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Good morning again! Today is the release date for the April My Monthly Hero kit… and it’s a fiesta in a box! There are so many sweet southwestern images included in this kit, and it’s a bargain at $34.99 (valued at over $70!). These kits frequently sell out, so it’s always a good idea to subscribe if you want to ensure that you’ll get your hands on one! The kit & add-ons go live in the Hero Arts store on Monday April 2nd at 1pm eastern/10am pacific. The main kit is available for a limited time only – once it’s gone, it’s gone. Kits begin shipping from Hero Arts on Friday April 6th.
You get so many fun, super festive goodies in this kit… including some absolutely amazing reactive ink cubes that I am dying to get my hands on! (They didn’t have them in time for us to get them for project creation, and boy oh boy do they look funnnnn!)I used the main kit for this festive little scene on the Hero Arts blog on Saturday, so I thought I’d make use of some of the fabulous add-ons, including Shake Your Bones and that amazing Blanket Pattern Bold Prints for my blog hop post today.
I made a little trio of cards using the images in Shake Your Bones. I just watched the tail end of the movie Coco, and these images totally remind me of that movie, even if I only watched just the last 15 minutes of it! (And, let me tell ya, even if I only watched 15 minutes of it, it was still enough to make me absolutely bawl. I shudder to think of the weeping that would occur should I ever watch the whole thing!) I have always loved the combination of bright, sunrise yellow, super hot pink, and bright purple… I even have called it my “fiesta” combination. I kept that color combo in mind when creating my cards today. For each card, I kept the layout nice and clean, with lots of white space and pops of color and pattern.
I stamped each skeleton image and coordinating greeting using Hero Arts’s Intense Black ink onto some Radiant White card stock, then colored them using Copic markers, which I’ll list individually below. I kept the coloring simple on the bones, using just C1 and C3 along with my Colorless Blender to help add some subtle shading to the bones.
Once the coloring was completed, I stamped the Blanket Pattern Bold Prints onto some black card stock and heat embossed using clear embossing powder. I love the subtle texture that adding the clear embossing gives to the background. I trimmed each white stamped panel down to leave plenty of space around the border to keep that pattern plenty visible, then adhered the white panels to the black patterned panels with dimensional foam adhesive.
Aren’t those so cute!? Clean, simple, but those images are so darn cute that you don’t need a whole lot of “extras,” amirite? Just some coloring, a bit of texture, and lots of clean white space. Perfect!
Now, for a giveaway!!! We are giving away one kit as a prize to one blog reader – selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop. The giveaway closes Sunday, April 8th at 11:59pm, and the winner will be announced the following week. The more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win! (If you purchase a kit and then win the contest, Hero Arts will reimburse you for your purchased kit!) Here’s the full hop lineup, so you can leave your comments:
The Hero Arts Blog
Laurie Willison
Yana Smakula
Janette Kausen
Nichol Spohr
Ilina Crouse
Kathy Racoosin
Clare Prezzia
Lydia Fiedler
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Kelly Latevola
Jana Millen
Amy Tsuruta
Emily Midgett<— you are here
May Park
Libby Hickson
These cards are so on trend right now and your coloring makes them adorable.
Fun and interesting cards!
This month’s kit is just fantastic! I love the background for your cards!
Clean and simple!
Very cool cards!
You’ve made such a fun set of cards !!
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Very cool! Thank you for sharing!
Fun cards, simple but stunning.
Fantastic cards! I love how clean and simple they are but still really make a statement! Yes, these images remind me of Coco too! Love your trio of cards! Thanks for sharing!
This kit is going to make me sooo…Happy. I love it
Love the friends until the end card – perfect!
Great set of designs! Love your simple background and perfect coloring!
Great cards, love the colorful images on the black & white.
My favorite of the hop! I love everything about them!
Such fun projects. Lovely coloring
I am so excited since I ordered these they remind me of corpse bride movie.
So many great cards from this kit and from you.
Beautiful job on your cards! Thanks for sharing!
I loved the movie, Coco. This kit is a must-have for me. Your cards are perfect, thank you for sharing
Those black background….LOVE IT! I love how clean and simple these are. Amazing!
I love all of the new ideas!
Beautiful CAS cards 🙂
Love all of the fiesta fun created with this kit and add ons. Something for every one to create and inspire me.
Your cards are so fun and festive. It reminds me of the movie Coco also. This is such s fabulous kit. It is definitely a favorite.
Adorable cards!!!
I like the simplicity of these cards. Easily reproduced!
Really creative Day of the Dead cards. BTW I love the flower border on your blog masthead.
Cute cards
Love your fun and colorful cards. Can’t wait for my kit to arrive.
Wonderful trio of cards!
Fun cards!
Beautiful cards, love the CAS look simply stunning and eye catching.
Such a wonderful card trio!
I like your trio of cards.
Love the little pops of color!!
Awesome! Thank you for the inspiration!
Fun and beautiful….
I love this kit, something I’ve never seen, quite clever. Your cards are clean and simple, very nice!
Very cute “bones” set. Cute trio of cards!
your cards are perfect! love this set and this kit!
You’ve made such a fun set of cards !
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What great cards! Love the subtle tone on tone background!
Awesome cards!
Great cards! I love your CAS designs!
Very simplistic cards! I have such a hard time making a clean and simple card, thanks for the inspirations.
Fun cards. Thanks for sharing…
Ole’!! Very fun and pretty cards. Really love the spot of color on the black/white figures.
Great new ideas.
A fun set of cards!! You coloured them besutifullý!!
Fab cas cards, such a fun addon set this one! 🙂
Wonderful design ! And your cards are very sweet !
Aww those are so much fun! Love the blanket background too! So many images to have fun with in this kit.