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Craft for a Cause Contest 2010 - sponsored by Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores

Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores, the leading fabric and craft specialty retailer in America, will add one more reason to feel good about crafting -- Craft for a Cause.  Use your creativity, skills & passion to help your favorite worthwhile cause and enter to win prizes yourself!

How You Can Win

• Create a craft for your favorite charitable organization using materials purchased from Jo-Ann
• Donate the crafted item to your favorite charitable organization
• Log onto Joann.com/craftforacause to complete an entry form and submit your receipt and photo(s) of your donated item(s) by October 30, 2010
• A panel of sewing and crafting experts will then judge all eligible entries and will select five (5) winners based on the quality/workmanship, creativity and functionality of the item for the chosen organization, as shown in the photographs
• The top five entries will each win a $1,500 Jo-Ann gift card

How Your Favorite Charity Can Win

• The three charitable causes receiving the most donated items will become Craft for a Cause finalists
• Starting November 7, 2010, vote at Joann.com for your favorite finalist
• Jo-Ann will donate to the top vote getters:
  • 1st prize - $50,000
  • 2nd prize - $25,000
  • 3rd prize - $15,000

Visit www.joann.com/craftforacause to enter and for the list of rules and regulations.

All Occasion Card Contest 

Sponsored by Flower Soft® and Paper Creations magazine.

Here's how the contest works: 

1.  Go to www.papercreationsmag.com and click on the Flower Soft® banner on the home page.

2.  Use any color Flower Soft® to embellish a card for whatever occasion you desire.  Upload a photo of your finished submission along with the completed entry form, or, write your name, mailing and e-mail address and phone number on a postcard and send along with your completed submission(s) to:  All American Crafts, 7 Waterloo Road, Stanhope, NJ 07874, Attn: Flower Soft® Contest.

That's it!   The possibilities are endless with Flower Soft®, so enter as many times as you wish between July 15 and October 15, 2010.   Winners will be notified on November 1, 2010.

Here's what you win:

1st Prize Winner - $100 of Flower Soft® product, a free one-year subscription to Paper Creations magazine, and $50.00 cash.  The winner will also be published in the Spring 2011 issue of Paper Creations magazine.

2nd Prize Winner - $50 of Flower Soft® product, a free one-year subscription to Paper Creations magazine and $25.00 cash.

3rd Prize Winner - $25 of Flower Soft® product and a free one-year subscription to Paper Creations magazine.

BONUS:  You'll receive a FREE GIFT - Beautiful Flower Soft® papers to download just for entering the All Occasion Card Contest!

Sewing News' Sewing Idol Contest

Do you admire someone who taught you to sew? Do you look up to someone who uses her sewing talents to help those in need? If you're a fan of someone because her sewing abilities go hand in hand with her humanitarian spirit, nominate her to win the biggest Sew News contest yet: Sewing Idol.

How to Enter: Obtain permission from the person you'd like to nominate. Write a 1000-word essay about who your nominee is and why he/she is your Sewing Idol, then paste it into the online entry form. Each contest page visitor can nominate up to 10 different Sewing Idols. Please do not nominate the same Sewing Idol more than once, as votes will be calculated separately for each entry.

When to Enter: The Sewing Idol contest begins at 12 a.m. EST on January 15, 2010 and ends at 12 a.m. EST on September 10, 2010. The winner will be notified on or before September 15, 2010 via e-mail or phone.

How to Win: Vote for your favorite nominee. Each contest page visitor can cast as many votes as possible within the contest period. After the contest end date, the nominee with the most visitor votes will win the grand prize.

What to Win: The winning Sewing Idol will win 30 fabulous prizes including a Janome Memory Craft 6600 sewing machine; Brother Innov-ís 900D sewing & embroidery machine; $100 fabric.com gift card; plus much more estimated at over $8,000. And the winning essay and photo will be published in the December/January '11 issue of Sew News.