Let me start off by saying “BRAVO” - you certainly pulled out all the stops for last week’s ‘Beyond Paper’ challenge and I literally spent hours pouring over your amazing creations! I wish every single one of you could be in the winning circle this week because you really went all out with your time and talent! Thanks for continuing to inspire!!!

Now, I’m sure you can guess how hard this was to choose only a handful of winners!

Our fresh face winner for the Beyond Paper challenge is *Geordie Girl* - check out this fantastic stamping creation on her ’sweetie bag’! What kid wouldn’t love to receive this special goodie bag at the end of a birthday party? Congratulations and I hope you will keep contributing to the challenges.

Next up is the winner for our scrapbooking category - congratulations to dancingpeardesigns. I love the stamped stars she created with her die-cutter and some denim!

Our first place winner this week is Alice W. (Aliceh83) for her very cool stamped and embroidered owl keychains. I like how she stamped on the fabric and then used that as her ‘guide’ for this show stopper project!

Second place goes to Stampin Sue for this beautiful card in which she stamped dragonflies on acetate and highlighted with colorful alcohol inks. I really like the effect of the embossed dot paper behind the stamped image - subtle but beautiful!

Third place goes to the very creative leapfroglbna (Laura) who in honor of Easter wow’d us all with her stamping on EGGS! This is not an easy thing to do and I applaud you not only for your effort but also for how pretty your Easter Eggs turned out…they are even adorned with rhinestones! Gotta love that!

There were so many wonderful projects to chose from so of course we had to pick a few honorable mentions:

Quilterlin created a little stamped doll quilt and it turned out so pretty! So much love and work went into it - great job!

Check out this adorable stamped mug by newkidfish (Cathy A) - what a wonderful gift this would make for some lucky recipient! I can’t get over how crisp and colorful the stamping is on the mug. If you look in the comments here you can see how she created it.

Our next honorable mention is Avital Gertner for this crafty card that combines stamped fabric along with stamped buttons! I really like the natural tones of the card and how the fabric along the bottom carries a sentiment.

Winners and honorable mentions… please email the blog with your mailing info (see side bar for email link) and we will get your prizes out to you.

Thanks to everyone who participated this week!

Also, Nancy asked me to relay the following message: “Tomorrow is Friday and we have a surprise in store for you. An international design team has created some projects using this week’s challenge. You will love them!!  Stamping really is the universal language of creativity!”

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