Hero Arts March My Monthly Hero and a Giveaway!

Hey everybody! It's the first Monday of the month and that means it is time for a new My Monthly Hero Kit release from Hero Arts! I also want to make sure you know that there is a generous giveaway from Hero Arts and the details will be at the bottom of my post.

I decided to go for a bit more of a mixed media look with this kit. I ink blended the background using My Hero Hues Reactive inks. Then I sprayed the background with my shimmer mist and spattered it with my White Glimmer Metallic Ink.

I wanted to add some gold gilding flakes so I stamped my tree trunk using a liquid glue. Once that dried to the right tackiness I covered it with gilding flakes and used a dry paint brush to remove the excess. I also painted some extra adhesive onto the background and adding gilding flakes to that too.

I wanted the tree to really sparkle and have dimension so after stamping it I added gilding flakes and then a ton of glittering leaves (dragons scales from a past MMH kit). It really catches the light in real life. Oh! I almost forgot to tell you about the sentiment. I used a sentiment from the kit but I did a little bit of stamp surgery on it. Originally it said, "live life in full bloom." I cut the "bloom" off to get the sentiment that I used. 

For my second card I wanted to do something a little bit different. I used the swirl stamp to create a background. The super cool thing about this stamp is that if you stamp it once then give it a 180 degree flip... the stamp will exactly together with the first stamped image. I used this method to stamp from left to right across the page. If making the stamp fit perfectly together as described weren't enough, it also fits together from top to bottom making it incredibly easy to put many rows of this image on top of each other to create a cool background. This is what I did using rainbow colors.

I used the Wood Frame Infinity Dies to cut a black frame and popped it up on the background. I cut the tree trunk from silver foil. The tree leaves are cut from vellum, heat embossed in Black Sparkle embossing powder and colored from behind with pink copic markers. The final touch was to add sequins followed by Nuvo Dream Drops.

Ok, guys, that is it from me for today. Thanks so much for stopping by! Before you go please remember that Hero Arts is generously gifting a $50 gift certificate to one lucky winner. To enter yourself just leave me a comment below (by March 8 at 11:59 pm and you will be automatically entered. The winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week. 

The last thing that I want to make sure you know is that due to production delays, kits will begin shipping on March 16th this month.

Have an amazing day you guys! Bye for now.

Maria

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