Hero Arts June My Monthly Hero Blog Hop (VIDEO + GIVEAWAY!)

Good afternoon!  Today is release day for the June My Monthly Hero kit from Hero Arts!!  This stunning kit is now available for purchase at Hero Arts; and remember, once they’re sold out, they’re gone for good so make sure to head over and shop soon!

The June kit contains:

• 4″ x 6″ Clear Stamp Set
• 6″ x 6″ Northern Lights Cling Stamp
• 3 Fancy Scene Dies
• 10 Coordinating Frame Cuts
• 2 5.5″ x 8.5″ Sheets of Black Handmade Watercolor Paper
• Glow In The Dark Lacquer Pen
• Shiny Silver Stars

This kit is valued at $74 and is a steal at $34.99!

And there are several fun add-on sets available:

Get Them All June Add-Ons [ HA ] Milky Way Bold Prints [ HA ] Black Watercolor Paper [ HA ] Shine Bright [ HA ] Shine Bright Frame Cuts [ HA ] Galaxy Peek A Boo Parts [ HA ] You’re My Universe [ HA ] You’re My Universe Frame Cuts [ HA ] Color Layering Howling Wolf [ HA ] Color Layering Howling Wolf Frame Cuts [ HA ] Shooting Star Stencil [ HA ] Music In the Night Window Die [ HA ] June Word Fancy Die [ HA ]

Today I’m sharing a card showing you a fun way to create a northern lights effect with ink blending and embossing resist!

I also have a video for this card that you can watch below or over at my Youtube channel:

First I blended a variety of inks onto strathmore bristol cardstock.  I used Blue Raspberry, Grape Slush, Pool Party, and Berry Smoothie reactive inks on the sky and Tumbled Glass and Broken China distress oxide ink on the water.  Next I heat-embossed the background stamp onto the panel with clear embossing powder.  Then I came back and blended more ink across the panel!  I used the same colors on the sky but also added Chipped Sapphire distress oxide ink and Intens-ified Black ink.  On the water I added Blueprint Sketch and Chipped Sapphire distress oxide inks.  The embossing powder resists the ink so after I lightly buffed the image with a paper towel I was left with that bright and vivid design!

I decided it needed a little more sparkle so I placed the panel back in my MISTI and restamped the image with embossing ink but this time I heat-embossed it with sparkle embossing powder for a subtle extra shimmer!  I die-cut the mountains and trees from silver glitter and black cardstock and adhered them together.  I also stamped the whale from the kit and heat-embossed it on black cardstock with silver sparkle embossing powder before die-cutting it with the coordinating die.  I adhered them to the panel with a mix of regular adhesive and foam mounting tape.

Finally I added a sentiment from the You’re My Universe add-on set and heat-embossed it on black cardstock with silver embossing powder.  I trimmed it down to a thin label and adhered it to the panel with foam mounting tape to finish the card!

And that’s it!  Head over and pick up your My Monthly Hero kit and add-ons today!  And just a quick note:  We are working on restarting our operations in a safe manner, bringing back our production and shipping teams with social distancing, and keeping our warehouse cleaned under the strictest standards. We are first focusing on all of the orders in-house for all of our wonderful and patient customers, subscribers, and international customers, and hope to get back to regular shipping times once we are through what was delayed. We estimate June kits and add-ons will begin shipping on June 19th, after all previous orders have gone out.  We thank you for your continued understanding and patience!

To celebrate the release Hero Arts is giving away a $50 gift card 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!  Please comment before 11:59PM EST on Sunday, June 14th!  You should have arrived from Jennifer and Jill is your next stop!

Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy the hop!!

Hero Arts June My Monthly Hero kit [ HA ] You’re My Universe [ HA ] AF426 Pool Party Reactive Ink – Hero… [ HA | ELH | SBC | SSS ] AF427 Blue Raspberry Reactive Ink -… [ HA | ELH | SBC | SSS ] AF430 Berry Smoothie Reactive Ink -… [ HA | ELH | SBC | SSS ] AF432 Grape Slush Reactive Ink – Hero… [ HA | ELH | SBC | SSS ] Tumbled Glass, Ranger Distress Oxide… [ ELH | SBC | SSS ] Broken China, Ranger Distress Oxide… [ ELH | SBC | SSS ] Blueprint Sketch, Ranger Distress… [ ELH | SBC | SSS ] Chipped Sapphire, Ranger Distress… [ ELH | SBC | SSS ] AF435 Intens-ified Black Ink Pad -… [ HA | ELH | SBC | SSS ] AF419 Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink… [ HA | ELH | SBC | SSS ] PW104 Clear Embossing Powder – Hero Arts [ HA | ELH | SBC | SSS ] PW101 Silver Embossing Powder – Hero… [ HA | ELH | SBC | SSS ] PW124 Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder… [ HA | ELH | SSS ] PW105 Sparkle Embossing Powder – Hero… [ HA | ELH | SBC | SSS ] Strathmore Bristol Smooth Pad 9 X 12 [ ELH | SSS ] Scrapbook.com – Ink Blending Tool… [ SBC ] Scrapbook.com – Ink Blending Tools… [ SBC ] Scrapbook.com – Ink Blending Tool and… [ SBC ] Scrapbook.com – Ink Blending Tool and… [ SBC ] MT300 MISTI Regular Hero Black – Hero… [ HA ] Amazon.com: Scotch 1/2-Inch by… [ AMZUS | SSS | ELH ] 3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE… [ SSS | ELH | AMZUS | SBC ] Rotatrim RC RCM12 12-Inch Cut… [ AMZUS ] Gemini JUNIOR Die-Cutting And… [ SSS | SBC | AMZUS ]