Hello, and welcome to our April Round 2 Winners post! We’ve loved this month, and as ever, had a really tough time choosing our favorites from the many pages of wonderful entries. But we’ve narrowed it down, and here are our picks this time.

First up, we have Vera Rhuhay, who created a stunning layout complete with plenty of girly details. She used stamps from our Love Jar set, combining them with sequins, twine and pretty papers. We think this is jaw-droppingly gorgeous!

Next, ivgupta(Isha), with this mixed media journal created for her daughters. The Etched Medallion stamp simply pops off the page with its delicious red tones.

cjmdd used our Big Owl printable to create this super fun backpack for her son. What a brilliant idea - we just love all the colors she has added!

This feminine card by Virginia L. is super stylish. Virginia used a number of sentiments from our Be Silly set to create her own custom message. Such fun.

And how about some delicate stamping on vellum by Angela Maine. This lovely Mother’s Day card features our Floral Stamp and Die-Cut set, along with some of our Blush Designer Paper. Such a pretty combination.

And finally, it’s time to announce our random winner, chosen from all the entries tagged with April2013B. This time it is:

Kim 52

Winners, congratulations! 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 9th. You can look through our online store to create your list. Please include “April2013B 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 haven’t heard, we kicked off a big new Stamp Your Story contest yesterday — you can find the contest details HERE!

Have a very happy day, and we’ll see you tomorrow for the Stamp Your Story Blog Hop!

Hello, and welcome to Social Club. Given that this week’s Stamp of the Week is an alphabet set, we thought that today it would be fun to feature some fabulous cards that use alphabet stamps and dies! So, we turned to our talented Flickr friends, and here is what we found…

This brilliant card by Emily Leiphart uses our Stepping Stone Alphabet set, along with lots of other stamps, to create a funny and original sentiment. We LOVE this card!

hamiltonkim55 used the Alphabet Uppercase dies on her fun banner card. We just love the way she has added faux stitching to each letter.

And finally, a pastel beauty by erintaylor1. She also created a banner and ended up with a lovely mixed font sentiment for her pretty card. We think the solid Stepping Stone Alphabet stamps look beautiful embossed in pink!

Ladies, we love your cards. And as a special thank you for sharing them, we would like to give you our Fun and Funky Letters digikit. We hope you enjoy playing with it.

Please send us an email and we’ll send your digikit to you - our winners’ address is located on the sidebar. If  you’d like a Social Club blinkie for your blog, just tell us in your email.

Finally, just a quick reminder that tonight is the deadline round 2 of our April contest.

Submit your entries to our Flickr pool by 11:59pm PST tonight and you could win a $50 Hero Arts shopping spree!

Thanks for visiting, and happy stamping,

Welcome to the first winners’ post for April. We’ve loved all the girly cards in the pool this month, and enjoyed seeing the way you have played with our sketch and used our printables. And we’ve had pages and pages of entries for this round… so, let’s get on with announcing our winners for round 1!

First up, it’s Glenda J, with this fun and bright birthday card. We love the sparkly butterfly created with Prisma Glitter, the pretty pearls and the white embossed sentiment.

ChristineKartenchaos has colored the butterfly from our Flutterbies Printable beautifully on this happy friendship card. It certainly brought a smile to our faces.

Next, a very glitzy, girly birthday card from Agata Dag. The colors, embossed Number Pattern background and amazing partial die cutting make this card a knockout. Wow!

Sally_sherfield used our sketch to create this pretty tag birthday card. The combination of softly stamped backgrounds, ribbon, pearls and butterfly is a real winner on a girly card!

And this collage style card by lbpost20 uses our Skyland Birds Printable along with a lovely stamped and inky background. We just love this combination…

And finally, it’s time to announce our random winner chosen from all the entries to this round. Drumroll… it’s:

(Pam) fluffybear

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 by Thursday, April 25th. You can look through our online store to create your list. Please include “April2013A 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!

And don’t forget, the April contest continues. The deadline for round 2 is midnight PST on April 25th. So get stamping!!

Enjoy your day,

Hello, and welcome to Social Club. Today we’ve gone all Spring-y, and have three beautiful projects to share with you chosen from our Flickr pool that all use lovely soft pastel colors. Pastels are the perfect choice at this time of the year, and, of course, fit in perfectly with our Just for Her April contest theme.

First to be showcased on Social Club today is Nina (waffleflower.com) who has used stamps from our Let Them Eat Cake set to create a sweet tea party scene. Isn’t her color combination as delightful as can be?

mammacooksalot..Laura Jane used a range of tiny stamps to decorate some real eggs. We think her Spring basket must have looked beautiful as an Easter Sunday table centerpiece.

And finally, Limedoodle, whose sweet Thank You card uses stamps and a die from our On the Go Bike set. We just love the way she has used all the colors from the Summer Splash Ink Cubes Set on this stylish CAS card.

