The day has finally arrived to enter to win one of three enormous scrap retreat swag bags. Before we get to the details, let’s take a look at some more great goods!
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Have you gone digital yet? Then you’re going to love love LOVE these:
Polka Dot Pixels Digital Kits!
Frozen Kit, Circle of Friends Kit, Spin Brushes, and Amalgamation Borders.
Emily Abramson is the superstar creative behind Polka Dot Pixels digital scrapbooking found exclusively at Two Peas in a Bucket. I’m so excited to share her amazing designs. And with the sponsored kits for the swag bags, she has included discount coupons for 25% off any Polka Dot Pixel products from Two Peas! When you see how many products that applies to, you’ll be even more impressed!
Check out the Polka Dot Pixel blog, and follow on Facebook & Twitter.
Thank you Emily!
Like many old-school graphic designers, I have been fond of kraft paper for many years. It was a huge trend to follow in the early 90s thanks to designer Charles Anderson and French Paper Company. I dug up this old shot of the Christmas promotion I designed for my design firm back then that I sent out to clients and vendors, (which actually won an award from French Paper Company!) 
Now that I’ve moved more into crafting, I’m still very fond of same natural kraft material so easily available from Canvas Corp along with some other really cool natural canvas, burlap and other unique products. Here’s the great papers and embellishments that they sponsored for the swag bags:
Canvas Corp 12″ x 12″ Papers, Chalkstock Tags and Mini Clothespins!
Lovely designed papers from their black and kraft food collection featuring gourmet wording, recipe cards and cool kitchen graphics.
They included some great Halloween prints on white and cream, just in time as those photos are just coming out of most scrappers’ printers! They have some really great everyday patterns like my favorite, the orange and white dot reverse.
How brilliant are these Chalkstock tags with twine ties? And sweet mini clothespins, just the right size embellishement clips. There are so many lovely things being crafted with their products- you can see many of them on their Facebook page and the Canvas Corp blog. You can purchase Canvas Corp products on Scrapbook.com and Scrapjazz.com.
Thank you Canvas Corp!
If you haven’t been to the EK Success website lately, you really need to go. They have such quality brands and really sensational products. Their brand, Inkadinkado has a really nice selection of stamps and accessories, and here are a couple they sent for us!
Ink Lace Flourish Wood Stamp
and
Victorian Leaf Lace Wood Stamp
Their wood and rubber stamps are going to be fun to use not only for ink stamping- with such beautiful designs, but I’m looking forward to trying them out for embossing velvet, something you can’t do with acrylic stamps. You can find my velvet embossing projects here and here.
I was excited to bring some craft kits to the scrap retreat since scrapping the whole weekend can get a bit overwhelming if you don’t break it up a bit. The EK Success brand, Laliberi, has beautiful accessory project kits and so for the swag bags they sponsored:
Chiffon Chic Dark Flower Kit
and
Chiffon Chic Light Flower Kit
I think these would make wonderful holiday gift kits for tween & teen girls. They would also be good for them to have early enough to make accessories as gifts for their friends. Of course ladies of any age would love this kit as well as a flower accessories crafted from it.
One of the retreat scrappers used her kit to add a beautiful chiffon bloom to her scrapbook layout featuring her own teenage daughter.
Now we’re on to one of my favorite craft brands and one of my most important craft studio tools,
The Martha Stewart Crafts Scoring Board!
Martha Stewart Crafts have been an enormous gift to the crafting industry. So many high quality and beautifully engineered products, so little time. I was turned on to the Martha Stewart Crafts Scoring Board by my friend, professional stylist & crafter Suzonne Stirling some time ago when we were working on some product prototypes together. Now that I have the board I am constantly coming up with things to score! I think of all the years of my life designing and crafting that this would have been a Godsend. For creating accordion-folded prize ribbon rosettes the Martha Stewart Crafts Scoring Board is indispensable. If you do any paper crafting at all, you! need! this! board!
There is so much going on over at the EK Success Brands website and so much to be inspired by. Here are just a few necessary links for you to bookmark to keep up on all the amazing ideas, techniques, products and tools:
EK Success Brands Facebook, Twitter, Video Page, and the wonderfully creative community of The Spotted Canary.
Thank you EK Success!And THAT, my friends, is IT! Time to enter to win one of THREE Winter Scrapbook Retreat Sponsor Swag Bags full of everything from this week’s blog posts typed in bold pink type. I’m going to pick winners a little different than usual this time…TWO winners will be chosen randomly using Random.org and ONE winner will be chosen by me based on their entry comment! Please follow these directions closely so as not to be disqualified:
TO ENTER:
- Leave a comment on this post using 20 words or less. Yes, I plan to actually read each and every one, ambitious I know since the last swag bag giveaway received over 1000 entries. So twenty words, ok?! Less is fine, more is not. No rules on what to write, as long as it’s positive.
