Lovin the New Fall Colors

Love these colors from the fall color palette -

Thanks for the heads up Handmade Spark

Hand Made Spark is always so informative
with articles like new fall color trends http://www.handmadespark.com/blog/fall-2010-color-trends/

Michael Miller's Lagoon has been one of my favs for a while - it seems turquoise is not blue this year it is "Lagoon"! 

Some fabrics in my shop following the trends

Click Camera Strap Cover

You Pick your favorite Michael Miller Reversible Camera Strap Cover

So Funky Earth Tones Camera Strap Cover

&

Oh so sweet - Chocolate Minky Dots

My favorites are Lagoon and Woodbine. 

What is yours?

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Time's Up

The Winner
of the
16x20 Rolled Canvas Print
is
Jake and RaNette entry #9.

Thanks Large Format Posters for sponsoring this giveaway!

Thanks to everyone who entered.

I loved hearing about all your favorite photos. 

Now I really want to upgrade my camera!!!

I am really torn between Canon or Nikon.

Here is what I am thinking but I just can't decide...

    

Canon Rebel T2i

OR

Nikon D5000

Rolled Canvas Print GiveAway

print on canvas - http://www.largeformatposters.com/canvas-printing.html

This month I am hosting a 16 x 20 Rolled Canvas Print Giveaway! 

Perfect for all of you photogs that have wonderful photos that you want to turn into Canvas Art! 

Thanks to Large Format Posters for sponsoring this awesome giveaway!

Turn any photo into a work of art! Check out their site for great ideas.
Print any custom size up to 55″ X 100″ with free ground shipping!

Giveaway Details
Prize: 16x20 Rolled Canvas Print
Limited to US residents; 18 years old and above
Giveaway ends: 7/29/10 at 10:00 pm Central Time

How to Enter
For your entry to count you must leave a separate comment for each thing that you do – also make sure you leave your blog or email so I can contact you.

(Mandatory)

1. Leave a comment - what photo would you turn into Canvas!

(additional entries – one entry for each that you do)

2. visit my ETSY shop SewTamz and tell me your item. (leave a comment here)

2.  Follow/subscribe to my blog (publicly) (or be an existing subscriber)

3. Like my facebook page (www.facebook.com/sewtamz) (if already like me that counts too!)

4. Heart my Etsy Shop http://sewtamz.etsy.com/ (or let me know your Etsy name if you already do)

5. Make a purchase...tell me about it.

6. Blog, tweet or facebook about this giveaway- tell me that you did.

Remember this giveaway ends Thursday July, 29th @ 10pm (central).  I will use a random number generator to select the winner and contact them via email (Make sure I can email you!). You have 48 hours to respond!
Disclosure: I received a blogger appreciation gift for hosting this giveaway.

Today’s Spark – - Awesome Blog

Love - Love this blog

 it is a must read if you have an Etsy shop!

The Citrus Summer Camera Strap looks pretty great in their summer finds too!

Check out the link...

Handmade Spark - New Handmade Items From Our Fans

Etsy Treasury

Pink Lime-aide

You know this is one of my favorite color combos...

Pink & Black

Classic

Picked for two Etsy Treasury’s in one week

What an honor!

I love looking at Etsy Tresurys it is a fun way to shop by collections.

An Etsy member-curated shopping gallery where members find the most beautiful items!!!

Watch out it can be very addicting!!!!

Making History Giveaway at Artsy Canvas Girl Designs

My sister recently came for a visit.  My kids loved spending time with their Aunt Kathy.  She talked about all her ideas for her new business.  We make a great team bouncing ideas off each other.  It is great because who else can you give honest feedback to but your sister. Also we got to collaborate in person, so much easier then over the phone. She has always been so artistic and creative. It is wonderful to see that she can use her talents to create special custom wall art using photos and words.


I was lucky enough to have her design a special canvas that sits above my fireplace. Our whole family just loves what she did. I picked a really large canvas and I love that I can just look up and see my happy family anytime and the quality of the photo so crisp and vibrant.

Family

She also did some really awesome designs using my kids pictures.

The way she framed them with

special words made my kids feel like ROCKSTARS!

Jakob's Canvas 

Aarika's Canvas

What do you think?  My kids love  - love them....

So make sure you head on over to her site to check out her awesome giveaway!

Making History Giveaway - Enter Here

Winner ~ Winner

(shhhh ... okay say it "Chicken Dinner "- sorry I can't help it - it always gets stuck in my head)

Congrats to Tara

(True Random Number Generator Result: 134- Comment #134 TARA)

Who said: I would pick the Personalized So Spring Hot Pink and Lime Green Damask.

I look forward to making this for you!

It was fun to see that the most popular pick was the So Funky!

I Love – Love this line of fabric as you can see in my shop! I would almost say that Amy Butler and the Belle collection kind of got me into my designer fabric obsession. I always gravitate to her designs. Before I even started my Etsy shop I had bought a couple of yards of this orange/blue French wallpaper and some other coordinating fabrics in this line.

The stripes are great too! I just thought I could make something fabulous with it and wasn’t exactly sure what it would be. Who would have known it would be these camera strap covers!!! This line has been discontinued and last night I bought the last yard that I could find through my internet source, of course for twice as much as I paid originally. The orange/blue is great but in my searches I have found another color combo that has become my all time favorite fabric – I scoured the internet to find it because of course when I discovered it, it had already been discontinued. I even called the fabric manufacturer and confirmed that it had been discontinued and the best place to find any was on Etsy (of course)! So I did and bought it at a premium. I also found it at one of my other internet sources – I literally scrapped the bottom of the barrel and bought their remnants - I think they thought I was a little wacky but hey you only need so much for camera straps/covers! Here is a peak at it. What do you think?

 I have a fun idea to go with it – I just need to catch up on some orders before I can show you though!

Thank you to everyone that participated!

Your so much Fun!!!

It was great to read your favorites!  Wonderful to hear all the kind words!

I would like to welcome to all the new FaceBook Likes (mmm Fans) and new Blog Followers!

Thanks for all the sweetness – it is very inspiring!

Also Thanks  Dang Gina for hosting my giveaway!