We interrupt our regularly scheduled Halloween festivities to bring you some exciting news: the winners of our first-ever Teen Talent Contest!
Out of more than 500 entries from talented scrapbooking teens age 13-18, the CK editors chose ten finalists. You voted for your favorites over a period of two weeks, and the winner—with more than 300,000 votes—is this layout
from 14-year old Jordan Hebl of Wisconsin. Here she is:
Jordan is going to receive a TON of cool prizes, including amazing scrapbook supplies and a laptop! Congrats, Jordan!
Four runners-up will also receive great prizes. Here are their entries.
This fantastic album from Carrie Donovan of Maryland, age 16:
Cool picture frames made from bike chains by Katie Smith of Texas, age 17:
A cool video from Danielle Creason of Texas, age 16:
And this great layout from Kyra Rookard of Kentucky, age 18:
Congratulations to all of the winners. You inspire us to believe that the rising generation of scrapbookers will be a creative bunch, and we look forward to more creativity from you in the future.
And thanks to our sponsors: Adobe, BasicGrey, BoBunny Press, Plano, Provo Craft, Silhouette America, Tamron USA, and Xyron.
Jennafer Martin, editor-in-chief
I’m really happpy I won runnerup! Congrats Jordan on winning the grand prize!!
-Katie
http://www.punkprojects.blogspot.com
Congrats Jordan!
Congrats Jordan and to the runners-up! Great work! Thanks for sharing your talent!
The projects are amazing, congrats to all of the winners.
Woo hoo! Huge congrats girls! Thanks for sharing such fun and amazing projects! So excited for you all!
Huge congrats Jordan…your project is fabulous! and to to all the runners up too. You are all so talented!
congratularions to all the winners! so very excited for you all!
i mean… CONGRATULATIONS!
Congrats Ladies!! Awesome work!
Fantastic work ladies! Congratulations!
Congratulations to all the winners! Jordan’s layout is amazing! I love the colors! Well done!
Awesome page, congrats!!!
huge congrats jordan! your layout is gorgeous! and to all the other finalists too! i loved getting to see such creative and talented teens, and the fun projects they all came up with!
JORDAN!!! I am THRILLED FOR YOU! WOW, I am so impressed that you are starting so early using your great talents. I hope your adventure will be as great as mine has been, if not better. Good luck with all of your fun adventures to come!!!
congrats, everyone! loved all the projects and I voted for you, Jordan!!
Congratulations to all the winners. And really to everyone who entered.
Congrats Jordan! I am super excited that I’m one of the runner ups!
-Katie
Congrats to the winners…but I have to say I am a tad disappointed with Creating Keepsakes. Those ads were horrible and very unfair to these girls who clearly ALL put a lot of effort into their entries. There was one that everytime I tried to look through them had an ad over the project and the vote button. It seemed too that it got worse as you went from the start to the end (the last two entries were almost always blocked from voting by the ads). This was really unfair to these girls! You have plenty of space for advertising, but having it pop up and not be able to be canceled over entries for a contest is really sad! I just an really disappointed you did this to all these girls who did some amazing work and all deserved a fair chance. I thought it was very disrespectful to the teens who gave you their all!
congrats to all the winners! such amazing talent!!
WOW I don’t know how anyone could pick just one.. I mean I know it was a vote thing but how did you chose which to vote for? WOW! beautiful all of them and Jordan I adore your layout and the fun buttons and details are stunning! Great work everyone!
Congratulations that is a wonderful layout! I am also glad to see that a young artist won closer to teen than adult
Keep progressing and growing!
What awesome projects! I linked to them from today’s Examiner.com scrapbooking news article at http://exm.nr/9wenyA