Hello Folks! Scott here with another installment of my 10 Cards 1 Kit posts featuring the My Monthly Hero and Super Hero Kits for August of 2026. The Summer is marching along nicely as we dig into the “Little Library” kit this month!

The My Monthly Hero Kit begins with the Tiny Library Die Set that creates a fun neighborhood book exchange kiosk. That is followed by the Library Card & Pocket Die Set and the Library Card Stamp and Cut. It has been so long since I checked out a library book, I don’t know if they even use cards and pockets anymore! Finally we round out this kit with 10 sheets of 8.5″ x 5.5″ Color Wheel Card stock in Bellini, Coral, Carrot, Terra Cotta, Tuscan, Mint, Alabaster, Seaside, Fawn and Truffle.

The My Monthly Super Hero Kit includes everything in the Monthly Hero expands on the library premise with the Novel Greetings Stamp and Cut, and the Big Book Die Set. Fun pun-ny sentiments with the stamps perfectly sized for the Big Book Die Set. Finally, we get the Classic Floral Layering Stencil Set if you want to add a touch of tapestry to your book covers.

Our theme this month is the Little Library, but this kit creates some really large items. Though the Tiny Library Die Set sports some very little books, the whole kiosk is 5.25″ tall… and the Big Book Die Set gives us a 3.25″ x 4.5″ book! Hardly any room left to worry about backgrounds! Let’s make use of the Tiny Library die set to begin with.

I have to admit, this was kind of a fun assembly! I broke into the Card Stock pack for this month, and everything is die-cut from those colors with the small addition of some Hero Hues Pitch Black card stock for the bookworm’s eyes and glasses and the centers of the two flowers. I got a big kick out of hiding the Bookworm behind the door frames so you don’t see him till you open up the doors. I did put some acetate in the doors – I discovered that the third smallest die in the Hero Arts Rectangle Infiniti die set fits inside those door frames perfectly!

As I was building up the insides, and adding in the two-layer books, and other thicker pieces, the doors wouldn’t hold themselves closed. So I slipped a small thin magnet behind the shelf on the inside, and added some broken magnet pieces to the back of the door frame. That worked perfectly and even gives me a satisfying little >click< when they close. I did add some touches of shading to the die-cuts with my Pebbles Chalk Pallet and some Alcohol markers.

I used the MFT Mini Cloud Stencil and my Chalk Pallet to blend in some clouds on an A2 White card base. I glued the kiosk flat to the card base and added the two bees up in the corner. I actually used every die in this set on this card. Well, every die except for the heart die – but we’ll get to that! Lots and lots of fiddly bits here, but pretty satisfying over all!

Feeling like I had conquered that die set on my first go-round, I was eager to jump into the Library Card & Pocket sets! Naturally my anal-retentive brain wanted to create something that looked authentic – like you’d find in a library book!

I die-cut the pocket from an old 9×12 clasp envelope. That color is SO close to the Tuscan card stock in this kit but I appreciated that I didn’t have to assemble the pocket with 100# card stock. I stamped the card on Alabaster card stock with VersaFine Onyx Black ink and die-cut it out with the matching die. I decided that I wanted an actual book title for this card and “Love Story” seemed appropriate. I printed that on the card using my Silhouette Software and the Times New Roman font. I filled out some dates and names on the card with some different pens (I am totally addicted to my red pen) and I stamped the “Overdue for a hug” using Hero Hues Cherry Core ink.

I cut a piece of off-white paper to 4″ x 5.25″ and rounded the corners with my Corner-Chomper, and did some very light distressing around the edges with my Chalk Palette. I glued that to a White card base with some double-sided dry adhesive. I thought the pocket was a little plain and should at least identify where this book came from, so I decided to create this Public Library stamp. This is from a VERY old type-setter style of stamp set with lots of letters and numbers and frames that you can create your own stamps with… it used to be my return address stamp until I got tired of the “homemade” look of the stamps – but it worked perfectly well for this! Stamping it a little cockeyed adds to the hand stamped nature of a library stamp!

You pull out the card to reveal the Overdue sentiment and the hearts behind! I glued the pocket to the front of my card base, and die-cut a piece of White paper with the large “tape” die and glued that over the corner of the pocket… realizing that I have gobs of Washi tape on hand, I added more “tape” to the two other corners. The Big heart is from this die set, and the small hears are from the Tiny Library die set. (I told you I would get to them!) I stamped the “Miss You” on the large heart (masking off the “I”) with Cherry Core ink, and added a little touch of shading with my Chalk Palette. I added a blue paper clip on the front of the pocket (I do love that paper clip die) and tucked the card in for safekeeping. This is about as authentic as I can remember!

