March's giveaway: we have our lucky winners!
Posted by Amy on Wednesday March 18, 2009
Thank you everyone for visiting the shops and browsing the works of our participants for the March round of the PikaPackage Project! We have two winners, picked out by Mr. Random right here, and they are commmenters who are numbers 37 & 67 from this post.
Congratulations Mithi & Melanie!
If you aren’t one of the lucky ones, don’t fret — you can pick a package for yourself in our shop (I hear they make great gifts!)
And also, a big thank you to the participants of this round for making the project possible — the next one up is in June, so remember to sign up for our mailing list if you want to be the first to know about new happenings and events!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful start to the week ahead!
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March PikaPackage Giveaway!
Posted by Amy on Friday March 13, 2009
And we’re back! We had a little hiatus the beginning of the year, but we’re happy to announce 2009’s first round of giveaways for the PikaPackage Project!
The total participants for this round is 29, and as like the previous round, we’re going to pick TWO winners, and each one will get a 8-item package each containing at least one item from your favourite artists that you’ve commented about.
And for making this possible, I’d like to thank our participants for coming along for this round:
- Rosemary Travale sent in Gocco printed words of wisdom;
- Kate of PaperKate sent in pretty rub-ons and notecards;
- Helen of Memo sent in a screenprinted bag, notebooks, cards and brooches;
- Lertsis sent in a bevy of personalized postcard packs with her illustrations
- Pam of Zoetropa sent in her beautiful block-printed cards, stickers and moleskine notebooks;
- Luciana Carossia sent in her beautifully handmade bookmarks made from her illustrations;
- Suzanne of Silver Tree Art sent in an assortment of lino-printed goodies;
- Leslie of SparklePaw sent in her adorable cards and buttons;
- Holly of Good Bloom sent in more of her vibrant, happy prints and cards;
- Handmade Julz sent in her delicate prints, magnets and colorful coasters;
- Stephanie Fizer sent in her line of adorable characters on stickers, cards and prints;
- Victoria Usova does it again! This time she sent in special bookmark + button sets, mirrors and coasters;
- Rachael of Number Eight sent in postcard packs of her illustrations;
- Mika sent in miniature original artwork, brooches and earrings and a big stuffed creature!
- Sara of Sim Sima sent in her beautiful handmade screenprinted brooches;
- Candice of Cordial Kitten sent in these lovely limited edition springtime prints;
- Denise Ann Holmes shipped these beautiful limited edition prints, just in time for spring;
- Belinda of Gretchenmist sent in lovely original artwork and prints;
- Susan Schwake of the beautiful Art Stream gallery sent over these lovely limited edition prints;
- Sally Faulkner of Sally Illustration, the lady behind our cover this issue of the zine sent in load of items — prints, buttons and a zine too!
- Yali Paz sent these beautiful full-sized prints and ACEOs all the way from Israel;
- Melody Seal sent in these marvellous prints as well as beautiful hand-bound notebooks;
- Anna Wadham sent in a bevy of goodies! There’s prints, notecard sets, buttons and also mirrors!
- Kate Endle made more of her popular mini-prints for this round;
- Myrte of Mirthquake sent in these lovely bird prints, mini-prints and buttons;
- Christine Berrie sent in an original drawing, prints and posters of her work;
- Valerie Pensworth sent in delicate full-sized prints and portraits;
- Mitch & Lauren of 3CD Kidstuff sent in prints that would look great on your kids’ walls; and
- Jess Racklyeft of Jesses Mess sent in quirky prints of her work!
So here’s what you need to do to win each one of these packages:
- visit the shops/websites of our participants, and
- write down here in the comments which product is your favourite from the artist’s shop (include the links if you’d like).
Here’s are some ground rules:
- You can make one long list containing a few selections, but please DO NOT comment more than once. If you do, you’ll immediately be disqualified!
- Some of the artists don’t have shops yet, but that’s alright too, just let us know you liked what they sent in!
- The closing date for this is on Sunday 15th March, 8 p.m. PST/PDT. I’ll pick two random winners from the comments section, so be sure to leave your email addy!
To read more about our participants, remember to read up our March issue of the PikaPackage zine too! The cover art for this issue was done by the lovely Sally Faulkner of Sally Illustration! And if you’d prefer to view it online, head on over to see it on the Issuu page.
