Blog Candy! FREE Prizes at Croppinsville!

Have you visited the Croppinsville Blog lately? If not, hurry over and check out the cool contest giveaways!

You can help me win some prizes and win some for yourself too! When you visit the Croppinsville Blog - be sure to enter your email address at the top right to get email updates, easy as that! When you do, you'll be entered to win some cool goodies when the Croppinsville store goes live.

Wait...don't go just yet!

Here's another chance for you to win one of FIVE cool prizes from Croppinsville! Simply go to the Croppinsville blog and read this post by Allie. Allie's looking for your input....Here's the questions Allie wants answered...What will REALLY keep ya coming back to shop at Croppinsville? What will it take for Croppinsville to be THE best scrapbook scrappin' and stampin' spot on the web? Head over to Croppinsville now - for your chance to win!

Croppinsville USA Blog Candy

Croppinsville has some great Blog Candy to giveaway....Allie's got a GREEN set of GOODIES to ship out to you in a RECYCLED box, all of you have to do is list the ways you'll try to go GREEN in the future. Just leave your comment on this blog post at Croppinsville - and check back to see who the random number generator picked on Wednesday, May 7, 2008.

But wait....there's more....Allie also has 25 VITA BELLA project pages, that she'll be giving away to the first 25 orders at both the brick & mortar store AND the online store. The online store isn't up just yet - but keep checking back!

I can't wait to share with you some of the projects I've been working on for the store!

Design Team Call - Croppinsville USA

Croppinsville is a new store opening in May, in Collinsville, Oklahoma, and making its’ debut online. Some of our paper lines include Graphic 45, Jenny Bowlin, Paper Loft, Melissa Frances, and Cosmo Cricket. If you enjoy these product lines, you may like designing for us… We are adding to our product lines daily. Do you enjoy stamping, playing with alcohol inks, Pearl Ex, Diamond Dust and other fun mediums?

If you LOVE funky and trendy, vintage or shabby chic - this call may just be for you!

We are looking for talented, fun designers to add to our Creative Crew. We are seeking designers who love our products and want to help us inspire our customers.

• Can you take good clear digital photos or scans of your finished projects?
• Are you able to meet deadlines?
• Do you enjoy creative challenges?

If joining our team interests you, apply by sending an email to Allie Gower, please put Croppinsville Creative Crew Application in the subject line and include:

• Name, Email Address, Home Address
• A brief paragraph on why you would like to be a Croppinsville Design Crew Member
• A link to your blog (if you have one) or any online galleries that you display your work
• Current or past design team positions, or publication information - if any
• Send photos or scans of 3 projects – if you have projects using products that we sell, we encourage you to use them – see our blog
• Your BIO

Applications due by April 30, 2008

The fine print…

• Your design team position with will be for a minimum of 6 months
• Each month you are required to make at least three to four projects, sometimes on a tight deadline, and provide high quality scans or photographs for use in the Croppinsville USA Gallery. In addition you should be sharing your artwork via your blog/online groups or galleries.
• You will be required to send at least one project for use in our store.
• Payment for your work is not provided, but we will continually promote your name and work in our store, on our website, and store blog, as well as provide you with free stamps and other products when appropriate.
• We request that you be willing to promote via the internet (forums/online galleries/and your blog) by posting samples made with products we carry, and by posting company specials when applicable.
• We ask that you regularly send in your artwork, using our exclusive images, along with the papers and products that we carry, for magazine submission calls.

***Perks

• Store discounts
• Free product for kits that you design yourself
• Opportunities for payment and commission are available in terms of kits and designing class projects

Oh Happy Day.....

Let's see....the mail lady brought me loads of goodies today - new fun products and rubber from Innovative Stamp Creations

Details
Stamps - Innovative Stamp Creations
All About Me
Friendship
Fansy Designs
Assemblage

These stamps are perfect for the Color Collage Technique in the April issue of the TJNL.

New rubber from Flourishes - have you seen the new Menswear set? Great for masculine cards, and fun to paper piece!

My April Issue of The Technique Junkies Newsletter arrived too! It's always a fun mail day when the new issue arrives.

Allie at Croppinsville USA asked me to join her Design Team - she's carrying a lot of cool stamp lines, be sure to check them out. Allie's also looking for members for her Design Team - if your interested you can email Allie.