Hero Arts June My Monthly Hero Kit - Landscape Dies

I'm playing with the Hero Arts' My Monthly Hero June kit again today.  I've already used that gorgeous northern lights background stamp, but today I wanted to focus on the dies.

There are two landscape dies in the kit that layer together to create the sweetest scene.

For my first card, I used mostly inking to create my scene pieces.  The mountains were cut from a piece of gray cardstock, and I added shading to the bottom of the piece using Altenew black ink.

The second scene piece was cut from white cardstock, and I inked the top portion with a Altenew Evergreen ink, and the bottom with Altenew Forest Glades ink.

For the background piece, I used a piece of blue cardstock, and added Altenew Tide Blue and Razzleberry ink to create the shading.  I actually inked a single piece of cardstock, inking from the center out in both directions.  This piece was then cut in half, half was used for the sky, and the other half for the water.

I did use a bit of coloring for the little house to really make it pop.  I cut the front background piece a second time from white cardstock and then fussy cut the house which was colored with Copics and adhered to the top of the inked die cut piece.  The roof, windows, and door were also colored with Copics and inlaid into the base piece.  There are a couple of roof details that are part of the scene itself, and I just colored those areas with a white gel pen to make them white.

The mountain piece was adhered directly to the sky background, and the trees/house piece was popped up with foam dots.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts' Floral Rose Stem set.

This second card is very similar to the first, but this time I partially die cut the house/trees background piece so that the bottom part didn't cut, but becomes a panel with a die cut top.

The mountains and trees/house layer were adhered to a piece of Doodlebug paper.

The sentiment is from an older My Favorite Things set and was embossed on the patterned paper panel.

This one was so quick and easy and you could easily mass produce it.

I really feel like I've only scratched the surface with this kit and there are so many more cards to create!