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141. Comment by Helen — December 5, 2009 @ 5:35 pm

December 4-11, 2009 GRAND PRIZE WINNER announced December 14, 2009.

Congrats Helen!

There are 12 ways to win and 12 blogs to visit to enter with a special way to help The Original Scrapbox give back!

Enter to win a NEW EZ View Desktop and an entry in the Grand Prize Giveaway for a NEW EZ View Craft Desk from www.theoriginalscrapbox.com for FREE! Your entries will help The Original Scrapbox GIVE 2 of these desks to charity!
Yes—these are two separate items. The desktop is not a desk, it is designed to sit on a table or desktop and the drawers can be pulled open from either end. Click here to see more pictures and details of the EZ View Desktop.

One of the newest products at The Original Scrapbox.com is the EZ View Craft Desk. This desk is designed with a clear, glass-like top and the dimensions are 50″W x 25″ D x 31″ H

The desk is big, with 4 drawers with built-in partitions for easy organizing on any home project. How would you
like one for FREE?

Enter this giveaway for a chance to win a FREE EZ View Desktop and for a chance to be put in the grand prize drawing for the EZ View Craft Desk. Contest ends December 10, 2009 at 11:59pm

The drawing for the EZ View Desktop will take place on December 12th.
The Grand Prize Drawing for the EZ View Craft Desk will take place on December 14, 2009.
How will The Original Scrapbox give back?

We will be tracking web traffic to The Original Scrapbox during the giveaway. When we reach 12,000 hits during our giveaway The Original Scrapbox will donate an EZ View Craft Desk to the Friends of Utah County Children’s Justice Center. This charity helps abused children.

‘Tis the season of giving and The Original Scrapbox wants to give back to a charity of your choosing. When we reach 25,000 hits during our giveaway they will also donate an EZ View Craft Desk to a charity nominated by you!!

Would you like to nominate a charity to receive this spectacular gift? Please send an email to RachellewritesATgmail.com with the name of your charitable organization as well as a description of what they do. We would like to choose a charity that will be able to utilize the EZ View Craft Desk in their program. Tell Rachelle why these products would benefit your charity.
Email the charity organization name, description, and contact person for receiving donations to
RachellewritesATgmail.com
Rachelle will review all nominations and The Original Scrapbox giving board will choose a recipient.

When you visit the website to choose your favorite product and enter the giveaway, you’ll help us get one step closer to our goal.

Enter to win:
You may earn 1 entry each for doing the following (Please make a separate comment for each entry-I’ll be checking.)Make sure your contact info is easily accessible so I can contact you if you win: No purchase necessary to enter. Entries that do not follow all of the entry requirements will not be considered.

*Note: the contest will be open to residents of UK and EU countries as well as the United States and Canada.
You must at least do entry #1 to be eligible for this contest. Visit the website–every hit counts toward our goal to help The Original Scrapbox give back for Christmas!

1. You must visit The Original Scrapbox website to be eligible for this contest. Choose your favorite product. Leave a comment here and tell me what your favorite is and how you would use this product.

10. Blog about this contest with a picture of the Workbox and the EZ View Craft Desk. If you have a private blog, it will not be eligible for this part of the contest. In your blog post, please use the tags: The Original Scrapbox, Scrapbook storage, Workbox, EZ View Craft Desk. Link back to me, http://lifeaslou.blogsome.com/ so your readers can enter.

There are 12 ways to win and 12 blogs to enter with a special way to help The Original Scrapbox give back!

There are 11 other awesome bloggers holding a contest to give away an EZ View Desktop (Yes, 12 EZ View Desktops will be given away—one from each blog!) and at each of these blogs you can also enter for the GRAND PRIZE– EZ VIEW Craft Desk. Stop by their blogs and enter for more chances to win:

Vanilla Joy

PriscillaStyles

Capadia Designs

Crafty Makes

Just Me,My Soldier and My Two Little Chicks

Random-Ish by Nichole

Auntie Thesis

Park City Girl

Lovely Little Handmades

The Queen of the Clan

Rachelle Writes

Get as many entries as you can by telling your friends about this contest and stay tuned to my blog for more incredible giveaways! Good luck and remember to follow the rules correctly to earn more entries in the contest.Contest ends December 11, 2009 at 11:59pm.

