Monday, December 31, 2012

Seasons of Giving Blog Hop

Contest closed-- thank you all for your response! The winner will be announced on Friday (1/4).

Welcome to the Seasons Givings Blog Hop!  I hope you all had a great New Year's Eve celebration! 
As I type this at 11:20 pm on New Year's Eve, I'm sitting in the dark with my family all laying on the floor and couches around me snoring the night away... hee, hee. Oh the life of a mother can be so glamorous! 

Anyway... back to the hop. This one is going to be a little bit different, in the fact that every single person on the list below, is giving something away.  All you need to do, is go to their blog, and leave a comment.  Really, really easy.  Now grab a cup of coffee, or tea, or maybe some hot chocolate, whatever your favorite is, and start hopping. 

Here's what I have to share with one random winner today...
Simon Says Stamp Exclusive "For the Record" Clear Stamp Set

Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Pinpoint Border Craft Die
All comments for my blog prize must be received by noon US EST on Thursday, January 3, 2013! 

Here's a little project I thought I'd share... its one of my favorited from 2012... I can't give you some deep seeded reason for it... it just simply makes me happy.
Here is to starting off the year 2013 in a fun way!
Now go hop... hop away (and I hope you win some really fun stuff)
Participating crafters/blogs:


Zva Creative December DT Blog Hop!


Happy New Year to you! Zva Creative and our talented NEW 2013 Design Team welcome you to our December blog hop where we officially welcome our new team members to our monthly hops! We are very excited about this year’s team and are sure that you will be inspired by and love their work. Are you ready to hop along and get to know them better?

Today’s Blog Hop begins at Zva Creative’s blog! Be sure head on over to check it out! You will also find a complete list of all the participating blogs there (in case there is a glitch along the way). 

As you know, Zva offers many beautiful color groupings for pearls, flowers and crystals.  If you like what you see along the hop you can find a list of stores and online retailers that sell Zva HERE.

If you would like to play along with our design team, just follow along the blog path.  I am linking to one of the Zva designers and that designer is linking to the next and so on. Be prepared to be inspired along the way!
The Blog Hop starts today, December 31st and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, January 1st.
***Prizes***
Hidden on FIVE of the designer’s blogs is a Zva Creative prize package! Winners will be randomly chosen after the hop is over. All you need to do is leave a comment on this Blog Hop post... you do not need to leave a comment on each and every designer's blog post to qualify. However, the more times you comment along the blog hop path, the more chances you will have to win.

The 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, January 2nd on Zva Creative’s blog. We will do our best to notify each winner, but it's best if you can pop in to Zva’s blog on Wednesday to see if you are a winner!

We also thought it would be more fun to add even more chances to win our blog hop prize!  To increase your chances of winning:
* Comment to let us know that you posted on your Facebook page about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)
* Comment to let us know that you "tweeted" about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)
* Comment to let us know that you asked your local store to carry Zva creative products.  If they already do, that's fantastic, maybe you can suggest other products that they don't carry.
*Hop over to Zva’s facebook page and “like” our page or leave a comment there to tell us that you stopped by if you already like follow us there!

You have reached the end of the hop! Thank you for joining us & have a happy, happy new year!

( The blog hop begins here at Zva Creative’s blog, if you missed the start:)

P.S. Mark your calendar to join us again on January 28th for our next Zva blog hop!

Saturday, December 01, 2012

Getting Ready to Wrap...

... and dying up some tea dyed tags to make into gift tags. But of course I had to make the whole batch, so I have a few sets that are up for grabs in my Etsy shop.

Small 1 3/8" x 2 3/4" Tea Dyed Tags
Medium 4 3/4" x 2 3/8" Tea Dyed Tags
Think about how fun it would be to alter these guys! I'll be back in a couple of days to share what I did 
with my dyed tags. What are you all doing to prepare for the upcoming holidays?

Happy weekend &  much love for you! Windy