If you’d like to purchase a PikaPackage for yourself (and to support Pikaland!), hop on to our SHOP! This time, we’ll be donating to KIVA, an organization that provides micro loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
And if you like what you see, you can always sign up for our mailing list to get updates about special happenings here on Pikaland!
{UPDATE: Thank you for your responses everyone! The comment is now closed an winners will be up on the blog in a bit.}
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March PikaPackage Project 2009: #2
Posted by Amy on Wednesday March 11, 2009
…and here’s the last roundup for March’s PikaPackage Project — our first one for 2009, and also marks a full year anniversary for the project since its inception last year. My, how time flies! :)
The total participants for this round is 29, and without further ado, here’s the rest of the artists who has contributed to this round:
- Sara of Sim Sima sent in her beautiful handmade screenprinted brooches;
- Candice of Cordial Kitten sent in these lovely limited edition springtime prints;
- Denise Ann Holmes shipped these beautiful limited edition prints, just in time for spring;
- Belinda of Gretchenmist sent in lovely original artwork and prints;
- Susan Schwake of the beautiful Art Stream gallery sent over these lovely limited edition prints;
- Sally Faulkner of Sally Illustration, the lady behind our cover this issue of the zine sent in load of items — prints, buttons and a zine too!
- Yali Paz sent these beautiful full-sized prints and ACEOs all the way from Israel;
- Melody Seal sent in these marvellous prints as well as beautiful hand-bound notebooks;
- Anna Wadham sent in a bevy of goodies! There’s prints, notecard sets, buttons and also mirrors!
- Kate Endle made more of her popular mini-prints for this round;
- Myrte of Mirthquake sent in these lovely bird prints, mini-prints and buttons;
- Christine Berrie sent in an original drawing, prints and posters of her work;
- Valerie Pensworth sent in delicate full-sized prints and portraits;
- Mitch & Lauren of 3CD Kidstuff sent in prints that would look great on your kids’ walls; and
- Jess Racklyeft of Jesses Mess sent in quirky prints of her work!
Watch out for the launch (which is hovering around the corner!), and please head on over to our Flickr stream, and remember to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about the giveaway, and also when the packages hits our shop!
The PikaPackage Project will now run on a quarterly basis instead of being bi-monthly, and our next one will be in June. So if you’re an artist who is interested to take part in one of Pikaland’s projects (there’s a new one coming up very, very soon!) please head on over here to sign up for the artists mailing list!
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March PikaPackage Project 2009: #1
Posted by Amy on Saturday March 7, 2009
You’ve probably heard by now that the PikaPackage Project is almost launching — and I’m so excited to let you in on the first half of the submissions for this round!
- Rosemary Travale sent in Gocco printed words of wisdom;
- Kate of PaperKate sent in pretty rub-ons and notecards;
- Helen of Hello Memo sent in a screenprinted bag, notebooks, cards and brooches;
- Lertsis sent in a bevy of personalized postcard packs with her illustrations
- Pam of Zoetropa sent in her beautiful block-printed cards, stickers and moleskine notebooks;
- Luciana Carossia sent in her beautifully handmade bookmarks made from her illustrations;
- Suzanne of Silver Tree Art sent in an assortment of lino-printed goodies;
- Leslie of SparklePaw sent in her adorable cards and buttons;
- Holly of Good Bloom sent in more of her vibrant, happy prints and cards;
- Handmade Julz sent in her delicate prints, magnets and colorful coasters;
- Stephanie Fizer sent in her line of adorable characters on stickers, cards and prints;
- Victoria Usova does it again! This time she sent in special bookmark + button sets, mirrors and coasters;
- Rachael of Number Eight sent in postcard packs of her illustrations; and
- Mika sent in miniature original artwork, brooches and earrings and a big stuffed creature!
There’s one more update happening very soon, but if you want to see more pictures of what our participants sent in, please head on over to our Flickr stream, and remember to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about the giveaway, and also when the packages this round will be available for purchase!
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And the two lucky winners are...
Posted by Amy on Thursday December 11, 2008
Renee and lillamilla of #55 and #68 respectively! Apparently there was a glitch on my backend and the comment didn’t cut off as it should, so a few more lucky peeps made it in (which was alright anyway!) The numbers are generated by Random.org, and I’ll be in contact with the winners very soon.
