June 2020 My Monthly Hero Release Hop + GIVEAWAY

Hi friends! It's time to kick-off another My Monthly Hero release! The June kit is filled with glorious summer imagery, AND a 6 x 6" cling background! I had so much fun creating with these fun stamps and dies and I'm sure you will too!

If you've been hopping along, you should have arrived from Jessica Frost-Ballas' blog. Your next hop stop after this will be Laurie Willison's blog. The entire hop list can be found later in this post.

GIVEAWAY:
Hero Arts is generously giving away one $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, June 14th at 11:59pm pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.

Since I was a little girl, I've always had a thing for lighthouses, so the lighthouse die from the June Kit was the first thing I dove for.  I cut it from black and white cardstock, then colored the window and highlight pieces in the rocks and in laid them with the black die cut.

Next I stamped the beautiful background from the kit in blue inks, using a different color for the two different sections.  I then stamped just the skinny strip on a square of paper, masking off the other portion of the square and then sponged with navy and pool party inks for a little depth. After that was how I liked it, I masked off the stamped section and then pulled out the Sun Background Stencil and stenciled the sun with lemon drop reactive ink.  The beacon of light sentiment from the kit is stamped inside the sun, and then I layered the lighthouse atop, and then finished with thin black mats on the panels.
 

For this next card, I was in the mood to do a little ink blending  I started by masking off a portion at the bottom of the card base for the water, and cutting a mask for the mountains and then got to blending with reactive inks.  I did the sky with berry smoothie, taffy, fruit punch, creamsicle, and lemon drop.  I then decided to go over the bottom portion of the card with gesso to cover up some inky fingerprints, so the white would show through on the mountains. While I was adding the gesso, I added some finger swirls in the bottom section to give the water a little texture.  Then my masks went back on and I blended the water with splash and blue hawaii inks.

I then die cut the mountains from pitch black cardstock and layered over the scene, adding a few highlights with a white gel pen.  I felt the sky and sea looked a bit too smooth, so I took a dry fan brush and dipped into a small amount of gesso and dry brushed onto the blended panel.  The bird from the kit looks perfect stamped up in that cloudy sky, then I added a few of the little diamond stars in unicorn pigment ink up toward the top left.  The sentiment is from the Affirmation Messages set. I thought it just fit perfectly with these big, bold mountains.

My third card features a couple of the add-ons from this release.  I started by taping a Nesting Ovals Infinity Die to the Music in the Night Window Die to cut a frame from pitch black cardstock. I then coated it with a layer of clear embossing & watermark ink, then embossed with black sparkle embossing powder. I love the sparkle!

Next I pulled out my gel plate and made a quick pulled background with blue, purple and white acrylic paint.  When it was dry, I used the Shooting Star Stencil with black paint. It wasn't quite as noticeable as I wanted, so I then laid the stencil over it again and gave it a coat of white glitter gel for some pizazz!

I decided to try a slimline card, so pulled out the stencil again and stenciled all over with splash reactie ink, then just around the edges with thistle reactive ink. I cut this panel down, then added a strip of amethyst cardstock that I scored every quarter inch for some interest. I finished with a sentiment at the bottom from the Dreams Will Blossom set. The final card measures 4.25 x 7.5"

You made it to the end! I hope you've enjoyed my makes and a bit of my creative process. If you're not a subscriber already, the kit is only available while supplies last, so pre-order your kit today! Hero Arts is working on restarting our operations in a safe manner, bringing back our production and shipping teams with social distancing, and keeping our warehouse cleaned under the strictest standards. We are first focusing on all of the orders in-house for all of our wonderful and patient customers, subscribers, and international customers, and hope to get back to regular shipping times once we are through what was delayed. We estimate June kits and add-ons will begin shipping on Friday, June 19, after all previous orders have gone out.

Here's a closer look at the June My Monthly Hero kit. I've also linked the entire release along with the supplies I used for these cards below for your convenience.

Kit Contents:

• 4" x 6" Clear Stamp Set
• 6" x 6" Northern Lights Cling Stamp
• 3 Fancy Scene Dies
• 10 Coordinating Frame Cuts
• 2 5.5" x 8.5" Sheets of Black Handmade Watercolor Paper
• Glow In The Dark Lacquer Pen
• Shiny Silver Stars

Kit Value: $74
Kit Cost: $34.99

For a chance to win the $50 Gift Certificate giveaway, leave some comments for the talented designers linked below.  Happy hopping!

Next up on the hop is Laurie Willison! 

Hero Arts
Amy Kolling
Channin Pelletier
Daniel West
Debi Adams
Ilina Crouse
Janette Kausen
Jennifer McGuire
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Julee Tilman  ←That's me!
Laurie Willison
Lydia Fiedler
Maria Willis
Mariana Grigsby
Michelle Short
Nichol Spohr
Seeka

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