Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing social media sites right now… and one of the fastest ways to see a couple of hours disappear right before your eyes! It’s a place to find inspiration, discover amazing people and learn crafty new skills – and it also happens to be one of the best ways to ways to lead people to your own work and online shop.
Enter Pinterest Perfect. This book is a collection of 25 projects by eight artists, inspired by the creative DIY culture of Pinterest, combined with tips on how to use Pinterest and become part of the Pinterest community.
The artists sharing their tips and talent include American illustrator Amanda Wright from Wit & Whistle, doodler Flora Chang from Happy Doodle Land and British “cartoonist, writer, illustrator and all-round small person” Gemma Correll. The projects are fun and easy to follow, and each one comes with an introduction to its creator. Follow their instructions and you’ll learn how to make papercraft bows, create a chalkboard calendar and draw a cat, among other necessary life skills.
Tips on how to use Pinterest effectively are slotted between the projects in sidebars – how to see who is pinning your images, how to collaborate and build a sense of community and how to create original content are just some of the topics covered.
This book is billed as one-part inspiration and one part how-to, and we’ve got three copies to give away! To be in with a chance of winning, just leave a comment on this blog or send an email with the subject line “I want to be perfect!” to competitions@folksy.co.uk. The deadline for entries is midnight on Tuesday 24th June.*
* This competition is only open to UK residents. Winners will be picked at random after the competition closes.
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Pinterest Perfect is published by Walter Foster Creative Team | £12.99 | Paperback
98 comments
I want to be perfect
I want to be perfect!! X
Yes please! I’m obsessed with Pinterest, so could use a few tips on how to use it to it’s full potential! Thanks x
This book looks fab! x
I do love a good book! :-)
I absolutely love Pinterest!! So that would be the perfect book for me :) x
Love Pinterest so much!! Looks a wonderful book. :)
I love Pinterest and would love to know how to use it better.
I want to be perfect!
“I want to be perfect!”
I want to be perfect too!!
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Sounds right up my alley – I’m getting well into pinterest
this is such a great idea for a book! Thanks for hosting this giveaway!!
I would love, love, love this book and have a go at making many of the projects in the book. Pretty please pick my name out of the hat !
I am far from perfect… help.me! ;) x
I am far from perfect… help.me!! ;)
Me please! Also, I love Gemma Correll :)
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I want to be perfect!
“I want to be perfect” and would live to get my hands on a copy of this book.
Oooh this sounds great. Please count me in :)
oh yes please! I absolutely adore Pinterest :)
Great graduation prezzie and a push in the right direction to get my work on Folksy now I’m officially an artist! ;-) x
Ooooh – yes please! Pinterest is a slight mystery to me – I’ve dabbled – and I can see it’s power – but I think I need a guide to make sure I immerse myself fully – losing days creating board after wonderful board :)
I want to be perfect!
I want to be perfect! And I’m pinterested in finding out how.
I want to be perfect….. or at least learn how to get better at “Pinteresting”.
We want to be perfect!
I want to be perfect!
Looks like a fabulous inspiring book.
I want to be perfect, so I would love this book to help me.
I would love this book to help me, as I want perfection
I cannot believe how hooked I am on pinterest, the hours disappearing before my eyes. The book sounds like it was made for me
I want to be perfect! (Who doesn’t?!). Book looks fab, I’ll keep my fingers and toes crossed :)
I want to be Pinterest perfect! I LOVE Pinterest, and think this book will be really pinteresting!
No one is perfect but I’d give it a damn good try!!
What a lovely looking book! Fingers crossed xx a Pinterest-Addict.
Ooh, yes, I’d love a copy please. Not much danger of me being perfect though, however hard I tried :)
I want to be perfect
Yes please.
I get so much inspiration from Pinterest. This book could help me to get even more!
I want to be perfect; I really do. ♥
would love this, really only use pinterest for my own mood boards and to collect inspiration. Some tips would be helpful ;)
I want to be perfect! :)
I love Pinterest and I love this books so this is perfect!
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Perfect for me pretty please :)
to win this book, would bring me luck and much inspiration too. With just a peek i feel the heat of my fingers filled with heaven. To say some more would be a bore as i would not be creating. So here’s to you heartfelt through and though i say thank you thank you thank you.
I want to be perfect!
Pinterest Perfect would be perfect please
To make me more perfect than the Bees Knees
This looks amazing!
Pick me please (at random of course), I promise to complete all of the projects and do my Pinterest homework.
This book looks so great, pinterest is fab!
Practice makes perfect. Yes please!
I want to be perfect too!
I want to be perfect!
“I want to be perfect!”
The summer holidays are coming up, I am sure my boys and I would manage to work through the book on those rainy days.
I use Pinterest for everything – inspiration, teaching, tutorials, cooking, gardening – perfect for the visually inspired!
I want to be soooo perfect! :-)
Seeing as I love Pinterest – this sounds like a perfect prize!
I want to be perfect :-) and super crafty x x
I want to be perfect too please!!
I want to be SO perfect. I love good books!
I want to be perfect too thank you!!
I want to be perfect too please!
I want to BE perfect!
I would love to give one of these books a happy new home and make sure it is well thumbed in the pursuit of improving the homemade birthday and Christmas gifts I make each year
I want to be perfect but I dare say I am a lost cause, however I would very much like to be able to draw a cat and am definitely in need of some life skills, especially necessary ones!
I’m already perfect :-)
My 14 year old cousin has just opened a store to sell her fabulous jewellery – I’d love to give this book to her for further inspiration.
I really really really want to be perfect!
I love pinning! I am graphic designer who loves everything colorful and full of designs and life. I am always looking for inspiration… This would be a great book for me :)
I want to be Perfect!
“I want to be perfect!”
love this book, it does look perfect
‘I want to be perfect!’ is an oft-heard artists’ goal – and with this inspiring book you have a real chance to achieve it.
I want to be Pinterest perfect!
I want to be perfect!
Yes please! I don’t use Pinterest as much as I could.
I want to be perfect!
Looks amazing. Pinterest looks so scarey it would be nice to have a helping hand to navigate.
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I want to be perfect :D
I would love to be Pinterest Perfect! X
Oooo I’d love to be Pintrest perfect! Pintrest is my fav way to spend time online
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Perfection for me please!
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Aargh! I wanna be perfect! On Pinterest that is…cuz I already is…heh!
I want to be perfect! :D
of course I want to be perfect!
It’d be perfect if I won this pinteresting prize!
Wow! This book is just what I need!
I would very much like to be a perfect Pinterest pinner, how to use it properly still eludes me. Make me a perfect pinning person please !!
I want to be perfect!
To quote the closing line of my favourite film – “Nobody’s perfect!”
I want to be perfect!
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