O Christmas Tree

I may not have started on any of my Christmas gifts yet, but I've got a nice headstart on cards and tags.  Here's another quick and easy greeting you can send out:

The paper is from last year's EK Success Yuletide collection.

To make the trees, just cut out a circle with a scalloped edge, cut it in half, and fold it until it looks like a tree.  Glue it down, run a bead of glue along the edges (I used a glue pen for more accuracy), and add some glitter.

Tah dah!  Another card down....only about 10 more to go~

This project was featured here:

Martha Stewart Winner II

Yay!  It seems like maybe the worst of the crazy weather is behind us and I've had power on in my house for more than 6 hours, so I'm hoping it's here to stay.

That means I get to announce the second winner of the Martha Stewart Stitched Paper Pad today after all!

Drumroll please....

Congratulations Carolyn!  (By the way...have you ever visited Carolyn's blog???  She has so many wonderful crafty ideas, you really need to check it out if you haven't already)

Whew, that was a lot of giveaways in one month.  Great big thanks to EKSuccess for supplying all of those fun prizes, and a super huge thanks to all of you Etcetorizers who participated! 

Martha Stewart Winner!

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in last week's big Martha Stewart Stitched Paper Pad giveaway from EKSuccess!  You guys are awesome~

Before I tell you who the lucky duck winner is, I thought I'd show you a couple more projects I made with this beautiful paper to give you some ideas!

I made some teeny tiny little boxes and gift tags!

What's so special about these teeny tiny boxes????

I followed the design lines and pricked teeny tiny holes into the paper.

Then filled them with lovely potpurri and put them in my drawers

 to make all of my clothes smell pretty!

And this is just a cute little tag. 

 My Silhouette loves this paper so much that I just had to cut something out~

Hopefully my little projects have gotten your creative juices flowing! 

This week's winner is....

Congratulations Terri! 

If you didn't win, don't fret, because I have one more Martha Stewart giveaway coming up that I'll post later today.  Make sure to come back to find out how you can still have a chance to win!

Giveaway Winner & NEW Giveaway!!

OK, first things first...a super huge thank you, not only to all of you who entered the Martha Stewart Banners and Tags giveaway, but to ALL of you who come by to visit, leave awesome comments, and are just generally so much fun to be around.  I'm so glad you're interested in what I do here and am grateful to have you in my bloggy life.

And now, what you really want to know.... the winner of this month's first EKSucess giveaway is....

Congratulations Anne!

I'll be in touch soon to find out where to send your gift.

DON'T GO AWAY...

Keep reading, because I'm not done being grateful to you guys yet.

WE'RE HAVING ANOTHER

MARTHA STEWART GIVEAWAY!!!!

EKSuccess sent me this incredibly awesome paper pack to give to one of you lucky Etcetorizers!

The new Stitched line from Martha Stewart Crafts is so cute.  The pad is country quilt inspired and has all kinds of speciality papers in it.

Some look like oil cloth, others like hankies, some look like they're stitched, and there's even a few glittery pages!

Oh!  And did I mention that they're all double sided?!?!  Take a look at this cute little box I made.

 Everything coordinates perfectly.

I've been having a lot of trouble with my Silhouette cutting cleanly lately, but it loves these papers.  They're a nice medium weight that is perfect for all of your papercraft projects.

If you're interested in winning here's what you need to do.

Once again, I'm doing this the old fashioned way and just using the comment box below, leave a separate comment for each entry:

Mandatory Entry:

Be or become a public follower of Etcetorize.

Leave a comment telling me how you follow.

Extra Entries:

1)Leave a comment telling me how many products

 EKSuccess has.

(Hint)

2)Check out the fun projects on the Spotted Canary Blog

 and tell me which one looks most interesting to you!

3)Pin your favourite Etcetorize project

 on Pinterest and tell me which one :)

Yes, I'm making you work for this one, but I promise, it'll be worth it if you win!

Deadline for entries is 9:00 PM Central Time, Wednesday, June 20th.

Good luck!

Update:
This giveaway has now closed.
Thank you to everyone who participated!

Note: If you're a 'no-reply' blogger, make sure to leave your email address in at least one of your comments so that I know how to reach you if you win.  Write your email out like this to try to avoid nasty spammers: etcetorize{at}yahoo{dot}ca

Spotted Canary

Even if I wasn't lucky enough to have EKSuccess sponsoring giveaways throughout this month, I had still planned on letting you know all about their amazing site and blog.

You'll think I'm a little strange but I'm going to tell you anyway....whenever I go to their website, my heart starts to beat a little faster.  I'm not exaggerating, it really does!  I have no idea why, except that there are just sooooooooooo many super awesome products all in one place that it really gets my creative fires burning!

I had no idea that so many of my favourite products were under the EKSuccess umbrella.
They share project ideas, give you a heads up on what the latest and greatest new products are out there, and perhaps most exciting...they have contests every month that are super easy to enter!

On top of all that, EKSuccess also has a blog called The Spotted Canary.

Here, you can find more galleries, more project ideas, more great deals and contests, along with an online community that includes classes!

The Spotted Canary recently underwent a big renovation, so now it's easier than ever to get around and find everything you need.  Did you know that they have over 7000 projects posted and more are added daily!  Just think of all that inspiration.

Check it out, you won't regret it.  And while you're at it, don't forget to enter the Martha Stewart Banners and Tags giveaway.  If you get your entries in before Wednesday, June 13th you could win all kinds of fun Martha Stewart embellishments for your papercraft projects!

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post however all opinions given are my own.