Tinkering Ink BLOG

FOR NSD EVERYONE WINS @ TINKERING INK!

and the winners are...

Erin B-Ti Prize Pack!

Ania-Ti Prize Pack!

Holley Van Den Berg-Ti Prize Pack!

Robyn W- 75% off your order @ tinkeringink.com!

Sue Bone- 75% off your order @ tinkeringink.com!

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE OPRAH WHERE SHE GIVES EVERYONE A CAR?  WELL EVERYONE ELSE WHO LEFT A COMMENT GETS 50% OFF OF THEIR ORDER @ tinkeringink.com! 

IF YOU ARE A PRIZE PACK WINNER EMAIL info@tinkeringink.com with your full name and address and put "NSD prizepack" in the subject and we will send you your fabulous stuff! 

IF YOU ARE A 75% OFF WINNER EMAIL info@tinkeringink.com with "NSD 75" in the subject line and we will send you your special code to use on the website! 

IF YOU LEFT A COMMENT THEN EMAIL info@tinkeringink.com with "NSD 50" in the subject line and we will send you your special code to use on the website!

LADIES AND GENTS... HAVE YOU STARTED TO FIGURE OUT THAT LEAVING A COMMENT ON THIS BLOG NO MATTER WHAT THE POST IS COULD BE A LUCKY MOVE?  KEEP COMING BACK FOR MORE FAB FUN... ANOTHER CONTEST IS COMING UP LATER THIS WEEK WITH WORLD-WIN  CARDSTOCK AND Ti!

Simple Scrapbooks and Tinkering Ink National Scrapbook Day Contest!

 

May 3 is National Scrapbooking Day, and we’re celebrating with Simple Scrapbooks magazine! For one day only, Simple is hosting a Scrapbooking Scavenger Hunt Sweepstakes involving many of your favorite manufacturers. To enter, simply gather one keyword from each manufacturer’s website, then fill out the entry form on Simple’s website .

Pick up our keyword below!

keyword: plethora

For links to other keywords, click here

LEAVE A COMMENT WHEN YOU STOP BY TO GET YOUR SS KEY WORD AND WE WILL DRAW FOR SOME FABULOUS TINKERING INK PRIZES TODAY!

Hate Hot Cereal... Love Vintage Anything!

When I was a child my Mother made hot cereal.  Often.  It didn't matter how much butter, cream or sugar was piled on top of that cereal... I NEVER liked it.  Now there are many other foods that I disliked as a child that I LOVE now... broccoli, brussel sprouts, tomatoes, squash just to name a few. But, I have never warmed up to the hot cereal category.  I dislike Oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, Red River and any other HOT CEREAL.

This morning Preston (my little 5 yr. old) asked me to make him Cream of Wheat.  Dad usually does breakfast with the kids and he is the KING of hot cereal. Since I do not eat it... I have never made it!  How hard can it be?  Just follow the directions on the box then pile it high with butter, sugar and the like.  Well I learned a few things...

First: Even though there are microwave directions on the box of anything you are making... it is NOT going to taste the same as if you had cooked it the traditional way on the stove top.

Second: No matter how much butter or sugar you put on top, it can't mask the lumpy, grainy and rubbery mess that Cream of Wheat is. (when made in the microwave)

Third: The microwave is not good for "cooking" anything... It simply dominates at heating up a plate of leftover food and that is the full extent of its talent.

So in honor of the Cream of Wheat morning I found this old school advertisement and it inspired a challenge/contest!  Since the ad is so vintage and cute...I challenge you to create a Layout, Card or Altered Item that mixes Tinkering Ink Paper and something truly vintage.  IT CANNOT BE SOMETHING THAT IS REPRODUCED THAT "LOOKS" VINTAGE... IT MUST BE A REAL VINTAGE ITEM.  An old button, piece of a book, lace trim... you get the picture.  You have one month to finish this project...and yes there will be FABULOUS PRIZES LIKE $50.00 TO SPEND AT OUR TINKERING INK STORE AT tinkeringink.com!

SEND E-MAIL ENTRIES TO info@tinkeringink.com MAKE THE SUBJECT OF THE E-MAIL "VINTAGE CONTEST" AND SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY BY MIDNIGHT (MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME) MAY 25TH.

Note of thanks to my younger sister "Lois"... I will be forever grateful to her for eating my bowl of hot cereal when Mom wasn't looking... saving me from a punishment worse than death itself... Mom making me eat the same bowl of hot cereal for lunch because I wouldn't eat it at breakfast.

I Spy some T.I. - Winner!

Today I spotted a fabulous layout in the scrapbook.com gallery using Tinkering Ink products.  These papers are from one of our new lines called Wild Woodland.  I just love how Scrapchickee used these bold colors to compliment her layoutss message and we always love seeing a big, bold flower on a boy's page.  You ROCK Girl!

Please email your real name and mailing addy to emilie@tinkeringink.com so we can send you a RAK filled with Tinkering Ink products!  Here is Scrapchickee's winning layout...

CONTEST: I Spy

Did you notice the Tinkering Ink paper on this recent cover of Memory Makers magazine? 

And guess what?  It's used on three other layouts featured in the magazine as well.  Can you spot them?  If you can and you tell us what page one of them is featured on you could win an entire pack of Tinkering Ink's Perfectly Posh collection. 

Email your answer to designteam@tinkeringink.com before midnight on Friday, January 18th and you could win!!!

2 "I Spy A Blinkie" Winners!

We have recently spotted two girls displaying their love for Tinkering Ink in their signatures on the Create My Keepsake website.  And the winners are....

Danielle H

carolinanikki23

Hey girls!  Congrats!  Please email your real name, mailing address and which line you would like to receive as your prize to emilie@tinkeringink.com.

To get your very own TI Blinkie click here.  And please, If you are on a site, displaying a TI Blinkie in your siggy, feel free to leave the site address in the comments of this post so we can SPY more TI winners!

T.I. Blinkies and A CONTEST!

You've asked for it and now you've got it! Official TINKERING INK Blinkies are here! Go to our message board to view the blinkies and copy the code!

To attach a blinkie to your signature simply type [img], then copy the code which appears beneath the image you want and paste it in your online signature. Be sure to end it with [/img] ...it's as easy as that!

And just because we love you, we will be hunting down Tinkering Ink blinkies online and giving away prize packs filled with Tinkering Ink goodies to random customers we find displaying our blinkie on their signature!

YOU could be a winner!

CONTEST ammendment!

Even our Forefathers needed a little room to change!  LOL!

Okay...some of you didn't get a chance to comment yesterday and we want EVERYONE to have a chance at winning so we are changing our contest rules. 

Amendment:  You must post a comment on a new sneak peek post within 48 HOURS of that post going up! 

Now those who can't get to it every day will still have a chance.  So post away and WIN!

Scrap Your Man CONTEST Winner(s)!

We got bunches of amazing layouts for our Scrap Your Man contest!  It was SO HARD to choose just one winner that we didn't choose one winner....we chose TWO!

The Winners of our contest are both international scrappers and we are so happy to have entries from all over the globe as our products catch fire worldwide!

And now finally....the winners are...

Hera Frei from Switzerland

and Chantal Laliberté from Quebec  (layout reads: "a man of the wild … in the city")

Thanks a million to ALL who entered!  We were truly inspired by the layouts and stories celebrating the men in your lives.  Haute Scrap!

Scrap Your Man CONTEST Countdown

Remember...you only have 2 more weeks to submit your SCRAP YOUR MAN contest entries! 

You can still order the Tinkering Ink GIBSON line on http://www.tinkeringink.com and get it in time to whip up something amazing! 

We can't WAIT to see YOUR entry!