Hero Arts Spring Stamp-Along April 2024

Agreed I was not inspired by the products. I may end up doing it but not buying any of the products.

OH! The composition notebook stuff is part of this Ralph Tyndall collection they've been hyping. Yuck.

Yeah, not feeling these products, either. I'm often surprised by who gets deals with the various companies. Ralph Tyndall wasn't on my radar, at all, I've never heard of him before. Is he a popular crafter that I've been missing out on?

Oh thanks, I've been living under a rock, apparently. 

I have seen him here and there.

I just checked him out on IG and he has 720k followers with only 145 posts.

JM has only 115k followers with over 7000 posts.

I'm really shocked 😲 about this. I wonder why he is so popular? Am I missing something?

I think he went viral on TikTok and had a large following in a short amount of time. I followed him from the beginning. He just started card making about a year or two ago when he was working his IT job. Then he quit to do card making full time.

He seems like such a nice person and does lives often. And usually responds to questions and comments.

I kind of like the composition notebook card. Not sure if I'll sign up for this stamp along though.

That's really strange. He must be popular from something other than card making, because those numbers don't exist for strictly card makers. His cards are nice, I do like the composition book one (but not enough to buy the products), but they're not at the level of Yana Smakula, Jennifer McGuire, or Btarayoa, in my opinion, and those accounts have far fewer followers. I suspect he bought followers and likes. His engagement isn't high - just doing a quick scroll, only one post had massive engagement, with over 8800 comments - the top post on his account, from March 2023.  It has over 3 million views. That's really unusual. The rest of his posts have a tiny fraction of that. 

Okay, did some more research just because I'm finding it interesting. One website that checks for fake followers said that 200k of them are fake. I don't know how reliable these websites are, though. However, a bunch of the follower accounts and comments are strange, too.

He also has relatively few posts for that amount of followers - influencers with that amount post several times each and every day. He only posts every few days. Something isn't right, especially considering he's only been making cards for under 2 years.

Last comment - just checked Tim Holtz's account, and he has 180k followers. No way is this Ralph guy's follower count real, unless he was well known before this for some reason.

Thank you for the explanation craftmepink.

That makes sense with Tik Tok ,especially if he was one of the firsts carmaker on it. And I feel like his generation loves to support each other and love watching videos even if they don't make cards.

The mandala stamp and stencil set are pretty. I’m not so keen on the other items.
I’m another one who hadn’t heard of Ralph before. I do think it’s great that more guys are getting involved in card making. Maybe that will translate to a wider range of products / styles.

I have that stamp! The pattern is the stamp, not the background, so it's either stamped on black card stock with opaque metallic pigment ink or stamped in versa mark on black stock and heat embossed silver or heat embossed clear on gray then ink-blended in black.

I didn't notice that stamp in the list for the classes, though, or I'm might have shown more interest, darn it!

To me doesn't look metallic. It just looks like a medium gray stamped with a background stamp in black than the edges blended to get a spotlight in the middle.

Hopefully someone took this class and can tell us about it.

pinklady you see the spot light "glow" and because they used gray cs it looks metallic. Its a very cool look with the bright flowers