Hello everyone and thanks so much for stopping by to help celebrate the launch of Hero Arts June 2018 My Monthly Hero Kit (more about the kit, blog hop and giveaway below). I have one hot tropical card idea to share using this month kit only and also a bunch of Summer cards using add-on sets. Here’s a look at all of the cards I made:
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Not going to lie, I went a little bit overboard with the cards featuring the add on stamp sets because I just loved them. These are so very much my style and I simply couldnât stop playing with them!
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. Iâm hoping youâll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.
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CARD DETAILS USING KIT ONLY
This month kit is all about the sea! The card I made pictures a beautiful summer sunset by the sea in hot pink and red colors. I wanted to walk away from the traditional blues here and instead used pinks.
I used my mini MISTI and several colors of ink from Hero Arts. June kit features and image that is color layering ocean or sea. Hero Arts is well known for their fabulous color layering images and I am a huge fan of their sets (I film regular monthly videos with the Hero Arts color layering sets called Color Layering with Yana).
To stamp the color layering water for my card I used pinks – Cotton Candy, Ultra Pink and Crimson. I stamped the layering water image twice to extend it on my card – so there’s no shore, just pretty water and gorgeous sky.
Once my stamping was done I used ink blending tool and same inks I used for stamping to add some blending. I blended Cotton Candy ink where my two water images met to fix the white area and also blended Crimson above the water to create a red sky.
There are several cloud images in this month kit, all are layering and have 2 layers each. Clouds, because they are white, are tricky to stamp. I found I liked mine best when stamped in white for the base layer and heat embossed in white for the detail layer.
I finished my card by adding a vellum sentiment circle with a heat embossed “Hello! Greetings From My Happy Place”.
MY MONTHLY HERO JUNE 2018 KIT
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CARDS DETAILS USING ADD-ONS
I loved the add on stamp sets available from Hero this month and I could not get myself to put them down. I made a number of cards using add-ons, sharing them all below.
I love to play with background stamps and there are two fabulous backgrounds this month. For the 3 cards below I used Beach Umbrellas cling background stamp. For the card you see immediately below I white heat embossed umbrellas onto white and did simple ink blending to create a colorful background.
I used Green Hills, Rose Madder and also Butter Bar to create a diagonal ink blended look. I love this beach umbrellas background and itâs one of the best background stamps Iâve ever seen for summer. To finish this card I added Letâs Go On Vacay sentiment heat embossed 3 times onto black and also added additional beach umbrellas as embellishments .
 
For my 2nd card (below) I wanted to have a sandy look and feel to my umbrellas, I actually wanted to make it look like as it they are in the sand so I used kraft paper and clear heat embossed this background onto kraft. Next, to add color to these umbrellas I used my Polychromos pencils.
To spice my umbrellas up I decided I wanted to add little brads to emphasize this umbrella look. You might have noticed a tiny gold cap on the 3 umbrellas on my previous card – thatâs what those were, they were tiny gold brads. I used my Tool n One and poked holes in the middle of my colored umbrellas and added gold brads onto each hole to make these umbrellas look a bit more realistic.
To finish this card I gold heat embossed little drinks and also a sentiment that reads Beach, Please – Eat Sleep, Beach, Repeat on to same kraft paper, I cut it into a pennant and foam mounted onto the card.
I also wanted to add an interactive object onto my card, so I turned one of the umbrellas into a little spinner – so you can actually spin the green umbrella on this card. I think itâs so fun and very easy to do too, you just need a brad for this.
 
Another awesome background stamp that is an add on this month is Abstract Waves stamp and itâs just an awesome stamp for anything that is sea related. So itâs not just one for summer, but can be used all year round with fun sea critters.
Here I once again heat embossed it in white on white and blended Hero Arts Aquatic and Navy ink turning this background into sea blue one and not white. To add some shimmer to this background I used Hero Arts White Iridescent Shimmer mist – this was an add on in one of Heroâs kits a few month ago – Iâve been using it a lot lately to add lovely shimmery shine and splatter to my cards.
