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Free Shop for Life Giveaway on Handmade Artists

Timothy Adam — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 02:48:47 +0000

Free Shop for Life Giveaway on Handmade Artists’

Handmade Artists’ (HA) has been kind enough to offer a free shop for life giveaway to our Handmadeology members. The venue has been around for 3 years as a forum added a shop 2 years ago. The site only allows handmade goods by the artists, no resellers or mass produced sellers are allowed. HA was created by a husband and wife team, Kimberly and Andrew Kitchen. They started selling on Etsy in 2006 and hung around for a couple of years until the resellers got the best of Etsy and decided to leave and start their own venture for handmade artists only. Thus HA was born and they have never looked back. The site keeps a simple fee structure of $5.00 a month or $50.00 a year, that’s it, no commissions or listing fees are charged. Although HA is small compared to their big brothers Etsy and Artfire, the site is up and coming and growing daily.

To enter the giveaway just leave a comment on this post and like, tweet or pin this post, the winner will be picked in one week on 10/13/2012

Here are a couple of excerpts from members on Handmade Artists’, they’ll be able to tell you what is going on over there better than me.

Nici Laskin’s Jewelry and Art Says

Selling handmade art and jewelry online is not for the faint of heart. Considering the plethora of websites available, numerous competing philosophies, and competition between small artists and big resellers, finding yourself lost with no views and sales is almost inevitable. Handmade Artist removes the first big hurdle, the dread resellers, and takes a very personal approach in getting to know the sellers and their products. Soon after creating an account on Handmade Artist, the seller will get to know the proprietors and developers of Handmade by name, Kimberly and Andrew, and have a chance to interact with them in the forums. With a New England style town meeting on Thursdays, everyone’s voice can be heard regarding business topics and improving the site.

Regardless of which listing sites you use, promoting your online store gives you traffic, sales, and helps to spread the word. Kimberly and Andrew will use every tool available to add and promote your listings in Facebook, Newsletters, Plurk, Stumble, Twitter, and many other social networking sites. In the 6 months that we have been on Handmade, we have had recorded 45 sales, but more importantly many of the buyers have returned on multiple occasions and purchased custom products directly from us. If we had the time to participate in Kimberly’s weekly Facebook rounds and special promotions, I am positive that our success would be even better.

Reef Botanicals Says

I’ve been a member of Handmade Artists since before there was a shop, and I’ll never leave. Not only the owners, but also the community members are generous and share one single agenda: promoting handmade.

So when the shop opened, I knew I needed one despite also having a stand-alone. I’ve had quite a few sales. The originals, the first, were through my own marketing efforts, but the additional efforts of the HA administration and other members have since brought me sales from people who just found me here, which has been really exciting. It does take some time and effort, like anything else worthwhile, but it happens.

Handmade Artists is going places. And I plan to go with it.

Blue Highways Says

I opened my shop, Blue Highways Books, back in June 2011 and I’ve never doubted my decision one single day. From the ease of setting up shop to the family-like, fun, drama free vibe in the forum it has and continues to be a sheer pleasure to be part of.

The site owners, Andrew and Kimberly are champions for all things handmade and their vigilance in both keeping the venue handmade only to their tireless efforts in promoting all shops equally is refreshing and encouraging (I’ve got a shop on Etsy so I do know the ugly other side!). I will add, they maintain a constant presence and are very quick to answer any questions and very receptive to suggestions and feedback. I’ve had about 50 sales, not including lots of custom work, and many have been a direct result of their Tweets, Facebook, Pinterest pins just to name a few of the sites they shamelessly plug their vendors on!

Traffic and sales continue to grow steadily and for a flat $5 a month – can you beat that for the exposure alone?? I think not. My shingle will remain hung there for as long as I have the love of making books in my heart and I can still wield a binding needle!

IKnitQuiltSew Says

As an artist, I experimented with a few selling platforms. None of them had the commaraderie I was seeking. Then I found HandmadeArtists. The fact that their shop platform is easy to navigate both as a buyer and seller, and that the layout is superb, is almost secondary to the sense of community, support, promotion and friendship within the HandmadeArtists community as a whole. Many of my sales through this venue are received only because HandmadeArtists allows and encourages direct communication with buyers. It’s a flat $5 per month (no listing fees; no final value fees), but the intangible values are priceless!

Remember to comment on this post and like, tweet, or pin this post and you’ll be automatically entered in to win a free shop for life on Handmade Artist’!!

