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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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.
Thamks for sharing, I love the sky background and this is new for me 👍🏻👍🏻
BEAUTIFUL CARD
Hi
Could you please tell me if the cloud dies are available in the UK as I would love to purchase them
Yours Christine
Love the cloud dies and basically may use as a stencil too.
Love the sparkles on the hot air balloon. I wish I was flying in it overlooking the world!
Beautiful sky and love the cut outs. Will be trying to make this one
This is a very nice way for creating this montgolfière facing this beautiful sky
Merci
Thank you
I love the card. So many ideas for the soaring balloon!
I am loving the way the background turned out on this one! Beautiful card!
Love the sprinkling of glitter on the hot air balloon. Gave me some ideas on what to do with all of mine!
WOW—that is gorgeous. Love the little touch of sparkle.
Love the contrasting colors in your sky.
Thanks for the spoiler alert. Love this scene. So tranquil.
Beautiful card. Love that sky! Can’t wait to see this kit.
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.
I love the balloon! :)
Love the watercolor background! Thanks for the spoiler alert. Beautiful card.
Beautiful colored sky. A really uplifting card.
Jessica, love the sky you created with watercolor. Very calm and relaxing card!
Love the beautiful soft background created w/deco-brushes! Absolutley stunning!
The hot air balloon is so adorable!
Cool looking card :)
very pretty background blending!
Beautiful card – so appropriate in the current times – a real peaceful scene. Thank You
Jessica I love the skies that you’ve created.. So soothing and beautiful
That is stunning. I really should try to watercolour with metallic markers!
I always look forward to your makes with any card kit, Jess. This one did not disappoint! Sweet card!
.OMG! This is such an adorable card. I love the glitter on the balloon!
Love this scene. So tranquil.
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!
Very pretty card. Beautiful colors. I love ink blended sky with the white,
Beautiful card. And, the sentiment will be so useful!
I love the look of this card.
Lovely balloon…so happy. 😀
The sky looks amazing. Nice job!
I love the soft sky on this lovely card and can’t wait to see the entire kit and add-ons!
Lovely background – the perfect setting for the colorful hot air balloon ! Great card – thanks for sharing !
Beautiful designs!!
Love the sky? One day my dream is to ride a hot air balloon!
How beautiful. I love the glitter detail on the hot air ballon. So nice!
Such a great card! Love the kit already!
Love the hot air balloon floating above the clouds. What a sweet card!
This is so peaceful I want to step right in.
Gorgeous ink blending! This is such peaceful colors.
I love the scene created. The sky is so lovely.
Cute card. Looking forward to seeing kit contents on Monday.
This is so gorgeous!! I love your sky and the glitter on the balloon; fabulous!
Looking forward to seeing this kit. This is such a cute card!
This card has such a soft feel ans equally a striking effect. It’s beautiful!
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…
A real dreamy card. I love the water coloured look of it—great job!
Pretty card, the sparkle on the hot air balloon is a nice touch. Looking forward to seeing what is in the kit.
The sparkles on the balloon are perfect!
What beautiful pastel colors! Such a lovely card!
Loving this set! Your color blending is so smooth and stunning! Very pretty!
Oh what peace and happiness – I love your card!!
Great balloon ride up above the clouds. Love the coloring.
Love the cardm but also really enjoyed reading your synopsis of how you made the card. Thanks
Such a pretty card! I like the glitter on the balloon.
Oh, I love this! Those markers look like a definite “need”.
I just love this scene!
I ❤️❤️❤️ this card! I can’t wait to try out the markers. Thanks for sharing.
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
This is so pretty!
Your sky is stunning!
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.
This card just makes me smile.
I think we would all like to be floating high above the clouds right now.
Thanks for the smile!
Beautifully simple card that showcases the hot air balloon. Nice soft colors.
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.
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!
Gorgeous coloring! Thanks for the tips re: optimal blending! Fun shapes & sentiments! Looking forward to seeing this kit in full!
Sooooo Pretty!!! I feel all my troubles floating away!!!
Such great ideas.
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…
I love how you created the sky – I can’t wait to try the markers!
I love how simple this card is, however, the simplistic design is stunning.
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.
What a great idea to use as watercolors. And I love the birds, it really adds to the card.
Love how you created the beautiful sky! Can’t wait to try the Karin markers.
Just perfect- the glitter makes me so happy and I’m happily looking forward to tomorrow’s reveal!
Love the hot air ballon!
A very soothing card! Thanks for the tip for using the markers.
This is just gorgeous. I love all the elements and pretty colours. Great design.
Valerija xx
This is fantastic! I love the glitter ballon!
Beautiful card!!!
So cool the clouds dies, so the air balloon. And the markers, i have to use them. The card is so elegant.
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.
Beautiful sky scene with this hot air balloon.
Cute card. I’ve never used those markers, so that will be a great add to this kit.
That blended sky is spectacular. Thanks for sharing your techniques!
Great use for the markers!!! Love the look of all the blended colors and the sweet hot air balloon 💞 so fun!
What a beautiful sky! Lovely!
What beautiful shading! The Sparkles added to the hot air balloon are a nice touch. Can’t wait to see the full release.
Really beautiful
Beautiful card! The background is so gorgeous!
omg such a lovely card I can’t wait to play with those pens 😍😍😍😍
I like the balloon. This looks like a fun kit to work with.
Jessica Frost-Ballas
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