{APRIL WINNERS}

Hi, everyone! The winners of last month's Focus on the Sentiments challenge are here. We also have the winners of our Never-Ending Anything Goes Challenge and April Inspiration Projects, as well as a few surprise winners. We also have the winners of our Things With Wings Giveaway, For the Love of All Things Coffee, and Layered Butterflies special posts :o) All winners were randomly drawn.

Remember, from February to April we did one big challenge!

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. To qualify for the April prizes, you must have (a) displayed the challenge graphic in your blog post {note: this rule did not apply to non-blogging players -- those who have Flickr, Splitcoast, Pinterest, etc.}, (b) directly linked back to the challenge post, and (c) left a comment on the entry before yours in the gallery. Our modified rules in April were pretty simple and we want to be fair to those who took the time to read and follow them.

Winners, please claim your prize on or before Thursday, May 24. Prizes not claimed by then will be forfeited -- no exceptions. Please understand that because we have a lot of winners and give away $100 to $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 stamplorations@gmail.com. Please follow this format in the subject line:

"STAMPlorations April Random Draw - specific challenge here"

e.g., "STAMPlorations April Random Draw - Inspiration Project Post"

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.)

APRIL FOCUS ON THE SENTIMENTS CHALLENGE

Winners of a $25 gift certificate each, randomly drawn from all entries:

#39 Mac Mable - claimed

unclaimed

Winner of a $25 gift certificate randomly drawn from comments left on our special posts (Say It Big, Typografia MOTIVATE, CUTplorations Phrase Dies, Typografia WANDERLUST, and CUTplorations Wanderlust Travel Words Dies) and designers' blogs:

Char K - claimed

who left a comment on Lisa's blog post

4 SURPRISE WINNERS

randomly drawn from comments left on our special posts (Say It Big, CUTplorations Phrase Dies, Typografia WANDERLUST, and CUTplorations Wanderlust Travel Words Dies) and designers' blogs:

Winner of her choice of two (2) new Say It Big stamps:

greenrabbitdesigns - claimed

who left a comment on the Jane's blog post

Winner of her choice of one (1) new CUTplorations phrase dies:

Lucy E. - claimed

who left a comment on Craftyfield's blog post

Winner of her choice of two (2) new Typografia WANDERLUST stamps:

Gail - claimed

who left a comment on Tanja's blog post

Winner of her choice of two (2) new CUTplorations Wanderlust Travel Words Dies:

Jean - claimed

who left a comment on Kathy's blog post

Check out our 5 May Challenges that are now underway! All our challenges are back with one theme: THINGS WITH WINGS. We hope you'll play with us this month - and remember to follow our rules to qualify for the prizes!

TAGplorations Challenge

CAS Cards Challenge

Theme & Sketch Challenge

Mixed Media Challenge

CUTplorations Challenge

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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:

Sue D - claimed

Comment on the Inspiration Project posts this month to be entered in the 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 #2100)

#864 Jen's Creative Side - claimed

Winner #2

(randomly drawn from entries #2101 to #2156)

#2142 Lisa Bzibziak - 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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FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS COFFEE

(Special post is found here)

Winner of a $10 gift certificate to the store:

unclaimed

Winner of her choice of one (in-stock) product Karola used in her coffee projects:

Esther Asbury - claimed

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LAYERED BUTTERFLIES

(Special post is found here)

Winner of Shirley's Layered Butterflies stamp set:

Verna Angerhofer - claimed

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THINGS WITH WINGS GIVEAWAY

(Special post is found here)

Winners of their choice of cover plate die (Zen Coffee, Butterfly, or Dragonfly):

#10 Kirsty Vittetoe - claimed

#18 Laurel Seabrook - claimed

unclaimed

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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. With two demanding adorable little ones to look after, I can't always get to my computer right away and finish an email in one sitting. 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: 

• our 5 challenges with the theme Things with Wings
• our month-long sale where stamps, stencils, and dies in the Things with Wings section are automatically 15% 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
• our current sale where stamps, stencils, and dies in the Moms, Dads & Grads section are 25% off with coupon code (premium stamp club subscribers, use coupon code PREMIUM together with your personal discount code to get 40% off instead)

I hope you're all having a wonderful week! Happy crafting!