February My Monthly Hero Countdown: Idea #6 + Giveaway
We are back with one more look at the February My Monthly Hero release! The kit and add-ons will be available on Monday, February 5th at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Now let’s join May, who is sharing another look at this fabulous kit...
It's May here with another inspiration for you using the February My Monthly Hero Kit. For today's project, I used one of my favorite techniques which is the stamped background.
I started by stamping a few different types of bird images from the stamp set included in the main kit on an A2 size white card base. Then I filled in the gaps using small images.
FYI, here is the list of ink colors I used for my stamping: Stone Wash, Lime Green, Soft Apricot, Wet Cement.
After my stamping is done, I added some dots using the fine tip of my alcohol markers to add some interest to the stamped background. Next, I drew four black lines along the edges of the card front to form a rectangle frame.
For my sentiment, I die cut "YOU" out of black cardstock using the Luggage Tag Alphabet Frame Cuts and adhered the die-cut letters on the card front using black foam tape. Then I white embossed the sentiment from the Come Fly With Me add-on stamp set which will be released tomorrow morning.
Win a kit before you can buy it! Just leave a comment on this (and every) Countdown to Creativity post! We'll randomly draw one lucky winner from all of the comments left across all countdown posts and announce the winner first thing Monday morning, February 5th, before the kit launches at 1pm Eastern. The more you comment, the more chances to win!
That's all for today. Thank you so much for stopping by today. Happy crafting!
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171 Responses
Mary-Anne V
February 06, 2018
Wonderful use of the stamps and love how you created the bold frame and sentiment.
Deirdre Murray
February 06, 2018
Such a pretty background and I love the colours!
Lorraine
February 05, 2018
May signature, wonderful use of dots, the colours are fabulous as well.
Viktoriya
February 05, 2018
Love these brigt birds!
Gail Anderson
February 05, 2018
Love the background with the tiny dots.
LaNell Taylor
February 05, 2018
Beautiful card!
Marta
February 05, 2018
Gorgeous!! A lovely kit!!!
Debbie B
February 05, 2018
Love your sweet card. I’ll have to give using stamps to make patterned paper a try!
Tess Redel
February 05, 2018
I love this colorful card. Stunning!
Jeanne Beam
February 05, 2018
Pretty card. I love how you made the background. Thanks for sharing…
Helene
February 05, 2018
très intéressant , de plus en plus impatiente de voir enfin ce kit.
Veronica Griffin
February 05, 2018
So cute!!!
Mitzi
February 05, 2018
Thanks for sharing your beautiful card & the opportunity to win.
Niralee Yeisley
February 05, 2018
Very pretty colors
ljhart
February 05, 2018
Love the background paper and the colors you chose. The birds are great.
GabriellaB
February 05, 2018
Well you definitely have peaked my interest with these peeks. I am wondering what is actually in the kit
Naciu Octavia
February 05, 2018
Welcome spring.
Denise Kasbohm
February 05, 2018
Love those colorful birds. I can’t wait to see this kit! I like using birds on cards for encouragement and comfort. I would love to have this kit.
Terri Fain
February 05, 2018
This card is fabulous! I love the color choice.
kim benjamin
February 05, 2018
Great ideas love them
Mateja P
February 05, 2018
Such a great colour combination. Love it :)
Samantha C
February 05, 2018
Beautiful card!
Sharon Young
February 05, 2018
Cheerful spring card, hear the birdsong. Can’t wait to make and send cheer with this kit.
Kathleen Prince
February 05, 2018
I love making backgrounds this way. These stamps make a pretty background. Can’t wait to see the whole kit!
Rachel Walton
February 05, 2018
Cute card, excited for tomorrow’s release!
Jinny
February 05, 2018
Cute card. Love all the lovely colors. Hugs, Jinny
jane
February 04, 2018
love the birds!
Karen L K
February 04, 2018
Such fun with the pretty color combination and lot’s of different bird images!
Janis B
February 04, 2018
I like this technique. TFS.
Rema DeLeeuw
February 04, 2018
Cute design.
betty chen
February 04, 2018
love your work , may! so much fun!
Arianna Barbara
February 04, 2018
Wow!!! What a lovely card!!!
Crystal
February 04, 2018
Such a great card with beautiful colors! Good idea to add dots to the background with Copics, too. Can’t wait to see the kit tomorrow… :-)
Kellie
February 04, 2018
Blue and green should always be seen together. This card proves it.
Barbara woodard
February 04, 2018
These birds are so cute. Lovely card and release!
