And the Winner is....

I actually have butterflies in my stomach as I type this, LOL!! But I'm so pleased to announce the winning team from Season 2 of the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race:

For those of you who don't want to watch my adorable children in the video drawing a name out of a pirate's hat, you can scroll down.

Gigi Girls!!

Gigi Girls are Rachel and Amy. You can click on their name to see their galleries. Congratulations ladies!! I'll be e-mailing you tonight for full contact information.

Thanks everyone for participating!!

So, what's going on...

I know you're all dying to know. Here's the scoop. I finally got through all the e-mails and verified all the layouts. However, there are about a dozen or so teams I haven't heard from and these are teams that have never missed. And because, as many of you have learned, for some reason, all e-mails don't necessarily make it to me for whatever reason.

So, to give them the benefit of the doubt, I went to check their official galleries. About 6 teams have their official galleries at DST and, you guessed it, DST postponed their server upgrade to today and I can't check them.

I don't want to unfairly penalize these teams so I'm holding off on distributing the last of the prizes and doing the drawing until I can contact these teams.

Thanks SOOO much for your patience!

Last of the Grand Prizes

These are the last sponsors of our Grand Prize. And for those of you keeping a running total, the prizes total $1,107.50 per team member!!! I want to personally thank everyone who is donating to the Grand Prize, hosted a challenge, or participated as a racer. You all have helped make this race an astounding success!!

Lie Fhung is donating two $30 gift certificates to Ztampf! to the Grand Prize. In addition, she provided discount coupons to all the racers who registered. Plus, there is another little surprise coming your way if you made it this far...

Ztampf!’s sole creator is, Lie Fhung, a Chinese-Indonesian contemporary artist and designer. She studied ceramic art and graduated with a BFA from ITB (Bandung Institute of Technology), Indonesia. Fhung has received many recognitions for her work as an artist since an early age. Click here to learn more about Fhung art and to see her ceramic and installation art work.

In addition to being your host and stop number one in the race, NDISB is offering each member of the winning team a $50 gift certificate to the NDISB store. We have a fabulous variety of designers to suit any scrapping style. From traditional and heritage pages to something edgy and trendy, you'll find it all at NDISB!

Memory Purses is offering each winner a free small purse and checkbook cover. This is a $24 value each! Memory Purses:

~Measures 10.5in.W x 8.5in.T x 3in.D ~Handles measure 22in. long ~Both sides of this sturdy, well made purse have snap openings to hold your 10 x 8 photo or scrapbook page ~The inside of this purse is lined with a black pin striped fabric ~The inside contains a small slip in pocket ~The sleeves are made of a thick, clear acrylic material ~There are small metal feet on the bottom of the purse that allow it to stand on it's own.

What can we say about Shabby Princess? I mean, who doesn't know this amazingly talented designer with the heart of gold? Who among us didn't start digital scrapping with her beautiful freebies? Well the generosity continues. Each winner will get a $25 gift card to The Shabby Shoppe!

Grand Prize Winner Info

A few people have asked when we're going to do the drawing. It will probably be at least Tuesday. First I have to wait for everyone to e-mail me with their layouts from Week 6. They have until midnight Sunday night/Monday morning. I won't see the last of them until Monday when I get up.

After that, I have to write each qualifying team's name on a piece of paper and put them in a hat. I'll probably draw the name Monday night when my kids are home. The tough part will be deciding which kid gets to do it, because they're likely to fight over the right.

I'll record the whole thing and put the video up on the blog. So, it could be Tuesday before that happens. But I'll try to get it up Monday night.

Now, on to more Grand Prizes:

ScrapQuick is offering fifteen (15) 8"x8" premium, archival quality prints of the winners' choice of their own digital scrapbook pages. ScrapQuick.com™ specializes in digital scrapbook printing with no bleed or image loss at the edge, even at 12"x12". We use only pigment-based inks (not dye inks) and heavy-weight, water and smear resistant photographic paper to give you true-to-life color reproductions of the highest quality with long-lasting, fade resistance. Prize includes shipping to North America (winners outside North America receive a $30 gift certificate to our online store good on any digital product except commercial use items.)

ScrapQuick.com™ is the only site on the web offering ready-to-use digital scrapbook pages created exclusively by professional page artists who offer you a unique take on outstanding digital layouts by constructing layouts from 29 top digital designers. In addition to our valued priced, two-page layouts, we also feature albums, templates and embellishments.

Genevieve Sass is offering two $20 gift certificates to her Oscraps store. Genevieve is a hugely talented designer with an amazing variety of products from whimsical doodles to layered templates and fabulously rich and detailed kits. There is something in her store for every scrapping style.

Plain Digital Wrapper is donating two $10 gift certificates to their store along with two $10 gift certificates to Shutterfly.com! Plain Digital Wrapper boasts some amazing designers. Along with a gallery and fun challenges, you're sure to find something here to inspire you. Be sure to stop by and check them out and thank them for not only donating to the grand prize, but for serving as a fun stop on the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race Season 2.

Pickleberrypop is donating two $17 gift cards to their store. Pickleberrypop is an Australian-based scrapping site welcoming people from all over the world. Try out a challenge or two in the forum, upload your layouts in the gallery, and pop by the shop to see what takes your fancy. Join them for a little bit of scrapping and a whole lot of fun.

