Melissa Samuels Gift Certificate Giveaway!

Hello Everyone!

(Can you tell I'm excited!)

As I've been telling you in previous posts,

something Special was coming up on my blog,

and today is the day!

I'm so thrilled and pleased to be

co-hosting my very first

Gift Certificate Giveaway!

This has been in the works for the past

few weeks, and I don't know how I've

managed to keep it a secret, (grin)!

I'd like to present, (drumroll please),

(ok, so Oliver Howard isn't very good on the drum,

much better at barking:)

As one of my favourite things to do here on my blog

I'd like to give a 'Shout Out' to 

Melissa Samuels

'The Art of Scrapbooking'

Shop and Blog

who is now a 

Proud Distributor 

of one of my

Favourite Stamp Product Lines

'La Blanche' Stamps

(This is a picture of some of the 

La BlancheStamps 

I have in my personal collection:)

On Melissa's Shop Page

www.melissasamuels.net

(Link in my Favourite's Listing)

Melissa has this wonderful 

La Blanche Demo from

CHA Summer 2011

That absolutely grabbed my attention!

At CHA Melissa became a New Distributor

for the Entire La Blanche Stamp Product Line

in the U.S. and has brought in for her new

product line in her shop, 

so many of this years new stamps

from La Blanche!

So here's the 

Gift Certificate Giveaway

requirements:)

First: To enter into the Giveaway please

sign on as a 'Google Follower'

here on my blog at

then leave a 

'Comment' here on this Blog Post

telling me you've entered the

Giveaway 

then

Please go to 

Melissa Samuels Blog 

(Link in Favourite's Listing)

And sign on Melissa's Blog as a

'Google' Follower and

leave a 'Comment' on her 

La Blanche Page Blog Post

for your chance to Win a Free 

La Blanche Stamp from Melissa, and

where Melissa can show you 

examples and give you information

about this wonderful Stamp Product Line!

 Then 

You have officially entered in the

Gift Certificate Giveaway

to win a $25 Gift Certificate to

Melissa Samuels Shop!

I will be running the Giveaway

until September 2, 2011

and will announce the 

'Winner'

of the $25 Gift Certificate to

Melissa's Shop on that Friday!

I will then post who the Winner is and

ask you to email me your email address

so I can send your $25 Gift Certificate to you:)

Based on the wonderful Video that

Melissa has on her Shop Page that

she made from the CHA Convention

Summer 2011

And, Melissa's wonderful Talent with

Cards, Scrapbooking, and Journal Making,

I decided to post an example of one

of my projects, using the techniques

I learned from Melissa's Video that

would be a little different from the

normal use of the stamps.

In a previous blog post I showed you 

some wonderful wood cigar boxes that

had been gifted to me from dear friends:)

Well since that Blog post, I've looked at

this box, and came up with this.....

Now you're wondering...

what does this have to do with the 

La Blanche Stamps...well

The inside of the box is lined with

Stamped Images from my collection of the

La Blanche Stamps

and using the wonderful technique of using

UTEE to highlight the image with also

the use of Tim Holtz 'Distress Inks' by Ranger

This is what I came up with as an example:)

I love the texturing that using the UTEE

(Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel)

produces!

And the crisp colours that jump out at you with

these great detailed stamps!

The top of the box, using Tim Holtz 'Fragments'

I used many of my other collection of stamps

(also their Companies are listed in my Favourites Listing)

and hand inked and painted using 

Water-Soluble Crayons then pasted the images

to the bottom of the Fragments using 

Inkssentials 'Glossy Accents'.

I will say, the idea for the top of this box came

from Tim Holtz blog, where he created this

layered use of the Fragments:)

(Thanks Mr. Tim)

Using some of my other Favourite Embellishments

I inked, stamped, and used the tissue transfer

technique to create the 'labels'

And used the La Blanche Stamps again

using the UTEE to create a textured label 

for the sides of the cigar box.

So I hope you'll take the time to enter and

pass on the word to your friends,

into my First Giveaway!

And hope you'll take the time to go

to Melissa Samuels Blog and Shop

and watch her wonderful CHA Video!

Cheers!

(And have a great Weekend!)

Enjoy!