My Valspar Sample

Thursday was a good day for me, not only did my birthday present from the hubs come in the mail( a book, I will post about that later) my free Valspar paint sample came in. If you missed me post about crafting freebies, see it here. When I got the box in the mail I was so excited, This is all that it came with

The sample, mini paint tray and rollers, a chip of the color, an envelope of coordinating colors and a $5 off coupon for a gallon of paint.

Then I opened the can, it was the wrong color. All my inial excitement went out the window. I ordered a pink, and the sample that I received was yellow, a very pretty yellow though.

 

I called the Valspar customer service number that was on the back of the coordinating colors envelope. The customer service rep was very nice and took all of my info and said she would get the right color to me very soon. That was it. Although I received a color other than the one I ordered, I saw it as a plus. Now I get two free samples and both of the colors coordinate nicely together so I think i might use them together in a project. Maybe something for my little princess, who knows.
The only downside was that I took pix and pix of the tutorial I was workinng on and the SD card I was using stoped working when I put it in the computer and I lost ALL my pictures. That is also why this post was not posted on thursday as planned.

Craft For Free!

Who doesn’t love free? I know I do, it doesn’t matter what it is, free is good. Make it craft related, and its bliss. Looking around on the internet (Google is a girl’s best friend) I found a few freebies you might like to try.



Winsor & Newton Artists’ Acrylic 14ml paint samples. When I signed up on the thank you screen it said that they could not guarantee that you would receive a free tube due to limited availability, but it’s worth a shot.

Get 50 sheets of origami paper here. It says it can take about a month to 6 weeks for your order to come in.

Flower Thread will send you a free skein of their embroidery thread if you send them a self-addressed stamped envelope.

Papertube (dot) com will send you a sample kit filled with a bunch of their paper tube products you could get crafty with. When I get mine ill make something and post it to show you. * A few days after I submitted in the form they sent me an e-mail saying that they have a high volume of requests and asked me to reply telling them what I was planning on doing with the sample.

Valspar is giving away a free paint sample of the color of your choice. Your sample also includes a mini paint tray and a $5 coupon. Quantities are limited to a set number a day so if you get there and it’s closed, try again tomorrow after 9 am. Choose your color wisely though; it’s also limited to one sample per household.

If you send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Buy Glue Dots (dot) com tell them what you will be using them for (I put crafts) they will send you a free sample of glue dots

I have requested all of this myself and ill update to let you know how the offers stand up.