October My Monthly Hero Countdown: Idea #2 + Giveaway

October 4, 2019

Michelle Short

Hello! We are continuing the countdown to the release of the October My Monthly Hero Kit! Release day is Monday, October 7 at 1pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. We will be here all weekend, sharing inspiration before the launch. Now let's join Michelle for another look at this fabulous kit!

Hello there, Michelle here and I am delighted to be sharing another countdown card with you today. This is such a fabulous kit and I thought that it would be fun to go for non-traditional Christmas colours for my card today.

Merry Christmas by Michelle Short for Hero Arts

I started off by stamping the car, tree and presents from the main kit stamp set on to white cardstock with Intens-ified Black Ink. I coloured them with Copic Markers and then die cut them out using the coordinating dies in the kit. These were set aside while I worked on my snowy background.

Merry Christmas by Michelle Short for Hero Arts

I took a panel of white cardstock and using a blending brush, I blended Pool Party Reactive Ink on to the top portion of the panel. I faded to white at the bottom, to resemble snow. I took White Iridescent Shimmer Spray and spritzed it over the panel. I also added some additional snow with Distress Spray Stain in Picket Fence.

Merry Christmas by Michelle Short for Hero Arts

The panel was then set aside to dry. Once dry, I stamped the sentiment from the stamp set on to the panel in the top left hand corner, with more Intens-ified Black Ink. The card, presents and tree were then added on with foam tape. I took Precision Glue and added little dabs of this over the images. I then sprinkled on the Prisma Glitter from the kit, for some added sparkle.

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 the comments left across all countdown posts. The winner will be announced first thing Monday morning, October 7, before the kit launches at 10am Pacific. The more you comment, the more chances to win!

Good Luck!

Mary Walker Oct 07, 2019

This car takes me back to my childhood. 7 kids in a car like this and we got our tree on Christmas Eve.
Sheryl M. Oct 07, 2019

Oh! My! Goodness! I can tell already how much I’m going to love this kit! That car just tops it off! Beautiful card!!
Virginia Ellison Oct 07, 2019

Loving the car!!!!
Mylene Oct 07, 2019

I absolutely love the car!
Dawn Thompson Oct 07, 2019

the car is terrific… what a fun kit

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386 Responses

Janelle

Oct 05, 2019

Nice job on the coloring. I’ll have to rethink my color schemes for my holiday cards this year.

Janelke

Oct 05, 2019

Nice job on the coloring. I’ll have to rethink my color schemes for my holiday cards this year.

Dorothy Norman

Oct 05, 2019

Looks like this will be a fun kit

Breina Burgin

Oct 05, 2019

I love this! I love this color combo and the card in its entirety. I also look forward to using this kit not just for the holidays. The car will be wonderful for the friends and family members that experiences that style/vintage of a car in their youths.

Toni L

Oct 05, 2019

Love the old car—is it an Chevy? Good old days for sure and the old family car with the tree on top brings back fond memories. Love the beautiful simplicity of the car with classic colours.

Barb Kaszuba

Oct 05, 2019

Oh my goodness, my first car, purchased in 1968, was a 57 Chevy Hardtop Convertible like the one shown on your card! This looks to be an absolutely awesome kit. Can’t wait until Monday.

Neha Mahajan

Oct 05, 2019

Love this CAS card. Describes a perfect holiday scene. So cool.

Andrea B

Oct 05, 2019

I love this card – thanks for sharing how you made it! This kit is going to be fun!

Anita B

Oct 05, 2019

Cute!! Reminds me of the Griswolds! Can’t wait to see more!! 😍

Sheri Weems

Oct 05, 2019

I LOVE this! I love the car, I love the tree and I love how you did the background. I can’t wait for this release! I can think of so many uses for the car! Whoop! Whoop!!

Toni F

Oct 05, 2019

Reminds me of my dad’s car with the big fins. The is certainly a retro kit.

Renee Thompson

Oct 05, 2019

I love your background — so simple yet perfect!

Carole Renneker

Oct 05, 2019

My mind is buzzing with ideas for year round cards for the guys in my life and I’m going to start by CASE-ing this one. Thanks for sharing.

Neen

Oct 05, 2019

Wow…this brings back a lot of memories from childhood….love it!

Sharon Gullikson

Oct 04, 2019

This car reminds me of a car in a cartoon—just adorable. I am going to really like this new kit, and will no doubt buy it….

