{DECEMBER & JANUARY WINNERS}

Hi, everyone! The winners of the December 2017 and January 2018 challenges are finally here. Since the STAMPlorations girls were on vacation in December, there was no voting. Instead, winners were randomly drawn. Thank you so much for your patience!

An important note about our winners post: winners (challenges and blog hops) of the previous month are announced in one post (this one). All winners must claim their prizes by the deadline. 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. 

Also, please make sure you follow our challenge rules. There were a few January players who would have won (voted by the team) but were disqualified because they either (a) did not display the challenge graphic in their blog post OR (b) did not directly link back to the challenge post. In such cases, we move on to the next players who received the most number of votes (after we have verified that they have followed the challenge rules).

Winners, please claim your prize on or before Friday, March 2. Prizes not claimed by then 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 January (Winner, Top Pick, Random Draw) - specific challenge here"

e.g., "STAMPlorations January Winner - Theme & Sketch 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.)

DECEMBER THEME & SKETCH CHALLENGE

Random winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

unclaimed

JANUARY THEME & SKETCH CHALLENGE

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

#16 Pooja - claimed

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#24 Jane - claimed

#33 nancy littrell - claimed

unclaimed

Random winner of one 3x5 stamp OR two standard size stencils OR one CUTplorations word/phrase die:

#19 Lagene - claimed

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

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DECEMBER CAS CARD CHALLENGE

Random winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

#36 Gail Scott - claimed

JANUARY CAS CARD CHALLENGE

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

unclaimed

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

unclaimed

#61 laury55 - claimed

Random winner of one 3x5 stamp OR two standard size stencils OR one CUTplorations word/phrase die:

#39 Lucy E. - claimed

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

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DECEMBER 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.

Random winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

unclaimed

JANUARY MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

unclaimed

Top Picks

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

unclaimed

#27 Suman - claimed

Random winner of two standard size stencils:

unclaimed

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

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DECEMBER CUTplorations CHALLENGE

Important note for our CUTplorations players: please remember to use at least 1 STAMPlorations product in your project (clear stamp, digi stamp, stencil, die, or coloring page).

Random winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

#13 nancy littrell - claimed

JANUARY CUTplorations CHALLENGE

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

#8 Conil - claimed

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#1 Seabrook Designs - claimed

#9 Jane - claimed

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

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DECEMBER TAGplorations CHALLENGE

Winner of a $15 gift certificate to the store:

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

unclaimed

Winner of a $20 gift certificate to the store:

(randomly drawn from entries)

#14 Greta H - claimed

Winner of 1 Tag Die set from the store:

(randomly drawn from entries)

unclaimed

JANUARY TAGplorations CHALLENGE

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

unclaimed

Winners of $5 gift certificate to the store:

#16 Lucy E. - claimed

unclaimed

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

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DECEMBER CHALLENGE WINNER

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

Winner of a $25 gift certificate to the store:

#22 Anita - claimed

December CAS Card Challenge entry

JANUARY CHALLENGE WINNER

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

Winner of a $25 gift certificate to the store:

#5 Nikki C - claimed

January TAGplorations 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 October inspiration project posts.

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

(randomly drawn from comments left in December)

Lagene - claimed

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

(randomly drawn from comments left in January)

Fikreta - claimed

Comment on the Inspiration Project posts this month to be entered in the February 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 #1950)

unclaimed

Winner #2

(randomly drawn from entries #1951 to #2000)

#1999 Lisa Bzibziak - claimed

Winner #3

(randomly drawn from entries #1 to #2000)

unclaimed

Winner #4

(randomly drawn from entries #2001 to #2051)

unclaimed

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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WINTER COFFEE LOVERS BLOG HOP

(Hop post is found here

Winners randomly drawn from comments left on the hop post)

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

#8 ionabunny - claimed

Winner of the COFFEEOLOGY 2 stamp set:

unclaimed

Winner of the TYPOGRAFIA Coffee stamps (Good Mood and Smell the Coffee):

#12 Dee Earnshaw - claimed

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AND COFFEE MINI RELEASE HOP

(Hop post is found here

Winner randomly drawn from comments left on the hop post and Shirley's blog)

Winner of Shirley's And Coffee stamp set:

unclaimed

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

To all winners:  Please allow 1 week to hear back from me regarding your prize. I've cut back on my online time as I'm taking care of my 2 little ones (and still trying to work out a routine that will allow me to get more work done later). If you don't hear back from me after 1 week, please re-send your email.

Please do check out our current events and store promotions: 

• a special post  for Becca's latest stamp set, LLAMA TELL YOU, which ends February 28
• a special post, for Deepti's latest stamp set, YOU & ME, which ends February 28
• our current sale where stamps, stencils, and dies are automatically 10% off + an extra 20% off if you use any one of the designers' discount codes OR extra 25% off if you are a premium stamp club subscriber

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend ahead, and happy crafting!