Hello all and thank you for stopping by today to help celebrate the launch of October My Monthly Hero Kit from Hero Arts (more about the kit and blog hop below).
We are entering the Holiday Season and crazy holiday cardmaking time and this kit is simply perfect for this! Beautiful snow globes, city scapes, adorable little critters – the list can go on an on! I am always a fan of sets with lots of small elements that I can use to “build” whatever I want. This kit is a definite winner in my book. If you are like me – you’ll love it too!
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I paired this month kit with a few other products from Hero Arts to create lots of quick and easy snow globe cards to send to friends this Holiday season. If you’ve been a subscriber of mine for a long time you might remember this video where I shared a simple way to create faux ink blended background using a stamp and ombre ink pad.
I went back to this idea and concept and combined it with the snow globes for a unique look. I started by stamping a bunch of backgrounds using two stamps – Winter Tree Scene and Snowy Scene and various colors of ombre ink from Hero Arts (I’m linking to all colors I used below). I also die cut a snow globe card front for each out of white or fog cardstock.
I knew I wanted to add a little Christmas tree, a lamp post and a bench to each of my cards, so I stamped a number of those using coordinating colors of ink. For the lamp posts and benches I used either brown ombre or black ombre.
I also used one of Hero Arts older stamp sets, Winter Scene, and stamped a tree, a house and a deer to also use on my projects.
I turned only one of those cards into a shaker as shakers are a bit time consuming to make and I didn’t have a lot of time to make these cards. All other projects and simple window cards – some open up so that the stamped ombre background is on the inside, others have everything clustered on the front of the card.
I also used a few other coordinating dies to create snow globe-like shapes for my cards. A jar from the Winter Scene stamp set came in very handy and added a fun twist to the same card idea:
Here’s another card featuring the jar die, this time I used it not to create a window, but as a separate element to house a little scene:
I kept my cards very simple – I only added a bit of red and white bakers twine to the lamp post to imitate a holiday wreath. You can also add glitter using a glitter pen, adhere sequins and gems. The sky’s the limit when it comes to creating snow globes on paper using stamps!
MY MONTHLY HERO OCTOBER 2016 KIT
The kit is available for a limited time only – once it’s gone, it’s gone. If you love it – better grab it now!
The kit contains: 4″x6″ clear stamp set; dies for creating a snowglobe, snowdrifts and other background elements; seven coordinating Frame Cuts dies to match the stamp set; three pigment ink cubes in White, Silver and Baby Blue; Eight White Cards and Envelopes; Polar White Flower Soft; Buttons Galore Shaker Mix; Acetate Sheets in 4″x4.5″ (7) and 4″x6″ (1) for creating a shaker card; Light Blue Gemstones.
The kit value is over $60, and Hero Arts is selling this one at $34.99.
You can now subscribe to receive the kit monthly and never miss one!
KIT & KIT ADD-ONS
There are three optional add-on items:
 Hero Arts October 2016 My Monthly Hero Kit Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Holiday Cheer CM119 Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Winter Time Fun CM120 Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Skylines Fancy Dies (D) DI328 Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Snowy Drifts Fancy Dies (C) DI329 Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Circle Confetti Fancy Die (F) DI330 Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Star Confetti Fancy Die (F) DI331 Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Holiday Cheer Frame Cuts (D) DI332 Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Winter Time Fun Frame Cuts (E) DI333 Shop at: HA |
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GIVEAWAY!
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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 October 2016 My Monthly Hero Kit Shop at: HA |
 Hero Arts Snowy Scene Rubber Stamp K6100 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Rubber Stamp Winter Tree Scene K5978 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Winter Scene Stamp Set CL896 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Winter Scene Frame Cuts Dies DI148 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Light to Dark Purple Ombre AF313 Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Sand to Chocolate Brown Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Pool To Navy Ink AF308 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Mint To Green AF310 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Lime to Forever Green Ink Pad Af320 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Light to Dark Peach Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Gray to Black Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Snow Layering Papers PS610 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Altenew Woodgrain White Cardstock Shop at: AN |
 Simon Says Stamp Fog Gray Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 80 Solar White Paper Pack 250 Sheets Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Scrapbook Adhesives Thin 3d 217 White Foam Squares Adhesive Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 May Arts Natural Twine String Burlap Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
 Best Creation Big Squares 3D Foam Tape Adhesive Shop at: SSS |
 Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ |
 Doodlebug Ladybug Twine Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
A FEW OTHER CARD IDEAS
Before I go, I wanted to share a few other card ideas I have on my blog using similar stamps, click the image to go that blog post:
All of these are quite lovely!