To create a sentiment for this card I used images and sentiment from the Beach Messages stamp set. I white heat embossed Happiness Comes in waves, added a sun a waves image and blended yellow and blue ink creating a quick ink blended sunset. I used Hero’s Frost Sequin Mix to embellish this card.
For the card below I stamped a crab and “Have a shell of a time” sentiment. I stamped sentiment twice – once in black and once in blue to have a drop shadow.
I colored crab using Copic markers, added white pen details and google eyes. I also used red sequins to embellish this card.
I loved this crab image. Heâs so adorable and unique, I have not seen a crab image before, nor do I have one in my stash. And whenever I come across and image like that I immediately want to use to make a pattern. So here I used it to make a crabby pattern for another card.
I stamped crab repeatedly onto white cardstok panel in alcohol marker friendly ink – I made sure to rotate the image to make this pattern appear random and unique and than I just used my Copics and colored each crab red.
The colors I used were R39, R27 and R22. I also used a white gel pen once the Copic coloring was dry to add white pen details to this image. You do need to wait for the alcohol ink to dry before adding the white pen detail as if you donât – the ink will eat up the white pen and it wonât be nice and true white.
I competed this card by adding Sorry I Was Crabby sentiment – I white heat embossed it onto Simonâs Green Apple cardstock 3 times and cut into 3 cute banners for my card. I also added Hero Arts ombre sequins in green in-between my crabs filling in any empty spaces.
Moving on! Next I wanted to use the drink and pineapple image from the Beach Messages stamp set to make some Beach Towel cards. I stamped Tropic Like Itâs Hot sentiment in Black ink, added a sun stamped in yellow and waves stamped in blue.
I blended yellow and blue ink to create a sunset background. The blue ink blended smeared some black stamping a bit, so I had to re-stamp “Like It’s Hot” onto another piece of cardstock and foam mounted it onto my panel.
I also stamped and colored a drink and a pineapple. I used my Copics and a white pen to make these images come to life. I cut them out using scissors and foam mounted onto the panel.
I wanted to create a beach towel look for the background of this card. I took a panel of light blue cardstok as my background, this is Sea Glass cardstock from Simon and also white cardstock. I cut the white paper into half an inch strips, added double sided tape from the back and adhered white strips onto my blue background at half an inch intervals making a striped background that looks like a beach towel.
Seriously, does it not look like that? And it was so easy to make! Iâm tempted to try and use other colors of cardstock and iâve also pulled out some of my older striped stamp sets to be able to stamp the colorful stripes instead of using cardstock.
JUNE ADD-ONS
There are several optional add-on items:
 Hero Arts Abstract Wave Bold Prints Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Beachy Bold Prints Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Wave & Sea Confetti Die Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts You & Me By The Sea Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Seas The Day Seagulls Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Seal of Approval Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Beach Frame Fancy Die Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Seal of Approval Frame Cuts Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Beach Messages Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Beach Please Stamp & Cut Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Seas the Day Seagulls Frame Cuts Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Liquid Watercolor Dark Teal Shop at: SSS | HA |
HOP ALONG WITH US!
The next stop on this hop is fabulous Michelle Short. You can also start over at The Hero Arts Blog.
GIVEAWAY!
Hero Arts is giving away one kit as a prize to one blog reader â 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, June 10th at 11:59pm, and the winner will be announced the following week on the Hero Arts blog.
