May My Monthly Hero Countdown: Idea #5 + Giveaway
Hello and welcome as we continue the countdown to the release of the May My Monthly Hero Kit! Release day is Monday, May 4 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Now let's join Jess for another look at this kit that will allow you to spread love and encouragement.
Hello! Jess here with a card featuring the May My Monthly Hero Kit as well as one of the fun add-on sets!
This kit includes some great stamps and dies but I was equally excited to see a trio of Karin Decobrush metallic markers in the kit as well! They're a little different than the Karin Brushmarkers so I decided to see if they could be used for watercoloring and, spoiler alert, they totally can!! To start I taped a piece of watercolor paper to a hardboard and wet the paper thoroughly with water. Then I scribbled the markers onto a scrap piece of acetate and used a wet paintbrush to pick up the color and paint it onto my paper. I also did try scribbling on the paper and using a wet brush to blend it which worked but the other method resulted in a much smoother blend. I used a flat brush to paint my background and then set it aside to dry before trimming it down to 4.25" by 5.5".
Next I die-cut a few clouds and birds using Hero Hues Dove White and Pitch Black cardstock from an add-on set that will also be available Monday! I stamped the sentiment from the kit with Watermark & Embossing Ink and heat-embossed it with Detail Black Embossing Powder. Then I adhered the cloud borders and birds to the watercolored background. I die-cut the cute hot air balloon from the kit with Dove White cardstock and colored it with Copic markers. I adhered it to the background with foam mounting tape and then added a coating of Crystal Clear Lacquer and a sprinkling of Snowfall Glitter to finish the card.
And that's it! Make sure to check back later today for another peek at this fantastic kit before tomorrow's launch. It's going to be a must-have for sure!
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100 Responses
Mary Broxson
What a beautiful serene card. The background colors are perfect. The peacefulness of the balloon floating above the puffy snuggly clouds. Yes the clouds are so puffy and so snuggly.The bright happy sparkly colors on the balloon, perfect. Every detail came together perfect on this card, perfect.. I want to float around on the snuggly clouds.. Beautifully put together.
CC IP
Thamks for sharing, I love the sky background and this is new for me 👍🏻👍🏻
Geraldine Oliver
BEAUTIFUL CARD
Christine
Hi
Could you please tell me if the cloud dies are available in the UK as I would love to purchase them
Yours Christine
Betsy
Love the cloud dies and basically may use as a stencil too.
Nancy Pearce
Love the sparkles on the hot air balloon. I wish I was flying in it overlooking the world!
Mairi
Beautiful sky and love the cut outs. Will be trying to make this one
Yolande Bergeron
This is a very nice way for creating this montgolfière facing this beautiful sky
Merci
Thank you
Bessie
I love the card. So many ideas for the soaring balloon!
Krystal Showalter
I am loving the way the background turned out on this one! Beautiful card!
Andrea
Love the sprinkling of glitter on the hot air balloon. Gave me some ideas on what to do with all of mine!
Toni L
WOW—that is gorgeous. Love the little touch of sparkle.
Catharina R. Worthington
Love the contrasting colors in your sky.
Sharon Lopez
Thanks for the spoiler alert. Love this scene. So tranquil.
Linda R
Beautiful card. Love that sky! Can’t wait to see this kit.
Marlene Twilley
Love this beautiful card. Really looking forward to getting so markers. Jessica did such an amazing job with the blending, composition and use of that glitter.
Toni C
I love the balloon! :)
Mary Doran
Love the watercolor background! Thanks for the spoiler alert. Beautiful card.
Schmidenkiwi
Beautiful colored sky. A really uplifting card.
Deborah Herod
Jessica, love the sky you created with watercolor. Very calm and relaxing card!
Michelle Michalski
Love the beautiful soft background created w/deco-brushes! Absolutley stunning!
Skyy
The hot air balloon is so adorable!
Stephanie Zilmer
Cool looking card :)
linda smith
very pretty background blending!
Kathryn D
Beautiful card – so appropriate in the current times – a real peaceful scene. Thank You
Dhruvika
Jessica I love the skies that you’ve created.. So soothing and beautiful
Natasha
That is stunning. I really should try to watercolour with metallic markers!
Anna Rodgers
I always look forward to your makes with any card kit, Jess. This one did not disappoint! Sweet card!
Kathy
.OMG! This is such an adorable card. I love the glitter on the balloon!
Barb Ford
Love this scene. So tranquil.
Nancy L LakeVery
Very pretty card! Beautiful colors. I love the ink blended sky with the fluffy white clouds. This card feels very serene, peaceful, and happy card!
Nancy L LakeVery
Very pretty card. Beautiful colors. I love ink blended sky with the white,
Karin W
Beautiful card. And, the sentiment will be so useful!
Angela
I love the look of this card.
Alicia Mayo
Lovely balloon…so happy. 😀
Sharon Gullikson
The sky looks amazing. Nice job!
Judy
I love the soft sky on this lovely card and can’t wait to see the entire kit and add-ons!
karenajo
Lovely background – the perfect setting for the colorful hot air balloon ! Great card – thanks for sharing !
Jennifer G.
Beautiful designs!!
Linda Otero
Love the sky? One day my dream is to ride a hot air balloon!
Melissa S
How beautiful. I love the glitter detail on the hot air ballon. So nice!
