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I have an unhealthy obsession with matchboxes as craft supplies. Just search matchbox on my blog sidebar and you will see. 

So the theme of this month's Hero Arts kit is right up my alley. It's a valentine themed kit, but it has both a 2D matchbox that looks 3D in the kit AND a 3D matchbox die in the kit!

The dies are phenomenal - my fave is this little match - arsonists - look away! It's SO cute! I colored it with OLO Markers and combined it with the matchbox die and the stripey stencil for this adorable little gift box. THINK of all the things you can do with a match die. I of course have some very twisted ideas I'll do later, but today I behaved and made Valentines!

Also in the kit is the following - SO cute - especially the happy mail and gummy bear! LOVE the little postage die too - you will be seeing that  in my future.

Among the add-ons is a sweet varied heart background. I wanted to see if I could turn the solid hearts into outlines with a dendritic effect like I get on a gel plate. So I started with a brayer cleaning sheet, since it was coated with non-porous acrylic paint, which really helps with the dendritic effect. 

White pigment ink behaves like paint, so I heavily inked up the stamp in Unicorn ink and stamped it several times on the background. Because the paint is non-porous, when the inked stamp is lifted, it leaves little voids in the center of the solid hearts, creating little outlines!

And lookie - the sentiments have dies! I used the tiny heart die from the kit with this green glitter paper for contrast.

Here's yesterday's sneak peek from yesterday with this pink glitter paper. Look how real it looks!

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Now do you want to see something fun to do with matchboxes? Check out this tutorial I did ELEVEN YEARS AGO OMG. I am old. Pardon the strange video size - this was prior to HD and it's formatted for television for when I had a TV show on a local channel :)

Here are all the add-ons this month, including the 3D matchbox.

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