Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Hero Arts My Monthly Hero July 2022 Release: Blog Hop and Giveaway!

Hey everybody! The wait is over! It's time for the Hero Arts July 2022 My Monthly Hero release and this month's kit is a flamingo loving dream! It's got a gorgeous layering flamingo stamp set with clouds, water and grass. There are coordinating dies and five ink cubes! There are also self-adhesive pink and teals gems as well as teal pearls (affiliate links may be used at no extra cost to you)!

Before I get to my cards, 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! This month's kit is valued at $75!

You have the option to subscribe (subscribing now means your first kit will be the August 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! There are also a ton of amazing add-on products! You can buy the add-ons as a bundle at a discounted rate or just pick up your favorite products. 

For my first project I decided to make a birdday shaker card (get it?). I started out by spraying a piece of white cardstock with my DIY liquid watercolor sprays in Pink and Indigo and se that off to the side to let it dry. Later, I came back and ink-blended around the edges with Blue Hawaii ink. 

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Next, I stamped my flamingos using the color-layering set from the kit. My bottom (solid) layer is Cotton Candy ink. My next layer (detailed layer) was stamped with Rose Quartz Pigment Ink and heat embossed in clear embossing powder. I love that the heat embossing gave a raised, shiny texture to the bird's feathers. Next, I stamped the legs and beaks in Onyx Pigment Ink and again, I heat embossed in clear. This caused some of the Onyx ink to melt into the Rose Quartz layer at the bottom of the birds which I think adds a fun, shadowed look to the feathers. I did lose a little detail on the beaks and I added that back in with a fine-tipped sharpie. After the flamingos were done I cut them out using the coordinating dies.
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To create the shaker portion of my card I used a shaker pouch from Tonic Studios and added some glitter and sequins from my stash before sealing it up. I adhered the flamingos using foam tape and then followed it up by adding the sentiment stamped in black on Paradise cardstock.
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For my next card I used the Large Toucan Bold Prints stamp and heat embossed it in gold onto watercolor cardstock.
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I watercolored the image using Nuvo Shimmer Powders from Tonic Studios.
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To finish the card off I added a sentiment from Zen Messages heat embossed in white on black cardstock. I matted the image piece on black cardstock and called it good!
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I'm  not sure if you saw my post from Sunday, but just in case you didn't, here's one more card that I made using this month's kit. You can catch all of the details for this card by clicking here.
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Ok, that is it for today but make sure to leave a comment below to enter the giveaway and continue on our blog hop for more incredible inspiration!

GIVEAWAY:
We will give away a $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, June 10th at 11:59pm Pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.


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25 comments:

  1. You're my zen is so cute. I LOVE that stamp!! Really cute way of coloring it all, too.

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  2. Such color happy cards. Color can make me happy and your cards do that.

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  3. What a spectacular shaker card!

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  4. Shake it up Flamingoes! Wonderful.
    Melissa
    "Sunshine HoneyBee"

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  5. OMG, the Toucan card is gorgeous!!! Love it. What a great release.

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  6. Not sure if my comment went through! LOVE the shaker and your flamingos! This kit is PERFECT for summer!

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  7. Love your sparkle and shine!

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  8. The large toucan is fun!

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  9. Hi, Maria - How can there possibly be no comments yet on your awesome post? Well, no worries! I'll fix that!!
    I love your cool-pink flamingos. So many others made them in warm pink tones, which I also thought were very pretty, but I love the difference in tones that your card shows (last card above). I LOVE the toucan and how you colored it. Gorgeous! And THAT SHAKER CARD! Wow-wee, is that ever a showstopper!
    TFS -
    Lori S in PA

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  10. Can't wait to try the Toucan stamp set!

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  11. Love the shaker card and the coloring of the toucan.

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  12. lovely cards - super idea for creating the shaker card - will give this a try

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  13. Fantastic cards! I love the gold shaker bits!

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  14. Marisela Delgado said: So awesome, Maria. Such beautiful cards. mariandmonsterd@yahoo.com

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  15. Wonderful cards! I love the beautiful flamingos and the toucan design! The sparkle looks awesome on your shaker card, and the colors look fabulous on the toucan card!

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  16. I like the Flamingo cards best. Thank you for sharing.

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  17. Awesome cards! Love the great colors.
    Thanks for sharing.

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  18. Love that toucan! Your watercoloring looks fantastic. It's funny-Lydia just talked about flamingos with gray legs and here you are next with those gray legs. They look great.

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  19. Fabulous colors and love the shaker.

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  20. wonderful cards! I really love the first one, and the lack melting into the feathers looks amazing!

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  21. Love that shaker card - beautiful job!

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  22. Love your cards! I especially like how the toucan turned out.

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  23. A flamingo shaker card...it doesn't get any better than that!

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  24. That shaker card is so fun and I love the way you colored the toucan. :)

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