Announcing Our March Giveaway!

Special thanks to team member Kellibeans for hosting our February giveaway. Our lucky winner was Jama Watts of ThesePreciousThings. Congrats to our winner!

We have another wonderful giveaway lined up for the month of March! This beautiful necklace was created by the husband and wife team of Kelly and Joey Graves, also known as WhimsyBeading.


Created with our fantastic team member Paulena in mind, Paulena's Pearls are great for those who love to sport the red, white and blue all year long! This 18" necklace is made with 8mm white glass pearls and 4mm Swarovski crystals in brilliant Siam Ruby and Cobalt, with sterling silver findings.

The value of this giveaway is $25.00.You can see more creations from WhimsyBeading at their etsy shop.

Note:

"Whimsy Beading is donating 50% of the proceeds from the first three sales in March to Cheyenne Wright, the fantastic colorist for Girl Genius (www.girlgeniusonline.com), to help offset the costs of his medical bills. After that, 20% of the proceeds from our sales in March will go to Cheyenne."

How to Enter:

1. Visit the Whimsy Beading etsy shop and leave a comment here about an item you like or ask a question of Kelly and Joey. (one chance to win)

2. Follow the Bluegrass etsy team blog if you are not already a follower. Let us know you are following by commenting below. (one chance to win)

3. Subscribe to the Bluegrass etsy emails from this blog if you are not already a subscriber. Let us know you have subscribed in a comment below. (one chance to win)

4. Post about this contest on your own blog and leave us the link below for your blog. (one chance to win)

5. Tweet about this contest from your twitter account and leave us your twitter name. (one chance to win)

6. Make a purchase from WhimsyBeading for 3 chances to win. List the transaction ID in three separate comments below.

Kelly and Joey will draw a random winner on Wednesday, March 31. Stay tuned and good luck!

Leave Your Hat On February Giveaway!

We are happy to announce that a winner has been randomly selected in our January giveaway from GlorybeHerbals. Our winner is Khella of Great Britian. Congratulations, your bath salts are being sent to you by Jackie. Thanks to everyone that entered, we had a great response in January! And thanks to Jackie for sponsoring the month of January.

This month's giveaway is our biggest one yet, valued up to $30! Our February giveaway is a very stylish crocheted hat from Kellibeans AND an art card too! We have an exciting slide show to let you view some of Kelli's very original creations. I am sure you will have a hard time choosing!

What you can win:

One free hat of your choice from the kellibeans artfire shop
and one free Art Card of your choice from the kellibeans etsy shop.
Retail Value: Up to $30

How to win:

1. Visit the kellibeans artfire shop and etsy shop and leave a comment here about an item you like or ask a question of Kelli. One entry is allowed for the artfire shop and one for the etsy shop. (maximum of two chances)

2. Follow the Bluegrass etsy team blog if you are not already a follower. Let us know you are following by commenting below. (one chance to win)

3. Subscribe to the Bluegrass etsy emails from this blog if you are not already a subscriber. Let us know you have subscribed in a comment below. (one chance to win)

4. Post about this contest on your own blog and leave us the link below for your blog. (one chance to win)

5. Tweet about this contest from your twitter account and leave us your twitter name. (one chance to win)

6. Make a purchase from either of Kelli's shops for 3 chances to win. List the transaction ID in three separate comments below. (up to 6 chances to win if you purchase from both shops)

Kelli will draw a random winner on Sunday, February 28. Stay tuned and good luck!

Share Our Success: Kellibeans Part 2

If you remember our very own Kellibeans got on at Handmadenews.org as a columnist in the marketing Department.

Well, she has blown the doors off the department in every way possible. Her article about Guerrilla Marketing has made the list of most popular articles by vote with 23 votes! The great thing is this article went live on Aug 9 and this is Aug 23 that I am finding this! Kelli, thanks for blowing our doors off over in the Marketing Department. Your talent and skillz are so valuable to us there and to the team! You have been such a success in such a short amount of time, I wanted to celebrate that here! Congratulations you lucky dog! You deserve it!

You can see Kelli's handy craft work in her Etsy shop stuffed full of crafty goodness!

Share Our Success: Kellibeans

Many many congratulations to our very own Kellibeans for landing a job as a columnist in the marketing department at handmadenews.org.

She works hard for the team and is a marketing genius. Please bookmark her profile as it will soon be filled with links to her amazing articles she has in the works. Any Etsy shop can benefit from her wisdom as she has spent countless hours researching marketing and also has a natural knack for it.

Thanks so much Kelli for all you do for the team and I am so proud your wisdom can be shared with the whole handmade community!

Tutorial: Recycled ACEO Envelope or Seed Packet

Many thanks to our wonderful Kellibeans for making another awesome slideshow tutorial. And lets give her a big round of applause for the new graphics too! YAY GO KELLI!

New graphic for the team!

It looks like we have a CLOSE winner! Number 3 graphic made by Kellibeans is the winner of our poll! YAY!








I thank both of you guys, Themisfitdreamers and Kellibeans for working hard for the team and making these equally awesome graphics. Now Kellibeans you have become my slave, yes. I will send you an email and put you to work. Fellow members expect the blog to look a lot different SOON! Finding the feature friday member and the blog contest will soon be easy!

~Teambluegrass Bloggers:
For now feel free to take this graphic and make it link to our blog. You can do that by going to a place like photobucket.com where you can upload pictures,upload this graphic and copy the link directly to the picture, and then go here Myspace image codes and enter in the web address to the picture, then enter the link http://www.bluegrassetsy.blogspot.com or you can use our new URL which is http://www.kentuckyhandmade.com and click generate! The code that shows up in the bottom line, copy and paste that into an HTML gadget on your blog if your using blogger...if your somewhere else I dont have a clue as to what you do.

And yes I know the link I gave you says "Myspace" code generator but you can use these anywhere that you need a bit of HTML. Thats all it is generating is the HTML code for your clickable links and pictures. Use it anywhere you can insert such a code! Its fun to play with.

Slideshow Tutorial: Matchbook Notebook Promo Cards

This tutorial was lovingly put together by our own amazing Kellibeans Enjoy this tutorial and thanks Kelli for the hard work! This is a GREAT tutorial! I wanna go make one!