Final Celebration Day...

Today is Day 31 of the Technique Junkie Newsletter 5th year anniversary Celebration, and there will only be one winner today for the Grand Prize.

First, I would like to say thank you to the vendors for this month's giveaways:

• Innovative Stamp Creations
• I Brake for Stamps
• Penny Wise Arts
• Alluring Impressions
• Integrity Designs
• Stamp Attack UK
• Stamp and Scrap Canada
• Hearts in Touch
• Firecracker Designs by Pamela
• Club Scrap
• Bella Rosa Paper Arts
• The Lilac Tree UK
• Lasting Impressions with Panache

Please show your appreciation to these fine vendors for their generosity by making them your first choice for your stamping supply needs.

Okay, so on with the Grand Prize...

The winner of this Give Away will be a Technique Junkie for Life.

Every back issue and every CD I have ever published will be sent to the winner. In addition, the winner will receive all future issues, all future CDs, all future publications from Technique Junkies and/or patstamps.com. They will be a Technique Junkie for Life.

Here is how you can enter:

ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Thursday, November 1st. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Good luck!

Congratulations to Sheryl Dickinson, who is now a Techique Junkie for LIFE!

Give Away a Day - Day 30

Day THIRTY of the Technique Junkie Newsletter Give Away a Day -- and again we have two great items to give away. Thank you to those of you who have been following the Give Away this month to celebrate the Technique Junkie Anniversary. Yesterday I asked junkies to talk about what they liked best...thank you all for your kind words!

If you have enjoyed seeing the blog entries this month, I encourage you to sign up for email feeds of this blog -- they will be emailed to you as I post them. I normally don't post EVERY day, but I do try to post some eye candy as often as possible. If you look on the left sidebar, you will see something that says "Subscribe to the Technique Trail". Just enter your email and follow the instructions for completing the subscription to sign up. Okay, on with the give aways...

Our first give away is from Bella Rosa Paper Arts. The lucky winner of this part of the Give Away will have their choice of ONE stamp sheet from the Bella Rosa Paper Arts website. I love the beautiful images on the Bella Rosa site -- you will too!

In addition to being able to pick a stamp sheet, you will receive the card on the left. This card was made using Bella Rosa Paper Arts stamps, of course. You may not remember, but the last time Bella Rosa sponsored the give away, I mentioned that I was clicking right over to get the floral sheet just released by Linda on her site -- and I wasn't kidding! I saw these stamps and all I could imagine was the Expressionist Watercolor Technique (from the December 2004 issue of the TJNL). Well, I did buy it and made this card. I was right - the stamps are perfect for the technique! The background is made with the Watered Tintz Technique from the December 2006 issue of the Newsletter.



Our next give away is sponsored by one of our most generous sponsors, Alluring Impressions. I know you ladies love these piles o'rubba! There is nothing like a pile of unmounted stamps -- and one lucky winner will receive this pile of beautiful, deeply-etched stamps from our wonderful sponsor Alluring Impressions.


The card candy for the Alluring Impressions winner is this Cottoned Color (April 2007 issue) angel card made with Alluring Impressions stamps. The angel was colored with Gamsol Pearls from the June 2006 issue of the Newsletter.

Here is how you can win one of these two give aways...Remember, there will be two winners chosen from the entries - one for each prize. Good luck!

ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Wednesday, October 31th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick two numbers from the comments to select two winners. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

Congratulations to Crystal French, the winner of the Bella Rosa Stamp Sheet Choice, and to Holly Young, the winner of the Alluring Impressions Stamps!

Give Away a Day, Day 29

Again we will have two more items to give away to celebrate the Technique Junkie Newsletter's 5th anniversary!

