CALLING ALL UK CRAFT BLOGGERS 2015 edition...WIN £1000

Do you craft? Do you blog? Do you like fabric? Do you want the chance to win £1000????

We know that a lot of you guys do, so today we are here to let you know about our fave craft competition, courtesy of the lovely Hillarys Blinds.

Hillarys approached us to be judges for their Craft Competition for craft bloggers again the second year running and we couldn't be more excited. We will be judging all the entries alongside Dragons and Fairy Dust and the Hillarys design team. This year there is also a public vote!  It is an honour as always to be a part of this creative competition. We saw some amazing entries last year and we can't wait to see what you all come up with this time round. 

There are some lovely fabrics to choose from this year too. Sammy loves Rayna Apple and H's fave is Safi Turquoise. For some ideas check our our post from last year.

Entering is easy:

• Send an email to Chris.Roome@hillarys.co.uk with your Name, Address, Email, Fabric Selection and Website URL by Friday 22 May 2015.

• A 1 metre squared piece of your chosen material will be sent out to you on Monday 25 May 2015 (to give everyone the same amount of crafting time).

• Using the fabric and any other required materials that you have, put your creative talents to the test by making a craft design. This could be a soft furnishing, item of clothing, child’s toy… or something else entirely! The only limit is your imagination.

• Publish a blog post describing how you made your entry and featuring photographs of the finished article, which mentions this competition.

• Submit a link to your entry via an email sent to Chris.Roome@hillarys.co.uk.

• Hillarys will add a photograph of your entry to our Pinterest board for the world to see.

• Once the closing date is reached, a shortlist of 10 will be created. Hillarys will post the shortlist on their website, where visitors will be able to like, pin, share and tweet the entries they like the most.

• The judging panel will consider the 10 submissions and the winner will be contacted by email.

• See the full terms and conditions here.

For more info head to Hillarys website

As an added extra we would love to see all the entries that have come via our blog.  If you post about it on Instagram or twitter use the #livelovemake so we can take a look at what you have made. 

The closing date for entries is 11.59pm on Friday 19 June 2015, (but don't forget to order your fabric by Friday 22 May) so get crafting and creating soon and Good Luck!

Sammy and H 

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Hilary's Blinds Country Crafts Competition...Win £1000

Photo Courtesy of Hillarys Blinds

Do you craft? Do you blog? Do you like fabric? Do you want the chance to win £1000????

We know that a lot of you guys do, so today we have a little craft competition especially for you, courtesy of the lovely Hillarys Blinds for the chance to win £1000!

Hillarys approached us to be judges for their Country Craft Competition for craft bloggers and we were so happy to be a part of it. We will be judging all the entries alongside Hilary from Craft Blog UK, Rosie & Hannah from The New Craft Society, Caroline from Burkatron and the Hillarys design team.  It is an honour to be on a panel with these inspirational, British, crafty ladies!  

To enter the competition, all you need to do is:

Pop over to the Hillarys competition page HERE.

Fill in the contact form and choose which one of the four Country Retreat fabrics you would like to use in your project. (they are free!)

A 1m x 1m piece of your chosen material will be sent to you.

Put your creative talents to the test by making an original craft project or design using the fabric and you can add any other materials you want for the project.

Here is where being a blogger is key... Publish a blog post with photos, describing how you made your entry and don’t forget to mention the competition page in your post.

Submit your entry by email to: dominic.bryce@hillarys.co.uk

The competition opens today, Monday 17th February 2014 and requests for fabric will close on Monday 17th March 2014.

You will have an additional 2 weeks after 17^th March to make your blog post live. So you will be able to request fabric up until 17^th March and then have until 31^st March to publish your blog post and send the link over to Dominic.  The Winner will be announced on 14th April 2014.

When all submissions have been judged by Hillarys designers and the 'Craft Bloggers' panel, the winner will be contacted by email.

Hillarys have asked that you put the name of the blog where you found the competition in the ‘Where did you hear about the competition?’ section. So pop in Live it. Love it. Make it. if you saw it here <3

Hillarys were kind enough to send us some samples of the fabrics so we could give you some inspiration. We customised a denim jacket with the gorgeous Peacock design, with the help of some Bondaweb and sequin embellishments. Sammy made a fold over clutch bag from her favourite fabric and we covered a clipboard with some more of the peacock print. The fabric was so lovely to work with, not too heavy, but sturdy enough to be hard wearing. The colours are so lovely and the print quality is just superb.

If you want to see a tutorial on covering a clipboard in fabric head over to Claireabelle makes blog and check out the guest post from fellow judge Caroline (Burkaton).

We wish you all the best of luck and can't wait to see what you all make with Hillarys gorgeous fabrics! Don't forget to let us know too, you can tweet or Instagram us with #livelovemake so we can take a look.

H and Sammy xxx

Disclaimer: This post has been sponsored by Hillarys Blinds.  We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity.