{SEPTEMBER WINNERS}

Hello, STAMP friends! It's the 10th of the month, which means it's time to announce last month's winners! We also have winners of our Never-Ending Anything Goes Challenge and September Inspiration Projects posts, as well as winners of our special posts: Stencil Sunday, Digital Wednesday, Festive and Joy Special Stamps Release, and National Coffee Day Blog Hop. Just for the months of July, August, and September, all winners, including challenge winners, are randomly chosen by Random.org.

An important reminder to challenge players: When playing in our challenges, please display the challenge graphic AND link back directly to the challenge post (NOT to the main blog or the challenge section) in your blog post in order to qualify for the prizes. Also, please be mindful of the maximum challenge entries. A couple of our challenges have a limit on the number projects you can link up.

An important note about our winners post: winners (challenges, blog hops, and special posts) 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.

An important note about our prizes: For our challenges, we offer prizes in the form of gift certificates for use in our main store. For our special posts, hops, and events, we offer prizes in the form of gift certificates, gift codes (also called coupon codes and gift vouchers), and products. There is a difference between a gift certificate and a gift code and it's all explained on THIS PAGE. HOWEVER, if you are a winner, you may opt for a gift code to our digital store. Note, though, that if you choose this, the gift code cannot be combined with other codes (I use a different e-commerce platform for our digital store).

Winners, please claim your prize on or before Thursday, October 24. Prizes not claimed by October 24 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, gift certificates, and coupon codes 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.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLAIMING PRIZE

When claiming your prize, send an email to stamplorations@gmail.com. 

I have an email filter set up for claiming prizes so to avoid delay and to make sure I see your email in my BLOG PRIZE folder, follow this format in the subject line:

"STAMPlorations September Winner - specific challenge here"

e.g., "STAMPlorations September Winner - CAS Cards Challenge"

"STAMPlorations September Winner - Stencil Sunday"

It also helps if you include what prize you won (a $15 gift certificate, a $5 gift certificate, a $15 coupon code, $10 gift code, etc.) in the body of your email. Also specify if you prefer to use your prize on our main store or digital store. This way I know which code to generate, as codes generated for one store will NOT work on the other store.

If you are the winner of a tangible/mailable prize, 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.)

THEME & SKETCH CHALLENGE

3 winners of $10 gift certificate each:

#224 Ishani - claimed

#180 Maura - claimed 

#257 Gail - claimed 

Click here to play in this month's Theme & Photo Challenge!

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CAS CARD CHALLENGE

3 winners of $10 gift certificate each:

#135 Vinita Jain - claimed

#53 Robyn Oliver - claimed 

#111 Lucy E. - claimed

Click here to play in this month's CAS Card Challenge.

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MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE

Players: please note that you must use a stencil (or stencils) in the projects you link up to our mixed media challenge. If it isn't obvious in your project that you used a stencil, please mention it in your blog post or in your supply list.

3 winners of $10 gift certificate each:

#67 ionabunny - claimed 

#38 Charlotte E - claimed

#56 Craftartista - claimed 

Click here to play in the Stencil Challenge (formerly the Mixed Media Challenge).

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CUTplorations CHALLENGE

3 winners of $10 gift certificate each:

#115 Christine Miller - claimed

#109 Esther - claimed 

unclaimed

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TAGplorations CHALLENGE

3 winners of $10 gift certificate each:

unclaimed

#110 Shartl - claimed

#61 treebug - claimed

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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 September inspiration project posts.

Winner of a $10 gift certificate:

Denise Bryant - 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:

Winner #1

(randomly drawn from entries #1 to #3050)

unclaimed

Winner #2

(randomly drawn from entries #3051 to #3333)

#3321 Izzy Scrap - 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, clear stickers, 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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STENCIL SUNDAY

(September Stencil Sunday post is found here)

Winner of $15 gift code:

Cindy Holmes - claimed

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DIGITAL WEDNESDAY

(September Digital Wednesday posts are found here)

Winner of $15 gift code:

Sharda Maheshwari - claimed

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FESTIVE/JOY Special Stamps Release + Giveaway

(Post is found here)

Winner of $15 gift code:

unclaimed

Winner of one in-stock 4x6 Shery Russ Designs stamp set:

Sandy - claimed

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National Coffee Day Blog Hop

(Post is found here)

Winner of $15 gift code:

unclaimed

Winner of her choice of 3x5 or 4x4 coffee-themed stamp set:

unclaimed

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That's it for the September winners post. Congratulations to all! Again to all winners, claim your prize by October 24 and be sure to follow the email format so your email gets filtered to my Blog Prizes folder -- this ensures that I don't miss your email. (Instructions are at the beginning of this post, right before the Theme & Sketch Challenge winners). I'll get back to you as soon as I can with your prize, but please wait at least 5 business days before re-sending your email if you don't get a response from me. (My girls and I are all still under the weather, haven't fully recovered from jet-lag, and haven't completely turned our body clocks to US time so my computer time's pretty unpredictable.)

I hope you're all having a wonderful crafty week!

PS: Check out the store's CURRENT PROMOTIONS page for some awesome deals: October fall sale, $25 gift code giveaway, freebies with orders, and more!