Happiest of anniversaries, Junkies! Five years, 400 techniques. By far, the MOST extensive one-source library of step-by-step tutorials that exists anywhere. If you are a visitor and you have not subscribed, what are you waiting for? Let me give you a little incentive: New subscribers, if you subscribe to the issues from 10-07 through 12-08, I will send you the 10-07 issue Free. Free. That is a $3.00 savings! So, $21.00 for the issues from 10-07 through 12-08. Hurry, though, I am only offering this until Friday, November 2nd! There will NOT be any extensions on this deadline. US addresses only. Email me for an invoice if you are interested.


Subscribers, why don't you tell us in your comments why you love being a Technique Junkie? If each of you tells one other person today about the newsletter (and the special), that would be the best anniversary present you can give me.


Okay, thank you for allowing me to put a "commercial" up -- I figure with all these give aways, I am allowed a commercial : ) On with the give aways for today!

Our first give away is from one of the most generous sponsors of this Month's anniversary celebration -- I Brake for Stamps. I don't know about you, but this company has become one of my favorites! One lucky winner of the Give Aways will receive these two stamp sheets, and the card shown here. I Brake for Stamps has donated more than their share of Give Aways for us -- why don't you go over to Della's website and show your appreciation?

The eye-candy that goes with this Give Away uses I Brake for Stamps with the Scrunchie Technique from the October 2007 issue of the Newsletter. I stamped directly on the background and colored the image with markers, then removed some of the color with a blender pen. I like the effect- very "copic-esque."

Our next Give Away is another fabulous gift certificate from our friend Elaine at Integrity Designs. The lucky winner of this part of the Give Away will receive a $25.00 (Canadian) gift certificate to go shopping on the Integrity Designs website! With the favorable exchange rate, that is one great Give Away! Integrity Designs carries many of my favorite Stamp lines -- Innovative Stamp Creations, Time to Stamp, Non-Sequitur Stamps, Starving Artistamps, and many many more. Thank you, Elaine, for this generous Give Away! Have fun shopping, ladies.

The eye candy that goes along with this card was made using Time to Stamp images from the Beach Memoirs sheet. The background is the Watered Tintz technique from the December 2006 issue of the TJ Newsletter. The shells were colored with pastels and then covered with diamond glaze (CE) to add dimension. This card will be sent to the gift certificate winner.


Remember, there will be two winners chosen from the entries - one for each prize. Good luck! ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Tuesday, October 30th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick two numbers from the comments to select two winners. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

Today's winners are: Kat Merryman, who has won the I brake for Stamps Sheets, and Debbie Ebat, who has won the Gift Certificate from Integrity Designs. Congratulations, ladies!

Give Away a Day, Day 28

Okay, now that we have done two give aways a day, do you think I would change things now? Of course not! To celebrate the Technique Junkie Newsletter 5th year anniversary, we will have two winners again today...you have two chances to win! Here are today's give aways...

Penny Wise Arts is back! As one of our most generous sponsors for this give away month, I am proud to once again be able to offer a $25.00 gift certificate for the Penny Wise Arts website. Ladies, run over there and fill your shopping cards! You can bead EVERYTHING! The winner of this gift certificate from Penny Wise Arts will certainly help "Bead the World".

Along with the gift certificate from PWA, the first give away winner will also receive the card on the left. The scarecrow image was created using the Stencils and Marker technique, a bonus technique on the 4th Edition CD. The background is the Textured Metallic Technique from the April 2006 Issue of the Newsletter.

the main image is outlined by clear Penny Wise Arts beads.

The Second Give Away for today, above, is a package of stamps and paper from Club Scrap. The two stamps shown above are retired...and in demand! There is also a generous pack of assorted papers for you to use on your stamping and scrapbooking projects.

Along with the stamps and the paper pack, you will receive the Z-Fold card shown above. The Z-Fold Card was the online bonus technique from the 8-07 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter. Remember, there will be two winners chosen from the entries - one for each prize. Good luck!
ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Monday, October 29th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick two numbers from the comments to select two winners. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

The winners of this Give Away are: Lori Puccio and Barb Wessel! Congratulaions, ladies!

Give Away a Day - Day 27 - Two winners!

