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Giveaway: Win a $25 Shell Gas Card for Your Holiday Travel!

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If your friends and family are scattered across the country, the holidays can get awfully expensive! To help make it easier for you to celebrate, Craft Gossip is teaming up with Shell to offer a free $25 gas card to one lucky reader. This giveaway is part of an effort to promote Shell’s Fuel Rewards Network, which is a great customer loyalty program that lets you earn Fuel Rewards savings in several different ways and then redeem them for cheaper gas.

Here’s how you get savings:

  • Dine out one of the 10,000 participating restaurants, you can earn 10 cents off per gallon for every $50 spent
  • Shop through their online mall at more than 700 merchants and earn 5 cents off per gallon for every $50 spent
  • Earn additional bonuses for every grocery or dining purchase that is made with a linked MasterCard
  • Link grocery rewards cards to your account and use e-coupons that offer Fuel Rewards in addition to their regular savings

When you want to redeem your Fuel Rewards, you insert your card into the pump or hand it to the cashier before you buy your gas. You can then buy up to 20 gallons of fuel at the reduced price.

Visit the Shell Fuel Rewards Network website to sign up for this free program or to search for a Shell station near you.

When you’re done signing up, leave a comment telling me about your holiday travel plans. You have until 5PM CST on November 14 to comment. I’ll announce a randomly selected winner on November 15.

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UPDATE: Random.org helped me select commenter #14 as our lucky winner. Thank you to all those who entered!

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Designer Spotlight: Curious Carrie Designs

If you like seasonal samplers and cross stitch patterns with a primitive twist, you’ll enjoy the collection from Curious Carrie Designs.

You’ll find alphabet designs, biscornu, patriotic projects and more. The summer category is the largest on the storefront, with Americana and floral designs. There are also categories for the other seasons and more general designs.

One of my favorites is this pretty sunflower cross stitch pattern, which is shown styled as a biscornu but it wouldn’t have to be. The pattern features sunflowers and bees and a little beehive. It uses 12 colors of floss and each side of the pattern is 51 by 51 stitches, which comes out to 3.64 inches or 9.2 cm square.

I love the fabric she used for the sample, which she actually dyed purple herself, but it would also be pretty on a purchased light blue or other color if you don’t want to dye your own.

There’s also a whole set of themed biscornu with a four letter word on one side (crow, home, love and snow, to name a few) along with a seasonal pattern on the other side.

The shop has a rather small selection at around 90 patterns as of this writing, but it’s a nice collection of traditional looking designs heavy on samplers and biscornu designs, so if those are things you like you’ll want to be sure to check it out. Visit Curious Carrie Designs on Etsy to see all her pretty designs.

Are you a designer or do you have a favorite cross stitch designer who hasn’t made it into the spotlight yet? (You can see all the featured designers in the craft businesses category on the page.) Let me know in the comments, or you can submit more detailed information by clicking on “suggest a craft” at the center top of the page.

[Photo: Curious Carrie Designs]