Thursday, April 1, 2021

Winners for Challenge #246 - Easter Thoughts

 Easter is a pretty popular theme right now! We had so many beautiful entries! Thanks for taking part in our Theme Challenge! We didn't have to go on any Easter Egg Hunts to find our winners, although there were so many beauties it was hard to come to a consensus! But we did and here they are:

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Our Top Pick is: Jolanda Johnston


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Thinking outside the box is something that Jolanda makes a beautiful habit of as she has created an Easter egg with woven, brightly coloured strips of cardstock. They make such a colourful, joyful background for her adorable Easter Bunny, all in the flavour of the season! 


We had a tie for Featured Artist this week:


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Our  first Featured Artist is: Heather Heroldt


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The Design Team were so impressed by Heather's beautiful spiritually-themed Easter card. Her striking ombre yellow background is so hopeful! Check out the backing behind the cross when you click on the card to enlarge it. It almost has a golden fleck to it!  And the flowering vine softens the whole effect! The whole card is very eye-catching! Congratulations, Heather.

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Our  second Featured Artist is: Deborah Wheeler

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A great deal of detail went into this beautiful, unique Easter card. Stencilling, masking and careful colouring were involved to get this misty vignette with the stained glass focal point! You really need to read about her process on her blog! Well done, Deborah!
                                                      
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And we think you may want to check out the following Honorable Mentions on their sites:

 2.   Stephanie L.
10. Carol L.                                                                                                                              11. Karen Ksenzakovic                                                                                                                14. Claire                                                                                                                                    15. dj

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who played along! Come and check out our new Speed Challenge tomorrow morning on our blog! Our winners today can pick up their badges on this page and display them with pride on their blogs or sites.  

3 comments:

  1. Congrats to the winners for your beautiful cards, and thanks for including me among the honorable mentions too. Happy dancing here :)

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  2. Such gorgeous cards. Congrats to all on Top Pick, Featured Artists and Honorable Mentions. Thank you so very much for choosing my card as one of the Honorable Mentions. Happy Easter!

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  3. Thank you ladies for including me in the Honourable Mentions, chuffed to bits... congrats to all, lovely inspiration. Take care x

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