Hello and welcome to winner Wed.

We are very excited to announce Free shipping on any purchase for a limited time.  When you check out enter the code “freeship” and you won’t have to pay a thing to haveyour new stamps sent to you. The free shipping does include international orders.  No exclusions at all…..hurry up as this offer won’t last long.

Now for our winner: #11 Sheri Thompson is the randomly selected winner from last week’s Sketch.  Sherri please contact me regrading how to get your half price on the stamp set of your choosing.

Hey everyone, Kandi here! Welcome to Wednesday where we’ll be announcing some winners! In our 100th post last week we announced we were giving away 3 FREE STAMP SETS! Whoa! Can you believe it?! Two for the winners of our sketch challenge, and one from the comments left on the post!  Before we announce the winners, I wanted to let you know about an awesome discount going on right now! Heather, the super amazing owner of SSD is thankful for many things, and you our wonderful customers are among them!

To celebrate our 100th post, and to thank our wonderful customers for all your efforts during our “Blogs for Boobies,” we’d like to give you a little something back!

Customer appreciation SALE!!! Thanks to everyone who supported us in our blogs 4 boobies($1108.99 raised for the Komen foundation)!!!

THIS WEEK ONLY! Spend a minimum of $33 and get 33% off your entire purchase! Enter the coupon code: crazydiscount at checkout. This offer expires Tuesday, November 9th at midnight.

Alright now for our winners!

Winners of sketch challenge #48 - you get a FREE Stamp set!
Random.org picked….
#22 – CRAFTY MATH CHICK! and
#17 GLORY!!

Now for the winner of a pre-release stamp set from the comments on our 100th post! Random.org picked….
#1 – AMY!

Congrats to all of our winners! Please email Heather to claim your prize and winners badge, and be sure to share your awesome creations with us!

PS – Take a look at our newest sketch challenge, we’d love to see your cards created with the sketch by Shannan Teubner!
PPS – Make a card with SSD stamps (outside of our sketch challenge) and email me (kandipants21 at gmail dot com) a link to your card…you might end up as a Sunday Spotlight Featured Designer!

Tonight I was carving pumpkins with my kids and something was nagging the back of my brain.  Then elbow deep in my son’s ginormous pumpkin I remembered I promised to post today AND it was “Winner Weds” ~ So sorry for the delay..better late than never eh?

It’s Winner’s Wednesday here at Skipping Stones design but first I have  a few treats:

Coupons:

Yesterday was our 100th blog post. To help celebrate I have some amazing coupons*.  They will be good through Wed November 3rd at midnight.

*These offers CAN NOT be combined so please PICK YOUR FAVORITE COUPON :0)

*Buy3 get 1 FREE! Enter the following code at checkout: 31FREE

*Save $5 when you spend $20 or more! Enter the following code at check out: 5OFF20

*Free shipping! Enter the following code at checkout:  FREESHIP

Here is a Sneak Peek at this month’s new release “Sassy Snow”

Skipping Stones does snow with a lot of “sass” thrown in.  This set includes a cute version of Snowman Poop Poem.  This new version of the poem will not only work for Christmas but also for winter birthdays.  You’ll have to check back and see another “sneak peek” to see what I’m talking about.

Here are the winners and their prizes  for the follwing sketch challenges:

SSD #45 Lianne Carper  – You win $7.49 off any stamp set and a badge

Ssd # 46 Janice – You also win $7.49 off any stamp set and a badge

SSD # 47 Linda Lapotka - You win a FREE pre-release stamp set

Congratulations to all of our winners.  If you are a winner  please contact me so I can get your prizes to you!!!

It is winners Weds. here at Skipping Stones Design

By Far the biggest winner today is the Komen Foundation, and everyone who contributed in any way to the $1108.99 we raised !!!! Thank You to everyone who was a part of Blogs 4 boobies.  This is the big celebration post!  We have the proof of donation, and a NEW stamp set that you can pre-order NOW (to raise EVEN more money for the Komen Foundation), and will announce 5 winners!

The first winner we are announcing is from the “WORD OF MOUTH” contest!  The winner and their friend will Each receive over $80 worth of SSD merchandise!!! That’s a total prize package worth over $160!!!!

Amanda Rhodes (comment number 27) and her friend are the winners in the “Word of mouth” contest!!!  Amanda Please contact me ASAP ;0)

True Random Number Generator Min:

Now I did promise a SURPRISE….

For the first time I am going to allow sales on a “PRE-Release” set.

Here is your first look at Cancer Shmancer: IF you *Pre -order this set now through October 15th $4 will be donated to the Komen Foundation! 

Cancer Schamancer 4X6 Order now & it will ship on the release date of  October 15th

Thanks to Krissi Nyg for the word Art on this set!

The reason I am allowing people to purchase it from today until the 15th is that we are continuing our fundraising efforts for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  A whopping $4 from each set will be donated to the  Komen Foundation THE WHOLE MONTH OF OCTOBER!!!!  By accepting pre~orders that gives us an extra 9 days of sales to donate!!!! 

This celebration post wouldn’t be complete without  proof of donation: Make sure you keep scrolling down to see 4 MORE winners!

 
Here are FOUR  more winners!

Each will receive $7.25 off (yes, I did decide to increase it so I can attract more participants in the weekly challenge) any stamp set in the store and a winner badge from SSD!!!

From Sketch #44 Liz G!

From Sketch #43 Laura Cox!

From Sketch #42 Nicky HSU!

From Sketch #41 Julie Lacey!

