Hello friends! Today we’re sharing the second batch of winners from our January contest. And I know you’ve heard us say this so many times in the past - how extremely difficult it is to choose just seven winners from so many incredible entries - and this month was the same.  Only worse!!  There were about 350 entries uploaded to the Hero Arts Flickr site for the second half of the contest. And 200+ entries in the first half. Wow!!  You all clearly enjoy making Valentines.

Our first winner is our Fresh Face, and it goes to Chriss Blagrave. We just loved her extremely original use of our Fox. Paper pieced with maps!! So much fun. And her handwritten sentiment is just perfect.

Our Digital category winner is this sweet, happy card from stripey fish! She combined the Flourish Background and Birds & Patterns digikits perfectly. And her fun, bright colors tie it all together!

And now onto 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.

Our first Fab Five winner, Disp6194, has such a wonderfully unique design! We love her use of color blocking, and the random placement of hearts from our new Sweet Hearts set is a whimsical delight!

There were several lovely entries from lavender&roses - Susanne, all combining the Simple Frame, La Lettre and Untitled Heart stamps with birds. They were all beautiful, making it difficult to decide which one to highlight! So head on over to Flickr and check out the others here and here.

We were blown away by Melania Deasy’s sweet ensemble! Our Newspaper Owl looks fabulous among all the treats. And Melania did a wonderful job with the color challenge! There are detailed photos of all the items in her photostream, go on in for a closer look!

Next is a clean and simple masterpiece from Our Change of Art! The big red heart is such a fabulous pop of color combined with the simply black and white stamped Bicycle.

And we wrap up with another black and white, clean and simple beauty, this time from Simone Naoum. We love how she layered the Etched Medallion. And her addition of the love sentiment from Live Life finishes off this elegant card.

Congratulations winners! Please contact us at winner@heroarts.com with your address and phone number, and also include your list of $50 worth of product by Thursday, February 9th. You can look through our online store to create your list. Please include “January2012B 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!

Our February contest is underway, and first round entries are due in our Flickr pool by next Thursday, February 9 at 11:59pm PST.

We hope you’ll play along, there are a lot of great prizes up for grabs! View all of the details on our contest page.

Thanks for stopping by! Lucy will be back tomorrow to finish up the week!

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