- Only ONE entry per person. If you mess up your entry and want to go back and correct it, please delete the first one to keep it fair for everyone! (If you’re having trouble doing that, email me and let me know the number of the comment that needs deleting and I’ll do it for you.)
- This particular giveaway is open to those living in the continental US only.
Entry to this giveaway is closed.
DEADLINE TO ENTER IS BY Noon (PST), Thursday, December 1, 2011. As soon as I finish reading all entries (a day or two later) and winners are chosen I will notify them and announce their names right HERE and on the JSIM Facebook page.
In case you missed any of the fabulous product, you can find them on Day 1, Day 2, Day3, Day4 and above.
CONGRATULATIONS TO:
#262 – colleen
#56 – Terri Roper
And the Cathe’s Choice winner goes to this very clever gal who clearly got my attention with her antics!
#363 – Katie
Katie says: Here’s my 20 word entry:
http://lemonjitters.blogspot.com/2011/11/dont-mind-me.html
(Nice job Katie!)
I have been anxiously waiting all week to enter this fantastic Swag bag! My three girls are crossing their fingers.
Your posts this week have kept me clicking away learning about all sorts of new products and websites! Thank you!
Wow! It’s like a craft-a-palooza in those bags! What fun!
Have 5 little ones 9 & under, crafting helps me keep my sanity! Would love to win!
It’s Day five and I’m so excited to enter the WSRSS giveaway. The prizes are fantastic!
WOO HOO! Thanks for the chance to win. Crossing my fingers. Learned tons from this site.
Thanks for a great giveaway! If I win I plan to share my stash with my new daughter-in-law. Fingers crossed!
Now wouldn’t this be the perfect pampering gift for a new mom
(due Dec. 4)
What a woderful collection of goodies!! Planning a wedding in April and they’d be a great addition to my diy projects
Holding my breath… keeeping fingers crossed..so totally excited by the possibilities of snagging a SPONSOR SWAG BAG. How awesome!
I share all my art goodies with our autism respite center when our son goes and I really enjoy seeing them take off with art.
Thank you for this amazing giveaway – and thanks for all the resources available on your website!
So much time & sweet-talking must have gone into collecting that swag gorgeousity! Your persuasive powers + generous sponsors = 3 lucky readers!
WOW! These are great tools and products to work with. Thanks so much for holding this terrific giveaway for us.
SHVFD Ladies’ Auxiliary will make great use of this goodie bag! The Aux Raux!
since moving around i have lost most of my crafting supplies, this would be a god send. thank you!
Cathe,
Thanks again for sharing your love of crafting with us and give us the opportunity to tap in to our creativity!!
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Every giver needs a receiver.
What a blessing to be yours!
Cathe – Wow! what great ideas, products and sites you’ve introduced us to. I’m an architect, but really love to craft, and you’ve given me such inspiration over the years. I love my Genesis Trimmer. Thank you!
The inspiration, the innovation and generosity of the blogs and their sponsors make the crafting community a daily joy.
What amazing generosity. These companies all inspire creativity. Winning would be a dream come true for any crafter!
Thanks for sharing all the great products this week! Lots of ideas for Christmas!
I have enjoyed reading about all of sponsors and visiting their websites. Thank you for the opportunity to win all of the fabulous goodies!
Wow. Winning all these wonderful goodies should keep me busy for a good long time! Thank you for the opportunity!
What a GREAT, generous giveaway!! I have greatly enjoyed reading your blog since finding it recently. Happy Holidays!!
Wow! Thanks for sharing, that is quite the stash :0)
Sometimes the simplest words are the best. Thank you and your sponsors!
Wonderful products-I’d love to try any of them out (especially at Christmas time). Great blog-I love to see what you come up with.
Just wow, so many great sponsors combined with your own generosity! Fingers crossed!
What lovely gifts! Thanks to all your sponsors! Have a wonderful holiday weekend!
These are all such fabulous products. Winning this would be better than winning the lottery!
My comment in a haiku:
If I won I’d score
a black Friday worthy deal
while chilling at home!
…to share with my new crafting friends. We donate our efforts to good causes and pass along anonymous surprises!
Quit job. Back to school.
Finished half. Out of money.
No jobs here. Sad Christmas.
Win swag? Gifts for others!
You. Rock.