Today we have another double-header! There are two give aways today again, so you have two chances to win once again. Good luck!
Here is the first:
The first give away is for these three Elusive Images stamp sheets donated by The Lilac Tree. Even though The Lilac Tree is a UK company, they are only a click away for you...Go take a look at what The Lilac Tree has to offer! Okay, so once again I needed to use the stamps in one of the sets to make the sample, so the third set comes pre-mounted --with some of the stamps used a little. I trimmed them nicely for you : )


The eye candy that comes with this give away is a Cuttlebug Smoosh card from the October 2007 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter. Although you can't see it well from the picture, the "Good Luck" is very sparkly ; )

Okay, now for Give Away #2 for the day:

Our second sponsor for today is Innovative Stamp Creations. These two beautiful stamp sheets and the Cuttlebug Glow card will be sent to the second winner. If you haven't been to the Innovative Stamp Creations Website yet, what are you waiting for? So many elegant, beautiful images to choose from. While you are waiting for this Give Away and the results, why don't you take a look the the Innovative Stamp Creations website?

The eye candy that comes with the ISC stamp sheets is made using the Cuttlebug Glow technique from the October Issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter. It is impossible to see the beauty of this card online -- but it is stunning in person -- even more so with the beautiful Innovative Stamp Creations images.

Remember, there will be two winners chosen from the entries - one for each prize. Good luck!

ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Sunday, October 28th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick two numbers from the comments to select two winners. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

Congratulations to Wendy Little, the winner of the Elusive Stamp Images from The Lilac Tree, and Cindy Hargett, the winner of the stamp sheets from Innovative Stamp Creations!

Give away a day -- Day 26

We are closing in on the end of the month, and as we do, I am a little sad to see the give aways go away! Thank you to so many of you who have helped me celebrate the Technique Junkie Newsletter's 5th Anniversary so far. I hope you will stick around for the next 6 days while we wrap things up. Today, we have something VERY exciting for you!
There will not be one winner today --THERE WILL BE TWO!

Today's give away sponsor is Stamp Attack UK -- they are the maker of the stamps used on the two cards shown in this blog entry. Stamp Attack UK has the most gorgeous stamps -- and the two winners will be able to pick out one plate apiece from the site as their prize! Why don't you go ahead a take a look at what Stamp Attack UK has to offer and figure out which plate you would pick if you win!

For this give away, I will have the trusty number generator spew out two numbers -- the first person picked will receive the card at the top of this post. This card was made using the Expressionist Pearls Technique from the 6/07 TJNL issue-- it is VERY shimmery in real life! In addition, they will have their choice of a Stamp Attack UK plate of unmounted stamps. The second number pulled will receive the card on the left (and below) which uses the Quilted Dimension technique from the Bonus Techniques on the 5th Edition Technique Junkie Newsletter CD, The Kimono is puffy and dimensional -- and has been covered with Gel pens. In addition this winner will also have their choice of one Stamp Attack plate. Now you have two chances to win!

So here is how you can get into this give away to win one of the TWO prizes being offered today:

ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Saturday, October 27th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick two numbers from the comments to select two winners. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

The winner of the first stamp set selection and the Foliage Expressionistic Pearls card is Nicole Kolwalk. The winner of the second stamp sheet and the Quilted

Dimension card is Glenda LeValley. Congratulations, Ladies!

Blogger's Challenge Week 18 - Designer Paper!

This is NOT a give away... it is a blogger's challenge post ONLY....

I love Blogger's Challenge Fridays! The challenge is always different and the creative edge is always fun to explore. See my sidebar for other players and check out their challenge cards!

This week, we were challenged to use Designer Paper in our creations. I decided to take the Double Pocket fold from the TJ Newsletter and ratchet it up a notch -- I made it a Triple Pocket Fold!

