Birthday Giveaway

It's almost my birthday and I want to give some of my readers a gift. I have a box of Oops orders. I get excited about getting new stuff that sometimes I miss the fact that I have ordered 2 instead of one. 

So to make room for new stuff and to spread a little birthday love I am giving these items away. I have cling and clear stamps, stickers, papers, embellishments, ribbon, and a few other things that I would love to share with you. I could sell them but this is more fun.

What I want for my birthday is more followers, more readers, more commenter, and more appreciators. SOoooo I will send out a package for my Facebook page followers, a package to my blog readers, and a package to my Instagram friends. I have goals for how many readers, followers, and online friends I would like by my birthday (June 6). If I reach those goals I will send out a second package for each platform.

I made an Adobe Spark page, mainly to see how it works. The goals are on the page below. 

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Good luck!

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Happy Crafting,

Fake ironing Friday and a giveaway

We have heard a lot about fake news in the last year. Today's card has a lot of fake going on. I'm so current. This woman in the window is fake ironing. Kind of the same thing I do.

The interior sentiment, My Birthday Suit is Wrinkled, is from Hampton Arts. I don't have an iron stamp or a stamp of someone ironing, but I found that I could use this woman if I crop her at just the right spot. She looks like she is ironing through the window. The woman in this image doesn't have hair and is holding a watering can. I love finding a new way to use stamps.

I used a die set for the shutters, window frame and the flowers at the bottom of the card. The flowers are very small and my fingers are rather large so I needed a small applicator for some kind of adhesive. I used Ranger's Multi Medium Matte in the small .5 oz bottle. Even though it's a small bottle I wanted a smaller applicator. I bought an empty precision tip applicator bottle a while ago and put the tip on the Multi Medium Matte bottle. Ranger has a special tip for this size bottle, available here, but I didn't go that route because I didn't know it existed back then.

GIVEAWAY

Have you ever ordered something online and accidentally hit the order button twice because you are so excited? I have done it more than a couple times. I did this in my last order from Simon Says Stamp that arrived last week. Soooo

I have an extra stamp that I want to send to a Katemade Designs reader. I have a goal of reaching 100 followers this year. I am 52 followers away from my goal. If I reach 100 followers on the blog I will add a paper crafting product. For each 100 followers, I will add another product to the pot. I have a set of Tim Holtz Distress crayons, a few duplicate stamps including a background stamp and numerous embellishments. 

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Art Impressions His & Hers Gardeners

Poppystamps Small Madison Window Set

Ranger .5 Oz MINI MULTI MEDIUM MATTE Glue Adhesive Paint

Quilled Creations PRECISION TIP Empty Applicator Bottle

Copic SKETCH 72 PC SET A Markers

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Mixed Media Scrapbooking Magazine Giveaway

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I can't believe I won the Mixed Media Scrapbooking magazine from Creating Keepsakes, not once but twice. Thanks to Laina Lamb, and Ashley Harris of The Scrap Review. Using the magazine as inspiration I made the Thanks above using mixed media.

I did some experimenting on a bit of watercolor paper. First I used Glossy Accents to write the word thanks on the paper and let it dry overnight. The small tip is great for writing and I will be doing this again and again because it was fun.

I spritzed the paper with Mister Huey's Lemonade and Orchard. The paper was really wet and I got impatient and blotted a bit which changed mixed the color and eliminated a lot of the splatter. Then I spritzed with a combination of cheap hairspray and red Pearlex, which gives it a bit of shimmer.  I have been using this mixture for years.

So I have these 2 identical magazines and really only need one. SO I'm giving one away. Fill in the form below and good luck.

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Watercolor Paper

Inkssentials Glossy Accents Precision Tip

Jacquard Pearl-Ex Pigments

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Happy Crafting,

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Want to win an iPad or a Kindle Fire?

My sister received a kindle fire for Christmas this year and I was a bit jealous. Jealousy fades much quicker now then it did when we were kids. Much quicker than when she was first to get eyeglasses (I was an idiot).

Well I can't afford an iPad or Kindle but maybe I can win one. Rafflecopter, the company that developed a fancy script for, oddly enough online raffles, wants to celebrate the new year, and is going to give away a 16GB Apple iPad2 and several Kindle Fires. The giveaway starts today, Monday 1/9 at 12:01 a.m. and lasts for a month. I entered at Crazy Coupon Mommy and clicked the second button, the one that says "blog about this giveaway" so now you can enter too.

All you have to do is click the green button on the Rafflecopter form below and type in “KatemadeDesigns” in the who referred you space. That’s it!! (PS – If you win, I win too!) So click below and good luck!!



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 Happy Crafting,

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