CLOSED: Forever Framed Gifts

 We have a winner!

Congratulations to entry #6, Mandi Wiebe!  And thanks to all who participated, you're going to LOVE your custom tiles!

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Oh WOW, I have the MOST AWESOME shop to share with you all today!  I recently had the absolute pleasure to review custom made coasters and wood blocks from Claycomb Photography & Forever Framed that were made just for me using photos of my family that I had sent in. 

Aren't they amazing?!  The quality and craftsmanship is OUTSTANDING!  And Trina was so accommodating, she put hangers on the backs of the wooden blocks for me and they are now hanging as a beautiful collage on my wall!  What a gal!  Wanna know more about Trina Claycomb, the owner and designer behind Forever Framed?  Well here you go:

Claycomb Photography & Forever Framed is owned and oh so creatively operated by Trina Claycomb:

"Hello!  My name is Trina.
About me?  Really? It’s hard for me to talk about myself but it is really important to know who your photographer is, so as difficult as it may be… for some of us, it is a must!  ^_~
I am a very passionate person, that much I know.  I never do things “half way” or “kind of”.  I love people, I love animals and I am in LOVE with photographs and everything that goes with it.  I love creating memories, documenting life and creating images that people fall in love with.  My home is full of photographs and I update them a couple times a year.  I also have a gift shop and I create Custom Photo & Inspirational Coasters, Blocks and wooden boxes.
It’s pretty safe to say I am in love with being in love! What I love most of all on this earth is my family.  I am incandescently in love with my wonderful husband of 10 years and we have two beautiful boys that are the center of our world.  I also love my job.  It has been said that when you love your job you never work a day in your life.  That couldn’t be truer for me.  I love what I do... I adore the people I meet and creating that “pause in time” with the photographs I design with my clients.  I have a passion for weddings and have been known to shed a tear or two behind my lens at almost every one of them… What can I say I am a hopeless romantic!
I enjoy spending time with my sisters, brothers and parents, soy peppermint white mochas, my black & white Havanese puppy named Hurley, the laughter of children, fall colored trees that seem to go for miles, the movie “Pride & Prejudice”, stay-at-home mom and dad businesses, Etsy.com, San Diego, converse shoes, wonderful friends that love to eat, play games and talk for hours, Carmel California and I love coffee! ^_^
I strive to be a Loving wife, an Understanding mother, a Good friend and give More than I Get in life.
“There is More Happiness in Giving than there is in Receiving”

How awesome is she?  And it really shows in her creativity!  Take a look at some of the other goodies she makes 'cause she's so generously giving away a custom made set of coasters to one of our lucky fans!

 

HERE'S HOW TO ENTER:

Initial Entry:

“Like” the Claycomb Photography/Forever Framed Facebook page by visiting https://www.facebook.com/pages/Claycomb-Photography/117986204187

and tell them Beautiful Photo Props sent you.  Once you have “liked” their page please "Like" the Beautiful Photo Props Facebook page as well at http://www.facebook.com/BeautifulPhotoProps and leave a comment on THIS BLOG ENTRY letting me know you did so (comments left anywhere but this blog post will not be counted).

ADDITIONAL ENTRIES:

 

1.  Follow Beautiful Photo Props on Bloglovin and leave a comment telling me you did so for an extra entry.   If that entry is chosen as the winning entry it will be verified that you are a follower.

2.  Don't be shy - share, repost, blog and tweet about this giveaway :) Come back here and post a link ON THIS POST ONLY telling me where you did this. Each one that you do counts as an entry, you must include the link for each to be counted. You can enter one time per day for every place you share (comments posted anywhere other than this blog post will not be counted. You MUST make a new post for EACH entry or it will count as one).
3.  Follow this blog for another entry and leave a comment telling me you did so.  If that entry is chosen as the winning entry it will be verified that you are a follower.
4.  Paste this giveaway link on your Facebook wall and comment below with your FB page link.

