2000 Fan Giveaway is now live!!!

YAY!!!!!

  Smalltown Dreamz has hit a special milestone.......

2000 Facebook Fans!!!! 

I am celebrating with a HUGE Giveaway!!! There are 14 vendors and over $200 in prizes to be won by multiple winners!!!! That's what I call a celebration!!!! The rules and details of the giveaway on listed on the Giveaway Page . The giveaway ends at Midnight on November 18th so make sure you don't miss out on your chance to win at least one of the amazing prizes up for grabs.

Click on the link below to see all the available prizes that you could win along with the rafflecopter form to get all your entries in.

~ Giveaway Here ~

A special thank you goes out to the amazing vendors that joined in the celebration to make this such a spectacular event!!!


 Happy Crafting,


Stephanie

The Great Pumpkin Contest

Hello I hope you are all having a great week. I have some things to share with you today.

I am currently having a contest on my facebook page.

I LOVE decorating for the different seasons throughout the year and fall is one of my favorites. All the warm rich colors. The idea of this contest is to make the Elegant Pumpkin and then use it around your house as fall decoration. We are looking for the best use of the elegant pumpkin as fall décor. 

The contest will start Oct 4th and run through Oct 25th at midnight. All photo submissions must be messaged to me or emailed to me by midnight Oct 25th. After you have decorated with your Elegant Pumpkin take a photo and either message them to me or email them to me at smalltowndreamz@gmail.com Along with your photo submission please include your First and Last name along with your shop name( if you have one) and the name of the 1 free pattern that you would like for participating. (The 1 free pattern will be sent out the first week of Nov)

I will upload your submission with your first name and shop name into this album. The album will close at midnight on the 25th. Then my family (not me) will look through all the submissions and they will pick out the winners. The winners will be announced on Oct 31st.

The 1st place winner will receive a $25.00 gift certificate to any Mad Mad Makers Shop of your choice.
The 2nd place winner will receive 6 patterns of choice from my pattern shops or a $10.00 gift certificate towards my Etsy Shop. 
The 3rd place winner will receive 3 free patterns of choice from my pattern shop. 
EVERYONE that participates in the contest will receive 1 free pattern of their choice. 

If you have not picked up your pattern it can be picked up at any time as long as yours submission is in by the 25th at midnight.

All photo submissions must be messaged to me or emailed to me by midnight Oct 25th. After you have decorated with your Elegant Pumpkin take a photo and either message them to me or email them to me at smalltowndreamz@gmail.com Along with your photo submission please include your First and Last name along with your shop name( if you have one) and the name of the 1 free pattern that you would like for participating.

More details about the contest are posted on our Facebook page in the album called The Great Pumpkin Contest.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.583504081713403.1073741838.249530925110722&type=3


If you have not picked up your pattern it can be picked up at any time as long as yours submission is in by the 25th at midnight.

http://www.craftsy.com/user/669481/pattern-store

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/elegant-pumpkin-pattern

https://www.etsy.com/listing/113441535/the-elegant-pumpkin-patterns


Thank you to everyone that participates. I am so excited to see all your amazing pumpkins and how you decorate with them. 

A big Thank you to Kelly Smith Images LLC for taking the beautiful picture of the Elegant Pumpkin.




Happy Crafting

Stephanie

Dressing up a Container

First I would like to say how sorry I am about the lateness of my posts these past few weeks. I was sick for a while there and then the hubby surprised me with a mini vaca to just get away for a couple days and relax. Wouldn't you know I left my laptop on the counter when we left and didn't realize it till 200 miles later. So I will be posting my projects the remainder of the week. I hope you enjoy.

My first project I dressed up a nestle quick container that stores my pens. This is a very fast and easy no sew project. I love containers, and I have containers to hold just about everything. Just recently I have started dressing up my containers so that they have a little more style.

I am also a big fan of pens and markers and have just about every color of sharpie and gel pen. Anyway so what I did for my pen container was take some plain white fabric, some brown ribbon, and some teal glitter. Ohh and some glue!

