I won October Standout Contest!

I joined this contest last month :

and I won the first prize with 68 nomination! Here is the scoop. As the top nominator I receive $20 gift certificate to the store & 1 Year subscription to the Pixel Club. Hooray...

By the way I already spent the coupon since Gotta Pixel is having an extended DSD Sale for 40% until 9 November 2012. The time couldn't be better than this! I bought a bunch of word arts from Word Art World, pizza theme kit from Aprilisa Designs, masks from Indigo Designs and a template from Lindsay Jane. Wow, it's really is an early birthday gift for me... :).

First Contest Winner!

Remember last week when I told you that I'm running into Studio Blagovesta's kit contest. Guess what? I'm the first winner ...Yaaay! This is the email I just received from Maya, SBG's owner :

Congratulations Swasti, you are the 1st place winner of our Coffee with Friends layout contest. The judges loved your layout, and how you scrapped a very poignant moment in your life using a coffee themed kit! Beautiful! Your layout will be posted in this week's coming newsletter.

I'm so excited to win! I never win anything before, so to get $50 as the first prize is just awesome... I should do this more often, don't you think? I was inspired by layouts from Kristin Aagard's gallery which I think showcase the papers collection beautifully and I ended up scraplifting it especially for this contest. Here is the layout again :

I also posted the layout into Studio Blagovesta's gallery and she herself gave me a comment : Oh! Our winner! Love this layout! It is wonderful! And It realy touched my heart! You completely deserve you first place! Thank you for using my kit for this special memory! ♥

Another nice surprise is when I posted this layout to Ginger Scraps gallery, just within few hours I received so many lovely comments and was nominated in Baker's Best! Yaaay.... I'm so excited! I knew I couldn't win, being the site CT, but I still felt honored to be mentioned there. I guess my dad is really my lucky charm anyway....

Layout Contest : Coffee with a Friend by Studio Blagovesta

As they enter into their 10th year of business, Scrapbookgraphics would like to express their gratitude, Scrapbookgraphic by giving us this gorgeous kit for free! Coffee with a Friend was created especially for you by the very talented Studio Girl, Blagovesta Gosheva. There is also a LAYOUT CONTEST for you to participate using this free kit & I'm trying my hands on! Here is the detail it you'd like to join us...

Coffee with a Friend by Studio Blagovesta

This is the layout I made with the kit. I scraplifted layout I saw in Kristin Aagard's gallery and created my own template with some change in the photo and journaling mat. I like the look of each tiny stacked paper blocks with different element on top of them. This is really a clever idea to showcase all gorgeous papers I found here! An experiment truly worth trying...

And, on top of that, this layout is nominated in Baker's Best and got Honorable Mention at Ginger Scraps. Bapak... you're really my lucky charm :)