My heart is fluttering after looking at all the great products! I was super excited to see Tim Holtz represented!
love love love cathe and her amazing bag of tricks. good luck everyone. may the swag be with you!!
What an amazing giveaway! Thank you for being so generous.
What a fabulous giveaway! Thanks for the chance, Cathe!
Thanks for sharing this with us! I have followed your blog for a while, and I just love your creativity!
You are so generous! So many free images and now this! Thank you for the chance to win.
All of these things look so much fun!
Roses are sometimes red,
Violets are sometimes blue,
Anything is possible in crafting
Thanks to Cathe and her sponsors too!
Fingers and toes are crossed. To win would be heaven. Thanks, Cathe and Sponsors, for the inspiration and the opportunities!
Great giveaway!!! Thank you for your generosity!
I never win anything so rarely bother entering much but these products are beautiful! *crosses fingers*
So many products I’m not familiar with! Thanks for the sneak peeks and a chance to win a sampling.
This is such a generous giveaway, I’d love to win and share it with my crafty friends and family.
Wow! That’s a lot of goodness! I would love to share with my sister! Fun, fun!!
I am overwhelmed with all of the wonderful products you have showcased…it has been feast for the eyes! I would love to be the lucky recipient! Pick me please random generator!
Hope I win! Thanks for having such a great web site full of wonderful ideas!
The best way to spread holiday cheer is singing loud for all to hear…
And having such and awesome giveaway!!
Winning these prizes would let me celebrate Christmas all year long while I have fun creating! Thank you so much!
It’s all amazing!!! Thank you for the chance to win!!
Winning would be bliss-tastic! Making my crafty heart jump with glee! Thanks!
This would sooooo satisfy my crafting addictions, need for new projects and ideas as well as a cute new bag!
Love the way all of us “crafty” people share! Love these products!
Thanks for this Black Friday Give Away. I would love to win this to get some new creative juices flowing.
Amazing!! Thank you for such a good giveaway!
Enjoy spending too much on Black Friday!
Simply amazing, Cathe! Thank you for the opportunity to learn about these things – as well as maybe to win them!
How generous you are! Thank you for sharing such a bounty. I’d pass some on to others.
Alas! I shout my name along with the gathering crowds… but who shall hear? Oh, random.org… don’t fail me now!
Cathe,
This is fun, thanks for being so kind!
Thanks for chance. Love your site!
Cathe, what an amazing bag of goodies! Thanks for introducing us to a wonderful group of products!!
Dear Cathe,
Thank you for your kindness in sharing your creativity and for the chance to win. Blessings to you!
Wow, great products – thanks Cathe! Thanks for all your inspirations.
These beautiful and innovative items would really enable a beginning crafter like myself to create quality crafts.
Once again, your generosity and creativity are AMAZING! Thanks for sharing!
gdyup!
Wonderful swag to create with and more to share! Thank you for this wonderful opportunity! For the winners, Christmas will come early this year!
Oh my, what a great site. Love looking at the products and techniques that are posted here. Am excited about the contest.
So excited for a chance to win this fabulous swag bag! Thank you for all you share…you inspire me!
What a great giveaway! I almost wouldn’t know what to do with all those cool things! Well, yes I would.
Drooling at beauty
All exquisite finery
Wonderful swag bag
Will Cathe pick me?
Heart wishes fervently “yes!”
Crossing my fingers
Wow! I think SWAG stands for Such Wondrous Abundant Generosity
A huge “thank you!” to your sponsors for their generosity, and thank you to you for compiling such deliciousness!
Generous girl, I promise to pay it forward and share mine. Thank you.
Hubby lost his job so my craft budget is zero and ideas abound!
oh cathe…how fabulous!
Such Swell Swag!!!!!!!
A fellow graphic designer, who looks forward to your posts, blogs and fabulous products!
Absolutely love your website! So many creative ideas … loved learning about all the fun companies sponsoring the giveaway. Thank you!!
Thanks for the inspiration all year, and lighting the way for all things new and awesome. Bright Holiday Wishes!
It was fun seeing all your SWAG goodies!
Winning would be a great way to kick off the holiday season! Thanks for all that you do to enspire and thanks to the wonderful sponsors!
This year has been the tightest of our marriage, yet the happiest our family has experienced.
The giveaway is amazing!! This would definitely be a fabulous Christmas gift! Thanks so much for the chance!
Your story about your family truly touched me – have a similar family situation. Thankful that God loves us. Prov 3:5
Best contest ever! Your blog and creativity are truly inspiring! I would be so fortunate to win! Thanks.
I love your projects and this swag give way is stunning. I need to come to the retreat next year.
