Jennifer Schaerer
Would you believe that 98% of our readers – at least the ones who respond to our annual survey – are stampers at some level? I think it’s the versatility of stamping that is so appealing. After all, you can make background paper, stamp a sentiment, color a stamped image with markers and do it all in a rainbow of colors, too.
For this year’s Stamping Royalty Card Contest, we asked for card designs in five categories (see the full list below) and got hundreds and hundreds of entries. The 15 lucky winners got a fantastic prize package worth over $200, plus a tiara and custom-made tote bag.
Here's winner Ashley Newell modeling her official Stamping Royalty tiara and tote bag. All hail Queen Ashley!
Although we thought these techniques would be challenging, it turns out that it just brought out the very, very best in so many stampers. I was especially impressed with Yolanda Beltran’s winning entry, the Happy Spring Card. She took this plain outline stamp called Snow Village by Stamps ‘N More…
…and turned it into a lovely spring scene with markers and some detail work.
Happy Spring Card by Yolanda Beltran
Below is the full list of winners, and in case you missed the feature in our November/December issue, you can see all 15 cards HERE.
Congratulations to our 2009 Stamping Royalty! Click on the image to see the entire feature online.
Build A Scene category:
Thanks for Being You Card by Julie Campbell
Back to School Card by Susan Liles
Thinking of You Card by Mercedes Weber
Stamp Kissing category:
Happy Anniversary Card by Cindy Holshouser
Have a Delightful Day Card by Rosemary Dennis
Dream Card by Stephanie Halinski
Creating Patterned Paper with Stamps category:
Hello Blossoms Card by Stephanie Halinski
Enjoy the Moment Card by Niki Estes
Just Because Card by Ashley C. Newell
Adding Color with Markers category:
Welcome Baby Card by Araceli Jessee
Academics Card by Susan Liles
Happy Spring Card by Yolanda Beltran
Adding Color with Dye Ink Spray category:
We Miss You Card by Becky Olsen (Salt Lake City, UT)
Thankful Card by Jean Cross (Brooksville, FL)
Once Upon a Time Card by Julia Stainton (London, ON, Canada)
Bowing to these royal artists,
Jennifer
P.S. If anyone will be at the Creating Keepsakes Convention in St. Paul this Friday and Saturday, come and find me to say hello!
A Huge congratulations ladies!! WTG!
Maybe one of these days I’ll get off my lazy bones and send something in for the next Royalty contest?
Congrats to you all. As a former Stamping Royalty winner (2007) I know how exciting this is. Fabulous job! And welcome to Royalty! Have a happy day!
Congrats to all the lovely ladies!
Huge congrats to all of the winners and thanks so much for picking one of my cards!! (My old blog is listed, but my blog addy is actually this one: http://nikiestes.typepad.com/my_paper_creations/)
Congrats to all the winners! Wear your crown proudly! My kids wouldn’t let me wear my crown last year!
Congratulations to all of the winners!!
I just want to say thank you for the adorable package with the tote and tiara. I have the tiara perched on my cutting station in my craft room. Such a fun and cute idea. Thanks so much. I am honored to be included in this royal group of talent:)
Congrats everyone!
My boys snagged my crown and made the dog wear it around the house. Ashley is a MUCH better model! Cute pic!
Congrats everybody!
And, um, how about some more winner’s pictures? I’d love to see you all in your cute tiaras!
-Teri
Congrats ladies, The cards are great. I saw them all in the Nov/Dec issue of Paper Crafts. Nice pic Ashley
Congrats to all of the winners! It was so exciting to see all of the projects in the mag. OMG … my photo is sort of embarrassing now! I like Julie’s sons idea to have the dog wear it. Why didn’t I think of that one?!
Thanks for selecting my card! Love all of the fabulous prizes too!