May My Monthly Hero Countdown: Idea #7 + Giveaway

MMH May 2016

May 01, 2016 Hero Arts Info

MMH Countdown to Creativity

Welcome to our third and final day of sneak peeks of our May My Monthly Hero kit, leading up to the release tomorrow, May 2 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific! We are so excited about our launch tomorrow, which will feature an amazing blog hop of some of our favorite artists, including another chance to win a free kit! But until then, be sure to comment on this and all of our previous Countdown to Creativity posts - we'll announce our first winner of a May kit first thing tomorrow morning, drawn from all of the comments you've left for us! We have three more ideas to share with you today - the first coming from Creative Team member Mariana...

This is the perfect kit to say thank you or to spread a little kindness. As simple as that. I have created a plain card using one of the optional add-on items of this month's kit, which is a pair of Fancy Dies.

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It is hard to see but the card has a double layer of cardstock and vellum. I love the color of the turquoise vellum, and it really stands out with a base of tiffany blue card stock underneath. In this case, I began by heat-embossing the complementary sentiment over the vellum.

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Then, I die cut the words using silver metallic card stock, and I adhered them over the vellum as well. To keep the card stock and vellum together, I used a piece of metallic cord. Finally, I adhered some of the gemstones and pearls which are also included in the kit.

The stamp set in the kit features a handwritten "thank you" message and lots of coordinating phrases. The two words, "thank" and "you", are separate images, so you can easily stamp one or both. Here's a list of all the different phrases you can make with these stamps: