Sleep Deprived Parent Giveaway

GIVEAWAY CLOSED
Lisa, Elaine, and Anonymous Won


In honor of Mother's Day, and as part of the Ultimate Blog Carnival on LiveGiveaways.com and the Springtime Giveaway Carnival over at Heavenly Homemakers I'm giving a free Sleep Deprived Parent magnet or button to up to three people (SIDE NOTE: I'm so glad that some other blogs are stepping up to do what the Bloggy Giveaways used to do with their carnival--I was sad to see that go!). Anyways...details of my giveaway are below...but if you would like some virtual flair too, feel free to grab the following button graphic for your website or blog!

<br /><a href="http://www.scribbleprints.com"><img src="ttp://galesgifts.windhavenweb.com/LOGOS/buttons/SDPbutton150.jpg"/></a><br />

125 x 125 version
(for those who want one a little smaller)

<br /><a href="http://www.scribbleprints.com"><img src="ttp://galesgifts.windhavenweb.com/LOGOS/buttons/SDPbutton125.jpg"/></a><br />

If you grab my button graphic and don't use the HTML provided, please include a link to either www.scribbleprints.com, www.galesgiggles.com, www.zazzle.com/scribbleprints*, or a link to this post (if you're an affiliate of CafePress or Zazzle, and affiliate link to my shop is fine too).

Check out my shops below for lots of other fun stuff with my designs:
Scribbleprints - Zazzle
Gale's Giggles
Scribbleprints.com


HOW TO ENTER
REQUIRED: To enter, visit any one of my shops listed above and make a comment telling me your favorite design! Make sure to leave a way to contact me.

EXTRA ENTRIES
Please leave a separate comment for each of the following you do. Each is good for one extra entry. Extra entries so also gives you a chance to win extra buttons/magnets. If I choose more than one of your comments in the random draw you can choose another button or magnet from my shop.


1. Blog about this giveaway or about any of my shops or products and leave a comment with the URL to the blog post where you did.

2. Add the free Sleep Deprived Parent button graphic to your website or blog, then comment with the URL.

3. Tell me (in a separate comment) how you found this blog.

4. Add the Such Fun to Give button to your website or blog (it's on the top left) then comment with the URL you put it on.

5. Follow me!.

6. Stumble, delicious, share on facebook, or twitter about this blog, this giveaway OR any of my shops. Then comment telling me you did.

Entries will be accepted until midnight May 10th. The winner for the button/magnet will be chosen May 11th (the day after Mother's Day) by the random number generator at Random.org. If I can't reach you within 5 days, you forfeit your prize (if you leave no way for me to contact you you forfeit it immediatly...sorry, I can't give it to you if I can't find you). If you are concerned about privacy please read my Privacy Policy here.

Earth Day - Fun to Give Back

Here's some fun free things you can do to help our environment.

If you have a website or blog, you can head over to Brighter Planet, grab one of their buttons (like the one below), fill out their form to let them know, and they will offset 350 pounds of carbon in your name. That's like flicking off 100 lightbulbs for a day, or going two full weeks without your car!





No blog? No problem. Here are 15 places you can go where they will make a small donation (a few cents) for ever person who clicks on a certain link on their site:


Care 2 - Stop Global Warming
Care 2 - Save the Rainforest, Marine Wetland, and American Prairie
Care 2 - Save Baby Seals
Care 2 - Save Our Oceans
Care 2 - Save the Big Cats
Care 2 - Save the Primates
The Rainforest Site
Red Jelly Fish
The Ecology Fund
Race for the Rainforest
Land Care Niagara
The Environment Site
Oaks of the World
Save Forest (not in English)
Die Waldseite (not in English)


How it works is advertisers pay a few cents every time their ad is viewed, and these sites donate that money to environmental charities. There are also sites like this for other types of charity. Click Here to Learn More

Now, I'm not personally giving away anything on this post (like usual). This is more about giving back. But there is a nice giveaway going on at Madsen for a free bike (and biking in stead of driving is another good way to help the environment)! If you have a blog (or website or myspace or twitter or whatever) you can enter to win by putting up a link or button like the one below. (Click it to learn more)





Or if you don't have a blog, website, etc...you can also enter to win one over at Focus Organic ...and they have a a lot of other great green giveaways going on right now, too.

Happy Earth Day Everyone!

Free Scripture Cards and Graphics

NOTE: The free scripture cards have already been given out, but you can still grab the free graphics. Details at the bottom of this post.



After I started doing shapes with my scribbleprints (in stead of just abstract pieces), a friend suggested I do a cross. It had been something I had considered doing before so I set down pen to paper and after several attempts came up with a cross shaped "scribble" that I liked, and began to fill it in (as I usually do with my scribbleprints).

It wasn't until later, when it was scanned and I was editing it on the computer, that I decided to add the nail-prints. It was easy enough--just select a circle and click the mouse...but what I didn't expect was how it would affect me. Just a click, and there was blood. So like the reality of the cross: just a careless word, a simple decision, easy as a mouse-click, and those little easy sins bring such harm into our world. And for that, to bring us forgiveness, Jesus suffered and bled.

And it came to me once again that I placed those nail-prints there...not just on my scribbled cross but on the real cross where he bled and died.

But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5 (NIV)



For Easter I thought I'd like to give away some scripture cards I've made with this artwork. All the cards for this giveaway (pictured below) have already been given out. If you would like to purchace a 100 pack you can click the image below and it will take you to my shop where I sell these. If you want to use this artwork on your website for free there is info on that below.








If you would like to use my cross artwork on my website or blog grab the code below to get the graphic pictured at the top of this post (if you change the code, please still include a link back to this post or my site here: http://galesgifts.windhavenweb.com/pierced ). And, I'd love it if you'ld leave me a comment to let me know where you used it. Thanks!

<a href="http://galesgifts.windhavenweb.com/pierced"><img src="http://galesgifts.windhavenweb.com/graphics/cross200.gif" BORDER="0"></a>

You can also order products with this design through my online shops which you can find here. Make sure to also check here for the latest coupons and sales.