Amazing FHFteam Giveaway

Last Updated on Monday, 9 January 2012 01:48 Written by MakinTheBestOfIt Monday, 9 January 2012 01:47

Hi there, my name is Jolene Wolfe and I am a lampwork bead maker. I have been a member of www.frithappens.co.uk, a UK based lampworking forum since 2007 and in 2009 I started a forum based Etsy Street Team called FHFteam . Each month we have a prize giveaway on our team blog and this month it is my turn to offer up a glassy treat or two. To be in with a chance of winning couldn’t be simpler, just pop by www.fhfteam.blogspot.com and leave a comment on one of our posts anytime before February 7th. Don’t worry if you are not a lampworker, you can nominate a lampworker to receive the twistie part of this prize package if you like.

This chunky aquarium focal bead featuring pretty little Tang tropical fish murrini

And a set of funky rainbow twisties

The winner will be drawn from the names of FHFteam blog followers who comment on the team blog during January, so don’t forget to ‘Follow’ us, and start sharing what’s on your mind! Drawing for the prize will take place on the 8th of February 2012

I’d like to say a special thank you to Andrew and Kimberly for inviting me to have a guest blog spot here to tell you all about our giveaway. Their tireless support of handmade it truly inspirational.

Happy New Year
Jo x
Kitzbitz on Etsy, Kitzbitz on HAFshop, Frit N Chips.

Facebook Fan Drive ends with Holiday Coupon

Last Updated on Monday, 21 November 2011 07:35 Written by shendoe Thursday, 24 November 2011 07:32

Hello all,

I just wanted to share with you a short contest I just ran on my facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ShendoeCeramics) that was super fun and easy for my friends.  I was just about 16 people shy of my 2011 goal of having 400 fans, so I ran a contest asking for existing fans to share my site and if one of their friends became the 400th fan, then both of them would get one of my handmade porcelain necklaces.  It worked wonderfully and in two days I had my winners!  To say thank you to all of my friends on Facebook for participating, I gave them a coupon code for my etsy ( FRIENDS11 ).

Just thought I would share this idea with all of you … feel free to use the coupon code and join my FB page.

Thanks for being part of the handmade community,

shen…

www.shendoe.etsy.com

Free HAFshop for life blogging contest!

Last Updated on Monday, 5 September 2011 06:36 Written by Handmade Artists' Forum and Shop Sunday, 21 August 2011 07:42

Well in our efforts to support handmade we have decided to do another free shop for life giveaway on the Handmade Artists’ Shop! For those of you who are not familiar with the HAFshop or (HAS) as some have been calling us, we are relatively new handmade marketplace. The HAFshop started in December of 2009 and struggled for the first year, those who had shops know what we are talking about LOL. Then we threw in the towel and went into private development and relaunched a completely custom multi-vendor platform dedicated to buying and selling handmade by the artist creations. There are many marketplaces out there that an artist can sell their handmade wares but few are solely handmade. We think this is the one thing that will set us apart from the other venues. We are not allowing any resellers, unaltered vintage, or non-handmade supplies, basically we are throwing any big box mass produced mentality out the window. Our goal is to go back to basics and have a handmade site only for handmade artists!

When we started on this new custom development our goal was fast and simple and we believe we succeeded. We also decided to keep the social features off the site as well, the forum and chat is hosted on a completely separate site with a separate login. The Handmade Artists’ Forum actually came first and is in it’s third year of dedicated service to handmade. The forum supports handmade artists’ from all over the world and does not discriminate against your choice of where to sell. Whether you choose to sell your creations on your own .com, other marketplaces, craft shows, or on our shop, we still just love handmade.

One other goal we have as a venue on the HAFShop is to keep it relatively small. Our initial goal is 10k vendors and then we plan to close open registration. After that our plan, if all works well, is to create a waiting list and hand pick the remaining vendors capping out at 20k vendors. As we get closer to this goal we will iron out the details and keep everyone informed. The thought behind this is that one day we believe that the HAFshop will be the elite place to buy and sell handmade, and by keeping it small and of high quality we think we will over time develop that reputation.

So now that you have received a little history lesson here are  the contest rules.

To enter the free shop for life giveaway all you need to do it write a blog post about the Handmade Artists’ Shop. You can write about an artist on the shop or just about the HAFshop in general. Blog posts should be at least a couple of paragraphs and a couple hundred words or so. Basically if you just write a couple lines your entry will not be counted. There should also be at least 2 links to the shop or the artist or media you are writing about on the HAFshop.

For an additional entry you can also put the shop badge on your blog, this is for an additional entry only. In other words if you do not post a blog about the shop and only put the badge your entry will not be counted. If you do post a blog post and put the badge on your blog your entry will count as two. Hope that makes sense. To grab the badge just copy the code below and post it in your blog.

<a href="http://handmadeartistsshop.com/"target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Handmade"src="http://handmadeartistsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/blog_badge3.png"/></a>

Now once you have written your post, come back to this page and post a comment with a link to your blog post. We will then review the post and see if you added a badge as well to your sidebar. If your post is acceptable we will add you to the list. Remember a blog post counts as 1 entry, a blog post and a badge will count as 2 entries.

This contest will end Sunday September 4th, 2011, any comment entries posted after this date will not be counted. Our last giveaway on The Beading Gem was a huge success so we are hoping to do the same with this one!