{"id":1181,"date":"2014-03-21T23:56:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2014-03-21T23:56:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T03:56:46","slug":"winners-distress-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Winners: Distress Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what time it is &#8211; spotlights and voucher winner time!\u00a0You WOWED us with the Distress challenge &#8211; so much\u00a0amazing creativity!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73\" alt=\"designer-spotlight\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/designer-spotlight.png\" width=\"542\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/designer-spotlight.png 542w, https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/designer-spotlight-300x89.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have six beautiful projects in the spotlight today:<\/p>\n<p>#<a href=\"http:\/\/createwithbac.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/sss-wednesday-challenge-simon-says-tag.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>36 Liz B<\/strong><\/a> really impressed me with her Parisian tag. The colors and all of the elements come together so beautifully &#8211; love what she&#8217;s done!<\/p>\n<p>#<a href=\"http:\/\/vonpappe2.blogspot.co.at\/2014\/03\/photograph-finders-observations.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>81 Claudia<\/strong> <\/a>has amazing color and texture on her project this week. Anna-Karin says: <em>Claudia&#8217;s panel with the three Sizzix Alterations cameras is simply stunning. The textured background she made is amazing and what a great idea to die cut the cameras from different kraft-core papers and piece them together.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frozenbuffalodesign.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/distressed-so-very-grateful-for-you.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>#93 Frozen Buffalo<\/strong> <\/a>has a beautifully colored card this week. Dan says: <em>I love this card, the ink blending is exemplary and is the perfect foil for the batik-style text and the whole thing shows a great eye for composition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creative-love-affair.blogspot.ca\/2014\/03\/world-best-cup-of-coffee.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>#128 creative love affair<\/strong><\/a> has quite the cup of coffee quote and project. Emma says &#8220;<em>I just adored this piece of artwork with that fabulous stack of bright teacups against the textured grungy background. The whole piece had a whimsical feel to it and reminded me of one of my favourite books, Alice In Wonderland&#8221;. <\/em>Andrea says: <em>This coffee tribute hits the absolute perfect balance between distressed elements and whimsicality. I love the brightness of the cups against the soothing vintage background.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>#<a href=\"http:\/\/www.katecrafts.com\/2014\/03\/15\/challenge-d-is-for-distress\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>132 Kate Crafts<\/strong><\/a> has beautiful blue distress going on. Mona says: <em>she made a gorgeous card using a beautiful color palette of distressed inks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stampsandscrapbooks.com\/stampsandscrapbooks\/2014\/03\/magazine-monday-on-saturday.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> #141 Cathy Parlitsis <\/strong><\/a> distresses in style with her tag. Sandra says <em>Love love love these tags! So yummy grungy! The background is perfectly distressed! I really adore it!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to this week&#8217;s spotlight winners! You can email May (may.flaum(at)gmail. com) for the code to our spotlight badge.<\/p>\n<p>Now, speaking of codes, it&#8217;s time to talk about the winner of the $50 voucher!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simonsaysstamp.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45\" alt=\"50dollar_voucher_600px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/50dollar_voucher_600px.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/50dollar_voucher_600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/50dollar_voucher_600px-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each week we draw (using random generator) a winner from our entries in the challenge. This week the lucky winner is:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/meggysway.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/03\/ella.html\" target=\"_blank\">#71 Meggy&#8217;s Way <\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Congratulations! Email May (may.flaum (at) gmail. com) within the next two weeks to claim your voucher!<\/p>\n<p>A big thank you to <a href=\"http:\/\/simonsaysstamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Says Stamp<\/a> for sponsoring such a generous prize each and every week here on the Monday challenge blog! Also I&#8217;d like to thank everyone who participates in the challenges &#8211; seeing your creations is always such fun and we love how you take our challenges and make them your own each week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what time it is &#8211; spotlights and voucher winner time!\u00a0You WOWED us with the Distress challenge &#8211; so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}