Happy Monday and welcome to the launch of this month's Hero Art's My Monthly Hero kit! If you this is your first time hearing about the kit here's the skinny... On the third Monday of every month Hero Arts releases an exclusive stamping/craft kit. The kits are usually valued well over $70 but only cost $34.99. The catch is that there are only a limited number of kits and once they sell out they are gone forever. You can make sure to always get a kit by subscribing. In addition to the MMH kits there are always fantastic add-ons that coordinate with the theme of the kit.
For all of my cards today I have started with one of these add-ons, a background stamp called, Destination Home Bold Prints. Sometimes it's fun to take one stamp and see just how far you can take it. That's what I've done today and I've got a fun range of cards to share with ranging from clean and simple cards to grungy with a mixed media look. The first card I'm sharing is my favorite of the bunch and has one of the more mixed media looking backgrounds.
This background was first, heat embossed in Sand embossing powder, and then ink blended. I used a second background stamp called, State-cation Bold Prints to add some extra stamped detail in black.
After adding some splatters I finished the card off by adding a Copic colored octopus and sentiment adorned with other little critters.
My second card is clean and simple. I watercolored the background (heat embossed in white) with ink from my Hero Arts Reactive Inks.
Then I added a die cut sentiment that I had cut out three times and stacked for dimension.
My third card has an embossed, trapped resist technique for the background. It's ink blended in contrasting colors to make it pop.
Again I kept this card simple and finished it off with a die cut sentiment and some enamel dots.
My next card was made with the same technique as the last card but this time I decided to go with a birthday theme.
I feel like backgrounds like these can be used for almost anything that you want and since I need some birthday cards that was that.
My next card features a simple ink blended look and a stand-alone die from this release. The die is called the Bird House Fancy Die.
I used my copic markers to add some subtle color the birdhouse and birds. Then I adhered those along with a sentiment.
This card was pretty easy to make. I took a background that I had heat embossed in black and then colored in some of the tags in rainbow colors with my copic markers. I cut them out and adhered them with foam tape over the sentiment.
The sentiment is heat embossed in black embossing powder straight onto the card face.
This card was clean and simple until I decided to ink splatter the background and then cover it in a rainbow of Nuvo drops. I love the extra color and added dimension from the drops.
For my last card today I went for more of a grungy look. I ink blended in browns and then used some Tim Holtz embossing glaze on top of some of the tags in the background. I also sprinkled some sand embossing powder on top of that just to add some more texture.
After splattering some white and bronze metallic paint and some Nuvo Midas Touch I added a sentiment and called it done.
Now, I did film myself making these backgrounds but I wasn't able to get the video done in time for this post. So, watch for that video coming later (probably today)!
That's all I've got for now you guys so I hope you will enter yourself into the giveaway for a $50 Hero Arts gift card (just leave a comment below and you're automatically entered). To continue on this hop just head on over to visit the fabulous Lydia Fiedler over at her blog. You can also check out the whole list of blog hoppers below. As always, I'm linking up the products that I've used today down below so that if you want to check anything out it's all right there for you.
Thanks for stopping by today and I will catch you all back here soon!
Have an awesome day!
Maria
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