Today it’s a big blog celebration for the brand new Hero Arts Winter catalog. I’m sharing a fun way to get more out of a cool new background stamp. I decided to get a bit craftier than usual, and the resulting image was so fun, I thought: “Why just make one card with it?”
So instead, I cut it apart and made three!
Here is my video tutorial walking you through a very simple paint job—I only use two markers, for the most part!—and then the creation of these three simple cards!
Today’s post is part of a big blog hop to celebrate this new release! Check out the Hero Arts blog to get started! Here is the complete list of everyone participating in today’s hop!
Hero Arts
Channin Pelletier
Daniel West
Debi Adams
Emily Midgett
Ilina Crouse
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Libby Hickson
Lydia Fiedler
Maria Willis
Michelle Short
Mindy Eggen
Seeka
Amy Kolling
Cathy Zielske
Janette Kausen
Jenn Shurkus
Jennifer McGuire
Julee Tilman
Lisa Stein
Lori Craig
Mariana Grigsby
Nichol Spohr
Nina-Marie Trapani
Teri Anderson
Wanda Guess
THE GIVEAWAY: Hero Arts will give away three $50 gift cards, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by leaving a comment between now and Sunday, September 6th at 11:59pm Pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week. Be sure to leave a comment on my blog for a chance to win!
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Maria Nadeau says
I love your creativity! And this is a card I could do a lot of! Thank you!~
Kristy Tyra says
Love the idea of getting more out of backgrounds stamps!
Michele W says
Love this clean and simple card idea. Great way to use background stamps. Thanks for the inspiration!
Caitlin says
Thank you so much for sharing your ideas on various ways to use background stamps – very inspiring.
Susie Sonnier says
Love that background stamp!
Sheri Kempke says
Great cards Cathy–I love that big stamp you used! Can’t wait to look at all of Hero Arts new goodies!
Christi C says
Great cards!! I could see an assembly line if need be 🙂
Linda Rodgers says
This new winter catalogue has great items.
Mary Espeland says
Gotta love multiple cards with no additional work. They are all lovely. I will be trying this technique! Thanks for the inspiration Cathy!
Sonya says
I love, love, love the Christmas rose stamp and what you did with it! Beautiful coloring with the gold embossing.
Cheryl H says
You’re awesome! That’s all 🙂
Carol Jones says
LOL, you are so darn right! ♥️
Rose Johnson says
So darn cute!!
Isabel Z says
These are so unique; I love them!
Bernadette says
That a really pretty background stamp and since I need to make lots of cards, I like this idea
Maribel Monsalve says
What a great set of cards. Thank you for sharing this idea.
Judy Inukai says
Wonderful cards. I love background stamps, but after spending all that time coloring them, it’s a great idea to be able to make more than one card. Your coloring with limited markers is a great idea too. Thanks for the great video and inspiration.
Meghan Kennihan says
I love the bright colors! What a fab design!
Lauryne Cunningham says
Fantastic idea- I will be pulling out my background stamps this week! Love your cards!
Ann Ito says
Love this idea of stretching supplies. I never know what to do with those background stamps and this is surely one way of stretching my supplies. Love watching your videos on YouTube! Thank you for sharing!
Lindarub says
Love your cards!
Dawn Jones says
What a great idea to stretch the background to make 3 cards! Beautiful and fun.
Andrea P says
Love the clean cards and the helpful video with lots of tips and techniques. Good video to save as I did. Thanks for sharing.
Anne-Maree Driver says
What a lovely card, and the gorgeous new products are amazing
Dianne Godwin says
I love this so much! I’ve been stamping for many years and this is something I haven’t done. Super cute cards! And you crack me up! Thanks for sharing!
Talitha Wright says
Love the pink and green combo. Thanks.
Sunshine HoneyBee says
Like the festive look of the sentiment banner.
Melissa
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Mary says
Cathy, I love this idea! I can’t wait to try it will ALL my background stamps!
Margot Perry says
I love these, but especially adore the pink card! I love that it’s not a traditional holiday color! You truly can turn any color into a holiday card.
Darcy Shelstad says
Beautiful use of the Christmas Rose
Patricia McMurray says
This is such a creative use of the stamp. Cathy amazes me with her ideas.