Found your blog through Scout…glad I did! Love Scout bags!!! Thanks for the chance to win!!
Can’t think of a witty, STAND OUT comment, so just crossing my fingers for the random pick! LOL Thanks!
These are the best swag bags EVER! It is a great way to explore new tools and techniques.
I make about 90% of my gifts each Christmas and these swag bags would be so helpful in my efforts!
I just want to know how to get into your retreat! Looks AWESOME! Thanks so much.
It’s been fun enjoying the build-up to the big day! Thanks for all the inspiration and this fun giveaway!
Wow what wonderful items a winner surely could share the fun with a lot of friends so everyone could be happy too. Ha, ha..Thanks for sharing the great gift ideas.
Soaking up every bit of info posted…read all the links…fantastic give-away!!! Would LOVE to win one!!!
Thank you for the giveaway chance! Even if I don’t win, I have found some great new companies to shop!
Anticipation!!!! I would love to share this bountiful gift with my “Stay Inspired, Girls” group. Thank you for your generosity.
I LOVELOVE your blog – so enticing with the projects! This Giveaway stirs my creativity! TY VVV M!! D
winter swag/
offers retreat experience/and
opportunities for me to share
this bounty/giving thanks/
to you & sponsors
Life on the ranch is full of mud and testosterone. I need some girl stuff!
Scrapbooking with my daughter
Sharing memories
Creating memories
A special time for both of us!
Great package of product. You have such great inspiring posts. Thanks for a chance to win!!!
Just a grad student trying to remain sane through a creative outlet. Thanks for the chance to win!!
WOW! Those are some mighty creative & generous sponsors. Thanks for always being so inspiring. Love this blog!
WOOOT WOOOT!
WHAT A GIVEAWAY!
This SWAG BAG would surely complete my craft room.
What an awesome opportunity, THANK YOU so much Cathe!
Amazing stuff! Now I feel like a little kid in school raising my hand saying “Pick me! Pick me! Pleeeaaasse!”
This giveaway is AMAZING! So much stuff, I would definitely have to share with my scrapbooking friends. Thank you Cathe!
Reading your blog is the first thing I do each morning- right after pouring myself a humongous cup of coffee.
You do such amazing work, then for you to put together such an incredible give away? MARVELOUS! Thank you!
Love that this ‘swag’ encourages people to make Christmas presents, not just buy a gift and wrap it.
Well, you certainly outdid yourself on finding and sharing all of these wonderful goodies…the Martha Stewart scoring board came in handy for making treat boxes for my daughters class and I’ve already ordered the lace rubber stamps…never too early to get your supplies ready for Valentines Day!
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas season…you have already helped make mine brighter, not to mention easier!
What amazing, interesting items! Hoping to win so I can share with my friends. Thanks!
What wonderful swag! Your crafty friends are so lucky! Can’t wait to take Cathe Holden classes next year!!!
-Amy
WOW! This is just amazing! Thank you for all your hard work & THANK YOU to the awesome sponsors!
Rediscovering my creative side has filled me with joy. I double that joy by giving things I make to those I love.
It’s amazing, I remembered to put my name in for this Swag Bag Giveaway without leaving myself a note!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for offering this and for the always-amazing inspiration!
They say all you need is love. I need chocolate. And coffee. This swag bag would be pretty nice, too!
WOW! What a wonderful chance to win some GREAT crafty items! LUV & Thx for opportunity!
You are one amazing woman — doing so well on behalf of your readers and companies you work with. How nice to be you! (and how lucky it would be to be a winner!)
Simply Wanting All Goodies! Thanks, Cathe for introducing these great new items. I’m glad to have their sites bookmarked!
Would love making projects with my 2 young sons with all these goodies – crafting is in their blood!
I would be delighted if on my name you alighted!
This is a crafter’s Lottery-what a blessing it would be to win, so excited, even if I don’t win!
Fabulous- Wonderful- Generous- Creative!- Incredible- Inspiring- Warm- Friendly- Inventive- Expansive- Prolific- Clever—-a few reasons why I read your blog!
Lauren
This is the most amazing group of items I’ve ever seen in a giveaway. You are most generous!
Generosity of strangers met on line delights and nearly overwhelms me. My life is richer for finding them.
Your talent amazes me. Of course, you have all my dream items
in your SWAG bag! What an Inspiration! Thanks!
what a fantastic giveaway! I LOVE checking these companies out and getting crafty ideas.
Reading your posts this past week was like reading the Sears Wishbook every Christmas – or Wishbooking as mama called it.
SWAG: Seriously Wanting All Giveaways!