On December 12, 2009, I will announce the name of one winner of the EZ View Desktop available in black or vanilla color from my blog. That winner will then go on for the grand prize drawing of The EZ View Craft Desk. If you are the winner, I’ll email you and you must respond by December 13th or a new winner will be selected to go on for the Grand Prize.

Then on December 14, 2009, Rachellewrites will hold a drawing using Random.org to select one winner from the 12 entries to win The EZ View Craft Desk!That winner will need to contact her with their shipping info by December 16th or another winner will be randomly selected. Sorry, there is no Christmas delivery guarantee.

Hi Guys, Shutterfly is one of my newest blog sponsors. I love this company! I’ve checked out several photo book companies, but I am always very pleased with the high quality and ease of the Shutterfly system.

I have about a million digital photos sorted away in computer files that rarely get looked at. I can’t scrapbook every favorite shot I take, nor would I want to. And I never scrapbook chronologically. I also don’t keep regular photo albums because they take up so much space! I started doing Shutterfly books and I love them! Every year I go through and try to locate my favorites and put together a book that we keep in our living room. My children get the biggest kick out of these, and they are enjoyed frequently. Sometimes my kids even ask to read them as bedtime stories.

Here are some shots of my books. You can get these in a variety of sizes, even 12x12- which is great if you wnat to copy a scrapbook into photos.

You can have pretty pattered backgrounds behind your photos, or keep it plain white or black. I usually do white, as I like the photos to pop. I did a gift album for my mom’s birthday one year and chose gorgeous blue swirly papers as the background. I did that book’s photos in all black and white, and was very pleased with the final results (so was Mom).

These make the perfect gift for family members, and they are having a 20% off sale right now. They ship fast, so they will be ready for Christmas.

One of my favorite features on these books is the ability to do one book, and then have it copied to a second project. That makes it very easy to change the size of the book, the inscription, or to slightly change the photos. I also love that every book I’ve made is saved in my projects in my account. If the house burns down, all of my photos are right there, and I can re-order my albums. Since the projects save, I’ve already started my next book! I had a hard time finding all of the photos I wanted to use in my last one, so I am doing this next one slowly, adding a photo or two every time I get some great shots. When I am ready to order it, it will be ready for me!

My Scrapbook Nook October Kit.

(An oldie, but it makes me smile).

Hi there,

I am going through my collection of Quickutz dies and need to do some cleaning out. I have the following for sale at prices that are reduced from 30-65% off. Many are retired and very hard to find! If you are interested, please drop me an e-mail at everydaylou (AT) yahoo (DOT) com. These prices do not include shipping.

Alphabets:

Sugar Sweet $90
Biography: $130
Strawberry: $90
Chopsticks: $65-pending
Mademoiselle:$65
Finale Grand: $80
Abigail Grand: $80
Blossom Grand: $60
Miss Muffet: $35

Country Die Sets $15 each:

Netherlands
Canada
Sweden
Germany
Australia
France

All dies can be viewed at Quickutz.com .

Also, if you know anyone who scrapbooks who might be interested, please point them over here!

Thanks!

Also- we’re reaching the last days to enter the Workbox contest in my sidebar! Good luck!

I finally manged to scrap my Disney photos. I have issues when it comes to events, vacations, holidays, birthdays, anything falling outside the everyday moment photographs. (You know, all of those things people make an effort to scrapbook, to keep in chronological order, to commemorate all those events, etc- I don’t bother. I scrap what I feel like scrapping. There is no order whatsoever to my albums. There you go, my dirty, little scrap secret laid bare). I like pictures that share a feeling - not so much a story. So things like this tend to get put off, and frequently don’t even happen.

