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 Enter to win the Pretty in Pink Bracelet and Earring set by Janlynn! Be a little girlie and wear pink!

The Janlynn Pretty in Pretty Kit includes crazy lace agate stones mixed with crystals and sterling silver balls. Extra 4 mm sterling balls are included to make bracelet larger than average size, if necessary. Bracelet is finished with silver plated lobster claw and earrings are finished with silver plated leverback earwires. Wire & flat head pins for stringing along with instructions are included.

Every Friday we’ll post a giveaway on Think Crafts and all you have to do is comment on the blog post answering the question of the week. We’ll pick the winner and contact them via email. Deadline is midnight tonight and the winner will be announced Monday. One entry per person please. Contest opened to all US residents, no purchase necessary.

Question of week: What is your favorite breakfast food?

What’s the biggest blunder you’ve ever made on a craft project?  That project gone wrong that still makes you laugh?  From two heeled socks to glue accidents, we’d love to hear your funny stories.  Send us your craft blooper and you could win a $100 CreateForLess Shopping Spree! Click to Enter!

Read the winning Craft Blooper from last year…

“A friend and I had organized a scrapbooking day to benefit the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. We called our event the ‘Crop for a Cure’. I was working on a small thank you card for one of our sponsors of the event. I had all the right papers, and stamps and inks, even embellishments. I was happily assembling each piece (between various event interruptions) and then came time to write my message inside the card. I was drawing each word out in a beautiful curly script. Each letter fell into place: ‘Thank You for Supporting the Cr…’ but then; the swirl of my ‘o’ in the word ‘crop’ turned down instead of up and suddenly I was thanking people not for their support of an enjoyable day of scrapbooking, but for a crass bodily function that apparently had mythical healing powers. My friends will never let me forget the day they attended the ‘Crap for a Cure’.” 

Enjoy some of our favorite craft “Oops!” stories from last year’s Craft Bloopers Contest.

Contest deadline is July 31, 2010.  Limited to three entries per person.  Submitting a photo of the craft blooper is optional.  The winner will be chosen by the CreateForLess staff and will receive a $100 CreateForLess e-gift certificate.   The winner will be contacted individually via email and posted on our web site.  After the contest ends, some of the craft bloopers will be showcased on CreateForLess.com, our Think Crafts blog and Facebook page.

Congratulations to Staci Jones who was randomly selected as the winner of Free Stuff Friday and the Paper Accents Craft Pack!

The Pound O’ Paper are wonderful packs of paper that comes with a new variety each time. These varieties are great for making cards, invitations, tags or adding special accents to scrapbook and memory pages. It’s an assortment pack , the sizes and kind of paper change with each package. Create Your Own Journals are made with heavy chipboard on the front and back with 25 pages inside. Have fun decorating and personalizing these journals with stamps, stickers, embellishments, marking pens, and more. Each journal is spiral bound so they are easy to flip and stay together! Create Your Own Chipboard Pennants are great for Banners, Seasonal Sentiments, Names and much more. Made with heavy weight chipboard, they are acid free, and ready to decorate to your personal taste.

Staci’s winning answer to ”What is your favorite summer memory from your childhood, or your children’s” was…

“My favorite summer memories were visiting my grandparents in Seattle. It would take us 2 1/2 days to get there so we usually stayed for awhile. I loved going to the zoo and aquarium. It was so much fun.”

Enter to win this craft pack from Paper Accents! This prize comes with a Pound O’ Paper, Create Your Own Journal and Scrapbook, as well as rectangle and pennants chipboard pieces.

The Pound O’ Paper are wonderful packs of paper that comes with a new variety each time. These varieties are great for making cards, invitations, tags or adding special accents to scrapbook and memory pages. It’s an assortment pack , the sizes and kind of paper change with each package. Create Your Own Journals are made with heavy chipboard on the front and back with 25 pages inside. Have fun decorating and personalizing these journals with stamps, stickers, embellishments, marking pens, and more. Each journal is spiral bound so they are easy to flip and stay together! Create Your Own Chipboard Pennants are great for Banners, Seasonal Sentiments, Names and much more. Made with heavy weight chipboard, they are acid free, and ready to decorate to your personal taste.

Every Friday we’ll post a giveaway on Think Crafts and all you have to do is comment on the blog post answering the question of the week. We’ll pick the winner and contact them via email. Deadline is midnight tonight and the winner will be announced Monday. One entry per person please. Contest opened to all US residents, no purchase necessary.

Question of week: What is your favorite summer memory from your childhood, or your children’s.

We can tell it wasn’t easy to only pick 3 craft items to take if you were ever stranded. There was a lot of  thought in your answers! Congratulations to Penny who was randomly selected as the winner of Free Stuff Friday and the MiMi Essentials Scrapbook  Tool Tote!

The Essential Scrapbook Tool Tote in Kiwi with Chocolate accents is a durable water resistant shoulder tote that keeps your tools at your finger tips. It boasts a patented locking wing system and a strap to hang it from a doorknob or your wheeled tote handle. A coordinating Kiwi interior lining complemented by decorative contrast stitching gives this tote a functional and fashionable look. It cleverly unites storage and style for the crafter on the go.

Penny’s winning answer to ”You’re stranded on a deserted island, what 3 craft products do you bring?” …

“Camera for photographic journel of my situation
Pack of Crochet Hooks
Skeins of Yarn

My main hobby is papercrafting and just can’t see doing that much on an island. But crocheting a blanket or something would be useful. Would have to bring a camera though to journel the experience. Make one heck of a scrapbook on my rescue!”

Enter to win the MiMi Essential Scrapbook Tool Tote! This tote has pockets for all your embellishments and adhesives, and a spot for a photo organizer, pens, scissors, trimmers and so much more!

The Essential Scrapbook Tool Tote in Kiwi with Chocolate accents is a durable water resistant shoulder tote that keeps your tools at your finger tips. It boasts a patented locking wing system and a strap to hang it from a doorknob or your wheeled tote handle. A coordinating Kiwi interior lining complemented by decorative contrast stitching gives this tote a functional and fashionable look. It cleverly unites storage and style for the crafter on the go.

Every Friday we’ll post a giveaway on Think Crafts and all you have to do is comment on the blog post answering the question of the week. We’ll pick the winner and contact them via email. Deadline is midnight tonight and the winner will be announced Monday. One entry per person please. Contest opened to all US residents, no purchase necessary.

Question of week: You’re stranded on a deserted island, what 3 craft products do you bring?

Congratulations to Laura Keane who was randomly selected as the winner of Free Stuff Friday and the Quilting Designs Books!

With the Ricky Tims Celtic Fantasy Book add drama to your quilts with flowing Celtic appliqué designs like knots, trees, flowers and more. You get a full-size freezer paper pattern, plus 9 bonus quilt “skeletons” and 25 Celtic appliqué designs.

Adaptable Quilting Designs has quilting patterns were made specifically to address the need to do more than stitch-in-the-ditch in problem areas such as strips, squares, corners, and triangles. This much-needed addition to any quilter’s quilting pattern library is formatted for ease of shrinking or enlarging every design to fit the tricky spaces that happen on all quilts. Minimal text provides maximum space for inspiration or tracing. Over 2 dozen color photos provide additional visual instruction for the quiltmaker.

Laura’s winning answer to ”What is your favorite summer time treat was” …

“I love the red, white and blue popsicles that used to be called “bomb pops.”