Magazine Monday - Gallery Idol Top 20!

P. Kelly Smith

Welcome to Magazine Monday! Sounds like everyone enjoyed our CC7 blog hop last week. Thanks so much for supporting our fabulous designers who all came together to bring you 15 different, yet very engaging blogs. All in all, I’d say it was a huge success!

Make sure you check back with us tomorrow to see who took home the 10 amazing prize packages we featured last Friday. I will be announcing five winners here and Cath will be announcing five winners on Moxie Fab World. You’ll also want to visit the blogs of our 15 designers to see if you won a free copy of Card Creations, Volume 7. This special issue is bursting with creativity and inspiration – just like our newly appointed Gallery Idol Top 20!

Yes, the results are in! Summer can officially begin because the next four weeks are going to be hot, hot, hot! We were blown away by not only the amount of submissions, but the quality as well. This year for our “Open Auditions” round, 276 members submitted 1,254 birthday cards for 20 coveted spots! It was an agonizing decision, but we’re confident we got it right with this batch of talented gals who are ready to bring their “A” game. Would you like to meet them? Drum roll, please…

Finalist One: Chris Severs (chrys23)

Finalist Two: Lizzie Jones

Finalist Three: Heidi Van Laar

Finalist Four: Christine Penaflor (ca_scrappin)

Finalist Five: joey_73

Finalist Six: Tessa Wise

Finalist Seven: Natasha Trupp (trupptastic)

Finalist Eight: Candice Cruz (ShortcakeScraps)

 

Finalist 9: Carla Peicheff (moraliaweblog)

Finalist 10: Ashley Newell (anew19)

Finalist 11: Vanessa Menhorn (vanessa.1978)

Finalist 12: Beatriz Jennings

Finalist 13: Ashley Harris (ashersjane)

Finalist 14: Lucy, England

Finalist 15: Debbie (countryheartandhome)

Finalist 16: luluinlove

Finalist 17: Shanna Vineyard

Finalist 18: Belinda (dreamybg)

 

Finalist 19: Rae Barthel

Finalist 20: Julie Fei-Fan Balzer (milkman2007)

Congrats, Top 20! Since all of you made it this far, here’s a sneak peek at your prize package, courtesy of:

Top 20 Prize Package: Cosmo Cricket's Early Bird collection, plus free current issue.

Top 20, we absolutely loved all of your birthday creations and can’t wait to see what you come up with for round one. We thought long and hard about the theme and since summer has officially arrived, so has the season of weddings! The theme for round one is weddings! The deadline is next Monday, July 6 at 9 a.m. All wedding cards must be posted to our gallery by this time. I’ll be e-mailing you in the next couple of days to go over the specifics for posting and answer any questions you might have. It’s time to start to creating!

Hopefully you’re hearing wedding bells!
Kelly

P.S. It’s time to announce the three winners from Susan’s Lucky Card Creations 7 post! Here they are in no particular order:

1. Kathy Kohner (June 25, 10:41 a.m.)
2. Carol (June 26, 10:53 a.m.)
3. Pat S. (June 25, 8:43 a.m.)

Congrats, winners! You’ve each won a copy of CC7 and a GCD Studios/SIStv prize package! I’ll be contacting you shortly for your mailing addresses. Thanks to all who left comments!

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