{APRIL WINNERS}

We've got April winners and top picks to announce -- and there are plenty of them! Winners of the Things with Wings Blog Hop & Linky Party and the April/May Stamps Spotlight 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 on 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 Sunday, May 21. Prizes not claimed by May 21 will be forfeited -- no exceptions. Please understand that because we have a lot of winners and give away over $200 worth of prizes in the form of products and gift certificates each month, it would take a lot of time to contact the winners individually. I also want to be fair to those who regularly visit our blog and claim their prizes within the time frame given.

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

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

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

Or if a blog hop winner:

"Winner - name of the blog hop here + your prize"

e.g., "Winner - Things with Wings Hop - $20 GC"

APRIL THEME & SKETCH CHALLENGE

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

#5 Tasha Vovchuk

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#14 Sandie - claimed

#33 Nonni - claimed
#56 Marsha D - claimed

RANDOM DRAW WINNER

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

#44 Preeti D. - claimed

Check out the May Theme & Sketch Challenge that's now underway. We hope you'll play with us this month!

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APRIL 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:

#20 Hema - claimed

Top Picks

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#1 Preeti D. - claimed

#7 Isle of Crafty Creations - claimed

RANDOM DRAW WINNER

Prize: choice of 2 standard size ARTplorations stencils:

#25 Cheetarah - claimed

Check out the May Mixed Media Challenge that's now underway. We hope you'll play with us this month!

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APRIL 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:

#34 Mac Mable - claimed

Top Picks
(We had a 3-way tie for top picks!)

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#11 Shona Chambers - claimed

#50 Carol

RANDOM DRAW WINNER

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

#32 Dhivya Uday

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

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APRIL CUTplorations CHALLENGE

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

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

#8 Jerrie - claimed

The DT simply loved Jerrie's musical butterflies.

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#2 Preeti D. - claimed

Great geometric interpretation of our inspiration photo, Preeti.

#16 ionabunny - claimed

Great CAS take on our inspiration photo, Gail.

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

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

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APRIL 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:

#8 Priyanka Mathur - claimed

April Mixed Media Challenge 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 April inspiration project posts.

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

Tina Z. - claimed

Comment on the Inspiration Project posts this month to be entered in the May 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 #1450)

#1295 Greta H - claimed

Winner #2

(randomly drawn from entries #1451 to #1591)

#1473 *Vicki*

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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THINGS WITH WINGS BLOG HOP &
LINKY PARTY WINNERS

(Hop post is found here)

Winners of a $10 gift certificate randomly drawn from comments:
winner #1: Berrina RGA (from Suchi's blog)
winner #2: Dorothy S (from Cornelia's blog) - claimed
winner #3: Janice (from Monika's blog)

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Linky Party Winners

Winner of Trendy Butterflies 2 + either Flutter Zen 1 or Flutter Zen 2 layering dies:

entry #81 karenladd - claimed

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Winner of Sweet Spring Wishes + Dragonfly layering dies:

entry #14 Christine Smith - claimed

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Winner of Trendy Spring Blooms dies:

entry #41 Montownia - claimed

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Winner of the Sweet Spring Wishes phrase dies:

entry #55 Violet Rose

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Winner of $20 gift certificate:

entry #54 IraChe - claimed

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APRIL/MAY STAMPS SPOTLIGHT BLOG HOP

(Hop post is found here)

Winner of her choice of stamp set from the new release (Best Mom Ever, One Cool Chick, Parfumerie, Sweet & Sassy Mom):

Michele K. Henderson (from Becca's blog)

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Winner of $15 gift certificate:

Lindsey (from the STAMPlorations blog) - claimed

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That's it for this post. Congratulations to all the winners! If you are one of them, 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.

Do check out our fun challenges this month...we'd love for you to join us! And next month is June...our birthday month! STAMPlorations is turning 4 and we'll be celebrating big -- we have tons of exciting new products that will soon appear in the store over the next several weeks in preparation for our birthday celebration. We'll have a fun hop and linky party with lots of prizes. And here's a heads up: register for an account in our store (sign up is free -- you don't have to buy anything!) and add products to your wishlist -- you could win up to $50 worth of products in your wishlist in June! :o)

Have a great week...and happy stamping!