P. Kelly Smith
Welcome to Freebie Friday! I hope you’ve enjoyed Stamp It! Week just as much as we’ve enjoyed bringing it to you here and on the Moxie Fab World blog. (Judging from our page hits and your wildly enthusiastic comments, you’ve had a mighty fine time! And all the free product doesn’t hurt, right?)
For those of you just joining us today, make sure to read all of our stamptastic posts this week. From a wonderfully candid interview with designer Teri Anderson to Susan Opel’s “green” confession to an inspiring tutorial on dye ink sprays from PC Pro Alisa Bangerter, we’ve truly been favored by the stamping gods. And a special thanks goes out to all the manufacturers who’ve donated their fabulous product for our daily giveaways – especially yesterday’s! You’ve made a lot of people very happy!
So should we get on with the giveaway? I told you it was going to be a BIG one. I believe my exact words were “the crème-de-la-crème of all stamping prizes”. I’m hyperventilating right now just thinking about and I don’t even get to take it home. Take a deep breath, ladies. Now let it out. Okay. Here. We. Go.
One random winner will receive this grand prize package including: Cropper Hopper Stamp Station, Copic Basic Brights marker set (MSRP $70.00), six Close to My Heart exclusive dye inks, two background stamps and the Butterfly Beauty set from Unity Stamp Company, Teacher’s Apple and Spiral Bouquet stamp sets from Papertrey Ink, and the five stamp sets we featured in the “Say it with Stamps” section of Stamp It! Cards. And, of course, a copy of Stamp It! Cards autographed by all the Paper Crafts editors. Whew! Did you get all that?
One lucky winner will take this home! Maybe it will be you!
And because I’m feeling very generous, five additional people will each receive this prize package including: five clear stamp sets and idea book from Adornit Carolee’s Creations and a copy of Stamp It! Cards.
Are you officially drooling? Good! Then I’ve done my job. Since today marks the first day of spring, leave a comment telling me your favorite spring quote. It can be from a song, a poem, a movie, etc. All comments must be received by midnight on Monday, March 23. I’ll announce the winners on Tuesday, March 24.
Five lucky winners will each take this prize package home!
All in all, I’d have say there’s a lot of stampers out there who are beyond passionate about their craft. One common thread I picked up from all of your comments (yes, I read every last one!) is there are endless creative possibilities when it comes to stamping. And when there’s no limit to creativity, that’s when the real fun begins!
Thanks for making Stamp It! Week so much fun!
Kelly
P.S. Our Stamp It! Week Challenge is still going on! Wanna play? To participate, create a stamped card featuring one of the following techniques:
Stamp Kissing
Build a Scene
Creating Patterned Paper with Stamps
Adding Color with Markers
Adding Color with Dye Ink Sprays
Upload your stamped card here from now until Monday, March 23. We’ll pick 10 winners (two per category) to win a fabulous prize package. Five winners’ cards will be shown on this blog and five will be shown on Moxie Fab World. AND once you upload your card, you can turn around and mail it into our Stamping Royalty card contest!
P.P.S. Congrats to Jazy Girl, Kerry and Suzy! You’ve each won the Tattered Angels prize package from Wednesday’s Dye Inks Sprays Rock post. I’ll be e-mailing you shortly for your mailing addresses. Thanks to all who left comments and played along!
What an amazing give away! One of my favorite quotes is from Robin Williams (he’s hilarious!) “Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘Let’s party!’”
My favorite Spring quote? “Boys! It is time to come in!!” I love being able to say this when it has warmed up enough for my two boys to play outside all day without being bundled up. I love Spring because I leave the windows open during the day. Nothing beats being able to feel the light breezes and kids playing outside. Spring means warm rain and flowers blooming~ and breathing fresh air.
(Sorry, I don’t have a specific quote from a movie or from a famous person!! Just mine, it is heard a lot around my house!)
Thank you for offering this great opportunity!!!
Hi Thanks for the chance to win my quote “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us
I have a couple favs:
God will make all things new again.
Everythings Comin Up Roses.
What a prize package – you rock!
“Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” ~Robin Williams
That pretty much defines how I feel about spring. I am so excited to see everything starting to bloom, the weather warming up and finally be done with the cold weather of winter!!!
My fave is a Robert Frost poem:
“Natures first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower,
but only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So eden sake to grief,
And dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.”
(so many interpretations for this poem….)
When the trees and flowers start to bloom and bud after winter, it makes me think of the this quote, “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” Virgil A. Kraft
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WOW! What an awesome prize pack! When I’m making spring cards, I use a lot of flowers. My favorite quote to use is from a PTI set that says, “If friends were flowers, I’d pick you!” Can’t wait to see who wins!!
“March comes in like a lion and goes like a lamb” is one of my tops!!! I would love to win of those FAB prizes!
My favorite saying for Spring is: “Spring has sprung, the grass has ris, I wonder how my Garden is”. Not real sure if that’s the correct version but that’s the way my Mom always said it. Made me smile!!!
Thanks for an awesome week!!!
Spring has sprung!
I’m ready for spring to be here. It is FREEZING again in NY!
Thanks for the chance of winning!
My favorite spring quote: The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. ~Bern Williams
My favorite is “The Earth Laughs in Flowers”
*fingers crossed that I win!!*
Not very lyrical, but it’s my favorite since my mom used to say it every spring:
“Spring is sprung, the grass is riz;
I wonder where the flowers is?”
I don’t know that I have a favorite spring quote, but I always look forward to seeing the spring flowers, so I will go with, “April showers bring May flowers.”
My FAVE spring qoute comes from the very funny mouth of Robin Williams:
“Spring is natures way of saying ‘Let’s Party’”.
THANKS for the of to win your OUTSTANDING goodies!!!!!!!!