Besides the big heart, this die set also has a slice of cake and a party hat as well as a Happy Birthday stamp and a few plants and flowers. How about a birthday card for a book-loving friend?

Same envelope used for the pocket, but this time I folded and glued the flaps around the back of the pocket instead of to the front (my last library card kept getting hung up on the glue flaps). I stamped the “check you out” sentiment and the date scratches with Cherry Core ink, and stamped the “First Edition” and “best chapter” stamps with Onyx Black ink. Then I stamped the “Happy Birthday” with Hero Hues Fruit Punch Reactive ink and embossed that with some Clear Embossing Powder. The background is a piece from a Tim Holtz Collage card stock pack cut to 3.75″ x 5″ and matted on a thin Auburn Pearlescent mat before gluing down to an A2 White card base.

The cake is cut from Alabaster and Truffle card stock and the hat (and Candle) is cut from some plain Red and White card stock. I did a little bit of shading on them with my Chalk Palette, and attached the cake and hat to the front of the pocket with foam tape, and glued the candle flat to the back of the pocket (making sure it didn’t stick out above the card). I grabbed some Hero Hues Shaped Enamel Stickers (from the MMH Premium Kit April 2023) and added some dots to the front of the pocket and a spray of shapes around the candle. I did color the “flame” with alcohol markers and shined up the candle with a Clear Glaze pen. Great B-day card for your favorite bibliophile!

There are also a couple of flowers and a sprig of greenery in this die set… While I’m not opposed to flowers, I’m not a crafter that tends to cover everything I make with flowers, so I thought of another way to highlight these dies.

Nothing to do with Libraries or Books but a perfectly beautiful Thank you card! I die-cut two of the flower petal dies from Alabaster card stock and two from plain White card stock, and gave them a little shaping with a ball stylus before gluing them all together for this bloom. I die-cut two of the stems from Fern card stock and glued them together with one backwards to get the right-facing leaf. I glued those to the bloom and added the center cut from Truffle card stock.

I ink blended Hero Hues Fruit Punch and Lemon Drop Reactive inks on a panel of White card stock cut to 2.75″ x 4″ with a Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle die. I stamped the sentiment with Onyx Black ink and embossed it with Clear Embossing powder. I added a thin White mat and a thin Black mat behind the stamped and blended panel. The background is a piece of plain Green card stock cut to 4″ x 5.25″ and die-cut with a Honey Bee Stamps Spring Leaves Pierced Cover Plate. I added a thin Black mat behind the Green and glued those to a White card base.

I attached the flower with a dot of foam tape behind the bloom, and a touch of liquid glue where the leaves join. I did give the “tape” die-cut another chance this time cutting out the smaller of the two from some real Washi tape and used that to “hold” the flower in place. The best of BOTH worlds! I glued the colored panel at a bit of an angle flat to the card front and added some HH Sunset Enamel dots for a little shine (those are from the Hero Studio Kit of Sept.2025). I liked taking a little break from the “library” and focusing on a single bloom and a simple sentiment. Thank you for all you do!

I liked that daisy so much I decided to see if I could combine all the flowers in the MMH kit in one card. Often, when facing an assortment of small images (or small die-cuts) I turn to the Waffle Flower Postage Collage sets.

Now, Waffle Flower has a whole series of stencils for the Postage Collage sets but I don’t know if I’ve seen anyone use die-cuts in place of the stencils! I die-cut the Postage Collage Die from White card stock and used the Postage Collage Blocks Stencil to ink blend the backgrounds on all the “stamps” – Lemon Drop (top left and bottom right), Fruit Punch, Key Lime Fizz, Splash, and Creamsicle Reactive inks. Then I got to work die-cutting all the pieces. Everything is cut from the kit card stock (except for the Greens, Black and White, and Hero Hues Arctic for the blue flowers) and I used the greenery sprig to add leaves to a few of the groupings. I did a little shading on the heart but that was it.

I glued all the die-cuts in their respective rectangles, and used the Postage Collage stamp set to stamp the prices along with the “hugs inside” next to the heart. I glued the postage panel to a 5.25″ x 4″ Black mat and glued those to a White card base. I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of White card stock with VersaFine Onyx Black ink and embossed it with Clear Embossing powder. I die-cut that (and one blank) with the matching die and glued them together before mounting them with foam tape. It is nice to see that small die-cuts work just as well in this Postage Collage as the stencils do!