It Just Keeps Getting Better and Better

My goal had always been to profile 2-3 Grand Prize donors twice a week. But the donations kept flooding in and before long there were just too many to take it that slow. Here are six more fabulous companies/designers who are generously contributing toward our Grand Prize!

Elemental Scraps is donating a $25 gift certificate to each member of the winning team. Elemental Scraps is a full-service site with a gallery, forums, shoppe, chat and more. With a paid subscription, you'll get access to special subscriber only sales, monthly mega kits, freebies and more! With over 20 designers, you'll spend that gift certificate quickly!! Be sure to stop by and thank them for not only donating to the Grand Prize but also for being stop number 6 on the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race!

Kelly Shults is donating two $25 gift certificates to her store at A Cherry on Top. Kelly is an amazingly talented designer with a well-stocked store. There is so much there to fall in love with!

Disc Talk Radio is offering two radio memberships (a $36 value), one for each member of the winning team. Whether you're sitting down, logging on and listening now or downloading and takin' the shows on the road, Disc Talk Radio promises to provide you with hours of information and entertainment from icons in the scrapbooking community. Each month, tune in to hear your favorite scrappin' celebrities share tips of the trade, gain insights that will make your next layout shine, go behind the scenes of your favorite sites, and just plain have a blast - but that's just for starters! So, turn up the speakers and listen now!

Digitals is donating two $10 gift certificates to their store. Digitals is a busy site with lots of fun challenges, products, tutorials and more. They have a well-stocked store with products from dozens of talented designers. And don't miss their free daily download!

Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild is donating two 3-month guild memberships (a $17.50 value each)! The Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild has been formed for the express purpose of advancing the craft of digital scrap-booking. They are a craft guild dedicated to helping our members grow in their craft. They believe the craft of digital scrapbooking can be most effectively advanced by creating a community that is dedicated to a culture of on-going education.

The Digi Chick is donating two $30 gift certificates to their eBoutique. The Digi Chick, TDC as it is affectionately known around the internet, is a full-service site with community forums, gallery, and a loaded boutique with some of the industry's most talented designers. Be sure to stop by and say thanks for sponsoring the race!

Grand Prize Fever!

Yes, even more Grand Prizes await two lucky racers. I had someone e-mail me asking if we could break it out into first, second and third place prizes. I think that's an excellent idea for next season, but for now, this has been advertised as a race with a single winning team and the sponsors have agreed to donate to a single Grand Prize. But I'll add this to the poll I put up at the end of the race and gauge everyone's interest.

So, with that, here are the next round of amazing sponsors for our Grand Prize:

Robin Carlton and the fabulous Sweet Shoppe Designers are donating two $50 gift certificates, one for each member of the winning team!

Sweet Shoppe Designs was an idea born out of friendship and commitment to one another's designs. We believe in a small, tight knit and supportive environment where each designer and creative team member are truly invested in each others success and have a say in the future of the site and what happens on a day to day basis. The designers at SSD truly believe in each other and the digital community as a whole and we are excited and proud to be bringing high quality designs, inspiration and a sense of community to scrappers around the world.

The fabulously talented Amy Teets is donating a $15 gift certificate to each member of the winning team to her ACOT store. Amy is tremendously talented and sells her fabulous designs at ACOT and now Oscraps. In addition, she has a popular line of papers with Dream Street Papers.

April Staker (aka DigiApe) is donating two $20 gift certificates to her Designs in Digital Store to the Grand Prize winning team. April has tons of beautiful items; it will be easy to quickly spend that $20!

Deco Pages is donating a Club Deco 3-month membership ($45 value) to each of the Grand Prize winners. Club Deco is the fantastic scrapbooking club at Deco-Pages.com. Club membership gets you a monthly kit (MEGA - some almost 1 GB in size) by the many participating Deco-Pages Designers, as well as the monthly Color Challenge Starter Kit, and any freebies from our designers throughout your term - made just for club members!! The value you receive each month is about $15.00 (or more!). A deal that can't be beat. The kits are high quality, fun, and have lots of variety - since many different designers add their own backgrounds, elements, alphas and more...

The fabulously talented and well-endowed Amanda Rockwell is donating a $15 gift certificate to each of the Grand Prize winners. Amanda's style is fresh, wild and a little bit funky and her products are always of the highest quality. And if you sign up for her newsletter, you can find out about sales and specials well in advance of the general public.


Brenda Kempf is offering each Grand Prize winner a $10 gift certificate to her Scrapbook-Bytes store. Brenda has been a designer at SBB since 2005 and has tons of fabulous, unique products to choose from. You could spend hours perusing her store, so why not go check it out now, just for fun. Fill up that wish list in case you win...

We Got Your Challenge #12....right here!!!

Yep, that's right, this is the stop for Challenge #12!!! So, here it is:

Your challenge is to scraplift your favorite layout done by your partner. If you're racing alone now, you can scraplift any other racer. But, your layout needs to be about the ADSR. You must scrap your page about your favorite aspect of the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race.

That's it. Two components. A scraplift and a topic.

And for completing the challenge, you'll get a coupon for $7 good towards anything in my personal store at NDISB. The coupon is good through the end of the year, so if you don't see $7 worth of stuff you don't already have, I've got plenty of new stuff coming out.

ETA: The layout you scraplift of your partner needs to be one an ADSR layout. Thanks for the question!!