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Giveaway: Celebrate National Craft Month with EK Success Brands and CraftGossip

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The winner of this giveaway is comment no 77, Sandy L! Congratulations! We have sent you an email.

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EK Success Brands need no introduction. They are a family of fun creative craft products that inspire you to “inspire, make and celebrate” with a variety of crafting products.

From scrapbooking, stamping and paper crafting to jewelry making, needlecrafts and kids’ crafts, their products will inspire you to celebrate everyday life! Along with nationally recognized brands, they have the largest portfolio of licensed products including Disney, Sesame Street®, Marvel™, Girl Scouts and the U.S. Military. They have over 10,000 wonderful products for you.

To celebrate National Craft Month on CraftGossip, EK Success Brands are giving away a $150 voucher to their online store to one lucky CraftGossip reader!

To win, you must leave a comment on this post telling us the name of at least one of the brands that they carry.

US residents only. Entries close 25th of March 2011. Winner drawn at random from all correct entries. National Craft Month

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Comments

  1. I use a lot of K&Company products, some Martha Stewart products and some Inkadinkado products as available in stores. Love the Mindscape line!! Happy National Craft Month!!

  5. Who doesn’t love Martha Stewart Crafts? Also K&CO offers some really pretty products. EK Success Brands is extremely generous offering a $150 voucher! I could go so crazy with that!

  11. Martha Stewart. I usually make a pass through that aisle when I go to the craft store because something usually catches my eye!

  12. Craft Month has reminded me just how long I’ve been using EK Products…My daughter (now 30)and I started using Perler Beads when she was about 8 yrs. old! Oh the fun we had together getting our patterns “just right”. Such happy memories going back so many years…I can’t wait til my grandaughter is ready to craft with Mommy anadd Grammy!

  14. I love love love Martha Stewarts punch around the page punches and her anywhere punches.These have become a part of my everyday scrapping.

  15. WOW!!!! I LOVE EK Success!! One of their brands would be: Martha Stewart!!! Would LOVE to win!!!!!!! 🙂

  16. I have used a lot of EK Products every thing from paper to needlepoint and jewelry stuff. Jolee’s K& Co Martha Stewart I have using there products for the past 12 years when I was injured at work and unable to work. I found I had to do something to pass the time so I started crafting.

  20. I’ve always chosen K&company products…their scrapbook paper is so gorgeous. EK tools, Sticko stickers, Martha Stewart Crafts…I love them all!

  23. I love their Cutter Bees! I have several of their cutting systems and their little scissors are the best!

  25. I’ve always been a HUGE fan of Inkadinkadoo, and I didn’t even know they were an EK Success Brand! Also LOVE LOVE LOVE all my Martha punches! *Fingers Crossed* Thanks for celebrating!

  28. Love the Martha Stewart products. K & Co dbl sided paper is my fav but I wish they would make some smaller designs just for us cardmakers. Also love the Cutter Bee tweezers. Use it every day.

  30. What a wonderful giveaway! I love the EK Tools and now I’m getting into the Jolee’s Jewels! Thanks!

  35. Martha Stewart Crafts is one off of the top of my head! Love the punches! Thanks so much for a chance to win! I’d be in heaven if I won this! 🙂
    kmassmanATgmailDOTcom

  37. Hi:
    I buy only EK sucess punches, I have really pretty boarders they work great to. the last one I bought was the circle punch and I can use the circles to put on anything for a boarder. they have the best punches.
    marlene

  39. Wow, $150 voucher! How generous! That will buy a lot of Martha Stewart and Inkadoo! Thanks for the opportunity to win!=)

  43. I’ve used almost all of the EK success brands at one time or another, but my favorites are K&company and Inkadinkadoo.

  44. They carry Inkadinkado. they have lots of cool googdies on their site! Thanks for this giveaway!

  46. I use Jolees jewels all the time but I also love k & co as well. They have fabulous products!

  53. Until I took a look at their website, I didn’t realize that they carried Perler Beads. I have bought these many times for my nephew because he loves them. This giveaway would give me the opportunity to buy him more.

  57. Martha Stewart Crafts! That’s where I’d spend the entire voucher if I win!! The mind boggles ……
    Thank you for this great chance to win this prize!

