Welcome everyone to the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero August 2021 blog hop. I’m happy you are here today. You should have arrived here from Channin’s blog. The My Monthly Hero Kit is now available in the Hero Arts store.
4″ x 6″ Clear Stamp Set
Coordinating Fancy Dies
5.4″ Square Cling Stamp
5.25″ x 6.5″ Stencil
3 Liquid Watercolors (Pink, Indigo, Dandelion
6 5.5″ x 8.5″ Sheets Watercolor Paper
For today’s card I am sharing a tutorial on how to create several shades of brown using just two Hero Arts liquid watercolors in Cocoa and ArtPrint Brown. I stamped the image from the kit in Hero Arts Embossing Ink and heat set it with Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder.
You can watch the tutorial here or on my YouTube channel.
Now, lets get into the bonus card I have as well. This card was made using the Rainbow Window Fancy Die. This die is an add-on for the month of August. I love this die! It’s so pretty to use as a cover for a card.
I die cut the image from Hero Arts Dove White cardstock. I fulled the rainbows with Copic markers and added a touch of shimmer with a shimmer pen. Setting this panel aside I stamped a sentiment from the Hero Arts Better Together stamp set which is also an add-on for this month.
This card panel was screaming to be a shaker card. I added Hero Arts Acetate behind the rainbow, sprinkled sequins onto the blue panel and sealed up the card. I layered the shaker piece onto Hero Arts Mustard cardstock and a Dove White Side Folded Card.
To finish off the card, I added a few enamel dots in colors that coordinated with the rainbow colors. All products are listed below for your shopping ease.
We will give away one $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, August 8th at 11:59pm Pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week. Next on the hop is Daniel. I’ve also included the entire list of participants in case you get lost along the way.
Hero Arts
Channin Pelletier
Dana Joy
Daniel West
Debi Adams
Emily Midgett
Ilina Crouse
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Lydia Fiedler
Maria Willis
Michelle Short
Mindy Eggen
Pocono Pam
Seeka
Special Guests:
Chari Moss
Jennifer Kotas
Jennifer McGuire
Meg Brooks
Nichol Spohr
Rebecca Keppel
Thanks for joining us today and I’ll see you back here real soon!
So beautiful!
Dear Dana –
Always a joy to see what you have created! Love the rainbow card and the Floral Color Wheel card is pretty too in that earth tones monochromatic style. Just a heads-up: I clicked on the SSS links for the last several items you have listed and they all led to the “Oh no!” page at SSS. You might want to double-check that.
TFS –
Lori S in PA
Thanks Lori
Absolutely impressed with the way all of you have used the colors & the kit. Well done!
BEautiful Cards! Love the beautiful shades of brown and the Bright colors of the 2nd card as well. Cannot wait to get my kit to try some of this inspiraton.
So beautiful! I love the soft colors you used on the first card, so elegant!
I love your rainbow card! Gorgeous LOVE one too!
Beautiful! Love those shades of brown — so pretty!
Your color combos are breathtaking, Dana.
Awesome projects!
Beautiful cards. I Lionel the creative use of the rainbow products.
Such great cards!
Beautiful cards! Thank you for sharing the tips for water coloring.
Gorgeous cards! I love the browns and gold on the first card – so pretty and the rainbow card is such fun! Thanks for the inspiration. Stay safe! 🙂
Such clever cards! Thanks for the inspiration!!!
Such gorgeous cards! Thanks so much for sharing…
Loved your water color card with the brown hues and cutting out the word love from it. This was interesting and you shared many techniques. Thank you.
Thanks for the lesson in watercoloring. Love your use of browns in the first card. I wouldn’t have thought to use only browns with that stamp but I really like the look you achieved. So lovely. Also like your bright and cheerful rainbow card. Thanks for sharing and inspiring!
I like the positive message of the different colors. Nice
Oh my goodness I love this. (Having been a quilter ). My fquilter riend will just love this. Gorgeous card and super cool technique.
I love all the shades of brown on the first card. (I even watched the video!)
I always love a good shaker card! So cute!
Two wonderful cards. I really enjoyed seeing how you did your shades of brown.
These are both so pretty!
Love the cocoa color on the first card and love the shaker card. So pretty.
So creative! Love your colors!
Awesome cards!! I love your first card especially and want that background stamp!!
Your neutral colored ‘mandala’ card is so lovely! A great, unique take on this release!
Your cards are gorgeous! I love the neutral colors and the inlaid sentiment on the first card!
Lovely cards, I’m loving the rainbow window die!
Dana, I bought the stamp, not the die, but your video for this floral stamp/die is truly inspiring! So many possibilities for this!
Love these pretty designs and your color combos!
Gorgeous Dana!!!! This is just all around perfect!
Wonderful cards. I like the neutral colors on the first one.
Love the brown shades and gold on the first card and the rainbow front layered on the mustard cardstock for the second card!!!
Really nice cards Dana Joy! Love your color choices.
A striking, pretty card!