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The Twelfth Day of Holiday Giveaways!

 

Welcome to our Twelfth day of

 

FABULOUS

 

Holiday Giveaways!

 

Today we are featuring:

 

Debbie Murray and Shea Fragoso~A Gilded Life

Charlotte Lyons

Fancy Pants Designs 

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Provo Craft~Cricut 

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Debbie Murray and Shea Fragoso~

A Gilded Life

 

The mother-daughter design team of Debbie Murray and Shea Fragoso has been collaborating in creative ways for as long as both can remember. When Shea was growing up, Debbie taught stained glass classes in the community college system and owned a custom design business and fine art painting studio. When Shea finished school, they owned gift shops together in Southern California. Shea became a highly sought-after jewelry designer; her creations appeared in dozens of fashion magazines and graced the red carpet several times. Both women designed products for the gift industry and sold pieces to collectors around the world. In 2009, Debbie and Shea completed a major remodeling of a gothic church in Dallas, Texas. Here, they indulged in their love of crowns and European design and were constantly inspired by the architecture and the light.

 

Please visit: www.AGildedLife.com

 

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Debbie and Shea are giving away a January Stash Society kit!

To read all about the wonderful Stash Society, click HERE

 (this is a previous month’s example, but it will be just as FABULOUS!)

 

 

Charlotte Lyons

 

 

Charlotte Lyons designs and makes things in a variety of styles and media. Still inspired by the humble simplicity of traditional art and craft and the inventive use of repurposed materials, Charlotte aims to mix an unfussy playfulness with the vintage charm of handmade keepsakes. 

Over the years, her work has been featured in her books (Mothers and Daughters at Home, Between Friends), those with Mary Engelbreit and Barbara Martin and also in magazines such as Country Living, Victoria, Woman’s Day, Better Homes and Gardens, Mollie Makes and Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion. Currently, she designs for her Etsy shop, licensing and teaches workshops nationally. Her new fabric collection, Walnut Hill Farm, recently debuted with Blend Fabrics at International Quilt Market.

 Born and educated in St. Louis, Charlotte raised three artistic daughters in a bright pink house in Chicago. Now she and her husband live in the lower Hudson River Valley of New York, happy to have their girls (and their guys) nearby.

 Please visit:

http://blendfabrics.com/gallery/walnut-hill-farm

http://www.etsy.com/shop/charlottelyons/

http://www.housewrenstudio.typepad.com/

http://www.charlottelyons.com/

 

Charlotte is giving away a dumpling zipbag custom made from her new fabric line,

“Walnut Hill Farm” for Blend.

 

  

  

Fancy Pants Designs

 

 

 With their combined knowledge, Jodi {the creative person} and Jared {the business person} took a chance on a dream and founded their own unique company.

 

 Fancy Pants Designs premiered their first collections to the craft and hobby industry in the Winter of 2005. What started as a home-based business quickly flourished into an exciting opportunity of bringing creative ideas to life in many different mediums. We are proud to offer high quality designs for a variety of industries through the production and licensing of original artwork. With a group of creative directors, talented designers and experienced staff, Fancy Pants Designs continues to provide the latest and greatest designs to crafters worldwide.


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 Fancy Pants Designs is giving away an assortment of Scrapbook supplies! 

 


 

Provo Craft~Cricut 


 

Provo Craft is a creative crafting products company that enables people to achieve their creative best. For 40 years, Provo Craft has invented new products that bring crafting tools to the masses, including the Cricut® personal electronic cutter, the Cricut Craft Room, the Gypsy® for Cricut®, the Cricut Cake® personal electronic cutter, the Yudu® personal screen-printing system, and the Cuttlebug® die cutter and embosser. These innovative tools help bring consumers’ creative ideas to life in a personalized, beautiful way at home, in schools, and in the workplace. Provo Craft products have won dozens of industry awards and are available through leading mass retail, craft, home décor, office, and education outlets nationwide.

Visit www.provocraft.com or call (800) 937-7686.

 

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Provo Craft is giving away a Cricut Expression!  

Make your crafts impressively expressive.

Whether you’re designing a scrapbook of your family vacation or making 200 wedding invitations for your best friend, the Cricut Expression® easily ensures your creative possibilities are truly endless.

 Larger than the Cricut® Create or the Cricut® Personal Electronic Cutter, the Cricut Expression® precisely cuts letters, shapes, and motifs in impressive sizes using the 12″ x 24″ mat or the 12″ x 12″ mat. You can also create bigger die cuts for classroom decor, scrapbook layouts, signage, and so much more.

 Buy your Cricut Expression® today and start exploring the depths of your creativity.

