Hello everyone and thanks so much for stopping by to help celebrate the launch of Hero Arts February My Monthly Hero Kit (more about the kit, blog hop and giveaway below). I have a 6 card ideas to share using this month kit and add-on items. This kit is all about birds and feathers and fun bird phrases. So if you like birds – this kit might be just the one for you!
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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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CARDS DETAILS – WOBBLER & GOOGLY EYE BIRDS
I’m going to start by showing a few card I made using one of the add-on stamp & die sets – Cardinal Stamp & Die, this set happens to be my favorite from the entire release so of course I made a bunch of cards using it.
I didn’t really know what I wanted to do at first, I knew I loved the bird image and I also knew I wanted to try and color it using bold and bright colors. So I stamped a bunch of birds in Hero Arts Intense Black ink (the kind of ink that is best suited for Copic markers) and colored my birds using various colors of Copics. I don’t have all of the colors for you guys, but basically these are the colors and combos from my Copic Color Combo chart.
I did very simple coloring and made sure to leave the underbelly of the birds white. I added a bit of color to the head, back and tail as well as the chest area and I used 2 colors for each bird.
To create a backgrounds for my cards I used two new background stamps from Hero – Sunburst Bold Print and Swirl of Starlings Bold Print. I used white embossing powder and Neenah Desert Storm cardstock, Butter Bar ink and Hero Arts White Layering Paper and also Moss ink and again Layering paper to create these backgrounds.
 
 
I wasn’t sure how I’d like these stamps, but after I stamped them I really warmed up toward them, especially the Swirl of Starlings one – I think it’s just such a cool print and it adds just the right amount of something fun to your card.
I was inspired by the various sentiments in this month kit so I decided to use them for my cards, but spell them out using Hero’s Alpha stamps and dies. I used Luggage Tag Alphabet to die-cut and stamp all of the letters to spell out You Are One Cool Chick, You Crack Me Up and Little Birdie Told Me.
 
These messages took center stage on my cards along with a bird next to each message. To add a touch of humor to these cards I used a mini wobbler to adhere the bird in place so it wobbles and also added a googly eye to the bird’s eye to make it extra funny.
COLORFUL FEATHER FRAME CARD
Moving on to the next card! This one is using stamps from the kit itself as well as the add on stamps (to create sentiments). I picked 3 feather images from the main kit and also 3 colors of Hero Arts ombre inks – yellow, pink and teal. I did my stamping on new paper from Hero Arts – Radiant White Cardstock, it’s very nice and thick, 120 LB, and it is cut to 4 x6 inches. On the packaging it says that it can be used a Calendar Refill Kit for the Hero Arts Calendar set, I don’t have that set so I knew right away I’d be using this paper for stamping.
I love my paper nice and thick, so this one is definitely a winner in my book. I loved stamping on this paper, I also later did Copic coloring and I loved how this paper took both regular ink from the ink pad and alcohol ink from the marker. I’m no pro when it comes to different papers and things like that, so I can’t go into technical details, I just know that I like how my inks and my markers worked on this paper.
I used the feather images to stamp a feather frame for this card and I made sure to use each image with just one ink color. I also overlapped my images a bit. Once my stamping was done I used same stamps but embossing ink and I inked up just the tips of the images and added gold embossing powder to make it look like as it the ends of the feathers had a bit of gold on them.I popped my stamped panel up onto an A2 top folding card base and added a Little Bird Told Me… It’s Your Bird-Day sentiment.
HEY GULL-FRIEND CARD
Moving on! For my next card I once again was inspired by a sentiment from this month kit – Hey Gull-friend. I wanted to use that sentiment but I also wanted to maintain the colors of a seagull – white, yellow and gray. I grabbed Butterbar, Wet Cement and Fog inks pads and stamped just a random bird pattern on my card using those links as well as 3 solid bird images from the main kit. This was once again just basic pattern stamping that I’ve shared many many times in the past on my Youtube channel.
Once my colorful stamping was done I stamped Hey Gull-friend in black ink onto multiple areas of the card and added same Bird-Day sentiment white heat embossed on black paper. I also foam mounted this panel onto a card base, this time I used Fog cardstock from Simon.
YOU CRACK ME UP CARD
One last card idea to share! This one is once again stamped a pattern using an add on stamp set – Chirp Stamp & Cut set. IÂ used the nest image from there and stamped a nest pattern in Soft Brown ink onto Radiant White cardstock. What’s cool about this nest is that the middle portion is designed to accommodate the egg images that come in this set – you have solid eggs and there’s also an image with one egg cracked and a little chick coming out of it and that goes really well with the You Crack Me up sentiment.
I stamped one cracked egg image in one of the nests and next filled the other nests with the solid eggs.To add color I used my Copics and colored these very light blue using the BG11 and GB13 markers. I added You Crack me up sentiment, added a bit of shimmer to the eggs using my Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen and embellished with a few of clear droplets.
MY MONTHLY HERO FEBRUARY 2018 KIT
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KIT & KIT ADD-ONS
There are several optional add-on items:
 Hero Arts My Monthly Hero February 2018 Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Clear Stamps Hummingbirds Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Frame Cuts Hummingbirds Die Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Clear Stamps a Little Birdie Told Me Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Frame Cuts a Little Birdie Told Me Die Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Clear Stamps Come Fly With Me Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Stamp and Cuts Chirp Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Stamp and Cuts Cardinal Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Rubber Stamp Starling on Branch Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Cling Stamp Sunburst Bold Prints Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Cling Stamp Swirl of Starlings Bold Prints Shop at: SSS | HA |
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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! Giveaway closes Sunday, February 11th at 11:59pm, and the winner will be announced the following week.
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!
