
It’s release day at Hero Arts and we’re celebrating the new November release with a blog hop and giveaway. If you’ve arrived from Mindy Eggen’s blog, you’re right on track. If you’d like to start from the beginning, head on over to the Hero Arts blog.
This month’s My Monthly Hero kit has a special feature. The six coordinating dies for the primary images cut right to the edge of the stamped image so it’s easy to die cut masks that you can use to easily stamp layered images!

Though I didn’t use masking for my cards today, I love how the coordinating dies can be used as standalone dies, too. For my first card, I used the tree die to cut five pieces of color cardstock: Arctic, Mist, Paradise, Adriatic, and Azalea. I splattered some white gouache onto the trees and set them aside to dry.
For the background, I used a blending brush to blend Pool Party Reactive ink around the edges of an 4″ x 5.25″ panel of Dove White cardstock.
To assemble the card, I adhered the ink-blended panel to an A2-sized card base and then adhered the trees with glue, glue dots, and foam tape, for varying depth. Finally, I added the stamped sentiment with foam tape.


For my next card, I positioned the small rectangular background stamp into a Misti, inked the bottom portion of it with Berry Smoothie Reactive ink, and then used a rag to dab along the border of the ink on the stamp to soften the edge. I stamped onto an A2-sized panel of Dove White cardstock and then added Grape Slush Reactive ink to the top of the image, again softening the edge with the rag, and stamped. I repeated these steps until I had the full image stamped and a nice gradient between the two colors.
Next, I stamped the snowman in Intens-ified Black ink onto another piece of white cardstock. I colored his accessories with a few Copic red-violet markers and then used the coordinating die to cut him out.
To finish, I stamped the sentiment onto the card front, adhered the snowman with foam tape, and then adhered the card front to an A2-sized card base.
Thank you so much for coming by! Be sure to check the bottom of this post for information about the giveaway, for the full hop list, and for a photo of a third card I made with the kit that I shared last week. Your next stop in the hop is Amy Kolling!


Giveaway
Hero Arts will give away one $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, November 8th at 11:59 pm Pacific time, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.
Love this kit!
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All three cards are great, but I especially like the first one! Great kit.
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I love the tree card! Thanks for sharing!
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Oh my goodness. I love your cards so much, esp the die cut trees! So pretty yet so simple.
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This is such a great kit that everyone is making terrific cards! I can see why it’s hard to do only one. Thanks for all the ideas!
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Love this kit! Beautiful Cards!
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It never occurred to me to use the dies alone — brilliant! You’ve just made the kit even more irresistible! And I absolutely do not need another winter or Christmas stamp set! But that cabin and the owl and the bird have nothing to do with winter or Christmas do they — so I could get the kit for them right?
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Hi, Seeka – I absolutely love these cards. I love the tree die cuts — it has ink blending, spatters, but it’s not too over-the-top complicated and difficult for me. I love the colors you chose — what a visual impact that card has. I think the berry-colored cardstock put it into the “beyond” category for me. I also ADORE the way you did the bird card. Kudos!! I can’t wait to order this kit now.
Lori S in PA
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Oh Christmas Trees! Wonderful creations. Ordered kit.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
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So creative. Love the ombre pine trees and all the pop of color in your cards. Great kit!
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Your colorful tree card is my favorite.
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Lovely use of this great kit.
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WOW your cards are so beautiful! I especially love the multiple Christmas Trees card!
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Your cards are really wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
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I like the colorful trees and the backgrounds for the snowman and bird.
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what stunning cards!! just when I think they are all finished with everything you can do different you blow my mind!!! totally awesome!!
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Great cards and very clean! Amazing!
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Love the cards! Great job!
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wonderful cards … love the color combination of your trees
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The tree card is so fun! I love that combination of colors!
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I like your cards, but the tree “forest” is fav.
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Gorgeous cards and colors! 💜 So pretty!
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I love the design of the tree card and darling snowman!
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I was just thinking how cool it would be to duplicate these backgrounds, love it!!! What a great MMH kit!
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Fun cards…love the kit…sooo cute
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Such beautiful designs, love them!
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Love, love the tree card!
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Absolutely love your cards, Seeka! What a great collection of inspiration. Can’t wait to get my kit!
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LOVE your card projects…so very creative and great ideas for CAS cards!!
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Great cards!
I really love the one with the trees.
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Gorgeous cards! Such a great kit.
Thanks for sharing.
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Really love your idea of layering the trees and the cute 🐦 ..such a great element to add!
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Great kit! I love the pattern you created with the bg circle!
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Your cards are beautiful! The first one was especially impressive! Sometimes I think I have to over-do the design and you demonstrate that keeping it simple is really effective!
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I love the way this kit promotes the look of CAS style cards as they are my favourites. This is my favourite kit as I also really like the wood-cut look. Your cards are delightful Seeka.
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Beautiful cards! There are so many cool things in this kit, and I love the new masking dies.
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Love this kit, and I especially love your card with the trees!
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Wonderful cards!
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I love the ombre trees.
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Beautiful!
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These are all beautiful! I really love the simplicity of those colorful Christmas trees!
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I love the color and placement of the Christmas Trees!
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Amazing cards! each one is so unique. Love them.
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Oh my gosh, I love all these cards!
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Very nice progression of colors on that tree card!
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So many lovely cards. I like the bird card with the fun background. And the tree card is so inspirational.
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I just love the tree card! So simple and effective! Well, they’re all great!
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Love this kit and add-ons! Loved all your cards, Seeka.
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I love all these cards! Great designs! Thanks for sharing!
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Wonderful cards! I love the design with the trees!
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