There were moments when I didn’t think I could get five different cards using only the My Monthly Hero kit this month. Though the last two cards really didn’t have anything to do with the theme, I do like them a lot! That brings us to the Novel Greetings stamps and the Big Book Die Set – not to mention the Layering Stencils! Moving right along…!!

You kind of have to use the Big Book Die Set with the Novel Greetings stamps. This book is die-cut from the Fawn, Truffle and Alabaster card stocks while the title is stamped on Ivory card stock with Root Beer Reactive ink and embossed with Clear Embossing powder. I would certainly recommend die-cutting the thin dark trim around the cover all by itself instead of trying to die-cut it from the cut cover and then inlay all the pieces…! Of course I did inlay the trim after cutting it from the cover and coloring it with an Alcohol marker. It was VERY fussy gluing down the outline, then the trim, then the interior… somehow I managed and the assembled book is quite charming! The bookmark is cut from Carrot and Tuscan card stock and trimmed short so it’s just barely tucked inside the “pages”.

The background is Ivory Card stock stamped with the Background Texture text stamp from the MMH April ’23 kit using Altenew Nimbus Crisp Dye ink. I trimmed that to 4″ x 5.25″ and blended more of the same ink around the edges before gluing it down to a White card base. I die-cut the sentiment with the largest “book plate” die and cut a second from the same card stock. I colored the edges of the blank die-cut with an Alcohol marker, split the die-cut right down the middle and glued it to the back of the sentiment with the sides spread out a little. I glued those to the front of the book.

Though a bit fiddly, I really like the glasses dies! We have a background die that cuts the whole eyeglasses and then frame and legs dies to layer on top. I die-cut the background die from acetate and trimmed off the legs, then I die-cut the frame and legs from some Glossy Black card stock and glued the frame on top of the acetate background and then just added the legs. Great pair of glasses!!! I attached the book to the front with foam tape and glued the glasses down to the book. Great thank you card!

So we’ve figured out the Big Book Dies and Novel Greetings Stamps, let’s look at the Classic Floral Layering Stencil set!

Using Hero Hues Canary card stock and Altenew inks, I stenciled the stems (stencil 1) with Cloudy Sky and the leaves (stencil 2) with Nimbus. The flowers (stencil 3) uses Tangerine Dream ink and the details (stencil 4) are stenciled with Red Jasper ink. Very Classic Tapestry. I made the mistake again of inlaying the stripe around the cover but I’ve learned my lesson now and will never do that again! The stripe and spine detail are cut from Carrot card stock. Again Alabaster card stock for the “pages” and this time I slipped a little piece of thin ribbon between the pages for our page marker.

I stamped the sentiment on more Canary card stock with Onyx Black ink and embossed it with Clear Embossing powder then cut it out with its matching die. The background is a piece of Green/Gold corrugated card stock from an old Love From Lizzi kit cut to 4″ x 5.25″ and glued to a White card base. I glued the sentiment flat to the cover and attached the book with foam tape. Now, I possibly should have skipped adding the stenciling on the spine, but I felt it was a fun continuation of the tapestry. Another Thank You!!

I have an idea for a different though totally recognizable type of book – very classic and very simple to accomplish!

Love this! Stenciling on an A2 panel of Ivory card stock with Key Lime Fizz (stems and leaves), Splash, and Blue Raspberry Reactive inks for the flowers. I die-cut that with the background book die. Then I cut an inch of Color Wheel Celestial card stock with the spine part of the die and, using the angle of the pages on the right as a reference, angled the top of the spine die-cut to match. I glued the spine on top of the stenciled book, then added the pages (cut from plain White card stock) over both. The spine details and tassel are cut from some Gold metallic card stock and glued in place. That tassel works as a page marker all by itself!

The sentiment is stamped on more Ivory card stock with VersaMark ink and embossed with HA Gold Embossing powder. I cut that to 2″ x 1.5″ and glued that to the cover. The background is a 4″ x 5.25″ panel of Auburn Pearlescent card stock embossed with an old Darice victorian wallpaper embossing folder and glued to a White card base. Happily, I used some Love From Lizi Gold Mirror peel-off stickers for the added Gold striping around the title plate and on the Blue spine wrap on the front cover. That works brilliantly and keeps me from having to fiddle with the thin die-cuts! Love it!

After doing three Big Books, I realized it should be fairly simple to make a Big Book as big as an A2 card – why keep gluing a book to the front of a card when the book can be an A2 card itself!

