The ACEO Inspiration Blog: November 2012

Wow hard to believe Halloween is over and Christmas is on the way... Get to work creating Christmas ACEO's. See what you can come up with... some ideas that come to mind to me are the birth of Jesus, snowmen, stockings, ornaments, hot chocolate, cookies, baking, turkey dinner, Christmas carols and carolers, music, presents, Christmas shopping, Christmas trees, decorating, Christmas lights, decorated streets, icicles, snow angels, advent calendars, Christmas villages, skating, sledding... the possibilities are endless.

CHRISTMAS

Be sure to read the rules at the left side of the blog before participating so you understand how everything works.

When you are ready, upload your ACEO's to one of your shops and/or your blog. Then come back here and enter the web address using the Inlinkz button below this post, Each ACEO entry will be displayed at the bottom of the challenge post. Then others can click on the links to visit all of the ACEO’s created and explore the various blogs and on line stores. Don't forget, each artist may enter 3 ACEO's each.

You have until 11:59pm Mountain Time on December 9th, 2012 to submit your ACEO's. Voting begins on December 10th and ends 11:59pm Mountain Time on December 17th.

When voting begins come back to this challenge post. Down at the bottom under the thumbnails you will be able to vote for your favorite ACEO. Each IP address may vote once per challenge. After you vote, you may have to click on your refresh button to see the results.

Judges Choice Winners

Judges Choice - 1st Place

Wins a Mini Smash Book created and donated by Pam of alwaysartistic. Plus a package of Strathmore assorted paper ACEO blanks.
This cute Mini measures 3.5 x 5 inches. It includes 2 cardboard covers, the front cover is decorated with 3 silver snowflake stickers and a turquoise ribbon. 6 double-sided patterned cardstock pages (1 of which is fold out page), 25 plain cardstock (3 of which are tabs), 4 small envelopes. There is also room to add more. You can see more pictures of it here.

This prize is valued at $18 plus the cost of shipping.

Judges Choice - 2nd Place
Wins 2 ACEO's created and donated by Stacy of MagicLoveCrow. These 2 beautiful ACEO's we created using acrylics.

This prize is valued at $18 plus the cost of shipping.

Judges Choice - 3rd Place
Wins an ACEO created and donated by Pam of alwaysartistic. This ACEO was created using the iris folding technique.This prize is valued at $7.50 plus the cost of shipping.

People's Choice Winners

People's Choice - 1st Place

Chris, of Paint1Chris will provide an original ACEO for The People's Choice winner. I will add more details soon!
This prize is valued at $8 plus the cost of shipping.

People's Choice - 2nd Place

Wins an original ACEO donated by Lee of WatercolorsorElse. Pick from the many ACEO's in her shop.

This prize is valued at $10 plus the cost of shipping.

People's Choice - 3rd Place
Wins 2 ACEO prints donated by Betty of pinkglitterfae.
This prize is valued at $8 plus the cost of shipping.

People's Choice - 4th Place

Wins an original ACEO "White Christmas" donated by Stacy of MagicLoveCrow.

This prize is valued at $9 plus the cost of shipping.

Random Draw Winners

Because we have so many beautiful entries, after the Judge's Choice and People's Choice winners have been chosen, I will put all the names of the non winners into a hat and draw 5 different names to win the below ACEO Abstracts... donated by Pam of alwaysartistic. Prizes valued at $7.50 plus the cost of shipping.