Create For Less National Craft Month Drawing

It's National Craft Month and Create for Less is celebrating by giving you a chance to win!  Do you have a great craft tip to share with CreateForLess and their community of crafters?  From a time saving tip on a sewing project to simple scrapbook layout tips, they'd love to hear them. Share your favorite craft tip and you could win a $100 CreateForLess shopping spree!

Paper Crafts’ 2010 Stamping Royalty Card Contest!

Do you have what it takes to be crowned royalty? Each year since 2004, Paper Crafts Magazine has inducted the crème de la crème of stampers into a posh society known as Stamping Royalty. This could be your year to reign supreme in your sparkling tiara. Winners will be royally honored with a prize package containing the latest stamping products from some of the hottest manufacturers. The retail value of each prize package totals over $250! Winners will also have the opportunity to be published in the November/December 2010 issue of Paper Crafts magazine and be put on the Paper Crafts magazine designer list to receive their exclusive call for submissions.

How to enter:

1. Create an original stamped card for the following occasions:

• Birthday
• Christmas/Season's Greetings
• Hello/Thinking of You
• Love
• Thank You

2. On the back of each entry, include your name, address, daytime phone number, e-mail address, and a detailed description of the supplies and techniques used to make the card. Mail entries to: 2010 Stamping Royalty Card Contest, 14850 Pony Express Rd., Bluffdale, UT 84065.

Entries must be postmarked by March 24, 2010. All entries will be judged equally based on overall appearance, creativity, and execution.

Multiple entries in one category are permitted. Three (3) winning cards will be awarded per category. You can win in more than one category, but will receive only one prize package.

Paper Crafts’ Lovely as a Tree Sweepstakes!

Are you loving the tree trend? Well, get in on the fun with this array of tree products that are guaranteed to get your projects in tip top shape in no time at all. Ten lucky winners will receive this assortment of product from My Favorite Things, Unity Stamp Company, A Muse Artstamps, American Crafts, and My Little Shoebox valued at over $300!

All entries must be received by April 13, 2010.

To enter, simply complete the sweepstakes form at www.PaperCraftsMag.com. Or, send a 3" x 5" card with your name, address, and daytime phone number to Paper Crafts magazine, Lovely as a Tree Sweepstakes, 14850 Pony Express Road, Bluffdale, UT 84065.

BurdaStyle Apron Remake Challenge

Sewing Republic and BurdaStyle have teamed up to bring you a great new challenge. During this month long Apron Remake Challenge, you are invited to use your creativity and imagination to reinvent the Two Tone Apron from The Sewing Republic brought to you by BERNINA. You have until 11:59 pm EST March 24th to submit your entries, so check out the rules and get started!

1. Visit The Sewing Republic and download the instructions for the Two Tone Apron

2. Create your own version of the apron: add, change and adjust it to make it your own!

3. You have until March 24th to email a photo to submissions[at]burdastyle[dot]com with “Apron Remake Challenge” in the subject line. You must also include your BurdaStyle username, the garment title, and the link to your uploaded project on BurdaStyle in the body of the email.

4. The top 50 entries will be uploaded to a slideshow. Then the BurdaSytle community will vote for your favorites.

First Prize – $300 and a BERNINA activa 210 sewing machine!
Second Prize – $200
Third Prize – $100

This contest is open to US residents only (void where prohibited) of any age with consent of a legal guardian. You may submit as many entries as you would like. Employees and family members of BurdaStyle, BERNINA and Sterling-Rice Group are not eligible. Good luck!

Sewing News' Sewing Idol Contest

Do you admire someone who taught you to sew? Do you look up to someone who uses her sewing talents to help those in need? If you're a fan of someone because her sewing abilities go hand in hand with her humanitarian spirit, nominate her to win the biggest Sew News contest yet: Sewing Idol.

How to Enter: Obtain permission from the person you'd like to nominate. Write a 1000-word essay about who your nominee is and why he/she is your Sewing Idol, then paste it into the online entry form. Each contest page visitor can nominate up to 10 different Sewing Idols. Please do not nominate the same Sewing Idol more than once, as votes will be calculated separately for each entry.

When to Enter: The Sewing Idol contest begins at 12 a.m. EST on January 15, 2010 and ends at 12 a.m. EST on September 10, 2010. The winner will be notified on or before September 15, 2010 via e-mail or phone.

How to Win: Vote for your favorite nominee. Each contest page visitor can cast as many votes as possible within the contest period. After the contest end date, the nominee with the most visitor votes will win the grand prize.

What to Win: The winning Sewing Idol will win 30 fabulous prizes including a Janome Memory Craft 6600 sewing machine; Brother Innov-ís 900D sewing & embroidery machine; $100 fabric.com gift card; plus much more estimated at over $8,000. And the winning essay and photo will be published in the December/January '11 issue of Sew News.

JoAnn Stores Own Your Look Prom Contest

Teens who create their own prom outfit can win cash for college and other prizes. Outfit must include a garment and an accessory and be made with fabric and other products from Jo-Ann.

Winning entries chosen for:
Workmanship • Originality • Level of Detail

Contest runs through June 15, 2010. Open to students ages 14 to 19 years of age. Void in Maryland & Vermont. (See official rules and details.)

GRAND PRIZE: $50,000 cash for college & a $1,000 Jo-Ann Gift Card
2nd Prize: $10,000 cash & a $500 Jo-Ann Gift Card
3rd Prize: $5,000 cash & a $250 Jo-Ann Gift Card
4th - 10th Prizes: $1,000 cash & a $100 Jo-Ann Gift Card

Bead&Button Sweepstakes

Enter for your chance to win an assortment of beads and findings from B’Sue Boutiques! (Total Retail Value of over $500)

All entries must be received by March 31, 2010

BeadStyle Sweepstakes

Win a $300 giftcard from ArtBeads.com!  Fill out the simple entry form on the BeadStyle Magazine website for your chance to win!

Stuck at Prom® Contest

Duck Tape is once again hosting its Stuck at Prom® contest.  This special 10 year anniversary contest will award 20 scholarship prizes totaling $28,500 to couples who design and create Duck Tape fashions for the prom.

The Stuck at Prom® contest runs from March 1 - June 7, so start creating your prom attire now!

Contest participants must enter as a couple (2 people), attend a high school prom in the spring of 2010 and wear complete attire and/or accessories made from duct tape.  Entries will be judged on workmanship, originality, use of color, accessories and the quantity of duct tape use.

Winners will receive: 

• The first place winners will receive a $3,000 scholarship each (and one for their school.)
• The couple in second place will receive $2,000 each.
• The couple in third place earns $1,000 each.
• All other runners up who made it into the Top 10 will receive $500 each.

Visit www.stuckatprom.com to the complete rules and regulations and to submit your entries!