I take a sketchbook with me everywhere I go, even if I'm just heading
to the gas station to refill the tank. I had lovely thoughts to share
about keeping a sketchbook and how pivotal this is for anyone with
artistic ambitions or creative hobbies.
But then, my husband went outside to change the brakes on our car,
leaving me to write out my lovely thoughts in the midst of a storm of
children, which storm has blown my concentration right out the door. The
teenager is writing a physics paper and packing for an overnight field
trip tomorrow. The middle child is sick and needs medicine and love. The
baby has torn his diaper off so many times, that I am now letting him
sit naked on my lap and watch Jay Jay the Jet Plane while I type.
I may not retrieve those lovely sketchbook thoughts till
another day. Just know that the thoughts are there. I am passionate about
sketchbooks. You must, must, must have a sketchbook—so I went and got one for you, along
with a big pack of pretty, colored pencils.
It doesn't matter if you can draw. You need a place to capture your
creative brainstorms. Write it down, draw it out, or risk losing it. I
also picked up a colored pencil blender pen for you, a solvent-based marker meant for blending wax-based
colored pencil pigments. This is something I have never tried before, so
I got one for me too. We'll find out together.
I'm preaching to the choir, and you're already amply equipped with
sketchbooks and colored pencils of your own, take a shot at this
giveaway anyhow. If you win, then you can gift the prize to a creative friend who
needs to hear the gospel truth about sketchbooks.
As you know, I have some big introductions to make this week. I
tidied up my sewing area this morning to make way for a full weekend of
projects—assuming the baby keeps his diaper on and no unexpected
strike-offs arrive at the door.
Just going with the flow. I'm grateful to have that flexibility.
Speaking of flow… I better go put a diaper on this kid. I'm testing my
luck at this point.
Today's giveaway winner will receive a Fabriano sketchbook, a set of
36 colored pencils and a colored pencil blender pen. Comment to
enter. One entry per household. Be sure to include your email
address
in the comment form so we can contact you if you win.
This giveaway will close at 11:59pm PST on Friday 8/30/13. Watch for the winner to
be announced within the week at the bottom
of the post. For more info on my August giveaway party, click here. Please
share the word. Check back every day.
Good luck!
xo—Heather
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UPDATE: Congratulations, Rachael K. ("I would love to take up sketching again; it's been way too long.")! You win today's HELLO Giveaway (sketching supplies). We will email you with next steps. And congratulations to Tammie Schaffer (@craftytammie on Instagram) for winning our Day 29 Instagram giveaway ($15 gift
certificate). The giveaway is closed, but you can still join the
conversation and comment. xo—HB
what an awesome giveaway. please count me in!
Ooo I have sketchbooks but rarely use them, thanks for the tips!
Woohoo!!! Love art supplies! Can’t ever have too many! Thanks so much for the chance, Heather!
Voglia di disegnare!!!
I’d like to enter:3
I would love to win!
This is all kinds of perfect
I have been thinking that I need to keep a sketchbook. This is such a lovely kit!
My doodles and sketches are so jumbled with my work notes!
I would LOVE this!! I am always sketching or doodling on paper…would be nice to have a sketchbook!
I’d love to enter, I never leave home with out a notebook and pencil.
What a lovely giveaway.. Can think of so many uuses for this!
Ooh, my kind of giveaway. Fingers crossed, thank you.
Thanks for the giveaway!
I would certainly love to see how that blender pen works!
I’m interested in the blender pen. Tell me more.
sounds great.
thanks!
Great giveaway!
Cute color. I have a tiny purple one I keep in my purse but I mostly write words.
I would love to create with this! Thank you for the chance!
I love sketchbooks – I have a growing collection!
I love sketchbooks and colored pencils! I’ve never heard of the blender pen, looks interesting. Thanks for the giveaway!
So great! Also great that your husband does the brakes. My husband made homemade heluski this week (cabbage and noodles and such).
Oh, sketching sounds fun!
Count me in too please! I love sketchbooks and colored pencils!
I keep a small notebook in my purse for sketching and jotting down ispiration and ideas as they come to me. I would use this for sure, asnd whether I win or not I’m checking out the colored pencil blender. It sounds like a great tool:>)
Happy Friday:) Thanks for the chance to win:)
Thank you so much for all the giveaways. They keep getting better!
Nice giveaway ! Let’s try it.
I hate that I can’t draw – but that doesn’t stop me loving coloured pencils!
That is so cool. I love to journal and write I really need to give myself permission to draw and not judge my work.
I want to be an artist, when I grow up… but maybe with these I can start practicing now?
I haven’t sketched in a long time. I think I will start again with my sewing and knitting projects.
LOVE colored pencils!!
I’ve never used a sketchpad, but now you have me inspired!
So fun! I could certainly use a pick me up in the creativity department and sometimes new tools are just the right inspiration!
I echo your sketchbook/notebook comments! Once you figure out a system that works for you, your life is so much better for it!
Wonderful give away! Love it!
Lovely!
I never thought I could draw and then I took a drawing class and realized that you have to work hard to draw and I’ve been keeping a sketchbook ever since. I’d love to win!
I think we all have three need to sketch and doodle and so few of us indulge in that need. Here’s to small indulgences!
I love art supplies! What a great sketchbook and those pencils look wonderfully inviting 🙂
I really need to take the time to try sketching. I’m not sure what the results will be but I could surprise myself — in a good or bad way!
Its been a while since I had my own set of pencil crayons! I would love to win.
I would absolutely love these, since I let my daughter “borrow” the ones I used in design school and haven’t seen them since! Thank you, and thanks for all your colorful inspirations!
Another amazing giveaway – thankyou!
I love to doodle as inspiration for future crafts. What an awesome kit to amp up my doodling!! Thanks for the giveaway.
Please count me in, fab giveaway 😉
I’d love to win a new sketchbook and colored pencils! Thanks for the opportunity!
Art is truly good for the soul. Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
Oooooo, pick me!
Excellent giveaway! I could use some nice pencils that the kids haven’t gotten into 😉
I need to start keeping a sketchbook and this would be a perfect start. Thanks for the opportunity!
Ohh, these look lovely..just looking at them is fun! Would love to win! Thank you!
I love the pencils. Beautiful colors!!
I’ve never tried a blender pen but it sounds interesting. I love your honesty about what sometimes happens to our train of thought in the midst of family life! I hope your daughter is feeling better quickly.
Oooo! Such pretty colors. Awesome giveaway!
What a great giveaway! I love carrying my sketchbook with me. I always have a way to jot down creative ideas or a quick drawing….
Thanks for giveaway opportunity! I am trying my hand at sketching, although no artist am I! Just like to quilt.
I’ve been trying to nurture my artistic side recently; I’d love to win this.
This is perfect for my Artsy Daughter! She is going to famous someday, I’d bet money on it! Thank you for another great giveaway!
I have always wanted to start sketching. I love the idea, just have never started.
Yes art supplies <3
my eail : hildegunnw@rocketmail.com
We go through a lot of sketchbooks and colored pencils in our home with all of my sons drawing and sketching every chance they get. So lucky to have 4 aspiring artists in my home. Thanks for the giveaway!
All the colors & a beautiful book to match!! Sure to spark my creativity!
Thanks for the great giveaway–I’m always up for some doodling space 🙂
Those pencils are some yummy colors! Hmm, I’ve never tried a colored pencil blender pen … I wonder how it would look. Sketchbooks are great, lots of neat ideas get recorded in them but I’m bad about not always carrying one with me.
Yumminess to help us get inspiration saved in a safe place so we can re-visit them to hopefully implement them.
Mahalo, Gracias, Thank You,
Becki
I love to draw, this would be amazing to win! Thanks for the opportunity! 🙂
Sketchbooks and colored pencils take me back toy childhood. I need a little more spontaneous creativity in my life. This would be fun to win, thank you!
Thank you Heather!!
Pick me!
So any pretty colors! Love it!
There’s just something about fall and colored pencils. ‘Bouquets of sharpened pencils…” I’d love to start sketching. webb dot rachel at gmail dot com
I take my sketchbook with me too! I love these colors. Oh how I love to hoard art supplies, you don’t even want to know.
What a fun month of giveaways. Thank you!
Fun giveaway!! I try to always have a notebook with me, don’t always have pretty pencils, though. Inkpens do in a pinch and are never as fun. Thanks!
I could doodle all day ! Happy Birthday month!
As a designer I ALWAYS have a sketch book with me too! It really is a must!
Thanks for the chance!
Oh, how my daughter would love these!!
Such pretty colors!! Will these make me draw as good as you?!
You have been so very generous! And it has been fun to check in each day—thank you!!
Such an awesome giveaway! I carry a small notebook so I can journal or just make notes, but a sketchbook would be fabulous!
Another great giveaway! Oh, my daughter is always asking for more art supplies.
Yay! Sketchy stuff! I love it! All these giveaways are so generous and awesome!
Yes, more art supplies 😀 I shall expand my miniscule collection ^_^
I always have my sketchbook with me too. 🙂 I’d love to try that blender tool as well. Thanks for the chance!
Another wonderful giveaway! Really intrigued by that blender!
We would give these pencils great use in our artsy household, Thanks for the chance!
