Happy Friday! This year we are going to mix it up and add some variety and fun to our Fridays here on the blog! One of the features we plan to have from time to time is Fresh Inspiration Friday, where we will provide you with some sort of inspiration to create just for fun.

And so today I will leave you with this photo that may help give you a jump start to some weekend crafting. I just gathered up some supplies in my favorite colors from my craft room and snapped a photo.

We’d love to see what you create that’s somehow inspired by this photo! Please upload your projects to the Hero Arts Flickr Group and include the tag HAinspirationfriday1. Perhaps you could even use this inspiration as a jumping off point for a monthly contest entry? We hope you have fun with it!

And what better way to end this fun week than with a prize announcement! As many of you know, we’ve been giving away monthly $100 Wish List Shopping Sprees for quite some time. This year we’ve decided to spread the joy around even more and will be giving away TWO $50 Wish List Shopping Sprees each month! Just like before, all you need to do enter is be a Hero Club member and leave comments on the blog throughout the month. Each and every comment you leave gives you a chance to win! Be sure to check the blog, because you never know exactly when we’ll announce the lucky winners!

Now, we’d like to congratulate our first winner for this month — Bonnie Anderson! Bonnie, your December 22 blog comment has won you a $50 shopping spree to the Hero Arts Online Store! Please email us at the winner’s address located over in the sidebar and we’ll get you all set up to shop.

Thanks for joining me this week and have a wonderful weekend!