: : a birthday giveaway : : the little boy is turning one!!

 Edit: blog winners are now announced HERE!

Most of you know by now my little grandson Bennett. I've posted enough photos of him:) He's been the new love of my life this past year, and I can't believe how fast the year has gone by! Here he is (just in case you haven't seen him yet....lol). Take a good look at these photos, because there's gonna be a quiz at the end!
But before you scroll........ all.........the..........way......................down........to the bottom........can you click the little facebook like button up there to the left?  Please and thank you!!!

                                and some with his mama, my daughter Mandy (who is also one of the contributors to the prizes)

In celebration of his birthday, I'm having a blog giveaway with some fantastic vendors!! We have quite a variety here, from photographer's textures and actions, to gorgeous fine art prints for your wall, marketing sets and cards, gift cards to shops, to cute baby props including hats and tutus.

I can't thank all these generous people enough for stepping up and providing such wonderful gifts for you all....each and every one of you are so awesome!!! We have over $1400 worth of products here!! And because I was able to get so many vendors, there will be multiple winners!

I really don't like the giveaways where it's one winner takes all, so for this one, the prizes are being divided up into groups, and we will have 5-6 winners!! I'll be working on the different prize packages during the week.

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Now on to our fabulous contributors!!!

I'll get the show on the road by offering a ceramic coaster set featuring 4 of my floral images from my Etsy shop. 

 PLUS the 3x3 mini accordion album template "Emma". It contains inside and outside spread, front and back, fully layered psd files.

And this headband that I made especially for the giveaway!

From Mandy Chiappini Photography (my daughter and the lucky mama to this adorable little boy)  a hand made necklace! Mandy has also started writing and sharing some actions (for free). You can find those on her blog too.

From Isabelle LaFrance Photography- her newest set of textures, the "Soulglow Light Layers" containing 8 light layers, and 8 textures. You will love what these do for your photos! Be sure and take some time to check out all of the other action and textures that Isabelle has on her site. You even find a bunch of freebies, and tutorials.

From Georgianna Lane Photography , a fine art wall print of your choosing from her Etsy shop, up to an 8x12 size. You will absolutely fall IN LOVE with Georgianna's beautiful images, and trust me, have a very hard time choosing! And did you know that she is a published artist? Several times in fact? Don't these images just make you swoon?

From Knotty Baby Wear, a $20 gift certificate to her shop. Lots and lots of adorable baby leg warmers!

From Pamela Topping Photography, a generous $50 gift card and a camera love necklace. Pamela has a whole list of action sets from which you can choose with your gift card.

An example of the action "starlight" before and afters

camera love necklace

From Whimsy Baby Designs , a custom newborn size beanie and leg warmer set.

From Pixel Lounge Studio, a fabulous new marketing set that includes: Business Card back and front, a Bookmark, a CD Label, CD Cover back and front, Gift Certificate and a Storyboard. 

 Plus a Baby Card set ( 6 front cover psd files, at 2100x1500 pixels, the text can be changed and the templates can be used as Babyshower Cards, Birthday Invites, Announcement Cards)

From Jessica Drossin Textures , choose one of her 4 gorgeous texture packs! From my own experience, any one of these is fabulous, trust me....I have ALL FOUR! You can't go wrong. These textures will take your art to a new level.

From Filigree & Flowers, a new item in her shop....and wasn't she sweet, she named this one after me! Here's her description: The 'Sylvia' flower clip is made with a silk flower blossom, two rosettes: one printed fabric and one silk.  Flower cluster is detailed with pearly beads and layered lace.  Flower cluster is sewn together than backed with matching fabric and set on an alligator clip.

   

 From Trinity's Tutu's, pick any item in the shop from newborn to size 5. You'll find some of the prettiest tutu's around here, for your prop stash, or for your own little girl! There is also an Etsy shop!

From Chasing Dreams Photography, Colleen has been most generous and each winner will get their choice of 2 of  her beautiful texture sets!! She has 6 different sets for you to drool over! Below is just a few of them. I have and use all of Colleen's sets, but I 'm partial to the new Italy and Ireland one and the sheer overlays! A 20% off coupon is being offered as well during the time this contest is being run for any purchases in the Chasing Dreams shop. Use code cook20.

 From Claire Penn Photography,  a custom desk calendar to start any month you want and an 8x10 fine art print.  Claire has the most AMAZING images you do not want to miss. Anything from her shop would be a beautiful addition to your home! I personally have the print in the lower right of this collage, and it's gorgeous!!

From Darn Fanciful a cute little hand knit newborn cocoon photo prop! Won't your next little newborn look all snuggly in this?

From Just be Happy,  a custom made "Rock Star" hat from her Etsy shop. Winner can choose size and colors.

 

From the fabulous Sarah Cornish of My Four Hens Photography a $100 gift card to her shop of lovely actions!!  Wow, how generous is that? You will spend hours looking around at her website full of goodies!

 From the one and only Jodi Friedman of MCP Actions, a $25 gift card to her shop! These are "can't live without" actions and photoshop tools here! Everything you need to know about photoshop, you can find on the MCP blog! I use MCP actions all the time, and especially love the skin one!

From Jessica Feely Photography an absolutely fantastic Creative blogging action set! I can vouch for these actions because I use them myself all the time!!! (All the photos of Bennett above were used with these actions). There are 33 total actions that you can use to help speed up your blogging as well as for inspiration to tell a story with your post. Other actions that are included are, Contrast Boost I,II,III, three different black and white actions, flattening action, web sharpening, print sharpening, 2 haze actions, vintage action, convert to sRGB action and a detail pop action. Your blogging will never be so easy!
Here's Jessica's actions in action! And Jessica has kindly offered a discount coupon code if you want to pick up her blogging actions right now. The code is slc50off and it expires on Jan 27th.