Another great giveaway. Thanks for the chance.
I haven’t had a set of pencils for many many years. Thanks for the giveaway.
I love all your ideas for being artistic
Wow! I haven’t sketched in ages! Thanks for the giveaway!
Those look lovely!
Art is incredible. I am such a type A personality and everything has to be perfect. I’m coming to realise that I need to let this go and give in to creativity. Anything one creates is perfect, because it is one of a kind and completely unique. Such a soul-cleansing concept, and one I really should adopt.
LOVE colored pencils! Thanks again
You are brave sitting with a naked baby! I’d love to win this pack! Thanks!
I’d love to win. Thanks for the opportunity!
Oh, I’d love to have this! Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
I’m almost out of chances! Maybe this is it!
I love your fabric Heather! Thanks for the chance to win!
Oh thanks for the chance!
I love colored pencils and pad, never had a blender. Would be great to win.
Please pick me !!!” It will make entering more fun.
Awesome giveaway!
Those pencils look amazing! How fun!
A girl can never have too many places to jot down ideas! Thanks for the chance!
Please, please, please, I´d like to win, win, win..Thak You for giveaway, for a chance and for amazing blogging…
Keeping my fingers crossed—thanks for the chance!
Thanks for the chance at this thoughtful giveaway. I can relate more the kid chaos than the sketchbook thoughts, but would love the chance to sketch away in my own book!
Didn’t know I needed a sketch book, but you have convinced me that I do! Thanks!
Oh, what a fun prize!
I’d love a nice sketchbook…there are too many pieces of paper with ideas, lying around my house! And I love those pencils!
I try to remember to use my sketchbook but I’m not very good at it. I would live a nice set if colored pencils, too.
Ah…real life. 🙂
Thanks for taking the time amid all the business.
I could fill up the journal with colorful words!!
Oh, I love colored pencils…my medium of choice. I haven’t ever tried fabriano. Thank you for the chance!
I would love to take up sketching again; it’s been way too long.
I love all art supplies. Never tried one of those blender pens though. I always used the white to blend colors.
I think there is nothing more lovely than a fresh sketchbook and a pack of pencils!
I love sketching with colored pencils!
I just love colored pencils – honestly the sight of a bundle of colored pencils makes me instantly want to create something!!
What an awesome giveaway! I love having a journal or a sketchbook with me too & I’m teaching my kids the same thing. I can’t tell you how many kids I’ve gifted sketchbooks, markers and B&N lap desks to in a tote bag as birthday presents for all those elementary school bday parties. Definitely good for the soul!!
Hope your day got better! 🙂
How perfect.
Are we getting spoiled, or what? ? ? ? Another awesome opportunity, Heather! Thank you, once again! ! ! One can never have too many sketchbooks or colored pencils! Love the blenders! ! ! 😀
Some of my favorite things!
Art supplies are like fabric…you can never have enough!
Totally an art supply/office supply junky…thanks for a chance to win!
I’ve never used a color blender pen before – that sounds like a lot of fun! My girls fill up their own sketchbooks regularly – but it might be time for me to do the same again! Good reminder!
This would be fun to win!
Thank you. I love colored pencils!
A sketchbook would be a great way to capture my thoughts.
Wonderful, inspiring giveaway! Would love to win!
This prize would inspire my creativity. And you sure are tempting fate with a diaper less baby!
Carrying a sketchbook is a great idea. I really should start. Thanks for the tip.
I have one of those colored pencil blending pens. It is fun to use. I love the effect you get. Good luck with the little stripper.
I don’t know if I would get anything else finished if I had all of those color pencils.
I admire those who can sketch those dreamy thoughts! I sure would love to win this prize!
That’s a great looking sketchbook and the blender pencil sounds cool! Would love to win this!
Yay! I love art supplies!
I would love to know more about organizing your thoughts onto a sketchbook.
what glorious colors! It would be fun to design my own ideas. I would be grateful to win.
Thank you,
Michelle
Hmm. I tend to be very critical of my drawings but I like the idea of a space that’s just for me and my ideas 🙂 maybe I should give it a try.
Third times the charm? Haha.
This would be a blessing if I was able to win. <3
Thank you so much for the chance!~~
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Jot down that inspiration the second it comes, or *poof!* it’s gone!
Wow! This just looks amazing.
Such a great gifty. Love all you share
I’m one of the ones trying to mentally store and… of course lose it all again… so this would be good practice for me!
Hello
what wonderfull prize to color the autumn with many nice creative works 🙂
Many greetings
Chiara
Another great giveaway!–You are rockin’ it Heather!
Those are wonderful!
sad to have missed this one, had to go and have my first chemo 🙁