Thank you so much to our panel of artists and to our readers; I hope that you’ll tune in for the next one in February! In the meantime, if you want to start a mini art collection, why not head over to our shop and get a package for yourself (or as a gift) that’s filled with works from our fantastic participants?
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The December PikaPackage Giveaway!
Posted by Amy on Sunday December 7, 2008
Alrighty peeps, this will be our last PikaPackage Project giveaway for 2008!
As the participants for this round comes to 24, we’re going to do it a little differently this time. We’re going to pick TWO winners, and each one will get a 6-item package each containing at least one item from your favourite artists that you’ve commented about. How does that sound?
And for making this possible, I’d like to thank our participants for this round for coming along:
- Rui Vitorino Santos sent in these lovely zines that’s just right for Christmas!
- Racheal Anilyse sent in prints of the Boticelli Sisters, and also ACEOs;
- Aaron + Ayumi, the team at APAK sent in their new cards for December’s round;
- Gaia Bordicchia sent in her adorable cards, prints and gift tags for the holiday season;
- Stephanie of Milady Productions sent in beautiful gift tags;
- Victoria Usova sent in beautiful full-sized prints of her watercolor works;
- Sarah Ray sent in cards, postcards and adorable buttons;
- Katherine Quinn sent in beautiful prints for the December round of the PikaPackage Project;
- Anna Emilia sent in four copies of her beautiful book entitled Proof of Winter;
- Sarah of craftyFOLK sent in fabulous magnets and brooches that are all handmade with love;
- Shannon of Loaded Hips Press sent in handpressed linoprints in all shapes and sizes;
- Julia Staite sent in her awesome handmade zines – a retelling of The Little Red Riding Hood;
- Renee of Wolfie and the Sneak sent in these lovely print packs, and a reminder not to use plastics!
- Mara of Printspace sent in wonderful full-sized prints of her work;
- Jannie Ho of Chickengirl sent in adorable cards with her characters in time for the holidays;
- Jeannette of The Beautiful Project sent in these lovely cards;
- Tad Carpenter sent in a massive package that contained silkscreened giant prints of his monster mix-up (each waist of the monsters are of the same width, and so is interchangeable), silkscreens on wood panels + loads of cards;
- Yael Fran sent in an assortment of fabulous brooches, necklaces and gift tags made from her beautiful collages!
- Lizzy House sent in a beautiful package filled with handprinted cards, prints and twee notebooks!
- Cristina Sitja Rubio sent in a fun coloring book, buttons and prints for the December package;
- Susan Schwake sent in beautiful original drawings and prints of her work;
- Julie of Your Secret Admiral sent in her hand-drawn and hand-bound notebooks of various sizes;
- Maria Kalcheva sent in colourful mini prints, cards and calendars; and
- Anna Rosete of 1760 Sunday House sent in handmade Christmas ornaments, along with her prints all packed up in a pretty package!
So here’s what you need to do have a chance to win each one of these packages — visit the shops/websites of our participants, and write down here in the comments which product you like from their shops (include the links if you’d like). Here’s some information:
- You can make one long list, but please do not comment more than once. If you do, you’ll immediately be disqualified!
- Some of the artists don’t have shops yet, but that’s alright too, just let us know you liked what they sent in!
- The closing date for this is on Monday 8th December, 8 p.m. PST/PDT. I’ll pick two random winners from the comments section, so be sure to leave your email addy!
To read more about our participants, remember to read up our PikaPackage zine too! If you’d like to read the zine online, then head on to read it over at our Issuu page. The cover art for this issue was done by the lovely Aaron + Ayumi of APAK!
If you’d like to purchase a PikaPackage for yourself (and to support Pikaland!), hop on to our NEW SHOP! We will be donating USD2.00 from each sale to Amnesty International, a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.
And you can always sign up for our mailing list to get updates about special happenings!
UPDATE: Comments are now closed, thank you!
