Hello friends and Happy Monday! So excited to share the NEW My Monthly Hero Kit for August 2019! Think dragons and castles, princesses and unicorns, scrolls and medieval characters and, you get the idea. Lots and lots of creative designs and sentiments that pair well together as well as with other items in the Hero Arts catalog. As always, this launch is a Blog Hop and a giveaway! Make sure to scroll to the bottom to see how to enter AND continue along with the blog hop! With August’s Main Kit you get all of this… 
It’s an unbelievable value for only $34.99 regularly $83.99. I love that there are coordinating dies to go with the stamps! Kits start shipping August 9th and the Main Kit is only available while supplies last. However, add-ons are replenished. All stamps, dies and supplies are listed at the bottom of this post. Although I love the Main Kit, I also love the kit add-ons so I am featuring many of those today. Being a mom to 4 girly-girl daughters, my take on these designs were all about pretty princesses and dreams come true but honestly, I love seeing the lions, dragons and darker colors played out with this collection as well. I guess that’s what’s so nice about a blog hop. You get to see a lot of variety. I always find it interesting to see how all the designers envision each collection. So here is my take.. For my first card, I used the Paper Layering Castle (cut it in half horizontally) and the As You Wish Stamps and Frame Cuts sets.
Since watercoloring is my favorite, I used the Daniel Smith Watercolor Dot Palette to embellish the background. If you don’t have this, you don’t know what you’re missing! Such a great product and so easy to take places. Slips right into your purse along with the Water Flow Brush. (Watercolor paper was Arches-140lb. cold pressed). I die-cut the Castle twice, once from watercolor paper with the outline and once from gold poster board with only the outline of the Castle. I cut them in half and assembled them, making sure that the gold poster board could be seen.
The coach was stamped and embossed with Versamark ink and gold embossing powder then colored with Copic Markers. Three threads of variegated embroidery floss were wrapped around the card. Finally the sentiment was stamped, embossed, matted and secured to the card base. That was it! Easy.
My second card also took no time. I created a rainbow background with Taffy, Pool Party, Creamsicle, Lemon Drop and Green Apple Reactive Inks using a foam applicator.
The Rose Bush Cover was cut from Dove White cardstock and attached to the card with foam dots. I die-cut two sets of the alphabet from Dove White cardstock and gold poster board, layered them together and adhered them to the card base using foam dots. A space was left between the words so that the stamped word would fit into the middle.
Since I love to stencil I thought this might be a fun project to try out watercoloring. I sprayed my stencil with Pixie Spray (see link at bottom) so that the stencil would stay in place. (LOVE that product because it adheres the stencil to the paper well but leaves no residue). I watercolored two stenciled pieces that were put together to form the entire card. I used a water flow brush and the Watercolor Dot Palette again. So happy I own that.
Here’s a different version of the Paper Layering Castle. A lot less cutesy and a bit more classy but again, all watercolored! (Do you see a theme here?)
Lastly I created this fun, carnival looking card. It immediately reminded me of Rainbow Bright. The hearts brought back memories of those Disneyland shopping bags that you used to get when you purchased something at Disneyland. (Now vintage, I am sure. Lol). Does anyone remember them? Anyway, back to the card. A few rainbow embellished hearts intertwined with a cute unicorn, some iridescent sequins, a sentiment and the card is done.
So what do you think? Another fabulous release? I don’t know how those Hero Arts designers keep it up. Thankful to have such wonderful creations to work with. If you are moving through the hop, your next creative is the amazing Ilina Crouse. And if you missed anyone, they are only a click away.
XO, Debi
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Debi Adams you’ve rocked this release. I love your beautiful array of cards and how different they are. They show off far more of this release than expected and are inspiring. I loved, loved loved the full on castle. It’s truly magical. Thanks for sharing your talents.
Debi Adams you’ve rocked this release. I love your beautiful array of cards and how different they are. They show off far more of this release than expected and are inspiring. I loved, loved loved the full on castle. It’s truly magical. Thanks for sharing your talents.
Soooo cute!
I love these cards!
What a beautiful set of cards!! Each one is unique and awesome! <3
My favorite is the water colored castle card, absolutely stunning!
Such great cards. Love the colors.
Debi, your cards are absolutely amazing and really do a great job of showing of this release. They’re all so fantastic that I can’t pick a favorite. Thanks for the inspiration!
I just can’t get over how amazing that large castle die is. I have so many ideas for how to use it. Thanks for sharing your creations!
You did an incredible job on these cards!!! THe castle and Cinderalla’s wagon card is absolutely wonderful, who wouldn’t love that card!!!!!! Thanks for the inspiration!
What great cards!!! I have a “Want” list instead of a “Wish” list. LOL. Great new release!!!
