{"id":516,"date":"2008-12-06T23:57:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T23:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=516"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:17:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:17:38","slug":"the-december-pikapackage-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2008\/12\/06\/the-december-pikapackage-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"The December PikaPackage Giveaway!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><object width=\"440\" height=\"440\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" VALUE=\"ids=72157610530186133&#038;names=PikaPackage December '08&#038;userName=pikaland&#038;userId=24706058@N08&#038;source=sets&#038;titles=on&#038;displayNotes=on&#038;thumbAutoHide=off&#038;imageSize=medium&#038;vAlign=mid&#038;displayZoom=off&#038;vertOffset=0&#038;initialScale=off&#038;bgAlpha=51\"><\/param><param name=\"PictoBrowser\" value=\"http:\/\/www.db798.com\/pictobrowser.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#DDDDDD\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.db798.com\/pictobrowser.swf\" FlashVars=\"ids=72157610530186133&#038;names=PikaPackage December '08&#038;userName=pikaland&#038;userId=24706058@N08&#038;source=sets&#038;titles=on&#038;displayNotes=on&#038;thumbAutoHide=off&#038;imageSize=medium&#038;vAlign=mid&#038;displayZoom=off&#038;vertOffset=0&#038;initialScale=off&#038;bgAlpha=51\" loop=\"false\" scale=\"noscale\" bgcolor=\"#DDDDDD\" width=\"440\" height=\"440\" name=\"PictoBrowser\" align=\"middle\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Alrighty peeps, this will be our last PikaPackage Project giveaway for 2008!<\/p>\n<p>As the participants for this round comes to 24, we&#8217;re going to do it a little differently this time. We&#8217;re going to pick <strong><span class=\"caps\">TWO<\/span><\/strong> winners, and each one will get a 6-item package each containing at least one item from your favourite artists that you&#8217;ve commented about. How does that sound?<\/p>\n<p>And for making this possible, I&#8217;d like to thank our participants for this round for coming along:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ruivitorinosantos.blogspot.com\">Rui Vitorino Santos<\/a> sent in these lovely zines that&#8217;s just right for Christmas!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachealanilyse.com\">Racheal Anilyse<\/a> sent in prints of the Boticelli Sisters, and also <span class=\"caps\">ACEO<\/span>s;<\/li>\n<li>Aaron + Ayumi, the team at <a href=\"http:\/\/apakstudio.com\/\"><span class=\"caps\">APAK<\/span><\/a> sent in their new cards for December&#8217;s round;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/i-piccolini-di-gaia.blogspot.com\/\">Gaia Bordicchia<\/a> sent in her adorable cards, prints and gift tags for the holiday season;<\/li>\n<li>Stephanie of <a href=\"http:\/\/miladyproductions.etsy.com\">Milady Productions<\/a> sent in beautiful gift tags;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vusova.etsy.com\">Victoria Usova<\/a> sent in beautiful full-sized prints of her watercolor works;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahray.co.uk\">Sarah Ray<\/a> sent in cards, postcards and adorable buttons;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepandhersisters.etsy.com\">Katherine Quinn<\/a> sent in beautiful prints for the December round of the PikaPackage Project;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annaemilia.com\/\">Anna Emilia<\/a> sent in four copies of her beautiful book entitled Proof of Winter;<\/li>\n<li>Sarah of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftyFOLK.org\">craftyFOLK<\/a> sent in fabulous magnets and brooches that are all handmade with love;<\/li>\n<li>Shannon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loadedhipspress.com\">Loaded Hips Press<\/a> sent in handpressed linoprints in all shapes and sizes;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliastaite.com\">Julia Staite<\/a>  sent in her awesome handmade zines &#8211; a retelling of The Little Red Riding Hood;<\/li>\n<li>Renee of <a href=\"http:\/\/nobitingwolfie.blogspot.com\">Wolfie and the Sneak<\/a> sent in these lovely print packs, and a reminder not to use plastics!<\/li>\n<li>Mara of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printspace.com.au\">Printspace<\/a> sent in wonderful full-sized prints of her work;<\/li>\n<li>Jannie Ho of <a href=\"http:\/\/chickengirldesign.etsy.com\">Chickengirl<\/a> sent in adorable cards with her characters in time for the holidays;<\/li>\n<li>Jeannette of <a href=\"http:\/\/thebeautifulproject.etsy.com\">The Beautiful Project<\/a> sent in these lovely cards;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadcarpenter.com\">Tad Carpenter<\/a> sent in a massive package that contained silkscreened giant prints of his monster mix-up (each waist of the monsters are of the same width, and so is interchangeable), silkscreens on wood panels + loads of cards;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yaelfran.etsy.com\">Yael Fran<\/a> sent in an assortment of fabulous brooches, necklaces and gift tags made from her beautiful collages!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lizzyhouse.typepad.com\">Lizzy House<\/a> sent in a beautiful package filled with handprinted cards, prints and twee notebooks!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.memoriadistante.net\">Cristina Sitja Rubio<\/a> sent in a fun coloring book, buttons and prints for the December package;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artesprit.etsy.com\">Susan Schwake<\/a> sent in beautiful original drawings and prints of her work;<\/li>\n<li>Julie of <a href=\"http:\/\/yoursecretadmiral.com\">Your Secret Admiral<\/a> sent in her hand-drawn and hand-bound notebooks of various sizes;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mariastales.etsy.com\">Maria Kalcheva<\/a> sent in colourful mini prints, cards and calendars; and<\/li>\n<li>Anna Rosete of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1760sundayhouse.etsy.com\">1760 Sunday House<\/a> sent in handmade Christmas ornaments, along with her prints all packed up in a pretty package!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So here\u2019s what you need to do have a chance to win each one of these packages \u2014 visit the shops\/websites of our participants, and write down here in the comments which product you like from their shops (include the links if you\u2019d like). Here&#8217;s some information:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You can make one long list, but <strong><em>please do not comment more than once<\/em><\/strong>. If you do, you&#8217;ll immediately be disqualified!<\/li>\n<li>Some of the artists don\u2019t have shops yet, but that\u2019s alright too, just let us know you liked what they sent in!<\/li>\n<li>The closing date for this is on Monday 8th December, 8 p.m. <span class=\"caps\">PST<\/span>\/PDT. I\u2019ll pick two random winners from the comments section, so be sure to leave your email addy!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/file_download\/17\/PikaPackage_Dec08_02.pdf\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/941.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To read more about our participants, remember to read up our <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/file_download\/17\/PikaPackage_Dec08_02.pdf\">PikaPackage zine<\/a> too! If you&#8217;d like to read the zine online, then head on to read it over at our <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/pikaland\/docs\/pikapackage_dec08_issuu?mode=embed&#38;documentId=081206164443-7e7b8e282ea64dd89e1038410c90e98d&#38;layout=grass\">Issuu page<\/a>. The cover art for this issue was done by the lovely Aaron + Ayumi of <a href=\"http:\/\/apakstudio.com\"><span class=\"caps\">APAK<\/span>!<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to purchase a PikaPackage for yourself (and to support Pikaland!), hop on to our <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/shop\"><span class=\"caps\">NEW<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">SHOP<\/span><\/a>! We will be donating USD2.00 from each sale to Amnesty International, a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.<\/p>\n<p>And you can always sign up for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/subscribe\">mailing list<\/a> to get updates about special happenings!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">UPDATE<\/span>:<\/strong> Comments are now closed, thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"The December PikaPackage Giveaway!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2008\/12\/06\/the-december-pikapackage-giveaway\/\" aria-label=\"More on The December PikaPackage Giveaway!\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28709,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/28709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}