We’ve arrived at 7th Heaven. Ahhhhh. The blog reveals continue to be amazing. We are so lucky to have such amazing designers. The new die template for this give-away is S4-192 Blossom that was shared by Jennifer Ellefson on her blog, Created From Paper. Let’s see:

Our contestants remain constant which proves that you all are coming back which we LOVE. The random.org message for today is:

Here are your random numbers:
1984
Timestamp: 2009-01-14 13:24:28 UTC

Which gave us the name of:

Elaine of Victoria, BC Canada

Elaine was so excited. She had this to say about winning,

“Wow, what a wonderful e-mail to get! I am so excited!!! The dies so far have been fabulous and the designers incredible and I am looking so forward to playing with them. Thank you so much for having a wonderful contest and an incredible product.”

Well, congratulations Elaine. We are glad to hear you love your new die template designs and are looking forward to receiving them.

We keep getting lots of entried but there might be one spot for YOU! So keep visiting!!

today’s Sneak Peek is from Sally Lynn MacDonald.  She lives in Connecticut with her husband of 21 years, Neil, her daughter, Brianna and the “Twinkies,” Cameron and Courtney.

Sally Lynn has been an avid scrapbooker, stamper, paper and altered artist since 1998, when her first child was born.  Subsequently, after the birth of twins, she quit her high-tech career at IBM to be home with her growing family. “This is when creativity became a survival skill!” she says. Her style is eclectic and she loves to make each project unique, interactive and indulge her creative side.  She is a certified and/or endorsed instructor for several companies, including Copic Markers, and she travels around the country teaching classes that focus on technique and tools. Her work has been published in Paper Crafts, Rubber Stamper and Stamper’s Sampler Take Ten. Her personal design challenge is to take products or techniques that would have her students saying “Huh?” and bring them to “Aha!” .

Be sure to enter to win today’s prize package, can you believe how many awesome die templates are being given away?  I’ll race you to Sally Lynn MacDonald’s blog, InkyHeart.

Day Nine is done and we just continue to give more and more dies away. Including today, our 5 Anniversary party has given away 64 die template sets. That’s 5-7 die templates per set. Can you say HUGE?

Thanks to Jeni Calkins for her fab artwork over at her blog! Here are the dies being awarded today.

Our entries continue to be in the range of 2,000. WOW! You all are being so loyal and we really appreciate it.

After checking with Random.org, we received this

Here are your random numbers:

1837

Timestamp: 2009-01-15 20:03:31 UTC

which brought us to offer this amazing pile of die templates to:

Linda from San Antonio, Texas

Quick as a wink she said,

“Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t believe I won! After I ran around the house for 30 minutes screaming hysterically….I calmed down enough to ask my oldest daughter to read the e-mail with me, to make sure I was reading it correctly(of course still all the while screaming). She gave me that look that only a 25 year old can give her crazy mother, and said yes Mom, you won! THANK YOU so much, I can not begin to tell you how excited I am, and this e-mail has just made what was a really bad week into a wonderful one. I know that these dies will just help me so much in my card making, and I can’t wait to use them.THANKS AGAIN! Linda

We are honored to have been screamed about! Congratulations and have fun with your new Spellbinders™ die templates!!

Thanks to all of you who continue to send us your entries and we wish you all luck for the next blog.

Toss aside those parkas and bask in the beautiful South Carolina sunshine, and grab yourself a tall glass of Pink Lemonade with Keri Lee Sereika.

Do you like to make cards or scrapbooks or altered? - I love to create Altered Items but find that I don’t have as much time as I would like right now…so I get more cards than anything else done these days!

Marital status/Kids/? I am married to a USAF Pilot and have three kids with the fourth expected in June

Aside from paper, what other materials have you used? I work with Clay, Fabric, Wood, Tile…you name it, I have probably used it at some point!

Where do you look for inspiration when you are about to start something new? I tend to just look around me…I love to go outside for fresh air and sunshine then I like to get a good magazine and scan for fresh color palettes and design ideas.

What kind of workspace do you have? I am blessed to have a 16 x 10 studio that is attached to my kids play room. I can keep an eye on them and work at the same time!

Is there anything you would like to add? Can’t think of anything! LOL Other than I write for two magazines - Crafts N Things and Scrap & Stamp Arts Magazine perhaps.

Visit Keri Lee’s blog, Pink Lemonade, for a refreshing new die template!  Yes, there is another drawing for the ever increasing prize package, don’t forget to send in your entry!