And when it comes to Disney photos, I’m not much of a character paper person.

I like to find papers that match and work with the photos- the Princess and Mickey Mouse papers are cute- but they tend to overwhelm photos.

So I was really pleased to find that this Audrey line from Lily Bee (where this album is being featured today) was such a great match. The black and whites with the bold and rich primary tones really do it for the Disneyland color palette.

Good for a Princess, good for a Mouse. No cheesy characters aside from the people photographed.

I also used a BoBunny acrylic edgy album, Jenni Bowlin letter circles, American Crafts thickers, various ribbons, Zva Creative pearls. The tulle is all from Lily Bee flowers.

Thanks for looking!

You heard right. One of you could win this.

How would you like to own every crafter’s dream organizing system? The Workbox does it all for

Scrapbookers
Stampers
Cricut lovers (special place to store it)
Quilters
Artists
Anyone with a creative bug could fill this thing up!

The whole thing folds up, hides the mess, and then easily moves wherever you need it to go on wheels. This is a sturdy piece of furniture which will hold everything imaginable in a beautiful storage space.

The Original Scrapbox will give away ONE Workbox to a lucky qualifier. There will be 10 finalists selected from 10 different blogs to be entered in the final giveaway .

My finalist will also receive a Ribbon Box or ScrapMaBob- so even if you don’t win the grand prize (I’m totally rooting for a Life as Lou reader!) You still win a nifty little goodie of your choice!

Do you want to be a finalist in The Workbox Giveaway?

WELL DO YOU?????

EARN EXTRA ENTRIES

You may earn 1 extra entry each for doing the following (Please leave a comment for each thing you do): No purchase necessary to enter. Entries that do not follow all of the entry requirements will not be considered.

* Visit The Original Scrapbox website and choose your favorite product. Leave a comment here and tell me what your favorite is and why you would like this product.
*add Life As Lou to your list of favorite site son your website.
* Become a Facebook fan of The Original Scrapbox here.
* Facebook the contest and share the code for $100 off shipping: 100writes
* Tweet about this contest with link backs here and share the code for $100 off shipping:100writes (copy and paste http://lifeaslou.blogsome.com/ right into the text box).
* Comment on any non-contest post (must contribute to the conversation)
* Refer a friend to this contest, make sure they tell me who sent them
* Email 3 friends about this giveaway and CC me: everydaylouAT yahoo.com

RECEIVE 5 ENTRIES FOR THE FOLLOWING (Make note in your comment of each entry type you complete)

* Blog about this contest with a picture of the Workbox. If you have a private blog, it will not be eligible for this part of the contest. In your blog post, please use the tags: The Original Scrapbox, Scrapbook storage, Workbox.
* Blog about any other item offered from The Original Scrapbox and include this information word for word: Enter this code when you place your order to get $100 off your shipping: 100Writes

More ways to enter to qualify for the contest:

There are 9 other awesome bloggers holding a contest to get an entry for the Workbox Giveaway. Stop by their blogs and enter for more chances to win:

Make It and Love It

Vanilla Joy

Auntie Thesis

The Mommy Files

My Organized Chaos

PriscillaStyles

Cricut Christmas

Capadia Designs

Rachelle Writes

Get as many entries as you can by telling your friends about this contest and stay tuned to my blog for more incredible giveaways! Good luck and remember to follow the rules correctly to earn more entries in the contest.

I will announce the name of one person to go on for the grand prize drawing on October 10, 2009.

Then on October 12, 2009, the final drawing will be held using Random.org to select one winner from the 10 entries to win The Workbox!

I hope it is one of you!!!

GOOD LUCK!

P.S.) No, I wasn’t given one of these for holding the contest, because if I had been, I would be dead from the sheer joy and unable to type this post. I will be getting this rockin’ toy, which I will tell you all about once I’ve put it into action).

P.P.S.) the contest will be open to residents of UK and EU countries as well as the United States and Canada.