Giveaway: Amanda Bee

Miss Amanda Bee and I are hosting a giveaway! I KNOW y'all must be excited for this one!

Amanda has very generously offered a 5x5 portrait that is fully customizable and can be of anything that the winner chooses!!!

Here are a few of my favorite Amanda Bee designs:

(For those of you who aren't as inclined to pink and green as me!)

To enter today's giveaway (mandatory):

1. Like Let's Be Preppy on Facebook

2. Follow Let's Be Preppy on Twitter

3. Like Amanda Bee on Facebook

4. Follow Amanda Bee on Twitter

5. Leave a comment saying that you did all of them and which Amanda Bee design is your favorite! See her facebook page for more!

Optional:

1. Tweet at @letsbepreppy and @AmandaCBee for TWO extra entries!

This giveaway will be live until 11:59 Sunday night! Happy entering y'all!!

xxKatie (and Amanda Bee!)

"Keeps Me Cryin' Carolina..."

Here's a compilation of some of my favorite pieces of South Carolina art! I always love South Carolina boards and pins and combos!

Etsy

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This is from a vintage puzzle! How cool?!

Etsy 

I especially love this one, since the heart is over Columbia!

Etsy

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I'm probably going to order this I love it so much!

Etsy

This would be perfect for Gamedays and gifts too!

Etsy

Etsy

I can't wait to start a little South Carolina collection for myself! I would love to have a few prints hung up and framed all as a little homage to the state!

xxKatie

Designs by Amanda Bee

My VERY talented friend, Amanda Bee, has been painting these designs very recently! If you follow me on Pinterest, I'm sure you've seen a bunch of them since I'm pinning them all too! The one above is my absolute favorite she's done so far, but check out some of my other picks too:

Maryland by Amanda Bee

Loafers by Amanda bee

Crosshatched by Amanda Bee

Knotty in Blue by Amanda Bee

Monkey's Fist by Amanda Bee

Argyle II by Amanda Bee

Colorful by Amanda Bee

Umm how amazing right? You MUST check her out!! See more of her full-size designs on her blog!

xxKatie

706: MyMemories Suite Giveaway!

I am so excited to introduce y'all to MyMemories Software Suite! It is absolutely perfect for anyone just about to get married, celebrating anything special, or maybe even those who just won a a MASSIVE rivalry college football game!

MyMemories digital scrapbooking software is all about keeping your memories in one place! 

Not only are they giving us a Suite to giveaway, but they also have a promo code for EVERYONE else who doesn't get the entire suite! If scrapbooking is up your alley and you're crafty but are looking for a way to put it all online, this is the thing for you! The official LBP code is: STMMMS90650

Feel free to use that as an extra $10 off!!

In order to enter this giveaway you have all the following options:

1. Follow Let's Be Preppy (1 entry)

2. Like Let's Be Preppy on Facebook (2 entries)

3. Like MyMemories on Facebook (3 entries)

4. Follow Let's Be Preppy on Twitter (4 entries)

5. Follow MyMemories on Twitter (5 entries)

6. Tweet at @letbepreppy and @MyMemoriesSuite about the giveaway! (6 entries)

Good luck y'all! This giveaway will run until 11:59pm on Saturday! Can't wait to see who the TOTALLY lucky winner of this giveaway is!!!

ALSO GO GAMECOCKS!!!! 3PEAT!!

xxKatie

DIY: Nautical Flags

I painted this on Sunday and I'm so proud of it!! I was feeling inspired from a pin I saw on Pinterest:

I didn't have any canvases but I did have little square pieces of wood that I used instead. They looked like this before I painted them:

You can see the outlines of the different flags I had in mind.

First I did all the pink sections of the flags. I ordered some Preppy Plates from Rue La La a few weeks ago and they're pink and navy so I figured I'd go with a pink and navy color combo for my bathroom!

Blue was the next step! As y'all can see, the natural wood was light to begin with so it's still peeking out at this point!

Finally I did the white. Getting all those clean lines was SO HARD. I'm not really very artistic. I can paint in lines like nobody's business, but when it comes to real artistic talent (and really patience) I'm a little lacking.

I ended up hot gluing all the panels together to create 1 piece. I figured it would be easier to hang, etc. I glued 2 rods to them for support. (Tip: the "rods" are two shoe stretchers that come in shoes when they come out of the box! I didn't have anything else so I had to get a little creative in finding support!)

I hung it up in my bathroom and was so proud! Then I realized that I hung it upside down...

MUCCCCCH better, now it spells "Katie" instead of "Eitak" upside down!

This craft was SO EASY as long as you have the little wood pieces. I got them at Hobby Lobby for $.90 apiece. I might Modge Podge over the paint so that it lasts longer but that'll be for another day!

Good luck crafting away! I hope I've inspired some of y'all!!

xxKatie 

P.S.: Be sure to enter the Lemon & Line giveaway!!

So. Close. To. Summer.

Today is my last official study day before summer starts. I have an Art History final tomorrow covering many very famous paintings:

Munch

Monet

Mondrian

We are at the very end of the Western Art spectrum. We finished up our lectures almost 2 weeks ago so I'll be memorizing about 40 paintings and a lot of the necessary info about them. I look forward to finishing up my final final (yay!) and heading home! I'm thinking of everyone else stuck in their exams just like me! We'll be done soon!

xxKatie