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The December PikaPackage Project: update #3
Posted by Amy on Saturday December 6, 2008
We’re on our last update for the December PikaPackage Project, and this brings our lot of participants to 24! Come to think of it, I think I may actually stick to a smaller number, as it is so much more fun! Update number 3 has these wonderful participants that we would like to showcase:
- Tad Carpenter sent in a massive package that contained silkscreened giant prints of his monster mix-up (each waist of the monsters are of the same width, and so is interchangeable), silkscreens on wood panels + loads of cards;
- Yael Fran sent in an assortment of fabulous brooches, necklaces and gift tags made from her beautiful collages!
- Lizzy House sent in a beautiful package filled with handprinted cards, prints and twee notebooks!
- Cristina Sitja Rubio sent in a fun coloring book, buttons and prints for the December package;
- Susan Schwake sent in beautiful original drawings and prints of her work;
- Julie of Your Secret Admiral sent in her hand-drawn and hand-bound notebooks of various sizes;
- Maria Kalcheva sent in colourful mini prints, cards and calendars; and
- Anna Rosete of 1760 Sunday House sent in handmade Christmas ornaments, along with her prints all packed up in a pretty package!
See more pictures of what our participants sent in over at our Flickr stream, and remember to sign up for our mailing list because the giveaway is just around the corner (really close!), and so are the packages that are available for purchase (they’re perfect stocking stuffers!). Because the number of participants are smaller for this round, the number of packages available for sale is also much smaller than usual!
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The December PikaPackage Project: update #2
Posted by Amy on Friday December 5, 2008
Things have been a little hectic here lately with the upcoming giveaway, and with only one more update to go before we launch the December round, we’re so happy to let you in on the next round of participants!
- Anna Emilia sent in four copies of her beautiful book entitled Proof of Winter;
- Sarah of craftyFOLK sent in fabulous magnets and brooches that are all handmade with love;
- Shannon of Loaded Hips Press sent in handpressed linoprints in all shapes and sizes;
- Julia Staite sent in her awesome handmade zines – a retelling of The Little Red Riding Hood;
- Renee of Wolfie and the Sneak sent in these lovely print packs, and a reminder not to use plastics!
- Mara of Printspace sent in wonderful full-sized prints of her work;
- Jannie Ho of Chickengirl sent in adorable cards with her characters in time for the holidays; and
- Jeannette of The Beautiful Project sent in these lovely cards for December’s PikaPackage Project!
{And here’s fair warning: broken record alert!}
If you want to see more pictures of what our participants sent in, please head on over to our Flickr stream, and remember to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about the giveaway, and also when the packages this round will be available for purchase!
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The December PikaPackage Project: update #1
Posted by Amy on Tuesday December 2, 2008
The December PikaPackage is well on it’s way, and I’m so pleased to announce our first update of the round! :)
- Rui Vitorino Santos sent in these lovely zines that’s just right for Christmas!
- Racheal Anilyse sent in prints of the Boticelli Sisters, and also ACEOs;
- Aaron + Ayumi, the team at APAK sent in their new cards for December’s round;
- Gaia Bordicchia sent in her adorable cards, prints and gift tags for the holiday season;
- Stephanie of Milady Productions sent in beautiful gift tags;
- Victoria Usova sent in beautiful full-sized prints of her watercolor works;
- Sarah Ray sent in cards, postcards and adorable buttons; and
- Katherine Quinn sent in beautiful prints for the December round of the PikaPackage Project!
If you want to see more pictures of what our participants sent in, please head on over to our Flickr stream, and remember to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about the giveaway, and also when the packages this round will be available for purchase!
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Black Friday sale for PikaPackages!
Posted by Amy on Friday November 28, 2008
I woke up this morning to a flurry of emails from peeps who are sprouting well wishes and merriment for Happy Thanksgiving, and I just remembered that it’s also Black Friday — which means that in honor of the season, the packages in the shop all now enjoy a 10% discount up until Cyber Monday, which falls on the 4th of December. (We’ll still be donating USD$2.00 for each package sold!)
Also running a Black Friday Sale:
- Little Odd Forest (code: weloveu)
- Fin+Roe (code: blackfriday)
- Candace Jean’s shop
- Azure Grackle’s shop
- Dolan Geiman’s shop
- If you’d like to make an announcement about your Black Friday sale, just leave a note at the comment in this post!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who is celebrating, and for those who aren’t, well, happy Thursday!
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