Hi everyone! It’s Thursday, and you know what that means, right? Time to announce the winners of last week’s Go Green Challenge, where we asked you to work your stamping magic on some recycled/repurposed materials.  There were so many amazing trash-to-treasure entries that we asked the Web Artists to help choose this week’s winners. They selected some of their favorite projects and we drew the winners from that pool of favorites.  Now, here we go!

The envelope please…

This week’s Fresh Face winner is mommatwitch, who created two projects that our judges just loved! First, these adorable and clever little notebooks made from paint samples…

…and also this creative cookie package. YUM! (For a closer look at how she stamped on the apples, look here.)

The Scrapbooking prize goes to TRace44 for her oh so pretty in pink (and green!) page. She used lots of recycled goodies on this — a gum wrapper and perfume packaging, to name a couple!

Now for First Place…congratulations to Alice W! Alice designed a sweet home for two lovebirds with a variety of repurposed materials, including a box from a Hero Arts order! We love all of the wonderful little details she included. The back wall is even stamped with clouds!

Coming in Second Place is wteresa15 for this beautiful mini envelope gift bag that she embellished with a stamped tissue paper flower. What a great color combo…I can’t wait to try that one!

And in Third Place we have a fabulous card from Pocketful of Paper! She used the clear packaging from a stamp set to create the base of her card. Check out the way she cleverly curved the scalloped border stamp to go around the circle — great idea!

It would be impossible to stop there, so here are some Honorable Mentions!

First, ishouldbesleepingbut repurposed some packaging and a bit of green tulle to create a tutu for the Big Owl. Charming and just “tutu” cute!!

Next, Olivia Martin came up with another great use for cardboard. She made a fantastic mini album to document her family’s summer explorations and finds. Great idea, Olivia!

And finally, we have a wonderful anniversary card by nancyljk showing a creative use for postage stamp labels. And check out the beautiful stamping she did on the repurposed wood veneer! Her husband is a cabinet maker so it has extra special meaning.  Love that!

Winners and honorable mentions, please email us your addresses and we’ll send your prizes out soon. Thanks and enjoy!

Ready for even more inspiration? The Hero Hostesses have been posting some glorious green creations of their own over in the Flickr group — have a look!  (Click on each circle for a larger view.)

Projects by Donna Mikasa, Karen Piskor, Kelly Booth, Lisa Carroll, Jenn Biederman & Judy Jung.  Thank you!

We invite you to check out ALL of the Go Green Challenge entries by clicking HERE.  Thanks so much to everyone who played along last week. Here’s to being green!

Filed under: gogreen

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 28th, 2009 at 4:43 am and is filed under You're Talented Thursdays. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.