Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero: December 2024 Challenge
Posted by Michelle Lupton on December 06, 2024

Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero: December 2024 Challenge

Welcome to a new Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero Challenge! Our theme this month is "Deck the Hall" – we want to see cards for the festive season! Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, New Year, Hogmanay, Festivus, Newtonmas, any festivity you like!

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

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.

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.

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.

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 January 5th 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 November, our challenge theme was "We are family", and our gallery was filled with lots of cards for those we hold near and dear!

Our random winner of a $50 Hero Arts voucher is Ellen C with this art gallery of a card!

Our Design Team favourite winner of a $50 Hero Arts voucher is Lisa Bruemmer with this "sentimental" Christmas tree!

Please email us at info@heroarts.com with "Stay Crafty Challenge Winner" in the subject to claim your prize.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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