Win a Trip to LEGOLAND in Florida Sweepstakes!

This is a partnered post written by me on behalf of Atlantic Luggage. All opinions are 100% mine.

Have you ever visited LEGOLAND in Florida yet? Are you and your family looking for something cool to do this summer? Well, I have some great news for all of you! Right now there is a big sweepstakes going that is being sponsored by Atlantic Luggage and LEGOLAND!

You can enter the Atlantic Luggage and Legoland Sweepstakes today and then keep your finger's crossed that you end up a winner. What does the winner get you might ask? Well, I am going to tell you!

One lucky winner is going to win a 2-day vacation for 2 adults & 2 children to Florida! This vacation package includes one hotel room for two nights, a car voucher, a Meet & Greet with LEGOLAND Master Model Builder and a brand new set of Atlantic Luggage! Wow, what a cool prize package!

The great folks over at Atlantic Luggage are sponsoring this fabulous sweepstakes and if you have never seen their luggage products, you are really missing out! Their luggage is stylish, durabe, well-made and super affordable! Great luggage for the vacation traveler or the business traveler! They have a ton of styles and designs to choose from so there is definitely something for everyone!

LEGOLAND in Florida recently added a brand new waterpark which opened in May of 2012 and people have been flocking to it since! It features a wave pool, tube slides and body slides. Your family can also design and build a unique LEGO vessel and then have fun setting it afloat on the 1,000 foot lazy river. I love floating around on lazy rivers and splashing down some fun water slides!

My grand daughter has been wanting for us to take her to LEGOLAND so I will be entering the Sweepstakes too! Head on over there today and enter...you never know, you could end up being the Grand Prize Winner! Good Luck!

Fabulous Kid's Craft Kits From Klutz ~ Product Review

Today I would like to talk to you about a company and their products which I think are absolutely fantastic and these craft products and kits are perfect for kid's birthdays, school crafts, scouting crafts, holiday gifts, party favors, you name it...these children's craft kits are fabulous!
The craft kits are made by a company called Klutz and they make a large variety of kid's craft kits like jewelry-making kits, rubber stamping kits, face painting kits, needle craft kits, painting kits, drawing kits, window art kits and so much more. Trust me...they have hundreds of craft kits that they sell and most of them are really unique ideas! One of the things I appreciate in regards to these kits is that you can purchase "refill supplies" after your children use up the supplies that are included in each kit.

My Review: Today I am reviewing 3 great craft kits by Klutz. First up...the Stamp Art craft kit that contains the spiral bound book, 1 clear stamping block, 64 clear stamps, black ink pad and 3 double-sides colored pencils (six total colors). This kit's clear stamps are done in a variety of shapes and the book & instructions teach you how to put the shapes together to create pretty flowers, various animals, sea life, aliens & planets, foods, zoo animals, etc. The directions are very easy to follow and it teaches you step by step how to do this. I sat down to do this with my 10 year old nephew and we had a blast! Check out this cute sea life CRAB that we made together? Isn't he cute? It took us less than 10 minutes to stamp him and color him in.We also got to review the Pom-Pom Monster Salon craft kit which includes yarn, pom-pom maker, wiggle eyes, foam facial features, ribbon bows, tube of liquid glue, various card stock cut-outs to accent your pom-pom creatures and more! I spent about 10-15 minutes reading all the directions in the book and then got busy making this adorable purple pom-pom creature. I named her "Purple Peter Eater" LOL and check out those shoes! I made the purple pom-pom first, glued on the wiggle eyes and pink tongue and then finished up gluing on the purple sneakers and lime green hair bow. Super cute and so easy to make! You can make several pom-pom animals, creatures, etc. just with this one kit and everything is included but the scissors!
Finally...we got to review the new Twisted Critters craft kit which is super fun! The kit comes with over 70 different types of pipe cleaners in a variety of colors along with the spiral bound instruction book. The book teaches you step by step how to make various creatures & animals using the included pipe cleaners and rolling them, twisting and attaching them to one another to create these special designs. We had a blast with this kit with my 10 year old nephew and 11 year old god son!

Overall Impression: We love the craft kits from Klutz! I love that almost (if not everything) that you need is included with the kit. Each kit has a large instruction book that is spiral bounds and is really easy to read & understand. These kits are great for kids of all ages and I think even adults will enjoy them. As a crafter myself, I really appreciate the ease of use and the cute things you can make with the Klutz kits!