The contest will end April 28th at 11:59pm EST.

I will choose the winners using Random.org and post the winners no later than April 29th by 6pm EST.  Thanks to everyone who participates, I sincerely appreciate it!  Good luck!

**This giveaway is neither endorsed by or run by Facebook or any of it's affiliates and follows all rules and regulations.

Product Review and Giveaway: Zin Frames

I recently had the pleasure of reviewing a beautiful Zin Frame and just have to share with you all because they are AMAZING!  I got the "Amelie" in Apple Green and it is absolutely stunning!

Zin Frames was founded by Rosanne & Jan Korteland and although they are European, they say they feel pretty Canadian after having lived in BC since 2008. They run a successful photography studio on Vancouver Island and are always on the look out for unique products to offer their clients...Zin Frames was the result!

Their designer frames are custom made and they are available on their website and wholesale to photographers and other boutique business owners.  You can also find them on their Facebook page.  Zin is a Dutch word and stands for “meaning”. They believe their frames will make the photographs that are displayed in them even more meaningful than they already are....and I completely agree!  Why put a stunning photograph into a boring frame when you can make it an eye-catcher with a Zin frame?! 

Now for the fun part:  Rosanne & Jan are graciously giving away an 8x10 frame OF THE WINNERS CHOICE....how awesome is that?  The winner gets to choose the style, the color....so many possibilities!  Are you excited because I sure am!  Let's get the party started!

Congratulations to 806 Photography!  And thank you to all who participated!!!

 

Product Review and Giveaway: I Shoot!

Today's product review and giveaway comes courtesy of a snazzy company called "I Shoot".  They are located in Canada and carry an absolutely AWESOME line of apparel and accessories for photographers.  

 I recently had the pleasure of reviewing one of their "I Shoot People" shirts and have to say, I wear it all the time!  It's so comfy and goes with everything, and I just love the look on people's faces when they read it lol!

Wanna know more about them and how you can win a $25 gift certificate to shop at their website?  Here's a little bit of info from their site:

Who’s the stick person in the I Shoot designs? It’s me…and you! It’s “Shooter”.

Shooter represents pro and hobbyist photographers. I’ve been shooting for about 10 years and I wanted a shirt that represented me as a photographer. I wanted it to be a “fun” shirt because that’s what photography is to me – fun! But I also wanted to display my skills on the shirt with some key words like RAW. I designed the full body version of Shooter one evening, and I couldn’t decide what I wanted him/her to say. I had a number of ideas, but wasn’t sure how to incorporate them into the design. I played around with the design some more and came up with the half body Shooter with the words “I Shoot” linked, and a place to add additional descriptive words for various versions of the design.

I liked my design, so I started pricing around to get my custom shirt printed. I soon realized that it would cost just as much to print one shirt for myself as it would to print a dozen. I decided that if it was going to be so expensive to get just one custom shirt, I might as well get the dozen, right? But what was I gonna do with a dozen shirts (they all had to be the same to get the price break)? I asked my hubby if he thought other photographers would wear a shirt with my design on it. Being the supportive husband that he is he said “yes”. The wheels in my head started turning, and what started out as an idea for a personal custom t-shirt has become a line of apparel and accessories.

Within 3 months I had branded a line of I Shoot gear for photographers!

So, here are the 5 Ws:

Who?  I am Brandi Gosse, the mind behind the design. But the design represents YOU!

What? A brand of apparel and accessories for photographers. It’s an unspoken way to “connect” with other photographers.
When? I founded the I Shoot line in 2011 and launched the first items for sale in January 2012.

Where? I’m from NL, Canada. You can order items worldwide through this online store, and hopefully some items will be carried by camera/photography retail stores in the future.

Why? Because I love photography! And I want to share my skills by wearing the frills :)

 I'm SOOO excited and I bet you all are too so let's get all the details on how to enter out there and get this party started!

HOW TO ENTER:

Just follow the steps below starting at 12:01am on 03/31/2012 to get your entries in, it's easy peasy!

