Winners & Design Team Delights for Challenge #55--Opt. Theme: SHADES OF BLUE

Hello and happy Thurday. As I stated in the start post that went out on Monday, I have an apology to make. To say that the universe has thrown a few extra challenges into my life in these past number of weeks, would be an understatement. Unfortunately, these challenges are affecting me both physically and mentally; and as such, it has also meant that I have about three hours less a day to work on computer and blog activities which is putting me rather farther behind. I'm not sure when this trend will end but it does mean that I'm going to have to sacrifice certain things in order to catch up. That probably means that our posts, especially the top picks and winner announcements, will not be up to their normal standards in terms of framed images, etc. I hope that you can all understand. Each minute I can save is precious and allows me to work toward checking one more thing off my list! Right now on this blog I'm still behind one winner announcement. My hope is that I'll be able to catch up with it within the next month. Your patience while I walk this difficult path is appreciated.

Thus on that note, it is finally time to present the winners for Challenge #55. First we'll share the names of the Voter's Choice, the Most Inspirational and the Random Winner and then we'll move on to showcasing our DT Delights. Who are all the lucky peeps? Well, let's find out.

Without further ado, here are the choices...

Drum roll, please....BBBbbbrrrrrrrrr pish

 The people have spoken and their choice for Challenge #55 is....

 PRIYA
 

Priya, you are entitled to receive a cool and awe inspiring personalized badge for your blog as the Voter's Choice for Challenge #55. Please feel free to copy your badge below...

 In the category of Most Inspiring, our winner is...

EDWINA

 

Edwina, you have won the Naturally Cool Kit from Décosse's Dynamite Doodles, one of our guest sponsors during Challenge #55.

Edwina, you are also entitled to a lovely, one of a kind personalized badge for your blog as the Most Inspiring choice for Challenge #55 which you can find below...

The Random Winner for this challenge (chosen by Random.org), based on all eligible participants is:

ELIZABETH H.

 

Elizabeth, you have won a $10 gift certificate from Scribbles Designs, one of our guest sponsors during Challenge #55.

Elizabeth, you are also entitled to a neat and unique personalized badge for your blog as the Random Winner for Challenge #55 which you can find below...

Big Congrats to...

  Priya, EDWINA & elizabeth

If you have won a prize during this challenge, please send your message to popwinners {at} gmail {dot} com (be sure to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols), or click HERE to bring our email up in your program, with the subject heading, "WINNER PoP Challenge #55" to make arrangements to receive your prize. Please note that I am rather behind these day so it may take me a while to get back to you but I promise I will. Thank you for your patience.

Now it is time to announce our DT Delights from this challenge. As always, in each challenge you, the readers, get to voice your opinion by voting for your favourite and so it is only fitting that my Design Team get to do so as well.

Thanks to the 18 people who took the time to join along our Path during the month of January for Challenge #55. The following crafters caught our attention...

Pinky-chosen by Helen and Julie...

Julie had this to say:
"My DT Delight is Pinky. I just love the sentiment on the card. It almost moved me to tears!"

Helen said this:
"My DT Delight is also Pinky. The sentiment on her card is amazing - such a positive and encouraging thing to say to anyone. It's so great to see something a bit different on a card."

To see the details of Pinky's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

Rosina--chosen by Pippa...

Pippa said this:
"My DT Delight is Rosina. I have seen this card in a number of challenges and I love everything about it, the images, shape, embellishments all combine to make a beautiful, elegant card. I would be thrilled to receive a card like that."

To see the details of Rosina's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

Priya- chosen by Katrina and Pat...

Katrina had this to say:
""My DT Delight is Priya. I love mixed media and this just took me away. I love the sentiment, texture, colors, subject, ....well, everything! Beautiful!"

Pat said this:
""My DT Delight is also Priya. I'm a sucker for a good mixed media piece, and the texture and dimension she got with her piece is awesome!"

To see the details of Priya's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

Creative Congratulations to you all!

Thank you to those who played on our Pathway during the month of January. As always we greatly appreciate you sharing your incredible talents with us.

For our DT Delights chosen for this challenge...

Pinky, Rosina and Priya

  You are entitled to one image of your choice from our on-going sponsor...

Please click HERE to check out the image previews. They are arranged into general categories; although, due to the nature of some of these images, they have been repeated in certain applicable categories. If you are interested in claiming a digi, please send me the name of the one image you want and let me know which section it came from. Send your request to popwinners {at} gmail {dot} com (be sure to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols), or click HERE to bring our email up in your program, with the subject, "PoP#55-DT Delight Digi Request". I'm always running rather behind these days, so your patience is appreciated.

Additionally, you are entitled to the special Challenge #55 DT Delight Badge which you can find below...

Join us next week when we'll bring you the top picks for Challenge #57. Hopefully, I will have the chance to also work on the final outstanding winner announcement in the next week as well.

Until next time,