sets. I love the way you incorporated elements from several different stamp sets to create your lovely cards. TFS.
I love your neighbor scenes, Yana!
Thanks for sharing, love the cards, they are so cute!
Lovely neighborhood scene cards!
Adorable
Fantastic layered and colored cards. Must do.
Love every fantastic thing about your design!!!! The colors, the style – it’s gorgeous
Super cute cards – love the layers and the colors.
These cards are so fun!! The Welcome Neighbor Stamp Set is so amazing and versatile. Great job
I love your house cards. Thanks for the in inspiration.
I love the neighborhood scenes you’ve created.
There are so many stamps I love from this release!
Such fun scenes, love them all, great colors!!
Such cute cards! I love this city die set and love the way you mixed elements from different sets to change up your cards! TFS
I like how you layered the trees amongst the buildings. I don’t think I would’ve thought to try that… but I will now!
Love your cards and the buildings really ‘pop’ with the lovely colours you have used. These are real cityscapes with the trees and buildings. Wonderful stamps, thank you for the inspiration.
Your cards are just precious! Love the colors and the trees! Definitely looks like a very lovely neighborhood, Yana!
The pretty colors remind me of San Francisco- well done!
The sentiments in that stamp set are really wonderful and it looks like it would be so fun to play with all the various house details. Thanks for the video and sharing your lovely creations!
Love the trees used on this card!!! They will be a must-have.
Nice cards. I have similar stamps that I haven’t used yet. You have inspired me to do so. Thanks. I really like your bright colors.
I, too, love little neighborhood scenes. I have since I was a little girl. These cards are precious!
I love how you added the trees! and the new catty and the new watercolors and…and.. Hero Arts!
Your cards are beautiful !
Your “neighborhoods” has beautiful. Love the bright, vivid colors.
The Welcome Neighbor stamp set looks like it has a lot of possibilities!
Thanks for another great card and video–what a terrific release from Hero Arts!
I’m quite captivated with your card as a) I like the images and have recently developed an interest in using building images in my card designs; b) the colors used; and c) that it’s 3-D as that always makes the card cover pop.
Wow- such a fab line up of beautiful cards!!!