Denise Bryant
February 04, 2018
Beautiful card! Love your pretty color combo!
Brianna
February 04, 2018
Perfect timing – last night I was watching videos about single layer cards / stamping the entire surface with stamps. These birds are perfect for that!! Love it!
Bessie
February 04, 2018
I love the bird background. I can’t wait to get my kit!
Robyn W
February 04, 2018
This is such a fun, colorful card!
Tanja Souter
February 04, 2018
lovely bright modern card.
Annette Reed
February 04, 2018
What a great background! The colors are great and the balance between birds and flowers are perfect.
Debbie Rumpza
February 04, 2018
What a pretty card, May!
Kate B
February 04, 2018
I love your background – pretty colors and those dots really do add interest to it!
Jenifer Hill
February 04, 2018
I have set my alarm for Zero Hour! I don’t want to miss this kit by a second!
Thalia Waldvogel
February 04, 2018
I love hoe the background was made using stamps!
Monika Shukla
February 04, 2018
Awesome card!! Love these colors and the creation so much!! Thanks so much for such a lovely giveaway
I really love to win it!!
Hugs
Dr Monika Tripathi Shukla
Joelle
February 04, 2018
The black border ties everything together! Great idea!
Karthikha Uday
February 04, 2018
The moment I saw the card, I remembered May’s way of stamping and indeed, it is her card!! :D Love this work of hers always!! :)
Lauren
February 04, 2018
I am so excited for this kit! Those birds are to die for!
Lori Poffenroth
February 04, 2018
I love your colour choices!
Heather DePasquale
February 04, 2018
Love your colorful background. Can’t wait to see the whole kit. Thanks HA.
Sally ann
February 04, 2018
Super cute card! Love how the dots really add to the background….great idea! And the colors, birds and sentiment are lovely!
Janet Dand
February 04, 2018
So many pretty images in this kit. Should make some lovely cards
Melissa SunshineHoneyBee
February 04, 2018
Wonderful stamped background.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Ashley Shaffer
February 04, 2018
i love what the dots does for the background. now i am going to have to get out my ink swatches and match them up with my alcohol markers!
FD91354
February 04, 2018
Oh, I totally love this look! Great idea just drawing your rectangle!
Jeanae Odom
February 04, 2018
How pretty! I’m looking forward to tomorrow and the full reveal!
geri S.
February 04, 2018
Love the CAS look!
Jodi Warren
February 04, 2018
Lovely background colors. Love the sentiment as well. Beautiful!
Brenda Lubrant
February 04, 2018
Today’s card is so bright and cheerful. I love it!
Brooke Shull
February 04, 2018
This reminds me of my grandmother. I love it. Birds bring up so many wonderful memories.
Annalisa
February 04, 2018
This is a beautiful use of the silhouettes. I love them in those different colors; not a combination I would have thought of on my own, but it totally works! I also like how you created that frame. That brings everything together really nicely.
Joyce
February 04, 2018
Yippee, release day tomorrow!
darlene
February 04, 2018
Looking forward to tomorrows reveal
Bonnie Darroch-Dean
February 04, 2018
Love everything about this springy feeling card! The colors, the techniques, the stamps and all of your creative ideas.
dani
February 04, 2018
another great color combo!
KarenAnn
February 04, 2018
Love this combination of ink colors and images. Very cheery!
Donna Ligon
February 04, 2018
I love the bird images and the colors that you used. Very pretty.
Robin P
February 04, 2018
Great stamped background. Love the color color combination.
Kirsty Vittetoe
February 04, 2018
This is so sweet.
Michele Hogarth
February 04, 2018
Love the frame you created around your background. Thanks so much for sharing.
Phi
February 04, 2018
Great card. Beautiful colours.
Shannon
February 04, 2018
Great background!
Patty Haff
February 04, 2018
Love the background and statement!
Barbara Nies
February 04, 2018
Cute card and delightful images.
Jackie Price
February 04, 2018
Lovely card!! Love the thin black penned frame idea. It adds interest but allows your beautiful background to be in the spotlight. Fabulous idea!!
Penny Walker
February 04, 2018
Great card love all the bird images with the butterflies and flowers. Love the bold look of the black YOU with the softer colors of the background.
Celeste
February 04, 2018
Lovely card!
MandaLJ
February 04, 2018
I love how you do your background stamping – such beautiful colours and lovely balance between all the images!
Ginny Womack
February 04, 2018
What an interesting card. You have so many ideas for this stamp set. Thank you.
Aash B
February 04, 2018
Lovely colors! Can’t wait to see the release tomorrow.