  59. Martha stewart, Jolee, Jolee jewels, ek tools. Inkadinkado. I love them all. One of my favorite tools are the twezzerbee. My granddaughter likes to use the backwards twezzers.

  61. I was on their site recently because I was looking at all their Inkadinkado products! But I love their other brands too like Martha Stewart and Jolee’s.

  62. What an amazing giveaway!!!!!!!!!! They have products under the EK Success brand but also the Martha Stewart Crafts brand or the K&Company brand as well! Oh boy, how I would love to win this!!!!

  68. Lots of wonderful lines, like EK of course, and K & Company, Martha Stewart, Inkadinkado to name some of my favorites. Thanks!

  73. You can never go wrong with Martha Stewart Crafts! Or, winning a $150 voucher, for that matter! 🙂

  77. Oh my goodness – I use SO many EK brands! Love Inkadinkado, Martha Stewart Score Board and punches, Cutter Bee scissors… I couldn’t create without EK! Please enter me in the fabulous giveaway.

  79. I use a lot of the K&Company and Jolee’s lines for card making. I love their varieties.

  80. I”d say they carry some of the most succesful craft brands around. Martha Stewart,Paintworks and Jolee Jewels are all favorites of my family. We also like their Disney and superhero lines. Would sure be able to put that gift certificate to use! Thanks for the opportunity to win.

  86. I love love love the Jolee’s stickers for scrap-booking. My kids love the perler beads. thanks for the giveaway.

  87. This would be a favorite giveaway to win. I hope with all these comments I still have achance to win this fantastic giveaway.

  91. The saying “you learn something new everyday” is so true. I did not know Martha Stewart Crafts were made by EK Success, I should have known, the quality is great, just what you would expect!

  94. wow i love your free giveaway if i win it thank you so much for shareing with others . i just love my paper crafts so much i love to make cards and i love to try differ things on my cards sometime may you all have the best craft month have fun and craft alot .

  97. I make cards for Operation Write Home and $150 would be of great use. Enough money to get all my cards done for the year.

  98. I love EK success punches as well as their Martha Stewart punches. I also use their Zig two-way glue and Herma dotto adhesives.

  102. I use their sticko stickers in scrapbooking and I buy their K & Co products. I also like their Jolee’s sticker.s

  114. There’s Martha, Dimensions Needlecrafts, Jalee’s Jewels, and much, much more!! Thanks for the chance to win!

  115. My favorite paper is K&Company. I just love using the paper.

    Thanks for the chance to win.

  117. They carry Martha Stewart Crafts and Jolee Jewels! That is why they are awesome!!!!!!!!!!

  124. Martha Stewart products are some of the nicest and prettiest I have seen. Great line of punches as well.

  131. I love Martha Stewart Crafts. The glitters are so nice to work with. Pretty and excellent quality papers.

  133. I think their Jolees stickers were the first of their products I bought. Then I found their cutter bee scissors and paper trimmer, then their excellent punches. All of their products are top quality!

  134. Love the Martha Stewart Crafts! Heading to my local craft store tomorrow to pick up some stuff from MSC to make invitations for my daughter’s first birthday!

  135. I love Jolees,Martha Stewart,paintworks.My grands and I are always using one or all of these products when we have craft night on our sleepovers.thanks for the giveaway!!

  141. I love using Jolee’s and K&Co stickers for making my cards! Thanks for making such fun, whimsical, beautiful products!

  146. My kids LOVE the perler beads! I’m always finding them everywhere…they play with them all the time!

  147. We love the Martha Stewart collection, especially the glitters! I also love the Dimensions needlework items, when I actually have time to do them!

  150. I love the EK Success Punches that can be found on their site…my favorite brand. My favorite type is the Edger punches, and my favorite of those is the Abstract Flower Edger Punch.

  155. Thanks for the chance to win this awesome prize. I know that EK Success has K and Company and also Jolee’s.
    annadowdy at gmail dot com

  161. When I am crafting I will use Martha Stewart crafts, Jolee’s Jewels and Jolee’s portable hotfix tool. Great gadgets and talent make wonderful crafts and gifts. Thanks

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