It’s almost too much to continue, but we are eating our protein so we can make it through all this giving out our new die templates. Now, let’s get another look at the new die template that was added to the mix:

Large Octagons, #S4-185 and Large Scalloped Octagons, #S4-187

The 48 hours of Becca’s contest gave us nearly 2,200 entrants and the little program over at Random.org gave us this:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

1930

Timestamp: 2009-01-13 01:29:20 UTC

So we present to you our Day 6 winner:

Bobbie of Hampton, Georgia

Once she found her e-mail, she replied

Bobbie, we’re so glad you will enjoy your Spellbinders™ die templates and have a chance to share with friends.

Thanks to all of you who continue to play. If you haven’t won yet, keep trying because every day is getting better and better.

I know, you’ve been wondering what’s up with the winners from Day 6 and Day 7…well, we’re just waiting for confirmation from them so hold on to your hats. We hope to announce them soon…

Sorry for the delay. But while you wait, here is something lovely to look at. . . Thanks to Becca Feeken for sharing it with us…

Today we travel to the frozen tundra, um, I mean the Chicago Suburbs to meet Beth Pingry…hey, that’s me!

My experience in paper arts started as a child. “I kept scrapbooks for as long as I can remember and I always had a camera nearby,”  (My first was a Brownie Hawkeye!). My four years in high school were filled with art classes and I earned a marketing degree in college. Until the births of my boys, she worked in the business world. As a stay at home mom, I reconnected with my creative muse when I discovered a scrapbook store.  My college sweetheart and husband of 19 years supports my habits cheerfully (most of the time). I love heritage, timeless traditional styles in her crafts and at home. I started out as a scrapbooker, but have become passionate about altered art and digital designs.  I’ve been designing with Spellbinders for 3 years, and will be co-writing this blog, along with some other fun stuff.

Here is sample of some of my favorite art.

Come visit my blog, Cookies for Breakfast, to see what I’ve cooked up today, and enter to win some fabulous die templates.

Another day! Another bunch of dies we are giving away!

This is so much fun. We just can’t stop. Let’s quickly look at what is on the craft table today:

With another group of over 2,000 entrants our little trip over to Random.org gave us this:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

479

Timestamp: 2009-01-14 16:17:33 UTC

Number 479 gave us this winner:

Lisa, Mechanicsville, MD.

When I opened the e-mail I couldn’t believe I won! I was so excited I couldn’t even remember where I lived to put in the e-mail! I can’t wait to try out all the new products! Lisa

Well congratulations Lisa! We can’t wait for you to try them out either. Thanks to everyone for playing. Keep checking back as we have more Spellbinders™ die template winners!!!

We travel to Utah for today’s 5 Year Anniversary host Wendy Weixler, a stamper, crafter, wife, mother and bundle of energy!

Wendy remembers loving paper crafting and art projects since she was a little girl, creating masterpieces for the refrigerator door. No medium escaped her notice, from paint-by-number to mod podge and wood wonders! She has been a digital designer for over twenty years, working as an administrative assistant, intranet webpage coordinator and office guru during that time. She began scrapbooking in earnest over 10 years ago when she bought her first pair of decorative scissors. She was hooked. (She still has those scissors even though they don’t get used!). “A good friend introduced me to stamping and card making in 2003, and my creative juices have been on overdrive since,” she says. She loves to create handmade gifts for friends and family, and very few items that have potential for “alterability” go untouched! “I feel I am learning something new almost weekly. I enjoy the challenge of incorporating new techniques and ideas into all of my projects.” Wendy has been married to Ron for 23 years. They have three children, the lights of her life—Devan, Garrett and Amelia.

Here are 2 cards Wendy wanted to share here today.

Now visit Wendy’s blog, Wickedly Wonderful Creations and see what wonderful dies she’s creating with today, and maybe you could be the lucky winner of all the dies revealed through today!

Today we travel to Arizona to visit Jeni Calkins, host of Day 9’s 5th Anniversary Celebration.  Jeni is a mixed media artist, wife, and stay at home mom of 3.

“I have a passion for teaching art, whether it’s in the classroom or through writing,” she says. Some of what brought her to where she is now were her days of studying studio art at the University of California, San Diego. With her ability to use a wide range of materials, and her love for inspiring others, she is currently a senior designer for Altered Arts Magazine and has had many articles published there. Jeni uses Spellbinder’s products to the nth degree applying them to her areas of expertise: book making, jewelry designing, collage, assemblage, scrapbooking and card making.

I can’t wait to see what Jeni has to show us today, I’m heading over to Studio Jeni, I’ll meet you there!