i hope you dance ~ giveaway

what comes around goes around...so here's my 1st blog giveaway in celebration of the craft gifts i received this week.

i present you...i hope you dance carousel mini album kit inspired by lee ann womack's signature song...if you don't already know it, it's a narration of a mother's wishes to her children, in the case of this album, a daughter or you.

i hope you never lose your sense of wonder

you get your fill to eat

but always keep that hunger

may you never take one single breath for granted

god forbid love ever leave you empty handed

i hope you still feel small

when you stand by the ocean

whenever one door closes, i hope one more opens

promise me you'll give faith a fighting chance

and when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

i hope you dance

i hope you dance

i hope you never fear those mountains in the distance

never settle for the path of least resistance

living might mean taking chances

but they're worth taking

lovin' might be a mistake

but it's worth making

don't let some hell bent heart

leave you bitter

when you come close to selling out

reconsider

give the heavens above

more than just a passing glance

and when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

i hope you dance

(time is a real and constant motion always)

i hope you dance

(rolling us along)

i hope you dance

(tell me who)

i hope you dance

(wants to look back on their youth and wonder)

(where those years have gone) 

...

beautiful song, beautiful lyrics, beautifully covered by the country songstress carrie underwood, the soulful gladys knights, ronan keating, danny gokey and others. 

i used mostly k & company hopscotch girl and doll house collections throughout.  i fancied the company so much that i have everything, i mean everything, they made since the beginning up to prior ek success acquirement.

now, i better lay out a few disclaimers this project needs:

• the skeleton of this album was supposed to be just a mock up.  i was to do another one once i figured the structure.  albeit i found out that i'm going to be occupied for the rest of the week.  so i tried to make it work in one sitting with the disruption of max kept tugging me and when i ignored him, being a beagle he decided to scrap along. he is a master of trimming and today he abruptly learned to fold papers, before he figured his masterpiece served better function as another cozy lounge rather than artwork.
  
• the making memory ready-to-glitter stickers i used in the cover wouldn't hold the glitter.  so i layered it with glue and glitter, leaving me with a glittery beagle and wiggly alphabets.
  
• i couldn't get the pictures right, not that i usually could anyway.  i laid them in a lovely composition and the picture turned out rather foggy.  so i wrote this up and thought i would reshoot in the morning. turned out, the sky showered wildly.  in the afternoon i didn't have time to find the right spot to get the shadow right, nor time to do editing and decided to use whatever is there as is.
  
• i purposely left it as is so you could continue to customized it to your own story, thus i include the goodies.

all for my excuse of the album being rather dodgy, let alone its rather corny cover.  it's paw-made!  just kidding...  it's still made with my best intentions though.

so much for the blah and the blah, here we go...

the carousel mini album

the extra goodies for you to work on your story

hopefully it's acceptable to your liking.  anyone can play of course.  to win it, just leave me a comment bellow and tell me which artist covers your favorite rendition of the song.

added info:
i'll announce winner on july 18.  thank you for reminding me, ria.  newbie here :)