First I layed a line of glue down and placed the fabric right over the line.


Each time I rounded a side on the short sides I would lay a line of glue down to secure the fabric to the container

 Then I wrapped the fabric around the container enough times so that you don't see any writing. If you are using a clear container you won't need as much fabric.

After I layed my fabric down then I glued down the brown ribbon.












Next I glued the rim of the container then layed some glitter over it to just give it a little bling..

Last I labeled the container. I will eventually add some extra details as I come across them.

What do you do with your empty containers?

Happy Crafting!

P.S.  REMEMBER we have a Giveaway going on right now for a free fabric charm pack. Make sure you click on the link below to get the details on how to enter.

Shaving Cream Stamping!

This has to be one of my favorite techniques when stamping! When I was gathering supplies for this project though, I realized I use glossy paper a lot when stamping. If you're like me and enjoy the glossy paper, I encourage you to check out how to do 'Polished Stone.' Its another one of my favorite and somewhat similar to this one!

What you need

• Glossy paper/photo paper
• shaving cream (not the gel)
• reinkers/ink refills of 2 or more colors
• stamps
• paper towel/cotton ball/tissue
• tooth pick/popsicle stick/flat knife

1. First, find something disposable to work with. It makes clean up a lot easier. I used a plain sheet of printer paper. Put a generous amount of shaving cream on your surface and spread somewhat flat.
2. Put a variety of drops on top of the spread shaving cream. You will find different amounts will give different results. 

     3.  Take your toothpick/popsicle stick/flat knife and spread the drops in various ways. There are so          many possibilities with this, and no two will be the same..

     4. Place your glossy paper (glossy side down) over your shaving cream and press down slightly.
     5. Remove the glossy paper. There will be shaving cream on your paper. Slowly wipe away shaving cream.

     6. When you are done, your paper should look like some variation of the picture below.

You can either leave it as is, use it as a background or stamp over it like I did in the picture to the left.

Hope you find yourself playing with shaving cream when stamping!



 Until next craft....

Local Shout-Out!!

In light of Stamp Week I was tooling around on Facebook and came across a great Facebook Shop Page for Homemade Cards, Bookmarks and other great items. Seeing how this is about as far as I have dipped my toes into the stamping world. I was truly amazed with this young girls talent. Kayla is just starting out into the blogging world and I wanted to give her a shout out. She is one of our local crafters and I always try to give our local community some much needed love.

If you get a chance go on and check out everything that Kayla has to offer. You can find her stuff for sale on Facebook and you can get there by clicking on her logo or by clicking here. You can also check out her blog page here at http://kaylas-kreations.blogspot.com/.

 Here are some other cool items she has in her shop. You all know I have a soft spot for owls. Ha Ha!




Remember we have a Mystery Stamp Giveaway (Valued at $25.00) going on here this week. Click here or on the Giveaway Button found on the sidebar to get the details on how to enter.

As always Happy Crafting!!

Stamp Week

Stamp Week is Here!

and with it brings another Giveaway!!

The stamping world is blowing up these days and I have to say that I am one that is jumping on the stamping train. There are so many uses for your rubber stamps when decorating. As seen last week with PhotoJewels she used stamping to decorate candles. Then there is scrapbooking, card making, the list can go on. So this week we are going to show you a few things that you can do with your stamps. I know I am excited and the reason being is that stamping is not something I did up in till just recently. So it will be nice to step outside of the box this week and put the fabric down for a bit.

Just recently I did my first ever swap. I did a Valentine's Day Card Swap that was hosted by FaveCrafts. This was the first time I had ever used Stamping in one of my projects. I had so much fun with it.  Now I am hooked. I look forward to doing more card swaps in the future. I wish I had a picture to show, however I totally forgot to get it before I put it in the mail.

So now on to the time you have all been waiting for.This weeks giveaway is for a Mystery Package of assorted stamps. Valued at $25.00 Here are the details on how to enter into this weeks giveaway which starts now and will go through March 2, 2012 at Midnight CST.

There will be a couple ways to enter they go as follows.