My brain is doing cartwheels thinking of all the sublime craftiness I could get into!
Wow! I want to be YOUR friend and join your winter scrapbook retreat! Haven’t seen a Swag Bag like this before!
Cathe, old buddy, old pal…chances to win are mighty slim, but GOOD GRIEF I hope I do. Awesome swag!!!
I have so enjoyed viewing products from these great vendors! You have opened up a whole new world for me!
Great stuff! I learned about so many new products. Look forward to trying them. Hope to win!
My shout out of thanks to you for creatively sharing ideas, products. I look forward to your 2012 posted inspirations.
Thank you for introducing some fab new vendors to shop!!
This has been an exciting week! Please add my name!
Thanks,
Jill
Fantastic craft stuff; I’m drooling. Have bookmarked some websites to keep up with in the future. Thank you, Cathe!
Since Santa won’t be bringing me any of these goodies, I wish YOU would! Thanks for the fun!
Love the crafty ideas, they are great for the grad student on a budget!
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for such an awesome giveaway.
What a fabulous group of sponsors! I have been relishing all week- thanks for the chance to win!
An AWESOME collection of products! Thank you for the chance to win!
Thanks for introducing us to some really great products! I think it’s wonderful that there is so much available right now for crafters and artists! And we can always order online. Hope you’ll count me in- although I live in the Philippines, I do have a US address to mail it to.
What a bounty! Love the generosity and thank you for your efforts in putting this together. Never win but hoping.
HOLY MOLY! What an AMAZING giveaway you have here! I’ve been a follower and love what you share here on the blog!
Thank you so much for the exciting giveaway! Love reading your blog and have learned a lot from it.
Thanks for this giveaway and for all your generosity, Cathe. I’m making your little paper houses for Christmas – thank you!
This past year, I’ve been rediscovering my creative side. I’m crossing my fingers – send me some rare luck, giveaway gods!
Would love to score,
the craft items and more,
full of inspiration galore,
from a blogger I adore!
I’d really like this giveaway.
It would really make my day.
If I won I’d say,
“Hip-hip-hippity-hooray”!
What generous sponsors to provide such wonderful, creative tools to your students! So happy for the winner!
Pretty please, with cream and sugar on top!
Wow! This is one stupendous give away. Thank you for everything!
So happy I discovered JSIM! Cathe, your creative bounty – and generosity – are what I’m most grateful for.
Wow these are some awesome products, the chalkboard tags are fabulous, you have given me some fabulous ideas for christmas gifts all week, thanks!! Would sooooo love to win this tote full!!
Amazing giveaway! This would keep me sane for the next 5 months while stuck inside!
Fab giveaway. I’d just need this and pinterest!
Oh, to be a winner of one of those swagalicious bags would make me a very happy girl!
Thank you and your sponsors for the amazing give away. Can’t wait to get started on some holiday projects.
Cathe, The only thing that really comes to mind is… Come on Baby Mama needs a new craft bag!
What an incredible giveaway! I would share all of it with my super-crafty mom and sisters!
Thanks for gathering up all these great items!
I have been drooling over your swag posts and happily clicking links for the past five days. You ROCK!
I’m in charge of 600 college students in 1 residence hall. Crafting keeps me sane.
Winning would be wonderful, it’s been such fun to see how loved you have become. Shoot for the stars!
A haiku for my crafting mentor:
Crafting is so fun!
College has made this girl poor.
Winning would be great!
I would love to win any of these great products as they are all new to me!
Deb
This is some serious swag! Thanks so much for sharing such fabulous vendors, and giving everyone an opportunity to win.
Wooo So would love to win… I never win anything!!
I’d love to win this great give away – my granddaughter and I love to make crafts when we’re together. Thanks.
Thanks for putting together such a variety of products. How fun would it be to open that package?!!
What a great selection of products! Thank you for sharing and providing the opportunity to win them. Love your inspiring blog.
Wow, loved looking at all the stuff you linked to. Lots and lots of things I want to try out!
What an wonderful collection of toys for playing…this would set anyone up for a sweet year!
Thanks for the chance to learn about so many lovely products! That MegaRunner will be in some stockings around here.
I picture so much homeschooling happiness if I win!
SWAAAAAAG! Want to win me some swaggy bags! Have a swaggy holidday and thank you so much!
Just one more reason this is the most amazing craft blog out there!
My daughter is now at the age where I have a little more free time to start up my scrapbooking again. I have been really wanting to get kick-started and this giveaway just might be the incentive I need. Woohoo and I hope I win!
I love your website! Thank you for the cool swag giveaway! I love EVERYTHING!
