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April 2013 Card Chain Challenge Sign-Up!

Welcome to the April, 2013, Card Chain Challenge! I've decided to add something to the mix this month and see how people respond. I've got a prize for the person whose card is randomly selected!

(A picture will come later as my camera's battery is currently charging.) 

Challenge explained. If you're new to the CCC, it's fairly simple. This is an international card exchange - you sign up to send one handmade card to the person above you on the list, and you will receive one handmade card from the person below you on the list. I also do a reveal of all the cards with links to the challenge participants' blogs / online photo galleries. Please read the Rules and FAQ's if you want to play along. :~D

See example. If you want to see a past CCC reveal, go here.

Creative options. Make a card that uses at least one of the following four options. You can actually use two, three, or all four, but you are only required to use one of them.

Color Palette  

These colors are your guideline - exact matching is not necessary.

OR

Sketch

OR

One of the following themes:

Umbrellas  or  Dogs  or  Friends

OR

One of the following products:

Water

You have until Friday, April 19, 11:59 p.m., EST, to sign up below and email me a photo of your card (please include a link to your blog/photo gallery). Please sign up using your first name and your state, province or country. EX: Ann from Texas; Betty from Ontario; Cathy from Wales; Darla from Italy.

All the cards will be revealed on Wednesday, May 1, with links to each participant's blog or photo gallery so you can see more of her great art! 

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Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Deborah

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And the Winner is....

A winner has been drawn for my $200+ goodies give-away!

and

And the Random Number Generator at Random.org says...

SUSAN MARTIN, come on down!!!

Susan, please email me your snail mail address (dominodebi[at]yahoo[dot]com) so I can get ya yer goodies!

Thank you, everyone, for playing along! Keep your eyes peeled as I'll be having more giveaways in the future!

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

The Silver Lining (a Giveaway)

They say every cloud has a silver lining, so I look at the end of the Lily Pad as an opportunity to get reaquainted with my cardmaking community on a more personal level again and a chance to play more with my stamps and make some videos. (I had just gotten my snazzy little HD video camera two months before we launched LPC and it's been gathering dust ever since.)

I also see this silver lining as extending to y'all. To celebrate the resurrection of my blog, I'm offering a rather nice little parcel of stamping swag! 

The prize package. Stamps and other crafty items with a retail value of over $200.

The requirements. To be eligible to win these goodies, you must:

• Subscribe to this blog; 
• Post my badge on your blog (or online photo gallery if you don't have a blog); AND
• Add your name to the list below with a link to your blog post/photo gallery showing my blinkie.

The deadline. 11:59 p.m., EST, Sunday, July 15th.

The winner. A winner will be selected via random draw and revealed here on Monday, July 16. The winner will need to contact me via email by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, July 23rd to claim her prize. If I don't hear from the winner, I will select a new winner.

The fine print. This contest is global. However, if it will cost me more than $15 to mail the parcel to your country, I respectfully request that you split the cost of postage 50/50. I doubt it will come to that, but I think that sharing the cost of postage is a very small price to pay for getting all this great stuff! ;~D 

The blinkie. I just taught myself how to make a blinkie! Just this very minute. (Or NINETY minutes, I should say.) It won't win any awards, but I'm still proud as punch that I figured it out! Leave me a comment if you would like for me to do a tutorial on this. You can get the code for this baby over in the sidebar.

S I G N   U P!

Thanks for dropping by and have a blessed day!

Lily Pad Cards 1st Birthday Blog Hop!

Hello, Card Lovers!

Welcome to your next stop on the Lily Pad's First Birthday Blog Hop. You should be arriving from Jennifer McGuire Ink.  

(Which is a tough act to follow, let me tell you!)

Here's my card:

S U P P L I E S

Stamps: Dream Big (Close to My Heart), CG299 (Hero Arts), Ribbit (WR Memory Keepers); Inks: Celadon (VersaColor), Leviticus Line (Fresco), Peeled Paint (Ranger Distress), color stack (Martha Stewart); Accents: Fragment Charm (Tim Holtz), gems (Mark Richards), border sticker (K&Co); Fibers: twine (Hempotique); Other: Glossy Accents, pop-dots 

Your next stop is the oh-so-sweet Carol Theng's blog Carol's Paperie.

If you hit a bad link, you can always  go back to the Lily Pad to view the master list of blog links. Please report any bad links to aris@inlinkz.com.

