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Imagekind is currently running a sweet contest where one lucky winner will receive a $500 gift card to decorate their dream room with art from Imagekind. It’s easy to enter. Simply submit your email address on the homepage and the winner will be chosen and emailed their gift card once the contest is over.

In addition to being entered into the contest, you will also receive special sales, promotions and news on artwork from Imagekind. It’s a win-win. Your email address could be selected as the winner, and you get special insider news about discounts and sales on art.

So hurry, go enter! The contest won’t last forever before one lucky participant is selected.

- Nate

Note to artists: Forward the contest on to friends, family and all those who love your art already and let them know they have the chance to win $500 worth of your artwork!

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Hey, check it out! Imagekind got featured on Apartment Therapy, a website whose mission it is to “[help] people make their homes more beautiful, organized and healthy by connecting them to a wealth of resources, ideas and community online.” They are currently running a contest where one lucky winner will win a $100 gift card to Imagekind. Pretty sweet, huh?

Apartment therapy is a fantastic resource for all things decorating and all-around home and lifestyle improvement. Readers are encouraged and inspired to connect with others to share their collective talents and resources.

Imagekind is participating in this contest to give one lucky winner the chance to win some new art for their walls.

Take a look at the contest, and make sure to read some of the fantastic comments.

-Nate

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Joe Barrouk, the founder of A Singular Creation, shares his insights into why he does, what he does. He is passionate about art and providing tools, resources and a community to share those with others. A Singular Creation includes a place for “art contests and competitions, call for entries, juried art exhibitions, art events, art workshops and classes, art shows, fairs and festivals and other opportunities for artists and photographers. We also have several options for artists, galleries and art businesses to submit an art related announcement of any kind.” Continue reading to see what drives Joe and A Singular Creation to keep going.

Image: Dawn of the Trees by Carmen Cordelia
http://ccordelia.imagekind.com

Why do you do this? Because I love art. That is the reason. Many people ask why I do what I do – why I spend so much time building a free site for artists with no plans of ever charging any fees. I tell them I do it because I can. I do it because someone should, because it needs to be done. Some other art sites out there ask me: Well how do you make money? My answer is: I don’t. This site is not about making money. It’s about building a community where artists can collaborate with other artists, get advice, learn, show their art, find opportunities, have fun and get to know other artists. That’s it. No strings. Don’t you wish everything could be that simple?

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Imagekind’s First Moments Contest

How many times have you recounted baby’s first steps or junior’s first day of school to family and friends? They are stories that you love to tell, right? And we’re sure you have photos to prove it.

Now you can capture and share those precious memories with Imagekind’s Story Frames. Between now and March 15th, Imagekind invites you to send 2 or 3 digital photos of your child’s “firsts” - first day of school, baby’s first bites, first trip to the beach, first time meeting Grandma, that together tell a great story. It could be a collection of different “firsts” or a few shots of one great moment. We’ll choose four lucky winners whose photos tell the best story to receive a custom Story Frame worth $100. To enter, simply email us your digital photos along with a brief explanation to firstmoments@imagekind.com

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Image: Seattle at Night by Rick Takagi

What?!?! You’re in Seattle and say you’re bored this weekend?!?

In our ever-increasing-attempt to build a genuine arts community we want to try and bring you useful and interesting news and events. We are starting out with just our little home town for now but we hope to soon expand our gaze and reach to bring you info from wherever our members might reside. If it’s another city, state or, yes, even country, we would love to hear about it! So, post a link or let us know!

Read on to see some pretty amazing things happening around the Seattle art scene. All of these were compiled by our newest team member here at Imagekind, our intern Grace! You will probably be hearing more from her in the coming weeks, so take the chance now to say hello!

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Congratulations to artist Lisa Willis for submitting the wining entry to Imagekind’s “Create your Heart Out” art contest. Her image, All You Need is Love, was selected to be featured in Imagekind’s Valentines Day promo email. You can check out all the amazing submissions at the Imagekind forum. Thank you to all the artists who entered their work!

If you missed the promo email, make sure you subscribe to the Imagekind newsletter to ensure you receive all the important news, updates, discounts and sales. You can sign up for the newsletter on the Imagekind homepage.

Valentines promo includes Free Ground Shipping on all orders over $15 and expires February 7, 2008 at 10pm PST. Use promo code LOVE2008 at checkout.

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Thanks for all of your great submissions for the art contest, Create your Heart Out! We had an amazing number of fantastic artists submit their heart and heart-inspired artwork and we can’t wait to share the winner of the contest with you. So, stay alert for Imagekind’s Valentine Day promo email highlighting the selected artists’ work.

We had a lot of fun putting this together and even more fun checking out all the great work. We hope to bring you more fun and creative contests in the future so more artists can participate, share and show their artwork! So, keep creating!

A huge thanks to all the artists who participated in the contest. With nearly 4,000 views, we think this was a huge success and hope you had just as much fun with it as we did. But now the hard part comes: choosing which one of the images to feature! Wish us luck in this difficult task!

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Want to bare your heart to thousands of shoppers?

Submit your favorite Heart or Heart Inspired image and one lucky artists’ work will be featured in our Valentine’s promotional email sent to all of our Shoppers. Any medium will do. The winning image will be selected by our Marketing and Design team. So get busy and send us your Heart inspired work today! We can’t wait to see what you create!

Entry Requirements are as follows:

• Entries should be posted on the Imagekind Forum thread “Create Your Heart Out.”
• Forum Post must include a JPEG of entry and link to the work in your gallery.
• Limit two entries per person.
• Contest expires on Monday, January 28.
• All entries must be the final version, no works in progress.

Get involved and feel free to comment below. Just make sure to post your work in the forum thread!

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