I might be old enough for children, and grandchildren, but with these SWAG bags the spirit of giving lives strong.
THANKS for the chance to comment before my laptop shorts out from all the drool dripping on it for days!!
SwagBag Haiku
A sweet dream awaits.
Generous SwagBag nears,
Please pick KarenLouiseM
Thank you for the giveaway! I love your website!!
What a wonderful gift! A great variety of supplies for the great variety of crafting that I love!
Christmas is going to be tight this year; this would be a great gift for my daughters and their friends!
I can’t imagine how long it took you to amass this batch of crafting wonderfulness! Thanks for all you do and all you give, Cathe. I know it truly comes from the heart!
Thanks so much for the giveaway – everything looks amazing!
Oh my gosh!!! I keep getting sidetracked by all the sponsor sites! Thank you for this chance to win!!
Cathe, your blog gives me creative inspiration. There are so many fun uses for the items in this swag bag. I love making unique gifts for friends and family.
JSIM week o’ Swag! If I were a doggy my tail would wag because oh how I *love* JSIM Swag!
Wow! Wish I would have found your site sooner…so much to learn, use and share. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Love the blog!
Since October I have once again found myself and re-Sparked my creativeness – I love it.
How very generous of all these wonderful companies and of you to share your awesome swag bags with the winners!
What wonderful goodies!!! Oh the fun I would have if I won. Keeping my fingers crossed!
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
already fan’ed some but great links to new sites-thank you! Drooled and slobbered all the way through 5 days!
I am blown away by the chance to win all this amazing swag! Thank you for the opportunity!
Hard year for many!
Lots to share!
Would make many smile to get a surprise!
Thanks from the heart!
Blessings!
Whoa! What a crazy and generous giveaway. Thanks for all your inspiration!
This is so exciting… the Blog and the giveaway! Thank you and your sponsors.
It’s like Oprah on JSIM! I’m crossing my fingers and toes (I’ve been REAL good this year!) Hugs!
Jenn
I love checking out your blog for inspiration and look forward to possiby getting one of these fantastic bags.
…and THEN i get to that dreaded last line: “continental US only.” have mercy ~ frozen alaskan gals need swag too!
this giveaway is amazing! thank you so much for the chance!
This is the most generous giveaway I have ever seen! Thank you sponsors and also Cathe for rounding them up.
I’m drooling over this giveaway! It’s a years worth of projects!
I’m dreaming of a swag Christmas!!! You are so sweet Cathe to do this for all of us!!!
Santa doesn’t have a better bag of treasures! And…I like your hair!
Generous giveaway! Thanks for taking time to read this
wish we had more time to visit in UT!
I am dreaming of a PINK Christmas and this would be the perfect way to get the color moving!
So much inspiration packed into a little bag! I’d love to try my hand at some new crafts.
You are so sweet to share with your readers! Thank you, thank you!
“Visions of swag danced in my head” Happy Holidays and thank you for sharing the swag love!
wow, Cathe, awesome stuff. love the stamps & flower kits. fun!! thank you!!
I’ve been on pins and needles ~ so in awe of all you do, love your projects and products you post!
These swag bags are great.
With one I could clear my list
Of Christmas gifts. Yes!
Awesome giveaway! I’ve enjoyed checking out things that are new to me, thanks for that. Good luck everyone!
Hi Cathe- Oohhh such wonderful treats. I don’t know what “swag” means but I like it!! thanks
Wow…this swag is swell!
I have been waiting for Day 5 to come around so I could enter. Love seeing all the products.
Love this giveaway! Thanks so much. wonderful products I’d love to have.
Wow! What a great giveaway. Please enter my name. Thank you.
I have used your dark t-shirt transfer ideas so much! And I love SWAG! Thank you, Cathe
amazing swag bag!! would love to add this to my craft selection. did I mention I am addicted to chalkboard paint??
I heart the holidays!
Pick me, pick me, pick me, pick me, pick me, pick me pick me, pick me, pretty, pretty please!
I sometimes dream that I’m you because I love everything you do and we almost have the same first name.
Just seeing all those goodies makes me excited to avoid housework and get busy crafting!!
I just wanted to be a part of an amazing website. You all show some wonderful products, and I want to try some of them in my own crafting. Thanks TONS!
Oh. my. gosh! I have totally loved looking at all the new products you have shared with us! I even added a few to my Christmas list! Thanks!
What a grand variety of goodies!!! How very generous. Loving exploring new sites for creative ideas. Hoping to win!
Creative tools make life easier and fun.
Make time to play and relax each day to make beautiful things!
