Good morning! We’re kicking off the countdown to the Hero Arts September My Monthly Hero kit today and I’m sharing a card using the new kit!
To start I stamped the gorgeous sunflower image onto the top and bottom of a panel of white cardstock with contour no-line ink to use as a guide. The kit has fabulous layering stencils that I used to add color to my sunflowers. I used blending brushes to apply dandelion, butter bar, caramel, cup o’ joe, moss, and forever green ink to the various stencil layers to create my sunflowers. Then I used my MISTI to line up the floral outline on the panel, stamped it with versafine and heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder for sharp definition!
Next I took a black copic marker and colored the panel in between the two stamps to create a solid black background. Once it was totally dry I stamped part of the sentiment with embossing ink and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder. I die-cut the ‘hello’ word from gold glitter cardstock and adhered it to the panel to complete the card!
And that’s it for me! Head over to the Hero Arts blog for more inspiration using the September My Monthly Hero kit all weekend long!! And then I’ll be back Tuesday with the full kit reveal and a video!!
For a chance to win a kit before you can buy it, just leave a comment on this (and every) Countdown to Creativity post. We’ll randomly draw one lucky winner from all the comments left across all countdown posts. The winner will be announced first thing Tuesday morning, September 7th, before the kit launches at 10am Pacific. The more you comment, the more chances to win!
Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy the rest of your weekend!!
Another beautiful card, Jess! Love the idea of coloring the background in black. So stunning!
The black copic coloring is pure genius! Love the positioning of the floral as well.
Oooooh, I love that bold pop of color against the black background! Perfect Autumn look!
Wow your card is so vibrant and so very nice! An interesting technique to create it also.
So beautiful!
WOW! The black background with the vivid blooms makes this card POP! Thanks for sharing…it’s beautiful!
Love this card
I Iove sunflowers and we can use some happy here. We survived Hurricane Ida. And this looks perfect for thank you cards for all the prayers that we received. Beautiful card
Love the contrast between the dark background and those stunning bright flowers. Your cards are beautiful
Gorgeous! And I’m so glad you shared how you did this because I couldn’t figure out how you got such bright colors on black cardstock. Lol.
Love the stunning contrast of colours of the yellow sunflowers against the black background Jess!
Your cards are always beautiful. Glitter is my favorites thing, so I’m loving the glittery “Hello”.
Love the contrast of the black from the colorful flowers. Also love the idea of creating the flowers first and then stamping to get the definition like you stated.
Love that you highlighted all that sunny yellow on black. Stunning!
You are a genius to even conceive this card. I LOVE the black background but I would never have tried o create I using markers. I’ve only used markers to color small images…never a background. I have to TA think in out if the box! Thanks so much for the inspiration. I love this card, maybe because My favorite jumpsuit from back in the day 😂 was sunflowers on a navy background.
Wow! Gorgeous! The flowers really pop!
Love the bright sunflowers and dark background.
Beautiful card with the contrasting bright yellow flowers and black background. It really pops. Thanks for sharing.
I absolutely love your card, I love that you colored in between with a black copic marker. I am looking forward to this kit!
Stunning is indeed the right description! The black is such a great intense background! So beautiful
so beautiful!!