Hero Arts My Monthly Hero February 2018 Shop at: HA |
Hero Arts Clear Stamps a Little Birdie Told Me Shop at: SSS | HA |
Hero Arts Clear Stamps Come Fly With Me Shop at: SSS | HA |
Hero Arts Stamp and Cuts Chirp Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
Hero Arts Stamp and Cuts Cardinal Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
Hero Arts Cling Stamp Sunburst Bold Prints Shop at: SSS | HA |
Hero Arts Cling Stamp Swirl of Starlings Bold Prints Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Radiant White Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Luggage Tag Alphabet Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Luggage Tag Alphabet Dies Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL | AZ |
 Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder PW100 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
 ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Hero Arts Snow Layering Papers Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah Classic Crest 80 Lb Smooth Desert Storm Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Simon Says Stamp Fog Gray Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Ink Pad Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Pool To Navy Ink Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Soft Brown Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Butter Bar Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Cup O’ Joe Ink Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Simon Says Stamp Fog Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Wet Cement Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Moss Hybrid Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Butter To Orange Ink AF309 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Pink To Red Ink AF306 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Art Impressions Mini Action Wobble Shop at: SSS | SC |
 Action Wobble Springs 12 Pack Wobblers Shop at: SSS |
Action Wobble Springs 6 Pack Wobblers Shop at: SSS |
 Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Stamp Platform Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Mixed Media Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Nuvo 2 Pack 888n Shop at: SSS | SC |
 White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Stick It Adhesive Handy Pack 5 Sheets Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Scrapbook Adhesives Adhesive Sheets Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS | SC |
 Pretty Pink Posh 4MM Clear Droplets (small) Shop at: SSS |
 Pretty Pink Posh 6MM Clear Droplets (medium) Shop at: SSS |
 Darice Paste on Eyes Googly Wiggly Me4 Shop at: SSS |
Yana your. Cards are always so pretty. Thanks for sharing!
Gorgeous cards and
I love the gold tipped
feathers!
Carla from Utah
I watched and loved this earlier today — didn’t realize it was part of a blog hop. Yay. Absolutely super stamps and wonderful cards. Love what you did with the pudgy bird. : )
I love your cards! So many amazing different styles!
Wow! You have a whole collection of birdy ideas for us to copy. Great color combox!
Your cards are stunning. I love the images and colors. Oh I love the alphabet dies. Love love love your cards.
Love those backgrounds and also the use of the ombré inks. I was happy to see how they looked- very fun cards!
Your cards are so fun. Love than you are back miss you the last 3 kits.
The backgrounds are wonderful. The feathers with touch of gold glitter have the right amt of sparkle. The multi-stamping is great. I need to practice at backgrounds & multi-stamping.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Beautiful cards! Thanks for all the ideas!
Beautiful cards. I love your color combinations. Very nice cards.
Love all these birdy sets!! Great cards!
The birds in this kit as perfect for action wobblers … and I am in love with that background stamp. Fabulous examples!!!
love all the cards…thanks for the super inspiration! Love your use of the alpha stamp and die set and great tip on how to pop them up. That made that card come to life!
Love the cards you made!
What great cards and ideas!
You really had fun with this kit, and we learned a lot!
Beautiful cards!
Yana,
Loved your feather card. Beautiful colors.
What a sweet and cute set! Love how the design team interpreted it! Everybody came with so different, but fabulous projects!!! So much fun and inspiration!!!
I love all the variations you did on the cute little bird. Thank you for your inspiration.
love your feathers best so beautiful colours
Super fun and cute cars Yana!
that background stamp is terrific – so versatile!
Gorgeous samples Yana! This is such a wonderful kit from Hero Arts ♥
Loved the letters as background.
Your cards are all so cute and funny!!!
Beautiful inspiration!!! Thanks for sharing!
These so made me smile! The ‘crack me up’ sentiment is brilliant! great makes and thanks for the inspiration
So fun and cute. Thanks for sharing.
What lovely and great cards you have created. Absolutely love them. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Great video and lovely cards! Thanks.
EEP! I ADORE all of these Yana! Your use of color is always spot on.
I love the way you created these cards. Each of them are totally different from the last, and as I kept scrolling, I loved each one more! I don’t think I can pick a favorite but I do love the bird nest one…and all of them. 🙂 off to keep hopping
I love what you have done!
Your cards are so unique! They are giving me completely new ideas using some of the products. Love it!
Thanks for sharing so many tutorials with us! 🙂 I like how you used those bold prints that made very beautiful backgrounds. My favourites are the feather frame card (the colours are amazing and the feathers look so pretty!) and “you Crack me up” card (this is soooo creative!) I’m definitely going to check out your youtube videos for more creative inspirations!
Wow Yana, spring is definetly in the air with you. Love all the gorgeous cards you made. Thanks also for the great tutorial video!
I love the way your card looks with the large phrase and the pretty bird. Such a clever design.
I am always impressed by your designs. Love the colors and how you used the kit. Thank you!
your coloring of your birds is so beautiful!!
Love your colors!
Your cards are so fun! I started the hop and got to your cards and thought I have GOT to have these stamps and ordered before I even got to the bottom of your blog post. LOL Thank you for sharing your incredible talent.
My pets are cockatiels, so your video and tutorial of this month’s new stamp and die sets are right up my alley. Yana, you are my fave card designer; your work is inspiring and I’m grateful for the knowledge you impart to us. Merci!
So many wonderful ideas! I can’t even decide which is my favorite! They are all truly so cute.
Love your cards as usual Yana. So creative and colourful. Thanks for sharing.
Really fun cards, Yana! You made so many great designs with the kit. That feather one is so pretty.
Fun and fantastic!
Very beautiful cards. I Like the feather card most.
Love birds thiskit and your video!