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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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Martha R says
…that is the sweetest card! The bouquet stamp is really neat and you have made it special. Thank you.
Carol H. says
I love your no-line watercoloring! It’s so pretty, as is your card!!
Suzie Padrick says
Pretty bouquet of flowers!
Isabel Z says
I love what you created!!!
Mary Holshouser says
Great idea to leave the fussy mussy free of color.
Makes the flowers pop.
Beautiful card.
thanks for sharing.
Janet D. says
So pretty, love it!
Farhana Sarker says
lovely card!!!
Linda Duensing says
Beautiful card and colors. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
nancy says
How pretty! I love the simplicity.
Nancy says
Very pretty. Love the bouquet of flowers.
Amante del Papel says
so simle, so beautiful!!!!
Ericka Monger Strange says
Beautiful card! Love the red you used so pretty!
Jackie P. says
Gorgeous!! Your colouring is perfect and the colours are so vivid. I love it!!
Clare says
Such a beautiful bouquet, Jessica! Love how you watercolored the flowers, and the coloring on the tissue paper is amazing! lol, not sure why that stood out to me 😉
Denise Bryant says
Beautiful rose bouquet!
Judy Hyde says
Beautiful Card!!
Bonnie E says
Love the bouquet stamping and how great the black sentiment looks across it
Marina says
I love the bouquet, it is so beautiful!
Samantha Houp says
Such a sweet card, Jessica. Love the coloring!
Kristina "CraftyPaws" says
What a fabulous kit! So many possibilities!
Julie Henderson says
I really like this card! the way you colored the roses a couple of different colors really made this card! I LOVE to see a bouquet of different color roses so this stamp would really make that possible! Thank you for sharing your idea!!
Chrissy says
Wonderful! I love the traditional approach you took with this Valentine’s Card.
Johanna says
This kit is amazing and your beautiful card shows perfectly that it doesn’t necessarily need to be used for Valentine’s Day card exclusively.
Linda S. says
I think your bouquet of flowers is beautiful, a very pretty card.
city cottage vintage says
What a beautiful card! Love all the little details.