Sponsor Giveaways | Close To My Heart, Vicki Boutin

GIVEAWAY | 10 people will receive the Dotty for You exclusive paper packet from Close To My Heart. Please note that this giveaway is only open to residents of the US and Canada.

Close To My Heart is giving away 10 Dotty for You paper packets, featuring their exclusive National Scrapbooking Month patterned paper, Dotty for You! The trendy patterns on the front of the papers coordinate perfectly with the dots on the reverse side, giving you lots of options for crafting colorful layouts, cards, and other projects. Dotty for You includes 24 specially designed, coordinating B&T Duos® sheets (2 each of 12 patterns) and an artwork idea insert to get your creative juices flowing.

Each paper packet has a retail value of $19.95, but 10 lucky winners will get their Dotty for You paper packet FREE and shipped to right to their door! Please note that this giveaway is only open to residents of the US and Canada.

Close To My Heart is dedicated to showing you how to celebrate relationships through discovering your creativity, to preserve and share the moments that matter most. For more information about Close To My Heart, visit www.closetomyheart.com.

GIVEAWAY | Two people will win a signed copy of Vicki Boutin’s new book Creative Foundations: 40 Scrapbook and Mixed-Media Techniques to Build Your Artistic Toolbox and two more people will win a set of Vicki’s new Creative Foundations stamps from Stamping Bella.

Internationally recognized artist and teacher Vicki Boutin takes all the mystery out of those scrapbook and mixed-media techniques you thought you could never do! She''ll be with you every step of the way as you learn to paint, stamp, emboss and burnish your way to creating beautiful, unique and individual art.

In Creative Foundations you''ll find:

• 40 step-by-step demonstrations for easy, fun, messy, funky, innovative and customizable techniques for creating backgrounds, textures, supplements and embellishments.


• 40 finished single-technique pieces of art and an additional 16 gallery pieces created by Vicki using a "recipe" of two to five separate techniques layered together.


• 24 more exciting and inspiring gallery pieces created by powerhouse contributors, including Rhonna Farrer, Wendy Vecchi, Kelly Purkey and others.

So gather your arts and crafts supplies, choose your inspiration and get down to it! Whether you''re making scrapbook pages, cards, wall art, décor or something else entirely, with these Creative Foundations, you''ll find that the possibilities are endless.

Visit Vicki’s blog @ http://vickiboutin.typepad.com

Have you seen Vicki’s new stamps “Creative Foundations” from Stamping Bella?  Great for layering, art jouranling, cards and scrapbooking!

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