2020 Seasons Giving Blog Hop
Welcome to the Season's Givings Blog Hop! This is a meeting of designers, companies, and more that want to give back to thank YOU for your support of US throughout the last year! This is the 8th year of this hop, which I think is pretty amazing. I love this industry and the generosity that exists among people committed to share their talents through creating art. It's such a privilege to work and play here - some days there's no boundary between the two!
In case you're new to my blog, I'll tell you a little about me. Today is my BIRTHDAY, which is always a fun day to give things away! I adore Winnie the Pooh and collect fun socks. I have my own line of stamps, and I'm the Artist in Residence at Splitcoaststampers, among other roles behind the scenes. I love to create, and I love sharing what I learn in the process.
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| Pssst - sneak peek - Valentine stamps coming out next weeeeeeeek!! |
I have an online store where you'll find prints of my original artwork as well as jewelry and other items. I spend a lot of my time drawing pet portraits and love pouring my heart and talent into those precious keepsakes. This year's orders brought my total commissions to 85 - I think this was my favorite!
I've been blogging here for just over 13 years - you can click HERE to see the highlights of my creative year!
On to the fun stuff! I've got FOUR prizes to share! The first is this "winged" prize package - I've got a stamp set, a crafty bird art print, an art print keychain, handmade pair of earrings, and a set of small foiling plates!
The other THREE prizes will be $15 gift certificates to my Etsy store - because 3x15 = the birthday I'm celebrating today! Shhh - I keep telling my kids I'm 25!
Leave me some birthday love in the comments for a chance to win! I'll draw names on Saturday 1/4 at 9 pm central time, and announce my winners Sunday morning. Thank you for visiting me today, and Happy New Year to you! Check out the list of companies and designers below for more exciting giveaways!
Dina Kowal <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< that's me!!
Happy Birthday Dina!!!!! Love your stamps and all the inspiration you share with us.
ReplyDeleteHappy, happy birthday, Dina! And, Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday. My nephews birthday is New Years Eve as well, always a very special day. Patti
ReplyDeleteHappy and blessed birthday Dina. May God’s presence bless you abundantly as you move into your new and exciting year.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year and Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeletemy nephew have birthday on New Years Eve.
Happy Birthday! My family does a fun sock trade at Christmas, you would fit right in!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year! Love your Etsy store so what a cooooollll prize!
ReplyDeleteHAPPY BIRTHDAY, Dina! HOPE this new year is FILLED with EVERYTHING you could EVER HOPE FOR! ;)<3
ReplyDeleteQuelle magnifique façon de débuter l'année, une magnifique carte et un magnifique prix à gagner. Bonne et heureuse année à tous.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday and best wishes for the New Year! Love your work. The pup looks so real!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday and many more. Thank you for all the inspiration you provide. Your animal commissions are amazing.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! Thanks for all you do at Splitcoaststampers. I always find your tips helpful. Love the dog portrait as well!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! Wow great prizes and great work in 2019.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Dina! May your year be filled with creativity and fun!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Dina! I love all the work you do to encourage stamping, drawing, card-making and creativity for all of us! You're such an inspiration! Your pet drawings are simply amazing! Thank you! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday and a Very Happy New Year Dina! Thank you for all you do to encourage creativity through your artwork and sharing "how-to's" with all of us! You are so generous and inspiring! I love your pet portraits...amazing! Here's to another exciting year!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday and Happy New Year to you, Dina! I loved reading about your accomplishments in 2019! I'm sure this year will be an amazing one too. Thank you for a chance to win some prizes~
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday Dina! I love the lab painting! I hope you have a wonderful year!
ReplyDeleteBlessings on your birthday and in 2020. I enjoy visiting Splitcoaststampers .
ReplyDeleteHappy Happy Birthday! Thanks for the opportunity to win this awesome prize!
ReplyDeleteHappy Happy Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteLong live 29.
Carla from Utah
Happy New Year's and Happy Birthday! Have a fantastic day.
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Happy Birthday! And best wishes for a great 2020! Thank you for the chance to win and for all the inspiration you post for your followers.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday and thank you for the opportunity to win something you've made. Thank you for sharing your time and talents.
ReplyDeleteHave a rockin birthday
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday!
ReplyDeletebn100candg at hotmail dot com
Happy Birthday and wishes for a wonderful new year!
ReplyDeleteLove your designs and splitcoast stampers.
Happy New Year!
A very Happy Birthday to you. thanks for all. Happy New year too.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday And New Year with a bow.So enjoy your art, designs and creations at Splitcoast. I gotta say: I love Fred Said. What an amazing tribute to your Dad.
ReplyDeleteLove your beautiful artist skills. Your art especially the animal portraits are amazing! Happy birthday and have a wonderful New Year!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to you!!! You are a New Year baby! I love that...leading the parade for the rest of us with the other babies :) There should be a club for you guys! :D
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice thought this is. I will try to see as many as I can...but there are so many-will likely take me a couple days!
