Artfull Crafts presents Centre Stage with Echo Park!

CENTRE STAGE is an innovative concept dreamed up by Artfull Crafts to give YOU exposure to different brands each month! For March we are thrilled to welcome Echo Park Paper into the spotlight. We have created a new section in our website called . Head to Centre Stage now for all the details on the fun that Artfull Crafts and Echo Park have instore this month. There will be blog hops, challenges, kits, questionaires, and we'll even be swapping Design Team members during the month!! Our DT will also bring you daily crafting inspiration on our blog. We are super excited (can't you tell) and know that you'll love the opportunity to win prizes - so keep your eye out on our weekly email newsletters, Facebook and our blog so you don't miss out. ***BREAKING NEWS!!***
It's just been announced that Lowri McNabb (AFC staff member and DT Coordinator) has been invited to join the Echo Park Design Team! Lowri was a Fresh face Designer for Echo Park last year and has now been appointed their first International Design Team member. This is wonderful news and very exciting for New Zealand. Head to Lowri's blog and Echo Park's blog announcement to congratulate her.

To celebrate the launch of our inaugural CENTRE STAGE and Lowri's success, we want to give away this Echo Park Charming 6x6 pad. It's double-sided papers makes it a winner for papercrafters. It's easy to win! You just need to go to either Artfull Crafts blog or Facebook Page and leave a message/comment with the words CENTRE STAGE or ECHO PARK somewhere in it! We'll do a draw for the pad Friday 9th March midnight.

MARCH Monthly Challenge - Echo Park and/or Summer Memories In New Zealand we have just finished summer (although it's so cold I've had the fire on today!). That means it's a perfect opportunity to pull out your summer photos and scrap them up while they are fresh in your mind. In addition to this, since Echo Park is our Centre Stage star this month, we want you to send us anything you've created with any Echo Park products. It may only be one Echo Park sticker - but that's fine. We want to know about it!!

This month's prize is a full Collection Pack of Echo Park's This & That Graceful. It comes with twelve 12" x 12" double-sided papers, element and alpha stickers. Thanks Echo Park and Kays Company for providing this prize pack! To enter the challenge - send a picture of your project to us at entries@artfullcrafts.co.nz or drop them off at the shop to go on display.

If you can - please remember to include the following : Your name! (You would be surprised how many people forget this :-)) PLEASE name the file you send with your full name. Tell us if this is your first time entering - (we offer a First Time Entry prize too) Your blog (if you have one) If your project has a special story behind it - we'd love to hear it! You can send us as many entries as you like. We will be featuring all entries at the end of the Challenge and you can find all the entries on our Competition Gallery. Weekly Competitions Through the week there will be some fun Facebook Competitions and prizes kindly donated by Echo Park and Kays Company. Make sure you don't miss out! Please take me now! Have a wonderful weekend! :-) Liz and the Team at Artfull Crafts