SUPPLIES
Iâm 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 June 2018 Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Abstract Wave Bold Prints Shop at: SSS | HA |
Hero Arts Beachy Bold Prints Shop at: SSS | HA |
Hero Arts Beach Messages Shop at: SSS | HA |
Hero Arts Beach Please Stamp & Cut Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Classic Vellum Layering Paper Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts White Iridescent Shimmer Spray Shop at: SSS | SC | HA |
 Hero Arts Ink Pad Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Butter Bar Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Cotton Candy Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ultra Pink Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Rose Madder Hybrid Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Crimson Hybrid Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Hybrid Ink Pad Aquatic Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Navy Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Green Hills Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Unicorn White Pigment Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Sequins Green Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Frost Sequin Mix Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts White Detail Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Clear Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Self-adhesive Googly Eyes Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ultra Clean Stamp Cleaner Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Spellbinders Magnetic Handy Mat Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL | AZ |
 Spellbinders Tool ‘n One Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL | AZ |
 Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah Classic Crest 80 Lb Desert Storm Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Simon Says Stamp Green Apple Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils Shop at: AN |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos 12 Set Shop at: SSS | AZ | AN |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos 24 Set Shop at: AZ | AN |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos 36 Set Shop at: SSS | AZ | AN |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos 60 Set Shop at: AZ | AN |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos 120 Set Shop at: AZ | AN |
 ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
 Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Ranger Mini Round Foam Refils Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Ranger Mini Round Ink Blending Tools Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker Y15 Cadmium Yellow Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker YR14 Caramel Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker R22 Light Prawn Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker R27 Cadmium Red Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker R39 Garnet Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG25 Celadon Green Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG67 Moss Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Sponge Dauber 40 with Storage Box Shop at: SC | AZ |
 Tonic Spring-cut Fine Tip Detail Scissors Shop at: SSS |
 Scor-Tape 1/8 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Sakura Classic White Bold Line 10 Pen Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Easy Clean Mat Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
I think this is my favorite MMH kit EVER!!! The multi-step water and clouds?!??! Gorgeous! So sad I missed out!
So pretty and bright! For some reason I’m now craving ice cream.
Your cards are absolutely adorable!
Your cards are very beautiful and unique. I especially love your beach scene with all the pink hues.
I particularly love the craft-paper card, Jana. What great results. thank you for sharing.
Your pink layering water card is my favourite from the whole hop!!! Gorgeous!
Those were all great cards and unique as well. Love the crabby one, that is a great look for a card. The beach umbrellas were also a great cards ideas as I was stuggling with ideas on how to use that stamp. Thanks for those and I look forward to seeing more cards if you are up for it.
Love all the colorful images you created with the kit and the add-ons. The hot pink and red scene is so fun!
What an amazing kit! I I was unable to purchase my own as it sold out, but there are so many great ideas. I would love to get my hands on this while Iâm deployed out at sea. Much love from a girl in the military Hero Arts! <3
These are beautiful card, breathtaking!
great ideas.. would love to win this kit..
great ideas.. would love to win this kit.. please
So creative and I can see why you’d love this kit. It’s awesome and so are your cards.
I always enjoy when someone makes a video on a card creation, so thank you! I loved the color choices and can’t wait to get my hands on this new kit!
Using pink for the ocean and sky looks amazing. Who would have thought!?
Love your cards!
Such a fun and creative card collection for this kit! I adore your use of bright colors too!
WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW! What a great set of cards Yana using this month’s Hero Arts Kit and Add Ons. I love that you get as excited as us crafters do when we get a new stamp/die etc. Love all the different techniques used in making these cards too. I will definitely be back to look at this video tutorial again and again! :O)
I never never never would have thought to do that first card in pinks and reds, but itâs just stunning! Thanks for the tip about extending the water, and for all the rest of your examples and tips. I can see why this kit would be hard to stop playing with !
Wow! That pink card is so unique and beautiful. I love how you went in the complete other direction from traditional blue. Your other cards are also so beautiful and I canât wait for my kit to come so I could create something beautiful too.
Beautiful cards!!! Love them all!
Love all these products! Your cards are great.
What a wonderful variety of ideas…your cards show how versatile this kit is. Love that you did the scene in pink. thank you for sharing your talents!
