Sunday, February 07, 2016

{Winners} January Theme & Sketch, Mixed Media, CAS Card, and CASEplorations Challenge Winners & Top Picks + Anything Goes Challenge & Inspiration Project Random Winners

We've got JANUARY winners and top picks to announce -- and there're plenty of them!


JANUARY THEME & SKETCH CHALLENGE



Congratulations, Swapna! Please grab your winner badge to display on your blog! Please claim your prize on or before Friday, February 19. Send an email to sheryruss@gmail.com with the subject "STAMPlorations January Challenge winner" and indicate the prize you want: $10 gift certificate or your choice of 1 standard size ARTplorations stencil. We are also looking forward to having you as a Guest Designer in a future challenge!


STAMPlorations January Theme & Sketch Challenge Top Picks
(in numerical order)





Congratulations, ladies! Please grab your top pick badge to display on your blog! Please claim your prize on or before Friday, February 19. Send an email to sheryruss@gmail.com with the subject "STAMPlorations January Challenge top pick" and let us know the prize you want: $5 gift certificate or your choice of 2 digi stamps. We'd also love to have you as Guest Designers in a future challenge. If you would like to guest design, please email sheryruss@gmail.com and we'll send you the challenge info + your personalized STAMPlorations guest designer watermark and blog badge. If you have STAMPlorations stamps, we'd love it if you'd use them in your GD projects. If you don't have our images, your top pick prize is 2 STAMPlorations digi stamps that you can use.


Check out the February Theme & Sketch Challenge. We hope you'll play with us this month!



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JANUARY MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE

Important note for our mixed media players: you must display the challenge graphic in your blog post in order to be voted winner/top pick.



Congratulations, Melissa! Please grab your winner badge to display on your blog! Please claim your prize by Friday, February 19. Send an email to sheryruss@gmail.com with the subject "STAMPlorations/ARTplorations January Mixed Media Challenge winner" and let us know which prize you want: $15 gift certificate or your choice of stencil (either 2 standard size ARTplorations stencils or 1 large ARTplorations stencil).


January Mixed Media Challenge Top Picks
(in numerical order)


#13 Pamellia

#29 Sathya Kala

Congratulations, ladies! Please grab your top pick badge to display on your blog! Please claim your prize by Friday, February 19. Send an email to sheryruss@gmail.com with the subject "STAMPlorations/ARTplorations January Mixed Media Challenge top pick" and indicate the ARTplorations stencil (standard size) you'd like to receive as your prize.


Check out the February Mixed Media Challenge. We hope you'll play with us this month!


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JANUARY CAS CARD CHALLENGE

Important note for our CAS card challenge players: you must display the challenge graphic in your blog post in order to be voted winner/top pick.



Congratulations, Loll! Please grab your winner badge to display on your blog! Please claim your prize by Friday, February 19. Send an email to sheryruss@gmail.com with the subject "STAMPlorations January CAS Card Challenge winner" to receive info on your stamp & stencil pack.


January CAS Card Challenge Top Picks
(in numerical order)





Congratulations, ladies! Please grab your top pick badge to display on your blog! 


RANDOM DRAW WINNER


Congratulations, Lilian! Please claim your prize by Friday, February 19. Send an email to sheryruss@gmail.com with the subject "January CAS Card Challenge random draw winner" and we'll email you your $10 gift certificate.


Check out the February CAS Card Challenge. We hope you'll play with us this month!


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JANUARY CASEplorations CHALLENGE

Congratulations to our winners from the January CASEplorations gallery! What an array of gorgeous projects we had to choose from.

January 2016 Winner





Isn't that notebook cover an amazing CASE of Laura B.'s card? Check out her post to see how she colored her embossing paste.  Congratulations, MacMable! Please claim your prize by Friday, February 19, by sending an email to sheryruss@gmail.com with the subject "CASEplorations January winner" and indicate your preferred prize: a $15 gift certificate or any 3x5" stamp set from the store.







First Runner-Up
Are those watercolored and die cut hearts not to die for? And look at that clean embossing on her sentiment panel.



Second Runner-Up

A different take on Laura B.'s card but absolutely stunning.

Congratulations to the Runners-Up. Please claim your $5 gift certificate to the store by Friday, February 19, by sending an email to sheryruss@gmail.com with the subject "CASEplorations January runner up". 


You may have seen that for 2016 CASEplorations we have made some changes to the challenge. Have you seen the clean card we're CASEing this month? Check out all the deets here.


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NEVER-ENDING ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE

Winner #1
(randomly drawn from entries #1 to #650)
Maria used the Coffee Cup on Books digital stamp freebie


Winner #2
(randomly drawn from entries #651 to #719)
Tami used stamps from Trendy Butterflies and Big Greetings, as well as the Shower of Flutters ARTplorations stencil

Congratulations, ladies! You each win your choice of one (1) 3x5 stamp set (found here) or a $10 gift certificate to the shop. Please claim your prize by Friday, February 19. Send an email to sheryruss@gmail.com with the subject "Anything Goes Challenge winner". Include your preferred prize ($10 gift certificate or one 3" by 5" stamp set) in your email.

Keep creating with STAMPlorations stamps and/or stencils and linking them up to our Anything Goes Challenge. We'll draw two winners when there are 750 projects in the gallery.


Did you create a project where our stamps and/or stencils take the spotlight? Make sure to link it up in our Never-Ending Anything Goes Challenge gallery.



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INSPIRATION PROJECTS RANDOM WINNER

Thank you to everyone who read and comment on our inspiration project posts. We hope you enjoy and are inspired by our projects.

We drew one winner from all the comments left on the January inspiration project posts.

January Winner

MARSHA


Congratulations, Marsha! You win a $10 gift certificate to the shop -- your choice! Please claim your prize on or before Friday, February 19 by sending an email to sheryruss@gmail.com with the subject "January Inspiration Project Random Draw winner".

Comment on the Inspiration Project posts this month to be entered in the February drawing.

11 comments:

  1. Thank u so much for picking me in top picks...SO happy! and so very happy to see many of my indian friends as winners here...Special congratulaitons ladies....Neha, swapna, Nandini, Tanvi, Juhi :) Congrats Pamellia :)

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  2. Thank you for picking up my card. Congratulations to all the winners.

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  3. Thank you! Congratulations to all the winners!

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  4. Wow, thank you so much for choosing my journal page as one of your top picks! I am honoured! Congrats to the other winners as well, gorgeous makes by all! See you again soon. Hugs :)

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  5. Thank you so much for choosing me as your CASEplorations winner this month, thrilled to bits x Congratulations to all the winners and thank you for all the inspiration on the blog x

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  6. Thank you for choosing me as the CAS winner for January!! I'm thrilled! xx

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  7. Thank you for choosing me as the CAS winner for January!! I'm thrilled! xx

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  8. Ohhh soooo lovely - ALL of you did FANTASTIC... Congratulations!!! j.

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  9. I'm a bit behind the times but thank you so much for picking my card as one of the Top Picks for the January CAS Challenge. Absolutely love this new challenge and congratulations to Loll and Nandini for their stunning entries!!

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