Friday, April 2, 2021

Hero Arts My Monthly Hero Countdown

Hey everybody! It's My Monthly Hero Countdown time and I've got a bright and colorful card to share with you today. 

But first, if you aren't familiar with the My Monthly Hero kit, it's a kit that is released by Hero Arts on the first Monday of every month. It always has a fun, themed collection of stamps, dies and other goodies. The cost is just $34.99/month and the value is always much greater! You have the option to subscribe (subscribing now means your first kit will be the May release), or, to buy your favorite kits as one-off purchases. Be aware that once these kits sell out they are gone for good. If you see a kit you like make sure to snatch it up quickly!

Ok, on to my card. I'm not going to tell you anything about the kit except for what you can already see on my card. I started out by inkblending a background in Lemon Drop, Taffy and Splash Reactive inks. Then I used a stencil from the new kit to add some fun to the background with white acrylic paint.
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When the paint was almost dry I added some Nuvo Gilding Flakes in gold to the tacky paint. I heat embossed the asterisk stamp in black onto the background and I also heat embossed my sentiment in gold onto black cardstock.
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I added a black mat behind my panel and then attached that to a gray cardbase.  Finally, I adhered my sentiment to the card front using foam tape for another layer of dimension. 
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And, that's all for today you guys! The full My Monthly Hero release is coming out on Monday and it's a super fun one so I can't wait to share the whole shabang with you then. 

Have an awesome weekend!
Maria

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23 comments:

  1. love your design. The colors are perfect, and the black mat really does make it pop. I always forget about my gilding flakes. This was a great use for them.

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  2. Very cool design! Love the color combinations! I need to get out my gilding flakes and play with them! I forget I have them!

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  3. Fun design. Thanks for the great details. Love the style of sentiments in this kit.

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  4. Love the bright cheery colours on your card. Gilding flakes are a neat touch.

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  5. Love your card, Maria! I love the bright, happy colour combinations and the clever design with that stencil! So eye=catching! Thanks so much for sharing!! Stay safe! :)

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  6. Wow! This was very creative. I really like the font of the sentiment and the gold flakes.

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  7. I love the use of the guilding flakes, which I always seem to forget about. Can't wait to see the stencil.

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  8. Love the glimmer you gave the card!

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  9. Love the technique you used with the stencil and the gilded flakes!

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  10. Beautiful colour combination and I have never thought to use paint and gilding flakes together. Looking forward to seeing the kit.

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  11. Fun and colorful card and love the touches of gold!

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  12. this week I am loving using my reactive inks, they scream spring as your card does and spring is GREAT! Can't wait to see more of the sneaks to come.

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  13. How fun. Colors are wonderful. Really think this kit will be fun

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  14. Love the card, colors and stencil. Looking forward to Monday!

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  15. Very cool card, love the colors. This card makes me think of summer, so fun.

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  16. Great colors on your gorgeous card. I am really loving the style of the sentiment - very classy!

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  17. I like the colors you chose. Fun card.

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  18. I've just started to explore stencils. The paint is very cool effect and proof here you can flake up anything. Spring colors and very pretty.

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  19. Fun card! Very clever and perfect stenciling with white paint. I also really like the gold flakes.

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  20. Marisela Delgado said: Such a wonderful card! mariandmonsterd@yahoo.com

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  21. I love the added gilding flakes. Such a bright and happy card.

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  22. Hello from Malta, New York. I do not have any gilding flakes, but after looking at your card I think I have to change that. What a great card. Love the background too.

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