I did do a practice run with an Ivory A2 card base and realized you just need to die-cut the top right corner and the bottom left corner to make our book be 4.25″ x 5.5″. So that’s what I did with a plain Blue (65#) A2 card base – cut just the corners of the card base with the Big Book die. The cover is just a square, so I can cut that to any size, but I will have to do some partial die-cutting to lengthen the pages and the spine detail. I could have cut the pages die about a sixteenth of an inch shorter, but since I just eyeballed all the double die-cutting, I decided to leave it be. The pages are cut from plain White card stock and the cover and details are Hero Hues Periwinkle card stock.

Instead of fussing with thin die-cuts, I cut a piece of plain Blue card stock to 3.25″ x 4.5″ with a LFSRdie, and glued a 3″ x 4.25″ Periwinkle panel on top. Then I die-cut the large plate die through the center of both pieces and glued the cover to the card front . I stamped the sentiment on more of the plain Blue card stock with VersaMark ink and embossed it with White Embossing powder then cut that out with the same plate die and inset it (there’s that word again!) in the space on the cover. Since I was going to have to make a writing surface on the inside of this Blue card, I decided to make a removable bookmark for the recipient! And since the book is bigger let’s make the Bookmark bigger too!

I stamped a scrap of old pattern paper with the “Happy Birthday” and “Pull” (from MFT Interactive Labels Stamp set) with Onyx Black ink and then covered that with a piece of clear packing tape. The bookmark die in the kit is just under 3″. Using partial die-cutting on the two ends of the die gave me an almost 5″ bookmark! I die-cut another long bookmark from the plain Blue card stock to glue to the back (just trimming their bottoms to match). I added a little tassel pull using some Blue/White bakers twine. I cut a slot on the edge of the “pages” through the whole card front, and instead of using foam tape to make a channel for the bookmark to follow, I just used a couple of layers of card stock stacked and cut into strips – much thinner than foam tape and provides plenty of room for the bookmark! I cut the inside panels to match and glued them in place. I really like this oversized book – at least I didn’t have to worry about a background!

That’s four different books in number of styles… But I do feel like I may have short-changed the Tiny Library Die Set…

To make this pop-up sentiment on this card, I reached for all my thinner card stocks. I did use the Truffle card stock for the base, roof, and post, but everything else is thin 65# card stock. The Orange and Beige pieces are Alcohol marker colored White card stock. I cut a second Door piece and cut off the doors and glued that behind the top door piece to add some strength (and thickness) to the frame around the doors. Then I glued acetate to the top of the doors and added the Orange frames on top. Then I took 2 more pieces cut the same size as the acetate (third smallest HA Rectangle Infinity Die) from thin White card stock and colored with a Brown Alcohol marker – this will be the “background”. I glued a shelf to the middle of those pieces and added some (thin) books.- then I glued that to the back of the windows. When closed, it looks like the inside of the kiosk. I glued the completed door piece to the background.

For the pop-up sentiment, I cut 2 strips of card stock to 3/8″ x 1.75″ and scored those strips every 3/8″ leaving just a quarter inch left to glue to the start of the strip to make a box – make sure the box folds flat in both directions. I stamped the sentiment with VersaFine Onyx Black ink and embossed it with Clear Embossing powder and cut it out with the matching die. Then I cut the sentiment in half right below the “one for” – a little trim on the cut edges smooths everything out. The left side of the top sentiment is glued to one side of one cube, and the right side of the bottom sentiment is glued to one side of the other cube – don’t go beyond the edge of your box (I did do a little trimming and coloring to hide the pop-up box). Then you glue two sides of the box to the back of the door and the background – top sentiment left, and bottom sentiment right. The doors should close and sentiments pop up when opened.

Then I decorated the inside with another shelf, and a dozen (thin!) books – the big books will slip inside your pop-up boxes further disguising them! I also added a little wood detail on the inside of the doors. I assembled the rest of the kiosk as normal and found this perfect pattern paper – Cozy Patterned Collection pad – from Scrapbook.com (I think it was a freebie) and cut that to 4.25″ x 5.5″ and ink blended the edges with Root Beer Reactive ink. I glued that to a White card base and added the kiosk with foam tape. I love the kiosk shape echoed in the background paper that has soft hues so it doesn’t compete with the Tiny Library. And a bit of a fun pop-up card to boot!

And that wraps up our Literary Adventure with all 10 cards created with the My Monthly Hero and Super Hero kits for August of 2026. Nothing much to color this month, but at least we did get a nice layering stencil. Colorful batch of cards!

