Win an Aspinal of London Clutch Wallet

To celebrate reaching 2000 prize-loving fans on my SuperLucky Facebook page, I'm running a little giveaway! I have to thank Aspinal of London for this beautiful prize. I recently won one of these clutch wallets on Facebook, but Aspinal accidentally posted me out a second one. I offered to send it back but they said I could keep it, so I'm giving it away - hurrah!

The wallet retails at £99 and you can read all about it on the Aspinal website.

Entry is relatively simple if you've used Rafflecopter before!

The only MANDATORY entry is to leave a comment here on my blog telling me why you like purple - this is so anyone with an email address can enter, even if they don't use Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest!

You can get extra entries for Tweeting, Liking and Following too. AND you get a bonus 10 entries if you leave me a link to a Pinterest board called 'Purple', where you've pinned at least 5 purple-themed images PLUS the image above (if you're new to Pinterest, you can read my blog post about it here).

Last date for entries is 31st July 2012 - good luck!

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Win with your football themed pizza!

Football night = pizza night at our place. If you're watching a match then it's just about the best TV dinner you can have! So with the England game on the box tonight you can imagine how excited I was to see this excellent competition on the Tesco Facebook page!

Design a football themed pizza, email Tesco a photo of yourself with it and you could win £100 vouchers or one of 4 runners-up prizes of £50 vouchers. So we set to work with a bit of brainstorming...

• Theo Walc-HOT
• Joleon Less-HOT
• Beefon (as in Buffon!)
• Zlatan Either-ham-or-veg (as in Ibrahimovic!)
• Pepper Reina

...but we decided the tastiest would be FRANCKLY RUBBERY (as in Franck Ribéry!)

And here's how we made him - a bit of home made dough topped with pizza sauce (drained chopped tomatoes, herbs & olive oil)...

Add lots of mozzarella...

Use tiny black olives for the hair - and for the facial features, fried calamari. Whilst cooking, I cracked a quail's egg into one for the eye - I reckon I'll be using this technique again because it works really well!

...cook in a hot oven for about ten minutes...

...and EAT! Yummy!

Find out more about the Tesco competition here - the winner and runners-up are chosen at random too, so it's well worth a go!

(By the way, it's the most complicated closing date I've sever seen:
The competition is open from 12pm Thursday 21st June until 72 hours after 11.59pm on the night England are knocked out of the Euros 2012 or, 11.59pm on Sunday 1st July 2012, whichever comes sooner.)

Video Comp Round up - June 2012

Over the past fortnight I've had loads of lovely messages and tweets from those of you who were amongst the first 100 to upload videos for the Schwarzkopf Facebook competition, and bagged a £50 Topshop voucher in return - well done! I hope its given you a taste for video comps, which are becoming more popular now people can use webcams, Smartphones or iPads to easily record footage.... here are all the latest video comps I've found for you to have a bash at!

If your son or daughter is a Gooner they may well want to win a 4 hour training session with Robin Van Persie! To enter, upload a video of their football skills at www.cartoonnetwork.co.uk/2012/bootcamp/. Judges will pick the top 20, and as usual they will go to a public vote. Be quick and enter by 24 June 2012 - there are only 27 entries so far.

I'm GUTTED that the Kikkomania competition is voting one again this year - it's such a shame! The top prize is two return flights to Japan. To enter, upload a video of how Kikkoman soy sauce inspires you by 25 June 2012.

There's just a couple of weeks to record your goal celebration for the Currys and PC World competition - they've generously been giving away a £500 prize every week to the best video, and the overall winner gets a whopping £5000! Get your entries in at www.goalcelebrations.co.uk by the weekly closing dates of 20 June, 27 June or 4 July 2012.

Viking Direct have made some fun films featuring their Office Ref handing out red and yellow cards which you can check out on their YouTube channel. For their competition you need to upload your own Office Ref video to YouTube, then complete the entry form here with your link. Videos will be shortlisted and the judges will pick their two favourites to go head-to-head in the final to win an iPad. I love the idea of this competition but as it's a public vote I won't be wasting time on it. Good luck to those of you who do though - the rules are very detailed as far as the voting is concerned so hopefully it won't turn into a farce! Closing date is midnight on 27 June 2012.