So What's New at Beautiful Photo Props?

So what's new?  WE are!  You may or may not have noticed but the website was down for a few days this week while we feverishly worked to make it pretty and viola!  We've got a shiny new website!

We would love to have you head on over to check it out and let us know what you think:  www.BeautifulPhotoProps.com.  As you can see we've added a Current Promo/Weekly Special advertisement on the site....this is something new we would like to do each week and this week it will be our Cocoon Sets...you can save $5 off each Cocoon Set just by using code 5OFFSETS during checkout!  This is a great time to stock up!

Spring is on the way and we sure have been enjoying the wonderful temperatures and watching the trees and flowers bloom :)  Missouri is so beautiful, especially here in the Ozarks and we are so blessed to be able to enjoy all four seasons!  My favorite seasons are Spring and Fall because there's so much color involved and I LOVE color!

Here's what we get in the Spring (and yellow and blue blooming trees as well!)

And here's what we get in the Fall...

Isn't that beautiful?  I just love it here!  Hmmm, that pink is the same color as a certain camera bag that we will be giving away in April.... *wink*  But you won't have to wait that long, we've got more great giveaways right around the corner!

Have a great week!

CLOSED - This Is One BIG BAD SASSY Giveaway!

Well my friends, this was a HUGE giveaway and we had 1,015 entries!  Can you believe it?!  We are so happy to announce the following winners that were chosen by Random.org:

1.  Entry #196 - Photo Love Photography (winner of Bad Sass $250 Gift Certificate)
2.  Entry #579 - Cortney783 (winner of Bad Sass $250 Gift Certificate)
3.  Entry #639 - Shasta Philpot (winner of Sassy Designs $100 Gift Certificate)
4.  Entry  #60 - Trina Claycomb (winner of Sassy Designs $100 Gift Certificate)
5.  Entry #205 - Micaela Staheli (winner of Jessica Drossin $75 Gift Certificate)

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who participate and congratulations to all of the winners!!  You all have 72 hours to email me at kimberly@beautifulphotoprops.com to claim your prizes :)


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Oh my oh my!  I'm so excited for this giveaway, this one is a HUGE one my friends!  We've got three wonderfully generous vendors who are graciously donating gift certificates to a total of FIVE lucky readers!

I am oh so honored to be doing another review and giveaway for my friends over at Bad Sass Backrops Inc., the best of the best in the backdrop/flooring design industry!  Rated #1 in customer service and THE creators/inventors/originators of the "Split" and "Tri-Split" designs, Bad Sass Backdrops is my one and only choice for my backdrop and flooring design needs!  Also on board is Sassy Designs.  Sassy Designs is the leader in unique, original, & fresh greeting card, invitation, and announcement templates - and design goodies to create your own!  And it doesn't stop there, Jessica Drossin Textures is also in on the fun!  Jessica is an artistic person, with a background in the visual arts of painting, printmaking and sculpture. For fifteen years she worked as a graphic designer and art director in the entertainment industry, creating adverting and packaging for video games, movies and music.  Her textures are amazing and her photography is stunning.  And guess what?  Jessica's textures are now available to be printed on Bad Sass Backdrops!!  How amazing is that?  I am so honored to have her on board as well :)


So I bet you're excited to find out what's being given away by these incredibly generous vendors right?  Hold on tight, this is really gonna blow your mind....

Bad Sass Backrops is graciously giving away not one but TWO $250 Gift Certificates...one each for two lucky readers!

It doesn't stop there either, they've also put together a special coupon code just for our readers...a huge 40% discount just by using the code BADSASS40...that's the most they have EVER marked down their backdrops!  Wow, right?  Do they rock or what?!

Sassy Designs is graciously giving away not one but TWO $100 Gift Certificates so there will be two lucky winners here as well!  Are you getting even more excited?  I know I am!!