I love, love, love these giveaways! Just looking at the pictures makes me feel crafty!
WOW Christmas morning for grownups! I believe, I believe! What a super fun “contest” Thank you.
Wow…what an amazing giveaway! I would love to be entered into it…thank you!
Blessings!
~Nadine
Your work assembling and offering these SWAG bags in amazing. Thank You!!
Cool blog! Totally gonna visualize myself holding a Jumbo Scout Tote – that will work, right? C’mon “Secret”, work for me!
Swag = (crafting + happiness) x (rejoicing – expense) x (merriment + jubilation) + (delight – shopping) + (cheerfulness + elation) x (contentment + euphoria) – (hassle + decisions)
You have inspired my sleeping muse! My fingers are tingling and ready to show the world my inner dreams.
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What a haul! Your sponsors are fantastic, your buddies are lucky. Keeping fingers cross that I lucky too!
Love all of the inspiration to create! How wonderful to help people express their inner artist. THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
Love all the giveaways! Just had my first baby and hope to do many crafts with any of these products.
What a generous giveaway! I would love to be able to play with all of these products! Thank you! t.xoxo
Cathe – Would love to win JSIM’s giveaway! Thanks for inspiring & encouraging creativity EVERYDAY!
I wore my little nest necklace this week and had so many compliments on it. Thanks for a fun class!
This stuff reminds me of the fun times I have crafting with my two boys and I am Thankful.
Blog inspiration year round, swag bag temptations, great ideas and fabulous photos, this is why I follow you! Thanks!
This JSIM giveaway is Just Something I MustHave!!! Amazing products, fabulous blog & incredible generosity! Hope you have a blessed Christmas!
Thank you for this opportunity to win a bag FULL of crafting treats! Any & all of these would be a lot of fun to use for projects with my church & 4H group.
You are an inspiration and the quality of your work is amazing.
So many, many wonderful goodies. Thank you so much for the giveaway Swag Bag!
WOW ! What a GREAT give-away ! THANKS for a chance to try sooo…many Beautiful products ! REALLY HOPE I WIN !!!
Hi Cathe! what a fantastic giveaway! the most fabulous craft giveaway yet!! thank you,
xoxo~Abbie
oh- Santa and the joys of the season are alive and well! Thanks for your generosity! Diane
Talk about ‘Sponsored With ABUNDANT GENEROISITY’!!!!!!! Winning this would be like receiving a bit of heaven.
I love it all! Thanks for the chance to win!
Christmas would come early if my number is drawn.
Who knows what artistic masterpiece this giveaway could spawn?
Thanks, Cathe!
I would use my winnings to pay it forward to those helping my family while my brother is in ICU!
Dear Cathe,
THank you so much for your generous nature. May blessings come back to you 10 fold. All the best to you and yours.
Many thanks. My 2012 Resolution is to expand my scrapbook knowledge, try new products, leave that comfort zone and fly!
I’ve only recently found your site- Love it! Very inspiratonal. Thanks for this chance to win some terrific product!
What fun you are having! Thanks for taking us through this with such specific and positive product reviews!
I *love* your blog, you inspire me!
What fun I’ve had reading about the different products. Your links have provided much needed inspiration. Thank you!
OMG!!! I can’t believe all the wonderful-ness you’ve gathered for the swag bags!! I’d LOVE to give a bag a REALLY good home!!!!.
Hoping beyond hope that my name is pulled from the hat! Thank you for this incredible opportunity!
I’ve been unemployed since 7/2010, money is tight. Winning this would bring joy for myself and my scrapping buddy. Thanks!!!
Holy snikey!! What a fabulous giveaway(s)!!
So excited! Doing the happy dance!!
I’d love to win this! So many cool things to try!
You are so sweet to offer us a chance to win these gifts!
Hope you had a wonderful retreat
Oh what a beautiful day it would be to win all these fabulous prizes. Yes, I see myself surrounded by on this goodness, my little brain working overtime creating in my head, trying to decide where to start. Oh happy day.
Thanks for the giveaway Cathe. I love reading your blog.
Here I am, your Missouri stalker hoping and wishing to be a cathe Holden winner……thanks for your talent, imagination.
Wow..I would have a blast sharing the wealth with my crafty friends at our next girls day.
oh to win!
a light… a light breaks!
hope, this is, during hectic holidays.
This has me doodling. Really.
This has been a fun week visiting the sponsor sites. So much stuff I never knew about. Thanks for the giveaway!
I never dreamed patterned paper would lead me on such an adventure! These items open up whole new crafty worlds.
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Wow! So generous…I’m drooling!! Thanks for the opportunity to enter!
