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The biz card giveaway below is open until the end of March! Leave a comment to win~!~

Who Doesn't Like Jewelry - or Cash!?!?

I found an easy-peasy giveaway today and I wanted to share it with my readers. This one is for cash from LuShae Jewelry. Every month they draw for $200 and a grand prize of $5000 every year. (Next yearly draw is October.) Click HERE for the details.

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My March giveaway comes from Uprinting again! Here's the scoop...

500 Business Cards for One (1) Winner (and me, too!)

Sizes: 2 x 3.5”, 2 x 3”, 2 x 2” (square card) or 1.5 x 3.5” (slim card)

Paper: 14 pt gloss cardstock, 14 pt matte cardstock or 13 pt recycled uncoated cardstock

Specifications: Full Color Both Sides; Offset Press; 3 Business Day Printing

Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping

Eligibility: Limited to US Residents only

Check out the great Business Cards Online and the Promotional Printing that Uprinting has to offer.

How to enter:
After checking out the Uprinting website by clicking on one of the links above, leave me a comment about Uprinting. For 2 additional entries be a follower or become a follower of my blog. For 2 more entries become a Weller Store fan on Facebook. Leave separate comments for each.

Giveaway closes on Wednesday, March 31st at midnight Central Time.

POSTER GIVEAWAY WINNER!!!

Andee said:

dejablu503 said...

I would create a special poster for my daughter's boy friend who refused to walk away when she was diagnosed with MS. In fact if it were not for him she would not be able to afford medical care. He is quite a guy!

Andee

Congratulations, Andee! You can design a great poster with your prize from onlineposterprinting.com! Please send me your email address so they can send you a link to your prize.


Thanks to all who entered the giveaway!!

POSTER GIVEAWAY!!

One of my readers will have a chance to win a free poster from OnlinePosterPrinting.com (they're giving me one, too!)

Just think of all the things you could do with a nice, high-quality poster! Showcase your favorite photo, band, or your own artwork - Make one for a special event or school activity - the possibilities are endless! Check them out HERE.

Here's the scoop:

Enter to win by leaving me a comment telling me what you will do with your poster. For additional entries follow my blog (one entry)and become a FB fan of the Weller Store (one entry). Send separate comments letting me know you follow me and/or are a fan of the Weller Store.

The winner will receive:

8x24 Poster Print for One (1) Winner

Paper Stock: High Gloss or Semi Gloss

Specifications: 1 Business Day Turnaround

Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping

Eligibility: Limited to US Residents only

Deadline to enter the giveaway is Sunday, February 28th. Be sure to give me your email address if it is not attached to your profile so I can notify you if you win!

Digital Photo Enlargement

Digital Photos on Posters

So...What Have You Been Up To?

Rather than hibernate completely this winter (again) I decided to get out of the house at least a couple of times every week. So far, I've been able to get out and do something worthwhile three or more times every week and I'm having a lot of fun.

Since we moved my MIL into an assisted living facility a little over a year ago, I've noticed that several of the residents always seemed lonely and just didn't know what to do with themselves. I thought I might try to make a difference by spending more time over there during the week. Every Tuesday I get some other women in the area to meet me there and we help residents play Yahtzee. Everyone knows how to roll the dice and we don't play "for keeps" (at least most of us don't play Killer Yahtzee!) so we laugh a lot and talk a lot and , of course, we have coffee/tea and something home baked while we're at it. On Saturdays we play BINGO. Everyone wins two prizes (fruit or candy) and, of course, we have an ice cream treat afterward.

My favorite activity is when I can help some of the residents create something beautiful. We started out with some simple magazine collages. Here are some pictures of the latest project we did just prior to Valentine's Day.



I think they did a GREAT job! Most importantly, we had FUN. Two of the ladies had so much fun that they worked together until 9:30 PM - which is pretty late for them to be so bright-eyed. I think we'll make some necklaces next!



Edna and Melba - up late and working on a free-form collage.


If you're looking for something worthwhile and rewarding to do, check out your local nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Volunteering to do ANYTHING at all there will be most appreciated! Bake cookies with the ladies, read to someone who is blind or nearly so, help residents with jig saw puzzles or simple word search puzzles, take a walk with someone, bring your pet to visit - the possibilities are endless. You won't be sorry you did!