I would personally like to thank Klutz for allowing me to do a product review for their company and for hosting a giveaway here on the Passionate About Crafting Blog.

Disclaimer: Shelly Hill has personally reviewed the product listed above. Shelly has not received any monetary compensation for her review. Shelly did receive a free product to try out so she could evaluate and use it for her review. Her thoughts & opinions in this review are unbiased & honest and your opinions may differ. The Passionate About Crafting Blog is not responsible for delivery/shipping of giveaway items won from this blog nor are we responsible for mis-use or injury caused by items won from this blog.

Winner of the $25 GC to Scrapbuck.com Giveaway!

Last night our giveaway for the $25 GC to Scrapbuck.com closed so we have a winner to announce this morning! I would like to thank Scrapbuck for sponsoring the review & giveaway here on the Passionate About Crafting Blog! Since doing this review I have become a customer of Scrapbuck.com and I love their products and I love their affordable prices! They are my new favorite go-to scrapbooking store!

I validated all entries and then used Random.org to select our winner. Our winner is:

Mari said...
http://twitter.com/#!/LuckyDuckyToo/status/111979422655066113
runningmatey at hotmail dot com
September 8, 2011 9:50 PM

Congrats to Mari! I am sending you an email so you can claim your prize!

Affordable Scrapbooking Craft Supplies From Scrapbuck.com and $25 GC Giveaway

Today I get to introduce all of you crafter's to a wonderful company called Scrapbuck which is a paper crafter's paradise! As a big time scrapbooker and cardmaker...I love this company!

Here is a little bit about them - Scrapbuck.com is the premier online store and community for the value-conscious Scrapbooker and Cardmaker. Scrapbuck sells all of its merchandise at 50-75% less than other scrapbooking stores. We carry between 2,500 to 3,000 products and sell over 750 items for only $1. Any purchase $20.00 or more in the continental US ships for free and leaves our warehouse within one business day! This store sells all of the name brand items that you love!

My Review: The generous folks over at Scrapbuck.com sent me a box full of craft supplies to review for all of you. Today I am going tell you about those supplies and how I used them for this review. First let me tell you a little bit about what I received. I got a huge pad of ColorBok Deluxe Textured Cardstock which contains 50 sheets of pastel colored cardstock, 2 of each color and the colors range from beige up to lilac and several colors in between. This 50 sheet pad of cardstock sells for ONLY $6.00. I also got a 6 sheet paper pack (12x12 size) in a beach vacation theme by Forever in Time (tm). This 6 sheet vacation paper pack sells for ONLY $1.00.

The next several items are a bunch of high quality scrapbooking embellishments! From Phrase Cafe I got a pack of epoxy stickers in a vacation theme that sells for $1.75, a pack of Soft Spoken "toddler" theme embellishments that sell for $1.80, a Jolee's Boutique 21 pc. "Princess" page title or embellishments that cost $2.00, a pack of 3D White Pearl Halves that costs $1.25, a Making Memories Glitter Die-Cuts 76 pc. "Just Chillin" design for $2.50 a pack, a package of Pop-Dots that sells for $1.00 and a large package of Chipboard Embellishments in the Starfish Design that sells for $2.65.

The third group of items I received is a sheet of Embossed Cardstock Stickers in a beach/vacation theme that sells for $1.00, a set of 8 clear stamps in the "Life at the Beach" theme that sells for $3.50, a large roll of Double-Sided Tape that sells for $1.00, a black Ink It Up! stamp pad that sells for $1.00, a 4 piece Sparkle Glitter Gel Pens set that sells for $1.00 and finally a Clear Stamp Tool (to use with the clear stamp set) that sells for $1.00. Wow!!! I got a lot of great stuff!

Here is a 12x12 scrapbooking layout that I made using supplies from Scrapbuck.com. For this layout I used a pink piece of scrapbooking paper that has "Princess" wording all over it from my own paper stash as the background for the layout. I had 3 photos of my little grand daughter wearing a pink princess costume that I wanted to use in the layout. I cropped 2 of them down just a little bit and then I cropped down the third one so that it measures 3" square. I then used 2 sheets of the pink textured cardstock and 1 sheet of the white textured cardstock from the Colorbok Deluxed Textured Cardstock pad that has 50 sheets in it from Scrapbuck and it only costs $6.00 to triple mat all three photos. The inner mat is pink, the middle one is white and the outer one is pink and I left an 1/8" border around each mat. I used double sided tape to mat them all and to apply them to my scrapbooking page.

