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Good afternoon! Today is the release day for the Hero Arts January My Monthly Hero kit and it’s awesome!! You should have arrived from May but if not, you can head to the Hero Arts Blog to start at the beginning! The January kit is now available for purchase at Hero Arts but once they’re sold out, they’re gone for good so make sure to head over and shop soon!
The kit contains:
- A 4″x6″ clear stamp set
- A set of 18 coordinating Frame Cuts dies that match the stamp set
- Five ink cubes: Tide Pool, Mint Julep, Soft Pink, Bubble Gum and Strawberry
- 2 Wood grain Size A1 Envelopes
- 2 Wood grain Size A2 Envelopes
- 4 half sheets of Wood grain card stock
- 2 Pool colored Envelopes
- 2 Tide colored Envelopes
- 2 Shallows colored envelopes
- Red Wax cord – 8 yards
Here’s what I created using the kit:
I love all the individual flowers in the kit stamp set and decided to use them to create a watercolored bouquet! I stamped the bouquet wrapper with pumice stone distress ink and softened the lines with a damp paintbrush. Then I stamped the flowers using picked raspberry, festive berries, and candied apple distress inks and blended the color out into the petals. I also watercolored the bow with candied apple and barn door distress inks and the greenery with mowed lawn distress ink.
Once they dried I stamped the sentiment using Hero Arts intense black ink. I trimmed the panel down and adhered it to a red card base. No line watercoloring used to really make me nervous but I’ve learned to not try to control things too much. I think the end result is much better when I allow the paint to move a little more freely. What do you think? 🙂
To celebrate the release Hero Arts is giving away one kit as a prize to one blog reader selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop so make sure you leave a comment at each hop stop for the most chances to win! If you win and have already purchased the kit you will be reimbursed! Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:
The Hero Arts Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Yana Smakula
Shari Carroll from Simon Says Stamp
Wanda Guess
Amy Tsuruta
Clare Prezzia
Julie Ebersole at Ellen Hutson’s CLASSroom
May Park
Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
Libby Hickson
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fantastic day!
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Elegantly lovely. Awesome coloring on the wrapping.
So elegant – a lovely card – Thank you for sharing
Thanks. You made a gorgeous and elegant card.
Your bouquet is just lovely with all your coloring details. Pretty card!
Great design.
Thanks,
Linda
Very pretty. I like how you colored the flowers.
Gorgeous technique and resulting card!
Very pretty flower bouquet. Lovely card.
Beautiful work…thank you for sharing your design!!!
Gorgeous card! Thanks!
Jessica, I absolutely love your card! Looks like you have mastered the no-line technique wonderfully. Love your colors & the design!!
Really like how you stamped the roses and colors you used.
I love these roses more and more, thanks to all the gorgeous cards you are making!
Beautiful!…love the flowers!!
Love how your design takes a slight step back from the sentiment, but still feels whole. So pretty!
The card is so pretty and clean! Love your card!
What a gorgeous bouquet! Love that you kept it simple and let your beautiful coloring shine.
Love your pretty card – thanks so much!
Such a pretty card.
Your no-line watercolor is beautiful! Thank you!
What a great card to cheer someone up! Awesome job!
Beautiful card. I really love this kit!
Inspired and I ordered the Kit along with Love Notes stamp set.
Melissa
“Sunshine Honeybee”
I really love how simply elegant your card is, it conveys all the love that is in the sentiment. Gorgeous.
Your card is beautiful!! Love it and this new card kit:)