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Black Heart Anti-Valentines Day Contest – v 2.0!
***2/17 – Judges’ Results will be posted tomorrow. Vote Now for the People’s Choice award winner HERE!***
It’s time! The second annual Dabbled Black Heart Anti-Valentines Day Contest is here!
If you remember last years, it was a ton of fun. (Check out last year’s entries here, and winners, here!)
The Rules:
Quite Simple: The theme is anti-valentines. Something a bit darker/creepier than you average valentine project–or however you interpret “Anti-Valentine”. Illustrations or any sort of food or craft project welcome. Tutorials and How-to’s are encouraged! Simply create your offering, and either post the link to it as a… Read on…
Holiday Craft and Art at Dabbled
I know, I know, we just finished Halloween. And yes, it’s annoying that the stores already have Christmas stuff up! So, if you’re not ready yet, I apologize! But if you’re planning ahead, and going handmade for the holidays, you really do have to start thinking about it in November, so here we are.
We’ll have a couple of things going on for November and December (showcases and contests), so here’s a preview:
Best of Crafty “Upcycling” for Christmas, Thanksgiving, or your holiday of choice – Show off your recycling skills by making gifts or decor out of ‘trash’.… Read on…
Halloween Contest, Ends tonight!
Today is the last day to get your entries in for the Halloween Contest! We have some great entries thus far, but there is still room for more! You have until 11:00 pm Eastern US time.
If you’re entering, and you have pictures on flickr, don’t forget to add them to the Dabbled Pool.
A Reminder about our Sponsors and cool Prizes!!
Sponsors for this years Dabbled Halloween have been kind enough to donate an item for a prize in the contest. And they are quite nifty and generous!
Some Art Fabric
Some Art Fabric is a… Read on…
Halloween Contest – Sponsors and Prizes
Sponsors for this years Dabbled Halloween have been kind enough to donate an item for a prize in the contest. And they are quite nifty and generous!
Some Art Fabric
Some Art Fabric is a really neat online fabric store. They have a really fun selection of fabric, and it’s way cool to support your fellow crafters than go buy your fabric at one of those big corporate stores. Colleen’s blog – Some Art Fabric Talk shows, like any true “Dabbler”, she’s into all types of crafts. Some great stuff, including tutorials. She’s also one of the… Read on…
Reader Halloween Project Links from Contest
This is the official post for your entries. Links to entries should be submitted via comment in this thread, or via email.
Here’s the official rules for the Halloween Extravaganza Contest:
The Rules: Your entry can be art, craft, or food. For Halloween, this includes Costume and Decoration ideas as well.
Post a link to your entry preferably IN THIS THREAD (or you can email it to me). Entry should include a link to the item. You can link to a blog, website or etsy, or flickr pictures. Post pictures, and extra credit for instructions or recipes
Judges… Read on…
Halloween Extravaganza Starts today!
Time to start planning for the bestest holiday of the year! HALLOWEEN! The little Halloween Bot* is here to announce that over the next few weeks we’ll be featuring halloween crafts, costumes, decorations, art, food.. all the good stuff you’ll need to get in the spirit! Leading up to the Halloween contest to cap it off of course.
And I know you’re desparately wondering “How can I get involved in this fabulous extravaganza!?” Well…
1) Enter the Contest! – Full Rules here (they are easy!), but per the usual, any type of arts/crafts/food, halloween related is… Read on…
Halloween buttony goodness
Here are the buttons for the Halloween Contest and Extravaganza! “Enter the Contest” ones are the first set, the second set is “I’m Entering!” , and the “I was featured” ones are at the bottom.
Add “Enter the Contest” button! If the winner comes from your blog, you’ll win a prize too! Be sure to tell your readers to mention they came from your blog when they post their entry… Just cut and paste the below text:
Add “Enter the Contest” button! If the winner comes from your blog, you’ll win a prize too! Be sure to tell… Read on…
Summer Contest Winners!
Much thanks to our judges, Dana of Craftyminx and Lisa of Tissuepapers.
Adding up the points, we ended up in a tie for first place! Both of these really fit the spirit of the Summer Doldrums Contest!
The Rainy Day Fun Insect Window Shade, by Some Art Fabric
http://someartfabrictalk.blogspot.com/2008/07/rainy-day-fun-insect-window-shade.html
This is a great project, recycling pages of an old book into a whimsical and interesting window shade. We loved that she got all the kids involved too! Per one of our judges: “I just love how simple this is!! Very easy to make and do!” She gives all… Read on…
Summer Doldrums Contest
Just a little over a week til the end of the Summer Doldrums contest (Details & Enter Here!)
I’m happy to announce two of our judges, chosen from the winners of past contests:
Craftyminx and Tissuepaper!
Craftyminx was one of the winners of the Black Heart Anti-Valentines Day contest with this delightfully black-hearted entry:
And Tissuepapers was a winner of the April Fools contest with this cool and creepy entry:
These fabulously crafty ladies have graciously agreed to judge your submissions, and do check out their websites, because they have some great stuff… Read on…
Several things… including the winner of the Shrinky Comment Contest!
–Don’t forget! The Summer Doldrums contest – It’s fun to share your stuff!–
Coming tomorrow, the second installment of the Dabbled Interview Series: Diana Evans, an artist and illustrator and prolific blog proprietress from Ontario, Canada. Be sure to check it out!
And a big thank you for the feedback on my the Art Portfolio made out of Blogger blog — I’ve made some changes based on your feedback, check it out!! dorsner.blogspot.com (if you still want to see the original flash component that was on the front page, click on the link under the… Read on…