Hi Yana, WOW and OMG, I am going to try to remember all my thoughts, I was going to “pin” your cards but I wanted to comment first. I can’t believe how many cards you made, and the are ALL STUNNING. I can’t even pick a favorite, I love them all!! That 1st pink one so beautiful, pinks my favorite color, just so pretty all one color. The Umbrella card from the extras is amazing, I love how you thought to put those brads in the middle of the umbrellas and then my favorite part of that one was the brad you put to make the umbrella “spin” , that was so AWESOME !!!!! The crabs were so cute, loved that you did them in two different colors and the googly eyes just make them come to life, so adorable, I also loved the background on that one. The tropical drinks made me thirsty, lol, looked so real, the coloring was amazing and I loved again the background on that one also and the blending you did on that card was so cool, Yana this was certainly one of my favorite post from you, I really enjoyed it and appreciated all the work you put into it, I am off to “pin” your cards now so have a great day.
So many great cards! You made so many gorgeous creations and thank you for using the add-ons as they might be all some of us get as the kit sold out so quickly!
What amazing kit and new products!
I’m totally in love for your breathless cards!!! Colors and details are simply amazing!!!
Oh Yana, these are all just so awesome. So many great ideas with this kit, no wonder you couldn’t stop playing with it!
Wow! your pink hello card won my heart, the colors are so pretty and just catches your eye immediately. The other cards were great too, but the pink, wow
I love all of the new Ideas! Everything is so beautiful!
Yup, the pink card is one of my favorites too. But I do really adore the little red crabs. Great idea for a card!
These are amazing cards Yana! Iâm in love with all the images and I think this is a great kit! My favorite is the blue waves and fun red crab. Your video was very helpful and gave me lots of inspiration, thanks!
Love your bright colors! Thanks for the inspiration. Waiting for my kit
Love your vibrant colors.
What an amazing bundle of cards! I love them all. I especially love the little details, like the gold brads on the umbrellas and the google eyes on the hermit crabs!
You make such wonderful cards. Iâm so sad I missed out on purchasing the kit, but now Iâm thinking of purchasing the add-ons since I am loving your crab card. Thanks for sharing:)
Yana, I just love all of your cards! My favorites the pink beach scene with the title palm tree! It’s such an unusual color for a beach card, and it looks SO pretty! What a brilliant idea!
Love your cards Yana! Your coloring is always so amazing! Just perfect combos. Love this kit and I’ll be back to watch your video when I think about what cards to make from this kit. Thanks to all!
I adore your designs and creative process. You always inspire me to go right to my desk and create.
Cute cards! The pink sky is so pretty.
WOW!!!!! June 2018 MMHA Kit SOLD OUT in a Flash!!!!Wonder if thisw was a record sell out?! Got email at noon went to website to order kit and it was already SOLD OUT! Yana, Love your “Turban” crab and Abstract Wave Creative Works of Art! CAS…google eyes are a nice touch too. Great Job! Hope I Am Blessed winning MMHA Kit…sure can use some Happy News especially, after learning one of the climbers that fell from El Capitan Yosemite Park is a relaive of ours and it happned on my birthday while i was in the airplane on my way back to CA from Chicago…2nd relative to pass on my birthday….it has been “rough”…crying a lot on my birthday…
Beautiful cards. This is a awesome release. Just read the kit has sold out.. âčïž Thanks for sharing..
Love your bold use of color! These are such fun cards! Thank you for the inspiration!
Your cards are all gorgeous and love the pink card the best! I sure hope to win this kit.
I so wish I had bought this kit yesterday! Nothing makes me feel more inspired to craft and create than the beach!!! Great kit! Would love to win it!! That’s k you Yana great ideas as always. Jenn F
What an adorable little crab. Your cards look fantastic!
Wonderful, bright cards! Not to âCrabbyâ, I missed the chance to order the kit. Thankful for the chance to win it.
Love what you did with the add -ons making me think twice about going back and getting them.
Fantastic cards with plenty colors and happiness !
So many samples! I can tell that you enjoyed using he new products!
I love the new seaside themed stampset. Reminds me of my childhood days when my parents would take me âyachtingâ.