Good luck…..

!Last Chance! The Attic Light GIVEAWAY! {$30 Gift Card to Target}

Timothy Adam — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:37:34 +0000

The Attic Light GIVEAWAY! {$30 Gift Card to Target}

The Attic Light is an online venue where we showcase unique handmade items at privileged-membership savings. Our goal is to bridge the gap between your items and interested buyers. In doing so, this will bring more exposure to your shop and also bring the recognition you deserve.

When you think of all those treasures, hidden in that space below your roof you realize the purpose of The Attic Light. It is there to shed a brilliant beam of light, and guide you to the box that contains that unique item you may have not known was there.

At The Attic Light, you will be able to enjoy these unique handmade items at fabulous discounted prices. You will be making a difference in the lives of a small business, the weekend crafter, and the soccer mom of four that somehow finds time to create a beautiful piece of jewelry for someone to enjoy.

If you’re interested in having your shop or products featured on The Attic Light, fill out a vendor application HERE

All you need to do to enter the GIVEAWAY for the $30 Gift Card to Target is….

First Entry: Visit The Attic Light and sign up to receive their emails: theatticlight.com {1 entry, required}

Additional Entries

Fan The Attic Light on Facebook: {1 entry}
Follow The Attic Light on Twitter: {1 entry}
{1 entry} for each of the following that you do to spread the word about this giveaway: tweet, blog, or FB status

**Leave a separate comment on this post with your email address or a way for us to contact you for EACH entry** {required}

Open to USA residents only

Winner will be randomly selected using Random.org.

This giveaway ends on the 10th of February.

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May Bead Trends Giveaway!

Lori Bergmann — Fri, 27 May 2011 10:34:21 +0000

May Bead Trends Giveaway!

OOPS! I can’t believe I almost totally forgot to do this before the month ended?! The good news is that I was honored to be included in the May 2011 issue of Bead Trends magazine. The theme for this issue is “Botanical Inspirations” and you know how much that is so right up my alley! Here is the necklace they featured, including lampwork beads that I created using rose murrini that I made myself—I love how they turned out looking just like real peonies!

Even more good news is that they sent me an extra copy and I thought it would be a great time to offer it as a Spring Giveaway! (Do I detect a rousing cyber chorus of “Hooray!!!”?) If you’d like a chance to get this wonderful new issue in your hot little hands, all you have to do it leave a comment after this post, letting me know what your favorite Spring flower is. That’s it—no other hoops to jump through to qualify! Of course, if you feel like adding my blog to your Follower list, or “liking” my Facebook fan page, that would be wonderful as well! ;-D

*** You have until this Monday, May 30th to enter. I will draw the winning name by Random Number Generator on Tuesday, May 31st and announce the winner. ***

Even better news than this?! You can also get a second chance to win this prize! The Fire Divas have a special eBay auction HERE this week on a collection of their beads and 100% of the proceeds will go to the Beads of Courage organization (please see my previous post for more info). If you would like to bid on this auction, or send a monetary or bead donation directly to them, you can leave another comment letting me know you did so. (I feel another “Yay!” coming on, people!)

I hope you all have a special Memorial Day weekend too! *Ü*

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Handmade Giveaway- Premade Premium Etsy Shop Set

Meagan Visser — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:36:29 +0000

If so, then this giveaway is for you!

Yesterday, Sara Rubendall of Sara Rubendall Designs wrote a fantastic tutorial on how to create a custom banner for your shop or blog for free using Aviary.com.

What’s Up For Grabs

Your choice of one of Sara’s Premade Premium Etsy Shop Sets valued at $25.00! Below is just a glimpse of what she has to offer.

Premade Premium Etsy Shop Sets by Sara Rubendall Designs on Etsy

This shop set includes:

Banner

Sale Banner

Vacation Banner

Avatar

Sale Avatar

Reserved Listing Graphic

Customer Appreciation Graphic

Vacation Graphic

2 Sided Business Card Design(jpg file, you print)

Return address label or round sticker(jpg file, you print)

Customizable information:

Text

Font

Font Color

Want Even More?

You always have the option of adding to this free package if you wish. Sara offers Mix to Match Items to go along with your custom shop graphics. You can find those here.

Premade Premium Etsy Shop Sets by Sara Rubendall Designs on Etsy

Giveaway Details

It will be your responsibility as the winner to contact Sara at her Etsy shop in order to give her the information she needs to customize your shop set {shop name, tagline, URL, colors, fonts, etc.}. Once your set is finished, it will be emailed to you directly.

