Hello, I hope the sun is shining on you today! Did you know that Hero Arts has a monthly challenge? I was unaware or, I may have just forgotten, the verdict is still out. Anyways, for the month of July, the challenge is Here Comes the Sun. Do you know they give out two $50 gift cards to two winners? I think that is terrific! All you have to do for this challenge is use at least one Hero Arts product on your card. Easy right? You all know that I am totally smitten with Hero Arts card kit from last month, so it didn’t take long to figure out what products I was going to use on my sun-shiny card.

Few Card Details: This was one of those cards that had oodles of mistakes from the get-go. First, I forgot to leave the spot for the reflection free of color when I was ink-blending my water, I decided to only use one of the water stamps and make my own background first. I thought an easy fix would be to heat emboss it in yellow( it is the closest color I had). It didn’t look very good in yellow, so I took an orange Copic marker and colored over it. That looked horrific. Luckily while making dinner, I thought, how about gold glitter. Yay! That did the trick! Now, don’t even get me started on the sun. I won’t bore you with all those crazy details. Luckily the die set came with a sun, so I could make one out of paper, ink blend it to the perfect color, and glue it over top.

Card Supplies: Hero Arts Card Kit for June has all the things I used on this card, except the Hibiscus Die is from The Greetery, and the sentiment is from MFT. I used a mix of inks from Simon Says Stamps and Oxides as well. I am really enjoying the SSS inks and I have recently been hooked on the Oxide color-Evergreen Bough.

I certainly appreciate you coming by and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day. You have plenty of time to play along at Hero Arts too! Nanc’