{JANUARY 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 January Inspiration Projects posts, as well as winners of our special posts: Stencil Sunday, Sticker Monday, Digital Wednesday, Throwback Thursday, Christmas in the Air, Turner Syndrome Awareness Hop, and Hey Love Hop and Linky Party. The winners and runners up in our 3 challenges are picked by design team members while all other winners are randomly chosen by Random.org.

An important reminder to challenge players: 

• When playing in our challenges, you must display the challenge graphic AND link back directly to the challenge post (NOT to the main blog or the challenge section) via TEXT link in your blog post in order to qualify for the prizes. 

• Be mindful of the maximum challenge entries -- the Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge has a limit of 6 entries per player; the CAS Cards Challenge has a limit of 3 entries per player; the Stencil Challenge has no entry limit.

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 (please take the time to read that page).

• Gift certificates and gift codes may not be passed on, given to, or used by another person other than the one it was issued to. 

• 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, as I use a different e-commerce platform for our digital store. (Products in our outlet store are already heavily discounted so no gift codes will be issued for use on that store.)

Winners, please claim your prize on or before Monday, February 24. Prizes not claimed by February 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 gift/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 January Winner - specific challenge here"

e.g., "STAMPlorations January Winner - Stencil Challenge"

"STAMPlorations January Winner - Hey Love Hop and Linky Party"

It also helps if you include what prize you won (a $15/10/5 gift certificate, a $15 coupon code, $10 gift code, tangible product, 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 & PHOTO PROMPT CHALLENGE

For the January challenge, STAMPgirl Craftyfield picked the winner and runner up.

Winner of a $15 gift certificate:

#41 Mugdha - claimed

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Winner of a $10 gift certificate:

#37 Esther - claimed

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3 winners of $5 gift certificate each:

#40 Jennifrann3 - claimed

unclaimed

unclaimed

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

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CAS CARDS CHALLENGE

For the January challenge, STAMPgirl Sue picked the winner and runner up.

Winner of a $15 gift certificate:

#21 Mugdha - claimed

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Winner of a $10 gift certificate:

#30 Hilary - claimed

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3 winners of $5 gift certificate each:

#22 Lucy E - claimed

unclaimed

unclaimed

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

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THE STENCIL CHALLENGE

Players: please note that you must use a stencil (or stencils) in the projects you link up to this 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.

For the January challenge, STAMPgirl Harriet picked the winner and runner up.

Winner of a $15 gift certificate:

#64 Mugdha - claimed

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Winner of a $10 gift certificate:

#17 Ishani - claimed

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3 winners of $5 gift certificate each:

unclaimed
unclaimed
unclaimed

Click here to play in the Stencil Challenge (formerly the Mixed Media 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 January inspiration project posts.

Winner of a $10 gift certificate:

unclaimed

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 #3250)

#2589 Becca Yahrling - claimed

Winner #2

(randomly drawn from entries #3251 to #3512)

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, 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

(January Stencil Sunday posts are found here)

Winner of $15 gift code:

unclaimed

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STICKER MONDAY

(January Sticker Monday posts are found here)

Winner of $15 gift code:

unclaimed

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DIGITAL WEDNESDAY

(January Digital Wednesday post is found here)

Winner of $15 gift code:

unclaimed

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THROWBACK THURSDAY

(January Throwback Thursday post is found here)

Winner of $15 gift code:

Dana M - claimed

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CHRISTMAS IN THE AIR

(Christmas in the Air post is found here)

Winner of $15 gift code:

Germaine - claimed

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TURNER SYNDROME AWARENESS HOP

(Turner Syndrome Awareness Hop post is found here)

Winner of the Sweetly stamp set:
Brenda in IN - claimed

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HEY LOVE BLOG HOP AND LINKY PARTY

(Hey Love Blog Hop and Linky Party post is found here)

Winners of their choice of TYPOGRAFIA Romantique stamp:
unclaimed (drawn from Carol's blog)
HilaryJane (drawn from Vicki's blog) - claimed
Mel C (drawn from Chris' blog) - claimed

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Winners of $10 gift code (or a $15 gift certificate if a STAMPlorations product was used):

#62 Nan - claimed

(wins $15 gift certificate for using a STAMPlorations product)

#15 Valentine Tag/Gail - claimed

(wins $15 gift certificate for using a STAMPlorations product)

#59 tina z. treebug - claimed

(wins $10 gift code)

unclaimed

(wins $15 gift certificate for using a STAMPlorations product)

#33 Heather Mills - claimed

(wins $10 gift code)

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Winner of $25 gift code (entry used any of the 2 new digi stamps):
#42 Gloria Lee - claimed

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And that's it for the January winners post. Congratulations to all! Again to all winners, claim your prize by February 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 & Photo Prompt Challenge winners). I'll get back to you as soon as I can with your prize, but please give me at least 5 business days to get back to you before re-sending your email.

I hope you're all having a wonderful week!

PS: Check out the store's CURRENT PROMOTIONS page for some awesome deals: instant 20% off on stencils and clear stickers all month long, huge discounts on 4x8 and 5x7 stamp sets, and freebies with orders. Oh and there's a $25 wishlist giveaway too.