P. Kelly Smith
Welcome to Freebie Friday! I know it’s been a long, tortuous week for our Top 5 finalists, so I’m not going to make them wait, sweat or twitch any longer. (Belinda, Lizzie, Rae, Shanna and Tessa – are you all sitting down? Good. Now take a deep breath and slowly exhale. Now let’s get on with the results!)
After eight weeks and five rounds of nail-biting competition, you the Paper Crafts online community have chosen the grand prize winner in this third season of Gallery Idol. And she is… (drumroll, please!)
***RAE BARTHEL***
Congratulations, Rae! Your “Make a Wish” card received the most votes in the last and final round, therefore Paper Crafts magazine is proud to name you our 2009 Gallery Idol!
Let’s take a look at the five winning cards that propelled Rae to “Idol” status:
Open Auditions: Make a Wish Card - Birthday Theme
Top 20: Congrats Card - Wedding Theme
Top 15: Sweet Dreams Card - Around the House Theme
Top 10: Wish Big Card - Button Theme
Top 5: Make a Wish Card - Humor Theme
I think this girl has a thing for pink and black! It obviously worked! In addition to the Cosmo Cricket, American Crafts, BasicGrey and K&Company prize packages, Rae will also receive this grand prize from Making Memories:
Many thanks to Making Memories for donating all of this fabulous product!
As the grand prize winner, Rae will also receive these special perks:
- Winning cards published in the January/February 2010 issue of Paper Crafts
- Name added to the exclusive Paper Crafts designer list
- Free selection of special issues
- Official grand prize winner certificate (our version of the golden ticket)
Prizes aside, a big round of applause goes out to all of the finalists who have stuck with this competition week after week, round after round. Your creativity, passion and dedication to excellence have really made this little contest bigger and better than we could have ever imagined! We hope to see you back next summer for Season 4!
In my very best Ryan Seacrest voice,
Kelly Out
P.S. If you would like to see how Rae reacts to this BIG announcement, make sure you hop on over to her blog. Last week she was “floored, flabbergasted and freaking excited” to have made it into the Top 5. I can’t wait to see what words come out of her mouth this week! (And make sure to check back here on Monday when Rae is our designer spotlight. She hasn’t agreed to this yet, but I’m hoping to twist her arm with that Making Memories Slice!)
P.P.S. I almost forgot today’s giveaway! It is Freebie Friday after all. I hope you enjoyed reading Cath’s farewell post to our art director Stace Hasegawa. Since Stace LOVES the color black and tattoo art like skulls, wings, guitars, etc., today’s giveaway incorporates all of her favorite things! (The only thing missing is Johnny Depp in the flesh!) To be entered to win, leave a comment telling me a few of your favorite things. It can be anything at all. I’ll pick four winners to receive an assortment of metallic papers from Rusty Pickle’s Brass Knuckles collection, as well as black chipboard and stickers from GCD Studios. All comments must be received by midnight (MST) on Sunday, August 2.
Four lucky winners will each take home this black-tastic prize package!
A few of my favorite things are my new little girl and the fact that I now have something worth while to scrapbook!
Right now my favorites are trees and owls.
Chocolate, the colour greyish blue, papers and walking barefoot.
I’m loving PTI (just got some goodies)!
GCD has wonderful papers!
my favorite things are CHOCOLATE lol and music
making STUFF! i love to get creative and make a mess. i love to learn something new and get passionately obsessive about it. i love to read a book sooo good that when someone asks, “so what are you reading?” i get giddy in the telling. when i’m designing i loooove stumbling upon the cornerstone–that one element that makes all the other pieces in the project fit perfectly and come together so easily it seems like unearthing a design instead of creating it. i love rambling endlessly… (^.^)
Congratulations, Rae!
Goodbye, Stace. The magazine will not be the same without you!
I spend a lot of time in my studio. My favorite things to do there are: papercrafts, mixed media, beading, sewing and doll making.
Congrats! Lets see, I love my husband, my boys, things that sparkle, coffee, baking, and craft time.
Congrats Rae, I LOVE that pillow card! So cool. I look forward to seeing your stuff in the magazine!
As for the friday freebie, I just got a tatoo monday night, I think I should win the freebie! I have the whole process to scrap!
Congrat’s Rae enjoy being in the magazine and the Guest DT with all those wonderful perks
My Fave things . Being with My DH , Reading and Drawing constantly lately it’s been a lot of inking
thanks for the chance at your yummy Freebie Friday
Nikki C
I’ve been enjoying Rae’s blog for awhile now and she is definitely deserving of this!
Thanks for the opportunity to win a fab prize.
Congrats Rae!!!A few of my favourite things: sushi, So You Think You Can Dance, my flannel pjs!
Congratulations to Rae on her awesome win – definitely deserved. Ooooh, favorite things – I have so many! Let’s see….the colors black & silver, orange & turquoise, pink & brown, almost all rubber stamps, storage solutions, Hello Kitty, my cat Baby, my Copic markers, almost all patterned cardstock & fabric, yarn, pizza….I could go on forever, I think!
Congratulations to Rae: your stuff is jaw dropping!
My favourite things: listening to thunderstorms, a soft kitten sleeping in my bed, a walk in the forrest, sunny days a t the beach.
What an awesome bunch of entries, congrats to you Rae. My Fav….. a really good book that I can’t put down.
Congrats…enjoy your new scrappy goodies!
Congratulations Rae. Loved all your cards! Some of my favorite things are coffee, shopping, reading and paper crafting.
We have to narrow it down to a FEW of our favorite things??!?!?!?
Well, then I would have to say clearance aisles and coupons, all things papercrafting/scrapbooking, and ice cream!
We will miss you Stace!
Congratulations, Rae! I love your style, your whimsy, and your sense of humor! And congrats to all the contestants, you gals certainly made voting hard each week, you are all so talented!
Some of my favorite things are my family, my little dog, paper crafts (okay, crafts of many kinds actually), chocolate anything, green beans (especially cooked on the grill–yum yum!), homemade ice cream, and camping/relaxing by the lake!
Oh, and my MOSTEST favorite thing is winning prizes! (hint hint!)
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