Jeannie Boudet says
love the colors you chose for the cards!
Mary Popa says
Like your idea of stretching supplies especially with something so lovely as the Christmas Rose bold print stamp. Love the use of gold embossing as it makes it look elegant on the strip. Thanks.
Mary Popa says
Ooops, Brass embossing.
Sheri Waddell says
Very pretty cards!!!
SmilynStef says
these cards make me happy … love them
Janet Durbin says
So simple and so creative, great cards!
Carol Wortman says
These are refreshing! So pretty and easy to make because we know last minute is realllllly last minute in December! I like these alot.
Sandra Swayze says
Love the Christmas Rose stamp!
Cindy G says
Fun cards! I’m really liking the pink!
Rebecca says
Very festive!
Phyllis Freese says
What a great way to get several cards from one colored background panel. Very creative.
Lindar C says
What great cards! You always make me laugh.
Ashley Cortez says
Really great simple and easy cards love these stamps and dies I can just make a lot of these and hand them out for Christmas thanks for sharing this card
Kailash says
These are wonderful!
Marisela Delgado says
So beautiful! You always make me laugh in your videos!
Mary Kay says
Love the video. You make everything look so easy. Can you tell me what storage pockets you use for your background stamps? Thanks!
JOANNA SHOEMAKER says
How super cute cards!
Mary Kay says
Love the video. You make everything look so easy. Can you tell me what storage pockets you use for background stamps? Thank you!
Jacinda says
Love the background stamp! Such a simple beautiful card.
JOANNA SHOEMAKER says
Love the watercoloring…so pretty!
Lisa Henning says
Great color combos—very elegant!
Shuchita Goel says
I just loved it. Will try it for sure.
Holly Lau says
These are so pretty!
Melinda D says
LOVE the simplicity!
Nancy Knapp says
Great idea on making multiple cards at the same time!
Chantal S says
Such a great cards. Nice video.
Joanne M Hoffmann says
Such a versatile card design and you get multiple cards as a bonus!! LOVE it!!
Cheryl Estes says
Such beautiful cards!
Renee VanEpps says
This is such a fantastic idea and the beautiful coloring and gold ep is making me want to run home and craft!!!!!! Thanks for the inspiration!
Rachel Handforth says
I love all your videos, thank you for sharing. Keep up the great work Cathy, you’re an inspiration!
Debra Vidal says
Very creative, love the simplistic style.
Sidelle Menon says
love the trio! Saw the video first on your channel, such a fun way!
Alice Zimmer says
Beautiful cards!
Rachel says
What a great way to make a lot of cards easily!
Tammy S. says
Love the cards, loved the video, and especially love your humor! What a great idea to stretch your supplies! I will be using that idea in my future cards. Thank you!!
mary g says
What a great way to make Christmas cards quickly. And they are so sweet, too!
Patricia Wilson says
Love it and great for mass producing your annual Christmas cards. Thank you once again.
SunnyK says
Cute little card that doesn’t take too much time or too many supplies–well done!
Lisa says
So creative! Thank you for sharing!
Pat Robinson says
Sharp looking cards…neat design!
Joni A says
I love the idea of stretching supplies and the background stamps are perfect and this one is so beautiful!!! I think all your cards are so amazing! Thanks for all the inspiration!
Peg Frushour says
Such simple cards, but so pretty too!
Jan says
3 great cards. I have to go check out the new Hero Arts catalogue with all these great new products!
Dana M says
Fantastic cards! I love how you get multiple cards from the same background. Fabulous clean design.
Debby Green says
Great cards as always! Beautiful colors too!
Dorothy A says
Well I wanted to move through this bloghop in one day, but I HAD to watch your video, and you sure make me smile and laugh! Everything is great about your cards and they give the impressions of gift boxes. Is that what you meant them to be? Love the stamp and the die cut banner.
Debbie Skeet says
So beautiful! Why do your strips look great, but when I try to do strips, they just look a bit lost and sparse?! It’s not fair! 😉
Kelsey Thomas says
These are fun cards!
Darlene Pavlick says
WOW what a great idea and they are all beautiful cards! Thanks for inspiration!
