Runway Inspired Challenge: February 2013

I'm so excited to reveal the winners of the last challenge. Check it out:

Our Fabulous Fashionistas are:

Stampn'HI
Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Alyssa Leanne
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And the Queen of Couture, winner of the two stamp sets from Clearly Besotted Stamps is:

Lenae Sugargem!

Congrats, ladies! Lenae, please email me (ourchangeofart@gmail.com) with your mailing address to claim your prize!

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We have another incredible guest designer joining us, and I'm sure you are already familiar with her amazing work! I am delighted to present...

Jennifer McGuire!

Jennifer has been scrapbooking and stamping since about 2002. Her creations have been featured in countless magazines and books. In 2011, she was named a Go-To-Gal—a contributing editor for Paper Crafts magazine. Jennifer is well known for her column in Creating Keepsakes magazine, “Tools & Techniques,” where she demonstrated the many things you can do with one tool or product. Two Creating Keepsakes books based on these articles, 101 Things to Do with Your Scrapbook Supplies and 101+ Creative Ways to Use Your Scrapbook Supplies, were released in 2007 and 2010.

An avid stamper, Jennifer has been an artist for Hero Arts for the past 8 years, being involved in stamp design and contributing samples to their catalog, blog, and website. As Education Director for Hero Arts, she loves creating online video tutorials and traveling the world teaching stamping classes.

Jennifer is well known for her energetic, fast-paced technique classes, including the very popular Online Card Classes. Being Ranger and Copic certified, she shares creative ways to use paper, stamps, inks, and more to take your papercrafting to a whole new level.

She also contributes designs to Tim Holtz and Ranger Industries and enjoys sharing her ideas on her blog, jennifermcguireink.com, where you can find many of her popular video tutorials. Jennifer, who left a job as an engineer to scrapbook full time from her home in Cincinnati, also enjoys traveling and getting together with her crafty friends around the world. Her family includes her husband Ken, stepdaughters Kay and Audrey, son Colin, and baby daughter Lila.

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source: style.com

Guest Designer - Jennifer McGuire

Wida - Beachorado

Virginia - (Yes, Virginia...)

Nina Yang - Waffle Flower

Laura Bassen - Doublestick Heaven

Pamela Ho - miao

Tasnim Ahmed - Cards & Bookmarks

Jennifer Rzasa - Our Change of Art

Aga - Just Made From Paper

The design team will select 3 runner-ups (the Fabulous Fashionistas) and one winner (the Queen of Couture) after the challenge closes. They will be posted here on the blog at the start of the next challenge, as well as on our Winners Page. The Queen of Couture will receive an awesome prize!

A $25 Gift Card to Ellen Hutson!

~You must create a new project for each challenge

~Please include a link back to the Runway Inspired Challenge in your post

~When uploading your project, make sure to link to your entry post, not your entire blog

~When submitting to our challenge, you may combine with only 3 other challenges

~You may enter as many times as you wish!

~If it is not obvious how you were inspired by the runway outfit, please explain it in your post. We don't want to overlook anything!

Your projects for this challenge are due by Friday, March 1st at 11:59pm ET

Good morning, fashionable ladies! We sure did have a difficult time voting- if you have not had a chance yet, check out the entry gallery for the last challenge...it's amazing! We've been having fun over on our Facebook page too. I hope you consider liking our page!

And now, the winners (we had a tie for Fabulous Fashionistas, which is why there are 4 names instead of our usual 3):

Our Fabulous Fashionistas are:

Leah L
Sanketi
Julia Aston
Michelle W
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And the Queen of Couture, winner of a $20 gift card from Avery Elle is:

Lorena Canto!