Fiddle your Photos with Photofiddle! (A Giveaway!)

I take lots of pictures.  I love photography, and almost everyone in my family seems to have an eye for taking good pictures.  We took over 10,000 pictures of Little AG in her first year alone, to give you an idea of what a photo-maniac I am.  On a typical vacation I will come home with hundreds of photos, oftentimes between 300-500 of them.  However, most of those photos, no matter how great they are, sit in iPhoto until I get the urge to make a Photo Book with them, or print them and make a scrapbook.

Recently I had the opportunity to try out Photofiddle — and they took a picture of me, Little AG, and hubby and quite literally turned it into a work of art!  I’m particularly a fan of this picture because a) Little AG is smiling.  At the camera.  Without squinting. b)  I don’t look particularly like a troll.  c)  It was taken at my favorite place on earth – Paris.  The photo is of the three of us, standing on the second level of the Eiffel Tower, with the city of Paris behind us.  C’est parfait.

Here is our initial photo, before it was fiddled.

They actually gave me tons of options — some looked like a Charcoal Sketch, some looked like a Comic Book, and some looked like an Andy Warhol Painting.  But we chose the Soft Pastel look in the end, because, well, it was our favorite!

And now, after it was fiddled, here it is hanging on my wall:

Cool, right?  Here is a little background on Photofiddle: The Photofiddle.com site went online in June 2004 and not too long after the launch it received a bit of press from the Washington Post, USA Today, PC Magazine & more.  The Washington Post called them “buzz worthy” and PC Mag rated us 4 out of 5 stars.  What really put Photofiddle.com on the map was  when Oprah put them on the O list in 2006.  More recently, the Today Show picked Photofiddle.com  as a great DIY decorating idea, the CBS Early Show featured them as a best Mother’s Day gift idea, and the New York Times editor wrote a great article including Photofiddle.com.  Pretty impressive!

Photofiddle.com comes highly recommended by me, and I think it is one of the greatest gifts that you can give, be it now for the Holiday Season or a special occasion in the future.  Heck, even if you don’t need a gift — it’s a great choice just to decorate your house with some of those photos that might otherwise just be hanging around!

Win it! You can win a $50 Gift Certificate to Photofiddle to start creating your very own works of art.  To enter, just follow the easy-peasy rules below!

• Visit the Photofiddle Site and tell me which design you would choose if you were able to “fiddle” one of your photos.
  
• Earn extra credit! You may do these for extra entries.
• • Blog about this giveaway and link back here. Tell me about it in a separate comment.
  • Follow me on Twitter.  Tell me about it in a separate comment.
  • Subscribe to my RSS feed via email or in a reader and tell me about it in a separate comment.
  • Stumble my main webpage (www.chicshopperchick.com) and leave me your Stumble Upon name in a separate comment.

That’s it! Good luck! Oh, and the official rules and legal jargon are below.

US entries only, winner will be chosen via random.org at the end of the contest. Winners are posted here and on Prizey Fetch, please leave a valid email address or blog address if you’d like to be contacted should you win. Winner has 72 hours to claim their prize. This contest ends at 11:59 pm CST on December 22nd, 2008.