My SEO Gal’s 1st Blog Hop!

My SEO Gal’s 1^st Blog Hop!

To help me become a better blogger I have joined My SEO Gals 1^st Blog Hop! The blog hop runs from Oct 5^th – 21^st at 12:00AM Central Time. During this time make sure and visit other blogs listed on the MckLinky below. These other blogs consists of some great businesses and some of them include giveaways. Spend a little time each day for the next two weeks and you will discover some great online boutiques and maybe even win a prize or two!

As a special giveaway to kick start this new blog hop I’m giving away a special gift. It will be a Whimsical Charm Bracelet similar to the one pictured here. I’m having a couple of computer issues this week and will try to have a picture up with the actual prize by the end of the week.

The Rules of the Contest

• The winner will be chosen by random.org.
• All comments must be left between now and October 21^st at 12:00am CT.
• Every entry will require a separate comment here, since that is how the random generator will work.
• You must leave a way for me to contact you in at least one of the comments that you leave on here. If you prefer, you may email me your contact info here: laura at photodesigngifts.com (no spaces).
• I will contact the winner within 72 hours and if I do not here back from the winner after 72 hours, then I will chose a new winner through random.org.

Ways to Enter Photo Design Gifts Giveaway

1. Required to Enter: Visit www.photodesigngifts.com and then come back here and write a comment about what your favorite item is.
2. Follow this blog, Whimsical Charms and leave a separate comment here.
3. Fan Photo Design Gifts on Facebook and leave a separate comment here.
4. Post about our giveaway on your Facebook Wall and come back here and leave a separate comment letting us know.
5. Complete all four of the above ways to enter and leave a separate comment here to receive a bonus entry!
6. During the next two weeks I may add to this list, so remember to come back and check for more chances to enter!
7. Remember to have fun!!

Whimsical Mother's Photo Bracelet

Recently I needed to make one of my closest friends a gift to help welcome her new baby, "5". Since this was her 2nd baby she didn't want a baby shower or gifts, but I couldn't not give her anything. So, since I'm in the process of trying to make samples for my new jewelry collection, Whimsical Charms I decided to make her a non-traditional sterling silver Mother's bracelet for her to showcase her family. I took these pictures quickly before giving her the bracelet, so I think I'll have to sneak over to her house sometime soon and take some better pictures.

The bracelet has 4 pewter picture charms to showcase her family (one each of the kids solo, one of them together and one of the parents together). The Swarovski Austrian Crystals represent the family's birthstones. I then handstamped on sterling silver the family's name.

Carmen loved the bracelet so much that she ended up ordering 3 matching keyrings (one for each Grandmother and one of herself). I hope you enjoy the bracelet as much as she did.

This design is coming soon to www.photodesigngifts.com

Welcome to Whimsical Charms' new blog. This blog is being started to help me to showcase some of my custom work that I am doing. I am importing my previous posts from my other blog that I rarely wrote it, but will hopefully be better about. :-)

Here are a couple of pictures of a Whimsical Charm bracelet that I created for myself to showcase this new fun design!

Check Out My Retired Stampin' Up!(r) Sets on eBay

I'm going to convention for the first time this year! Woohoo! To help raise money for my expenses I'm selling some of my retired stamp sets. Some of them I have a slight emotional attachment to and they will be missed. You can see all my stamp sets available here:

Stampin' Up! Retired Sets

Pictured is just a sample of some of the sets available that I listed today. I'll be listing some more sets later this week end as well.

Images (c) Stampin' Up!

Opps! I forgot to show you the cute gift box that I made to give the pendant in! I realized at the last minute that I didn't have a gift box ready to go. I thought about just putting it in a organza bag and giving it to her that way, but considering my sister, Mama Kat is also my leader... what would be the fun in that? So, I quickly made her this cute box using the Big Shot Die-Cut Machine (page 193 in the catalog) and the Box #2 die (page 194). I used the Parisian Breeze Specialty Paper (page 158). For the embellishment, I cut a Stampin' Up Simple Flower die cut (p. 202) out of Baja Breeze cardstock and attached it with a Chocolate Chip Corduroy Button (p. 176). To finish the look I tied a Chocolate Chip ribbon (p. 179) around the box. It took me less than 5 minutes to make the perfect gift box! Best part, everything was color coordinated! Because Stampin' Up! is kind enough to tell us what colors are showcased in the Designer Series Paper, I knew what cardstock and color of button to use!

Images (c) Stampin' Up!