On the left is the card pockets without the inserts. I didn't add any more paper to the pockets -- it just has an extra fold. Don't worry, TJers -- I will post the extra directions on the Subscriber-Only pages so that you can do it, too : )

This card also happens to be my TJ Just-One swap card for my partner Dawn W. Thank you, Dawn, for allowing me to post it here, and for understanding that I needed to consolidate my creative energies a bit. I worked extra hard to make the card and the inserts special for you - I hope you like it! Here are the inserts:

Thank you for looking at my BC entry for today! I do appreciate your comments, and feel free to leave them about the card -- but please, this is not a give away post and I know you all know this -- but PLEASE DO NOT POSTS GIVE AWAY ENTRIES ON THIS POST. The Give aways are above and below. Thanks!

Give Away a Day, Day 25

Just a quick "public service announcement" from me: If you are a subscriber with a subscription that comes due before December 2008, you may want to renew as soon as possible -- there is something coming down the road that you will NOT want to miss for subscribers through 12-08 or later....renew now before the holiday rush! If you liked these giveaways, you will love what I have planned for this! Email me at phuntoon@optonline.net to renew OR subscribe today....okay, on with the show...

SWEET! Today's give away is another great Club Stamp kit. This kit is huge! Look at the size of the card in the upper right corner to get a perspective on the size of the kit overall. Here is what the kit contains:
(2) 8.5x11 Prints/ 2 each Brown
(10) 8.5x11 Plain/ 2 each Blue, Brick, Tan, Brown, Manila
(1) Club Stamp Memoranda Stamp
(1) Club Stamp Sheer Genius UM Rubber with Index Sheet
(1) Club Stamp Box Bureau Stamper's Project Kit
(1) Stamp Rap Newsletter
(3) Idea Recipe Cards/ Fonts, Borders & Backgrounds



Club Stamp is a monthly kit club filled with fabulous papers, stamps and projects. Check them out today, as soon as you sign up for the give away... of course!



Today's eye candy was made with my stamps from this kit (actually, I am a member of Club Scrap, so they are just slightly different than the stamps in the kit the winner will receive). The technique used on this card is the Faux Collage Stamp technique from the June 2006 issue (holy cow, was it that long ago??) of the TJ Newsletter. Here is how you can enter this give away:



ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Friday, October 26th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

The winner of the fabulous kit is Darlene LeMar! Congratulations, Darlene!

Give Away a day - 24!

Our celebration is still going strong

5 years of techniques, 400 long

If you enter the give away you can have fun

Look at all the people who have already won!

I thought that those of you who have been leaving me poems in the contest entries might appreciate a little reciprocation : ) Okay, on with the Give Away...

Don't you just love to shop? Today's winner will do just that with these two gift certificates from Hearts in Touch. Each certificate has a $10.00 value -- you can have a blast with these! Make sure to click on over to see what beautiful new things Hearts in Touch has to offer.

Our Eye Candy today brings back a technique from the SECOND issue I published, way back in '02. The Reflected Image technique is from the December 2002 newsletter, and just seemed perfect for these wonderful Hearts In Touch penguins. Some techniques are just classics -- this one is! I really like the way the ice floe turned out on this card -- It is Fru Fru covered with puffy paint and it is so textural! The ice is sparkly too (as are my cheeks, my pants, the dog...) I have made so many cards this month for the give away, but this may be the hardest to part with...must make another!

Of course, the card will be mailed with the gift certificates to the lucky winner of this giveaway. Here is how YOU can enter!

ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Thursday, October 25th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

The winner of this Give Away is Alice Arteburn! Congrats, Alice!

Piles of Stamps -- Giveaway Day 23

This amazing pile of rubber was donated by our friends at Alluring Impressions. I didn't count the pieces, but your eyes don't deceive you -- there is a huge pile there for some lucky winner! These stamps are outstanding! Deeply etched with beautiful designs...what else does a stamper need? Alluring Impressions is GREAT.

Along with the stamps, you will receive the eye candy on the left. All of the stamps used are by Alluring Impressions, and the background technique is Faux Flocking from the June 2007 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter.

