The Big Announcement! Creative Bloggers Got Talent Contest!

On February 6th – I am kicking off a new contest – right here at Every Creative Endeavor called Creative Bloggers Got Talent! Starting next Monday everyone will link up their ideas to a linky party for a couple days for their chance to be a contestant. The party will close and voting by the public (so tell all your friends to come on over and vote you in!) will continue until Friday Night (6:00 MST).

20 winners will be announced on Saturday Morning.
The 20 winners would then have to create a new project and email it to me by the following Saturday (Midnight).

There are NO categories – so the sky is the limit every week – You can pull out all your tricks!

Week Two: I will post the winner projects on Tuesday morning and voting will open up once again. This time the voting will be anonymous - But this is where three guest judges come in – They will look over the 20 entries and send me 4 they like and 4 they want to “X.” The likes and “X’s” will add and subtract a selected amount of points from each project. The voting will close on Friday at 6:00 MST and everything will be calculated and then 15 winners will be announced on Saturday morning.

The Following Weeks are the same -

Week Three: Same as week two – look over 15 projects but only 10 winners would move on.
The judges pick 3 likes/dislikes.
Week Four: Same as week two – look over 10 projects but only 5 winners would move on.
The judges pick 2 likes/dislikes.
Week Five/Final Week – 5 winners compete for first, second and third.
Judges pick 1 like/dislike.

I have lined up some fabulous creative judges from your favorite blogs:

Oopsey Daisy
Lil' Luna
Positively Splendid
Creations by Kara
Not Just a Housewife
Lolly Jane
Whipperberry
Craftaholics Anonymous
The Crafting Chicks
Brown Paper Packages
Crap I've Made
I Heart Nap Time

I told you they were fabulous!

The top three winners will be announced on Saturday, April 7th . There will be three prize packages! I am still working out all the kinks but think about all my favorite companies that supply you with amazing products!

Lifestyles
Riley Blake
Cutting Edge Stencils
Cut It Out
Rust-Oleum
PLAID
Craft Vinyl

Way Cool!! I know, right!

So – are you ready for this fast paced- no limits -totally awesome- pull out all the stops contest ?
I am giving you a week to get your projects together and I hope to see you all here!
(oh and your submissions MUST be made BEFORE December 1st, 2011 – FYI!)

Oh and just a favor real quick – will you all help me spread the word!?

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10 Fun Valentine Ideas and EBCE Party #11

Last week we had so many great ideas linked up and we hit our goal of 60!!
Thank you so much to everyone who linked up and made it possible!
Let’s keep it going!!

Here are 10 fun Valentine ideas from last week!

Valentine Cards With Sewn Hearts * Valentine Doily Garland * Valentine Mantel

On the Hour Valentines *  Valentine Mailboxes * Valentine Bark

Valentine Wreath * Valentine Heart Centerpiece * Framed Love * Heart and Arrow Wreath 

If I featured you – remember to grab your “Featured” button on my sidebar!

Alright let’s see what ya got!!
Remember that all your links are entered to win $50 worth of vinyl from Craft Vinyl!

Linky Party Rules:
1. Please Link back to me!
2. No Etsy Stores, Shops or Giveaways.
3. Please link up new items that you haven’t before
4. Link up no more than TWO projects!!
5. Please, please spread some comment love on at least TWO others!
6. HAVE FUN!!

Oh One more thing – you may want to follow along on Facebook – I’ll be featuring there too!

This post sponsored by:

WhipperCafe–Just a fun little announcement!

Heather over at the darling blog – WhipperBerry – came up with a fabulous idea of having a little community where we could all get together, kick up our feet, grab a bag of OREOS and chit chat – so fun! You can read all the details here!

But the most fun part is that I get to be a Discussion Leader – I will be there two times I week talking about crafting and blogging!  I am so excited about it and hope that you will head on over and join me and other fabulous ladies - Today we are going to kick-off the WhipperCafe with some great gals who have some fun stuff to chat about…

• Amanda  from Every Creative Endeavor will be chatting about Crafting Trends that we Adore.
• Jocelyn from Inside BruCrew Life is going to be chatting about Baking with New Products.
• Jennn from My Fabuless Life will be chatting about Homemade Cleaning.
• Beth from Through the Eyes of the Mrs. will be gabbing about Class Valentine's Parties.
• Heather from WhipperBerry will be having just a general WELCOME to the party chat!!

Come say hello and join the great gab for a minute or two or grab a snack, kick back and let's get some serious chatting on.

Etched Glass Flutes

Do you guys LOVE Valentine's Day?I love my hubby all year but think it's fun to celebrate big and make cute little gifts for loved ones -
something a little more then just a simple Valentine - so I wanted to share with you the first part of my Valentine gifts this year -

 

I have seen etching all over the place - but have never done it.

To be honest - for some reason - it sorta scared me a little bit -

How do you etch glass??

Weird, right? Because etching this was SO EASY!!

 

Like - really super duper easy -

 

First - you need to grab your supplies -

You will need:

champagne flutes

Etching cream

vinyl

and a paint brush

 

I bought my champagne flutes at Ikea - they were $5 for 6! That works great for me because we hardly ever use them and when we do my 2 year old likes to be in on the action too!

I used my silhouette and cut out the vinyl - if you don't have a vinyl cutter you can use an exacto knife or a die cut machine to cut out your shape.

 

 

Peel the vinyl carefully off it's backing and stick it onto your flute.

 

 

Now we start the etching process -

 

 

Simply brush on a think layer of the etching cream - lightly brushing it on.

Wait for about 5 minutes...

 

 

... then wash it off. Peel off your vinyl and your done!

 

 

See! I told you it was easy!!

This project only took me about 10 minutes tops -

Quick and easy - but so cute!!

 

 

 

 

Mine say Husband and Wife - perfect for Valentine's Day -

but you can make your's say whatever you want.

 

His & Hers

Your names

Nicknames

 

What will your Glass Valentine Day Flutes say?

 

I am linked to these great parties!

Glitter Love Letters

I loved the NOEL sign that I did for Christmas – so much that I thought it would be fun to make a LOVE one for Valentine’s Day -
After all – red and glitter just scream LOVE!

First, I bought these letters from Hobby Lobby.

Then I hot glued them together where they touched.

Next, I used really short staples and my staple gun and stapled the letters together where they touch so I was nice and sturdy.

Then I sprayed it with a good coat of red paint. I just used what I had  in my paint supplies so you can use whatever red color you have too – and if you don’t have red spray paint – just bust out your toll paint and brush and brush on a coat – you just need a good red coat so no brown shows through the glitter -

Then I used Glitter Blast that  I found at Michaels -
I cannot tell you how much I LOVE this stuff!

Let the glitter dry and put it up for display!

I triple puffy {heart} la la la LOVE my LOVE!!  and the glitter just makes me happy!

I am linked to these great parties!