Char in So Cal
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I don’t have a favorite famous quote. When the dirty old snow starts melting around here (in MN) my youngest son always thought it was because God and the angels want to see the pretty flower (and not the dirty old snow anymore). Thanks for the chance at winning such an awesome prize.
Wow! What a fabulous prize !!!!!! My favourite spring quote is the movie with Tom hanks and Meg Ryan “You have an e-mail”
I hope I can win !!!
Kiss from Spain
My fav spring quote:
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens
I love this because it is a perfect description of spring here where I live…in the midst of a snow belt, where it gets more snow and takes longer to melt than the rest of our region.
Thanks for the chance at the prize!
This is a favoriate of mine:
“Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.”
- Virgil A. Kraft
Hi,
Your blog candy looks great!
and it’s very nice to meet you…
Inbar, Israel
inbarbima@gmail.com
My favorite Spring quote is SPRING HAS SPRUNG. I dont know who said it but I love it.I love looking at all the new things that you all show.Thanks a BUNCH. I juuuuust love it all.
Dana, Rineyville, Ky.
I will jump to the roof if I win this prize! Spring is my favorite season. I love this line.
“..The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
i like this Spring quote (even i’m from israel’ and now it’s raining hare)
“You can’t see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it’s there. It’s the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland”.
~Paul Fleischman
Thanks for the chance to win!!
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God’s heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
~Dorothy Frances Gurney, “Garden Thoughts”
I am so ready for spring!
Thanks for the chance to win a fabulous prize package.
Mary Lou
Spring Break–Everybody’s gotta love that! Just like I will love getting to use all those new products if I win!!!!
Bethany Stover
wow, such jaw-dropping generosity, you are all so thoughtful
and, as for my fave spring poem… this one by one of the shelley’s (percy, to be exact)
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And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
(Percy Bysshe Shelley) “The Sensitive Plant”
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What a fabulous prize! I hope I’m a lucky winner! The only fun Spring quote I can think of is, “Spring has sprung!” Gotta love that oldie but goodie
I think that one of my favorite spring inspired quotes is “Lovely flowers are the smiles of God’s goodness” by Wilberforce.
Glad I found this before the deadline. Hope I win!
My favorite Spring quote is ” No winter lasts forever…no Spring skips its turn.
There are so many great spring quotes but right now I like this one because we have had crazy weather the last few weeks.
“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. “~Mark Twain
Susan
Wow, what an awesome giveaway package! My favorite spring quote is “Spring flies in on the wings of a butterfly!”…my mom used to say that to us growing up whenever we’d see a butterfly!
Spring Quote Contest:
SPRING
The air is like a butterfly with frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky and sings!
(I love the way you can use this with a butterfly stamp. Words can not describe this giveaway!!!!)
Wow! That’s ALOT of comments. My favorite is this:
Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great giveaway! Here’s my spring quote”
Came the Spring with all its splendor,
All its birds and all its blossoms,
All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha
Here’s a fun one:
~ In spring time, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~
by Emma Racine deFleur
Thanks,
Dana B
WOW! What a great giveaway…. thw only spring quote I can think of right now is…. March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb…. always liked that one =)
Spring Fling.
Well…. how about…April Showers bring Mayflowers!Thanks so much for the incredible chance to win some candy!!!
My favorite spring quote “Spring is nature’s way of letting us know there will always be a new beginning”
your stamp week has been great. I wish I could have participated more. I’m a High School teacher with children involved in many activities, I can’t wait for summer to work on my projects. Love your blog and magazine, I would love to win the great prizes!
Jacqueline
I’ve tried and tried and tried to upload photos of my cards to my workspace so that I can enter my 3 cards into the stamping week conest and the site just isn’t working for me. Every time I hit the upload button after selecting my picture, the space goas blank like I never selected the picture (over and over and over and over again). I thought maybe it was my computer but I tried it at work and it did the same thing. It’s so frustrating! Is anyone else having this problem? It’s not like I’ve never uploaded a photo online before, I’ve got a blog and they upload to it just fine. I don’t understand. Arrrgggghhhhhh! This is soooo disappointing cause the deadline is here and I don’t get to enter my hard work.
Wow, I’m so glad I’m not too late! I’d love to win sooo much! I live in Florida, so Spring is not necessarily as big of a deal, but I do like this quote a lot:
“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.” ~Christopher Morley
Thanks so much for the chance to win! I love the blog and magazine!
I love the song “April in Paris”. I was lucky enough to spend a week in Paris during spring of 2007. What a terrific giveaway. Jill S
My favorite quote is one that commonly said, “April showers bring May flowers.” So very true here in Minnesota!
What awesome blog candy! You are going to make one person so very happy! And 5 others very happy too!
Happy Spring! =)
Jennifer in Minnesota
The song I think of when I think of spring is Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree – spring does bring such a nice surprise.
Thanks for the chance to win some great prizes!
Carol
Thanks goodness, I finally got my card uploaded, if anyone else is having the problem I was and you are using Internet explorer to upload try using Firefox instead, you can download it for free off the net. Apparently the upload application is finicky with Internet Explorer. Strange that such a widely used program would have such an ill affect with the CK website. Hope this helps someone else, I’m just glad I didn’t miss out on entering the contest.
This is part of a song in the musical “State Fair”. I think of this around this time every year. I live in Wisconsin and can’t wait for SPRING!!!!!
“I haven’t seen a crocus or a rosebud, or a robin on the wing;
but I feel so gay, in a melancholy way, that it might as well be spring.”
Wow…what a great giveaway! My favorite quote is:
“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”
April showers bring May flowers!
WOW! This is great blog candy. I hope I can win it. Thank you for this opportunity.
Lisa