give-away on creative lenna blog

A couple of participants have let me know they have already sent their tags, so soon I will have some lovely things to share with you here. In the meantime, you could win a chance for free registration to one of my creative swaps - or 4 other great prizes, just by adding a comment to my 500 posts give-away celebration post on my personal art blog! I hope you'll visit and leave a comment and I'll be back as soon as I receive the mail I am waiting for! Remember, June 12th is the deadline for your Tags to be here . . .

: ) 500 Post Give-away *Winners*

I took a very scientific approach to choosing 10 winners for my 500th post to this blog celebration give-away . . .

I made a list of those who commented to my original post . . . cut the list of names into little strips . . . put all of them into one of my winter hats, and drew out 10 names for 10 prizes!!

I have 3 winners for a FREE swap registration:

Nina Owens, Cindy McMath and Cat Dodt Ellis!!

The winner of the book Creating Romantic Purses is: Frieda Oxenham!!

The Collage Pack was won by: Carolyn Outz Hay!!

The Santa Stamp was won by: Lisa Mallette ; )

The Frame Stamp was won by Rena Matus!

The Octagon collaged Box created by me was won by: Kate North!

The Expression magazine with my autographed article was won by: Gunnel Svensson : )))

And . . . the Fabric Collage created by me, especially for this give-away was won by . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Barbara Roberts - wow! CONGRATULATIONS to ALL!

~ Thanks to everyone who left a comment to let me know why you enjoy visiting this blog. Your kind words were appreciated very much . . . If I do not have your mailing address already through the swaps I will contact you over the weekend - or feel free to contact me first -happy day!

500 Posts! (and a celebration give-away)

* * wow * * 500 Posts since April 22, 2007! * *

Gosh, that is a remarkable amount of posting to do, and I must say that it is all my swap participants' faults! You know who you are . . . . and if you sent me your art to swap out, you helped to make those 500 posts : ) Thank you for making this so much fun and such a success in my eyes.

In honor of this milestone for creative swaps, I am going to offer you a chance to win one of 10 prizes I will be giving away. All you have to do is leave a comment to this post telling me why you visit the creative swaps blog or what you like about it. Just click on the word COMMENTS at the bottom of this post and another page will open up. Or, if you can see a bunch of comments, scroll all the way till the end of them and look for: Post a Comment. Write your comment in the box and (important): choose an identity - your blogger ID or an Open ID or 'Anonymous' if you do not have a Blog. Fill out the word verification and wait for me to approve your comment & post it - you are good to go!

This will be a RANDOM drawing and I will allow 2 weeks for the comments to come in, so I will be drawing winners on 11/22/08. If you do not correspond with me regularly, please add your email to your comment or email me privately so I can contact you, if you win! Here are the 10 prizes:

(there are 3 free registrations)


A collage pack . . .

A new book . . .





A box I collaged . . .
2 rubber stamps (new) . . .





The cover & the inside article I wrote for Expression Magazine on how to create a mini accordion book, autographed : )

I created this fabric collage especially for this drawing! . . . more on HOW I created this fabric collage is on my art blog -click to go there. Click on any photo for more details.

Make a comment to this post before 11/22/08 telling me why you visit the creative swaps blog or what you like about it -that will be your chance to win one of the 500 post celebration giveaway prizes!! THANK YOU for all the wonderful comments that have come in already, lenna