Gabrielle, aka Miss Kismet, is a 20-something photographer, jewelry designer and graphic artist living in California. Her jewelry is feminine and whimsical, and her photographic prints are often done in a beautiful vintage style.
Gabrielle’s subject matter is primarily flowers and nature scenes!
Spotted & Loved
Twilight Rose 002 8×10 Print | $30
Gold Plated Heart Necklace with Purple Pearl, Heart of a Princess | $25
Silver Crown Earrings – Rhodium Plated | $18
The Color of Winter 8×12 Print | $30 {shop now at Miss Kismet}
Many small business owners are hesitant to run their own giveaways because they’re not sure how they work or how to best leverage them to potential customers and/or visitors.
If you’ve recently entered a giveaway here on IndieSpotting, you used a relatively new service called Rafflecopter.
I’ve run over a hundred giveaways here, and all I can say is Rafflecopter is that heaven sent! Rafflecopter creates a little widget that you can just pop into a blog post, and it does the rest of the work. No more cluttered comments sections or complicated entry forms.
You’ll need to sign up for a free account with Rafflecopter, but then creating giveaways is a snap. They recently redesigned the tool so that contest entrants can login with their Facebook accounts (this is an amazing feature, trust me), or with a name and email address.
You can assign any number of giveaway entry options with ease, ranging from following someone on Twitter to liking a Facebook page. Rafflecopter tracks all the entries (and you can export the entries to Excel or other programs in a .CSV file after the giveaway ends), and it makes choosing a winner at random and notifying them via email so easy.
If you have any questions about how Rafflecopter works, please don’t hesitate to ask me. As someone who has run many, many giveaways the “hard way,” I can’t recommend this service highly enough!
Have you ever run your own giveaway on your blog? Was it successful? Would you try Rafflecopter in the future?
Now that I’ve extolled the many virtues of this fabulous free service, on to the giveaway!
Rafflecopter Launch Party Giveaway!
To celebrate 2012, Rafflecopter is having a Launch Party Giveaway in which they’re giving away a 16GB Apple iPad2 and several Kindle Fires.
The giveaway starts today and lasts a whole month. To enter, use the little widget below.
Important: Be sure to tell them that IndieSpotting referred you to the giveaway!
You can receive extra entries by tweeting about it, following Rafflecopter on Twitter, giving them feedback, and even suggesting a mascot name for their cute little smiley-copter!
Kärt is an Estonian artisan who loves to create! In her country, there are knitting traditions that are passed down through the generations, and a song that says, Don’t knit a sun into my mittens – I couldn’t catch snowflakes that way. Her grandmother and mother also knit, and Kärt keeps the tradition alive. Her creations for Sun In Hands follow old techniques re-imagined in new ways.
Kärt says, I walk the streets and inspiration just flows into me. It can be some texture, color or emotion. I go home, grab my needles or hook and put it all in there. She prefers natural materials and experiments with natural dyes.
Spotted & Loved
Triangular Lace Shawl Cranberry Red Lambswool | $40
Cabled Mittens Camel Brown Lambswool | $28
Light Blue Hand Crochet Beret with Bobbles | $33
Light Pink Hand Crochet Triangular Scarf Circle Motif | $40 {shop now at Sun In Hands}
Claudia is a London-based illustrator and lover of all things cute and whimsical! Superfumi was born of her desire for her drawings to come to life and be worn by people.
The Enchanted Forest is her first collection, featuring a range of jewelry, greetings and gifts inspired by the British woodland and fauna, along with a dash of magical mystery and childhood nostalgia.
Spotted & Loved
Fox Charm Necklace – Gold or Silver | £12
Woodland Fawn Mounted Print | £12.50
Mysterious Owl Notebook | £3.50
Mix & Match I ♥ Animal Coasters | £4 {shop now at Superfumi}
