Everyone needs a little shine in their lives during the festive season, and this stunning collection of sparkling goodness is a feast for the eyes. We have had hundreds of beautiful entries for Round 1 of this month’s challenge, and here are our winners.

In the Fresh Face category, pinkvina25’s gift bag really caught our eye. She used the challenge colors to perfection in this sweet project, and her shaker Snow Globe is an absolute triumph. A gift in itself don’t you think?

Our digital winner, Flowergal36, has colored our Kris Kringle digital stamp with Copics using the challenge color scheme. Her incredible coloring adds such dimension to this beautiful card. We love it!

And now, our fab five, five of our favorite projects, presented in no particular order. Just like our Fresh Face and Digital winners, every member of the Fab Five will receive a $50 Hero Arts shopping spree.

Joy has used just about every method possible to add shine to her card: glitter glue, Glossy Accents and gemstones. We love the way she has combined the mistletoe and bauble from our Magic of Christmas set.

Cindy’s Thank You card is oh-so-beautiful. Delicious colors and the subtle shimmering additions make our flower stamp sparkle.

This card by Lin combines both the Color and Adding Shine elements of the challenge. Our Sending Holiday Cheer houses never looked so festive and sweet and we LOVE the Stickle snowflakes…

Isha has used our Baby Reindeer stamp to create this fabulous winter table decoration. How adorable are the reindeer’s scarves!

And finally, Natalie’s collage effect card makes use of the all 5 colors from our Color Challenge. So much texture and dimension on this lovely creation.

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 online store to create your list.  Please include “December2010A 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!

This month’s challenge has definitely inspired you all to create, and we are LOVING the results. Our Flickr pool is full of beautiful shimmery projects. But we are ready for more! Round 2 of our Giving Thanks and Color Challenge ends on 30th December at 11:59pm PST, so there’s still plenty of time to add in your creation.  Tag your project with December2010B and add it to our Flickr pool for a chance to win a Hero Arts shopping spree!

Happy Holidays and Happy Stamping,

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