And a pretty nice variety here… a couple of Birthday cards, Friendship cards, a number of Thank You cards that I seem to use more than Birthday cards! Truly a terrific kit for any bibliophile, librarian, student, or even a casual reader on your list! I did enjoy figuring out the intricacies of these die sets and how you might adapt them to your purposes, and I think the Classic Floral Stencils will come in handy as well as lots of these bits and pieces! I know where to turn if I happen to need a little book (or even a Big Book) for other projects. Let me know which cards are your favorites!

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Hello Folks! Happy Spring!! Scott here with a new set of 10 cards featuring the My Monthly Hero & Super Hero kits for April 2026. The theme for this kit is “Plant Lady Society” – just look at the number of plants and flowers in this kit!

My Monthly Hero Includes: • House Plants Stamp & Cut • You Grow Girl Stamp & Cut • Greenhouse Die Set • 10 Sheets of Cardstock – 1 of each color, 5.5″ x 8.5″ (Poppy, Pomegranate, Cranberry, Blush, Tutu, Dahlia, Beeswax, Tuscan, Rainforest, Fern)

My Monthly SUPER Hero Includes everything in the regular MMH above, PLUS: • Hello Beautiful Stamp & Cut  • Fresh Flowers Die Set • Watering Can Die Set

LOTS of cutting dies in these kits! More than 100 dies! PHEW! This appears to be the first of the New MMH/SH kits that doesn’t have any explicit cross-over between kits. The Hello Beautiful Stamps are all sentiments, so they can be used with both kits, but there are eight sentiments in the MMH kit alone, so the extra sentiments aren’t necessary. As usual, I’ll make the first five cards using just the MMH kit and then the last five cards will use everything all together!

At least we do have some good stamps for coloring! I don’t often do this, but I thought I would stamp all the images from the House Plants Stamp set with VersaFine Onyx Black ink on some Canson Mixed Media Card stock. I reached for my TomBow Water-Based Dual Tip markers to color everything. The Mixed Media card stock takes the watercolors very well, and it’s easy to blend the markers with each other or with light touches of water and a paintbrush.

To kick off my card making, I decided to use the matching dies to cut everything out. It’s always fun to lay out my colored and die-cut images directly on the stamp set. Haven’t done this in a long while !

Though we had a huge snowstorm just a month ago, and temperatures still seem reluctant to rise, I am all set for some Spring card making! And just look at all the colored and die-cut images I have available! I do often take my clues from the sentiments in a set, so here we go…!

I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of the Canson Mixed Media card stock with VersaFIne Onyx Black ink and embossed it with Clear embossing powder. I die-cut it out along with two blanks and glued them all together. I die-cut a piece of the Mixed Media card stock to 2.75″ x 4″ with a Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle Die, and decided on my layout so I could add DMC Silver Metallic thread through the background. Using a needle, I got the 5 pieces of thread through a hole in the background (where the watering can spout will be) and I glued those down to the back of the card stock. Then I added a thin Black mat behind, and attached them both to an A2 White card base with foam tape.

I arranged the silver thread on the card front and added the two potted plants with foam tape. I attached the watering can with more foam tape and glued the spout to the top of the threads. I glued the sentiment in place letting it hang off the side a little bit. I thought these head vases conveyed the friendship theme perfectly!

I have mentioned before that I don’t particularly care for the white borders that most dies leave around an image. On the first card I just kept the background white – that helps camouflage the white borders… but there are more ways to hide those borders than just keeping your backgrounds white!

You can color those borders to match whatever background you want! This works very well as far as I’m concerned! I used the Spellbinders Essential Arches dies to make the plant arch. I like that there are 16 dies in this set so there’s a big assortment of sizes. I cut the Acid Green arch to 2.5″ wide and the Yellow Ochre arch to 2″ wide. I die-cut the frames from Auburn Pearlescent card stock using the next size smaller dies (2.25″ & 1.75″) and glued those frames on top of the colored card stocks.

I die-cut another piece of Mixed Media card stock to 3.75″ x 5″ and used my old metal Stampendous Flourishes stencil to ink blend Fossilized Amber and Twisted Citron Distress Oxide inks onto that piece. I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of Mixed Media card stock with VersaFine Onyx Black ink and embossed it with Clear embossing Powder. I die-cut that with the matching die along with one blank and glued the two together. I colored the white borders of the die-cut with an Ohuhu Alcohol marker to match the Yellow Ochre background.

