The Winners! + Freebie

Welcome to 2012!

I want to start the new year with some happiness: The winners of my Christmas Competion - Inspiration.

I want to thank ALL of you who shared your inspiration with me. They were great suggestions and I can promise you that they will all be turned into freebies at some point during the year. But enough talk, here are the 3 winners chosen randomly by drawing names from a hat:

Sandy Anderson

Stacey Kapu

Marlyn Ramirez 

(hey, didn't you win last year too? ;o))

Congratulations to all three of you!

NOTICE: Since none of you have stated in your emails if you use Photoshop or not, it would help me preparing your prizes if you could let me know as soon as possible please. As soon as I hear from you, you will receive a link for download of your prizes.

But no one should leave my blog empty handed so I have prepared a freebie for all of you. I know Christmas is over but isn't it now that you start scrapping all your Christmas pictures? Here is a little help for doing that.

Click image for direct download (4shared).

Until we meet again: Stay warm, happy and healthy!

Danish Christmas - and lots more...

You better pour yourself a cup of coffee - I have lots to tell and give you.

1. Clean out doubles - Competition

If you were following this blog last Christmas you may remember that December is my time for cleaning out my archive. Such a clean out usually results in finding a lot of doubles = material I have purchased twiced. And I want to make it a Christmas tradition to give them away to you. Last year's Christmas Card Competition was not the biggest success, so this year I have decided to do something that requires less work for you. 

As you will find out later in this post inspiration can come from unexpected places and I sometimes need inspiration to make your freebies. Therefore, this year's competition will be as follows:

Email me something that means a lot to you - it can be a song title or lyrics, a poem, a picture or painting or simply a single word - anything you find inspirational. You don't have to email me full lyrics or the picture in itself just make sure I have enough information to find it on line.

Notice!

The deadline is New Years Eve and when the calendar shows 2012 I will have an impartial person pick the winners at random. There will be 3 equally big prizes for the lucky winners. When you email me put "Inspiration" in the subject field and make sure to include your name and email information and also let me know if you use PhotoShop as some of the doubles up for grabs are PS Tools.

Email address:  pms54@get2net.dk

2. Today's Freebie - For Carrie and her Mother.

The freebie I offer today is a special freebie. It is of course for all of you but it was inspired by a comment I got the other day from Carrie from Delaware and is therefore made especially for and dedicated to her and her mother from Aalborg in northern Jutland, Denmark. The freebie contains a lot of stuff associated with a good, old fashioned, Danish Christmas. I have also included a text that means a lot to all Danes around Christmas. It is an extraction from the Book "Peter's Christmas" written in 1870 and still known to all children in Denmark. I have used the fantastic illustration from the book to make a few elements for the kit. Finally, I have helped all you non-Danish speaking friends around the world by including a small word list giving you a few of the Danish Christmas words in English.

Here it is - click image for direct download (4shared).

I hope you will all enjoy a Danish Christmas with me. If you are interested in knowing a little more about Christmas in Denmark you can go to this site.

3. Sale

I just wanted to remind you that the sale in my store at Scrap it Sassy is ending on Saturday (Christmas Eve). So hurry over and get your 44% off before it's too late.

I think that was all. Until next time: Enjoy the spirit of the season in every way possible!

Lots of Christmas Cheer,

Felt Holly in signature is made by Scrap With Lynn.

I’m sad…

No, actually I’m more disappointed than sad. My Christmas Card Competition got 3 replies…3… YES, THREE!!!!! In the period from competition start till today where the competition ended I had 3400 visitors to my blog which means that less than 1/1000 took the 20 minutes or so to make and send a card. Hmmm…. And you call yourself scrappers?

Well, I may be disappointed but I know 3 people who are not: The three card senders. Cause they will split the prize bundle of more than 60 products. So I guess the only thing I (and they) can say now is: “Nah, nah, nah, nah nah…” and to make all the 3397 other people feel even worse I will show you what you missed out on. Some of this could have been yours:

..and that’s only half of it.

But now for the positives: The presentation of the three participants and winners. They are all winners just for participating and will split the prize equally = app. 20 double-stash products + 1 product of their own choice from my store.

Thank you SO MUCH to

Sim from France

Carey from California

and my “old” friend Marlyn from the Philippines.

I loved your cards and I particularly liked that they were so different from each other. But then again you cover practically the whole world - America, Europe and Asia so… You have the sunny yet traditional Christmas from California, the warm and cosy feel from Asia and the naughty and nice at the same time Chick from France. That’s World-Wide Christmas for you. I’m actually a little glad I didn’t have to pick a single winner ;o)

As I only have to present 3 cards I thought I would make a show of them.

The cards can also be viewed in full size in Your Gallery.

I hope you will enjoy scrapping with all your new material. You are all winners in my book!

HOWEVER, I do not saviour hard feelings, so all is forgiven and you don’t have to worry about consequences in form of “no more freebies for you”. I will be back tomorrow with a New Year’s Freebie and I’m already preparing for a brand new year. See you tomorrow?

Christmas Competition + Gift Tags

Oh my, I have a lot to share with you today.

I don’t know if you have noticed but it’s coming on Christmas… :o) And with Christmas a lot of things follow. Snow (for some), 4-6 extra pounds mostly on the hips, sweaty gift shopping, cleaning and Christmas card writing. But most importantly (I hope) a giving and loving spirit and a permanent smile on your face.

Well, snow we have more than plenty of with more to come the next days, so White Christmas for me (Yeahh!).

The extra pounds … I don’t care about them (until January). The good food that causes them is plenty worth digging out the trousers with elastic waist band.

As for the stressful and sweaty gift shopping… Believe it or not, but we dropped the Christmas gifts a few years ago (except for the children’s) and trust me - it was the best thing we ever did for Christmas…

I have to admit it - I’m (physically) lazy! So Christmas Cleaning is something I hate. This year I figured out how to clean without moving - and doing it while drinking coffee and eating Christmas cookies! I decided to clean up my computer… And that turned out to be in your favour.

As I am also a shopaholic when it comes to scrap design (my, it’s confession day today!) I sometimes get so excited about a design that I actually fall in love with it twice… I buy it, and then some weeks later it’s on sale and I have forgotten all about already having it in my HUGHE stash, so I buy it again!!! I know, I know - I need help. BUT - in the spirit of the season I want to give it all away… to you!

But before you get too excited: Quid pro quo. Cause this leads me to the last thing on the above list - Christmas Card Writing. It seems that the art of sending Christmas cards is a slowly dying art here in Denmark. I have received only 5 cards (+ 1 text message!) this year and I want more.

So for you to dip into my stash you have to enter my

Christmas Competition!

Make a (digital) Christmas Card and email it to me - pms54@get2net.dk - and on the 29th December I will have my impartial jury select 3 winners who each get a pack of original designs from my “Doubles Archive” + a Danish Design Original of your own choice. I will post all the cards in the blog gallery.

There are no rules - just design whatever you fancy.
When emailing me I need you to state your name and email address so I can get hold of you if you win. Also I need to know if you use Photoshop or not as some of the prizes are PS tools.

I hope these ramblings made sense. If not, feel free to contact me.

And now (finally) for today’s freebie!
I bought these gift tags last week and I thought they were too cute not to share with you.

Click image to download.

I’ll be waiting by my inbox for your Christmas cards and be back tomorrow with another Christmas freebie for you. See you then?