And Jessica Drossin Photography is so graciously giving away a $75 Gift Certificate as well, isn't she awesome?  I told you this was one helluva BIG giveaway!

I'm SOOO excited and I bet you all are too so let's get all the details on how to enter out there and get this party started!

HOW TO ENTER:

Initial Entry:

“Like” the Bad Sass Backdrops Facebook page, the Sassy Designs Facebook Page and the Jessica Drossin Facebook page and tell them Beautiful Photo Props sent you.  

Once you have “liked” their pages please "Like" the Beautiful Photo Props Facebook page as well at http://www.facebook.com/BeautifulPhotoProps and leave a comment on THIS BLOG ENTRY letting me know you did so (comments left anywhere but this blog post will not be counted).

ADDITIONAL ENTRIES:

 

1.  Follow Beautiful Photo Props on Bloglovin and leave a comment telling me you did so for an extra entry.   If that entry is chosen as the winning entry it will be verified that you are a follower.

2.  Don't be shy - share, repost, blog and tweet about this giveaway :) Come back here and post a link ON THIS POST ONLY telling me where you did this. Each one that you do counts as an entry, you must include the link for each to be counted. You can enter one time per day for every place you share (comments posted anywhere other than this blog post will not be counted. You MUST make a new post for EACH entry or it will count as one).
3.  Follow this blog for another entry and leave a comment telling me you did so.  If that entry is chosen as the winning entry it will be verified that you are a follower.
4.  Paste this giveaway link on your Facebook wall and comment below with your FB page link.
5.  Make a purchase with any of the vendors between now and February 29th and comment below with what you purchased - each purchase you make counts as 3 entries so be sure to leave 3 individual comments for each item you buy (and don't forget your COUPON CODE)!

The contest will end March 2nd at 11:59pm EST.

I will choose the winners using Random.org and post the winners no later than March 3rd by 6pm EST.  Thanks to everyone who participates, I sincerely appreciate it!  Good luck!

**This giveaway is neither endorsed by or run by Facebook or any of it's affiliates and follows all rules and regulations.

CLOSED - I have an Epiphanie...and so can you!!

We have verified the entries and have a winner!  Congratulations to lucky winning entry #2,192!

Congratulations Sara, please email me at kimberly@beautifulphotoprops.com within 72 hours to claim your prize!  And thanks again to all who participated! 

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I am SOOOO incredibly excited for our February review and giveaway!  You've read it right, the wonderful folks over at Epiphanie Bags are graciously giving away a bag of the winner's choice, how awesome is that? 

Epiphanie bags are a stylish and functional way to transport your camera every where you go.   I am a HUGE fan of Epiphanie Bags.  These bags are practical enough to use during a photo session but also versatile enough to bring to a ballet recital, concert, or a girls weekend out.  The exterior is water-resistant, high quality synthetic leather, the interior is crafted with extra padding for maximum equipment protection.  The velcro panels can be adjusted & moved to any position for maximum customization & flexibility.  I recently received the Stella in Pink and am in love!  It's the perfect size for my needs and is oh so fashionable (the pink is just STUNNING!)

There are tons of extra spaces to store your everday purse items....my Epiphanie Bag goes with me everywhere!

Aren't they the most amazing bags ever?  

Okay, I know how excited you all must be so here are the details on how to enter!

HOW TO ENTER:

Initial Entry:

“Like” the Epiphanie Facebook page by visiting https://www.facebook.com/epiphaniebags

and tell them Beautiful Photo Props sent you.  Once you have “liked” their page please "Like" the Beautiful Photo Props Facebook page as well at http://www.facebook.com/BeautifulPhotoProps and leave a comment on THIS BLOG ENTRY letting me know you did so (comments left anywhere but this blog post will not be counted).

ADDITIONAL ENTRIES:

 

1.  Follow Beautiful Photo Props on Bloglovin and leave a comment telling me you did so for an extra entry.   If that entry is chosen as the winning entry it will be verified that you are a follower.

