Enter Social Designer’s Colored Pencil Contest

Who doesn’t need extra money? Social Designer runs endless contests with good prizes – mostly cash and mostly about $2,000. Now that I’ve got dollar signs spinning in your eyes, this contest isn’t a cash prize. But it worth $660. Enough with the teasing, the prize is a set of professional colored pencils worth $660 (as I said).

Your mission: Design a graphic for an e-card that greets the recipient with colorful cheer. Your design could be an illustration of some kind or a photo you took but it must be original. The winning e-card design will be available on the 500 Colored Pencils website, where you’ll be able to mail to any of your contacts.

For each e-card sent Social Designer will donate 10 cents (up to $1000) to The Humane Society http://www.hsus.org/. The theme of the card should be generic and not reference specific occasions or holidays so it can be tailored by the user with their own personal message to the recipient.

This is a Facebook contest, something new to Social Designer. To learn more, follow this link.

Last day to enter the Wallpaper Crafty Contest!

Welcome back! Hope you all had a great weekend. I spent my time shopping for home accessories. I’m finishing up a bedroom project. Oh, and then there was dinner with friends at Mr. Paul’s Chophouse, an old restaurant that still makes Caesar Salad and Cherries Jubilee Flambe tableside. Hope your weekend was fun as well.

Candy designed this beauty

Now to the contest. This is the last day to enter for a chance to win 20 square feet of wallpaper from Alluminare. You design it yourself! Just visit the site, design your favorite style and post the link in the comments. Let me know what your idea is for using the wallpaper in a craft project.

You can read all the details here.

I’ll announce the winner tomorrow morning. There’s no time to waste, so enter today.

Alluminare Craft Contest

What would you do with 20 square feet of wallpaper? Come up with your best handmade plan and you could win a gift certificate to make your creation a reality.

Alluminare, the sponsor of this contest, is the place to go to create your own, one-of-a-kind wallpaper. Choose your pattern, colors and sizes. Have fun! Then, scoot back here and let me know what you chose (copy the URL – it’s the easiest way to share)¬† and let me know how you’d put it to good use.

Stumped for ideas? Take some of mine:

• Cover a twin-sized headboard with a cheerful pattern for your child’s room.
• Create Instant Art with a bold pattern cut in two or three pieces. Cover canvases or canvas frames with the paper and hang them on either side of a fireplace. Or side-by-side in a dining room.
• Line envelopes, make greeting cards
• Decoupage a waste basket and cover a mirror frame to create a groovy a powder room

For all the fun details, follow this link to my previous post. Don’t wait! The contest ends this Monday. The winner will be drawn at random. And did I mention the Design Hole T shirt? Oooh!

Alluminare Custom Wallpaper Giveaway

What would you do with 20 square feet of custom, design-it-yourself wallpaper? Would you cover the back of a bookcase to add some zip to a room? Create one-of-a-kind picture frames, storage boxes or planters?

Here’s your chance to put your creativity to the test and turn your idea into reality. The prize? A gift certificate from Alluminare good towards that 20 square feet of custom wallpaper. Plus a Design Hole T-shirt. Yay!

Only three simple steps to enter!

1. Come up with your best idea for a handmade item or crafty application using a 4 foot x 5 foot piece of wallpaper. You can cut it, tear it, soak it – whatever. Just be creative.
2. Scoot over to Alluminare, and design your favorite wallpaper. They’ve got lots of patterns, up to 4 colors on one design, and 4 sizes to choose from. Copy the URL with your design.
3. Hop back here and leave your idea under “comments”, along with the URL link showing your design.

The winning idea will be announced on Tuesday morning, September 29th.

The contest is open to everyone living in the contiguous United States, plus Hawaii, as long as you haven’t won a prize in the last 6 months. Even Martha Stewart can enter.

Enter to Win Great Prizes in the Dorm Room D?©cor Contest

This is a reminder that it’s still not too late to enter my Dorm Room D?©cor Contest! You have until the end of the month to show off your decorating and budgeting skills. Can you decorate a room for $100 or less? You know you can.

The top three designs will win super-fantastic prizes from FLOR, Always Mod, Alluminare, and Benjamin Moore. For more details on prizes (some shown here), follow this link, and this one. Then start designing!

And, you don’t have to do one in “real life”. Email me and I’ll send you a floor plan (only 13′ x 10′) of a virtual room complete with photos.

Anyone who wants to enter should email me for the rules at designholeonline at gmail dot com. They’re very simple – I promise.

Need some ideas? Here are a few.

• Dress up a wall using decals. You can make your own easily.
• Buy stuff from the hardware store, like yard sticks and washers , to create your own mural.
• Drag something from over your Mom’s house and paint it.
• Buy a white sheet at K-Mart and tie dye it.
• Make some iron-on decals and design your own matching curtains and bedspread made from old sheets.

Have fun! But don’t forget to email me for the rules. There are lots of ideas there, too.