20K contest, what's your vote?

Thanks for the 'view by group' tip, Kristin. Someone else had posted that tip awhile back, but it had slipped my mind.

I agree that this thread has been awesome for finding the lost treasures of the gallery. Here are my 3 favorites for today:

Eye to Eye, Heart to Heart by InkyinIndy
Enjoy the Ride by daniholsapple
The Game by mama2my3princes

Some really great artists here I hope to become as talented as you lot.. I entered 3 of my own but I don't think anything will come of any of them... Good luck everyone

Here are just a few of my picks. I've listed them by name, but included one of their layouts:

happy2bescrappy -hey, of course I'm rooting for myself!
Trendyscrapper
brigham
daniholshapple
mamapickles
jerih
newmommyscrapper
momtwoangels
jennreneta
carriezohn
tearyied
cheryljunegirl
scrapqueen21
angelaf
srisams
mammajamma
sari55
sopiejoey
Pammy
My3boyz
Amysgarden
luvmytwins
missyginct
sasksscrap

Sheesh, I have more than 20 and I haven't even been all the way through the gallery...too hard to choose!

woohooo to all the entries everyone is listing! there were a few in there i had missed (mostly the ones listed in the last few days- became wayyy too hard to keep up with!)

I am giving up trying to get a top anything togther lol... I LOVE soooo many entries and every time I mention someone I am leaving off way too many people lol Just so many awesome ones!! So pretty much- if I made a comment on yours... I Love it.. if I didn't I probably just haven't seen it yet lol... and I will live vicariously through everyone else's picks

and I want to say a HUGE thank you to all the ladies who mentioned me as well! Thanks so much... no way I stand a chance with this huge group of talented stars... but it is so nice when someone lets you know they like something you did

I've only begun to look through these entries and I must say I am more than impressed! Wow ladies, so much talent out there

I came accross one LO today when I was doing a search for something else and fell in love with it, and it happens to be an entry for the contest. I'll list my other favs once I have more time to look.

Those Eyes by BeckyB

Thank you so much for mentioning one of my contest pages ("Lilly") as one of your favorites!!

The day after submitting my pages (about a week before the 3/31 deadline), I went on vacation. When I came back home on 4/2, I couldn't believe how many stunning pages were submitted for the contest!! My favorites page is overflowing, and I haven't even finished going through all the pages yet. This was such a great contest -- getting to see how many people took a look at your pages & reading the nice comments was so incredibly rewarding (and addictive). And while I have no chance of winning, I am so happy with the three new pages I have to include in my girls' albums. What a great experience!!

• Angela F Said:

Angela~ No way of winning?!? YES, way! Your LOs are awesome!! You have as good a chance as any one of the other incredible artists who've entered. Good luck to you (I *love* all of your entries!!!)

ITA! I have to admit I am pretty discouraged. At least I know some of my entries were publishable by someone or at least I THINK they are. But, I know some of the newest entries are winners of several other HUGE contests (not the lo's but the ppl) & also DT members. Just makes it harder for us "regular" ppl to win but hard to really tell what the judges will look for & the best we can all do is try & be happy with that (convincing myself rofl)

• nolefunn1 Said:

I love so many of them. I have a bunch listed in my favs. A lot of my favs are already listed. I love this contest, I just am a bit bummed that a lot of people from other sites, jump in at the last minute. I know other sb sites that say you have to post at least 25 times, etc... It makes it harder for the new scrapper (which is me) to actually have a chance...anyone feel the same way??

Melanie & Nicole...you 2 just completely made my day! To be among your list of scrappers is an honor!

BTW...Your galleries both ROCK...I just got lost in them for a little bit checking out all of your amazing creations!

yep I sort of do feel that way but I guess it's just one of those things that I have to get over & be happy with what I have done so far Trying to be a good sport & I really AM a pretty nice person irl, sometimes can get cranky but otherwise I am nice lol

• maroon58 Said:

Okay, so I have only been scrapping for about six months and am woefully ignorant of who is who in the scrapping world.... so, who are some of the "famous" scrappers who entered at the last minute? I have seen mention of this in several threads and am really curious.....

Enlighten me, please...

Melanie

• msilvernail Said:

Me too!! I have been wondering that too, besides the obvious (people putting dt in thier signature line) how do we know if they are on design teams or not? Just wondering. Other than that, I have been trying to go through and pick out favorites, there are definately a lot of amazing layouts. I have 2 lists going, one for faves and one for all 3 layouts being faves, so I will post when I am finished (if that happens, lol).

Well...I'm famous.

hahahaha

I recognized several people from their styles/kids pictures. I guess seeing them in the mags all the time.

I am sure I missed a lot of people though.

• happy2bescrappy Said:

Aww that totally made my night!!

