It's time for our fourth countdown peek! The October My Monthly Hero kit will be available on Monday, October 7 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Now let’s join Caly, who is sharing another look at this wonderful kit!
Hello, Friends! I hope you're ready for the holidays because we've got a holiday set coming at you with a retro feel! My countdown card today focuses on one of the two Christmas trees in this month's My Monthly Hero Kit (that's right! I said one of two Christmas trees - it's nice that you have the option!)
I stamped my images with Intensified Black Ink to color with Copic markers. It's a sparse tree like the Charlie Brown tree so I added some bits of colors to each branch and used similar colors throughout.
Copic colors used:
Reds: R05, R27, R29
Greens: YG07, G29
Teals: BG24, BG49
Blues: B16, B29
Purples: V01, V04
Yellows: Y00, Y08
Grays: C1, C4, C7
After coloring, I die-cut the images and added white gel highlights to them before setting them aside to work on the background. On a Dove White Top Folded card base, I ink-blended Squeezed Lemonade at the top and Broken China Distress Oxide Inks from the bottom. Where the two colors meet, a green organically mixes on its own. I sprayed the area with water droplets and also splattered some white and black paint to give the background some interest.
I set the card base aside to dry and used a Rectangle Infinity Die to cut a window from an A2-sized panel, centering it as best I could. I trimmed my panel to mat the card base and stamped a sentiment on the bottom portion. I added foam adhesive to the frame and adhered it over my ink-blended cardbase then decorated it with my colored images. The final thing I did was add Crystal Clear Lacquer over the ornaments.
This is a little teaser for my card that I'm sharing for the blog hop. Be sure to join us on Monday! Thank you all for stopping by!
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Wonderful card, can’t wait til Monday’s release!
So jolly
There is nothing like a Holiday Tree with presents adorning it!
Great card layout and your colors are perfect. I especially love the sentiment the lettering is fabulous.
This is a really sweet card. I like that you include the COPIC colors. It will help me continue which colors to blend as I learn comics.
Love your card! It is so cute and simple!
Such a cute card. Love the Charlie Brown tree.
So beautiful! Love all these pretty colors and clean design!
What a fun xmas tree. I can see this tree surrounded with lots of critters outside in the forest. Love your background colors. Beautiful card.
Beautiful card. It is warm and festive.
Cute cute cute! Such a great card!
I cannot wait to get this kit, that Christmas tree is just crying out to be embossed with some sparkly, foil type silver embossing powder!
Such a cute scene !!!!
This card reminds me of Christmas’s past when our trees were less full. I love it.
I’m so excited to see the kit. Its joyful, fun and what we need!
Beautiful scene
Great “Charlie Brown” tree card! Love that the background offsets the tree and doesn’t detract from it. Can’t wait to start playing with this kit!
Nice! I really like the background you created.
What a great card! Boy you really get a nice selection of stamps in the hero arts kits.
CAS & bright & cheery. This Charlie Brown tree is so cute & I like the two fonts in the sentiment. Thanks Caly/
This 50s look is just darling! Cant wait to see the whole set
Cute card love the look!
I’m so excited for this kit! So many cute images!!
This kit gets better with each reveal! You made the presents pop with the gel that you added . The lacquer adds dimension to. the ornaments. Clever, Caly.
such a cheery card, thank you Caly. I can’t wait to get the kit and make the tree look like an aluminum tree, we had one when I was growing up. I thought they looked so beautiful all shimmery and colorful with the electric color wheel shining on it.
Love the scrawny Christmas tree.
Shows off the ornaments so much better.
Cute card. thanks for sharing
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That tree should have been in silver embossing! The silver trees came out in the 50’s and were the rage. Cute card!
Love all the little dies of present, stockings and etc under the tree! How much fun to color them!
So pretty! Thanks for the chance to win!
I love this card! I have a tree like that! This looks like an awsome kit.
I just love your ‘Charlie Brown’ tree, so cute.
