Fathers’ Day Gift Ideas – Link-up and Pin Them!

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

It starts here, right now! If you have a Father’s Day gift idea to share, link it up below and we’ll use Pinterest to save ideas and share! Oh the wonders of the internet! Just go to the bottom of this post and add your link after the last thumbnail showing. We can hardly wait to see what kind of ideas you will all share with us!

PLEASE NOTE: Evidently some widgets/script is not working well together on my site, and these thumbnail images are not always lining up correctly.

Let’s get this party started!

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Father’s Day Pinterest Challenge Announcement

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

Why is it often hard to find a great Fathers’ Day gift? Let’s share some ideas and come up with some gifts a dad would love receiving!

Several friends and I have participated in a seasonal Pinterest Challenge from over at the Young House Love blog. Their basic idea for the challenge started as a means to challenge people to take an idea they had pinned and actually do it! Imagine that! Since Pinterest is so visual and such a fun way to visit places online that you may not have otherwise found, we have decided to invite everyone to a 2013 Father’s Day Pinterest Challenge, (not sponsored or affiliated with Pinterest.) We will link our gift ideas, visit, and pin!

This is simply an opportunity to share YOUR creative ideas for Father’s Day, and we’ll start pinning them! All you have to do, is make something suitable for a Fathers’ Day gift, take pictures, or even better blog about it to tell us more about how you did it. Meet up back here on Wednesday, May 29th, 10:00 am Eastern, to link up a photos of your project you have made! (You can even use Flickr if you don’t have a blog. We will not descriminate against non-bloggers!)

Now put on your thinking caps, roll up your sleeves, and show us what you’ve got! Please keep it PG-rated! Remember to come back here Wednesday, May 29th, 10:00 AM Eastern Time. Oh, I almost forgot — TELL YOUR FRIENDS so they can join the fun!

Again, this is not affiliated with Pinterest.com.

Artful Adventures Awarded a Liebster Award for Blogs

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

Joanna Grant from Joanna Banana Original Designs who has a blog about Mixed Media with Recycled Materials kindly gave me a Liebster Award. It is an award awarded by bloggers to other bloggers. It’s really about discovering new blogs which don’t have a huge following yet.

Thank you, Joanna for thinking of my blog and giving me this award. I feel so honored to accept this and pass it on to five other very deserving bloggers!

ABOUT THE AWARD

This award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. Once you’ve been nominated, you award it to five blogs that you like that have fewer than 200 followers, to encourage new visitors to visit these blogs.

RULES FOR ACCEPTANCE

Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to their blog. Post the award onto your blog. Give the award to five bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers. Leave a comment on their blog letting them know that you have given them this awesome award!

PAY IT FORWARD

It’s hard to choose only five bloggers who I find inspiring but here are my choices of art blogs that have less than 200 followers and that I know you will enjoy:

Beth Solar – ScrappingWonders.com

Danielle Taylor – ScrapperOnTheStreet.com

Alice Boll – ScrapbookWonderland.com

Gina Z – MesstakenIdentity.com

Heather Dubarry – NoExcusesScrapbooking.com

(I may have included a blog with over 200 followers as the number of followers was not always listed but I still felt that these individuals were very deserving as some of these are newer blogs!)

Recipients, you may copy and paste to your blog and change the introduction and the list of blog awards. I hope that you decide to participate and award some other very deserving artists. Make their day!!!

Cheers to YOUR Creativity!

Kristie

NOTE:

There really doesn’t seem to be an official Liebster Award site, and if you do the techno-research, you can actually find several versions. I think it is a great idea, and even in it’s chain letter style, I still appreciate the thought and the idea of supporting other bloggers who are working to offer great content to others!

Event Reminders, Don’t Miss Out on the Fun

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

I have FOUR things I wanted you to know about. I didn’t want you to look back and say, “She never told us that!” So here we go!

1. Paper Pumpkin April Sign-up is due by April 10th!

My Paper Pumpkin

Don’t forget to sign up if you want to participate in this month’s kit shipped right to your door. All you need is adhesive and you have a fun little something to make. Our first Paper Pumpkin kit video is online, and there will be more. I’ve tried to take out the confusion, given you a lot of info about the program, but you’ll go directly to sign up at the MyPaperPumpkin site, and please indicate you’d like to work with me for the “demonstrator” – Kristie Sloan, Eden Prairie 55347. Thanks!

2. Get a Clue! Join up for LOAD513

LOAD513, otherwise known as Layout A Day, May 2013, is a challenge to create a scrapbook layout everyday for the month of May. Any scrapbooking method will do! Paper, digital, hybrid, 12×12, 8.5×11, 8×8….. made from scratch or by template…. it’s not as hard as it sounds. I will happily tell you that I have numerous pages with so many stories that would have gone untold, which are a result of prompts or ideas we have received from previous LOAD events.

Space if filling fast! Hurry to grab a seat with you, me, and 498 of our closest scrappy friends! Use the code FNF to save $10. HURRY! For more info and to sign up, click here!

3. Scrapbooking Wonders Sketch Challenge

If you’d like to join a scrapbook sketch challenge, go check out the the April challenge at ScrapbookingWonders. It’s never any fun to play alone – make a page and link it up for a chance to win a prize! Go check it out! I’ve already submitted a page.

iScrap-n-Snap April Sketch Challenge

4. April Free Scrapinar

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Envelope Art with Windy Robinson

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Envelope Art with Windy Robinson. Windy will show us how to create gorgeous hand-crafted and hand-embellished envelopes and mail art that will make even the postman smile!

Easy Monthly Kits

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

Need a creative escape?

Short on time? (You’re to-do list is longer than the amount of time you have!)

Don’t know what to create? (You already spend too much time on Pinterest!)

Don’t want to buy a lot of stuff? (The zen/guest/exercise/craft room is already full!)

Ahhh, I have just the thing for you!

A gorgeous red box will arrive at your door! (A fully decked out paper carriage.) You open it to find it filled with everything you need… ink, paper, stamps, accessories… all cut and ready to assemble a sweet project!

No mess. No excess. No craft-aftermath!

Click Here for More Info!

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