Mary

Oct 04, 2019

Love the car. Great Christmas card idea. Can’t wait for the kit.

Cindi

Oct 04, 2019

Fabulous card! Love the color selections. This kit is on my must-have list already!

DIanne C

Oct 04, 2019

Love the retro!!

Anna Dowdy

Oct 04, 2019

Oh my awesome kit. Can’t wait to see it all!

Brian Poteraj

Oct 04, 2019

What a great vintage car. I like the lines….

Maria Willis

Oct 04, 2019

I love this card!!! Such a cool font too!

Michelle

Oct 04, 2019

Cute card! I’m anxious to this month’s kit.

Marg

Oct 04, 2019

What a great card. The car brings back many memories. Looking forward to the whole kit.

catharina worthington

Oct 04, 2019

I love the retro car look. especially since it is in my favorite color red.

Karen L Hetherington

Oct 04, 2019

This is a very cute card. Thanks for sharing it.

Carol E Wortman

Oct 04, 2019

Great nostalgic card, possibly a pink Cadillac?. Ooo..Ooo another content clue – yippee Prisma glitter. Already enjoying the feeling of this month’s set and loving it!♡♡

lee

Oct 04, 2019

Wow – That is one cool card!

Tracy

Oct 04, 2019

I love the retro pink cadillac!! This kit looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun, can’t wait to see the rest!!

Debbie McKelvey

Oct 04, 2019

Great job Michelle! This is an adorable card, love the retro car. The colors are great.

Elaine Wood

Oct 04, 2019

This is so cute can’t wait to play with this kit

Rosemary D

Oct 04, 2019

Super cute card! Your coloring is amazing!

Bernadette

Oct 04, 2019

Oh my gosh! I’m so glad to see this retro Christmas! Can’t wait to play with this. Lovely cards so far!! Thanks for the sneak peek!

Patricia Rand

Oct 04, 2019

Pink Cadillac just shouts Elvis 🕺 is in the house….live it!!!

Joni Mastronardi

Oct 04, 2019

Love love love this tree on the car!

Ann K.

Oct 04, 2019

I am middle aged, but I must admiit, this style of car is from “before my time”…

Leann

Oct 04, 2019

Looking forward to the October 2019 kit!!

Patricia McMurray

Oct 04, 2019

I love this kit already! The vintage feel reminds me of my childhood in the early 70’s.

sheryl bishop

Oct 04, 2019

LOVE LOVE LOVE this card!

Joyce

Oct 04, 2019

Super card. Love that old fashioned car.

Julie Lutz

Oct 04, 2019

Looks like a fun kit.

Barbara

Oct 04, 2019

Can’t wait to use this kit. I am so excited. Will be anxious to see all of it.

JoAnn Girimonte

Oct 04, 2019

These cards are definitely a blast from the past. Love them, and the memories.

Hannah M Tully

Oct 04, 2019

The font on the Merry Christmas sentiment is too cute!

Laurie Miller

Oct 04, 2019

I love the tree on top the car idea!

Laurelle

Oct 04, 2019

Love the nostalgic vibe of this card.

Stephanie B

Oct 04, 2019

Beautiful card! That car will see a lot of use, and the font on sentiment is so fun. Thanks for the inspiration, can’t wait to see the rest of the kit!

Alice Serafin

Oct 04, 2019

All I can say is WOW love it hero arts is my new favorite stamp company Keep up the Amazing work

Jeanette Rochnowski

Oct 04, 2019

So adorable and love the style of coloring with such a pale, soft look! I am so into stamp and die cut vehicles of any type lately and are so wonderful for masculine cards! Great job Michelle. 😁❤️

Claudia B

Oct 04, 2019

Retro Christmas – yay!! I love your color choices on this card.

Darcie Walker

Oct 04, 2019

I love this! The background is awesome. I can’t wait for the kit.

KerrynM

Oct 04, 2019

Gorgeous card, Michellle. Love the sentiment font.

Golda

Oct 04, 2019

I love this! The addition of the glitter is great, too. It’s a beautiful, snowy, Christmas scene.

Marilee DeMars

Oct 04, 2019

What a wonderful Christmas card! Reminds me of my parents’ car when I was growing up — complete with the Christmnas tree — love it!

Susan Anglesey

Oct 04, 2019

I can’t wait ❤️

Janet Mack

Oct 04, 2019

I remember tying a tree to the roof of our car. Love the car stamp.