Love the charlie brown tree! Makes Christmas look great
I love the CAS look of this window card looking into the Christmas tree!
Love the trees and gifts under the tree !!!
Super cute card! Love this kit so far!
Very cute card. Love the colors and the simplicity.
The card looks so simple, until you really look at the detail. Love the card. Thank yiu!
This tree looks just like the trees we had when I was a child. I love this card!! Beautifully colored.
I like the frame around the tree and the wonderful ink blending. So nice!
Each card just gets better and better. So excited for this wonderful release.
So excited for this one! Pretty sure it’s going to be a favorite!
Sweet and colorful framed Christmas tree scene.
I love all the little gifts under the tree! TOO CUTE!
I can see stamping this tree in silver, reminding me of the aluminum trees of my childhood 💖
Adorable Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
Can hardly wait to see the whole release! Very cute card.
Love the retro look of this kit. Thank you for the chance to win!
It’s like looking through a picture window to see this retro looking tree. I love the look of this card with the subtle inked background.
Fantastic retro card! Love the sentiment font!
I love the background light color blending and the simple yet elegant scene of this card, Caly, tfs
Love the humble stick tree surrounded by an abundance of gifts!
Such a cute set. Can’t wait to get mine for Christmas!
Great card, love the blue & yellow combo in the background.
Lovely background colours and overall design. Very Christmassy 😊
What a fun card. The images make me smile and remember when…
I really like how the small scene was framed! Love it!
Fabulous card. Can’t wait to make one!!!!
Such a cute little Xmas tree. I love how you colored up. I can’t wait to see the entire release.
Wow this is a really fun kit this month.
Such a simple and beautiful card that reflects how a little goes a long way – love it!
Oh I really love this card!!
Vintage christmas at its finest! Very pretty!
Vintage christmas at its finest! Very pretty!
I love the look of the tree with bits of color. Such a sweet card.
Love the retro feel of this kit and your card.
A very festive card. Definitely, unique images for the holiday season.
Great card. Love the background colors along with the Christmas tree and all those presents. Christmas morning!
I like that tree with the lights! Nice background colors too!
This card is fun and retro, love it! I like how you made it look like we are looking in on someone’s tree, great job.
This is too cute! I love that tree!!
I love that sentiment! Neat card
Wow! I love the frame to this, it really brings the card together. And I looove the Christmas tree, it reminds me of my childhood.
That tree reminds me of a few we had when I was growing up with the bare spots. I love the scene you made.
Charlie Brown tree! So cute!
So cute. Love the font of the sentiment stamps!
I really like the color scheme you’ve used on your card. I can’t wait to get the kit.
The tree is so cute!
Beautiful card – anticipation of good things to come
Looking like a fun release
Oh how sweet a Christmas card!!
Very nice card a bit reminiscent of Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree.
This card is so great. Love the background. Thanks for the inspiration!
I love your card, I love the retro style.
I love the background blending on this card!
Lovely coloring on the
Christmas tree. Great
background.
Carla from Utah
Love the classic yet fresh look, Caly!
Love the tree! Cute card.
I love the retro look and the record player. It is so inique can’t wait to play with it myself.
I love this card! The colors are beautiful ❤ The splatters add even more life to the retro feel. Love the font of the greeting, too 😍❤🌲
A great card. I like how you set up the card. Great colouring.
Love this tree, very retro.
I love the twiggy tree with all the ornaments. That font is great, too. Looking forward to this kit!
I can’t wait to see the rest of the kit.
Love the retro vibe! Can’t wait to see the whole kit and the add-ons!
There are so many things I like about this card…the black splatter, the shiny ornaments and the die cut window! Super cute!
love the soft sponged background – super festive scene – thanks for sharing :)
Cute retro card, I love the font on that sentiment too!
Love all the ornaments decorating the tree, surrounded by the presents! Very cute card!
Very vintage looking—reminds me of my childhood. Great use of topics.
Yes, it’s Christmas!!! Love the sentiment with the different lettering stamped. Great colors used here.
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