A Cure For The Winter Doldrums - Take A Workshop Or Two

You may remember that I've mentioned the artist KC Willis and the workshops she teaches. I attended one last October and I'd love to go back to Colorado for another. When I heard she was putting a marketing workshop together on-line, I jumped at the chance to join in and I'm so glad I did! This is one of those workshops that is open-ended and you can sign up for it at any time. In fact, if you're interested, she has agreed to extend her special introductory price until February 1st. In addition to the workshop videos there are a lot of interesting discussions taking place on the site. If you're an artist who wants to market your art, you won't regret it.




If you're not at the point of marketing your art and you want to learn some new techniques, you may want to take a look at the other workshops she has to offer. Here's what KC has to say about them:




This has been an amazing year at KC Willis Studio. Wow. 170 students from 8 countries currently enrolled at the on-line workshop where I teach the basics of my techniques and inspire you to new creative heights. You have never seen anything like Collage Camp.

After Collage Camp there's Mixed Media Mania where you take what you learned at Collage Camp and in these workshops I teach Altars and Shrines, Altered Books and Works on Paper. Fun stuff.


And for those of you already making art and wanting to know how you take it to the next level and get yourself a regional or national audience, next week starts the super exciting Marketing Mindset. Check out the Main Page and take advantage of the Intro Price which will only last until January 8th.



And if video workshops aren't your thing...how about KC Willis Live! (assuming I've had my coffee.) Come take a multi-day class with me in my very sweet Victorian studio house in Longmont, Colorado. Check it out at www.studioretreats.ning.com.

POST CARD WINNER!!!

Congrats to Stephanie who wrote:

What a very generous giveaway! I would use these to promote my new art business. I've been wanting to be an artist for a very long time. I plan to make my mark in 2010. Good luck to you in the new year.

Stephanie will be contacted by Uprinting shortly with a code to receive her 100 Post Cards!

New Year Post Card Giveaway!!

Post Card Giveaway!

I have a very generous sponsor, UPrinting, who is offering yet another giveaway to me and my readers! Here's the scoop...


100 Postcards for One Lucky Winner (I get some, too!)
Size: 4x6; Paper: 14pt Cardstock Gloss; Printing: Full color both sides
Shipping: Winner pays shipping. Offer not available to residents outside of the US.

I can think of a lot of ways to use mine! Invitations, thank you cards, note cards... maybe I'll make some sale announcements for the Weller Store! With these cards you use your own design so I can use pictures of the merchandise and add my logo as well!


How can you enter?

* Leave a comment on this post describing how you would use the post cards if you win
* Follow this blog publicly (see the sidebar) and leave a comment telling me you did so (if you already follow, that counts too! Just leave a comment)
* Tell some friends about the giveaway and ask them to stop by and enter. You can blog about it (leave a link!), or send out an email. Just let me know what you did!

Please leave separate comments for each!

The winner will be drawn on January 1st, 2010.

POSTER WINNER!!!

Karin from Countryfolk Keepsakes said...

Cool!! Please toss my name into the hat. Gee! Its a toss up between my sweet Darla or a pretty pic of autumn here in central New York. Thanks for entering me. :> )
~Karin


Congratulations!!

You will receive a code for your free poster via email in the next few days - have fun!!

Thanks to all who entered!!

JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! POSTER GIVEAWAY!!

It's a great time for my sponsor to reward my readers and myself with a photo enlargement poster print from Onlineposterprinting.com. It's the best place to make 18x24" Poster Prints from your digital photos! Easy peasy!

Giveaway prize: (1) 18x24 poster print from onlineposterprinting.com for one lucky reader

Size: 18x24 Poster: Paper: High Gloss; Semi Gloss

Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping in the US

Eligibility: Limited to US Residents

How to enter: Comment on this blog by midnight on December 5th - let me know what you will do with the poster if you win. What kind of picture will you use?

For extra entries: 1) follow my blog 2) link to this giveaway on your blog. (Please make separate comments for each!)

As for me, I have this wonderful picture of Sitting Bull that would look great over the fireplace!



