Hello – hello everyone and thanks so much for stopping by to help celebrate the launch of yet another fabulous kit by Hero Arts – July 2018 My Monthly Hero Kit (more about the kit, blog hop and giveaway below). I have 2 cards to share featuring the kit and some of the add ons. If there’s time later in the month I’m hoping to make a few more cards and possibly do a video featuring the add ons.
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.
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CARD DETAILS – USING KIT ONLY
I started making this card by stamping images in Copic marker friendly ink onto white paper. These images are very small and there’s not much room for coloring or blending. To me – these are the best types of images. There’s just something about these tiny prints that makes me want to use them over and over again. Hero Arts last year October or November kit had similar style images, those were for the Santa’s village and I just loved them! They are so perfect for making little cards with scenes.
Next, I used my Copic markers and colored. I used my go-to Copic marker colors and went with red, green, blue and a hint of gray color combo. There are coordinating dies for these images in July kit so you’ll be able to cut all of these out in your die cutting machine. I only had the stamps to play with this month so I actually cut these out using my Tonic Studios scissors.
Next, I white heat embossed sentiments onto red cardstock panel and foam mounted images in place. I love how my friend May Park always adds a ton of gorgeous detail to her clean and simple cards using a white or a black pen and I wanted to add some to my card as well.
I also used Hero’s Lacquer pen and coated some of the images to make them dimensional.
MY MONTHLY HERO JULY 2018 KIT
The kit is available for a limited time only – once it’s gone, it’s gone. If you love it – grab it now!
CARD DETAILSÂ -USING KIT & ADD-ONS
I also made a similar card, a Birthday card, but this time I incorporated a few add ons from this month. I used Country Fair bold prints background and stamped it in Versamark ink for a tone on tone look for the background of my card.
I also white heat embossed a few images from the Ornate Carousel stamp set to create a base and top for my scene and I also used a sentiment from this stamp set to have my card say “Have a Magical Birthday”.
JULY ADD-ONS
There are several optional add-on items:
 My Monthly Hero Kit July 2018 Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts County Fair Bold Prints Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts County Fair Pig Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Hay Party Animals Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Ornate Carousel Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts #1 Winner Stamp & Cut Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Marquee Frame Fancy Die (F) Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts County Fair Pig Frame Cuts (D) Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Hay Party Animals Frame Cuts (D) Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Ornate Carousel Frame Cuts (E) Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Pink Liquid Watercolor Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts You Are Sweet as Pie Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts You Are Sweet as Pie Dies Shop at: SSS | HA |
HOP ALONG WITH US!
I’m the last stop on this hop, you can start over at Hero Arts blog.
GIVEAWAY!
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 be sure to leave a comment for your chance to win!The giveaway closes Sunday, July 8th at 11:59pm, and the winner will be announced the following week on the Hero Arts blog.
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support
My Monthly Hero Kit July 2018 Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts County Fair Bold Prints Shop at: SSS | HA |
Hero Arts Ornate Carousel Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Simon Says Stamp Schoolhouse Red Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ink Pad Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts White Detail Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Crystal Clear Lacquer Pen Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker R22 Light Prawn Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker R24 Prawn Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker R89 Dark Red Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker B000 Pale Porcelain Blue Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker B00 Frost Blue Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG00 Mimosa Yellow Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker C1 Cool Gray Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker C3 Cool Gray Grey Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker C5 Cool Gray Grey Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Stamp Platform Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tonic Spring-cut Fine Tip Detail Scissors Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Sakura Classic White Bold Line 10 Pen Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
Love your cards–very festive and what a cool kit!
Totally love how you used this great kit! Really like the red, too! Always wonderful work, Yana!
I love these bright, wonderful cards. This is such a fun release.
What a fun kit
It’s almost State Fair time where I live. I visit a couple of our county fairs as well as our state fair. It would be so much fun to give my kids cards with fair tickets inside of them as well as make scrape book pages filled with memories made from this fantastic collection. Thanks for another awesome product!
Both of your cards are so fun! I think red is a perfect background for these images 🙂
Loved the bold color. It workes great with the carnival images
This card is so amazing, so colorful and so detailed. I love this kit!!
Your card is making me really look forward to our fair in our area. We go every year… 🙂
Beautiful cards as always, Yana. Love the red. And your cutting skills are amazing! I thought the images were die cut. Xxx
Fun and vibrant cards!! Great job!
They are fun cards Yana, not your normal type of card design but great to see something different. :O)
These stamps would be great for my scrapbook pages, too! Love the red; such cute cards!
WOW, love your color choices. The red is so festive and fun. The “Magical” card is my fave, love your design.
You’ve made such a beautiful card! I love the color choices and how you used everything to make an incredible card!
Darling card and
the carnival stamps
are adorable!
Carla from Utah
Yana, I always love seeing what you create. Your style is one of my favorites. The red, yellow and white on these cards is really what I think we all think of when we imagine a fair or carnival. Great design.
The red cardstock made your card stand out. Love the result of your card!
Love the colors you chose! Your card looks simply amazing! Stunning job!
I love seeing cards that use mostly the main kit, and yours show what great designs can be made with this kit. Great colors, too!
Lovely cards! I like the bright red base, it really makes the images pop!
Such striking colors. Really great, graphic quality to them.
I am screaming with glee over the color scheme. I somehow doubt that I would have thought of it, but if I win a set, I am stealing this idea! Love it! Reminds me of the county fair when I was a kid. Thank you.
Wow…Your red cards are so stunning!! The red background really highlights your coloring perfectly. Beautiful cards!
Wow, these are so bright and beautiful! You don’t see a red
card too often … I love it!
LOVE the red❤️
Very bright and fun cards! Love them 🙂
Love the bright and colorful cards.
Fun happy card!
BEAUTIFUL CARD! the Reds and Yellows/Greens on this card really look FANTASTIC together! And I really LOVE the layering too!!!!
Lovely card idea! I love how the red, while being so bold, captures the excitement of the theme park. Great coloring on your stamps too! Everything ties together so well.
Fabulous red backgrounds, I just love them. And with these cheerful, fun stamps they really look smashing!
Great card showing off this great carnival themed kit.
Love the red background. It made card pop! All the colors are perfect for a amusement park theme. Nice!
Amazing card! Love the bright colors – you did an awesome job balancing the brightness with the design
Oh my! Love the color!
Your cards are so bright and cheerful! I love the little details.
Love the red cardstock with the white! Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing your great video.
Gorgeous cards! I love the red backgrounds. Thanks for sharing your video!
I really like the cards you created! So pretty!
I just got some red notecards that would be perfect to try to make something similar. Thanks for the inspiration through your gorgeous cards!
Great bright cards! And the new kit looks like another winner from Hero Arts!
I LOVE red background. It makes me think of my childhood! So awesome.
The red and white together are stunning!
Red is my favorite color. Stunning!
Love how you used the red and white with this kit. Love these cards.
Another great kit and cute cards. Love the way you used your primary colors! So bold and yet so fun!
This kit is so much fun…..makes me want to go to the fair.!!!!….thank you for your great card…..
Love your cards! The red card stock is a nice pop of color and goes perfectly with the fair theme. I like how you added the lacquer for dimension. This looks like a really fun kit!
Your card design looks like it should be the poster picture for advertising for the fair coming to town. The red just makes it really pop, I love it!