P. Kelly Smith
Welcome to Magazine Monday! Sounds like everyone enjoyed our CC7 blog hop last week. Thanks so much for supporting our fabulous designers who all came together to bring you 15 different, yet very engaging blogs. All in all, I’d say it was a huge success!
Make sure you check back with us tomorrow to see who took home the 10 amazing prize packages we featured last Friday. I will be announcing five winners here and Cath will be announcing five winners on Moxie Fab World. You’ll also want to visit the blogs of our 15 designers to see if you won a free copy of Card Creations, Volume 7. This special issue is bursting with creativity and inspiration – just like our newly appointed Gallery Idol Top 20!
Yes, the results are in! Summer can officially begin because the next four weeks are going to be hot, hot, hot! We were blown away by not only the amount of submissions, but the quality as well. This year for our “Open Auditions” round, 276 members submitted 1,254 birthday cards for 20 coveted spots! It was an agonizing decision, but we’re confident we got it right with this batch of talented gals who are ready to bring their “A” game. Would you like to meet them? Drum roll, please…
Finalist One: Chris Severs (chrys23)
Finalist Two: Lizzie Jones
Finalist Three: Heidi Van Laar
Finalist Four: Christine Penaflor (ca_scrappin)
Finalist Five: joey_73
Finalist Six: Tessa Wise
Finalist Seven: Natasha Trupp (trupptastic)
Finalist Eight: Candice Cruz (ShortcakeScraps)
Finalist 9: Carla Peicheff (moraliaweblog)
- Finalist 10: Ashley Newell (anew19)
Finalist 11: Vanessa Menhorn (vanessa.1978)
Finalist 12: Beatriz Jennings
Finalist 13: Ashley Harris (ashersjane)
Finalist 14: Lucy, England
Finalist 15: Debbie (countryheartandhome)
Finalist 16: luluinlove
Finalist 17: Shanna Vineyard
Finalist 18: Belinda (dreamybg)
Finalist 19: Rae Barthel
Finalist 20: Julie Fei-Fan Balzer (milkman2007)
Congrats, Top 20! Since all of you made it this far, here’s a sneak peek at your prize package, courtesy of:
Top 20 Prize Package: Cosmo Cricket's Early Bird collection, plus free current issue.
Top 20, we absolutely loved all of your birthday creations and can’t wait to see what you come up with for round one. We thought long and hard about the theme and since summer has officially arrived, so has the season of weddings! The theme for round one is weddings! The deadline is next Monday, July 6 at 9 a.m. All wedding cards must be posted to our gallery by this time. I’ll be e-mailing you in the next couple of days to go over the specifics for posting and answer any questions you might have. It’s time to start to creating!
Hopefully you’re hearing wedding bells!
Kelly
P.S. It’s time to announce the three winners from Susan’s Lucky Card Creations 7 post! Here they are in no particular order:
1. Kathy Kohner (June 25, 10:41 a.m.)
2. Carol (June 26, 10:53 a.m.)
3. Pat S. (June 25, 8:43 a.m.)
Congrats, winners! You’ve each won a copy of CC7 and a GCD Studios/SIStv prize package! I’ll be contacting you shortly for your mailing addresses. Thanks to all who left comments!
How beautiful! And creative! And different! A little something for everyone. Thanks for sharing.
Congrats to all the finalist!! Wow the cards are just amazing and can’t wait to see their take on the wedding theme.
HUGE congrats to the top 20. What GORGEOUS creations!
Well done, top 20 finalist. Great work.
Eveline.
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Wow! 20 talented cardsters, for sure! Congrats, ladies!
congrats to the Top 20! Wow!!!! Soooo much fabulous inspiration! Good Luck to all of you!
oh my!!!! how EXCITING!!!
Congrats ladies, may the
fun begin!!!!
Thank you PC!!
♥rae
Those are some awesome cards! Congrats everyone!
Hey congrats to you ladies, The cards are beautiful. I cant wait to see the wedding cards (love that theme).
All of these cards are amazing!! Congratulations everyone!!
Woohoo!!! Thanks ladies!!! I’m so excited & honoured to be chosen with such amazing card-makers… Wow!!!