All the best for the day-I hope you have your favorite kind of cake, get a lovely massage after a hot bath (or before) and get showered with the love you so deserve.
hugs Margot
Happy birthday, Dina! That's funny, my girls tell me I'm 24 all year, I turn 25 on my birthday, and then the next day I'm back to 24!
ReplyDeleteBirthday blessings to you!
Happy Birthday AND Happy New Year!!!! And don't worry, I'll always be older than you. hehe L*O*V*E your artistry, Dina. You're so talented and it's a joy to see everything you do.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday. Best wishes for many
ReplyDeletemore fun years. At 79, I'm looking
back at those years and thinking how
wonderful they were (and still are
thankfully). thanks for sharing
this past year. Happy New Year
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Happy Birthday! Wishing you a happy year. Thanks for the opportunity to win a fun prize.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to one of the most talented people I've ever 'met'!!! Thanks for taking part in this wonderful hop! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! I'm forever 25 too!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! What a fun day for a birthday. I hope you didn't have people trying to double up and send one gift for birthday AND Christmas when you were a kid. My daughter was born on December 22nd and we worked hard to keep the two days separate for her. 🎂 +🎄 = 😁
ReplyDeleteWishing you a very Happy Birthday!!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday and happy new year!
ReplyDeletehappy birthday! I am a jan. birthday too. I tried to convince my mother that we should celebrate my half birthday so I could get more gifts. she didn't go for that bummer . so now that i'm an adult I celebrate my half birthday and on that day i'm half my age. i'm going to be 31 this year. I hope you have a great day!
ReplyDeleteHappy, happy Birthday! I hope your new year is filled with love, peace and creativity.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! Hope you have an amazing year!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Dina! 3 x 15 is a wonderful year ;) I hope you enjoy a wonderful and successful 2020!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday and Happy New Year. God bless you abundantly in 2020!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year and Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteMy next stop is your Etsy store.
Thank you for sharing your talents and being part of the blog hop.
Happy Birthday and Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Dina!! I turned 45 this year too - it’s a GREAT age!! Your stamps are beautiful and I love following you on splitcoaststampers.
ReplyDeleteHappy 2020!
Happy Birthday and New Year. My friend had her first baby on the first day of the New Year starting the first day of the new decade.
ReplyDeleteI love your charms that I just saw.
If I was suppose to answer a question I got lost. Too much looking, but oh it was fun.
I've been on SCS for years now and still haven't figured out how to navigate in their. It's like the zone of confusion. I went to change something on my profile and I got lost. SCS need hand holders for people like me.
Thanks for giving back. [Bunny]
Happy Birthday Dina! Hope you are have a fun birthday! I love seeing all of your creations. You are so talented! Hope you have a blessed and happy 2020!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! My equation is simple this year, retirement age! Thanks for participating in the best blog hop of the year!
ReplyDeleteHappy and blessed birthday!! May your year be spectacular and each day, epic! I love your blog and your great art info at SCS. You are so generous to share your superior talent with us!! Thank you so much!!
ReplyDeleteHappy and blessed birthday to you! May your year be epic and each day, spectacular! Look for the miracles and wonder-filled moments. Thanks you for sharing your superior artistic talents with us and at SCS. Love ya!
ReplyDeleteHappy New YEar and Happy Birthday! Love you animals! So cute!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful and blessed day!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday. 25 is a great age and you can stay there as long as you want.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday- what a way to bring in the new year! Love the animals you draw - you capture their 'character' so beautifully! Thanks for sharing and a chance to win!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Dina! Might have to commission a portrait of our GSDs! Thank you for the generous giveaway and here's to a prosperous 2020!
ReplyDeleteLove your fun card and beautiful pet portrait!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to you! Thanks for the chance to win one of your prizes! Enjoying the Seasons Givings blog hop, and wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year!
Happy Birthday and Happy 2020!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday and Happy new year! Thank you
ReplyDeleteDear Dina
ReplyDeleteMay you have an awesome day and may your year be filled with blessings of good health and happiness.
May you and your family be blessed with a new year full of good health and happiness.
with loads of love and gratitude
Have a great 25th birthday!😏 Your pet portraits are amazing.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! It's a new year in two senses for you! How exciting! Your artwork is absolutely beautiful. That puppy card is just TOO CUTE!!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday! Loving your portrait work!
ReplyDeleteHappy happy birthday :) And a very happy new year too! Hope you had a blast! Thank you for the giveaway :)
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday, hope it was a good one! I would have guessed you to be a Gemini like me- always into something new, love to learn new techniques! Your work is lovely! Thank you for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday Dina-I've always loved seeing your work posted whether it here, FB or in SCS. Keep inspiring us!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday!!! Happy New Year!!!! Thank you for the chance to win
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHave a VERY happy birthday, Dina! Thanks for being a part of Seasons Givings! Celebrate 2020 in a big way and keep creating!