Be sure to come back tomorrow for Tips and Tricks Thursday!!!

I am happy to announce our winner for SSD #40!

(Usually I will announce the winners on Weds.) 

Congratulations Laurel S. #6 please contact me to claim your prize!

Make sure to read the post below for Kandis fabulous “Tips and Tricks” post.

Happy Tuesday everyone!!!  You are in for an amazing treat!  Yesterday you got to know a little about Ashley Cannon Newell. We are SO lucky to have her as our Sketch Artist this month!!!  Now you get to experience her design talent first hand.  Here is her versatile and fun sketch:

This sketch will make you feel like a pro~ seriosuly this is one you’ve gotta try. Not convinced yet?  Take a look at what our A~mazing guest did with it.

This month’s talented guest designers, are like an allstar papercrafting lineup.  Their work is amazing, and sure to inspire.  Yet met them yesterday, now see their take on Ashley’s amazing sketch:  

Ashley

Teresa

Sarah

Lea

I am So excited to show you the following cards.  This is your first look at our FANTASTIC new Design Team.  I feel so lucky to have such a talented group of ladies to work with!  They will be here to inspire you with their cards, share tips and tricks, and so much more.  Here is their first post together as the Skipping Stones Design Team:

Amy

Ann

Barb

Brenda

Gladys

Jennifer

Kandi

Tammie

Wendy

Now it’s your turn to get inky with us!  Common and play along! This weeks winner will get $7.25 off of any stamp set in the store, along with a badge for you blog!

Also please help me give a warm welcome to our amazing guest, and our new design team.  A winner from the comments will also be selected to win half off any stamp set in the store.   We love your comments! 

Hi everyone!

I’m back today to share some special announcements and our winners from our sketch challenges!

I’m so excited to tell you about some of the new things that will be happening on the Skipping Stones Design Blog! For starters, here are some of the weekly things we’ll have happening for you, starting next week!

Mondays: Meet and Greet Monday- the first Monday of every month you’ll meet our new Guest DT for the month, and also our Guest Sketch Artists! The Stamp Tramps section of the website will also be updated so you can get to know our current DT a little bit better!

Tuesdays: SSD Sketch Tuesday

Wednesdays: Winners Wednesday

Thursdays: Tips and Tricks Thursday ** coming next week!

We have some other great ideas coming for Friday and Saturday that we can’t wait to share with you in the coming months! In the meantime, we’d like to tell you about a special Blog Hop we’ll be doing on 9/15.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Skipping Stones Design would like to give back to that cause. More details will be coming out, but a certain “Bras” set (hint: what comes after Bras #1?!) will be our featured release during the hop, you’ll find out more about the discounts going on, what SSD is doing to further our donation to the Susan G. Komen foundation, and how YOU can also be part of giving back to this charity!  Not only that, but we’ll continue to give back into October with another new set designed specifically to “stamp out cancer” and even more! I hope you are as excited about this as I am!

Now for our winners from the last two sketches! Random.org has given us two random winners, but all of the cards were exceptional and I am blown away each week by your creativity! I’m so excited to see all of your beautiful creations each week, so keep them coming! If your name and number are listed below please contact Heather regarding your winner badge and your $5 off certificate!

Sketch #38 – #4 – Laura Cox
Sketch #39 – #1 – Debby

Congrats winners!

Monday kicks off a brand new week so please stop by again!

Have a great day! Kandi

Last week we had a record number of participants in our Sketch challenge.  SO to celebrate I chose Two winners!!!

They are:

#1Laurel S

#12 Allison

Please contact me to get your $5 prize and your badge!

I am So excited about our new release this month.  Everything came together so perfectly.  I not only love the sentiments but I love how they look too!  This was the first time I payed someone to help design the “word art” Kryssi Ng did an amazing job, don’t you think????   Here is another sneak peek at “Always Here”:

Wow! Time flies when you havin’ fun!  I can’t believe the kids are going to be back in school in 3 weeks or so.

I also can’t believe how far behind I got on announcing winners of the sketch challenges!!!

So let’s catch up on that first.  IF your name and number are listed below please contact me regarding your winner badge and your $5 off certificate.

Sketch #34 winner is #5 Agata

Sketch #35 winner is #3  KC

Sketch #36 winner is #4 Amy

I am so excited to see how many people entered our sketch challenge this week.  I am also thrilled to be giving you a sneak peek at a stamp set that has a very special place in my heart.  We will be releasing it for sale in two weeks time.  Here is an up close look at “always Here”

Looks like I got a bit behind in announcing winners from the sketch challenges, so two are going to be announced in this post today.

I used The Random generator to choose  winners from the following sketches:

Sketch number 32 winners are

Teresa Kline from “Enjoy the Va. Sunshine”

True Random Number Generator Min:

Barb Gmitro Best From “Barb’s Best Creations

The winner from Sketch #33 is

Silvia Mabie from Mabie Stampin

* Just a note The Inlinkz is still open for another 15 hours on this challenge. If I get a total of 3 more links  before the cut off timethis after noon I will pick another winner.

Now about the Prizes: Normaly the prize is a badge and $5 off of any stamp set in the store.  However last week I made a boo-boo in the post.  I mistakenly said $10 off and a badge.  See what I get for working too much, and sleepin’ too little *blush   So the winners from this post will get the $10 off of a stamp set along with the badge.  If you are a winner please contact me with your email address so I can send you your goodies:0)

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners and THANK YOU to all who have been entering the challenges!!!