Those cards are AMAZING! It just became real…I’m all nervous now! Thanks so much! YAAAAAAAAAY I also love the next category. Weddings are so fun!
Congrats to all of you!
OMG, OMG, OMG!! My most awesome blogging friend Chris is the number one finalist!! I am off the wall excited for her!! Go Chris Go!!!!! Your card is AWESOME, and you totally deserve to be in the top 20!!
CONGRATULATIONS to you all ladies! I cannot wait to see your creations!! Woohoo!!!
Congratulations to all the finalists. I am looking forward to seeing the next round of creations for the wedding theme!
B
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKK!!!!!
I’m in total shock over here! There were sooooooo many fabulous entries that I wasn’t holding my breath! CrAzY!!!!!!!! So excited!
Thanks so much everyone and good luck to you ladies in the Top 20!!! Can’t wait to see what you do with the Wedding theme!
Shanna ♥
Congratulations girls!!!!! So fun to see a few familiar faces there!
Yeah!!!!
Looking forward to all of your creations!
Congratulations, ladies! All the cards are beautiful and I can’t wait to see the next set of submissions!
wow… love it. You are all so very talented!
A huge congrats to the op 20!! I can’t wait for the next round to see what you come up with !!
OMG!! i can’t believe it!! i never would have thought that the ONLY card i submitted would make the top 20! i am truly flattered to be included with these talented ladies!!!! thanks carol for calling me and letting me know!! thanks PC mag!! got to put my thinking cap on about the wedding theme…thanks cosmo for my rockin gift, i love your products!! >”<
Wowsa! Can’t imagine how you were able to narrow it down to 20!! Each and every day is just wonderful. Can’t wait to see the wedding cards.
Congrats to thw Winners your designs are FAB!
Wow thank you so much for picking me to be in the top 20!!
Congratulations everyone who got through and im so excited to see the next round 
WOW WOW WOW WOW AND MORE WOW….I SEE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT I KNOW…CONGRATS EVERYONE..HUGS
Congrats to the top 20, beautiful cards
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Wow!! I am so excited to have been picked! And with such an AMAZINGLY talented group! Woohoo!!!!!!!!
What great inspiration — can’t imagine how you guys narrowed it down to just 20!!! Thanks for all the fun and can’t wait for the next round!
WOW, there are some talented artists!
Thank you!!! I am so excited, I can`t believe it! I love the next theme!!! Good luck everybody!
Woot! Woot! Congrats, ladies!!!!! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create next!!!!
Congratulations to the Top 20!! I see a lot of names and friends there that I recognize, so excited for you!!
Nice job ladies! Your cards are awesome:)
Congrats to the top 20! Love all of the cards!
Wow, those cards are amazing!
Congrats!
Can’t wait to see the next round
Wow! Those are incredible.
Way to go, PC….great job picking 20….Congratulations to all!
WOW! WOW! WOW! Lovely cards! Congrats! Can’t wait to see next weeks…
Absolutely incredible-congratulations to all. Hope it’s okay if I use them for inspiration!
What an honor to be counted amongst so many talented artists! Thank you, PC, for holding such a great contest. And thanks to the sponsors for such great prizes!
Hi Top 20,
So excited you’re all excited about our little competition!I hope you’re hard at work on the design of your wedding cards. I can’t wait to see them! I’ve been trying to gather up all of your contact information. I’m still missing e-mail addresses for Lucy and joey_73. I’ve left a comment for Lucy on her blog. I don’t have any information on joey_73. If any of you know these two gals (or you ARE these gals!), please e-mail me at ksmith@ckmedia.com. I need to explain how you will be posting your next round of cards. Thanks, all!
Kelly Smith
Editor, Paper Crafts magazine
Wow! I can’t believe that you picked my card! There were so many amazing cards entered, thank you so much! Kelly, I have emailed you with my details
Wow, congrats to the makers of these beautiful cards!
congrats everyone!!! those are realy inspiring cards!!! congrats bety you made it again this year!!!
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What an amazing and inspiring batch of card-art! You are ALL winners in my book! Thanks for sharing.
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