2.  Don't be shy - share, repost, blog and tweet about this giveaway (be sure to include @EpiphanieBags in the tweet too :) Come back here and post a link ON THIS POST ONLY telling me where you did this. Each one that you do counts as an entry, you must include the link for each to be counted. You can enter one time per day for every place you share (comments posted anywhere other than this blog post will not be counted. You MUST make a new post for EACH entry or it will count as one).
3.  Follow this blog for another entry and leave a comment telling me you did so.  If that entry is chosen as the winning entry it will be verified that you are a follower.
4.  Paste this giveaway link on your Facebook wall and comment below with your FB page link.
5.  Make a purchase at EPIPHANIE CAMERA BAGS at any time between Feb 1st – Feb 29th and comment below with what you purchased - each purchase you make counts as 3 entries so be sure to leave 3 individual comments for each item you buy! 
6.  Pin this giveaway on Pinterest and leave a comment that you did so with a link to the pin, each pin counts as one entry so be sure to leave a comment each time you do so :)

The contest will end Feb 29th at 11:59pm CST.

I will choose the winner using Random.org and post the winners no later than March 1st by 6pm CST.  Thanks to everyone who participates, I sincerely appreciate it!  Good luck!

**This giveaway is neither endorsed by or run by Facebook or any of it's affiliates and follows all rules and regulations.

CLOSED Product Review and Giveaway: Marili Jean Accessories!

WE'VE GOT A WINNER!  CONGRATS TO LUCKY ENTRY #41, KIMBERLY WALLACE!  I'LL BE CONTACTING YOU SHORTLY, CONGRATS TO YOU GIRL!

It's time for another fun giveaway and this week's giveaway is courtesy of Marili Jean Accessories.  Marili specializes in trendy hats and accessories for little girls (and boys). Incorporated into their products is an interchangeable design to change out flowers and barrettes according to your little girls outfit! You'll love these stylish and trendy hats, headbands, and barrettes!

Marili Jean Accessories can be found on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/MariliJean and on the web at  http://marilijean.com/.  We're so thrilled that she is offering to give away TWO HATS OF THE WINNERS CHOICE to one lucky winner!  How cool is that?  Here's a peek at some of her adorable work:

HOW TO ENTER:

Initial Entry:

“Like” the Marili Jean Accessories Facebook page by visiting http://www.facebook.com/MariliJean

and tell them Beautiful Photo Props sent you.  Once you have “liked” their page please "Like" the Beautiful Photo Props Facebook page as well at http://www.facebook.com/BeautifulPhotoProps and leave a comment on THIS BLOG ENTRY letting me know you did so (comments left anywhere but this blog post will not be counted).

ADDITIONAL ENTRIES:

 

1.  Follow Beautiful Photo Props on Bloglovin and leave a comment telling me you did so for an extra entry.   If that entry is chosen as the winning entry it will be verified that you are a follower.

2.  Don't be shy - share, repost, blog and tweet about this giveaway :) Come back here and post a link ON THIS POST ONLY telling me where you did this. Each one that you do counts as an entry, you must include the link for each to be counted. You can enter one time per day for every place you share (comments posted anywhere other than this blog post will not be counted. You MUST make a new post for EACH entry or it will count as one).
3.  Follow this blog for another entry and leave a comment telling me you did so.  If that entry is chosen as the winning entry it will be verified that you are a follower.
4.  Paste this giveaway link on your Facebook wall and comment below with your FB page link.
5.  Make a purchase at MARILI JEAN ACCESSORIES at any time between Jan 14th – Jan 21st and comment below with what you purchased - each purchase you make counts as 3 entries so be sure to leave 3 individual comments for each item you buy!

The contest will end Jan 21st at 11:59pm EST.

I will choose the winners using Random.org and post the winner within 24 hours.  Thanks to everyone who participates, I sincerely appreciate it!  Good luck!

**This giveaway is neither endorsed by or run by Facebook or any of it's affiliates and follows all rules and regulations.