How to Enter:

Head over to MeaganVisser.com for all the details

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Creative Etsy Success Package Giveaway

Timothy Adam — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:21:02 +0000

We are helping Unanimous Craft celebrate their one year anniversary . There are some amazing prizes to be won during the next month . One of these awesome prizes is our very own Creative Etsy Success Package.

To enter head over to Unanimous Craft and fulfill the requirements HERE.

What is Unanimous Craft?

Glad you asked!

From Unanimous Craft:

The question I am asked most often is, “What the heck is Unanimous Craft?” My best short answer is that Unanimous Craft is like Yelp for the crafty community.

I thought I would identify some tangible things you can do with Unanimous Craft to help your small business (and a few things you and your small business can do to help Unanimous Craft.)

THE BASICS
What is Unanimous Craft?
Unanimous Craft is a directory of resources for indie business. People can create listings for resources that they find useful — and that they think others would find useful. These resources are tagged and organized on Unanimous Craft to make them easy to find and discover.

What are Resources?
Resources can be lots of things: a video tutorial, an excellent blog post, websites for suppliers, indie shops, your own Etsy shop, your blog and your friend’s blog. Anything that is related to the crafty community or that might help you run a small indie business.

WHAT CAN UNANIMOUS CRAFT DO FOR YOU?

Increase Your Google Ranking
You know how people are always telling you that you need inbound links – Unanimous Craft is great for that. What’s an inbound link? Any link from an external website that points to your website. Inbound links help to increase your ranking in Google searches. If you have a bunch of credible sites linking to your site – you move up in the search result list.

I am personally using Unanimous Craft, and I can say that this is an amazing way to grow your creative business, and get Google to notice you faster. It is simple to set up and I have added Unanimous Craft to my daily routine.

Ok… Go enter to win our ebook!! Good luck!

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Win a Custom Etsy Banner and Avatar

Guest — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:57:07 +0000

Hi, I’m Karen and I’m opening a new Etsy shop

You can choose any style you like and it can include custom digital images, custom hand-painted images or your own images and photos~ it really is fully custom!

*Enter for free at http://www.KarenCreftorArt.com/win

Closing date: Thursday 10th March 2011 23:59 GMT Entries after this date will not be counted.

Not Just for Etsy! The banner can also be used for Artfire, emails and web headers.

Can include digital or hand-painted art or your own images

Make your Shop stand out from the crowd

Already have a banner? What about one for an upcoming occasion to remind your customers!

Browse my Portfolio to see examples of previous work…

Testimonials:

‘OMGosh! That is so Cute, Fab and Gorgeous!’

‘Holy Moly! That is Fast and Beautiful! It’s Hard to say which one I Loved Best!’

ENTER NOW* at http://www.KarenCreftorArt.com/win

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Bead Unique Giveaway

Lori Bergmann — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:26:36 +0000

I’ve been waiting impatiently for the past few months to let you in on a secret—I have a necklace design and “how-to” article featured in the Spring 2011 issue of Bead Unique magazine! I’m so excited, as this is my first article in this magazine and I’m hoping it’s the first of more to come in the future. This is one of my favorite magazines—not only because of the wide variety of jewelry designs that they show—but because they often feature artisan lampwork beads (which, as you know, is something near and dear to my heart!).

“Farfalla” (which means “butterfly” in Italian)
This is just a quick photo I took of my “Farfalla” necklace before I sent it off to the editors, but you can get a much better look in the actual magazine issue. I used my own lampwork glass beads made with silver leaf and hand-wrapped the links together with sterling silver Bali findings. My “how-to” article gives detailed instructions on how you can create my embossed Precious Metal Clay (PMC) butterly pendant that is the focal point of the necklace.

I also have a pair of earrings made with my Robin Egg glass beads and fabulous Vintaj brass findings in the “I Need More Earrings!” section. If you’d like to purchase the beads I used for either of these projects, I’m planning on listing them in my Etsy and ArtFire shops as soon as I return from the Craft and Hobby Association (CHA) Convention next week.

One of the perks of being published is that you get extra copies of the magazine, so I thought it would be fun to give one away to a lucky reader this week! So if you’d love to see all the other fresh ideas featured in this issue, all you have to do it leave a comment here, along with a way for me to easily contact you if you’re the winner. I’ll draw the winning name on Thursday morning, January 27th. Good luck! *Ü*

To enter to win leave your comment over on Ashlyn Design.

