November My Monthly Hero - Release + Giveaway!

It's another My Monthly Hero release day over at Hero Arts! Wow, can you believe they've been doing these kits for over a year now? Time flies when you're creating awesome kits! This month's kit took a fun DIY spin - there's a fabulous die for making do it yourself handmade ornaments (or gift boxes or treat boxes or advent calendars...!), but I used the other stamps and dies included in the kit, originally designed for decorating the sides of the ornaments.

When I saw all of the decorative triangles in development, I immediately had to suggest that they add a stump for those triangles to become trees! The stamps were designed to fit the entire sides of the diamond-shaped ornament, and the die is to make windows in the sides of the ornament, so it's smaller than the stamps. But that's no problem, you can just die-cut a smaller portion of the larger stamped triangle.

I used gold embossing powder on my little trees so this card has a lot of shine going on. The solid tree was cut from some glitter cardstock in my stash, and the gold card base is something I had on hand as well. I used one of my new favorite tools (even though it's not new!) to create the scallop border - Planner Page Edges. I'm a longtime scallop fanatic.

The little message strip was done with an optional add-on set to this month's kit called Little Messages Stamp & Cut. I really love that long, skinny banner die - I know I'll be using it all the time!

Here's a look at the main kit:

There's also another stamp & cut set called Number It, an adorable clear set Mini Christmas, and a completely fabulous Holiday Words Stencil that I cannot wait to play with!

I'm part of a fantastic blog hop today:

The Hero Arts Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Yana Smakula
Mariana Grigsby
May Park
Amy Tsuruta
Clare Prezzia
Ilina Crouse
Laura Bassen
Heather Ruwe
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Shari Carroll at Simon Says Stamp
Julie Ebersole at Ellen Hutson's CLASSroom
Libby Hickson

Be sure to comment on all of the blogs in the hop by next Sunday night (11/13 11:59pt) - Hero Arts will be giving away a kit to one lucky comment, drawn from all comments across all the blogs.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Hero Arts Snow Layering Paper Shop at: Hero	Embossing Gun Shop at: Hero | SSS	Hero Arts Gold EP Shop at: Hero	Mini MISTI Shop at: SSS
DCWV Twinkle Glints Glitter 6x6 Stack Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts My Monthly Hero November 2016 Shop at: Hero	Hero Arts Planner Page Edges Shop at: Hero	Hero Arts Little Messages Stamp & Cut Shop at: Hero
Hero Arts Number It Stamp & Cut Shop at: Hero	Hero Arts Mini Christmas Shop at: Hero	Hero Arts Holiday Words Stencil Shop at: Hero