Inspiring the Creative Soul

Hello my crafty friends! I am so happy that you could join me today for Hero Arts (HA) reveal of the October My Monthly Hero (MMH) kits. I hope you are ready for some frosty images and holiday themes. I always love to show both kits so let’s take a look at each and what they include.

This kit makes some absolutely gorgeous scenes. And let me tell you…the snowflakes in the Premium kit are AH-MAZ-ING! The prefect shiny silver.

To get started, I’d like to show you my card inspiration for the Classic kit. I try to think out of the box and switched it up a bit. Time to check it out!

Step by Step Classic:

1. Take the tree with hills layering die from the classic kit and cut a border. The way that I cut it produced 2 trees. I cut it another time to get a 3rd tree. Set aside.
2. Using the dusty blue cardstock from the kit, ink blend Dusty Blue, Blue Hawaii and Purple Galaxy reactive inks along with some Granite for a gorgeous night sky.
3. Stamp the swirl snow with Blue Hawaii ink onto the background.
4. Add stars using the 3 clustered stars with white pigment ink.
5. To add a nice shine and sparkle to the background, apply a very light layer of the Silver Lacquer pen. You can easily do this with your finger. Set aside to dry.
6. Cut the bare tree branches using the die from white cardstock and cut from the panel so they are stand-alone trees.
7. Trim the dried ink blended panel to 4 by 5 1/4 inches.
8. Adhere your snow and tree border and tuck in the extra tree using liquid glue. Add the bare trees to the edges of the panel. Cut off any extra.
9. Apply panel to a card base.
10. Die cut Merry Christmas 3 times from slate cardstock and stack for dimension. Apply at an angle to the background.

My next 2 cards include elements from the Premium kit. I kept each relatively simple.

Step by Step Premium:

1. Cut a panel of Dusty Blue cardstock to 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches.
2. Cut 1/4 inch strips of cardstock in your favorite colors. I used: White glitter, Nautical, Passion Flower, and Slate.
3. Apply strips in the lower 1/3 of the card. Make sure you leave room for your sentiment below and enough room above for your snowflake.
4. Stamp the sentiment with embossing ink and heat set with silver embossing powder.
5. Choose your favorite snowflake patterns and adhere them offset to create an amazing larger dimensional snowflake. *Use very little glue or the vellum may wrinkle.
6. Adhere small dots of liquid glue or dry adhesive to the back of the snowflake and adhere to the panel.
7. Add the finished panel to a top folding card base.

Step By Step Premium 2:

1. Cut a panel of white cardstock to 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches.
2. Center the largest swirl snow stamp in the upper half of the panel.
3. Using a stamp platform, lightly stamp the circle in a soft ink. I used Contour ink. Do not move it from your platform.
4. Add stamping around the circle using your platform or an acrylic block. I kept the colors fairly traditional with reds, greens, and neutrals.
5. Once you have filled your wreath, move the panel back to the platform and re-stamp the circle using embossing ink. Add embossing powder.
6. Gently brush away any powder that is over your flowers/stamped images using a dry brush and heat set.
7. Trim white panel to 3 3/4 by 5 inches.
8. Die cut Merry Christmas from Palm cardstock 3 times and adhere together for dimension. Apply to the panel.
9. Add the finished panel to a top folding Sand card base.

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GIVEAWAY:

We will give away a $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, October 8th at 11:59pm Pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.

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