This is a fabulous givaway! Thanks for the chance to win some swag!
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so MUCH! all i can say … WOW!
thank goodness for crafty sister, friend and niece
sharing party at auntie rat’s!!
J2LYK, ur blog is best NEWS, KUTGW. If I win, I’d have VBG & ^5 u & TU FTBOMH.
Thanks to NETLingo.com for help, Translation:
Just to let you know, your blog is best North, East, West and South, keep up the good work. If I win, I’d have a very big grin and high five you and thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I create because I am.
I’d love to win for my daughter who is mama to 2 little ones and deserves some crafty goodness!
Wow!!!! What a great giveaway!! You rock!
Wow! I can’t even pick one favorite thing!
Marcie
I just stumbled upon your blog thru Pinterest…love it! Just thought I’d enter this great giveaway.
It’s a generous and fun thing to do to give a crafter such a wonderful gift like this!
Thank you for all the information! My ‘Favorites’ list has expanded in these last five days.
You’ve revamped the “bed in a bag”, thrown in YOUR style and some of the best products, love & TLC, and created, RETREAT IN A BAG! SO generous! Yee Haw!
All of the items are very inspiring, I have worked with a few, but not all. So hope to win!
I would love to win! Promise to share with all my scrapbooking sisters at next retreat:) Thanks to all sponsors!
The supplies look awesome. Wow!
Wow nice stuff. Thanks for the great constest. Scrapping for 2 grandsons as well as 3 kids. Happy Holidays
I have recently discovered this site and spent the holiday weekend reading back pages and pages! I love it!
Oh! What fun it would be to win this fabulous goodies and share with my scrap pals! Fingers crossed!
Such inspiring swag bags! Peaks one’s creativity just looking at them…. Thanks for making this happen.
My daughters will be here for Christmas and this bag of goodies looks like something we could have SOOO much fun with!! Thanks!
wow, this would be soo useful for making more products for etsy
Look at all that awesomeness! Thank you for the chance!
I am enjoying all the new products and getting lots of ideas! Thanks!
Wow! With all the product in the Swag Bag, I could make my own Scrap Retreat right at home!
Inspiring ideas and an exciting opportunity! Just the things to get the creative juices flowing! Thanks so much!!
I love your blog. I love this giveaway. Thank you for all of the inspiration!
Hi Cathe,
Thanks so much for the chance to win such great products…many of which I have never seen before! You are always such an inspiration, and now you are a sweet craft-fairy too!
Wow oh wow! What a big pack of heaven!
You must be an angel to give away such wonderful swagbags! Have a magical holiday season!
What a fun new (to me)site! Will be visiting often. Love having new products to look at.
Kraft addiction complete. Stunning project you made for French Paper Connection! Thanks for the chance to win awesome swag!
This looks like a beautiful gift my daugher, the creative diva in our family, would LOVE! Pick me please!
Thanks so much for the chance to win all the great goodies! I’m so glad to find your blog. Trish
I saw this scrapbook giveaway,
Cathy said to play along,
It’s from her heart, so I must say,
How could I go wrong??
I enter on behalf of my sister Eileen who would love this so much and she deserves something good
Love the inspiration! Would love to win!
thanks so much for the opportunity to win! Fabulous prizes!
I’m over the moon!
This is so fun!
If I win, I’ll say:
“It’s Just Something I Won!”
wow! this looks awesome!! I’m now going to follow your blog as well
Woo-hoo it’s the mother-load of all giveaways! To be a lucky winner would be killer!
Wonderful swag bags! Anxiously waiting and hoping with my fingers crossed. Would have fun with these goodies!
WOW! Good luck everyone! Three lucky winners will have lots to share!
Oh my! I can’t wait to hear who wins, hope it’s me
Such a beautiful assortment of wonderful things to create great gifts! (Humming”…These are a few of my favorite things!”
On a really bad day, which are more frequent now, your website made me smile and gave me hope. thanks.
What a wonderful give away! I love this sight and plan on adding to my favorites on my blog sight.
So many cool products coming out so fast – how can anyone keep up with them, time wise or financially?
A Giveaway Haiku
oh, to win this bag!
full of joy and sparkle to
wake the sleeping muse
It’s never too late for a happy childhood; all the wonderfulness in this giveaway will help contiue mine!
Looks like you and the girls had a great retreat! I’d like to feel like one of the girls, too!
I’m on a quest to develop my own style in paper crafting. I think I just hit the mother load!
Thank you for sharing the flower video. I’m going to share with daughters. I also LOVE the Martha Stewart scoring board, need to get one of those! Thanks for the contest!