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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GIVEAWAY!
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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’d never thought of a special card for new neighbors! Fabulous idea!! Thank you.
These would be so cute as a congratulations card for new home owners. 🙂 Love it! Such an adorable release.
Love the friendly neighborhood scenes you created. Great layering and trees!
The neighborhood cards are cute.
Love the comic coloring.
It should have said Copic coloring.
Very cute card!
Oh my gosh! THese houses are darling! I love how you used them so creatively! hugs, treen
What a gorgeous set of cards! Love the cheerful bright houses!
These are so cute, what an awesome way to welcome the new neighboors
Stunning cards, Yana!! They are so colorful and cheerful. I love how you used the trees from the safari set, it looks fantastic with the houses.
Thanks for sharing you ideas. The cards are really cute.
Lovely card! All your cards are always so pretty.
Cute cards Yana!
Neighborhood cards are so cute!
Love the layering & 3D effects with the dimensional. I need a “Welcome Home” stamp!!!
Nice cards!
Awesome cards Yana…u always have something so beautiful to show….love it all
Cute card
Your cards are great! I love those houses 🙂
I like the way you put houses and trees together to create a small scene. My favorite is the one with the taxi and the bright pink house.
I love the colorful decorated houses including landscaping. Ha.
Fantastic cards! Terrific dimension and bold colors on these super fun images.
Such a cheery looking neighborhood!
As always Yana great idea’s and gorgeous examples!
Hi, Yanna. Thanks for sharing your neighborhood cards. The details are delightful.
Love the bright colors
Love the houses!
Such great ideas
I absolutely love this set and think I need to own it! I love that you just did simple coloring but you added little extras to give it that scene look! TFS!
Beautiful card and perfect to add with a little welcoming gift. I love the bold colors on the houses! 🙂
I love the colors you used for the houses and like that you didn’t shade them. Not everything needs to be shaded 🙂
Bold, bright, beautiful!
I love your color combo and the extra details you added to your cards. Thanks Yana!
I love the slightly unexpected colours.
I love the new Hero Arts releases I can’t wait to try some of them!!! Thank you for your video!!
I think you let the houses shine, as they should, as they welcome someone or congratulate them on their new home. Simple elegance I think it could be called. All homes should have at least one nice leafy tree and that is the finishing touch.
This is very cute! Love all the details. This looks like a really cute Stamp set.
I really like how you mixed the acacia trees with the city buildings. It’s a little bit a wilderness inside the city.
Such great looking cards! What fun colors too! Your scenes are really nice and very clever. Love those buildings and that they come with lot’s of “accesories”.
Beautiful and fun cards. Love your mix of trees.
These cards are wonderful compositions !!
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I love what you did with these images. Nice to have houses that do not require hours or coloring every detail. Great job as always! Thanks.
these are such cute cards!
Another great card! Loved your video, thanks for sharing.
I love all the little scenes you were able to create and how each one is a little bit different! So cute that the set comes with so many ways to accessorize your scene!!!
This is a nice idea for a different kind of card thanks for highlighting it
Love these! I’d never have thought to mix those trees with the buildings, but it’s perfect!
Such a lovely set of cards! I like the colors you used for the houses and that you left the windows and doors white. Looks fantastic on the white background!
Gorgeous cards! I love the colours you used!