Cyndi Morris says
These cards are beautiful. I always look forward to your wonderful videos — I’m always inspired and entertained.
Judy says
Lovely trio of cards! I definitely want to use this card design with some of my background stamps–thanks for the inspiration!
Joyce says
Love your fun ideas to stretch your stamps.
Karen Reeves says
These are so pretty. Love the colors you used.
Naghma Husain says
simple but very pretty!
Pam says
Punchy cards. Very clean lines.
Patti says
Great idea with the rose background stamp!
Cherry Robinson says
Hi Cathy, I was so happy to see you in this blog hop and I really loved your cards. The colours are all my faves and I learned something new from your water colour technique. So that was a definite win win for me. Thank you for the inspiration. Nice to see you Cathy…take care girlie! 💗
Debbie Hauert says
Great idea, I struggle with the lovely, but busy, backgrounds can’t wait to try this.
Ida P. Krause says
Very pretty cards and a clever way to use the stamp to create more then just one card with it.
Carol Jones says
I LOVE your sense of humor! And your design style. As always, everything you touch turns to GOLD!!! ♥️
Nancy T says
the banners are such an interesting idea
Jules says
Love these cards, Cathy, and your videos are always so much fun!
Cy Lee says
I love these new stamps
Helen F says
What a wonderful and eye-catching way to stretch your stamps with these stunning cards! I love your colour combinations and that wonderful banner die!Thanks for sharing this great inspiration! Take care! 🙂
Bonnie King says
You are so brave! After doing all that painting, I don’t know if I could just jump right in and cut up my background! All three cards are beautiful – you didn’t have to worry about choosing which color works best when you can make all three. Love this – very creative. And thanks for always making me smile.
Betty Giles says
I love that background stamp! Thank you for making water coloring so simple!
CraftyDesertGirl says
Thanks for sharing your techniques! Love these cards!
Karin Adkins says
Great job. Simple and creative
April Aguinaga says
I saw the video you made and was so impressed. It never occurs to me to cut up a background. I love you showcase the 3 colors too.
Scraporcraft says
Nice use of the strips and banners.
Debbi S says
Why make one when you can make three…that’s my motto!
I love that background stamp and your cards are so beautifully
simple! Thanks for sharing.
Jeanne Beam says
Such wonderful holiday cards!
Thanks so much for sharing.
Karen L K says
Your cards are such great colors and very creative to do several at once!
Barbara-Jean says
So colorful and cheery!
Julie Wexler says
Cathy, I gasped as I watched you cut your lovely colored background. Then I kept watching and it all made sense to spread the goodness across multiple cards! Why not, indeed?! I’ll have to remember this and be brave when I’ve got something too good to be consumed in one card. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Leanne says
Love listening to your voice Cathy, and if I get some inspiration and tips as well? Winner, winner chicken dinner lol. Thank you for continuing to inspire us. xx
Wendy Falk says
I am in love with this. I would’ve never guessed it was the result of only 2 colors!! I am anxious to try it out, so simple and just lovely! Plus that background stamp is on so pretty <3
Audrey Peterson says
The big stamp is gorgeous, of course. Clever use of the triple banner too!
Denise Bryant says
Beautiful cards! I love that you created 3 cards with the image! Pretty sentiment and awesome color combos too!
StacyK says
Love the simple clean look of these cards. Wanted to see the banner die in action, so neat!
Sue D says
Cute set of cards.
Maria B says
You made the background stamp look like a very pretty ribbon.
Denise Kitts-Wadlow says
Love your use of the Christmas Rose background stamp Cathy! It just happens to be one of my favorite stamps in this release!!! Your cards are beautiful, and I love the clean, simple look.
Dean H. says
Your cards are lovely. I can’t choose just one because I like them all. Great use of color, and also depth.
Sherryl Shelton says
That is a great way to use the background stamps. I hadn’t thought of that.
Connie Johnson says
Hi Cathy 🙂 Love these bright colored Christmas cards!!! Sooooo merry! Thanks for inspiring me 🙂
karenajo says
Super idea to cut the background apart and make more lovely cards! Love the design and all the great colors!