Ladies - your creations took our breath away. And to thank you, we would like to send you our Instant Messaging digikit which has 20 mixed font sentiments in pretty pastel colors.

Please send us an email and we’ll send your digikit to you - our winners’ address is located on the sidebar. If  you’d like a Social Club blinkie for your blog, just tell us in your email.

And finally, just a quick reminder that tonight is the deadline for Round 1 of our April contest.

After midnight PST tonight, please tag entries with April2013B. All contest details can be found here on the contest page. We look forward to seeing what YOU create throughout the month!

Have a great day, and happy stamping,

Hello, and welcome to our second March winners’ post. The entries for round two were equally as stunning as those for round one, and judging was as hard as ever. But we have chosen our top five, and selected our random winner, so all that is left is to announce them all!

First up this time is Papierstau by Sanna Lippert. This gorgeous little work of art features colors from our color challenge, and a number of our stamps, beautifully layered on top of each other. This card has such an artistic look and we think it is perfect.

Jaclyn Miller created this fun card for our letter tiles challenge. Using a typewriter key from our Type set to create a caterpillar is just about as creative as you can get! What a brilliant idea!!

Asty p. used the colors from March’s color challenge to create these sweet treat baskets. She heat embossed the Zig Zag and Lattice backgrounds before inking with lots of distress inks. Such a pretty effect.

Laura O’Donnell used our Garden Flower Sketches digikit to create this pretty Hello Spring card. We love the clean and simple look she has gone for. Doesn’t that vase of Spring blooms look gorgeous…

And finally, a pretty pastel creation by sarahgray71, featuring four of our challenge colors. She created a stunning watercolor look to her card which we just love.

And now, our random winner, chosen from all of the entries to this round. This time, the winner is:

Paperella

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, April 11th. You can look through our online store to create your list. Please include “March2013B 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, now that March is over, it’s time to get creating for our April contest! This month’s theme is Just for Her, so we’re looking for lots of girly, feminine cards. We also have a sketch challenge to play with, and our technique for the month is creating with our digital printables. All of the contest details can be found over on the contest page.

Good luck, and happy stamping,

Hello, and welcome to Social Club. Since this week’s Stamp of the Week is actually not a stamp but our Flourish Fancy Die, we thought we’d devote this week’s Social Club to checking out what YOU have done with our Fancy Dies and Frame Cuts. So, we turned to our talented Flickr friends, and here is a small sample of what we found! (Seriously, there’s inspiration a-plenty over in our fabulous Flickr pool… in fact, there’s over 80,000 beautiful works of art, and counting!)

So, our first card is by paperpicnic (Jayne). She used both our popular Large Tag and Layered Hearts Frame Cuts, cutting the heart from the center of the tag! So pretty!

Next, a super fun card by Stampin Sue. Sue’s use of our Phrase Bubbles Frame Cuts is genius, and we just love seeing so many of our sentiment stamps on one card.

And last but not least, a brilliantly clever one layer card by nancyljk. Nancy used the larger of our Long and Cute Tags to create a mask… with wonderful results!

Aren’t these cards just stunning. To reward these ladies for sharing their work with us, we would like to send each of them our Caption Art digikit.

Ladies, send us an email using the address on the sidebar and we will email you the kit. We hope you enjoy it.

And finally for today, just a quick reminder that the deadline for entries to our March contest is tonight at 11:59pm PST. Check out the contest details here. We can’t wait to see what you create!

Happy Stamping,

Hello and welcome to our first winners post for March! Our Flickr pool has been filled with flowers this month as we welcome Spring, and we have really enjoyed seeing the ways you have interpreted our color challenge and letter tiles technique. So, let’s see who has caught our judges’ eyes this time around…

The first of our Fab Five is dahlhousedesigns (lisa) who used our color challenge colors beautifully on this stunning Spring card. Her use of colored pencils really gives the Blooming Meadow stamp a soft feel and we just love it.

Wteresa15 also combined challenges, using the letter tiles technique on her fun and clever Spring card. And check out how many different stamps she has used on one card! WOW!

And how about this sweet little Hello card by CreationsBy(Martha). The vintage feel of the lady from our Sew Perfect set is perfectly matched by the seam binding and pretty color scheme. Cute!

Linda van Vliet chose to work with two of our challenge colors and our Pop Stems stamp on her fabulous card. We think the way she inked part of the background is genius.

And finally, a bright and cheery Hello from lostinpaper. We simply adore her layered vellum Bold Pop Designs butterfly.

Our random winner for this contest is:

Leni4jjc

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, March 28th. You can look through our online store to create your list. Please include “March2013A 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!

And remember that our March contest continues. Second round entries are due by 11:59pm PST next Thursday, March 28. We look forward to seeing your creations!

