Monday, April 4, 2011

A Big Thank You!

Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway - the winner of the bracelet is Ashtin!

And there was a consolation prize of a silver ear cuff given to Rebecca.

But I realize that these were both facebook fans annnnnd so Im going to randomly pick from the ones who also posted on my blog for another consolation prize (also as an apology to everyone here for not posting this sooner!)

Everyone that commented was assigned another number according to the posting order
1. luvncrafts
2. prettygonzo
3. cccreations
4. forgetmenotsoaps
5. barleecreations
6. tsbeading


Congratulations to BarleeCreations!

You get your choice of a beaded bookmark or a silver/copper ear cuff!

You can email me at beadedremarcs at gmail dot com to let me know what you'd like :D

Thanks again everyone!

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Its time for another giveaway!

I have started making chain mail weave jewelry pieces starting with bracelets and what better way to promote than to give one away! Im really really enjoying making these!

The details can also be found on my facebook page - I have created an event to keep it all contained!

But, even if you don't have a facebook account you can still enter to win one!

Here are the details!

GIVEAWAY!! Up for grabs in this giveaway will be the Nimue chainmail bracelet made with bright aluminum and a silver plated lobster claw - currently at 7.5 inches with a couple of extender rings but this can be adjusted to the winner!

There will be a few ways to get entries!

1. like my facebook fan page (if you haven't already) and post a comment here or there under the event!

2. follow on my blog and/or twitter and post another comment here (or there) stating which or both.
http://prettyremarcs.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/PrettyRemarcs

3. share this giveaway and if that person comments with your name you get another entry!

Three entries per person max. Giveaway ends on April Fools Day - but I promise this is no joke!

Everyone will be assigned a number and a random number picker/generator will be used to draw the winner :D


Good luck everyone and please feel free to share (make sure they put down your name if someone here comments from your referral so you can get another entry!)

Thanks!

Monday, January 31, 2011

Happy New Year!

Lunar New Years that is!

It is going to be Year of the Rabbit on February 3rd and to celebrate Im offering a 15% off coupon code you can use in either my Etsy or my Artfire shops. (This is also a celebratory closing of my etsy shop sale!)

Use Code:

RABBIT2011

Valid until February 14th!

Here are some of the things I have available in my Artfire studio!



Thursday, January 20, 2011

A How-To for customized studio sections for your Artfire Studio

Hello Everyone!

I just recently updated my Artfire Studio with new pretty fancy schmancy studio sections and updated menu images and links for social networking, etc.

And since I know html can still give some people issues I want to give you a very basic breakdown of the code that I used and the steps to get your studio customized!

Step 1: Create your images.  You can make yours whatever size you want obviously, but these are the sizes I used for mine and you can check out the link above to see my studio.


150x60 pixels


150x32 pixels

I made these in photoshop and if you'd like some help with that please let me know and I can try to help but Im not super familiar with many other photo editing software and may only be able to give general tips if needed.

Step 2: Once you have all of your images created for all of your sections, subsections, social networking sites, email and whatever else you want, you will need to upload them to a photo hosting site unless you have your own.  I use Photobucket, but there is also ImageShack and Flickr among some of the free ones available.

Step 3: Open notepad/texpad or any text document program you're comfortable with.  I use notepad.  Now you will want to go to your studio and copy down each of your studio section links.  I normally just click the link and then click on the url web address bar at the top of my browser and copy and then paste it into my notepad document,  You will want to label them obviously so it won't get so confusing looking at so many url's.

Here is what mine looks like: click on image for a bigger picture

Obviously, you can have more or less depending on how you have your studio setup.  You can also do a search through your own studio if you wanted to be even more thorough with your sections and copy those links and make images for those particular searches, eg: by color, etc.

Step 4: Now that you have all of your images and all of your urls ready to go, it's time to code!
I just wrote mine underneath all of the urls I pasted into my notepad to keep everything simple and in one place and that way it's all saved in one spot too in case you need to make any changes.  You will also want to keep your photo hosting site open to get the image urls easily too.

Here are the basic html codes I used for mine. click on image for a bigger picture
Mine pretty much just uses the clickable image code a lot.

If you want to reference mine: here's my layout.

Img Src for the main studio section image
line break
line break
Clickable links for each of the studio sections
line break between each section and two line breaks between each main section
Img src for the image for my social networking section (find me online)
line break
Clickable link for each site (blog, facebook, twitter and whatever else you want to put)
line break
line break
Clickable image for email

I sure hope that all made sense!

Step 5: Once you have all your code typed out, be sure you save your notepad work.  You will now want to create a widget for your studio sections.  Make sure all of your code is in the order you want it to appear in your studio. You can find widgets via "My Artfire Dashboard" > "My studio" > "My widgets" > "Add a new studio widget" > "Text/Html/Flash"

Once you click on the link that says "Text/Html/Flash" it will open up a little box for you to paste all of your code (only the code part and not any of the urls you pasted when you were gathering your links together at the very beginning!). Be sure to click "add widget".  You can now check your studio to make sure that it looks the way it's supposed to, when you are happy with it you will then want to disable the Artfire generated studio sections by following the next step!

Step 6: You will go to your Atfire studio and disable your layout sections which can be found via "My Artfire Dashboard" > "My studio" > "Layout/Sections" > "My studio Sections"  And make sure you click on disable and save.

And if I did my instructions well - you now have a customized Artfire Studio! Hooray!

Please note: As far as I can tell the artfire generated payment processors image cannot be moved. Sorry.

Please let me know if there needs to be any clarification to any of these instructions and I can try to clear it up and post an edit.
Thanks!

Monday, January 3, 2011

Want to win a free pair of earrings?

Its a New Year and I want to give you a New Pair of Feather earrings!

All you have to do is tell me your New Years Resloution! (Or that you have resolved not to make any if you haven't)  You can either visit my facebook page and leave a comment there or you're welcome to leave it here.

You can also get an additional entry by tweeting this contest or posting on facebook and linking back for two additional entries.

The drawing ends tomorrow, 1/4/2010! Thanks!

Tawn

Friday, December 24, 2010

Is it catching?

For you creative folks out there who started to make handcrafted items and found you enjoyed it so much that the only way you can support your habit (and not be overrun in your own home by mountains of beautiful things) is to sell them.  Did you find that you had a passion but then you thought to yourself, if I can make this, I can also make that?

I don't know what it is! I see DIY crafts and I just want to try them all! Not to sell mind you, at least not yet!  More for home use :)

I have now made 5 moss terrariums, and they are super cute. They are going to be given for Christmas gifts as they are not at all the usual gift, although they aren't uncommon.  I even found a very sweet seller on Etsy (I tried finding something I liked on Artfire, but the selection is still too small : HINT: to all you clay smooshers out there - there is a need for terrarium miniatures on Artfire) to help me with the little clay miniatures that I put in them to liven them up a bit.  I will have to take photos of them and post!

And now, I want to try my hand at yarn wreaths. I found a really simple DIY tutorial and also saw a really simple way to make felt flowers in a magazine while waiting at the doctor's office one day that would be super adorable to use as embellishments.

I dont know when I'll have the time to start on all these extra crafts I want to do.  But my question is, do you do this too?

Once you start crafting it's hard to know where to stop!

Merry Christmas Everyone! ☺♥☺