I am VERY excited to announce our first giveaway. Hopefully the first of many!
For our first giveaway, I am honored to be partnered up with Elizabeth Levi of Blue Chair Studio.
Elizabeth has lived a full and varied life. She grew up in Iowa, headed West for a while, became a wife, a mother, an artist and then the pendulum swung back, landing her back in Iowa after a long road of adventuring.
Elizabeth’s style is colorful and carefree. She finds inspiration in art supplies and found objects of every medium. Her philosophy is that people should not be so quick to judge themselves when they’re making art or to give up too soon on their creativity. She thinks an artist is “a person who is willing to put fear in their pocket while they waltz with mistakes and polka with problems, and then frame the mistakes that come out just right.” What a great attitude!
And so without further adieu, here is the info about our giveaway! Elizabeth has been kind enough to offer a set of SIX lovely handmade notecards (seen below). These are printed on 80-pound cardstock, then hand embellished with paint, paper, ephemera and Elizabeth’s adorable stylings. All the cards are blank on the inside, but have varied messages on the outside: Hello (2), Congratulations, Get Well, Thank You, and Happy Birthday. A nice selection of colored envelopes are included for mailing.
Hello Card from Blue Chair Studio
Here’s how to play:
The winner will be chosen by random number generation. You can get multiple entries to increase your chances of winning. The list is below. The deadline to enter is May 15, 2009 at 11:59PM (central time). The drawing will be announced the next day and posted here.
For your first chance to win, go visit the Blue Chair Studio shop, browse around to find your two favorite items, then come back and leave a comment telling which were your favorites and why. In addition to listing your two favorite items, if you also post in the comment field what your favorite bookGoddess is, Elizabeth will send that to you if you turn out to be the winner.
For FIVE additional chances to win, you can do any of the following. Do as many or as few as you like. Or none. These are completely OPTIONAL:
- Subscribe to my RSS feed and leave a comment saying you’ve done so
- Make a post on your own blog about the giveaway and put a link to A Passion for Letter Writing and Blue Chair Studio then comment that you’ve done so
- Tweet about the giveaway on Twitter with a link to this post and then leave a comment with your Twitter ID and that you’ve tweeted it.
- Add A Passion for Letter Writing to your blogroll and leave a comment with your web address
- Make a purchase at Blue Chair Studio between now and the contest deadline and post a comment telling me what you’ve ordered. (One additional chance for each $10 spent.)
IMPORTANT: Please leave separate comments for each of the items you do because that’s how I’m keeping track of entries!
So, you can have up to a total of SIX chances to win. Good luck, everyone and enjoy. Whoever wins this one is LUCKY! The cards are so pretty and colorful. Really lovely.
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My two favorite cards are the Happy Birthday card because of the instructions and the The great thing about you card because of the stamp on the front and the translucent envelope. My favorite bookgoddess is June Kaneko.
What a beautiful and fun shop Blue Chair Studio is! I browsed around, and my favorite items are:
1. “The Great Thing About You” art card because that is such a great sentiment!
2. The “Invisible Sun” mixed media art because it’s just a cool piece.
And, my favorite bookGoddess is “Deena MacRae: An Outlander Bookmark” because she is a great Goddess and my sister’s name is Deena.
Thanks, Wendy, for sharing this shop with us!
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Fantastic shop! I love the book goddesses, and ZinGara is my favorite gal. True Kubah is also wonderful with her peaceful bohemian style.
This is so nice of you! How exciting … and Ms. Levi’s work is fabulous!
My two favorite pieces are: 1) Invisible Sun … it is a feast for the eye, full of color and interesting shapes. I get lost in it. 2) Two Columns … the colors and shapes remind me of the forest. It’s serene and comforting!
All of the book goddesses are beautiful … it’s so hard to choose just one. Connie Kumar does speak to me, though, with her calm expression … somewhat like Kuan Yin … suggesting inner peace.
I’ve got to bookmark this shop … I see some potential gifts there!
Thanks!
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I love the bookgoddesses and the gorgeous birthday cards
My favorite goddess is
Bao Hannah
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I love the art cards, I am always looking for unique cards to send people and the cards at blue chair are just my style. My favorite BG is Allegro Vivacci – a bookGoddess on the wild side. She is so much fun, but I think she will keep me from reading my book. LOL.
I love “A Letter” and “ARTCard-Japanese” because of the wonderful use of negative space and excellent contrasts. What a wonderful shop!
Adding “Passion For Letter Writing” to my blogroll.
okay….first of all, what wonderful bookmarks and cards are in that shop!! I looked about and really love the birthday card with the cake on it and the Love is the glue art card…so fun!! I will add you to my blog roll…you know where i am….
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Jean Zoss, I’m adding this extra comment for you since you did the blogroll. I need each “chance” entry on a separate comment for the random number generator thing.
So, consider this your additional entry!
Also… everyone don’t forget to post your favorite bookGoddess in case you’re chosen to win!
Everything is so colorful and interesting, it’s hard to choose. But since I must, I’ll go with the Japanese Lanterns card, very dramatic, and the Love Is The Crazy Glue card because of the sentiment. Favorite book goddess: Bailey Ree. She has great hair. Honorable mention to the Happy Fun Earflap hat, if I was younger would love to wear it.
