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 |
I always enjoy seeing what you create, these cards are great!
Your village scenes
are fabulous with the
popped up buildings
and trees.
Carla from Utah
How cute are these , I love how it has a neighborhood feel.
Love your cards. Can be for guys or gals.
You are so good at pulling in elements from different sets to create a cohesive whole. I also love the block-colored buildings; they remind me of San Francisco, especially when you make them look like they’re on a hill like that. Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks for another great video. I love your card designs! The city scenes are great.
The “feel right at home” sentiment caught me by surprise. It is something we say and write to our hosts but I have never seen as a stamp, thank you HA. Yana I liked the colors and composition of what could have been boring architecture.
Very nice card! Well done.
Cute cards!
Wow! Beautiful cards Yana! I love the details (like the bicycle and taxi) that you added to your scene! TFS! I like the sentiments also!
I like the creative layering for a city scene.
Stunning neighborhood
Wonderful city scenes! I love the colours as well as all the additional details from older stamp sets.
Love the houses!
I really like the dimension you created with the trees! Cool card!
Nice stamp set. I like the verbiage.
I love little houses. too. Love your cards.
This is so interesting! Great job.
The layering of a buildings and trees is awesome! It really pops! I am going to have to give it a try…
Wonderful colorful cards
Don’t have any stamps of this type. You have inspired me. I will be purchasing some.
I love the layering you did on this card and the colors you used. It really adds a lot of dimensions.
You have inspired me. I will be putting your ideas to good use.
I love the cute neighborhoods!
Beautiful
Cute Cards!
Love these neighborhoods you created.
Yana, Your cards are so awesome, I love them, amazing colors also!!!
I love how you combined these stamps into a fun scene – thanks for the inspiration!
Pretty neighborhood cards, love your coloring!
Strikingly beautiful, Yana! Thanks for the hop and chance to win!
Love the layering you did. Beautiful card.
Love the cute little neighborhood cards. Thanks!
What fabulous cards!! I love how you have layered the elements together to create little town scenes; so fun!
I love the way you layered the buildings on these cards. Just really great designs.
These new releases are really great. They did a great job with them. Love your card.
I love the color of your houses – bright and cheerful – thanks for sharing your creativity
Your cards are always so amazing!
Lovely cards. I love your choice of inks for them.
These are so pretty! I love the way that you colored the buildings. I’m not really a building stamp person, but now I want to be. Too many things to buy!
This is really cute! I like the highlighted edges, and as a neighborhood realtor this is perfect! Adding the set to my cart…
neat card.
Clever combination of the house stamps and dies and the trees. Bright and beautiful!!
Love what you did with the house stamps! Great job.
Beautiful cards and great new release from Hero Arts!
Your houses/neighborhood are absolutely adorable and so very colorful. I love Hero Arts and now know what’s going on my wishlist.
I like the way you combined stamp set elements that by looking at them, you would have thought they would not go together. Great showing on the house stamps.
What wonderful sentiments you created the perfect scenes for them
Love how you combine sets that are such different themes and how well they work together!!
You are amazing I always love when you create