The following is from Kim, who selected the winner from our contest which ran from Monday until last night:

First prize winner of a business card case in her color of choice is Jessica, who had quite a few unique suggestions for using my leather business card cases. I loved her ideas for using the case to create a healthy snack pack, holding almonds or some other such snack for the afternoon; to hold her Bible study verses (this spoke to me because my daughter insists on having one in which to hold her spelling words!); as a child’s play wallet or for baseball trading cards; and her really unique idea to use multiple colors of the cases to color code a mini recipe card collection in the kitchen!

A very close second prize winner of a leather ponytail holder is Rebecca, who also had quite a few creative suggestions of her own, such as a little personal emergency kit containing a package of oil-free blotters, band-aid(for blisters) and a mini-toothbrush for discreet on the town touch-ups, as a create your own notepad holder, by using it to hold a package of sticky notes and a mini pen to be tucked into your business bag, and finally as a Sunday running buddy to keep your house key, Starbucks card and Chapstick so you can quickly tuck them in your gym shorts.

I really appreciate the time everyone took in entering this contest, and in return I’d like to offer all of you a 15% discount on your next purchases from my shop, which you can redeem by identifying yourself and pasting the url from your contest entry in the notes to seller when you complete your purchase at www.unemployeddesigner.etsy.com.

Thanks guys, it was a lot of fun!