
This month has been so much fun so far - traveling to distant places, craving yummy foods, skimming through beautiful books - all while sitting at the computer looking through your amazing creations in the Flickr group pool! We hope you’ve been enjoying your time with this month’s themes as much as we are! Here’s what we’ve especially enjoyed…
First let’s meet our Fresh Face from the first half of July - Rina Damay! She entered a bunch of fabulous creations in this month’s contest, including these gorgeous tags and delightful coasters! We love all of the details she added, and the variety of stamps she used. And it looks like she had a lot of fun making them, too. Wonderful work, Rina!


Next up is our Digital category, which vanessa.1978 won with this absolutely gorgeous creation! She combined the Old World Map and Whimsy DigiKits with some traditional stamping to create this hybrid masterpiece.

And now onto our Fab Five - some of our favorite projects this month, presented in no particular order. Just like our Digital and Fresh Face winners, every member of the Fab Five will receive a $50 Hero Arts shopping spree.
This fab creation from batraplume put big smiles on our faces!! We don’t know why the owl is being such a party pooper, the poor little squirrel is just trying to eat a balanced diet. hee hee

Next is a yummy creation from Linda van Vliet. We love the different looks she achieved all from the same Engraved Fruits strawberry stamp. Really gorgeous work, Linda!

Hxnnie (Hannah) had a go at this month’s Bookmaking Technique theme, and we adore the result! She put so much detail into this wonderful little book - you can take a peek at it here. Another fantastic variety of stamps used, too!

We just love how everyone seemed to have lots and lots of fun with their creations this month. Here’s another example - this fun little traveler from Monarch Butterfly2000! She took her little Italian girl (aka one of our dolls!) on a trip to France, where she brought home a baguette, some wine and of course an entire suitcase filled with French fashion! Take a peek at her journey in Monarch Butterfly2000’s photostream! Too cute!!


And finally, an absolutely beautiful trip to the beach with Jacqueline.fr. She says she had some distressed paper scraps lying around so she stamped shells from Antique Engravings. Wow. Really, that’s all we can say - WOW!! Just gorgeous. Scraps have never looked so good!

Congratulations to all the winners!! Please contact us at winner@heroarts.com with your address and phone number, and also include your list of $50 worth of product! You can look through our store HERE to create your list. Please include “July2010A Winner” in the subject line. There are also blog blinkies available for all the winners - if you’d like one, please let us know in your email and we’ll send it along as well!
So have you caught the travel bug yet? Feel like playing with your food? Got an idea for a fabby handmade book? Our July contest is still in full swing until July 29 at 11:59PST, so get your creations uploaded to Flickr! You can read all of the contest details HERE. And a great big thanks to everyone who has played so far. Our Flickr family is the best!
And before we go, let’s check in to see what our wonderful new Hero Hostesses have been up to. “What’s a Hero Hostess,” you say? Read all about it HERE. Then click on the image or the name below to visit the full card and leave a little love!
Cards created by joytaylor1975, “card”rageous (Robin), nancyljk, sugarbuffet, bdengler4 (Barb) and weememories (Jenny).
Happy stamping,