We should all have a little sparkle in our life, right?

Here is how to enter the give away for today:

ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Wednesday, October 24th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

The winner of this Give Away is Shelly Banghart! Congrats, Shelley!

WOW - Give Away Day 22 - It's BIG!

Hey! It's Monday and I have a great give away for the Technique Junkie Newsletter Anniversary Celebration today. This give away is for a $50.00 gift certificate to Stamp and Scrap Canada! I think this is an amazing, amazing give away.

If you are not familiar with Stamp and Scrap Canada you need to click on over right now! Stamp and Scrap Canada carries a bunch of stamp lines and so much more...

There are top-of-the-line stamp companies like Chapel Road, Paper Bag Studios, Non-Sequitur, Paper Artsy, My Sentiments Exactly, Inkadinkadoo, Stampington, House Mouse -- there are just too many to list! What a shopping spree our lucky winner will have in store for herself!




Today's eye candy -- the card that will go along with this give away -- was made using Paper Bag Studios Stamps. The Green and Blue background is a Fossilstone background (in the April 06 issue) with added Perfect Pearls for shimmer; the image itself was stamped on a Spectrum Roll piece (8-05 issue) . I then added color with colored pencils.



Here is how to win today's give away:

ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Tuesday, October 23rd. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

Give Away a Day, Day 21

My apologies -- not for the prize, because it is wonderful -- but because the card has been posted to this blog before. Yesterday I had 5 of my favorite people here scrapping all day and night, and I meant to make a card for the Give Away -- but I chose to scrapbook instead. So please forgive my indulgence to myself. I love the card, anyway, and I hope you don't mind it again. Now, for the good stuff!
Today's fab Give Away is sponsored by Firecracker Designs by Pamela. These three great stamp sheets can be yours if you win this Give Away! The Firecracker Designs by Pamela team are active members of the Technique Junkie community and it is a joy to offer Pamela's beautiful designs to you. Go take a peek at Pamela's website and place an order today!

This card uses some of the beautiful stamps offered by Firecracker Designs by Pamela. I used the Marker Wash technique to color the flowers and the Cuttlebug Smoosh technique for the base background. Both techniques may be found in the October 2007 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter. If you are not subscribed by now, what are you waiting for? At just $3.00 an issue, it is a bargain...for crying out loud, most people blow $3.00 at Starbucks every time they walk in the door -- and the newsletter has a better kick than Caffeine!

Okay, no more commercials today. Here is how you enter the Give Away:

ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Monday, October 22nd. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

The winner of this Give Away is Deb Bryson! Congratulations, Deb!

Give Away a Day -- TWENTY!

Before I get into the give away for day 20, I have to just tell you that I am having a rockin' great time reading your comments! Whether you are writing me a poem, begging, bribing, whining (in the best way, of course) or just being humorous, the comments are enormously fun to read. I try to read them all...Thank you for the 20 days of entertainment!!

Today's Give Away to celebrate the Technique Junkie Newsletter 5th year anniversary is brought to us by Penny Wise Arts. The lucky recipient of this Give Away will receive a $25.00 gift certificate from our friend at Penny Wise Arts. While you are waiting for the winner to be chosen, why don't you go visit the Penny Wise website -- they need YOUR help to accomplish their goal to "Bead the World!"

The card made for today was designed to help Bead the World, too. This shaker card uses Stamping Bellas for the main image, and teal, gold and black metallic beads (from Penny Wise, of course, they are so pretty!) to fill the shaker and to cover the bags, shoes, belt and handbags of my shopping chicks. The background is Watercolor Distress from the February 2007 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter, and the girls were colored with Gamsol Pearls from the June 2006 issue of the newsletter. this card will be mailed to the winner of the Give Away with the Penny Wise Gift Certificate.

Here are the details on how you can win today's Give Away:
ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Sunday, October 21st. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered as a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

The winner of this Give Away is Nancy Kestin! Congratulations, Nancy!