Such a unique pink sky !
Love your cards!
Yana, only you would say “I didn’t have a lot of time to make these cards” and then proceed to make a squillion gorgeous cards!!! 🙂 LOVE!!
Such a fun kit to send surprises to family and friends! Awesome cards, you do incredible work.
Wow … such fun, vibrant cards! Loving them all! 🙂
Love your ombre cards–gorgeous! This kit is amazing and perfect for making Christmas cards!
Absolutely love your cards!
Beautiful coloring!
Beautiful cards! love the colors!
I love each of your cards that have not dramatic scenes stamped, but dramatic coloring. My favorite out of all the favorites would be the Peach Ombre stamped card. The Hero card kit is marvelous and all the add-ons make it even more so. Thank you for your tremendous job.
Love the colors you used – beautiful cards!!
Wonderful use of colors. Gorgeous cards!!
Your creations are beautiful.
Oh my gosh, your color choices are stunning!! Love the scenes and thank you for explaining your process. I must try making a scene like this!
Love the cards. Love the colors. Love everything about them.
I love your cards using the non-traditional colors!! The one you made last year – I just had to make and I loved how it turned out. Thank you so much for all your inspiration!
This is such a pretty look for card designs! I love the ombre—beautiful!
WOW! WOW! They are gorgeous, Yana!
I love ALL the cards you made. I really liked the examples of all the difference colors. Very nice! Beautiful kit!!
You are so talented. your creations never cease to amaze.
What a feast to the eyes, all spectacular!! Wow!!
Love how you created the background for each of your cards, they add beautiful detail.
Your scenes, in the snow globes, are SO, very cute!
I love how different each card is buy just changing up the background colors. Each and every one of those you “didn’t have much time for” turned out spectacular!
Darling cards, Yana, and I loved the video with the ombre background – gorgeous!!
Wow so much inspiration. Many really beautiful cards. I love the look of the pink ombre ink, gorgeous!
In my opinion this is one of the best kits yet!! I am absolutely enamored with all of your fantastic cards!!! I love the variety of colors and scenes you have created!! They are totally enchanting!!! <3 <3 <3 TFS!
Love this kit, and love your colors!
Amazing. Love the trees in the background. Thanks for sharing
These are my favorites. I love the ombre technique. So pretty.
Beautiful creations, as usual, and so inspiring. This kit is just fabulous and gives so much possibilities.
Clean and simple
Love your colors!!!
Love the different colorways that you used.
Each is so beautiful.
thanks for sharing.
I never thought to stick with a color theme for a Christmas card. I’m always suck on greens and reds. These look fabulous!
Wow!!! Love all the colors!!! The pink! The silver!! What inspiration!
Loving the nontraditional colors! Oh So Pretty!!
Gorgeous cards! Love love love this kit!
Amazing colors! All the cards are beautiful! So excited to get my kit!
Gorgeous cards! The colours are so pretty, and the background stamps work so well with the elements from the kit. Great idea with the jar die as well.
I do like what I see. You made so many different projects. They are all so pretty. It’s nice to see that these can look like shaker cards but not always be a shaker card. Great job.
I love the non-traditional colors used on you cards. So beautiful as usual.
What a great Kit..and the add-ons! Great cards!
Beautiful card, Yana. Love the release.
Wow! These are all completely amazing!
Your cards are always the best of the best, I swear! Thank you so much for all the inspiration you give to your readers! The kit is Oh My Godable :))
JUST GORGEOUS YANA! Seriously….I never would have thought that those colors would have worked as Christmas cards, but they totally do. That just tells me I really need to get out of that red & green box! I just love that snowy scene and it’s wonderful how it goes with so many other elements of this kit! I need to mass produce holiday cards for a card drive soon and this would make it much easier. Thanks so much for sharing! I truly enjoy your videos!
Yana! These are gorgeous!! I may have to CASE them. My favorites of this hop.
Wow so many beautiful cards! Love the one with the pink background!