Kailash

Oct 04, 2019

I adore that car:-)). Love those gifts in the trunk!

Julie Richardson

Oct 04, 2019

Can not wait to get started using!!

Aisha Roberts

Oct 04, 2019

Simple yet so cute. Thanks for sharing.

Cheryl Phillips

Oct 04, 2019

Love this card! The car reminds me of the one we had when I was a little girl!!

Rose

Oct 04, 2019

I Love the car!! This opens up sooooo many more possibilities for this stamp set! Wow! Thanks for your inspiration!

Amy Cooley

Oct 04, 2019

Very cute! Love the retro car!

Carole Garfield

Oct 04, 2019

LOVE the car! Reminds me when we were kids mom and pop packing up the car to go to grandparents house for christmas.

Nancy Kobjack

Oct 04, 2019

Very cute and vintage!

Beth Merrill

Oct 04, 2019

This looks like the kit is going to feature lots of vintage-style images!? How fun!

Marijke van der werf

Oct 04, 2019

WoW Michelle, what a beautifull card. Love that car.

Caroline

Oct 04, 2019

Historical Christmas? Pretty card. Love the font of the sentiment you chose. Can’t wait for Monday to see it all.

Fionna Wheatley

Oct 04, 2019

Michelle! Fab as always! Excited about this kit!

Nicole S

Oct 04, 2019

This is soooo adorable!

Leanne in Cali

Oct 04, 2019

Love that car and the tree! So fun!! Looking forward to seeing all of the kit.

Natalie Winterstein

Oct 04, 2019

So cute and fun!

Melissa

Oct 04, 2019

Brings me right back to the simpler days! Driving home after a long, but successful Christmas tree hunt…

Marcia Harper

Oct 04, 2019

Awesome card Michelle! Can’t wait to see the rest of the kit!

Becca Yahrling

Oct 04, 2019

Wow, this takes me back to my childhood when we use to get a real tree for Christmas.
Lovely card.

Shannon Neparko

Oct 04, 2019

So fun!!! Reminds me of a vintage “The Christmas Story”…

Emily Henry

Oct 04, 2019

That car looks like a Ford that my husband had when I first met him. His was black and he was so proud of it! After 57 years of marriage it’s fun to talk about things like old cars! The card is just darling. I will need this set for all my high school friends.

Jodi Warren

Oct 04, 2019

Great little scene there. Love the look of the sentiments in this card and the first. Love the sparkle feel to them.

Pamella Albright

Oct 04, 2019

Wow! The tree on the roof of the car brings back so many memories. This kit is really going to help with my Christmas cards. Love your colors. Sure wish I could see the glitter, it sounds like fun to add.

Pamela Shea

Oct 04, 2019

I love your card. Thanks for sharing.

Colleen Pepper

Oct 04, 2019

This card had me making up a sweet story about taking a decorated tree and gifts to a family that is need. I love when a card gives my a story.

Rachel Duong

Oct 04, 2019

Oh this car is awesome and so perfect to use for a fun nostalgic Christmas card! Love it!

Barbara-Jean

Oct 04, 2019

Love it! so many memories of cars like this!

Jessica Mitchell

Oct 04, 2019

Love this. What a cool stamp.

Jackie S

Oct 04, 2019

What a great card. The car is so cool!

Amy Peyton

Oct 04, 2019

I am absolutely thrilled to see a car in this kit! It will be a piece I can use all year long :D

Michele S

Oct 04, 2019

Such a cute card with a “retro feel” to it! Brings back memories….love it!

Robin M

Oct 04, 2019

I love the retro look of the car! What a novel idea this is so cute & my anticipation is growing!

Gail O'Keefe

Oct 04, 2019

I love this retro look. Can’t wait to paly with this kit

Marisela Delgado

Oct 04, 2019

Fabulous card

Debbie Selby

Oct 04, 2019

I am old enough to remember riding in a car like this. So much fun! Eagerly awaiting the rest of the kit reveal.

Susan McRae

Oct 04, 2019

So love the old car with the tree, brings back memories!

Julia M

Oct 04, 2019

Hooray! Christmas is coming! I know I am going to love this set!

Becky Moore

Oct 04, 2019

This kit is adorable and your card totally rocks!

Karry

Oct 04, 2019

Love the card, love the retro looking images! Can’t wait to see the whole card kit.

