♥Simply Sentimental - Custom Creations by Sydnei♥

Etsy Feature: ♥Simply Sentimental - Custom Creations by Sydnei♥

Shop Name: Simply Sentimental

What do you make? I create handmade greeting cards and scrapbook paper piecings...Coming this summer Felt scrapbooking embellishments.

How did you first pick up your craft? I first started scrapbooking and then decided to try my hand and card making and soon realized that card making was my calling. I still scrapbook every now and then for people on the side but I'm sorry to say my own scrapbooks haven't been touched in several years.

What are you inspired by? I get most of my patterns from clip art and my boys coloring book pages. My boys both know that when they get a new coloring book that Mommy gets to look through it first to see if there's anything in there I can use.

Tell me about yourself: Not much to tell, I'm a SAHM/WAHM to two wonderful but WILD little boys. Kaden will be 6 in July and Kase will be 3 in October. I've been married to my hubby for going on 11 years now. He works 60+ hours a week so that I have the opportunity to stay at home with our boys. My boys keep me very very busy throughout the day but I do get a chance here and there to play with my paper. I so most of my work on the wee hours of the morning before the sun has even thought about coming up. I also am the fingers behind Simply Sentimental The Blog. When I first decided to do a blog it was going to be about me, my family and my shop but soon realized that I was too boring to fill up a week's worth of blogging so I decided to change my focus and feature other great Etsy Shops and throw in some of my work here and there. I treat my blog just like another business and really enjoy working on it daily. Well that's about it for me.

Other etsy shops you love: Well I have tons of favorites it's hard to just pick a few but I love Weakness. She has the BEST shop labels and I can't seem to get enough of them.

Advice for fellow artists/crafters? My only advice is to keep enjoying what you create because the minute you stop enjoying your work it shows. I LOVE creating greeting cards and scrapbooking embellishments. I always enjoy people sending me emails about how great their scrapbooking pages look with my embellishments or how their friend just loved the card they sent them from my shop. Comments like that always put a smile on my face.

♥GIVEAWAY♥
This weeks giveaway is just fabulous. As as avid scrapbooker, paper crafter, and fan of Simply Sentimental, I am thrilled to be able to offer all of you such an amazing prize!!

Sydnei has graciously offered the wonderfully sweet 3 Flip Flop Summer Handmade Greeting Cards Set from her etsy shop to one lucky reader of this blog! And just in time for the start of summer too!!

How to enter:: RUN, dont walk, on over to Simply Sentimental and leave a comment here stating your favorite item from this spectauclar shop! I guarentee that you'll have a hard time picking out your favorite because Sydnei's pieces are so unique and sweet!!

Standard Rules apply ---> You must leave a way for me to get ahold of you in case you win! On Wednesday 06/11/08 I'll announce the winner provided at least 10 people have entered this giveaway!..... what are you waiting for??? Go and check out the amazing goodies at Simply Sentimental!!!