Welcoming ScrapMatters NEW Queen of Scrap!

I hope you have been practicing your curtsy!  SM has just wrapped up our 3^rd annual Queen of Scrap Contest – it has been absolutely AMAZING to watch!

This year the contest was bigger than ever.  More contestants, more participation gifts, more pages and more prizes!  We had 157 scrappers enter our contest. Collectively they created 6765 pages and projects during the month of May! That is a LOT of scrapping!

There were brag books, hybrid projects, pages about kids and parents, pets and friends.  There were even pages about the contest itself!  There were many pages that made us laugh and just as many that made us cry.  Either way, they touched all of our hearts.

The QOS gallery was FULL of inspiration and artistic talent.  Everyone who entered should be so proud of themselves!  I am certain that most of them scrapped more LO’s this month than they ever dreamed possible.  We had 14 people scrap over 100 pages EACH during the contest!  56 people scrapped more than 50 pages each!  That is pretty amazing!

We had one incredible layout artist scrap 200 pages – on her own – in one month!!!  As our “Top Poster” (the person who created the MOST LO’s during the contest) , she will win a $50 gift card to the ScrapMatters shop!  She will also win prizes from our contest sponsors.  A one year Gold Membership from DigiShopTalk and a copy of List your Life – A Log Your Memory Journal List from Log Your Memory!

Congratulations citygurl08!  You are our Top Poster!

Now before I get to the second part of the contest and announcing the Queen of Scrap & the Princesses of Scrap – we let the QOS contestants have a little fun voting for their new friends.  Each of these winners will receive a $10 coupon to one of our designers shops!

Miss Congeniality – for the QOS participant who was the most friendly and social during QOS – (sponsored by Happy Scrap Girl)…. mommy22girls

Miss Photogenic – for the QOS participant with the best overall photography on her layouts (sponsored by Jenn Barrette)… sporte91

Miss Trendy –  for the QOS participant who uses a lot of the recent trends on her QOS layouts (sponsored by WM[squared])… Ddamsel

Miss Clusterqueen – for the QOS participant with the best overall “clustered” pages (sponsored by Denise Beatty Originals)… kathleena

Miss Wordy – for the QOS participant with the best overall journaling on her pages (sponsored by Geeky Diva)… merchi

Miss Rising Star – for a QOS participant who is “new” to ScrapMatters with the best overall pages (Sponsored by The Design Girl)… Inkspots

I know you have all been waiting for this part.  I’m sure that many of you scrolled right to the end of this post just to see who won!    We’ll here is the part you have been waiting for.  One of these lucky ladies is going to be crowned ScrapMatters Queen of Scrap! Two lucky ladies will also be named the “Princess of Scrap”. The princesses will receive a one month guest spot on our CT. The Queen is to win a three month guest spot on our CT. To qualify for this part of the competition, the participants had to be in the top 30% of  posters with the most layouts created for May.  To be in the top 30% and be considered for the QOS, each person had completed at least 60 LO’s!  Each of these princesses should take a bow – I’m sure many scrappers struggle to make that many pages in a year! You can truly tell that they are very passionate about this craft and the subjects of their layouts.

Well, it would have been way too hard for one person to pick a winner, so we put the fantastic ScrapMatters team members to work! We poured over their galleries and each of us voted on who we thought should be the winners. It was so hard to decide!

Are you ready?

ScrapMatters Princess of Scrap – TWO people will be chosen to win a ONE month guest spot on the ScrapMatters.com CT!  In addition to their guest spot they will also win these AWESOME prizes!

A one year subscription to Creating Keepsakes Magazine
One copy of List your Life – A Log Your Memory Journal List from Log Your Memory!
One month of the “Fix” from DigiScrapAddicts!

Please help me congratulate Brenda (Brenda Smith Designs) & Tanya (tanyarank)!  Ladies your galleries are amazing!

And now for ScrapMatters Queen of Scrap – true digiscrap royalty! One person will be chosen to win a THREE month guest spot on the ScrapMatters.com CT! In addition to the guest spot, the Queen will also win these AWESOME prizes!

A “Bamboo Craft” pen tablet from Wacom!!! It’s a $130.00 value!
A 1 year subscription to Creating Keepsakes Magazine!
One month of the “Fix” from DigiScrapAddicts!
A Real Life Weekly Challenges Book from Log Your Memory!
A one year Gold Membership from DigiShopTalk

Wow – that is an amazing prize pack!

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Cheryl (gonewiththewind)!!!!  Congratulations Cheryl!  the team at ScrapMatters.com is so very excited to have you join us!!! We would love to have you take on a guest CT spot on our team – allowing you access to our shop to scrap your heart out!

Here are just a few of her stunning pages.

I will be contacting all of the winners later today with their prize information!

Please be sure to stop by all the QOS galleries to see their amazing work this past month.

I also want to take a minute to thank the people that made this contest possible this year.  Thanks to all of our corporate sponsors for their generous donations!  Thanks to our AMAZING design team – they worked so hard to create the participation gifts for the contest and MANY of them went above and beyond to offer addition prizes for the challenges and extra prizes & to help with coordinating the contest.  Thanks to our CT for putting together the template pack participation prize, distributing the prizes and hosting the challenges.  Thanks to the newsletter team & the ad team for working so hard to coordinate all of the extra ads this month & putting together another amazing newsletter.  (GOSH, you’d think I’d won the award, lol)!  Thanks to the SMG for all of the sweet, heartfelt, amazing comments you left in the gallery!  I don’t know how you do it, but we appreciate you more than you know!  Thank you to the admin team who helped coordinate this contest, line up prizes, save my sanity and all of the other wonderful things that you do.  And last but not least… Thank you to everyone that participated either by scrapping or cheering for this contest.  It was so much fun this year!

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