Invisible Sun and the Popcorn art card! I love mixed media and Blue Chair does it so well! I get so many people commenting on the Blue Chair piece in my living room!
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@espartostudio sent a tweet out! I hope you get a lot of entries! This is fun.. I want to play!
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I love the way she designed her collages. Thanks for hosting this giveaway! I love your website and I’ve already twittered and shared it on FB. I don’t know if anyone else bookmarked it but I did. I check it every so often.
I admire what you do with this website.
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I can’t decide between the 6-pack of cards and the “Thinking of You” set.
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Very lovely designs.
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I’m pleased to announce my favorite cards:
1. Love is the Glue – Such a simple and super sweet sentiment (how’s that sentence for alliteration!)
2. I Checked the Want Ads – I love looking at card and knowing how good they’ll make someone else feel. This is one of those!
My Kindred Goddess: Ivy Zhou You –I can honestly say I’ve never had a bookmark that watched over me. This one would. She looks enlightened and serene—as would anyone who is reading.
Okay, so Passion for Letter Writing is already part of my blog roll. I’ll blog about the giveaway momentarily AND I’ll tweet about it soon. Will let you know when I do. Thanks Wendy!
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Thank you for hosting this! “Island News ARTcard” is my very favorite of all the wonderful cards.
And I also love”flowers of love ARTcard.”
And my favorite bookGoddess is True Kubah because she reminds me of a book written by a favorite author… Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues… though that is one of my least favorite of his books, it is still wonderful).
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I am glad there is sort of a while before the deadline, because I’ve been too swamped to look at everything. I am so excited about this! I hope to get more than one entry in before the 15th. Although I admit, the one about adding to my feedreader — well, I like checking A Passion for Letter Writing really often and if I’ve added it it takes the fun out of checking by!
Oh man. I really like ARTcard P2-1. My favorite colors. And The Great Thing About You really makes me smile. What great cards. I need to learn to make things like that!
My favorite bookGODDESS is Meiko Math. Outside of the norm and likes math!
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What beautiful artwork. My two favorites were, 3 Gold Circles, I loved how modern looking it was and the color combos of Gold, blakc and red, secondly I loved June Kankeo bookmark, I just loved the Tigers eye, it also happens to be my favorite bookGoddess
My fave Book Goddess is ieldikko – a bookGoddess for your book
and my other 2 faves from the site are:
Thinking of you Card
Happy Birthday Card
I totally signed up for a Twitter account to link to this. Also that I wanted one. https://twitter.com/syntaxoflife/status/1746697640
My favorite items are definitly all the bookgoddesses!
Actually, I love the ‘BELIEVE Pocket-Pillow’ and the ‘True Kubah’ bookgoddess, as it is she’s also my favorite one. <3 Much love to the creative person behind this loveliness.
my 2 favorite items are the Hello handmade cards and the Happy birthday handmade cards because they are so detailed, cute and so useful, not like your ordinary store bought card! My favorite bookgoddess is Deena Macrae!! how cool!
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My two favorite items:
1) Happy FUN ear flap hat. Love the colors, and it looks so soft and warm!
2) Party Hats ARTcard. Very festive and shiny!
My favorite bookGODDESS is Zelda Zee.
Thanks for offering this giveaway!
Just tweeted about your giveway! My Twitter ID: eclecticperson
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My two favorite items are 1) I Checked the Want Ads… card and 2) LOVE is the glue card. These are faves because the sayings on them are so cute and original! I can see giving these to my husband and making him smile
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This is my kind of shop! I love these one of a kind items! I would be proud to own any of them. My 2 fav items are -The art cards “Love is the glue” and “Kimono.”Why- because they are pretty, unique and the colors are awsome!My friends would be glad to get one in the mail!My fav Goddess- Piper sky. Thanks
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1. “the great things about you” card
2. “a letter”
those are the items of my desire
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Finally posted about the contest! Linking it to this comment. Hopefully soon I’ll also set up a blogroll and get that one done, but if not, I’ve got a few entries for those lovely cards in.
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The store is exquisite and my two favorite items are-’ BOOKmark named Zelda Bao ‘ because zelda sounds just like me(’Don’t let her bright colors mislead you, she is modest and never a snob – she will happily, joyfully, even gleefully embark with you upon any reading adventure you care to name’) and ‘HapPy BiRthdAy card’ because my boyfriend’s birthday is coming soon and he loves anything handmade.
You are number one on my blogroll!
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I just love all the notecards!!! They are so vibrant and fun!
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My favorites are cards -
“I Checked the Want Ads” &
“The Great Thing About You”.
My favorite bookGoddess is Ieldikko.
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I liked the card “the great thing about you is that…” it seems like the perfect father´s day card or anniversary card. i would love to give it to my husband. I loved the Deena MacRae – an Outlander bookmark book goddess it kinda reminds me of my daughter.
Lots of fun items in her shop. My favs are the Zelda Zee bookmark (I love all the bookmarks but this one especially made me smile) and also the June Kankeo bookmark (because I have a thing for blue hair!) and the handmade cards are very cool, too.
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My favorite items: Invisible Sun – original mixed media art and Meiko Math – a bookGoddess for your book.
My favorite book goddess is the Meiko Math!
Maggie Loeffelholz – a bookGoddess
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Subscribed; Book Goddess: Adia Jane (wow she is beautiful), ‘The great thing about you’ and ‘P2-4′
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