Betty
February 04, 2018
you are so talented in making a background with all those little images – wonderful card, May!
Cindy C.
February 04, 2018
So pretty! Love everything about this card!
Becca Yahrling
February 04, 2018
Beautiful card, May! This kit looks like a dream
come true for a birdie lover like me.
Roberta
February 04, 2018
Love the colors!
Memoriesbymanda
February 04, 2018
Love the pretty bird background. This kit looks so pretty.
Eva N
February 04, 2018
It will be fun to create projects with the different birds in this kit! And, I’m so happy to see another sneak peek that uses mostly the main kit. Thanks
F. Andre
February 04, 2018
Custom background are such a fabulous technique. The black border finishes the card off perfectly. Thanks for the inspiration.
Elizabeth Motyka
February 04, 2018
Wow what a fun background the black frame really finished the card nicely.
Laura Staley
February 04, 2018
Love the idea of using stamps to make a background. I also like the way you made the frame!
Tanya Boser
February 04, 2018
What a lovely, bright, and cheery card!
Thank you for the inspiration May!
Tracey Magner
February 04, 2018
What a beautiful and colorful card, I also love the color combos you used. Thank You.
Cynthia Cole
February 04, 2018
Lovely background created using the new set.
Susan Manning
February 04, 2018
The colors are great and I love the little birds. I can’t wait until tomorrow!
Ma. Karla Ligaya Castro
February 04, 2018
Nothing beats making your own background out of the available stamps in a kit. Just a truly excellent and versatile technique!
Marlee S.
February 04, 2018
Wonderful card! Love the stamped background.
Judy
February 04, 2018
I love May’s signature style using stamps to make a background and the color choices are beautiful!
Michelle Montemurro
February 04, 2018
livrvthe bird background.
Sue McRae
February 04, 2018
What a happy and colorful card, makes me think of spring!
Barbara G
February 04, 2018
Love the idea of making the background!
Tommie Miller
February 04, 2018
Beautiful!
Cristina Wu
February 04, 2018
I love your stamped backgrounds, May. I have seen them in different occasions and you always put them all together beautifully. It is nice when the stamp kit provides a variety of stamps to use this technique. I can’t wait to see the entire kit.
MarjR
February 04, 2018
Love the birds. Wonderful card!
GKA
February 04, 2018
I love the way you arranged all the stamps.
Helen Potter
February 04, 2018
I love this card. Fantastic use of images and colour!
Susan Nichols
February 04, 2018
Cute!
Rosemary D
February 04, 2018
wonderful card… the background is amazing!
Lindar C
February 04, 2018
Oh, this has a folk art kind of feel to me, very nice!
Kathryn Ingram
February 04, 2018
Beautiful background! Looking forward to seeing the kit and add ons!!
Cindy Hanson
February 04, 2018
So pretty and creative!
Christine Smith
February 04, 2018
Love the glorious background! A fab card – this kit looks amazing! xxx
Patti Henschen
February 04, 2018
Who needs to buy patterned paper when you can make your own??
Raven Magill
February 04, 2018
I love background/pattern stamping. And these colors are so much fun.
Natalie Dominguez
February 04, 2018
Love the colors you used. So pretty!
Beverly U
February 04, 2018
Love your stamped background! So many perfectly spaced dots!!! Very pretty and love the pop of black!
Flo
February 04, 2018
Great background and the sentiment is really fun.
Wronda
February 04, 2018
Great background!
Nancy Sue
February 04, 2018
I also love making my own background on cards using my stamps. This one card is so colorful, like it.
Susan Bennett
February 04, 2018
I love it!!! Very beautiful!!
Sarah T.
February 04, 2018
Lovely blend of colours.
Karen M
February 04, 2018
What a great grouping of birds in the set. Can’t wait!
Naama E
February 04, 2018
Soooooooo pretty!!! Love it! The colors are so lovely and the dots really go well with these sweet birds. Thanks so much for sharing and inspiring May! xx
Cindy
February 04, 2018
So cute!!
Juana Vega
February 04, 2018
This looks so much like spring. A card that makes me smile.
Liz mca
February 04, 2018
I love mays beautiful backgrounds!
Roslyn
February 04, 2018
I love how you did the background!
Susan THOMPSON
February 04, 2018
I just love this card, all the colors, the birds, the black lines just come together in the best way.
Chrissy E
February 04, 2018
Stamped backgrounds like these are so fun! May, you did a beautiful job combining these unexpected colors. Thank you so much for sharing the inspiration!