The stenciled panel is glued to a White card base, the two Arches and the stacked sentiment are glued down flat, and the potted plant is attached with foam tape. I did add this “explainer” to the inside of the card using my Silhouette Software and the Dream State font. I printed that on a scrap of plain white card stock die-cut to 3.75″ x 5″ with a LFSRDie. That makes me giggle and justifies a birthday card with a potted plant. I guess “let’s get potted!” would work too!!

There is a decent Birthday pun in the You Grow Girl Stamp set… so lets use that with another House plant!

That’s a good pun for any Birthday gardener! On a Green A2 card base, I used the HoneyBee Spring Leaves A2 Pierced Cover Plate die on the front. I die-cut another panel of the Mixed Media card stock to 3.25″ x 4.5″ with a Moda Scrap Framed Rectangle die and added thin Green, Black and White mats behind that before glueing all to the card front. I stamped and embossed the sentiment as usual directly on the card front. I made a little “shelf” for my plant with a piece of woodgrain pattern paper with a small black “shadow” glued behind. I glued the plant to the shelf and mounted them to the card front with foam tape. For embellishments, I added the single bloom stamp in the corner of the sentiment, and added these Dragon Scale Sequins (from the MMH August ’19 kit) for some fun sparkle! I like that the Pierced cover plate die adds the same pattern to the back of the card front so you can see the whole thing when the card is opened!

The images in the You Grow Girl stamp set are all basically silhouette stamps – perfect to use for backgrounds!

I stamped the background on Mixed Media card stock using Simon Says Stamp Barely Beige ink and all the pots and plants in the You Grow Girl stamp set. (I really like the cone flowers stamped upside-down on the round pot!) to finish the background, I spattered Black Soot Distress Oxide ink lightly on the stamping. I die-cut that panel to 3.25″ x 4.5″ with a LFSRdie and added a thin (1/16″) black mat and a thicker Blue mat using the 3.75″ x 5″ LFSRdie. I glued those together and then down to an A2 White card base.

I stamped, embossed and die-cut the sentiment as usual, die-cut three blanks and glued them all together. I trimmed the top leaf off of the potted plant and added my little pink bloom in it’s place. I mounted the potted plant with foam tape and glued the stacked sentiment below. I wanted to add the other small bloom from the House Plants Stamp set and decided to add it to the card with a small craft spinner – yes! the little bloom spins!! More Dragon Scale sequins add some fun sparkle and those spinners are small enough for this tiny little flower! Interactive fun!

That brings us to the Greenhouse Die Set. The die cuts the greenhouse to 3 & 7/8″ x 5 & 1/8″. Big enough for a shaped card!

Thinking it would be fun to “walk into” the green house, I die-cut a piece of wood-block pattern paper with the detailed Greenhouse die and glued that to a piece of thick vellum die-cut with the Greenhouse outline die. I die-cut another detail die from the same vellum, colored it with an alcohol marker, and glued it on the back of the vellum (the inside) to cover up the glue from the front piece. I die-cut the Blue background with the outline die and then added the structure and shelves with 1/8″ strips of the same wood-block pattern paper. I tried to match the inside structure to the detail die structure (minus the arch).

I die-cut all the decorative dies from my card stock scraps. All the detail dies layer together to make a cat, a large-leaf potted plant with a decorated pot, and two types of hanging plants in macrame hangers. That wasn’t quite enough for me so I used the pot-pattern die to make a bunch of new greenery that I glued into a simple “tray” cut from brown card stock. The flowers are die-cut from Yellow and Orange card stock scraps with the small flower die in the House Plants set and their centers are die-cut from the triple-bud die in the You Grow Girl set. I die-cut some extra pots and another small “tray” of seedlings using the small round-leaf dies used in the hanging plant on the right.

I wanted something to “hang” the plants on, so I die-cut six small Dark Grey dots with the tiny dot die and glued them to the intersections of the inside beams, and modified one for the cat’s nose. I placed the hanging plants on their “nails” and glued all the other plants in place. I stamped and embossed the sentiment on the front as usual and added the cat at the door using some dry adhesive. I didn’t worry about covering up the back of the cat because there’s a door there!

I cut a 1/4″ wide piece of vellum to 2.75″ long and scored two fold lines (very close together) down the center. I creased the vellum on both score lines and glued that to the front and back panels as my hinge. The double crease allows for some thickness inside the card without warping the front. For a final touch, I cut a scrap of White card stock with the Greenhouse outline die, trimmed 1/8″ from all the edges, and glued that to the back of the card for a writing surface. Admittedly, there’s a lot of small fiddly dies here, and that’s generally not my go-to method for card making. But there is definitely a certain allure in holding a tiny potted plant in a macrame hanger in the palm of your hand!