Christine Cox

Oct 04, 2019

I love this card!! How fun! That care is awesome! :)

Lorianne F Icalia

Oct 04, 2019

So cute and I’m glad you give us details like the glitter that doesn’t show up on my computer screen :)

Tamra Barnes

Oct 04, 2019

That looks like my old car!! I can’t wait to play with this kit!! Monday can’t arrive soon enough!

Eileen

Oct 04, 2019

This card reminds me of being a kid and tying that real tree to the car!
Happy Memories!

Cynthia Cole

Oct 04, 2019

Cute Christmas card!

Sharyn Davis

Oct 04, 2019

Looking forward to the complete reveal of this kit! Great card!

Mary-Anne V

Oct 04, 2019

What a fun image…reminds me of my Dad’s car! Love it.

beverly robinson

Oct 04, 2019

What an adorable card. Love the Merry Christmas font.

Eva

Oct 04, 2019

What a wonderful CARd ;-) Can‘t wait to see the whole Kit!

Linda

Oct 04, 2019

Such a cute card- getting more interesting with each card reveal. Thanks for sharing.

Janet L

Oct 04, 2019

YES!!!!L I love it!

Rachel W

Oct 04, 2019

I love the retro theme of this kit. I’m looking forward to marking this years Christmas cards with it.

Sharon Brand

Oct 04, 2019

Great card! And I do like those non-traditional colours!

Cindy C.

Oct 04, 2019

Super cute, love that pink car!!

Chrissy E

Oct 04, 2019

Awwwwww for cute! Loving this, Michelle! So bright and cheerful and fun and happy – just like I like it!!! Excited to see more of this kit. :)

Diana Morrison

Oct 04, 2019

Oh, I love it. Such a pretty card.

Elizabeth blunt

Oct 04, 2019

Love this kit

kim sharabba

Oct 04, 2019

YUP. LOVING it. Reminds me of The Jetson’s. I love it.

Shirley Wallen

Oct 04, 2019

I’m excited to try some of your ideas. Really cute card.

Sandy C

Oct 04, 2019

I’m looking forward to more hints about what’s in this holiday card kit. Can’t wait to see more samples.

Kirsten

Oct 04, 2019

Your card is perfect, Michelle. The colors you used work well. I can’t wait to see the entire kit.

Rebecca Attwood

Oct 04, 2019

Great card. Love the style of that sentiment.

sandra h

Oct 04, 2019

I love the car – a great card!

Joan Walker

Oct 04, 2019

Such a cute card. Thanks for sharing.

Veronica Griffin

Oct 04, 2019

I just love the 50’s era!!! I really like the font of the sentiment. Thanks for sharing your awesome card!!

Karthikha Uday

Oct 04, 2019

That’s so cool :)

Claudine Vance

Oct 04, 2019

So cute! I want this kit!!

Michelle Montemurro

Oct 04, 2019

Oh how I love this card. the colors and coloring is just beautiful!

YVONNE S MORENTIN

Oct 04, 2019

OH, this is awesome.. I love it

Karin W

Oct 04, 2019

Adorable card!

Danielle Churilla

Oct 04, 2019

I can’t wait for this kit

Keionna

Oct 04, 2019

This is an amazing card idea!

Dayle Shimamura

Oct 04, 2019

Love the rad car! And the trees in this set are really cute! Can’t wait to see more!

Janice Alvarez

Oct 04, 2019

I am loving the old car! This is adorable!

Linda K.

Oct 04, 2019

What a clever idea…bringing home the Christmas tree. And I think my dad had that model car in blue!
Cute card.

Karen Lingel

Oct 04, 2019

My dad will love that car! Thanks for the opportunity to win.

Heidi H

Oct 04, 2019

This looks to be a must-have kit! Can hardly wait for the full reveal!

Juana Vega

Oct 04, 2019

Yey!!! It’s christmas!!! Love the scene with the car driving in the snow. The colors are great for a Christmas card.

Michelle Bryant

Oct 04, 2019

I absolutely love it it. Going to make some beautiful cards.

Karen Chupka

Oct 04, 2019

Adorable card! And I love the font!

Darlene

Oct 04, 2019

Oh my goodness! This kit gets better and better. Thank you Michelle!

Janna Doyscher

Oct 04, 2019

Cute and simple card. Neat retro kit!

Dani

Oct 04, 2019

I love that tree on top! Retro and cute!

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