From Kamieo Photography and Creations a $25 gift certificate to her awesome Etsy shop! Lots of fun and cute hats and hair accessories for you!

From Custom Creations byBlessed2009 a cute little Sweetheart beanie with choice of red, white, light pink, or hot pink clip on satin bow. This will be newborn size and  ready to ship to the lucky winner!

From Bows by Mia, a Vintage Ranunculus headband for your next newborn photo shoot!

From One Willow Boutique, the talented Jessica Paige is offering a $50 gift certificate to the shop. And this is the perfect time, because at the end of this week, a brand new preset for Lightroom is being released! One Willow Presets are beautifully designed to enhance images that are processed in Lightroom and ACR.  The presets are available in various Collections and come in both RAW (for Lightroom and ACR) and JPEG (lightroom only) versions.  The RAW version of the Newest Timeless Collection, designed with portraiture in mind, is scheduled for release this week with the ACR and JPEG version soon to follow! To view before and after galleries of all the Preset Collections please visit the One Willow Presets site.

From Little Diva Boutique, a $20 gift certificate to the shop. You will love Roxana's things, they are SO pretty, and I speak from experience, because I have several of her beautiful items!

From Kristen Caldwell Photography's Boutique, 1 piece of 20x20 3" Long Grey Tipped Fur Shag, and one piece of  20x20 2" Butterscotch Shag Fur. Babies just love laying on these, and it adds wonderful texture to your photos. Plus Kristen is adding in her video tutorial for adding clouds to your image and 5 High Resolution Cloud Images to get you started! You can also use code FIFTEEN for 15% off any purchase in Kristin's shop until the end of this contest!

From Sassy Designs, a $100 gift certificate to the shop! If you aren't familiar with this shop (I can't imagine) it offers unique, original, and fresh greeting card, invitation, and announcement templates as well as  promotional, advertising, and identity design. And I might add, the best assortment of digital papers anywhere. I think I've bought about 75% of the shop myself!

From Jewelry and Baby Bling by Dara, a $50 gift certificate to her shop. All kinds of hair accessories, tutu's and baby bling of every style you can think of! Also along with this offer is a discount coupon for 10% off in the Etsy shop, the Artfire shop, or on the web site. The coupon code is JBBDCOOK and will work in the artfire or Etsy shop. For the web site you can enter it in the paypal note and it will be refunded back to you.

From the EW Couture Collection,  the LUXE Signature Vintage Valentines Collection - pre-release (part of the  Exclusive EW Couture LINE of products for Miller's Lab Design Market)

The EW Couture Collection designer templates and marketing materials for photographers are classy and elegant, blending the victorian and grunge with sophistication. 

Beyond the designer templates, EW Couture Collection is a great place to find resources and inspiration  for the professional photographer. 

Check out some of the free template downloads, and sign-up for the EW Couture Collection newsletter to get the monthly inbox goodies.

Elena Wilken, the designer behind EW Couture Collection, also designs an Exclusive EW Couture LINE of products for Miller's Lab Design Market.

And a $50.00 EW Couture Collection gift certificate valid towards one of the EW Couture Senior Card Collections

 

From Florabella Collection a $50 gift certificate to Shana's beautiful shop of textures and actions. And just in time, because the new Luxe II set is soon to be released! I personally can't WAIT for this set. It will be my latest addition to all the other Florabella actions and texture sets I already have.

 From Glorious Nature Photography, Collection #2 of fine art overlays and textures, with a little extra! Susan doesn't have a FB business page for you to like, but you can have a look at her blog with her textures and beautiful photography.

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Here's all your Facebook page links to make things easier for you to visit each one and "like" them. While you're there, tell them I sent you! Instructions below!

Sylvia Cook Photography
Mandy Chiappini Photography
Isabelle Lafrance Photography
Georgianna Lane Photography
Knotty Baby Wear
Pamela Topping Photography
Whimsy Baby Designs
Pixel Lounge Studio
Jessica Drossin Textures
Filigree and Flowers
Trinity's Tutus
Chasing Dreams Photography
Claire Penn Photography
Darn Fanciful
Just be Happy
My Four Hens
MCP actions
Jessica Feely Photography
Kamieo Photography and Creations
Blessed2009
Bows by Mia 
One Willow 
Little Diva Boutique 
Kristen Caldwell Photography
Sassy Designs
Jewelery and Baby Bling by Dara 
EW Couture Collection
Florabella Collection

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Now, what in the world to do to enter?

1. For entry #1 (Required) on this blog post tell me which of the above photos of Bennett is your favorite! I numbered them for your convenience:)

Optional extra entries!! 

2. For entry #2....follow all of the links above to the Facebook pages, "like" them all, and tell them I sent you! . Come back to this blog post and let me know (in one comment) that you've made the rounds and liked them all. (Because you really should like them all anyway, everyone is very likeable)

3. For entry #3... post on your FB wall this status update:  Don't miss this HUGE photographer's  giveaway with @Sylvia Cook Photography, I've entered....have you? (be sure you do the @ sign so it posts on my wall)
4. For your entry #4, you can tweet or blog (with a link to this page) about the contest. Make sure you come back here and leave the link so it can be verified! If the link does not go to a real post, the comment will be deleted.

There you go....4 chances to win!

Comments will close Jan 25th at 8pm pst.

Winners will be chosen by Random.org and announced by 10am pst Jan 26th and will have until 8pm on the 27th to contact me. It will be your responsibility to check back here on this blog post for the winners. If I don't hear from you within that time, another name will be drawn. Thanks for entering everyone!!

email me at sylvia@sylviacookphotography.com