Don't forget to leave a comment and/or Like Lily Pad Cards on our new Facebook Page to enter to win prizes*** (retail value $500)! The contest is open until 11:59 p.m., EST, Sunday, April 8, so relax and enjoy yourself at a leisurely pace!

*** The Comment/Like Combo Prizes. There will be three $100-prize packages, randomly drawn, from the comments left on the blogs (including this one) and from those visitors who choose to Like us on our new Facebook page. The more comments you leave, the greater your chances of having your name drawn! (NOTE: Only one comment per blog, please.)

The Facebook Prize. The fourth prize package depends on how many people Like us on our new Facebook page. Here's how it works: If we reach 750 Likes by the end of the contest, we'll draw for a prize package worth $50. If we reach 1,000 Likes, the prize value will go up to $75; 1,500 Likes = $100; 2,000 Likes = $200. 

Go here for more details.

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

And the Winner Is...

If you didn't catch my give-away last week, you might want to consider yourself lucky! Gigi thought it was a cool game to try to count how many stamps we used on our "Magic Recipes" 3-ring binder. (I suspect this sent people screaming for the hills as only 13 brave women attempted to answer the questions.)

Here's the binder, followed by the questions AND the answers.

1. All but one of the stamps is by Hero Arts. Identify the rogue stamp that isn't made by Hero Arts. (It's easy to describe.)

The rogue stamp is the air mail stamp stamped in green, due south of the capital "E" in "recipes."

2. Identify the artist responsible for that rogue stamp image. (Not so easy - he's a man of letters, though!)

Nick Bantock, creator of that famous (infamous?) romantic duo, Griffin & Sabine, designed this lovely airmail stamp! (See why I told you he was a man of letters?  Hee-hee-hee!)

3. Tell me how many Hero Arts stamps were used on this puppy! (Do not count multiple stamps of the same stamped image - just the stamps themselves. Example: I've got a leaf stamp that I made three impressions with. Don't count that as three stamps because only one stamp is responsible for those images.)

Ah, therein madness lies! There are no less than 27 Hero Arts stamps here:

A2430, A2428, A2429, C2432, C2434, CL228, CL298, CL266, CL318 (2), CL291, CL106 (3), CL154, CL115 (3), CL124, D2359, E2490, E3651, E2407, G2506, H2141, LL025, S1712.

4. Tell me how many images were created using masks (these are by Tim Holtz and they are the rather largish "negative" images you see). Hint: each letter counts as an individual image.

There are 18 masks in all: 12 letters, 1 scroll work design (very hard to see, I'm afraid), 4 cogs/gears, and a rather large clock face.

AND THE WINNER IS...

(drum roll...)

HeatherP!

So, Heather, email me at junkformimi@gmail.com, and I will send you the Hero Arts ClearDesign Great Flourishes stamp set!

Thanks, everyone, for playing! (Ill try to make it easier next time.)

Fabulous Friday (Free Stuff Opportunity)

I loooooove Fridays!

But, then, who doesn't love Fridays?

I have a give-away for anyone interested in the following challenge. The give-away is this lovely Hero Arts Clear Design set: Great Flourishes Messages (#CL278).

Look closely at the photos below. They are both pictures of the same binder that Gigi and I decorated to hold what she refers to as my "magic recipes" (various stamping, ink, etc techniques). Isn't she a cutie? (Gigi, btw, is the one who came up with this game of counting the stamps.)

The GAME is for you to determine the following:

1. All but one of the stamps is by Hero Arts. Identify the rogue stamp that isn't made by Hero Arts. (It's easy to describe.)

2. Identify the artist responsible for that rogue stamp image. (Not so easy - he's a man of letters, though!)

3. Tell me how many Hero Arts stamps were used on this puppy! (Do not count multiple stamps of the same stamped image - just the stamps themselves. Example: I've got a leaf stamp that I made three impressions with. Don't count that as three stamps because only one stamp is responsible for those images.)

4. Tell me how many images were created using masks (these are by Tim Holtz and they are the rather largish "negative" images you see). Hint: each letter counts as an individual image.

Leave your guesses here in a comment on this post, and I will randomly select a winner from the ten people who have the right (or closest to right) answers!

You have until 6:00 p.m. EST, on Sunday, April 19, 2009, to enter your guess.

If you want to decorate a naked binder with your kid, (or a friend or just by yourself) you can get one at Office Depot really cheap (I think it was $2.50 or something).

You can see a much larger image of these pictures here.

Happy guessing!