Hello! It’s time to announce our first round winners for this month’s contest, and we’ve had lots of fabulous entries. Our monthly theme seemed to get your creative juices flowing, and we have some gorgeous winning cards to share with you today. So… drumroll please…

This month’s Fresh Face is Tracy Ercole. Her striking monochromatic birthday card packs a real punch with its simple combination of stamps, die cuts and ribbon. A truly beautiful card.

Our digital winner is momi0314 with this fun card featuring REAL chocolate!! She used ‘A Sweet Birthday‘ digikit for the background, cake and sentiment, making this a true hybrid card which we LOVE!

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.

First, we have another card featuring real food… noonuh created this amazing interactive card with the Have a Donut set, adding crushed peanut pieces to her delicious looking donut. So clever!

This interactive birthday card from clmlcc (Cindy C.) is simply delightful with its colorful paper pieced balloons and hidden message. Cindy even created a video showing how the interactive element works — you can check it out HERE. Talk about clever and fun!

lodynski created this sweet friendship card using our challenge colors. We love the texture added by the feather and seam binding, and her beautifully embossed silhouette.

ima dz2 (Daria) has made this gorgeous birthday card using the May challenge colors and our Luscious Bold Flowers set. Her embossed and inked layered flower is simply spectacular.

And finally, swanlady21 * Janet with this clean and simple masterpiece. Her use of Distress markers on the butterfly, Distress inks for the polka dots, and Distress stains on the ribbon make for a beautifully coordinated 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, May 31st. You can look through our online store to create your list. Please include “May2012A 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!

If you too would like to win a Hero Arts shopping spree, our May contest is still going! Tag your entries with May2012B and upload them to our flickr pool before the deadline of May 31st. Best of luck!

And finally, before we go, let’s see what our talented hostesses have been creating this month… click on the circle to be taken to the full card. And remember to leave them some love while you’re there.

Cards by Cheiron, Marcy, Kathy, and Emily

Happy stamping!

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