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Welcome to Day SIX of Spellbinders Explore Beyond Blog Frenzy and Giveaway!

Congratulations to Day Threes Winners: Marianne B. and Shirley L.  We have heard back from both of them and they have claimed their prize! Yay!

 

This is the FINAL day of  our celebration of the arrival of our Winter 2013 line into a store near you! Each day, you've discovered inspiring, step by step tutorials and had the chance to win the products shown that day. One lucky reader, who visited all the featured blogs everyday, will win all the products shown throughout the week!

Today, you have FOUR chances to win! We're featuring the die template set of our talented Licensed Designers! Click on each of the four names below to find a step by step tutorial using today's featured dies and get your chance to win the dies shown! At the end of each tutorial... you'll find your entry link into today's giveaway.

Becky Fleck

Becky is the founder of PageMaps, a monthly set of sketches to inspire you to create! Spellbinders partnered with PageMaps and came up with 6 sets of complimentary die templates. From arrows, to tickets, to fun office-like supplies, you'll find all the elements you need to follow along with Becky's monthly PageMaps. Below is one of her newest sets: You Are Here.

Becca Feeken

This is the first set of templates from Becca Feeken. Her ornate, delicate style, is surprisingly simple to follow along with her step by step tutorials. Becca brought us an A2 sized set called Filigree Delight, as part of Spellbinders Card Creator line. Fall in love with the intricate scroll work, tags and frames in this brand new set.

Samantha Walker

Samantha is a designer in the truest sense of the word! She partners with several brands to bring you papers, stamps, and digital files. We absolutely love the die template sets that Samantha has designed for Spellbinders! Wait until you see what she's done with her new set, Butterfly Corner. She will also be showing you work from her very own set team of designers! Don't miss a single photo in this post!

Cindy Echtinaw

The partnership with Cindy Echtinaw and Spellbinders continues on with the fabulously versatile Card Creator system! This line has it all from curved corner basics, to ribbon threaders and locking loops. Card makers will get perfect mats, perfect measurements and perfect placement…..EVERY TIME! Simply Choose your design, Assemble your pieces, Refine the details and you’re Done!

Thank you so much for joining us this week. We hope that you've had a wonderful time exploring new techniques and coming up with new ideas. Keep an eye on your inbox to see if you've been a winner this week and of course we'll be choosing our Grand Prize Winner in 48 hours from now! Good Luck everyone!

Welcome to Day FIVE of Spellbinders Explore Beyond Blog Frenzy and Giveaway!

Congratulations to Day One Winner Steven M. and Day Two Winners, Elizabeth T. and Sandy L. If you haven't already... please respond to your winner email or we'll be choosing new winners.

There are only 2 more days left in our celebration of the arrival of our Winter 2013 line into a store near you! Each day, you've discovered inspiring, step by step tutorials and had the chance to win the products shown that day. One lucky reader, who visited all the featured blogs everyday, will win all the products shown throughout the week!

Today, we're featuring the beautiful Celtic Accents and Celtic Motifs! We're also showing you new ways to use the expandable pattern, Grateful Lattice and our new Radiant Rectangles. Our designers today, Blog Team member, Becca Feeken and Design Team member, Windy Robinson. Click on their names below to find a step by step tutorial using today's featured dies and get your chance to win the dies shown! At the end of each tutorial... you'll find your entry link into today's giveaway.

 

 For more opportunities to win... there's still time to enter the Day Four giveaway and don't forget to come back here, to the Spellbinders community blog tomorrow, for our last day... Day SIX! Entries open at Noon ET!

Welcome to Day FOUR of Spellbinders Explore Beyond Blog Frenzy and Giveaway! For the next 3 days... we'll be celebrating the arrival of our Winter 2013 line into a store near you! Each day, you'll discover inspiring, step by step tutorials and have the chance to win the products shown that day. One lucky reader, who visits all the featured blogs everyday, will win all the products shown throughout the week!

Today, we're featuring tutorials of another new Cut Fold Tuck die template... Star Dreams! We're also showing you some fabulous ways to use some of the new pieces from the Card Creator line. Our designers today, are Design Team Members, Angela Ploegman and Yvonne de Grijp. Click on their names below to find a step by step tutorial using today's featured dies and get your chance to win the dies shown! At the end of each tutorial... you'll find your entry link into today's giveaway.

Angela Ploegman

Yvonne de Grijp

 

For more opportunities to win... there's still time to enter the Day Three giveaway and don't forget to come back here, to the Spellbinders community blog tomorrow, for Day Five! Entries open at Noon ET!