 Includes the Plantin SchoolBook™ font cartridge, the Accent Essentials™ shape cartridge (not included with all offers), and 1 12 x 12 cutting mat.

  

 

Today we’re  proud to be participating in Sew Mama Sew’s FABULOUS

 

You’ll want to visit

http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/2011/11/giveaway-day-december-12/

 

And visit all of the great sites … REALLY!

It may take some time, but they’re all GREAT!  

GOOD LUCK!

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All you need to do to enter to win all FOUR of these prizes is comment below with your answer to this question …

What is your wish for the coming year?

Thanks so much to our FOUR FABULOUS artists! 

 

* Remember, all 12 of the contest posts will be open until Friday, December 16th at Noon (MST), so you have until then to leave a comment.  Also, if you didn’t get a chance to leave a link to your own holiday giveaway or idea post, please link up to our link party HERE

We’d all love to visit YOUR giveaways and see YOUR holiday ideas! Thanks! 

 

 

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Fabulous Friday with Jodi Sanford of Fancy Pants Designs …

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 Hello Creative Ladies!

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I'm Jodi Sanford, founder and owner, of Fancy Pants Designs!  We are a paper crafting supply manufacturer, but offer a wide range of products for various crafting hobbies!  I am excited to be here and share just a couple of the creative things that I enjoy doing as a scrapbooker and paper crafter…and crafter in general!  

Just a little bit about me :): I am married to the most wonderful and supportive husband (and business partner) Jared.  We have four beautiful children that are our pride and joy each and every day!  My favorite 'job' is being a mommy to each of them!  And, because of that, I love preserving the memories we make together!  I've LOVED everything about crafting since I was a young girl..it's one of those generational things passed down the line–I just found my specific niche in paper crafting!  I love that I can make pages for my kids to look through, home decor items to hang on their wall, mini albums for the sofa tables for visiting guests to peak into our lives, and little notes and custom books for family and friends to make each day a bit more personal!  So, I guess you could say I've been a scrapbooker (or collector of paper and stickers) since I can remember, but I really turned my focus to preserving memories when I was married and our little family was established over 12 years ago!

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A little bit more about Fancy Pants Designs– it started as a little home business to make those extra dollars that all stay at home moms need to keep up with their hobby!  It took some time, and loads of hard work, but, now, after 5 years in business, we have a fabulous company that we are proud of each day.  We work hard to bring innovative products into an already innovative industry!  I LOVE to see what people do with our products because as an idea pops into my mind, I think of what I would do with it…yet, what others do with it is that much more amazing!  We produce a wide variety of products that start with paper, but range out into metal frames for crafting/jewelry, frames for home decor, specialty trims, buttons, brads and more!!  You can see a little mix of these items below!

I've included just a few favorite projects that I've made over time using Fancy Pants Designs products.  I hope you will find some inspiration in them…something that can transfer over to your own passion!  You can also find daily inspiration in our idea gallery and see our product offerings at fancypantsdesigns.com and on our blog (with a team of 25 designers participating) at missfancypants.typepad.com  
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The projects show from top to bottom, left to right are:

Marli's Room: Frames and Wall Hangers from Fancy Pants Designs along with the fun product used to design the layouts!
Holden's Onesie:  Grandma (my mom :)) made this adorable onesie for our youngest little guy, using Fancy Pants Designs Boy Felt Shapes!
Family Album: This album was made from a one of our journal books, from the My Family collection!  It's filled with little notes and photos of each member of our family!
4 Happy Kids:  A fun little layout I designed using one of our newer lines– It's Your Day!
Birthday Card: A quick little card using our Girl Felt Shapes and pink book label!
Sis Layout: A layout sharing the love of sisters :).  I used ric rack as the frame and lots of fun stamps and colored pencils for the embellishing details!
Angel Layout: I loved this photo of my little girl and wanted to really highlight the colors–and i was sure to add a little chipboard wing to her back to finish of the 'angel' theme!  


Thanks for letting me share a bit of my passion with you….and remember to keep up those 'fancy' creations! 
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 I'd like to give away 3 prizes from our latest collections…there will be a mix of fun products and each will be valued at over $35. Just leave a comment to this post and you're entered! 

Thank you so much Jodi …
~Nice to meet you~


 

Additional entries:

*Follow WWC on Twitter @WHEREWOMENCREAT

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*Have a WWC button or link on your blog

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Remember to post separately for each additional entry and PLEASE only post the amount of entries allowed. This contest ends on Wednesday, November 17th at Noon (MST), so make sure to get your comments in by then. We will announce the winner that day by email and on the blog.

 

~Please make sure we have a way to contact you~

 

 

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

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