Giveaway from Sybillinart

Win what you like! You can choose between a set of tags, a magnet (or set glass of magnets), a bookmark or a brooch from Sybillinart. Get to know Sabine, the artist behind Sybillinart. She is our Saturday Artisan this week. 

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 Sybillinart shop. Return to my Adore By Nat blog and simply leave a comment here which item you prefer to win.

Note from Sabine: As I don’t have everything listed in my shop, I will send some pictures to the winner to choose. 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 Sybillinart. (1 entry). Simply let us know your Etsy username.
• Go to Sybillinart and tell us what word comes to you.
• Sabine loves to get any suggesstions from you! Tell her what you'd like to see in her shop (1 entry).
• Follow Sybillinart's blog (1 entry).
• Follow my adorebynat blog (1 entry). If you're already a follower, you still get an entry, just says you're following already.
• Like Sybillinart Facebook Page. Tell Sabine that adorebynat sent you there.
• Like my Adorebynat Facebook Page. Don't forget to say 'hi' to me there and come back here to leave comment (1 entry). If you liked my FB page already, you still can say hi and earn 1 entry. I'd love to hear from you!
• Follow sybillinart and or adorebynat on twitter (each earn 1 entry).
• Tweet about this giveaway, add "@sybillinart and @adorebynat" in your tweet. (1 entry).
• 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 2 entries (two separate comments).
• Purchase an item from Sybillinart and earn 5 entries for each purchase. Don't forget letting us know by leaving comments :-)

Contest starts now and ends on March 19, 2011. 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, March 20 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: Sybillinart

Happy Saturday! It's sunshine right here in westcoast, and it's a pleasure for me to introduce you to our Saturday Artisan, Sybilline aka Sabine of Sybillinart. She is a decoupage artist and we share the same passion in papers: scrapbooking, cardmaking etc. I've met Sabine through my natsupplies shop and we've been in touch ever seen through Etsy, twitter and Facebook and enjoy our friendship. Do you have your morning coffee ready? I do! :-) Sip it and enjoy the interview.

Tell us a bit about yourself and what arts/ crafts that you make?

I was born in France and lived there for 30 years; My Family moved to Canada 10 years ago to build a new life and we love it. I discovered the new decoupage technique on a French internet forum and I think I can say that I have mastered it now!. I also like other paper crafts like cardmaking, tags… 

For us who love to travel, could you share a bit about your beautiful town/ city? I am sure everybody will love that part as I am from France! Not far from Paris but I prefer the country side.

What is your best seller? I can say that may best seller are my switch plates; Last November I sold more than 70 at the craft shows I was in. But my boxes are also appreciated. 

How do you promote your shop? 

I use Facebook, Twitter and some forums and blogs.

Any advice for others running their on-line shop?

Starting an online shop is not an easy task! You not only need to read all the good advice that you can find but understand them and apply them to your shop, like good tagging, good pictures, being part of a team (on Etsy)… I was very happy to follow some of them like the one to build our own light box. But sometimes it might take time to do them all or just understand them.

Saving money is important; tell us one thing that you do to save money? Like a lot of crafters, I like to upcycle and reuse; One of the product that people like the most is this pencil holder that I make with tin can (I don’t sell those in my shop because of the shipping rate) ; I also keep some soap dispenser and decorate them to coordinate my home décor! I reuse old CDs to make Christmas ornaments or cards that’s just a few examples!

If you want to learn how to decoupage, visit her blog for the tutorial. 

Stay-tuned for tomorrow's giveaway! 

Don't forget to enter the 2 current giveaways we have: $25 Gift Certificate 3 Handmade Greeting Cards