Handstamped Necklace Giveaway

Leksi Designs is giving away a beautiful Handstamped Personalized Hammered Circle necklace.

'This is truly a cute necklace. It is a sterling silver antiqued hammered circle pendant that can be personalized with whatever you need. I can do one name or several names or words. It comes with a 16" sterling silver ball chain.'

Get to know Brooke, the artist behind Leksi Designs. You'll learn a few things from the interview on yesterday's post.

There are many ways to enter. Please make sure you leave a separate comment for every entry.

How to enter to win:

Mandatory entry:

• Go to Leksi Designs Shop. Return to my Adore By Nat blog and simply leave a comment here about your favorite item from her store.
  

Extra entries (only qualify once mandatory entry is fulfilled):

• Earn 2 entries - Go to yesterday's post to know her more. Leave a comment there (yesterday's post) on at least one the following: what you learn from the interview, what you want to see more on her shop and why, or any constructive feedbacks are always appreciated.
  
  Come back here and leave 2 comments that you did, to ensure your entries are counted.

• Heart Leksi Designs Shop and earn an entry. Simply let us know your Etsy username.
• Follow Leksi Designs blog and earn an entry.
  
• Follow my blog and you earn another entry. If you're already a follower, you still get an entry, just says you're following already.
• Like my Facebook FB and you earn another entry. Let me know your FB username please.
• Follow adorebynat on twitter to earn an entry
• Follow Leksi Designs on twitter to earn an entry.
  
• Tweet about this giveaway, add "@adorebynat" in your tweet. Each tweet worths one entry and you can tweet each day until the end of the contest (a maximum of one tweet per day is counted). That's a total of 7 entries!
• Blog about this giveaway to earn 2 entries. Leave two separate comments here please providing me with the link to your post.
• Be creative and share the love! Refer your friends and family to enter this giveaway. Use your social media (other than twitter and blog) to shout out this giveaway. As long as you provide me a link or a way to confirm it, you'll earn two entries (two separate comments). Hint: there are share buttons in the bottom of this post, maybe you can use them?
  
• Tell us how did you hear about this giveaway and you earn an entry.
• Purchase an item from Leksi Designs Shop and earn 10 entries for each purchase. Don't forget letting us know by leaving comments :-)

Contest starts now and ends on August 28, 2010. Contest opens worldwide.

Don't forget to leave me a way to contact you. Entries without contact information will be disqualified. Entries that do not follow the rules will be disqualified. Contest winner will be drawn on Sunday, August 29 by a random number generator, by the artist herself. Winner must respond within 48 hours after being contacted otherwise another winner will be randomly selected.

Saturday Artisan: Leksi Designs

Meet this week Saturday Artisan, Brooke of Leksi Designs. She and I have something in common. We both love stamping. But I stamp on papers while she stamps on metals and papers....much more talented than I am, I'd say. 

In her own words...

My name is Brooke. I am the owner of Leksi Designs. I make custom hand-stamped jewelry and handmade flower accessories. My shop was named in a pretty simple way. My daughter, age 7, is named Aleksis. Some people call her "Leksi" for short, so there it is...Leksi Designs! In addition to one daughter, I have a husband, Tim, who is a Highway Patrolman and two small dogs, Jasper and Toby. I actually got into stamping metal jewelry when I was shopping for a piece for myself. Everything I looked at was so expensive! So, I just thought I would make it myself! People started asking me about the pieces I was wearing....and my ETSY SHOP WAS BORN!

 

I work full-time during the day for the local school district and take Master's Courses in the evenings as well. I also coach cheerleading part-time and keep a pretty set schedule at the gym. I enjoy running and hope to run a few marathons this summer.

How do I find time to do my jewelry? This is fairly simple...I don't sleep....lol. No joking aside, I really don't sleep much and jewelry is kind of my "wind-down" time in the late evenings. Hopefully, one day I will be able to spend more of my day doing this...but for now this is working out great! 

Advice for a new artist~ I would suggest taking the time to come up with something really unique and original before advertising. A new artist must have both quality and quantity to make it. Take great pictures and keep customers service number one!

I promote my etsy through my blog and word of mouth mainly. I get more sales through simple private email than anything else. 

If you love her artworks as much as I do, stay tuned for tomorrow's giveaway!