{JUNE WINNERS}

We've got June winners and top picks to announce. We've also got the winners of the Summer Coffee Lovers Hop and our 4th Birthday Hop and Wishlist Linky Party. Once again, thank you to all of you who played in our challenges last month and who participated in our hops and event.

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 Thursday, July 20. Prizes not claimed by July 20 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 June (Winner, Top Pick, Random Draw) - specific challenge here"

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

If you are the winner of a tangible/mailable prize, do include your complete mailing address in the email you send, even if I already have mailed to you before. (It saves me time having to look up your address.)

JUNE THEME & SKETCH CHALLENGE

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

#6 Jane - claimed

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#9 Preeti D. - claimed

#13 Desperate Housewife Craft - claimed

Check out the current Theme & Sketch challenge. We hope you'll play with us this month before the team goes off on summer vacation!

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JUNE 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:

#4 SewPaperPaint - claimed

Top Picks

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#11 Mac Mable - claimed

#16 Pawsitively Creative - claimed

RANDOM DRAW WINNER

Prize: choice of 2 standard size ARTplorations stencils:

#20 Zelda - claimed

The Mixed Media Challenge is on a summer break! The team will be back with a brand new challenge on October 1.

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JUNE 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:

#9 Nonni

Top Picks

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#74 Pooja - claimed

#88 karenladd - claimed

RANDOM DRAW WINNER

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

#55 Maria Rodriguez - claimed

The CAS Card Challenge is on a summer break, but we've got a Summer CAS Card Challenge linkup going on here. We'll be back to regular programming on October 5.

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JUNE CUTplorations CHALLENGE

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

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

#8 Jerrie - claimed

The DT really loved the fun factor on this card.

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#7 Mac Mable - claimed

What a lovely ensemble.

#3 ionabunny - claimed

This tag just has to make you smile!

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

The CUTplorations Challenge is on a summer break and will be back in October.

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JUNE 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:

#4 laury55 - claimed

June CUTplorations 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 June inspiration project posts.

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

Sue LD - claimed

Comment on the Inspiration Project posts this month to be entered in the July 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 #1550)

#387 Nance Salkeld - claimed

Winner #2

(randomly drawn from entries #1551 to #1727)

#1699 Preeti D. - 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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SUMMER COFFEE LOVERS HOP WINNERS

(Hop post is found here)

Winner of a $10 gift certificate:
Natalie Godfrey - claimed

Winner of the What's Brewing stamp set:
Cynthia Cole - claimed

Winner of either 1 Caffeinated Zen or 1 Zen Coffee ATC stamp:
Vonmariedesign

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4th BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP &

WISHLIST LINKY PARTY

(Hop post is found here)

Winners of $25 gift certificate to the store (randomly drawn from all comments left on the STAMPlorations blog and participating designers blogs)

winner #1

Shirley N. (from our Day 3 post) - claimed

winner #2

Arianna Barbara (from Juhi's post) - claimed

winner #3

nancy littrell (from Linda's post) - claimed


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Winners of a grab bag consisting of new products (valued at $30 MSRP) randomly drawn from our Facebook page:

Vivian Foo - claimed

who tagged her friend

Nikki Carr - claimed

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Winner of a grab bag consisting of new products (valued at $30 MSRP) randomly drawn from our Instagram post:

sheryl262

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Winners of the products in their wishlist (up to $50 MSRP) linked up to our Wishlist Linky Party:

#55 Sarah G

#20 Becca Yahrling - claimed

**Surprise Prizes**

I'm so thrilled about the turnout of our first Wishlist Linky Party (yes, first...there will be another one!) that I decided to draw 5 more winners who'll receive one product in their wishlist (up to $10 MSRP)

#59 Robyn Oliver - claimed

#5 Susanne V. - claimed

#4 Valerija - claimed

#38 Heidi Jakobs - claimed

#79 Marianne - claimed

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That's it for this post. Congratulations to all the winners! 

To all winners: please wait up to 3 business days (weekends don't count as business days) for me to acknowledge your email. If you don't hear back from me after 3 business days, please re-send your email.

Wishlist Linkup Party Winners: please provide your mailing address when you claim your prize. I may already have yours on file, but provide it all the same (will save me time, as I won't have to look up your address). The prize you'll receive will be based on the products you've listed in your wishlist and subject to availability (I'll get back to you in case I need you to pick products not in your wishlist).

And since I'm still catching up on packaging orders from our birthday celebration sale, please allow up to 2 weeks for me to mail out your prize (for tangible items). You'll receive an email from me when I have your prize in the mail. Gift certificate winners, I'll get back to you within 3 days, if not sooner.

Thank you again to everyone who celebrated with us last month. Still can't believe we're four years old :o) Stay tuned because we have several things lined up...our challenge teams may be on a summer break, but we'll still be busy here on the blog! 

Every Tuesday this month, you'll still see the Inspiration girls sharing projects in our Inspiration Project Posts. Then they'll be back in October. The Spotlight Projects girls will continue to share step-by-step projects as usual throughout the summer, while several Mixed Media girls are lined up to share their extra mixed media tutorials in the next three months.

Then for the next three Wednesdays starting July 12, you'll see Shirley, Becca, and Deepti sharing projects featuring their latest stamps and there will be a giveaway each week :o)

And while everyone else is doing Christmas in July, we're doing Christmas in August! So mark your calendars -- the week of August 14 to 18 you'll see the STAMPlorations girls showcase 6 new Christmas stamp sets and 8 new CUTplorations dies...and 8 lucky crafters who hop along will win gift certificates and products from the new release!

In addition, Shirley and I have teamed up to create a fun series of stamps -- we're pretty excited about it and can't wait to share those stamps sometime in August. Then in September, we'll be releasing our second coloring book. Before that, though, we have several new stamps that will appeal to those of you who love words (think: Typografia). It's long overdue so in my spare time, I've been plugging away and designing some very cool typography art style stamps to nicely complement our existing products. They'll start popping up in the store pretty soon, as I'm due to receive the first of several Typografia stamps within the next 2 weeks.

I've got a few more things cooking up and I'll share those later on. Until then, have a great week...and happy stamping!