Welcome to Day THREE of Spellbinders Explore Beyond Blog Frenzy and Giveaway! For the next 4 days... we'll be celebrating the arrival of our Winter 2013 line into a store near you! Each day, you'll discover inspiring, step by step tutorials and have the chance to win the products shown that day. One lucky reader, who visits all the featured blogs everyday, will win all the products shown throughout the week! Today, we're featuring tutorials of our new Imperial Gold dies (winner of the Winter CHA 2013 Attendee's Choice Award). We're also showing you projects featuring Grand Stately Circles and the newest Cut, Fold, Tuck die template, Double Delight.

 

Our designers today, are Design Team Members, Darsie Bruno and Tina McDonald. Click on their names below to find a step by step tutorial using today's featured dies and get your chance to win the dies shown! At the end of each tutorial... you'll find your entry link into today's giveaway.

Darsie Bruno

Tina McDonald

For more opportunities to win... there's still time to enter the Day Two giveaway and don't forget to come back here, to the Spellbinders community blog tomorrow, for Day Four!

Welcome to Day TWO of Spellbinders Explore Beyond Blog Frenzy and Giveaway! For the next 5 days... we'll be celebrating the arrival of our Winter 2013 line into a store near you! Each day, you'll discover inspiring, step by step tutorials and have the chance to win the products shown that day. One lucky reader, who visits all the featured blogs everyday, will win all the products shown throughout the week! Today, we're featuring tutorials of our 3D and original M-Bossabilities, the new Labels Thirty, and our newest set of Framed Tags.

Our designers today, are Design Team Members, Heidi van Laar and Lesley Langdon.  Click on their names below to find a step by step tutorial using today's featured dies and get your chance to win the dies shown! At the end of each tutorial... you'll find your entry link into today's giveaway. For more opportunities to win... there's still time to enter the Day One giveaway and don't forget to come back here, to the Spellbinders community blog tomorrow!

Heidi van Laar

Lesley Langdon

Welcome to Day One of Spellbinders Explore Beyond Blog Frenzy and Giveaway! For the next 6 days... we'll be celebrating the arrival of our Winter 2013 line into a store near you! Each day, you'll discover inspiring, step by step tutorials and have the chance to win the products shown that day. One lucky reader, who visits all the featured blogs everyday, will win all the products shown throughout the week! Today, we're featuring the brand new Media Mixage line.

Media Mixage features bezels, blanks, and matching dies, texture plates, ephemera papers, and more! Spellbinders partnered with renowned artist and jeweler, Susan Lenart Kazmer in the creation of this line. Check out Susan's blog, by clicking on her name below, to learn more about her inspiration and to find an amazing tutorial. At the end of her tutorial... you'll find your entry link into today's giveaway. For more opportunities to win... come back here, to the Spellbinders community blog tomorrow!

Susan Lenart Kazmer

 

Below is a video explaining more about the new Media Mixage line, now in a store near you!

 

  by Josie Cirincione

 It's nearly here!

Spellbinders will be celebrating the arrival of our newest product line in a store near you, with a HUGE blog hop and giveaway! Beginning Monday, February 25th, Spellbinders will countdown to the launch, with a live video feed at 8am PT/11am ET. We'll be sharing techniques, giving away prizes, and chatting with you LIVE! You won't want to miss a day of project tutorials, video fun, and of course... Prizes!

How do you play?

Simply check the Spellbinders Community Blog every day at 9am PT/12 Noon ET, February 25, 2013 - March 2, 2013, to find out who our participating designers are for that day! Click the entry form link at the bottom of their amazing Blog Frenzy tutorials and fill in the necessary contact information. You may enter once from each participating blog every day!

If you'd like to get familiar with the participating designers before the Blog Frenzy... here they are!

