Welcome to the August 2020 Hero Arts My Monthly Hero kit reveal and hop! This month we’re going on a staycation! This kit speaks to me on several different levels. I love family feel of the kit, but also the me time. The add-ons? Oh my gosh, they are awesome – once again! Scroll on down through the four projects I have to share with you, leave a comment for your chance to win, and hop along for more kit and add-on inspiration!
Kit availability and shipping: The kit is available for a limited time only – once it’s gone, it’s gone. Pre-order your kit today – Hero Arts estimates kit shipping will begin Monday, August 10th and continue throughout the following week. Subscribe to receive the kit monthly and never miss one! United States kit subscribers receive free shipping on anything added to your kit order prior to it shipping (Thursday, 12:00PM PT the week of launch). International subscribers receive a discounted shipping rate for both the kit and any add-ons included as well. The discounted rate differs by country.
Kit contents:
6″ x 8″ Clear Stamp Set
23 Coordinating Frame Cuts
1 Greetings Fancy Die
5 White Postcards
1 Summer Twilight Palette Reactive Ink Pad
The value of the kit is $76, but it is sold at $34.99.
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This Month's Add-On Collection
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For a night out under the stars I opted for a slimline card. Measuring in at 3 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ (standard envelope sized, A10) for room to squeeze on several designs.
Find a full list of project supplies HERE.
Stamp kit designs in Intens-ified Black ink on Dove White cardstock, color with Copic markers, and die cut. Ink blend slimline Dove White panel (3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″) with Grape Juice and Indigo for the sky, and Pine for the grass.
Allow to dry and then spatter with watered down white acrylic paint. Once dry, trim down inked panel just slightly to create a slim border. Adhere die cut images flat. White Detail emboss sentiment. Adhere finished panel, popped, to folded card base.
Step up a one-layer card with just a touch of dimension by die cutting just a few elements and popping a sentiment.
Find a full list of project supplies HERE.
Stamp tent image on A2 (4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″) Dove White panel in Intens-ified Black ink. Mask tent and stamp foliage. No need to mask off the entire tent, just the easy edges where the greenery will be. Stamp grass and books on a scrap of Dove White. Copic color all images.
Die cut grass and books and adhere flat into place. Stamp larger sentiment in black, white detail emboss and adhere smaller on Pitch Black cardstock. Adhere finished, almost one-layer, panel to A2 folded card base.
Wishing you all a summer of love from my home on the west coast!
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Create this fun design by die cutting the US Map with scrap paper. Mark your location with a dot and then draw lines radiating out from it. Number each space and then cut apart on the lines. Use the slices as a template to create wedge shaped cardstock sections in a rainbow of colors. The “V” shape of the wedge and straight edges are what is important. The border of the map doesn’t matter as long as the cardstock extends beyond it. Adhere all wedges to a sheet of copy paper nestled against one another beginning on one side and working in order all the way around.
Once all segments are adhered in place, align US Map die, secure with washi tape and die cut. Die cut included heart, or other location marker, with gold glitter cardstock. Adhere map popped in place with foam tape on 4″ x 5 1/2″ Dove White cardstock. Pop heart in place, as well. Stamp sentiment from Tie Dye set in Intens-ified Black. Adhere black stamped Leafy Bold Print strip along length of folded card base. Then adhere finished primary panel in place.
Admittedly, this card is easier for someone who lives near the border of the country. If you want to do this positioning your location in the interior of the US somewhere, using a die like this (possibly cutting 2x for narrower sections) would make it much simpler.
I created this card, with the kit, for the Countdown to Creativity over on the Hero Arts blog. A little ink blending with Indigo, Aegean, and Soft Brown and Copic coloring help set the mood for this sanctuary. You can find all the details for it HERE.
Blog Hop
Giveaway: Hero Arts will give away one $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, August 9th at 11:59pm pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.
Thank you so much for visiting today. Wishing you a happy, sunshiny week!
xo, Janette
Project Supplies
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All your cards are cute,but I especially love your slimline card:)
Awesome cards, Janette! I love this kit & the add-ons are wonderful also. The slimline card says it all! I love sitting outside in my lunge chair with a good book!
Perfect cards for the times. My favorite is the rainbow US map. Thanks for the great inspiration!
Relaxing scenes you created with the new kit especially the slimline card. The add-ons look just as exciting.
Really great cards! They really stand out from others I’ve seen although all of them have been great. I love love love the Blended background on the first one it just makes everything pop, and the white space she left on the other Blended background is great.
All great (relaxing) cards!
Very beautiful and inspirational collection of cards. Love them all.
Your cards are so vividly colored! Love them all!