Bayer Material Science are giving away three Adidas Tango match balls - upload a video which tells your story about celebrating, playing and living soccer to their Facebook App. The three with the most votes win the balls - there's only one entry so far, with two votes! Ends 28 June 2012.

There should be a great chance of success in the Content and Calm competition if you have a budding travel reporter at home - there are ten prizes to be won! Upload a video of your child sharing their memories of a favourite holiday. The 19 entries with the most votes (plus a wildcard entrant) will be judged - the best ten get a £250 family day out. The grand prize winner - judged on content, creativity and reporting flair - gets a £4000 family holiday to Greece! Enter on Facebook before 1 July 2012.

Who fancies starring in the new Chicken Tonight advert? Yes, I thought so. Upload a video of you doing the famous elbow dance routines, and you could be one of 6 winners spending a day in Leeds between 12th - 15th July to film the new ad. You get travel expenses and an overnight stay, but more importantly the prestige of appearing in the advert! Enter on their Facebook App by 1 July 2012.

Clydesdale Bank have twenty prizes of £1000 for your cricket club or community to be won. To enter, flm a video of your 'Howzat' appeal and upload to their Facebook App. The judges will pick winners from the videos with the most votes on closing dates of 5 July 2012, 9 August 2012 and 26 September 2012.

There's a great opportunity for Scottish youngsters between 12-17 to join the Standard Life Festival backstage film production team for a day at the Edinburgh International Festival. Upload a short film about your passion for something arty or cultural here before 19 July 2012.

And another one for younger compers - be a Clarks dance superstar with Kimberly Wyatt! To enter, download the track from the Nickelodeon website and make a video of you dancing to it. The twelve best will go to (you guessed it) public vote to decide the winner, who will get the opportunity to train with Kimberly and make their own video to be broadcast on Nickelodeon. There are runners up prizes of an iPad 3, a Xbox 360, and Clarks shoes for a year. I can't find the full terms and conditions (I wonder if they might be available when you upload your film) but the closing date is 17 July 2012 and you must be available on 21 September to film with Kimberly.

Cottages4you are giving away a great prize of £500 cottage holiday vouchers to the best giggle video - your little one must be under 3! This was initially a voting competition but I asked nicely if they might change their mind and they did - so it's well worth an entry! Upload your video here - this closes on 29 July 2012.

Tell Old Jamaican Ginger Beer your best joke and you could win a week in Jamaica! Although the terms suggest it's decided on votes, they have confirmed to me that they will be judging all entries so it's worth a go (if I was entering I'd also try and get a cheeky can of Old Jamaica in shot too!). Upload your video to the Facebook App before 30 July 2012.

The Skyscanner travel reporter competition might LOOK good but it's worth reading the small print before you enter. Yuu need to record a short video about a destination you love - of the initial entries, Skyscanner choose 5 to go through to the final, along with the 5 most popular. Then there's ANOTHER vote to decide the winner (...where obviously one of the videos with the most votes from the first stage will win!). The prize is advertised as £1500 vouchers, but actually the winner receives three lots of £500 vouchers and must send a 3 minute video report on each of the 3 trips to Skyscanner, otherwise they don't get the rest of the vouchers - and you need to complete all travel before 31 August 2013! The terms include no mention at all of the voting system so I wouldn't be surprised if Skyscanner get themselves in a pickle with this one! Closing date to get your video uploaded is 31 July 2012.

Have you managed to quit smoking recently? Upload a 60 second video diary talking about your success to www.quitfullstop.co.uk and you could win yourself a £200 Virgin Experience Gift Day voucher. The winner will be chosen at random, and you need to get your entries in before 31 July 2012.