ReplyDeleteCrafty Hugs!
Michele K. Henderson
crimsonowl@comcast.net
Dear Dina, Happy Birthday! Thank you for all that you do for SCS which means so much to me and other stampers. And don't worry, you're only 21 in Scrabble!
ReplyDeleteHappy, happy birthday - what a marvelous way to celebrate!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Dina!!!!! And don't worry your birthday secret age is safe with me. ha-ha I like a lot of the same things you do (I'll remember you next time sock shopping...I have a weakness for them too...wink).
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year and hope you had a wonderful birthday!
ReplyDeleteMarisela Delgado said: Feliz Cumpleanos! I hope you have a wonderful birthday and a great 2020. mariandmonsterd@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! You get to have parties 2 days in a row...lucky you! You can always tell your kids is that it's the 25th anniversary of your 20th birthday.
ReplyDeleteYou are so talented! I love watching your feed and progression on the pet portraits. Thanks for a chance to win
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year and Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Dina!! You and my son have the same birthday!! I missed a great oyster roast to have the little bugger. He’s 34 now. I hope you had a great birthday!!
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday! Such a stunning drawing of the dog!
ReplyDeleteHAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I love your puppy drawings!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! What a great way to start off each new year. Hope you had a great day.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday! I'd love to send a card, but have to make one first. Maybe next year...
ReplyDeletewow, your art is amazing. Thanks so much for participating in this amazing event.
ReplyDeleteBlessing to you,
Karen Letchworth
Happy Birthday to you!
ReplyDeleteHello, my friend! Happy New Year and Happy Beleated Birthday! I hope your day was special! What a fabulous prize pack! Hugs and I can't wait to see what you create in 2020!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday!!!!! Celebrating with a giveaway!!
ReplyDelete-Jen
Happy Birthday...I'll never share your secret! You are an amazing artist! Wow! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday! Hope you have a great year.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday. I love your work.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Dina - you don't look a day over 25 - lol!!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday Dina! Hope you have a fabulous year! Such beautiful creations in your prize package.
ReplyDeleteHope you had a wonderful birthday!! Thanks for the chance and Happy New Year!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Dina, you don't look a day over Fabulous!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday!!! I love your world... Very particolare.
ReplyDeleteÈly
Love seeing another crafter who dabbles in different media. Rather, I am a dabbler, you are an artist!! Thanks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday. Must be great to have almost the whole world celebrate the date of your birth!
ReplyDeleteHappy Happy Birthday!! Hope you had a special day and a Happy New Year Ü
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday two days late. Your artwork always blows me away.
ReplyDeleteYes, a big happy birthday. Nice to meet you. Thank you for sharing scripture and your faith in God! Your art is wonderful. Being a dog lover, I love your portrait of that beauty!
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday!! I also love Winnie the Pooh and fun socks! <3
ReplyDeleteA very happy birthday and a happy new year to you! Thank you for participating in the blog hop and giveaway!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to you!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday dear Dina...
Happy Birthday to YOU!!!
Hope your week is awesome!!!
Wishing you a very Healthy, Happy, Crafting Birthday! OMG the "winged" package is screaming my name 😁 I recently lost a close relative & let's just say this entire package is beyond beautiful. Thanks for such a thoughtful b'day celebration & giveaway. I can't wait to see more posts of your creativity you are definitely talented. 🥳🙂🎂☀️🎨
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to you!! Your dog portrait is amazing. I scrolled to it and gasped as it looks just like my sisters dog that passed today. Your artwork is so lifelike.
ReplyDeleteHappy happy happy Birthday! and Happy new Year! Your artwork is amazing!!
ReplyDeleteLove your pet portraits. Happy belated birthday!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday to you. Many blessings to you and keep on being 25.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday and Happy New Year! Thanks for being part of this amazing hop!
ReplyDeleteOh happy 25th birthday! ;) Wishing you are wonderful 2020!
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday! Hope it was a great day :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday I hope YOUR day was amazing. Wow we are the same age, I've been 25 for umm a few years now, ok a lot of years. lol Thank you for a chacne to win.
ReplyDeleteHappy Dina Day - and congratulations for another trip around the sun, seriously celebrate life. Congratulations. Thank you for the prize opportunity -- so nice of you 1
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to you! Wishing you health and happiness this year!
ReplyDeleteI'm new to your blog and hope to order a portrait of my daughter and her medical service dog this year! Your work is lovely!
Happy Birthday to You!!! Beautiful art work.
ReplyDeleteHope you had a wonderful birthday and thanks for the chance to win.
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