Hip Hop Entries...the Voters have Spoken!

EDITED TO ADD: The voting is closed, the winner will be announced! You'rea ll winners in my book!(but unfortunately, I don't have 12 prizes to hand out, so...)It was such a close race, I was SO excited to see everybody receiving so many votes, glad to see everyone else thought all these projects were as unique and special as I did! ( If they keep entering, I think eventually they will probably all win my contest!!!) I've added my comments(didn't want to influence the voting earlier) about each of these special projects in red, see below. (I will go back later to try to add everyone's blog link, I couldn't find them all in time, sorry bout that)

This was a tough one, there were so many great ideas! Here are the top 12 finalists, in no particular order.(Just so you know, you can click on all the projects to get a closer look at the fantastic coloring and little details) Please leave one comment only, and vote for just one person (but feel free to gush about how much you like the others) Please give the person's name and the project, so I'm sure to know which one you mean, there are a lot of "C" names here, it could be easy to get confused!) Thanks for your help! (and if you haven't seen today's peek of my new set, please be sure to scroll down to the next post when you're done!) :)

Laurie's Coaster Book
This just made me want to pull out the chipboard coasters I haven't tired out yet and play (I'll share my idea when I get around to it, but she really inspired me!)! It was so creative, the coloring was fabulous, and obviously a lot of time and thought went into it, the little backgrounds are each so different and beautiful. Laurie explained it was expandable to add more animals(I love that! ;)) and the monkey is by himself because he's waiting for a NEW monkey to come join him!(hmmm, you might be on to something there, Laurie!)





Charmaine's Hoppy Waterfall Card
Have any of you ever tried to make these waterfall cards?? I think they are such a pain in the hippy to make(I've only made ONE before), but so worth the time and effort if it comes out as cute as this one (just not my time and effort LOL!)! I wouldn't be able to resist pulling this again and again, flip, fliiip, fliiiip! So smart to have the greeting just keep going with each hop, that Charmaine, she's just so clever!




Angie's Baby Block Set (colored on the front...)
This just gave me the warmest, fuzziest feeling like I got for Linsey's lamp in my first contest, just such a sweetness about it! I'd seen people alter cube blocks before, but I really liked these colored blocks and the different shapes, so cute for a tall giraffe or a long patch of grass! And I thought it was so smart to decoupage the paper piecing on instead of coloring, she really thought about toys kids like, with a plain image on one side and then a colored or patterned on the back, surprise! I love that!
(...and paper-pieced (decoupaged) on the back)
Donna's Princess Hairbow Tin
Once again, I'm glad everyone recognizes Donna's stuff is bombalicious, not just because we're friends LOL! She managed to work four of my sets(even one of the tins) into this project! And it turned out as cute as can be (again polyshrink, another thing I don't "do"!) but Donna would do anythign for her neice, what a fantastic gift for a little girl!(I've actually been meaning to make msyelf a tin for all my little tiny clips, barettes hair bands, but I think I'm a wee bit old to pull off animal bows! I dunno, could be good marketing! ;))

Christi Thorsen's Party Girl Card
Everything about Christi's card just works: excellent lay outs, details, colors, so clean and classy! I'd be just as comfortable sending this to a 5 yare old, 25 year old, 45 year old girl, it's just awesome!

Bee's Baby Giraffe Card

Bee's card was the first entry I received for the contest! (She sent another REALLY cute one, but this was my favorite, and apparently yours, too!) The giraffe peeking out of the buggy(where'd that come from?) was just the cutest thing, and so many other elements she chosemade it so baby shabby chic. The DP, colors and fancy punched edge were great, but I think what really gets me is the white swiss dotted "fabric" behind them, I can just smell and feel a soft, sweet baby in my arms when I look at it!
Annapurna's Birthday Banner Card
Annapurna's stretched banner was fabulous! I love making huge banners with block letters to hang up or spread on the table for the person we are celebrating, it's just so festive, so I loved this "card version" of that! (She printed her lettering on the computer) I also love the background she made, the little "v" of birds, the tall grass, just looks like a complete "storybook page"!

Monika's Kite Flying Motion Card

Monika's little swinging kite on the penny like a mini spinner was so smart, a simple thing like this just adds so much "wow!" and whimsy to a card! Thanks, Monika for showing us all such a brilliant way to bestincorporate the little kite image in our cards! :)

Lee's Hippest Baby Card

Lee's glitterfied baby card is so "Lee", love all the girly bling, sweet pastels, layout and how she cut out all the little matching accessories and put them around the giraffe.
Courtney Fowler's Pull Card
I think we need to all apply firm pressure to Courtney to make a tutorial so we can all duplicate this pull card! Even though I *know* how she did it, she pulled it off so brilliantly I can't help looking at it thinking, how'd she do that?? (like watching some accomplished magician!) It just lines up so perfectly and is the most fun surprise with the balloon greeting, go Courtney! Now pretty please, a tutorial?? back me up, girls!

Carol's Teacher Card

This made me so smile so big! The little line of roos getting out of school and the teacher's smock she made were just so perfect! Carol, are you a teacher by any chance?

Cathy Tidwell's Count on You Card

Cathy's "kite rescue" was just the most creative, delightful idea! I'd been thinking for awhile it would be fun to have the baby giraffe looking up at his stuck kite and have the larger one come save the day, but I had NOT thought about everyone pitching in to get it down (who needs tall grown-ups when you've got freind, right??) SO much better than what I'd have done!

Anyway, who won this shooting match?? Would you believe it was a tie?? Out of 183 votes, Donna and Bee both got the most with 32 votes each! (and if you got something different then I'm saying it was too close to call, cause I recounted 4 times trying to make sure!!) That's cool, though, 'cause guess what?? Gina K sent me an extra set!!! They both win "Jumping for Joy", woo-hoo! (and it's rather appropriate since one is a card and one is a 3-D project, I mean how do you decide really?? )

Thank you all SO much for voting! (it's hard, isn't it??) I will also send a special little prize to SUE(comment #181, randomly chosen by DH), Sue said:

"I would like to vote for Laurie's Coaster Book. All the projects are amazing. Sue"

Please send me your addy, Sue!

I hope you will all (and I mean ALL, not just the ladies above!) try out for my Guest Designer spot this month, hopefully you can see everyone above had very different styles and types of projects and I thought they were ALL great! YOU CAN DO IT!

Voting closes at 5 PM CST on Tuesday, May 20th so I have time to tally all votes before the release party. Any votes after 5PM will not count toward the contest(but of course you are free to leave comments any time:) Voting as soon as possible is greatly appreciated so I'm not counting hundreds of votes at the last minute, thanks!! Feel free to link the contest and spread the word that anyone can come place a vote for their favorite, there will be a prize for one lucky voter! Winners announced during the release party, the hippest, hoppiest celebration around, don't miss it! Did you see the party's already started?? (to the hip, to the hop, hey-eyy...!)