You made amazing cards!!! They are so beautiful!!
Beautiful, fun cards. Your coloring is amazing.
Fabulous cards. I am adding to my must have list with every stop on the blog.
I wish these were around when my granddaughters were small, they loved princesses. And my grandson would have enjoyed he dragons! Great job on all your cards!
Gorgeous cards!! Love all the soft pastel colors!!!
Fabulous cards
Incredibly inspired by the watercolored castle—such a great option for working with a die cut! The coloring is reminiscent of the fairy tale books I read as a child.
these cards are amazing! I liked your castle that much – one look at the picture, I immediately bought that die!
Woohoo! Fabulous for sure! What a great kit.
All of your dreamy cards made with the new Hero Arts release are wonderful
Each of your cards are lovely, but the water colored background on the first one is perfection!
Wow! I love your princess style. Your first card reminded me of a cake I made for my little sisters 16th birthday complete with coach and horses. That card would have been a perfect accompaniment. I also have a castle cake design I’m dying to make for someone’s wedding…if they’d only get married. Lol. Your castle card would be perfect for that too. Lovely work. Thanks for sharing.
Truly a WOW!! Not just the beautiful creation, I admired your photo staging skill too!
Beautiful cards! Love all of your watercoloring.
AMAZING! I Love the pastel colors with the gold accents! SUCH GORGEOUS CREATIONS!
Colors set the mood so nicely and thenyur designs, WOW!!!
Oh, your cards are fabulous! There are some dies, like the large castle, that I am hooked on, as well as I love the uniqueness of the Old English sentiments.
All of these are beautiful – so colorful!
So cute. Love these cards.
Ok, so I need the add on Castle.
You are so creative! I like how different each one is! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful…thank you for sharing!!
Absolutely in awe of the two treatments for the castle. Simple wonderful! Loved the watercoloring of the stencil & the simple but effective rainbow backing the Rose Cover Die. And there was more! The vintage Disney Carnival unicorn card! So fun & playful! Another Hero Arts Winner & some fabulous cards for inspiration – thank you!
Follow your dreams I wish you the best is stunning! I have to say that I really liked the carriage and that is a wonderful add-on to get more out of this set!
Gorgeous cards! I love how you cut off that castle die in the first card to make it fit a sideways card. Great idea. I really should have viewed the blog hop before making my purchase, since I passed on the Cinderella carriage and the rose brambles background. With the kit selling out while I was on a plane today
, I was just too scared to wait until I made it through the blog hop for the add ons!
So many pretty cards!
You have created the most amazing set of cards, Debi! I loved your first dreamy castle with the gold backing, and a then scrolled down and loved the next and the next. These beauties just kept coming! Thanks so much for sharing your clever ideas and the inspiration!
Your display for your cards is almost as good as the cards. My favorite is the castle one, but all are wonderful.
Very nicely done.
Super cute cards! What a fun kit
I sendeth thee this comment hoping to win it!!. Soooo cute♡♡
All simply gorgeous – both the watercolors and now all those ink colors I have to add to my fairytale collection!
Such wonderful cards! Great card kit.
Thanks for sharing…
I love the watercolor card using the stencil. Ooo la la! Gorgeous!
What gorgeous cards,especially the castle on grey cardstock. Your work is amazing and thanks for sharing.
Awesome projects!! Just ordered the kit today!!
OMGooodnrss!! Im loving these cards as much as the dragon in blue
… you have fabulous cards!!!, & of course what fun it would be to win the kit!
Great cards! I loved the rose cover card. TFS
Oh my, your cards just took my breath away–the castle cards, carriage cards are just magical! Thanks for inspiring us and what a fabulous kit this is!
Awesome release and love your cards!
Your cards are so amazing. I so want this kit. I can see so many uses for it. And your examples show that so well. I think I have to say the water coloured castle with the banner was my favorite.
Fantastic use of the castle! Ye have made us quite merry! Love the soft colors in your cards too! What a fantastic release of a kit and it so fun to see your creations! Thee rule!
Beautiful cards! I love that you included different styles and themes! Thank you for the inspiration!
Very pretty and colorful variety!
Such a lovely scene! Loving this release!
Fabulous cards – I love the soft colourings of your castle, and how you used the gold offset in behind to add that dynamic dimensional effect.
Gorgeous cards! I love your castle card! You colored it beautifully!
Gorgeous and elegant! You rocked it!
Of course I would love to win. But……. your cards are BEAUTIFUL. Can’t to try the technique
I’m quite in love with that snowflake swirl die and I love what you did with it.
Your card reminds me of the colorful days that we are experiencing this time of year. Flowers and leaves of beautiful colors abound everywhere we look! Beautiful card!