• maroon58 Said:

I'm with you. I hope "true" neighbors win. I don't want to be mean about it but we spend ALOT of time here and it only seems fair that those truly invested in this site win. KWIM?

Ok I have a question In the rules of the contest i understood you had to use products from the sponsors only. Is that true or not i have just noticed some LO's have listed other products used--does that matter or not ???????
Just wondering??
Kim

You could use any products you wanted. The sponsors products have to be the main elements on the LO.
Did I make any sense???

From the way I understood it, you could use as many products as you want, but you have to incorporate in some way, at least 3 of the sponsors in each layout. That being said, I noticed several entries that only had one sponsor on the layouts. Hmm, I thought the rules were pretty clear, but I guess that different people still have different interpretations. Too late to worry about that, I just hope that my entries followed the rules !

Ok I guess i assumed it was the sponsors products only.oops-- I also noticed that some used one sponsor and other the main elements on the page were other sponsors. In my oppinion the sponsors products should be the main focus. I still think they are all beautiful !!!!! Contest or not they are all great---and i learn a lot looking at them all. My entries dont compare but i had fun making them and some day all this looking will make me good enough to win!!!
Kim

Hey Cindy!!!!

I love your idea! There are way too many incredible l/o's to choose just a few and so many inspire me for different reasons. I want to join you in posting three fav's per day, but I don't know how to save more than one link at a time. (I just do the copy/paste thing). Would you be willing to share how you can list three in one post?

Here's my one for the day (until I can join Cindy in the 3 a day thing):

http://www.scrapbook.com/scrapbook_layouts/showphoto.ph...

You just keep on clicking the link and it keeps adding them, you still have to cut and paste. At least this is how I do it, if anybody has a better way, do tell

I have some more favs....

scrapinjoey
daniholsapple
MissTildy
nolefunn1
Angela_F
scrappie_cat
punchypoo
Hanni_B
Laura Solomon
Keely
tgscrapper
FLTripletMom
mama2isaac
ruthAKers
net

I still have soooo many to look at - I started at the beginning and am only up to Mar 30. This is my new evening hobby and it is driving my husband nuts. hee hee

Melanie

Yep but it's not the ones that are actual neighbors who sort of got under my skin. NewMommy, you might be famous lol but you're an active neighbor
I hope if one of the nonactive ones wins they do actually start to post, etc.

• bella'smommy Said:

LOL - I am so not famous...I was totally kidding!!!! I have never been in any mags...trying...but it hasnt happened yet!

Cori to put several links into a single post, I open 2 windows... does that make sense?? The one I am doing the post in and the one I am hunting down pics in I hope I am making sense lol It is very simple I think!!!

and I really want to look at all the entries done in the last week! I kept up the whole way through the contest but that last week it was too crazy busy fast!!!! I am going to go through and try to pick my top ones (will probably end up being 100 lol) I am going to give Kristin/my3boyz way a try though.... just do it by person instead of individual entries... probably easier to see who has 3 strong entries that way... so maybe my list will be smaller I know there are TONS of people who have at least 1 OUTSTANDING LO!! but not nearly as many have 3... or even 2 GREAT entries... kwim???

I too base mine on how the product sponors items were used! There are several entires I think are GORGEOUS! but I won't list them as one of my faves b/c they used Chatterbox pp very prominently... and just personal opinion here... when you have SOOO many sponsors who all produce WONDERFUL pp's... it seem very RUDE to use another makers pp so prominently! I like Chatterbox as much as the next person... but it seems kind of dumb to use them in a contest entry with BG, KI, SEI , AMM, Imag Project, and Scrapworks as sponsors! If you can't find ANY pp you like out of all of them- u don't deserve to win b/c you don't have a very flexible scrapping style... does that make sense?? I hope I am not coming off rude... but it almost seems like cheating b/c their stuff looks so "different" in the gallery that it is immediately eye-catching... and I, for one, would be rather po'd if entries like that won!

ok... off my soapbox (again lol)

anyway- LOVING all teh names being mentioned!!! I am going to stop looking at everyone else's picks for a little while though, so I can try to go form my own "list" as free from other's opinions as I can be

I agree with nolefunn1.
You should use the sponsors for most of the LO.I think 95% should be the sponsors and only a few small things here or there as other sponsors!!!! Maybe they will think of that when they pick a winner !!!!!good luck neighbors!!!!!

My 3 faves today:

Sisters by trendyscrapper

Jones at 12 by Cori in WA

This Boy by brigham

I don't know if any of these were already listed, because it's getting harder to keep track of the great links in this thread.

Keep em coming!

• happy2bescrappy Said:

Thanks Nicole~! That TOTALLY made my day!! As for my picks, there are so many of my fav., I don't think I can pick JUST 20!