That’s a pretty thorough examination of the plain Hero Kit – now we can add in the Super Hero supplies and go all out. Of course, there was that cat stamp from the House Plant set that was taxing my brain – this is the only image in this whole kit that is viewed from above – the perspective just doesn’t work with the plants… I think this may help:

Skip the plants entirely and go for the cuddles!! I stamped, colored and die-cut another cat (orange tabby) the same as the first cat. Then I cut both cats from between their tails and ears, to their face and along the bottom of their front paws to their pits. That allows the two cats to be intertwined together in a cuddly embrace! That works well with this sentiment from the Hello Beautiful Stamp and Cut set along with the thank you sentiment from the House Plant set. I thought this whole idea would work best on a square card!

I die-cut more Mixed Media card stock with an old LDRS Fancy Squares and Little Things die and cut a black frame from the larger die in the set and glued them together. I stamped and embossed both sentiments as usual directly on the card front. I did give a little bit more of a curve to the large sentiment. I cut a panel of Auburn Pearlescent card stock to 4″ x 4″ and glued that to a 4.25″ square card base. I glued the stamped panel to the card front and added the intertwined cats with a spot of foam tape on the top of their heads, and their tails glued flat to the card front. A couple of tiny Copper jewels highlights the sentiment and gives us some sparkle. I really like using that cat stamp like this!

I figured I’d spend a little more time with the silhouette stamps in the You Go Girl stamp and cut set…

I decided to shoot for a little more of a watercolor effect for these stamps so I colored the stamps with my TomBow markers and gave them a light spritz of water before stamping them on more Mixed Media card stock. The flowers took a few stampings to get to their final color and then I die-cut all the blooms with their matching dies.

I die-cut an oval from a 4.25″ x 5.5″ panel of Mixed Media card stock with a HA Oval Nested Frame die-cut and arranged my bouquet before stamping the stems with Twisted Citron Distress Oxide ink. The stem stamps are not as long as I needed, so I extended their length by hiding the seams behind the sentiment. I die-cut the oval frame from Green card stock using the original Oval die and the next smaller die and glued that to the stamped oval. I glued all the flowers in place at the end of their stems, and stamped, embossed, die-cut and stacked the sentiment (+2 blanks) as usual.

I took the leftover panel of Mixed Media card stock (with the oval cut out) and embossed that with a Taylored Expressions Burlap embossing folder and ink blended a little Twisted Citron ink around the edges. I glued that to an A2 White card base and pieced the stamped oval back into the opening. I glued the sentiment in place (covering the stem seams) and added some HA Clear Enamel Dots for some highlights. Using watercolor markers to color your stamps is a fun way to hint at watercoloring without completely abandoning the fact that these are stamps.

That covers a couple of the sentiments from the Hello Beautiful Stamp and Cut set – time for the Fresh Flowers Die set!

I do believe this card uses every single die in this set! Again, I reached for my card stock scraps to die-cut all the layers of flowers, stems, and leaves, and assembled all the blooms using light touches of Alcohol Markers for some subtle shading. I do think I am getting better at matching my Ohuhu Alcohol markers to my colored card stocks! After a good amount of wrangling, I came up with a pleasing arrangement and gathered the stems in a bunch to go into our vase which I die-cut from a piece of Tim Holtz Metallic Jewels kraft-core card stock.

I took a 4.25″ x 5.5″ panel of Hero Hues Kiwi card stock and die-cut that with a Waffle Flower Tiny Diamonds Die and glued it down to a White card base. I stamped, embossed and die-cut the sentiment on a scrap of Kiwi card stock along with two blanks and stacked them together. I glued the flower stems behind the vase and glued the vase and blooms flat to the card front. The thickness of the card stocks gives us plenty of dimension in the arrangement without having to use any foam tape. The sentiment is glued on top of the vase and I added more HA Clear enamel dots to some of the flower petals since they are so “fresh”. This is a great die set with lots of variety if you like die-cutting flowers! There are many types of flowers and leaves, and the stem dies are long enough that you can fill up a big 5″ x 7″ card or even a tall Slim-line card quite easily!

I do like that a number of the sentiment dies in the Hello Beautiful stamp set are single dies but will cut out the individual words on some of the larger sentiments! That’s very handy!

And that gives us the Watering Can Die Set in the Super Hero kit – looks like the same watering can as the stamp in the House Plants Stamp and Die set only larger.