Deborah Cooper
Such a great card! Love the kit already!
Vizma
Love the hot air balloon floating above the clouds. What a sweet card!
NWFlamingo
This is so peaceful I want to step right in.
Lauralee Cosgrove
Gorgeous ink blending! This is such peaceful colors.
Scraporcraft
I love the scene created. The sky is so lovely.
Carolyn
Cute card. Looking forward to seeing kit contents on Monday.
Heather Mills
This is so gorgeous!! I love your sky and the glitter on the balloon; fabulous!
barbara lassiter
Looking forward to seeing this kit. This is such a cute card!
JC
This card has such a soft feel ans equally a striking effect. It’s beautiful!
Kimberly McField
Yet another card with an add-on. This is beautiful, but I’m really disappointed that the designers don’t seem able to create lovely cards without the add-ons…
SunnyK
A real dreamy card. I love the water coloured look of it—great job!
Stephanie B
Pretty card, the sparkle on the hot air balloon is a nice touch. Looking forward to seeing what is in the kit.
Cecilia Lowrey
The sparkles on the balloon are perfect!
Nicole S
What beautiful pastel colors! Such a lovely card!
Cynthia Link
Loving this set! Your color blending is so smooth and stunning! Very pretty!
Marilee DeMars
Oh what peace and happiness – I love your card!!
Toni F
Great balloon ride up above the clouds. Love the coloring.
glenna
Love the cardm but also really enjoyed reading your synopsis of how you made the card. Thanks
Stacy
Such a pretty card! I like the glitter on the balloon.
Golda
Oh, I love this! Those markers look like a definite “need”.
tina z.
I just love this scene!
Shannon
I ❤️❤️❤️ this card! I can’t wait to try out the markers. Thanks for sharing.
Lisa H
This card is so pretty, thanks for the tips on making the background with the Decobrush Markers. Can’t wait to see the full reveal on Monday
katherine
This is so pretty!
Dixie
Your sky is stunning!
KC Wong
Wow! The balloon almost looks like a shaker element with the crystal lacquer and glitter, especially the way you sprinkled it on. Thanks for the water coloring tips too.
Deborah345
This card just makes me smile.
ReNae Allen
I absolutely love these pens but I had not thought about using them in this way! I’m going to try it! The card is just beautiful and I’m excited for the launch of this new kit!
Sue Manning
I think we would all like to be floating high above the clouds right now.
Thanks for the smile!
SueB
Beautifully simple card that showcases the hot air balloon. Nice soft colors.
Patty Q
I love how the coloring for the sky turned out. Metallic markers, who knew. This is a simple card but it makes a powerful statement.
Wendy
Thanks, Jess, for using the metallic markers that come with this set. I can’t wait to get my hands on them! I would have only colored with them if left to my own devices. Not any more!
Susan Carlson
Gorgeous coloring! Thanks for the tips re: optimal blending! Fun shapes & sentiments! Looking forward to seeing this kit in full!
Maureen Reiss
Sooooo Pretty!!! I feel all my troubles floating away!!!
Jan Meredith
Such great ideas.
Sudhamathi Muthu
Wow Jess…. the background is totally mind blowing…. love how you blended them beautifully….. I love the beautiful lacquer and the glitter on top of the hot air balloon too… love your card totally…
Andrea B
I love how you created the sky – I can’t wait to try the markers!
Debbie McKelvey
I love how simple this card is, however, the simplistic design is stunning.
Sharon Taylor
This is definitely my favourite card so far. I love the colours in the background. Thanks for tip on the markers, by the way. This is definitely going to be a birthday present to myself.
Myrna Pearson
What a great idea to use as watercolors. And I love the birds, it really adds to the card.
Kathya Hidalgo
Love how you created the beautiful sky! Can’t wait to try the Karin markers.
Christine E
Just perfect- the glitter makes me so happy and I’m happily looking forward to tomorrow’s reveal!
Lindarub
Love the hot air ballon!
Gail Anderson
A very soothing card! Thanks for the tip for using the markers.
Valerija
This is just gorgeous. I love all the elements and pretty colours. Great design.
Valerija xx
Kristi H
This is fantastic! I love the glitter ballon!
Ana Cordoba
Beautiful card!!!
ESTELLE
So cool the clouds dies, so the air balloon. And the markers, i have to use them. The card is so elegant.
Jodi Warren
Thanks for the great tips regarding the markers. Your background is truly beautiful. I love the look of this card and it looks like it is truly easy to reproduce but looks like it a took a lot of time.
Sue D
Beautiful sky scene with this hot air balloon.
Lyndi
Cute card. I’ve never used those markers, so that will be a great add to this kit.
Lynne
That blended sky is spectacular. Thanks for sharing your techniques!
Janet Trapp
Great use for the markers!!! Love the look of all the blended colors and the sweet hot air balloon 💞 so fun!
Heidi Macy
What a beautiful sky! Lovely!
Jenna Batik
What beautiful shading! The Sparkles added to the hot air balloon are a nice touch. Can’t wait to see the full release.
Dolores
Really beautiful
Rosemary D
Beautiful card! The background is so gorgeous!
Josmary
omg such a lovely card I can’t wait to play with those pens 😍😍😍😍
Doris
I like the balloon. This looks like a fun kit to work with.
Jessica Frost-Ballas
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