Blogger's Challenge 17 and Give Away a Day 19

Each Friday I participate in a Bloggers Challenge Group -- do I am incorporating this challenge into the Give Away a Day for today. This is bound to be a long post, so please indulge me : )

The Bloggers Challenge this week was to create something that was inspired by something around us. Last week my brother and SIL came from Chicago to Connecticut to spend a week with me and my family. Two of those days we went hiking. New England is known, of course, for our beautiful foliage -- so we were hoping to see nature in her full glory. Well...that was the hope! We have had unnaturally warm weather this month and last, so the leaves have been hesitant to grace us with their full splendor! Of course, there were some trees that had changed...and I always find so much inspiration in their natural perfection. So Today's Challenge was inspired by the leaves from our hikes.

The Marker Wash technique from the October 2007 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter was a natural for this inspiration. I really love this card -- It just seems to fit naturally with the background that says "We are not humans on a spiritual journey, we are spiritual beings on a human journey." Now THAT is inspirational, isn't it?

Please take a moment to visit the other ladies in the Bloggers Challenge group (listed in the sidebar on the left). They are wonderful artists and I think you might find their work inspirational, too!

Now, for the give away for day 19 (thanks for bearing with me!):

Today's lucky winner will receive their OWN Marker Wash package! Just add water (and stamps!)...

This prize package includes 10 Stampin' Up! markers, the card above, a package of Stampin' Up! paper, and a Pad of Watercolor Paper. This give away is sponsored by....me : )

Here are the details on how you can win today's Give Away:
ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Saturday, October 20th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered as a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

The winner of this Give Away is Lynne Malinowski! Congratulations, Lynne!

Give Away a Day -- Day 18

Eighteen Days of Give Aways! So many beautiful things have been given away this month, and we still have many to go...

Today our beautiful Give Away is sponsored by I Brake for Stamps. One lucky winner will receive these two gorgeous stamp sets! These images are so beautiful...are you the lucky winner?

I Brake for Stamps has many beautiful, deeply-etched stamp sheets -- these are just a small sampling. Why don't you stop by the site today to see all of the everything I Brake for Stamps has to offer? Here is a close-up of the two sets in this give away:

Today's card features an image from an identical I Brake for Stamps sheet as YOU will receive (assuming you are the winner, of course!). It was a natural image to use with the Spanish Gold Technique from the October 2007 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter. My dancer was colored with gel pens, and the red paper is handmade (but not by me!). Of course, this card will be send with the stamp sheets to the winner.

Here are the details on how you can win today's Give Away:

ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Friday, October 19th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered as a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won -- or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

The Lucky winner of this Give Away is Nina Perrin! Congratlations, Nina!

Give Away a Day - Day 17

Day 17 already! Where has the time gone?

I hope you have been having fun with the daily give aways, and I hope you have been taking a few minutes each day to click through to the sponsor's links to visit their sites and shop. Each of our sponsors have been very generous -- please show them you appreciate them by patronizing their "establishments!"

Our sponsor today for the give away a day is Innovative Stamp Creations. The lucky winner of today's Give Away will receive these two stamp sheets plus the card shown. I happen to own these two sheets -- and if you are a Technique Junkie, you probably recognize them from the tutorials and the artwork pages. These deeply-etched, beautiful images are just a sampling of the gorgeous stamps offered by Innovative Stamp Creations.

Along with the two stamp sheets, you will receive my fall creation on the right. The pumpkin image is colored with Pencils and Gamsol, then covered with a light sheen of Crystal Effects to make it shine. The card is finished by using the stippled frames technique from the June/July 2007 Technique Junkie Newsletter to highlight the image. To add a bit of pizazz, I dry embossed the oval frame lightly.

Here are the details on how you can win today's Give Away:ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Thursday, October 18th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered as a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won -- or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

The lucky winner of this Give Away is Pat Stuart! Congratulations, Pat!

