Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero: August 2024 Challenge

Welcome to a new Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero Challenge! Our theme for August is "Sugar Sugar" – we have a sweet tooth! We want to see anything that is sweet – cakes, chocolates, ice cream, fruit, honey, hot chocolate, or make a card for your sweetheart. Anything sweet is welcome!

Here's some beautiful inspiration from our design team. You can follow the links below each card to discover even more ideas from these talented artists.

Hannelie Bester

You can find Hannelie on Instagram and her blog.

Kanan Pandya

You can find Kanan on Instagram and her blog.

Kate Deignan

You can find Kate on Instagram.

Kimberly Wiener

You can find Kimberly on Instagram and her blog.

Lara Rizzotto

You can find Lara on Instagram and her blog.

Meg Brooks

You can find Meg on Instagram and her blog.

Michelle Lupton

You can find Michelle on Instagram, her blog, and YouTube.

Michelle Peckham

You can find Michelle on Instagram.

Miriam Chessum

You can find Miriam on Instagram and her blog. Sadly, this is Miriam's last project on our design team – thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us this year, Miriam!

Trina Pham

You can find Trina on Instagram and her blog.

Amy Tsuruta

You can find Amy on Instagram and her blog.

Andrew Granick is taking a break this month. You can find Andrew on Instagram.

BreAnn Loveland

You can find BreAnn on Instagram.

Ceal Pritchett

You can find Ceal on Instagram, Facebook, and her blog.

Colleen Balija

You can find Colleen on Instagram, YouTube and her blog.

Essie Cards

You can find Essie on Instagram and her blog.

Now it's your turn – how will you interpret the challenge theme? Use the InLinkz tool right at the bottom of this post to link up your newly created card (no backlinks, please), and you will be entered into our draw. We will be giving a $50 gift card randomly to one person who plays along, and another $50 gift card to one of our favourites!

To link up your new project that fits the challenge theme, you need to share it publicly somewhere you can copy the link – this can be your blog, Instagram, a Flickr account, your Splitcoast gallery – anywhere that allows you to have a URL or website location to link up, and where we can see your post.

All products are welcome, but if you want to be in with a chance to win, please use at least one Hero Arts designed product (stamp – physical or digital, stencil, die, rub-on or hot foil plate).

Entries must be submitted by September 1st at 5:00pm PT to be eligible for the giveaway. Scroll down to find the linkup. If you share your project on social media, we'd like you to use the #heroarts and #staycraftychallenge hashtags, please! Due to recent changes on Instagram, please also tag @ablognamedhero so we will definitely see your post!

We love leaving comments on your entries, but sometimes that is not possible. Please be assured that we have visited each of your posts, whether it be a blog, Instagram, Flickr or somewhere else, but some platforms may limit comments or only allow comments from members. The best way to allow us to comment is to link up to your Instagram post, and tag @ablognamedhero.

Enter our contest by linking your new project below! Please enter your name in the caption area. By linking your project, you are giving us permission to feature your card on our blog, social media or newsletter, crediting you as the artist.

In July, our challenge theme was "Color my World", and our gallery was like a rainbow of happy colour!

Our random winner of a $50 Hero Arts voucher is Jenni Shamblin with this bright and cheerful Christmas card. She used an older floral Hero Arts stencil, as well as a Stamp & Cut set.