Crafty Chica Challenge: Love Shrine
Crafty Chica Challenge: Love Shrine
CRAFT and iLoveToCreate.com have teamed up to present to you the Crafty Chica Challenge: Love Shrine!
Kathy Cano-Murillo, the Crafty Chica, has been making love shrines for the past 15 years. Using everything from mint tins to cigar boxes to even kitchen drawers, she transforms them into colorful art assemblages filled with objects, trinkets, mementos and phrases she loves. Her themes range from exotic lands to her kids to her Mexican culture. But her favorite love shrines to make are themed around romance!
In Kathy's new crafty-themed novel, Waking Up in the Land of Glitter, her main character, Star Esteban, makes a magical, glittery love shrine for her ex-boyfriend, Theo as a way to woo him back. Readers will not only have a peek at how Star made her love shrine in the story, but at the back of the book there are directions to make your own. You can also try one of Kathy's Love Shrine workshops in a Box - or start from scratch!
Here are her tips:
Let your heart guide you. Think of all the things that give you goosebumps (or that you want to give you goosebumps!) and make you happy! Your shrine can be exploding with sparkle and shine, or it can be soft and subdued. Start by laying down a foundation and background, and then adding a focal point, and then add accents to round it off. While Kathy likes to use creative containers for her love shrines, you can use what ever you want - anything is fair game! Kathy believes by setting out your love shrine in a place where you will see it everyday is a great way to bring happiness into your life! Enter in this Crafty Chica Challenge for a chance to win crafty prizes. This challenge will run for 5 weeks, and the deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m. PST on March 11, 2010. The Prize winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Because Kathy feels that love shrines are oh-so-very personal, the winners will be drawn at random. There will be one (1) grandprize winner, and three (3) runners-up.
- The Grand Prize is a Crafty Chica gift basket, a copy of the Crafty Chica's first novel Waking Up in the Land of Glitter and a $50 gift certificate to the Maker Shed.
- The Runner-up Prize is a Crafty Chica gift basket as well as a Crafty Chica bobblehead.
To enter this Crafty Chica Challenge, please submit photos of your love shrine to the Crafty Chica Challenge Flickr Group, and include a description of your project, inspiration, and materials were used in the process. (250 words or less please).
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This promotion is intended for play and participation in the United States only and shall be construed and evaluated according to the laws of the United States. Please do not participate if you are not a legal resident of the United States and located in the United States at the time of entry.
Important: Please read these rules before entering the Crafty Chica Challenge (the "Contest") sponsored by CRAFT and ILovetoCreate.com (the "Sponsors"). By submitting your projects to the Crafty Chica Challenge Flickr group, you agree to be bound by these Official Rules.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR TO WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. CONTEST OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WHO ARE EITHER OF THE AGE OF MAJORITY IN THEIR STATE OF RESIDENCE AT THE TIME OF ENTRY (19 OR OLDER IN AL AND NE, 18 OR OLDER IN ALL OTHER STATES). VOID OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES AND WHERE OTHERWISE PROHIBITED BY LAW.
Official Rules: Crafty Chica Challenge
1. How to Enter: To enter this Crafty Chica Challenge, please submit photos of your crafty love shrine to the Crafty Chica Challenge Flickr group, and incude a description of your project, inspiration, and materials were used in the process. (250 words or less please).
Contest begins at 12:01 a.m. PST on February 5, 2010 and will end at 11:59 p.m. PST on March 11, 2010 (the “Contest Period”). All entries must be received during the Contest Period to be eligible. You may enter as many times as you wish, but please do not submit duplicate projects. Sponsors are not responsible for retaining archives of any projects submitted. Email addresses obtained through the Contest will only be used by Sponsors to notify the winners and participants of the contest results.
By submitting an entry, you grant Sponsors and its agents the irrevocable and perpetual nonexclusive right to print, publish, reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works from, promote, and provide access to any such Contest entry, in all media throughout the world, and without consideration to you. Projects: must be the original work of the entrant; may not have won previous awards; may not have been published previously; must not infringe third-party rights, and must be suitable for publication (i.e., may not be obscene or indecent). By submitting an entry, you represent and warrant: that you are the sole owner of all rights in and to the materials that constitute your entry; that your entry is your original work; and that your entry does not violate laws prohibiting copyright infringement, defamation, misuse of trade secrets, invasion of privacy, or other laws. You agree to confirm in writing your grant of rights to Sponsors and/or the above warranties as a condition to receiving a prize in the event you are eligible to receive a prize.
2. Winner Selection: Winner selection for the Grand Prize, and 3 (three) Runners-up will be decided by a drawing:
The Grand Prize, and the Runners-up Prizewinners will be drawn by The Crafty Chica (Kathy Cano-Murillo). The outcome of this drawing will be issued no later than Wednesday, March 17, 2010. The outcome of the prizewinners will be final and binding on all matters relating to the Contest. Limit one prize per household.
3. Prizes: One Grand Prize Winner three Runner-up Winners will be selected by The Crafty Chica (Kathy Cano-Murillo by drawing). The Grand Prize is a Crafty Chica gift basket, a copy of the Crafty Chicaís first novel "Waking Up in the Land of Glitter" and a $50 gift certificate to the Maker Shed. The gift basket includes the following:
- Crafty Chica™ Love Shrine™ Workshop-in-a-Box™
- Crafty Chica™ Glossy Gloss Varnish™
- Crafty Chica™ Chunky Glitters™(3)
The Runner-up Prize is a Crafty Chica gift basket as well as a as well as a Crafty Chica bobblehead. The runner-up gift basket includes the following:
- Crafty Chica™ Love Shrine™ Workshop-in-a-Box™
- Crafty Chica™ Glossy Gloss Varnish™
- Crafty Chica™ Chunky Glitters™ (2)
Estimated total value of all prizes: US $201.78. All prizes will be awarded, provided they are properly claimed.
4. Winner Notification: Each Prizewinner will be notified by e-mail or Flickr mail by Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Sponsors are not responsible for any change of entrant’s e-mail address. Any prize or prize notification returned as undeliverable or otherwise not claimed within seven (7) days after notification of prize award will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate prizewinner. Prizes are not transferable. No cash redemptions. No substitutions or exchanges of the prize will be permitted, except that Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value for any prize that becomes unavailable. The prizes are awarded "AS IS" and WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, express or implied, (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE). ACCEPTANCE OR USE OF PRIZE IS AT THE WINNER'S OWN RISK.
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