July My Monthly Hero Countdown: Idea #2 + Giveaway
It's time for our second countdown peek! The July My Monthly Hero kit will be available to pre-order on Monday, July 13 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Now let’s join Daniel for some fabulous inspiration using this month's kit!
Hey there, friends and fans of the My Monthly Hero! Daniel here with some underwater adventure to Atlantis! This month's kit has us looking for the ancient legend and finding so many fun things at the bottom of the sea.
To create this scene, I began by creating a background scene on Dove White Cardstock by blending some Deep Ocean and Cornflower inks in diagonal lines across the front. Then, I die cut the foreground image die out and with the negative piece, I stenciled in some ridges near the bottom with the blending brush. To finished the background, I stamped the ruins, the Atlantean and the dolphin images in Deep Ocean Ink, and the sentiment in Intens-ified Black Ink.
To create the foreground image, I laid down the most solid layer with Cornflower ink. Then, I added the detail layer with Deep Ocean. for the last colored layer, I used Dandelion, Pale Tomato and Rose Madder inks. Finally, I die cut the foreground image out and popped it up on the front of the card base and trimmed of the overhang.
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100 Responses
Vanessa Carroll
I really love this card! Ask the blue hues (AND I rhymed! 😂😂), but to mention the added depth you gave it by creating a stencil with part of the die cut. This is one of my favorites so far!
Geraldine Oliver
I simply must have this set it beautiful. The color are amazing. Simply gorgeous.
Julie Wexler
What a unique monthly kit/release! I love how you used the negative piece as a stencil- the results w/ the background blending and cornflower/ocean blue combo is beautiful!
Sandy
The layering of colors is just gorgeous! Love the Atlantean theme.
Mary Reiner
Such a cool ocean scene! I love what you created!
Teresa Trump
Daniel, love this seascape with Poseidon.
Starqueen
Just a cool blue masterpiece, and a wonderful homage to Atlantis.🌊
Valerija
Wow! This is gorgeous!
Valerija xx
Beverly Lewis
Love what you did with all the yummy blues. Lovely.
Debby Green
Great card! Thanks for sharing!
Rebecca Ednie
Love the colours. Cant wait to see the ocean again.
Lynn Hardy
I’m loving the cool underwater theme of this month’s kit!
tina z
such a beautiful scene!
Daphni Ames
How fun! Great colors.
Adonya S.
What beautiful color combinations! I love this card!
Beth White
I am loving the vibrant ink colors.
Tamara Applegate
This is gorgeous. I love your color choices.
Kendra
Your card is so eye-catching. The rays add such great guiding lines to the scene and draw your eye.
Cynthia Link
WOW, your coloring is spectacular. Love the details and all the layers. Wonderful job!
Shawn Wenrich
What a beautiful underwater scene Daniel just amazing! Thanks so much for the inspiration!
NWFlamingo
Love those pops of color! It makes Posiedon look even more mysterious.
Bev Wilkinson
So cool! An underwater world so beautifully detailed! Love your card!
Pamela Shea
Daniel, I love your take on this.
Dorothy A
Oooh, pretty! Love the story of Atlantis, and this is a very fun kit!
Queen Mary
Intrigued by the ruins, and now another wonderful sentiment ! Beautiful card! Perfect touch of color in the foreground!
Karen
Love all the color used in this. Great set!
karenajo
Love the created scene and especially love the colors and sentiment! Wonderful card – thanks for sharing!
SarahC
Lovely!!! Definitely brings Atlantis to mind. TFS
Seema Raja
There is something magical about being under the sea! Love what I’m seeing.
Debbie Siddle
Beautiful blues. Loving the underwater kit. Makes a refreshing change as it’s so unusual. xxx
Mischelle Smith
Yup, each day this kit looks more and more exciting. I might just have to have this one!
Margery C
Wonderful underwater scene. Reminds me of scuba diving in the Mediterranean.
Martha T
What a neat effect creating the background stenciled with the diagonal light rays – thanks for sharing!
Deborah Trathen
Oh wow. What an awesome give away
Linda Clark
I am loving this kit! I love the ocean and I can’t wait to create an underwater scene such as this one. Thank you for sharing and I love the colors you chose.
Jackie McKnite
Very nice. I like the rays of sunshine that have made their way down.
Andrea H
The Atlantean and the dolphin, the whole under water theme is fabulous. I’m so happy it was a dolphin and not a shark lol. Thank you for the inspiration xxx
Diane Zalusky
Wow, those pops of bright colors in the ocean blues. Amazing.
Beatrice
Like that King Neptune is in this underwater scene!
I need to have this in my collection!
Dee Earnshaw
ooh LOVE this underwater scene – thanks for sharing
CarlavdM
Wow what a gorgeous card in those blue colours…it creates a wonderfull underwater look.