Give Away a Day -- Day 16

Ready to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Technique Junkie Newsletter today? Today is Day 16 of our Give Away a Day, and the best way to celebrate is to give away something wonderful! Today you have a chance to choose TWO beautiful stamp sets from Bella Rosa Paper Arts! The very lucky winner of today's give away will receive two certificates, each good for a free stamp sheet from Bella Rosa Paper Arts. The stamp sheets from this company are absolutely DIVINE. As soon as I finish this post, I am off to order the GORGEOUS new sheet of flower stamps on Linda's website. I have to hurry though -- because when you get there, you will want it too!!!

In addition to the certificates, you will receive today's eye candy -- which, of course was made with Bella Rosa Paper Arts stamps. This gorgeous image was so easy to work with! I used a blender pen and chalks to color the image, and I mounted that on a background made using the Color Wash Smoosh technique -- it is a bonus technique on the 5th Edition CD of the Newsletter. This car will be mailed to you with the gift certificates.

Here are the details on how you can win today's Give Away:ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Wednesday, October 17th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered as a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won -- or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

Today's winner is Karen Indendi! Congratulations Karen!

Give Away a Day - Day 15

Today's give away is AWESOME. Alluring Impressions has donated this HUGE pile of gorgeous rubber stamp images that have to be seen to be believed! Someone is going to improve their stash of rubber stamps in a serious way!

Amy and Kerri from Alluring Impressions have been long-time supporters of the Technique Junkie Newsletter, and their generosity with this Give Away shows it! If you have never visited this website you are in for a treat when you discover them...great stamp images, lots of accessories, easy ordering -- it doesn't get much better than this!

Your give away will include everything you see here -- the big pile o'rubba, the fibers, and the eye candy below. Just take a look at the card swallowed by all that rubber to get an idea of how good this really is!!

Today's eye candy uses Alluring Impressions stamps to make this fun Flap Fold Card from the June 2007 Technique Junkie Newsletter. Look at how beautifully these images stamp! The three images are in this bag, too : )



Here are the details on how you can win today's Give Away:


ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Tuesday, October 16th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered as a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won -- or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

The lucky winner of this pile o'rubber is Carole Miller! Congratulations, Carole!

Give Away a Day - Day 14

It is already Day 14 of the Give Away a Day to celebrate the 5th year anniversary of the Technique Junkie Newsletter, and today we have something great for you!

Today's giveaway is for a $25.00 (Canadian) gift certificate from Integrity Designs. If you haven't been to the Integrity Designs website you need to go now! Pick out $25.00 worth of merchandise - because if you win, they will be yours! Integrity Designs carries some of your favorite stamp companies...Innovative Stamp Creations, Cherry Pie Rubber Stamps, Time to Stamp, non Sequitur, Starving Artistamps, and many others!

In addition to your gift certificate, you will receive today's eye candy. the Goddess card on the left was made using the Simple Sumi technique from the October 2005 newsletter -- can you believe that was two years ago already? It feels like just yesterday! The stamps used are from Cherry Pie -- one of the stamp companies carried by Integrity Designs Rubber Stamps.

Here are the details:

First, ANYONE can enter. One entry per person, per daily give away please. To enter the give away for today, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter by 11:59pm EST on Monday, October 15th. No other entry methods will be included in the give away. If you email me to enter, your entry will NOT be considered as a valid entry. When you leave the comment, make sure to put your NAME in the comment -- if you enter your comment as "Anonymous", I cannot give you the prize! Blogger does NOT record your email address for me, so you will need to check back to find out if you have won -- or include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you. I will have a random number generator pick a number from the comments to select the winner. Each give-away is separate, so to be eligible for a specific item you must enter that day's contest on the post where it is listed.Check back every day during the month of October for the daily giveaway -- you can enter EVERY day! A fabulous Grand Prize will be offered on the last day of the month, too. Enter today -- good luck!

The winner of this Give Away is Ramblin Rose! Congratulations, Rose!