I had a sheet of pink vellum in my stash and I cut the vellum on the diagonal and then placed the triangle of vellum onto my layout running from the top right down to the bottom left. I used their double sided tap to attach the vellum to my page and was pleasantly surprised that you can't see the tape underneath the vellum, yeah!!! I then cut six squares from the pink vellum that was leftover and each square measures 2 1/2" and then I cut each little square on the diagonal to make vellum photo corners for each of the three photos. Again, I used their double sided tape to adhere them onto the corners of each photo. I then took the tiny self-adhesive pink rhinestones and placed one in each corner on each photo to add a little Princess "bling" to the layout.
For my page title I simply used my Cricut on the #1 size setting and cut out the letters CUTIE from medium pink textured cardstock and then did the shadow setting and cut the same letters out of white textured cardstock (cardstock from the Colorbok Deluxe Textured Cardstock pad). I ran all the letters through my Xyron sticker maker to apply adhesive to the backsides and layered them together. I used my glue pen to glue them onto my layout.

I would personally like to thank Scrapbuck for allowing me to do a product review for their company and for hosting a giveaway here on the Passionate About Crafting Blog.

Disclaimer: Shelly Hill has personally reviewed the product listed above. Shelly has not received any monetary compensation for her review. Shelly did receive a free product to try out so she could evaluate and use it for her review. Her thoughts & opinions in this review are unbiased & honest and your opinions may differ. The Passionate About Crafting Blog is not responsible for delivery/shipping of giveaway items won from this blog nor are we responsible for mis-use or injury caused by items won from this blog.

Primitive Easter Goodies - Rabbits Giveaway By The Rusty Thimble!

I know several of my blog readers just love Primitive and Country crafts just like I do...so I wanted to give you a head's up about a fantastic giveaway over on The Rusty Thimble 2 blog.

As you can see from these 2 prize photo's, Brenda is one talented lady! As a crafter myself, I can only aspire to have 1/2 of the talent that she has...someday...I will hopefully get there.

Brenda is giving away 2 Primitive Bunnies...both are OOAK pieces of art! I think you will agree...they are just beautiful! Don't delay as this giveaway is only valid during the month of February so head on over to The Rusty Thimble Blog to enter today.



~ Good Luck ~

Shelly

Winner - Donna's Handpainted Sunflower Tote Bag!

I just got done validating all 61 entries into the giveaway and thanks to everyone who entered and a special thanks to Donna for sponsoring our giveaway!

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Comment #50 belongs to: Anita!

Anita, I will be emailing you in a few minutes! Congrats on your win!

Giveaway - Handpainted Sunflower Tote Bag By Donna's Mailboxes

Donna from Donna's Mailboxes and More! is sponsoring our first giveaway here on the Passionate About Crafting Blog! Thank You Donna!

If you are like me, you love to purchase handcrafted items for your home and/or to give as gifts. When it comes to handcrafted gifts, I look for unique items that are of high quality and the items that Donna makes...certainly are that!

Donna is an artist and she paints on a variety of surfaces. If you visit her Web Site Store you will find some hand painted mailboxes, ceramic planters, flower pots, canvas tote bags, garden decor, stepping stones, wind chimes, holiday decor and so much more!

I personally own some sea shell items made by Donna...I have a large planter and a serving tray....both of which sit proudly in my guest bedroom. I love beachy things!

Donna has graciously donated one of her beautiful hand painted grocery tote bags in a sunflower design. You can read about the tote bag ---> HERE She sells her hand painted tote bags for $15.99 which includes free shipping! What a great gift for someone on your gift-giving list!

Thank you Donna at Donna's Mailboxes and More! For Sponsoring Our Giveaway!

Rules & Guidelines: This giveaway is only open to USA and Canadian Residents. Please read the Terms of Service Policy here on my blog before entering the giveaway. I have not been compensated in any way for this giveaway. This giveaway will expire at midnight EST time on Jan. 31st, 2010. The winner will be notified via email and will have 72 hours to respond to that email before another winner will be selected. Please let your email address at the bottom of each giveaway/contest entry post that you make. Thanks!

Main Giveaway Entry - You must do this main entry before doing the bonus entries! Visit Donna's Mailboxes and More and let me know what your favorite product is from her store.

Please leave a separate comment for each entry! The winner will be selected by random.org after our giveaway has closed.



Thank You and Good Luck!

~ Shelly ~