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Frosty Snowball Bead Giveaway

Lori Bergmann — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:16:18 +0000

Frosty Snowball Bead Giveaway

Last week, I reached my goal of making 100 sales from my Etsy shop! YAY!!! I made this goal a few months ago during Etsy Boot Camp, when my sales were around 73—and at the time, I thought it was just a fun dream to hit the big “100″ by the end of the year. But thank the Lord for wonderful customers who love sparkly glass and jewelry as much as I do!

So as a token of my appreciation, I’d like to celebrate by giving away a set of my fun and frosty glass Snowball beads to one lucky reader. I made them myself with my torch and they are so pretty and sparkly in person—they would make a fantastic jewelry design for the Winter season! All you have to do to enter is either one of these things:

• “Like” my Facebook Fan Page or
• “Heart” my Etsy shop as a Favorite

Then mention which one you did in a comment on my blog (http://loribergmann.blogspot.com/2010/12/two-reasons-to-celebrate.html). And if you’re in an especially appreciative mode, you could always do both (but just one entry total per person, please). If you’ve already done both options before, just let me know and you’re still more than welcome to enter—after all, you’re one the reasons for the celebration! Please make sure to also leave a way for me to contact you.

This giveaway will run all week through this Saturday, December 18th and I will draw a name using the Random Number Generator on Sunday. Good luck and thank you for celebrating with me! *Ü*

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{{Giveaway}} Button up scarf

Timothy Adam — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:05:50 +0000

Enter to win a awesome button up scarf from AYCA. Head over to love stitched for all the details!

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Giveaway: $20 Gift Certificate from Seraphina Rose

Timothy Adam — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:26:31 +0000

Win $20 Gift Certificate from Seraphina Rose.

Get to know Jessica, the artist behind this cute and funky children clothing shop and you’ll learn a few things from the interview on yesterday’s post .

There are many ways to enter. Head over to Adore By Nat to enter to win.

Do you have a giveaway running right now? Post it HERE.

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Giveaway: Vector Cloud Photo Necklace

Timothy Adam — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:55:33 +0000

Win this one-of-kind laser-cut Photo Necklace!

This week’s giveaway is sponsored by VectorCloud, a design studio based in Queens, New York that focuses on laser engraved/cut products ranging from wearable items to home decors. Many of our products are made-to-order and crafted with attention to detail for you.

Get to know Amelia, the artist behind Vector Cloud. You’ll learn a few things from the interview on yesterday’s post .

There are many ways to enter. Please make sure you leave a separate comment for every entry.

Head over to Adore by Nat to enter to win:

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Custom Earring Giveaway

Timothy Adam — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:48:51 +0000

I am hosting a custom earring giveaway on my blog. The closing date is September 19, 2010 at 11:59pm. Entering is very simple! Just follow my blog and twitter, answer the question on my blog, and post a link to the giveaway on your twitter. Check it out!

Earring Giveaway

Thanks,

Jennifer Leeth

Grave at Art

Are you running a giveaway on your blog? Promote it HERE for FREE!

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Free Shop for Life Giveaway on Handmade Artists

!Last Chance! The Attic Light GIVEAWAY! {$30 Gift Card to Target}

May Bead Trends Giveaway!

May Bead Trends Giveaway!

Handmade Giveaway- Premade Premium Etsy Shop Set

If so, then this giveaway is for you! Yesterday, Sara Rubendall of Sara Rubendall Designs wrote a fantastic tutorial on how to create a custom banner for your shop or blog for free using Aviary.com.

What’s Up For Grabs

Premade Premium Etsy Shop Sets by Sara Rubendall Designs on Etsy

This shop set includes:

Customizable information:

Want Even More?

Premade Premium Etsy Shop Sets by Sara Rubendall Designs on Etsy

Giveaway Details

How to Enter:

Creative Etsy Success Package Giveaway

Win a Custom Etsy Banner and Avatar

Bead Unique Giveaway

Frosty Snowball Bead Giveaway

{{Giveaway}} Button up scarf

Giveaway: $20 Gift Certificate from Seraphina Rose

Win $20 Gift Certificate from Seraphina Rose.

Giveaway: Vector Cloud Photo Necklace

Custom Earring Giveaway

If so, then this giveaway is for you!

Yesterday, Sara Rubendall of Sara Rubendall Designs wrote a fantastic tutorial on how to create a custom banner for your shop or blog for free using Aviary.com.