Susan Lenart Kazmer

Heidi van Laar

Lesley Langdon

Darsie Bruno

Tina McDonald

Angela Ploegman

Yvonne van de Grijp

Becca Feeken

Windy Robinson

Cindy Echtinaw

Samantha Walker

Becky Fleck

 Official Rules:

Participants wishing to be included in the daily drawing for the Spellbinders Explore Beyond: Blog Frenzy and Giveaway must adhere to all of the following rules:

• The Explore Beyond: Blog Frenzy and Giveaway will begin February 25, and will end on March 2, 2013. It consists of 13 individual and one grand prize drawings.
• Each Spellbinders Explore Beyond: Blog Frenzy and Giveaway starts at 12 Noon Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the date listed. We will allow entries from each blog for 48 hours.
• Entrants must have an active email account and Internet access.
• Enter the Spellbinders Explore Beyond: Blog Frenzy and Giveaway by visiting the participating blogs each day. From each participating post, click on the entry link marked "HERE" in the blog text to open an entry form.
• Spellbinders will randomly draw one winner from each participating blog to receive all of that day’s new products.
• Daily prizes range in value from $29.99 to $99.99 MSRP.
• Grand Prize value is over $1000, and includes all the dies, embossing products, and other products revealed during our sneak peek event... including a Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine and Raspberry Plate!
• The Grand Prize Winner will be randomly drawn from the pool of entrants that sent entry forms from each and every participating blog during the 48 hours each blog was open.
• Only one entry per person, per blog is allowed.
• To be automatically eligible for the Grand Prize, entrants must use the same email address for each entry, no exceptions.
• After each blog entry eligibility closes, we will randomly draw one entry form from each blog. Winners will be contacted by email within 24 hours. Winners will have 72 hours to reply to that email to claim their prizes. A new winner will be drawn if a winner fails to respond.
• Your entry constitutes permission for Spellbinders to publish your first name, city, state, and country of residence along with a quote from you to be used on the Spellbinders Blog and in promotional materials.
• The Spellbinders Explore Beyond: Blog Frenzy and Giveaway is open to entrants worldwide.
• This giveaway is sponsored by Spellbinders Paper Arts, located in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
• Any questions regarding this contest should be sent to ContestQuestions@Spellbinders.us
• Spellbinders designers, contractors, employees and immediate family members are not eligible.
• The number of eligible entries received determines the odds of winning.
• You must be at least 18 years old to enter.
• Void where prohibited by law.
• All prizes will be awarded.
• No purchase necessary.

Please note:

• By sending an entry form, you are agreeing to the Official Rules.

• There is no substitution, transfer, or cash equivalent for prizes, except that Spellbinders may, at its sole discretion, substitute prizes of comparable value. The prizes are expressly limited to the item(s) listed in the sneak peek posts and do not include taxes, gratuities, duties or any other expenses. Other restrictions may apply.
• The recipient of any Spellbinders product is solely responsible for any federal, state, city, or local income tax reporting, payment, or consideration as required by law in any country.
• Spellbinders is not responsible for late, lost, illegible, misdirected entries, and Spellbinders does not assume responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to its websites.
• Spellbinders is not responsible for any problem or technical malfunction of any computer on-line systems, servers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or entry to be received by Spellbinders on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the internet or any website or any combination thereof.
• Winners will be posted on the Spellbinders Blog.

• Spellbinders will use email information to contact the winner.
• Spellbinders will not share, rent, or sell email addresses.
• Should you receive email communication from Spellbinders that you do not wish to receive, you have the option to unsubscribe.
• Comments on the Spellbinders Blog and the participating Designers’ blogs will not be considered official entries.

To be eligible for the Grand Prize

• Entrants sending valid entry forms from each and every participating blog, during the days and times they are open to entries, will be included in a drawing for a Grand Prize valued at more than $1000!
• The Grand Prize includes all of the dies, embossing products, and other new products revealed during this sneak peek event and a Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Die Cutting and Embossing Machine.
• The Grand Prize Winner will receive an email notice on or around Tuesday, March 5, 2013 and must reply to the notice within 24 hours of being sent
  

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EDIT: Congratulations to our GRAND PRIZE winner.... Maryann L.!!! Maryann entered the contest on each of our designer's blogs... every single day! She has won all of the products revealed during the Sneak Peek and a new Spellbinders Artisan X-plorer! Check your email Maryann!

Want to be a winner too? Stay tuned for our BlogFrenzy in late February. We'll be giving away the entire Spellbinders Winter 2013 line!

 

Congratulations to our Day 1 through Day 7 Winners! It's been CRAZY both in the office and on the road... we appreciate your patience as we gathered the list! What a warm and supportive community you are. Thank you all. xo

Day 1

Liz W. from Glendale AZ “ I am new to Spellbinders and I am looking forward to enhancing my options”!!

Cindy D. from Greensboro, NC  “I love Spellbinders and I am beyond excited to have this collection!”

Day 2

Teresa A. from Narre Warren North Australia- “I am thrilled to be able to create with these new dies”.

