Hi all – just a quick reminder that the competition to win my large ZIA featuring all 71 of my published tangle patterns closes tonight at 23:59 GMT. Please refer to my original post for details on how to enter. The submissions so far can be seen here.
Hi all – I have drawn at random from all the marvellous entries the winner of my handmade book of tangle patterns. The winner is entry 37, Lynn Peters.
Lynn is from the USA, and replied that the hurricane had knocked out her electricity and the news of her win improved her day. Happy tangling once the lights come back on Lynn!
Thank you all for your interest and entries, it was fun to read the variety of life stories, flattery and outright begging 🙂
Hi all – entries to my unique giveaway #1 will close at midnight [GMT], and I’ll post the winner tomorrow. As of an hour and twenty minutes to go, there are 43 of you in the competition. Good luck! This competition has now closed.
There’s still plenty of time to enter unique giveaway #2 – entries close at the end of 10th September, with the draw on 11th September. At the time of posting, there’s just one entry – which can be seen on my Reader Submissions gallery.
Dear readers –
I have been spectacularly unsuccessful in trying to give away this fabulous handmade book of my tangle patterns in honour of my 10,000th blog view! The idea was that a subscriber would win it, but I have now emailed three of them using the addresses submitted during subscription, and none have replied. Not sure if that’s their spam software playing up or what.
So, just a reminder of what’s available:
The cover is hand-tangled with my own designs [it’s taken ages!] and will be personalised with the initial letter of the winner’s choosing before being sealed with a gloss varnish finish. It’s a hand-crafted book [which took ages too!], with hard cover and sewn and glued spine.
Inside are colour copies of all my tangle patterns from January to June 2011, and the eight tags contain hand-drawn tangles, with tips on shading, creating patterns and a unique and unpublished, exclusive tangle pattern.
This time, please reply to this post, stating why you would like to win this fabulous prize. I’ll pick the most ‘deserving’ and post the winner on 31st August, so you have plenty of time. Hopefully this way I can actually give it away!
Just a reminder:
Unique giveaway #1 – handcrafted tangle pattern book
Entries close on 30th August, draw on 31st August.
Unique giveaway #2 – A3 sized tangle featuring all 71 of my patterns
Entries close on 10th September, draw on 11th September. Currently no entries, so if you want it, you have minimal competition 😉
Ok, so I’m guessing it will be at some point while I’m asleep tonight, but I couldn’t wait a moment longer before sharing my celebratory prize with you! In recognition of a fantastic 25,000 views in less than six months, I have created my largest zentangle-inspired artwork (ZIA) to date. And it’s a giveaway!
Entitled ’71’, this A3-sized pen and pencil ZIA contains all seventy one tangle patterns I’ve published on this blog. This unique prize can be yours!
To have a chance of winning this one-of-a-kind prize, all you need to do is to create your own ZIA incorporating only patterns from my blog and share it with me by posting a link to your blog entry (preferred) or emailing a scan/photo of your creation via the link at the top of the sidebar (if you don’t have a blog). I don’t mind how many of my patterns you use, nor what size of ZIA you create. I hope to be able to create a gallery on my blog of all the entries to this challenge, celebrating your artistic exuberance. And to be fair to all-comers, I’ll select the winner by random draw of all entries. Entries close at 23:59 GMT on Saturday 10th September.
And thank you all for your interest, encouragement and for following my blog for the last five months 🙂
Dear readers,
I’m about to reach 25,000 views of my blog
In honour of the phenomenal hit rate to my blog, I’m creating another unique zentangle-inspired artwork to give away. In less than six months since I started, I’m about to reach 25,000 views of my blog, with a current record of 624 views in a single day! Now in the grand scheme of things that’s not a lot of hits compared to say, Google, but it’s exciting to me!
So… the spoiler alert? I’m going to create my biggest tangle to date, incorporating all of my tangle patterns – and then I’m going to give it away. Watch out for the pictures, and I’ll launch the give away proper when the blog counter reaches 25,000 🙂
And hopefully by then I’ll have got the hang of actually handing on the give away!
Drum roll please… bit louder… and building to a cymbal crash…
And the winner is … … … being contacted by email today! If your icon looks like a brown rabbit, it’s you! More details will be published as well as the final pics of the finished book as soon as I have permission to share details 🙂
The winner did not claim the prize after 10 days waiting, so I have done the draw again today (11-Jul-11), with the winner this time appearing to be from the Netherlands! Congratulations, and check your email – it shouldn’t register as spam, but just in case check there as well! More details as they come.
Dear readers – as promised, here are teaser pics of my subscriber draw prize book in recognition of 10,000 views of my blog 🙂
The cover is hand-tangled with my own designs [it’s taken ages!] and will be personalised with the initial letter of the winner’s choosing before being sealed with a gloss varnish finish. It’s a hand-crafted book [which took ages too!], with hard cover and sewn and glued spine.
Inside are colour copies of all my tangle patterns from January to June 2011, and the eight tags will contain hand-drawn tangles, with tips on shading and may be even a unique and unpublished, exclusive tangle pattern.
Remember, to be entered in the draw, subscribe to my blog using the ‘Sign me up!’ button in the side bar on my blog home page by midnight on 30th June 2011. Subscribing to comments or any other page will not enter you into the draw. The winner will be drawn at random from my subscriber list and I’ll contact you by email if you are that lucky person. Good luck 🙂
Dear readers – in anticipation of my 10,000th view of this ‘ere blog, I’m in the middle of constructing a one-of-a-kind handcrafted book of my tangle patterns, complete with hand drawn tangles and tips. Pictures to follow, but I wanted to give you all the heads-up. This will be given away to one of my blog subscribers, drawn at random from my subscribers list as it stands at midnight on 30th June. So keep an eye out for the prize pics, and if you haven’t become an email subscriber, then click the ‘sign me up’ button at the top of the right hand sidebar. Good luck!