Mercedes
February 04, 2018
This card is absolutely adorable.
Roxanne
February 04, 2018
What a cute colorful card.
Kailash
February 04, 2018
Such a cool background with the bird image, love the colors too!
K. Eley
February 04, 2018
Great background!
Barbara-Jean
February 04, 2018
Imalways admire the patience odmsomeone whomcreates a card using stamps multiple times!
Valeria T
February 04, 2018
May this is such wonderful and cheerful card. love your design. feels like spring ♥ love it
Julia Piccard-Naughton
February 04, 2018
I love the variety of cards this kit seems to have!
Gretchen N
February 04, 2018
What a great card! I love the multicolored stamped background! What a great idea! I can’t wait to play with this kit, it is going to be great!
Leslie Pierson
February 04, 2018
I can’t wait to see the entire collection. This card is just beautiful. love the use of the stamps to fill the entire card. great use of soft spring colors!
Susan THOMPSON
February 04, 2018
So bright and colorful…Spring IS coming!
Sherri
February 04, 2018
Lovely card! So much beautiful detail in that background.
Jackie
February 04, 2018
I like your color combination, especially loving the the apricot ink. Lovely card, which, with different sentiments, would work for lots of different uses. thanks.
Kendra
February 04, 2018
This is a beautiful card. I can’t wait to see the whole kit!
DUMONTIER Marjorie
February 04, 2018
May’s card is just fantastic, very joyful with this explosion of colors !!
Swhite
February 04, 2018
Love how you made a beautiful background!
Flip
February 04, 2018
I love the spring colors of this card, and I like the technique of making your own background. Can’t wait to try it!
Carol T
February 04, 2018
Love the background and color choice!
Golda
February 04, 2018
Wow! What a lot of stamping, but it turned into a beautiful background.
Jade B.
February 04, 2018
This may be my fave.
Hannah
February 04, 2018
Makes me think of Spring, lovely card.
Melinda Stearns
February 04, 2018
Beautiful card! This kit looks very versatile.
Leigh Madison
February 04, 2018
Live the background that was created! Can’t wait to see the add ons!
Leanne in Cali
February 04, 2018
Fun card May! Definitely your style. Thanks for sharing!!
Brenda
February 04, 2018
I really love all the bird images in this month’s kit – can’t wait to see the full release!
Melissa Watson
February 04, 2018
Stunning card, thanks for sharing!
Tricia Sutton
February 04, 2018
I’m so excited for this kit! This is a beautiful card and the color choices are amazing.
Christina Dauven
February 04, 2018
I always love when I see something I want in the peeks and they are mentioned to be in the kit that I have a subscription for so I don’t have to buy them later. So glad to be owner of all these lovely little birds.
Debi Walton
February 04, 2018
Very Springlike and colorful. Like the delicate little frame.
Barbara Howell
February 04, 2018
Your stamped bird background is fabulous. I love the bright cheerful colors.
Joy J.
February 04, 2018
Beautiful colors and arrangement of the birds!
Danielle Dietz
February 04, 2018
Love all the colors!
Stacey Kowbel
February 04, 2018
Fabulous card! I love the colour combination!
Denise Gutshall
February 04, 2018
May, you always create the most gorgeous backgrounds from stamps and this one is no exception! Love the color combinations — it makes a bright and cheerful card! Thanks for sharing!
Megan Fehr
February 04, 2018
that background is amazing! I love the colors and the simplicity of it!
Beverley Hollis
February 04, 2018
As always, a another lovely card! That’s a great idea to create a frame using a black pen.
Gøril Skaflem
February 04, 2018
The birds are so cute! I would love to win that kit!!
Janet
February 04, 2018
Great colors! I love the black frame, nice finishing touch!
Becky Green
February 04, 2018
May, this is BEAUTIFUL with all of the different birds from this set! Birds have a way of stealing our hearts, don’t they? No matter what type really if you LOVE birds! ;) I ALSO LOVE how you made this your own with doing a lot of work, by hand, the dots & the lines! An artistic touch! ;) SUPER JOB!!!! ;)
Toni
February 04, 2018
A very sunny and happy card.
Lisa A creations
February 04, 2018
Cute card! Beautiful colors.
Kim Hund
February 04, 2018
Very cheerful card. Love it.
Linda Roberson
February 04, 2018
May I just love the soft colors and the thin black lines that form the frame make the whole card “POP”. I am so excited to see the kit and add- ons .
Candi
February 04, 2018
These are great birds. Makes a very cheery card.