Football and dancing - should they be combined? Probably not, but that's not stopped Diamond Football from inventing this 'Stand in Line' dance for you to copy, featuring such classic moves as heading the ball and the offside hand up! Upload your version of it here and you could win £250 Diamond Football vouchers, or one of 12 runners up prizes. this one is open worldwide and closes on 31 August 2012.

To enter Dertour's new video competition, first you'll need to get your own Ronnie Rhino (you may already have won one of these in their photo comp last year!) and then take him on holiday with you, then make a movie showing him being thrown in and out of shot (like in the example above!). Their favourite entry will win a 2 night trip for 2 to Switzerland. Apply for your free Ronnie (they only have 300!) on the Facebook App. Closes 31 August 2012.

Good luck!

And the Wishlist winner is....

Thank you to everyone who took the time to create their Pinterest Prize wishlist for my competition - I've really enjoyed clicking through to your entries and seeing all the weird and wonderful prizes you want to win! And I really hope you enjoyed entering the competition too, and for those of you new to Pinterest that you'll hang around and keep using it. It's a great time waster - not that I have much time to waste these days...!

It's actually worth keeping your 'Wishlist' board because it may result in you winning a dream prize from the great competition on The Vow Movie UK page. To enter, all you need to do is email thevowdvd@yahoo.co.uk to register as an entrant, and make sure you're Following all their boards. Every day from 25th to 29th June, they will choose one follower at random and ask them to choose their prize, from anything they've pinned which is £200 or under! So your 'Wishlist' board would be perfect for this competition... and you're allowed to delete my competition pin from it now too!

Anyway, what you're all waiting for... out of the 124 entries I received, random.org chose for me number 36 in my email folder. And that lucky winner is...


Jessica Rowland from Lovely Jubbly blog!

You can check out Jess's wish list here. I think she's been pretty ambitious with the choice of dream prizes though - I particularly like 'happiness' and the baby Bengal tiger!

And Jess's most wanted prize from the Amazon website was a pair of classic Vans lace ups in purple - nice!

Jessica, drop me a line with your shoe size and postal address and I'll order these for you ASAP - congratulations!

Shake your way to a £50 Topshop voucher!

It's been a while since I've shared a daft creative competition with you - but this Schwarzkopf video competition should be great fun AND the first 100 entrants win a £50 Topshop voucher - but you need to get your video uploaded by 11th June. There are ONLY FIFTEEN entries so far, so if you get your skates on you're almost guaranteed a prize...

To enter, you need to buy a bottle of Schwarzkopf LIVE Color XXL (it's on offer at Boots for a fiver right now!) - and then shoot a video showing how you shake the product. Terms and conditions suggest that they would like your hair to be featured but looking at the current entries this isn't the case! The dye is permanent too, so although Dark Chocolate Delight sounds amazing you might want to think twice about delving into the realm of Blueberry Crush... although if I was 20 years younger I'd definitely be going back to my roots with a touch of Black Velvet. Entry is open to anyone aged 16 and over resident in Great Britain.

When you're done shaking, go to www.facebook.com/SchwarzkopfLiveColorXXL/app_210352279070091 to upload your video. The entry with the most votes will win £500 Topshop vouchers so you can even try for that if you have the time and patience... hopefully the fact that you need to buy AND film the product should discourage most of the cheats from entering!

Here's my entry - to my dismay I couldn't find my old Shakin' Stevens 7 inch singles, so the Footloose soundtrack had to do - I hope some of you movers and shakers will manage to sneak an entry in before Monday too!



(big thanks to Sally, who messaged me about this comp earlier!)

Blog Comp Linky: July 2012

Welcome to my linky for competitions and prize draws that are closing in JULY 2012. If you're hosting a giveaway please add it to the list, including the prize and the closing date - and your blog name if you can fit it in! You can access this post and the JUNE linky via the links on the right hand side bar.

Please note, competitions MUST be hosted on a blog and they should be open to UK entries. For advice on running blog comps check out my Cybher presentation summary.

If you want to enter these competitions but aren't sure how, check out my post on How to Enter a Blog Competition for advice!

Don't forget to add your blog giveaway to www.theprizefinder.com too!