Judy D. from Spokane Valley WA “OH MY GOODBESS!! The new Dies are amazing!”

Day 3

Kelly R. from Albany OR “I can’t wait to play with these new dies”

Lillian S. from Liverpool Great Britain “I am excited and thrilled to have won this prize”

Day 4

Alicia D. from Fitchburg WI- “I can express how excited I am to have won these dies”

Lucy N. from Tlajomulco de Zuniga, Jal Mexico “I’m so excited. I love Spellbinders dies.”

Day 5

Susan F. from Lebanon IN “How wonderful!! I love these dies”

Muffin S. from Oxford GA “You  have just made my day!! I can’t wait to play with these dies”

Emily M. from  Fresno, CA “I love Spellbinders dies. They add a unique and special touch to all my cards.”

Day 6

Cynthia A from Rio Rancho, NM- OMG! These are fantastic dies!"

Gloria F from Gary IN “ I am beyond excited. I have always and will always love Spellbinders.”

Day 7

Marilyn W. from Ephrata WA “I am one thrilled crafter to have won this prize. My husband thinks I’m nuts!”

Jacquelyn A. from Southfield, MI “Yahooooooo!!!! I Love it, love it, love it, love it!!!!

Welcome to Day Seven of the Spellbinders Explore Beyond: Sneak Peek and Giveaway! Can you believe that today is our last day of reveals!? It's been an exciting and inspiring week and your enthusiasm is greatly appreciated. Thank you for being the supportive community that you are!

Don't forget to check your inbox and spam box. Email notifications to our previous daily winners have been sent out and we'll be choosing additional daily winners for the next couple of days. And our Grand Prize Winner! Yay! You still have time to enter the giveaway from Day Six. Simply visit the participating blogs and click the entry form link! Good luck!

Welcome to Day Six of the Spellbinders™ Explore Beyond: Sneak Peek and Giveaway! Congratulations to Day 2 Winner Teresa Abajo from Austrailia and Day 3 Winners Kelly Roth from Albany, OR and Lilian Smith from Great Britian. We are still looking for 1 more winner from Day 2 to contact us...So make sure you are double checking your spam boxes... there is only 24 hours left before we pull another name!!

You also still have time to enter the giveaway from Day Five. Simply visit the participating blogs and click the entry form link! And check your inbox and spam box... our previous day's winners have been notified by email. It could be you! Good luck!

Today's Sneak Peek Blogs:

Susan Lenart Kazmer

Seth Apter

 

Each day, through January 8th, 2013, we'll be revealing brand new, never before seen die templates, folders, and other exciting Spellbinders products. We're even giving you the chance to win all of the new product revealed! Can you believe it's almost over? We've saved the best news for last...

Today, we're announcing one of the biggest launches in Spellbinders history! Spellbinders is pleased to bring you... Media Mixage™, a collection of products from bezels to blanks, matching die templates, metals, and more! Our new Media Mixage line makes it fun and easy to bring color, layers and dimension to products of all kinds! Explore Beyond to create jewelry, home decor, paper crafting, art journals, and fabric art!

We're also announcing an exciting collaboration with renowned artist, jeweler, and  metalworker, Susan Lenart Kazmer! Susan brings added beauty and elegance to this new line with her own additions of bezels, blanks, and ephemera papers. Check out Susan's amazing tutorial using the new Media Mixage line and Ice Resin.

And that's not all! We're also announcing the release of a brand new machine! The Artisan X-Plorer is a multi-purpose, high pressure, roller machine. Unlike the large format Grand Calibur machine, the Artisan X-Plorer is a small machine for more targeted pressure. This new machine cuts and embosses a wide range of materials. Our mixed media friends will appreciate this! In the video below, Stacey and our Education Director, Kim, share some of the amazing new features of the Artisan X-Plorer machine and our fantastic new Media Mixage line!

 

And  now for your second chance to win and more amazing reveals... Please welcome our newest Blog Team Member, Seth Apter!! Seth is a well known mixed media artist and author. He's sharing (S4-386) our new Cogs, (MT1-005) Texture Plates Grate Works Three, and (MM1- 004) our new Aluminum Metal sheets. Check out his fabulous tutorial and Explore Beyond with a new technique or two!

Want a chance to win all of the products shown in today's reveal? Visit today's participating blogs and follow the link to the official entry form! You have 48 hours to enter today's giveaway. One winner will be chosen from each blog. Come back each day for new chances to win!  *Note: The Artisan X-Plorer machine is not part of our daily giveaway.