And the Winning Entries are:
1st Place: Entry #10... Michelle Wyner $30 Gift Certificate
2nd Place: Entry #6... Mary Garvey $25 Gift Certificate
3rd Place: Entry #1... April Williams $20 Gift Certificate
1st Runner Up: Was a Tie!
Entries #2... Karen Bruns and #19...Betty Lorenzo $10 Gift Certificates
2nd Runner Up: Entry #20 Diane Lee (MomCat) ... $10 Gift Certificate
3rd Runner Up: Entry 4... Pam MacVittie $10 Gift Certificate
Time to go shopping... Give us a yell and it's in the mail!
All the Entries are winners in our book! Watch your mailboxes, Folks... goodies heading out to all of you ...four sheets of new EvoCork and 10 sheets of foil with a special extra surprise also going out to our youngest Entrant... Nyssa Panetti.
Thanks to all of you for making this challenge sooo much fun!
Ellen :}> Evo
Entry 1 Artist: April Williams ***3rd Place Winner!***
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All stamp images are from Plate #60. Basic card stock is light green layered with pink and yellow on outside, yellow on inside. Images are stamped with rainbow pads. Outside flowers are each composed of the three different sizes of flower images, trimmed out and layered. Heart leafs are trimmed out and layered, also. Inside flower is folded into 3D, so it opens as the card is opened. Two of the petals were punched with a butterfly punch. A light pink chiffon ribbon is laced through two circular hole punches.
Entry 2 Artist: Karen Bruns ***1st Runner-Up-Tie Winner!***
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Turtle and butterfly stamps from Plate #64. Outside has Light blue mulberry paper strip at top and sandpaper strip at bottom. Leaf green mulberry was torn and mounted in middle overlapping other layers. Inside has fabric leaf mounted behind images. Butterflies stamped with clear and embossed with Iridescent and colored with blue & violet oil pastels. Turtles stamped with Ranger Expresso dye. Outside turtle is colored with green & yellow green oil pastels and coated with satin varnish; inside turtle is colored with pine green and olive green oil pastels and painted rather heavily with clear embossing fluid for texture and embossed with detail clear. Sun & Moon are Corel clip art that has been modified and recolored before printing. Sun is on white ink jet paper highlighted with Chinese Red Rub & Buff. Moon is on vellum embossed with iridescent. Verses original- with a little help from an old song - and printed on vellum in 36 pt Space Toaster. Thought dots are also vellum. Butterflies have wings folded up and are mounted with sticky dot tape. All images are cut out close to edge and words are cut as ovals.
Entry 3 Artist: Mary Ann Gindlesperger
Thangs used... Nestling Hexagon EvoTemplate, EvoCork, Lion Fish from Plate #11A, 3D Illusion Vinyl, Memories Black Ink, real-life seashells for embellishment.
Entry 4 Artist: Pam MacVittie ***3rd Runner-Up Winner!***
Navy Cardstock background... stamped with images from Plate #67 colored in with Radiant Pearls. Mini-Thangs layered as embellishment covered with gold beedz and topped off with bright brass sun charm.
Entry 5 Artist: Carol Getman
The marbled paper is a hand-made original by the artist. Four 3" circles were cut out then stamped on the back with the Flower Thangs from Plate #66... stamped in purple and turquoise. The entire Flower stamp was centered on the back, and then the edges were stamped again with the outside edges of the stamp. Mounted on a circle... knotted purple cord added.
Entry 6 Artist: Mary Garvey ***2nd Place Winner!***
Butterflies from Stamp Plate #63 were stamped on acetate run through a Xyron to apply adhesive to the back. EvoGlitter was applied on adhesive with a tiny scrub brush. 3D Flowers stamped with Document Black ink pad and EvoGlitter applied. Back ground is Polished Stone layered over gold cardstock then layered over Maroon marbled cardstock.
Entry 7 Artist: Mary Ann Gindlesperger
Cardstock and cork shapes cut out around Nestling Heart EvoTemplates. Cat Heart image from Plate #21 is stamped in white on cork and heat embossed. Metallic Rub Ons were used to enhance cork and cardstock.
Entry 8 Artist: Carol Getman
Red and white flowered paper was stamped on the back with the flower stamp from Plate #67 then trimmed out with deckle-edged scissors, mounted on another circle and laced around the edges with red cord.
Entry 9 Artist: Nyssa Panetta
Background stippled lightly around Nestling Heart EvoTemplate. Butterfly from Plate #63 stamped in black and colored with pencil.
Entry 10 Artist: Michelle Wyner ***1st Place Winner!***
Light gray cardstock, background stamped with leaf from Plate #42 with rainbow pad. Stippling around a Nestling Heart EvoTemplate creates the center flower.
Entry 11 Artist: Brycen Panetta
Manatee image from Plate #10A. Stippled backgrounds with middle layer of EvoCork.
Entry 12 Artist: MomCat
Beaded lizard from Plate# 64 stamped and heat embossed on multicolored paper, trimmed out and layered on dark blue, white and dark green cardstock.
Entry 13 Artist: Carol Getman
Plate #67 Flower stamped in red on the back of red & white flowered paper then trimmed closely and mounted on a circle backing. Red Chiffon ribbon threaded through a punched hole.
Entry 14 Artist: Mary Ann Gindlesperger
Largest gold foil heart and middle dark red heart cut around the Nestling Heart EvoTemplates. The two Patterned Hearts are heart images from Plate #56, stamps inspired by Ria Vaneman's fractals. White mulberry paper layered beneath the smallest top heart. Corners are decorative punched and rounded.
Entry 15 Artist: MomCat
Tortoise image from Plate #64 stamped and heat embossed on a magazine desert scene picture, trimmed closely and layered on torn paper, coarse-grained sandpaper and gold colored cardstock.
Entry 16 Artist: Mary Ann Gindlesperger
Folded patterned paper pockets made from Pocket Card Duo EvoTemplates held in place by Family Treasures corner punch. The top of each pocket is folded down for 3D effect. The Square EvoTemplates were used to cut the background gold and black cardstock layers.
Entry 17 Artist: MomCat
Beaded Lizard image from Plate #62 stamped and heat embossed on patterned white paper, layered on marbled, gold and orange papers.
Entry 18 Artist: MomCat
Tortoise image from Plate #64 stamped and heat embossed on magazine picture of a canyon scene, trimmed out and layered on torn paper then on dark green cardstock.
Entry 19 Betty Lorenzo ***1st Runner-Up-Tie Winner!***
Geometric Flowers on Plate #60 are stamped in yellow on yellow cardstock. The Hearts from that plate are stamped dark green on green cardstock and used as leaves. The flower layers are held in place by a brass brad. The petals and leaves are curled upward for 3D effect.
Entry 20
Artist: MomCat ***2nd Runner-Up Winner!***
Turtle image from Plate #64 stamped and heat embossed in green on a magazine map, layered on a torn brown-textured paper and dark green cardstock.
March 19, 2001