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Everything You Need To Know About Marketing Your Work

I think it's safe to say there aren't many artists whose goal in life isn't to do what they love every day and actually make a living at it. It's also a good bet that there aren't many artists who have a clue how to achieve that goal - or even know where to begin the process and make part of that journey.

When it comes to having work shown and sold in prestigious galleries, hung in museums and sought after by collectors; a name that is respected and recognized across the country; steady sales in both Internet and brick-and-mortar retail establishments; as well as work published in books and TV spots, most of us just sit and dream about it.

KC Willis, however, is one of those rare artists who has been-there-and-done-that and marketed the coffee cups and greeting cards besides. Literally. So, when she decided to put it all out there and share her experience and knowledge of marketing art, I jumped right in and signed on for the on-line workshop "Marketing Mindset: Navigating the Art Market". I had recently taken a workshop with KC at her gallery/studio in Colorado and found her to be an excellent and talented teacher - it didn't take much time for me to decide to do this one, too.

Here's how KC describes her offering at Marketing Mindset:

I am putting together an on-line workshop that you can participate in at any time, whenever you want. I will cover every subject imaginable as it pertains to marketing your work to the public. And it will be delivered in such a way that there is info there for the novice, those working and selling some already and those in the full throes of their art career, but who still want to take it up a notch into wholesale or licensing. There will be lots of videos by subject matter so you can pick and choose which ones you want to see based on the subjects that matter to you.

How about...
• Creating a cohesive, signature look
• Working in series
• Consignment vs. wholesale
• Pricing your work
• The differences between approaching a gallery, a shop, an on-line retailer or a catalog
• Using Social Networks
• PR-how to get written about in newspapers and magazines
• Marketing your work without leaving home
• The Pros and Cons of having an Artist's Rep.
• Researching your market
• Licensing your work and your name.
• Blogs vs. Websites
• Selling on-line
• Keeping motivated
• Becoming fearless
• And soooooo much more.

You will get unlimited access to the videos, discussion boards where I will answer your questions (along with other artists at the workshop) and scheduled live chats. And anyone who has participated in my on-line workshops or my in-person classes can tell you that I am as much about inspiration and motivation as I am technique. I will encourage you and change your attitude about all things marketing.

A one-day art marketing workshop can be as much as $300 easily. For the time being access to my class (which will be a lot more than a one day thing) is $144. When the videos go live in December the class will be $244. If you get even one good idea that changes the way you think or do things...this class will pay for itself. It's even tax deductible. Not knowing where to go next has stopped many an artist in their tracks. You will also have the opportunity to work with me one-on-one through private phone consultations at an additional fee. Your own private art coach.

I have no doubt that it will be well worth the investment for me. Check it out and see what you think. http://marketingmindset.ning.com/

Giveaway Winner!

Congrats to Anne - winner of the brochures from UPrinting!

Anne~fiona and twig said...

Well, I suppose I'd use them for advertising my shop. How generous!

UPrinting Brochure Giveaway!

My blog sponsor is going crazy with giveaways! They are giving me and one of my lucky followers 100 brochures!

100 8.5 x11" Brochure / Flyers on 100lb gloss text paper ; 4 color printing on both sides
Folding Choices: Half fold; Trifold/Letterfold; Z-fold; Accordion (4 panels) Roll Fold (4 Panels)
Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping
Eligibility: Limited to US Residents.


How can you enter?

* Leave a comment on this post describing how you would use the brochures if you win - I already know what I'm going to do with mine!
* Follow this blog publicly (see the sidebar) and leave a comment telling me you did so (if you already follow, that counts too! Just leave a comment)
* Tell some friends about the giveaway and ask them to stop by and enter. You can blog about it (leave a link!), or send out an email. Just let me know what you did!

Please leave separate comments for each!

Winner will be drawn on November 2nd. Good luck!

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Banner Giveaway Winner!

Congrats to Raggedy Angel who said...

Oh that sound s like a nice prize and they have so many nice things. My Daughters School would like to have it I am sure....she would probably like it for herself!
I am loving your pictures! Thanks for coming to see me! Beth

I have your email address, Beth. UPrinting should be contacting you soon with a special code for your banner! I'd love to see what you do with it!

Eileen