Happy Stamping,

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Social Club. Did you know that in addition to our monthly contests, some of our fabulous Flickr friends run Scramble challenges once every two weeks over in the Hero Arts Flickr Group? The themes are different each time, and for each challenge, you have 90 minutes to create a card and upload it to our pool to be in with a chance of winning a Hero Arts digikit, and often a prize from the Scramble hostess as well. And it’s such fun! A really great way to challenge yourself to create something in a limited time frame. Plus, if it fits, you can enter your creation into the monthly contest too.

So today we thought we’d highlight some of our favorite cards from last weekend’s Scramble, which was hosted by Linda Wetterlin. The theme was embossing.

Our first card for today is by Virginia L. And doesn’t it just brighten YOUR day? What a way to send a greeting to a friend and we LOVE her two-tone embossed Heart Butterflies.

The partial dry embossing on this elegant friendship card by Rosemary D really makes this card pop. So beautiful and dreamy…

And finally, a beauty by krolski (Kathy) which features both heat and dry embossing. Don’t you just love her inked Everything Flower panel.

Ladies, your cards are gorgeous - it is amazing what you can create in just 90 minutes. Our Social Club prize for this week is our brand new One-Of-A-Kind Digikit, perfect for your Spring and Easter creations…

Winners, please send us an email using our address on the sidebar and we’ll send you your digikit. And let us know if you’d like a Social Club blinkie for your blog as well.

We’d like to say a big thank you to all of the Scramble challenge hostesses and participants for making these events such fun. You can find details of upcoming Scramble challenges HERE in the master list. We hope you’ll join the fun!

Happy stamping,

Hello, and a very warm welcome to our second February winners’ post. February was a lovely, romantic, lacy month for our Flickr pool, and we have thoroughly enjoyed judging all your fabulous entries. So, let’s get straight to it, and announce today’s wonderful winners!

The first of our Fab Five today is Alice W. (Aliceh83), with a card for our lace theme. Alice decided to add a modern twist to our Lace Background stamp - and we think she nailed it.

Next, GPAHandmade who tackled two of our challenges for the month, combining an interpretation of the sketch with a fun fold card. (See the fun fold part HERE.) George used the popular faux blackboard technique for his sentiment panel, creating a custom sentiment with our It’s Your Day clear stamp set.

This fabulous one layer card by smalltcreations is our next winner. The hearts from a number of different sets were stamped in different colors of our Shadow Inks, and we think it looks FANTASTIC.

Our fourth winner this time is suzdahlberg, who has used a little touch of lace in the form of a doily on her pretty friendship card. We love the way our True Friendship stamp is the star of the show on this beautiful creation.

And the last of our Fab Five is mamacooksalot..Laura Jane, with her elegant tri-fold card featuring a perfectly colored stamp from our Flower Blossom Border set. Isn’t it sweet the way the sentiment is hidden on the inside… what a lovely surprise for the recipient.

And finally for today, our random winner. Drumroll….. It’s

Judyt28

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, March 14th. You can look through our online store to create your list. Please include “February2013B 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!

And now it’s time to get going on your entries for our March contest (if you haven’t already started!). We’re welcoming Spring this month, and have a fun color combination for you to work with too. And our featured technique is letter tiles which you can learn all about in Shari’s cool video HERE.  All the details for our March contest can be found on the contest page.

Wishing you a wonderfully inky day,

Thanks. It seems such a small word, but it means so much. Today we’d like to share with you an act of kindness and appreciation that truly touched our hearts.

It all began during the Hero Hostess Blog Hop back in January. Unbeknown to us, the Hostesses hatched a plan to create thank you cards and send them to all (yes, all!) of the employees at Hero Arts. In early February, a box brimming with the most beautiful handmade cards was delivered to our headquarters in Richmond, California. What happened next? They say a picture is worth a thousand words so we’ll show you…

Aren’t they wonderful? We want to again thank the Hostesses who shared these cards with us. You brought a whole lot of happiness to Hero Arts. Big hugs to you all!

Since today is the last day of the month, we’re also happy to announce our two $50 Wish List Shopping Spree Winners, randomly chosen from all of the blog comments we received last month.

• Brenda Lubrant with her comment on January 15: “I love the truck full of hearts love card. That would be perfect to give to a male.”

• Irene Talaasen with her comment on January 11: “Cute photo and darling card!! The dotted scarf is Sally’s, the floral kind of one is Shari’s and the stripes are Lisa. Hope I am right!!”

Congratulations, Brenda and Irene! Please email us at the winner’s address located over in the sidebar and we’ll get you all set up to shop. For a chance to win one of next month’s shopping sprees, simply join the Hero Club (it’s free!), then comment here on the blog throughout the month. Each comment you leave gives you a chance at the prize!

Thanks for stopping by today. See you tomorrow for the start of a new month and a new contest!