Your card with the family is awesome. The slimline size is perfect to fit everyone in and is a really great idea!
Your card are beautiful but I really love the slimline card that you made I’m really loving slimline cards right now
your cards are all stunning,my fav is the lon one so bright and colorful!!!
Great cards! Love the under the stars one.
I love the US map idea, I live on the east coast, so the idea would work for me as well; I like your slimline as well, although it seems as though everyone is reading at night, which is excellent!
WOW! You created a great scene for the slimline card. Loved what you achieved with the US Map die too!
Your creations are fabulous! I really love that slimline card with the whole family shown on it. So fun! Thanks for sharing your ideas with us using the new Hero Arts products!!
The USA card is very surprising and effective! 🙂
Fantastic cards – really fit in with the times
we live in. Chill, be separated socially, relax.
thanks for sharing. txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
Wow, your coloring on these cards is stunning. Thanks for sharing your talents.
So much cuteness! Loving this new kit, reveal and inspiration!
Love this kit–can’t wait to get mine. Such fun cards and great images!
The scenes are adorable! YOUR COLORING IS FAB! I love the map too!
The kids reading in the tent is so cute!!!! I LOVE THIS!!!! Really sweet.
great cards love the long one best!!!
Nice combinaiton of elements. Great design ideas. I like the paradise space.
Love the colored map card. Thanks for the great instruction. Can’t wait to get this kit. Love the them of it and it fits perfectly for what my family is doing.
Like the look of the Slimline card, they are so popular right now.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Love all your cards! Great idea for the family on the slimline card, too. TFS
Love the design with the US map, looks amazing. Your coloring is gorgeous on the stamped images!
Lovely cards and
love the night time
one. Great new goodies.
Carla from Utah
Love the map card, such a great idea!
Gorgeous colors and cards! So pretty! 😊 I laughed the other night as I was watching tv because Kristin Davis came on. I thought of you. 😁😁
Love the slimline card and the United States card with all those colors.
Oh, I just love your adorable family backyard camp out design! This year has certainly been a different one, but I’m thankful for more family time and a slower pace. This set and your cards capture that perfectly
Janette— Loved that you used the “whole” family together on one card. The U.S. die is great— so colorful. Thank you for the inspiration.
great cards. My favorite is the long skinny one !
Your cards are beautiful! Your ink blended backgrounds are especially stunning!
Love every single one!
Fabulous cards..love the slimline and the radiating US map.
Awesome creations! I love the family camping theme!
Love all of your cards they are gorgeous.
Great slimline card design to include all those elements & beautiful sky blending!
Janette, I just LOVE your big bold color! All of your cards look beautiful and so perfect for summer!
Warm Hugs,
Michele K. Henderson
crimsonowl@comcast.net
Perfectly wonderful cards Janette! The colours are summery & the kids in the tent make me remember when our grandkids were young & loved to camp out in our huge, private backyard. It was like wildwerness to them when they came to visit. I love this release!
LOVE all your cards! Beautiful examples of this awesome new kit.
Fantastic designs on all your cards! I love the rainbow stripes and heart on your map!
So much coloring-so beautiful! I would enjoy receiving any of your cards. I like the technique you used on the US map.
oh my, I am loving that rainbow USA!
I L❤VE all of your cards from the family campout scene all the way thru to the rainbow US!!! They are all such bright, fun, happy cards, and we all need a boost of happy these days. Thanks for bringing a bit of sunshine and smiles to our faces.
Stunning cards, Janette! I love your use of colour to bring them to life! Loving your camping scenes!Thanks so much for the great inspiration! Take care! 🙂
Awesome cards, they are so colorful. My fav would be the slimline card, wonderful. Live this release.
These cards are so great…this MMH kit is fantastic. Peaceful, comfy, stunning and just plain home! I love your colors and the story behind all your cards. The map is so stunning! But my heart is with the fire pit and a comfy chair! Great cards!
Love the variety of your designs, Janette. Perfect kit for “staycations” and much more!
Beautiful, colorful cards. I love that US die. This is such a wonderful release with so many possibilities.
Love the rainbow USA die cut technique! Also the starry spattered sky. All your cards are beautiful.
Love how you made the state map using different colors from scrap papers! Very cool effect!
Such awesome cards! Love the scenes…
Thanks so much for sharing.
I agree the family scene is so special!
Beautiful cards!
Love all of the cards! Especially love the US map!
Really love the Rainbow map card!
Perfect card to send right now.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Fun and colorful. Love the camping scenes.
All these cards show a great sense of identity and contentment. Lovely sentiments in this time of worry.
Such fun little scenes and nice rich colors!