Advertising Giveaway Winners!

I am thrilled to announce the giveaway winners for this months advertising spots.

#40  Birgitta Designs

#64 NOfkants Curios

#179 Spotty n Stripy

All three have Folksy shops and have all been contacted, so hopefully I will be adding their advertising badges to the sidebar very soon.

I also want to appologise to all my lovely readers as I know I have neglected my blog due to my house move.  I had hoped to be posting five times a week again by now but I have moved into a house that is going to need  lots of tlc over the coming months, but I am going to try really hard this week to post every day.  Thank you for bearing with me and I would love you all to be involved in Buttons and Bows, so if you would like to be part of 'A Day in the Life' please email me.

Advertising Giveaway

It is almost the end of the month so time to have my advertising giveaway. Remember all you have to do is follow this blog to be in with a chance to win.

The Prize

One months free advertising in the right hand column

An editorial all about your business, including links to shops, websites, blogs and twitter & facebook too.

N.B. Just a reminder that the winners of last months giveaway will have their advert space for an extra two weeks as an appology for the two weeks I was away. Thanks.

Advertising Giveaway Winners

All the numbers were entered into the Random Number Generator on Saturday evening

and the winners are.....

#21 Dinky Daisy

#70 Dottie Designs

#177 Tigerlily Makes

I have contacted all the winners and have added two badges to the sidebar this morning, with the third being added hopefully later today.

Congratulations to all three winners!

Don't forget this a monthly competition, so good luck for next month!

Advertising Giveaway

Grey Wolf Graphics

Wow it's the end of August, the end of the school summer holidays. Already the nights are getting darker earlier and it has been chilly here for the last few days, with thoughts of Autumn and walks through crisp crunchy leaves, wrapped up warm in scarf and coat.

It is also time to announce my monthly advertising giveaway.  This giveaway is open to all my blog followers and the three lucky winners will receive one months free advertising in the right sidebar of my Buttons & Bows blog.  I will also write an editorial about the winner, to be posted on a Monday throught their months advertising spot.

I will pick three winners on Saturday 4 September and their advert will run from Monday 6 September.  All winners are picked using a random number generator and will be advised on Saturday.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

{Don't forget you can still purchase advertising for the reduced price of £10 for 3 months}

{Click here for details}

Design Your Shop Banner

A couple of weeks ago I posted a link to Meylah to a tutorial on how to design an ad badge.  Yesterday I received another tutorial from Meylah to create your own store banner using Picnik.  I have had a brief look at this tutorial and again it is easy to understand, although I will advise that when I use Picnik it does tend to make my computer run really slowly.  This is a shame as you can create some fab photo collages in Picnik.

So if you don't mind taking a little time with the software this tutorial is worth the effort!

Also today I am pleased to welcome Booties by Dannie and SP Jewellery, my latest advertising giveaway winners. I have heard from two of the three winners and their badges are now visable in the right hand column.  I am still awaiting a response from Wellydog Designs, but will add their badge as soon as I can.

Another exciting thing to share with you is that you can now find this blog at

http://www.buttonsandbowsblog.co.uk/

I have finally purchased my own URL and after a bit of teething trouble have connected the two!  Don't worry you can still find the blog at http://www.zoeanddrew.blogspot.com/ aswell.

I have added a button in the left hand column for the web hosting company I purchased my URL from, but there are others and I hold no bias over web hosting companies.

Please feel free to give me a shout if you can't connect the two, I am more than happy to help after the hours I spent trying to work it out!!  Just contact me via Twitter or email me at inspiredcelebration{at}gmail{dot}com

Advertising Winners

I have tapped the numbers into the random number generator and here are this months advrtising giveaway winners -
                   
                                     #18  Wellydog Designs

                                     #113 Booties by Dannie

                                     #146 SP Jewellery

Congratulations!!

Advertising Giveaway

I cannot believe that we are nearing the end of July already but this also means we are almost at the first Monday of August, so time for a giveaway!  As promised I will be offering 3 advertising spots for my followers, for one month starting from the first Monday in August.  Included in this giveaway is an editorial, which are published on a Monday, with links to your shops, website and blog. 

So good luck everyone and fingers crossed! The winners will be announced on Saturday.

This months winners editorials -

{Gooseberrymoon}  {Peculiar Forest}

How to make an Ad Badge

Making an Ad Badge for Promotion

I love finding new blogs to read and have come across some great ones in the past few weeks with lots of helpful tutorials, hints and tips for improving your blog, esty shop or general design ideas.  One of my favourite blogs currently is Going Home To Roost , where the lovely Bonnie shares advice for Etsy shops aswell as gorgeous ideas for interiors and gardening advice.  Just last week Bonnie posted about another blog called Meylah and upon looking at this I discovered a great tutorial for creating an advertising badge.  This tutorial is very simple and user friendly, perfect for time strapped small businesses trying to promote themselves.

I have downloaded Gimp and am now working on my badges. Why not have a try yourself, I'd love to see the results!

Advertising Giveaway Winners!

The wait is over, I have tapped in the numbers needed to get three randomly chosen numbers and here are the winners of this fab giveaway!

#20 Gooseberrymoon

#87 DesignsbyIsis

#105 Peculiar Forest

I have contacted each person and hope to have their badges & links in the right hand sidebar in the next couple of days.

I wanted to say a huge thank you to all of you lovely people that have left comments and tweeted about this giveaway, it really is appreciated.

Don't forget this will be a regular, monthly giveaway and I will post and tweet towards the end of July ready for August!

I hope you have all had a fab weekend and I'll be back tomorrow with a tutuorial for making a badge so you can advertise yourself,shop, blog, website etc!!!

Giveaway - Promoting Small Creative Businesses

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A couple of weeks ago I held a giveaway to celebrate having 100 followers on this blog and 300 followers on Twitter.  I realised today I had not updated my lovely blog followers of the winner, my sincere appologies.  The winner was randomly selected and was Nina, one of my Twitter followers.  Nina is a self taught crafter who has created some gorgeous items, as I discovered from looking at her Flickr page.

As you can see Nina is a very talented lady.

I now have another GIVEAWAY to share!  This time there will be no ribbons or buttons involved, but something that will hopefully help the three lucky winners.  I have been planning some posts about Promotion and how to help small creative businesses get the most out of the options available and to give details of possible marketing options.  So my new GIVEAWAY is offering three of my followers one months free advertising on this blog.  This will always start on the first Monday of the month and initially will be for my blog followers only.  My blog now receives over 500 visitors a month and over 1100 page hits a month, from the UK, USA and Australia, so you will be receiving good exposure.  Ideally the winners will have a badge to use in the right hand sidebar on the main page of this blog and I will then link it to their shop, website or blog.

I will announce the winners on Sunday! GOOD LUCK!



P.S. Other advertising options will be available, details to be announced in July!