1. Follow us on our blog page and then leave a comment below that you are now following us or that you already are a follower of Smalltown Dreamz.

2. On a separate comment below tell us what your favorite thing to do with stamping is or your favorite line of stamps. As longs as it has to do with stamping.

****Bonus Entry**** As we have recently found out is not allowed to make LIKING our Facebook page a requirement we do feel it would benefit you to do so. This way you can get exclusive updates and join in our private games and giveaways that we do on Facebook. 

If you do become a Facebook Follower comeback and leave us a comment that you are now one of our friends and this will get you a bonus entry into the giveaway. 


The winner will be chosen by our Mr. Random and we will announce the winner Saturday Afternoon. I look forward to another great week. 

Candle Week

Welcome Everyone 

We are Officially Home!!

We will be celebrating our move with 4 weeks of giveaways and great crafting ideas.

Week 1 - Candle Week 2/18/2012-2/24/2012

Week 2 - Stamping Week 2/25/2012-3/2/2012

Week 3 - Yarn Week 3/3/2012-3/9/2012

Week 4 - Fabric Week 3/10/2012-3/16/2012

This week is Candle Week!!

We will have a giveaway that will be kicking off this afternoon here on the blog. Entry details will be announced this afternoon. Our sponsor is helping us give away a Mystery Candle Gift Package (Valued at $25.00) from our - Independent PartyLite Consultant - Victoria Miller - you can find her personal site at www.partylite.biz/vickymiller So hop on over to her site and check things out. 

I will be spending my morning with Vicky looking at the new summer line. I can't wait to be her guest and take a look at what PartyLite is all about. I know I love their lines so this will be an exciting day for me. When we get back today I will post the details about my day with Vicky and then give the details on this great giveaway that we have going on. 

Have a great morning and look for details later today on how to enter into the giveaway.

P.S. To kick off candle week today our new writer Photo Jewels is going to have a great candle crafting idea on how to dazzle up those plain colored candles. You will be amazed at what you can do with a plain colored candle. 

Getting Sidetracked

So yesterday with our sudden small blizzard I had the full intention of going in strong with trying to get as much done on my baby owl quilt as possible and actually I think I did get pretty far. That will be updated in a post next week when I share it for the WIP Wednesday over at Freshly Pieced.

Anyway just as I seemed to be cruising along on the quilt I stopped to get something out of the drawer when I looked up and saw my brand new shipment of pom poms staring me in the face and they started calling to me. Wouldnt you know with in 5 min I had my sewing machine and fabric moved and out-of-the-way and 1000 pom poms staring me in the face. There were so many colors and sizes, Honestly I was a little overwhelmed for about 2 min trying to figure out what I was going to do with all these poms. Seeing how I won these in an auction for free on Listia and free shipping to boot this was definitely one of my better so-called “Savings” when it comes to keeping the budget down. After sorting through all the colors and of course separating them into their own colored bags I took my favorite color and then the obvious contrasting colors of black and white, pulled out the hot glue gun grabbed an old throw pillow that needed some restoration and got to work.

I used some of my purple fleece fabric to finish it off in the back. I think its cute. If I would have known then what I know now then I would have covered the whole pillow in the fleece before glueing on the Poms. There are a couple of spots that I am going to go back and fill in where the old ugly green fabric is showing through. Also I probably would not use the bigger ones on the edge. The picture in my head didn’t exactly turn out in real life.

I measured the Fleece to the size of the pillow knowing that it had a bit of stretch in it so that it could be pulled tight. I took the edge of the fleece and hot glued it to the edge of the last row of Poms securing it just underneath so the poms would stick over a bit hiding the fleece edge as much as possible.

So this is what happens when I get sidetracked. I finish other projects and not the one intended. Has this happened to you? I am sure it happens to everyone. I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s always a bad thing. I say as you are not getting sidetracked when it comes to the important things then its ok in my book. Well I look forward to sharing what I did get finished with the Owl Quilt, maybe I can sneak a few more hours in and get the baby almost done by Wednesday.

Happy Crafting from my home to yours