{JANUARY WINNERS}

We've got JANUARY winners and top picks to announce -- and there are plenty of them! Winners of the January Stamps & Dies Release blog hop are also in this post.

An important note about our winners post: all winners (challenges and blog hops) of the previous month are announced in one post (this one) published by the 9th or 10th of the following month. All winners have up to 10 days to claim their prizes. If you are a regular player in our challenges or participant in our blog hops and special events, please consider following our blog, even signing up to receive email notifications when new posts are published. You'll find those links on the right side bar. 

Winners, please claim your prize on or before Monday, February 20. Prizes not claimed by February 20 will be forfeited.

When claiming your prize, send an email to sheryruss@gmail.com. Please follow this format in the subject line:

"STAMPlorations January (Winner, Top Pick, Random Draw) - specific challenge here"

e.g., STAMPlorations January Winner - CAS Card Challenge"

JANUARY  THEME & SKETCH CHALLENGE

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

#5 Papabric - claimed

STAMPlorations January Theme & Sketch Challenge Top Picks

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#11 Nance - claimed

#14 Maura - claimed

#36 Nancy - claimed

Check out the February Theme & Sketch Challenge that's now underway. 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 and show your project in FULL (as opposed to a sneak peak photo) in order to be voted winner/top pick and qualify for the prizes.

The graphic above is the challenge graphic that must be displayed.

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

#18 Zelda - claimed

January Mixed Media Challenge Top Picks

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#9 Maya

#15 Priya Mishra - claimed

Check out the February Mixed Media Challenge that's now underway. 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.

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:
#65 Mac Mable - claimed

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#9 ArtCardox - claimed

 #26 Hazel’s Paper Designs - claimed

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RANDOM DRAW WINNER

Prize: Choice of 3x5 stamp set OR 2 standard size stencils OR 1 CUTplorations word/phrase die

#43 Christine A - claimed

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

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JANUARY CUTplorations CHALLENGE

Many thanks to all who played with us in our January CUTplorations challenge.

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:
#13 ionabunny - claimed

The DT loved Gail's use of gold and black on such a creative and artsy card - just in time for the Oscars too!

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#7 Dee Earnshaw - claimed

Dee's card has so many delightful elements - those hearts-turned-shamrock, the gold splats and that B/W strip ties in so nicely with the gold stripes on the shamrock.

#2 Daria W.

Daria's card totally captures the celebratory feel of the inspiration photo. What a great way to use Party Girl for a special birthday card.

Here's your winner's badge, ladies. Display it proudly!

Check out the CUTplorations February Challenge that's now underway. We hope you'll play with us this month.

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JANUARY CHALLENGE WINNER

(Randomly drawn from entries linked up to the Theme & Sketch, CAS Card, Mixed Media, and CUTplorations challenges)

Winner of a $25 gift certificate to the store:

#19 Ann Chuang

January Theme & Sketch entry

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INSPIRATION PROJECTS RANDOM WINNER

Thank you to everyone who regularly 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 December inspiration project posts.

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

Jo Herbert

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

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NEVER-ENDING ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE

Winners of $10 gift certificate to the store:

Winner #1

(randomly drawn from entries #1 to #1300)

#804 TaylorMade 4U Cards

Winner #2
(randomly drawn from entries #1301 to #1371)
#1357 Nonni - claimed

Keep creating with STAMPlorations stamps and/or stencils and linking them up to our Anything Goes Challenge. We'll draw winners again next month.

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

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JANUARY STAMPS & DIES RELEASE

BLOG HOP WINNERS

(Main post is found here)

Winners of $25 gift certificate:

(randomly drawn from comments left on the blog posts and designers' blogs)

lostinpaper (from Deepti's day #4 post) - claimed

Sharli Schaitberger (from Maria's day #2 post)

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Winner of her choice of stamp set

(randomly drawn from our Facebook page)

Iona B Unny  - claimed - Fowl Play stamp set

Winners of $10 gift certificate

(randomly drawn from our Facebook page)

Barb Macaskill who tagged Beth Williams

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Winner of her choice of CUTplorations die

(randomly drawn from our Instagram account)

alaska.kris  - claimed - Numbers Plate die

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That's it for this post. If you are one of the winners, please wait up to 3 days for me to acknowledge your email. If you don't hear back from me after 3 days, please re-send your email.

And by the way, today is the last day to snag the stamps and dies in our January release at 5% off. (Discount is automatically applied -- no coupon needed.) You'll find them in the New Release category.

We're also halfway through the Love TAGplorations blog hop and linky party. We hope you'll check out the projects as well as link up yours! Day 3 starts in an hour :o)

Happy stamping!