Good afternoon! Today is the release day for the Hero Arts January My Monthly Hero kit and it’s a Valentine’s must-have!! You should have arrived from the fabulous Yana Smakula; but if not, you can head to the Hero Arts Blog to start at the beginning of the hop! The January kit is now available for purchase at Hero Arts but once they’re sold out, they’re gone for good so make sure to head over and shop soon!
The kit contains:
- 4″ x 6″ Layered on Love Clear Stamp Set
- Four Coordinating dies
- 4 ink cubes (Passion Flower, Navy, Red Royal and Mulled Wine)
- 2 5″x7″ Shizen decorative paper
- 1 5.5″x8.5″ Stardream Coral Cardstock
- 1 5.5″x8.5″ Stardream Rose Quartz Cardstock
- 1 5.5″x8.5″ Stardream Kunzite Cardstock
- Heart Sequins Mix 1.5 oz
- Pink Prisma Embossing Powder 0.5 oz
The kit value is nearly $62, an amazing deal at $34.99!
And there are several optional add-on items:
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If you visited the Hero Arts blog this weekend you saw that I created this card using the Lovebirds Stamp & Cut and the Window on Love Confetti Fancy die add-ons!
And I was so in love with the add-ons this month that I used more of them for my card today!
Isn’t that raccoon adorable?!?! His expression and big, innocent round eyes! And the sentiment! Gah!! LOVE IT! Ha, anyway I started by stamping the raccoon from Love Bandit with copic-friendly ink and then colored him with copic markers. I added a little interest to his eyes by adding dots with my black glaze gel pen and a dot of crystal glaze on top. I also added spectrum noir clear sparkle to the heart in his paws! I set that aside to dry while I worked on the rest of the card.
I die-cut the Window on Love Confetti fancy die from white cardstock. Next I blended raspberry jam, pale tomato, and soft canteloupe ink onto a piece of bristol smooth cardstock and then adhered the white cardstock die-cut panel over it. I pressed a versamark pad all over the panel (and squished hard enough so that the versamark reached the blended panel) and heat-embossed it with sparkle embossing powder for a sparkly, shiny finish! I stamped the sentiment onto black cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder before trimming it down to a label. Finally I adhered the sentiment over the embossed panel and added my raccoon with foam mounting tape!
And that’s it! 🙂
To celebrate the release Hero Arts is giving away one kit as a prize to one blog reader selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop so make sure you leave a comment at each hop stop for the most chances to win! If you win and have already purchased the kit you will be reimbursed! Please your comments before 11:59PM on Sunday, January 14th! Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:
- The Hero Arts Blog
- Jennifer McGuire
- Yana Smakula
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Wanda Guess
- Lydia Fiedler
- Amy Tsuruta
- Laurie Willison
- May Park
- Janette Kausen
- Michelle Short
- Libby Hickson
- Ilina Crouse
- Clare Prezzia
- Emily Midgett
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LOVING the sparkle embossing powder on that second card, gorgeous!
Great cards – love the raccoon.
This is myy first visit here ever as I am hopping along. I admire your coloring! I really like the technique you used to color the background and lay a peek-through die cut over it! Thank you!!!
Oh! Your “Love Birds” are beautiful!
SQUEAL!! LOVING LOVING LOVING the Looks of the New Kit and Add-On Sets and your AMAZING Inspiration just makes me SMILE!! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and for the chances to WIN!! Have a FABULOUS Release Week!! =)
Super adorable cards! 🙂
I love your cards! I love this stamp set and I can’t wait to win something. The raccoon is way to cute! He looks like he’s guilty of doing something from the expression on his face. I love the glitter and the coloring.
Those love birds are also very colorful and colored really well. They almost look real.
Thanks for showing us your beautiful cards and for giving us the chance to win something.
Really like your love birds. Great kit! Thanks for sharing!
Love that background! Sweet card!
Beautiful cards! Love the colorful birds and the racoon is so cute! Great job.
Beautiful cards! love the wayyou colored the lovebirds!
Hero Art kit and add ons are amazing this month. Your raccoon is adorable and the love birds so sweet! Thanks for sharing… Diana O
Super cute cards! Thanks for the inspiration!
Cute raccoon.
These are so fun. The racoon is a scene stealer. Thanks for sharing.
Liking both your colourful cards, but that raccoon thief is just adorable and on those red hearts he pops out brilliantly.
Beautiful cards! I love the raccoon and the background with the sparkle embossing powder!
Love the new kit! The raccoon is especillly adorable!
Wonderful cards!! That raccoon really is cute and I love the background you created for him. Was disappointed that the 2 add ons I wanted the most were sold out by Wednesday night when I went to purchase them. O well!
I really love the cards but the raccoon one is so adorable! Thanks
Great release! AWESOME cards! I absolutely love the ombre, sparkly background of the hearts card!
Cute cards!!
I love the new kit. The heart background with the colors you choose is so cute. Then when you add the cute little raccoon makes it a cute little Valentines Day Card for anybody. The love birds would be so much fun to make and would be a perfect card for my husband.
The raccoon is adorable as well as your card. The background is awesome – thanks for sharing !
You cards are beautiful, I especially love those love birds!