Christmas Card Contest!! Fun and Prizes!!

Hello everyone...

My how the days fly by... It's already the middle of November! You know, Thanksgiving is tomorrow and Christmas is next week.... just watch.

Guess what?!? It's time to start our CHRISTMAS CARD CONTEST!!!

We're looking for cards, scrapbook pages, crafts, basically anything you can stamp on, with a theme of Christmas!! Sparkling Christmas Trees with shiny decorations; Big fluffy snowflakes; Baby Jesus; Fresh baked Pumpkin Pies; Gaudily ribboned presents; your favorite Holiday movies; Santa; Tinsel and bows and other things for your pets and small children to drag around the house; Cups of hot cocoa with red striped candy canes hanging on the edge; Snuggling up by the fire with loved ones.... ahhh... my favorite time of year...

RULES:

~ The craft must feature at least one or more of our rubber stamps.
~ All submissions must be emailed to us by December 14th for a December 21st posting.

~ Email submissions to questions@sideshowstamps.com

PRIZES:
~ There will be a first, second and third place winner and each of these submissions will be posted on our blog on December 21st.
~ First Place-Macho Grab bag of 30 unmounted rubber stamps with a retail value of $85-$90.
~ Second Place-Medium Grab bag of 15 unmounted stamps with a retail value of $45-$50.
~ Third Place-Little Grab bag of 10 unmounted stamps with a retail value of $35-$40.

We have tons of Christmas themed rubber stamps such as our Retro Christmas Bulbs, Trees, Presents and Decorations; Snowmen; Angels; Christmas Story style Leg Lamp; Santas; Holly and Snowflakes and lots more to give you inspiration. Plus, right now we're offering a little Retro Christmas themed grab bag (only $6.99) to help you get started on your Holiday crafting endeavors. AND as seen in the latest issue of RubberStampMadness, our Retro Christmas Mounted Stamp Sets are now available at 20% off the retail price!! More information on these great deals can be found on our website at http://sideshowstamps.com/SideshowStampsChristmasandOtherHolidays.html

We can't wait to see all of your beautiful crafts!!

Happy Stamping and Blessed Holidays to you and yours!

Summer Card Contest Winners!!

Hey~ Sorry it took us so long to post the summer card contest winners, we've been trying all day, but alas, we've been victim to constant satellite outages...

However, here are the results!

First of all, we want to thank everyone who participated in our first contest! It was so much fun seeing what everyone came up with and receiving all those awesome cards. We're going to post all of the participant's cards eventually, because they were just too beautiful.

It was really hard to pick the winners, and we honestly couldn't choose one over the other, so to make things fair and impartial, we had our baby Dahlia help us! She drew 3 names from a "hat" (our leopard print fez).

First she shook the fez...

Then she picked the first place winner...

We'll announce them backwards. Drumroll please....
The third place winner is...

Emi Matsuoka!!! Congratulations! You win our Lil' Grab bag of 10 unmounted rubber stamps!
Here's Emi's fabulous card.


And in second place we have...

Rina Koibuchi!!! Congratulations! You win our Medium Grab bag of 15 unmounted rubber stamps!

Here's Rina's beautiful card.

And our first place winner is....

Eileen Bellomo!!!
Congratulations! You win our Macho Grab bag of 30 unmounted stamps! Yay!!
Here's her fabulous card.

"I looked through my stash of Sideshow stamps and found a few that are just perfect to commemorate summer. Also, my recent wonderful trip to Curacao didn't hurt. I saw plenty of palms, boats, parrots, but, I confess, no mermaids. However, this is what I came up with...The images are colored with watercolor pencils, crayons and chalk. I also used a lot of Glimmer Mist, though the golden shine doesn't come out so well in the scan." ~ Eileen

And then Dahlia ate the winner's names...

Have a great week everyone!
:)


See more cards, crafts and rubber stamps at www.sideshowstamps.com