April Challenge: Stamps & Numbers

Welcome to the April Challenge, crafty stampers! For April, our theme is STAMPS & NUMBERS. You can interpret the theme however way you see fit: create a project that has number on it or a project inspired by just the word "numbers"...e.g., a birthday card for someone (a 16th or 40th birthday), use 3 images or techniques. Just make sure we can see how your project connects with the theme (no matter how remote).

A friendly reminder: You can use stamps by other companies in projects that you enter to our challenges but we ask that you please not use our challenges for the sole purpose of promoting another stamp company if you are a design team member of that company. If you have our stamps and/or stencils in your stash, we'd be tickled if you use them!

PRIZES

Winner

(voted by the design team)

Prize: 2 stamp sets (3" by 5" / $14 value) of her choice if her project has STAMPlorations stamps in it; 1 stamp set if her entry doesn't have STAMPlorations stamps

+ Guest Designer spot in the June 2015 Challenge

(Visit the shop to see the available stamp sets.)

Top Picks

(voted by the design team)

Prize: 3 digi stamps

+ Guest Designer spot in the June 2015 Challenge should they decide to use STAMPlorations images (digis or clear stamps) in their projects.

Winner and top picks will receive a personalized STAMPlorations guest designer watermark and a personalized guest designer badge to display on their blogs.

FREQUENT PLAYERS
Play in all 3 challenges we host this month (April Challenge, Sketch 31, and Sketch #32) and you'll be in the running to win a STAMPlorations stamp and stencil pack valued at $10. The winner can also opt for a $10 gift certificate to the shop.

INSPIRATION PROJECTS
This month, we have three talented guest designers joining us: Jo Nevill, Jerrie Mead, and Pamellia Johnson. Jo was the February Challenge winner while Jerrie and Mead were the top picks during that month. These ladies created stunning cards for this month's challenge and we're happy to have them here! Please stop by their blogs to say hello and leave them some love :o)

Guest Designer JO

using Vignette: Eclectic Florals

Guest Designer JERRIE

using Bloom Sketches

Guest Designer PAMELLIA

using Texturized: Big Numbers Background (STAMP Lab)

And here are the projects that the STAMPlorations girls created. Clicking on our names will take you to our personal blogs where you can read more about how we created our projects. We hope they'll inspire you and we're excited to see what you create!

SARI

using: VIGNETTE: Celebrate Artsy

LAURAJANE

using:VIGNETTE: Retro Mod Shapes and BOLD SENTIMENTS: Hello

WEI WEI

using ARTplorations Bubbles stencil, Vignette: It's Your Day, and Vignette: Old Type

BECCA

using Vignette: Chevron and Arrows and Texturized: Big Numbers Background (STAMP Lab)

JULIE

using Boxed Blooms and Sentiment Builders: Happy

TENIA

using Mini Mixed Media Backgrounds and Sketched:Simple Gift

READY TO PLAY?

• Create any paper craft that features STAMPS & NUMBERS. Any style is welcome. Link up your project from your blog (or Pinterest board, Flickr account, Splitcoast Stampers gallery) to our gallery by 11:55 p.m. PDT (GMT-7) on Monday, April 27.

• You must use stamps in your project(s) -- rubber, clear, or digi from any company. You do not need to use STAMPlorations stamps to enter this challenge, but please keep this one important rule in mind: if you are on the design team of another stamp company, please don't use our challenges to link up projects that you make for the sole purpose of promoting or advertising your company. Such entries will be deleted. You are welcome to play as long as your project/post is not solely promotional in nature. If you are on the DT of a regular challenge blog (not affiliated with a stamp company), please feel free to link up your projects, including those where you use images provided by whoever is sponsoring your current challenge, if they fit our challenge.

• Link directly to your blog post, not just your blog URL. (This will make it easy for us to find your submission and leave a comment. Please turn off word verification as well.)

• Include a text link back to this challenge post in your blog post to encourage other paper crafters to play too. Entries not linking back to our challenge will be deleted.

• You can submit a maximum of 3 entries for this challenge, and link up to as many other challenges as you want.

• Follow our blog.

• And lastly, have a great time creating your project (s)!

We'll announce the winner and top picks on Thursday, April 30, here on the STAMPlorations™ blog and on the All About Scrapping page on Facebook. That’s it…we look forward to seeing what you create! 

~ The STAMPlorations™ girls

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