On a 4.25″ x 5.5″ panel of Mixed Media card stock (and with the help of my MISTI) I stamped the Watering Can from the House Plants Stamp set in a simple pattern using HA Fruit Punch, Creamsicle, Lemon Drop, Green Apple, Blue Hawaii, and Purple Galaxy Reactive inks. I trimmed that panel to 4″ x 5.25″ and added a thin black mat before gluing them down to a White card base. Makes a perfect background for this die-cut Watering Can!

I die-cut the Watering Can from Light Grey card stock and glued the pieces together before doing some ink blending on the can with Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink and some HA Unicorn White pigment ink. Since the can was cut from thin card stock, it was quite flimsy, so I die-cut another whole can from Dark Grey card stock and glued it behind the grey can with a little offset on the bottom and left sides. That adds strength to the die cut and a little more dimension as well. The opening at the top of the can was left open for the plants. The plants are cut from three shades of Green with the darkest shade glued to the backs (with a little offset) of all the leaves. I glued all the plants in the can opening and added a patch of Black card stock behind the opening.

The sentiment is stamped on more Mixed Media card stock with VersaFine Onyx Black ink and embossed with Clear embossing powder and die-cut with the matching die. I die-cut one more blank sentiment and glued the two together. I attached the can to the card front with foam tape down the center and the handle and spout glued flat. There is a touch of foam tape behind the far right and far left leaves as well. I glued the sentiment directly under the can and added the happy birthday sentiment from the House Plants Stamp set on the inside. More Plantastic Birthday Cards!

Of course there is another Birthday sentiment in the Hello Beautiful Stamp set. A nice BIG sentiment!

I decided to return to the You Grow Girl Stamp set since I hadn’t spent any serious time with these silhouette pot stamps, and I actually haven’t used any masks for a flat one-layer card this month. I used Cincord & 9th inks for the pots – first I stamped the round pot with Poppy and Cranberry inks and cut a mask to cover that pot. Then I stamped the large pot with Buttercup and Stardust inks and the right pot with Oceanside and Peacock inks. I masked off the plants on the watering can stamp and stamped the can with C&9 Mushroom ink. I did have to complete the top of the can and handle and used a simple circle template for assistance.

I masked off the tops of the pots and stamped the plants in them with C&9th Parsley, Clover and Evergreen inks. Again, that Cone Flower stamp works perfectly well stamped upside down in the red pot! I reached for the “Ice Rink” stamp from the MMH October 2018 kit, masked off the potted plants and watering can and stamped that with Oceanside ink – there’s a puddle!! I colored the can and the puddle with my Tombow markers and a wet paint brush.

I decided where the sentiments would go and die-cut the colored panel to 4.5″ x 3.25″ with a LFSRdie. I created the sub-sentiment using my Silhouette Software and the Times New Roman font. I printed that directly on the panel using my piggy-back printing method. I stamped and embossed the HB sentiment as usual directly to the card front. I added a thin Black mat and a thicker Hero Hues Arctic mat behind the stamped panel and glued everything down to an A2 White card base. Finally, I added some highlights to the puddle with a White Gel pen. This has got to be one of my favorite plant puns… and with the addition of the watering can in this set, I just couldn’t resist!

And before you know it, that’s all ten of my cards created with the My Monthly Hero and Super Hero kits for April 2026.

Look at that! We’ve got Four Birthday cards this month! I guess that’s not too surprising seeing as how there are three different Happy Birthday sentiment stamps in this set! I am pleased that we had a decent amount of coloring to do this month, but I have to admit I do find it a bit tedious fiddling around with layering dies to create (rather smallish) flowers, and then you have to arrange them in a pleasant bouquet! I do try my best, but I am NOT a florist! HA!! I really enjoyed figuring out a logical use for the cat stamp, and I truly love opening the “door” and “walking” into my green house! The Hello Beautiful Stamp and Cut has a bunch of terrific sentiments, and the three die sets are good fun and offer lots of possibilities, but, I am always up for more coloring!!

If you are tired of this endless winter and are longing for spring, you might like to grab one of these kits for yourself. And for a change, just buying the My Monthly Hero kit this month isn’t compromised by needing something in the Super Hero kit. If you do go shopping at Hero Arts – for these Kits or anything else – please use my links listed below – I do get a small commission from anything you buy at HA (at no cost to you!) and that helps keep the plants sprouting and the crafty inspiration coming! It is, as always, genuinely appreciated!

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