Katherine
Love this!
Maria B
Poseidon too! This month’s kit looks to be great fun. I like the shading on your card.
Lagene
I love it, you discovered the lost city of Atlantis!
GLenda M Sultan
Neptune guarding the ocean makes this the perfect card for the boys & men in our lives. Love it!
Johna Rosser
oh, I just love underwater scenes and this one is so gorgeous!
MandaLJ
What an amazing theme for this month’s kit! I love this card and the mythic feel it has!
Kelly Rix
What a fun card with lots of detail! And these colours! 😍
Patti Nienberg
The sunlight shining through the water has such a realistic look! Beautiful!
geri
I can’t wait to get my hands on this kit!!!!
Joanne Williams
I love your use of stencils and the use of negative pieces. Another beautiful card! Thanks for sharing.
Bertha
Great card Daniel! I love the blues you chose and the light shining onto the scene. This kit looks as if it will be fun.
Tanya Boser
What an awesome scene, Daniel. I want to dive right in!
Janet M Lebeau
This card is stunning! Love everything about it. The colors are beautiful!
Terrie
Beautiful card! The scene draws you in and invites you to imagine the story behind it!
Scraporcraft
Nice combination. I like the light shining through in the background.
ESTELLE
A kit like i love. Hero arts makes amazing kits, i love them. This one seams to be gorgeous, and what you create is too.
Teelka Neupert
Lovely card, love the colors.
Lissette A.
Your cards are always so unique and imaginative. You can almost feel the warmth of the water from the sun’s reflections on it. This kit looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun to work with.
Rema DeLeeuw
Love this card!
Judy
I love the colorful ocean themed card!
Marisela Delgado
So pretty. Great colors!
Kimberly Lee
Love this stamp set
Doreen Richerson
The colors are beautiful. Underwater cards are one of my favorite to make. Thanks for the great ideas.
Anne Snelgrove
Beautiful card and it was very clever using the leftover part of the die cut to do the stenciling. This is such an intriguing kit. Looking forward to seeing more reveals.
sharon gullikson
So cool to have Atlantis in a ocean scene. I LOVE it.
Barbara Matthews
Love the dèp ocean look with the ink blending. Such a pretty card, thanks for sharing.
Teri
The pops of colour are fantastic!
Robert Steele
Normally I’m not a fan of silhouette stamps. However you showcase this feature set nicely.
Gil Vollrath
Such a great look. Daniel did a fantastic job making this
Melynda Cleveland
That’s awesome Daniel- thanks for the peek👁
Judy Hall
Beautiful card. Fun set.
Margilyne
Love all the colors!
Maggie E
This card is adorable! Reminds me of The Little Mermaid. 💖
Marianna
Wow! Really get the under-water feel, fantastic card.
Rebecca
Very evocative!
Patricia Forton
Beautiful card. I love the colors.
Donna J Billingsley
This is just too cool! Can’t wait!!
Demetria Rumph
I love the colors, the die cut and the stamp it makes me feel like on your on the ocean floor. Love this monthly kit
Demetria Rumph
I love the colors, the die cut and the stamp it makes me feel like on your on the ocean floor. Love this monthly kit
Nicole S
Daniel! Fantabulous! I love how you made it look like sun rays shining through the ocean! 💕
Elena F
I love these new stamps!
Andrea Elder
Love this card.
Julie M
This is such a beautiful scene!
Teri S.
These three blue inks are superb! I really like the way you’ve allowed for bits of rays of light to penetrate the water Daniel.
Jamie Moore
love the rays and the coral color choices!!
MS CAROLINE LIVERMORE
Beautiful and elegant composition and great use of color! Thanks for your creation inspiring!
Judy Inukai
What a beautiful underwater scene. Makes me want to go diving.
Jeannean Marshall
Fun card! Love the columns in the background
Karen
Love the different colors of the coral!
Erika Rusch
This looks amazing!
Vivian Avella-Diaz
These blue color combination truly makes it look like it’s underwater. Very nice!
Teresa Ryan
I think I can’t wait for it to come out!
Carol Wortman
The mysteries of the deep blue sea, protected by neptunes trident… so calming and mysterious?… what else lays below the seas of Atlantis. Uhemmm, oopsie… mini mental vacation alert. Thanks for this getaway kit!🐋🐬❤
Jody
I really like the bright pops of colour against the blue!
Geri S
Underwater Atlantis! Just the kind of fantasy the world could use in fighting isolation. Can’t wait to see the rest.
Celeste Cassino
Great card! Looks like it is going to be a fun kit!
Julie
Daniel love your color selection! Great kit.
Karin Adkins
Love it
SunnyK
I just love all the reef elements and ruins in this card!
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