Paint Party Friday Celebrates 11 Years!

image from our very first party (adjusted for today's)

Welcome to Paint Party Friday's Birthday Celebration and Farewell Party! We are so happy to have you with us as we celebrate 11 incredible years!

(another image from the archives adjusted for today)

Eleven years ago, to the day, Paint Party Friday held it's very first party. In the time since, we've celebrated the good times and come together as a community during the sad ones. We've conducted polls, shared artist interviews, coordinated a charity auction blog hop, hosted a tea party, and had giveaways. We've met artists from all over the world and we've made lifelong friendships.

(collage from our first birthday)

When EVA and Kristin first invited painters to share their work weekly, we had no idea what to expect. We were surprised and delighted when 64 partyers (including Christine and Peggy) showed up! Our little corner of the the internet continued to grow, and at our first birthday we welcomed 106 guests to the party! Since then, PPF has continued to be a place where artists can come to work on paintings, check-in, share their work, and cheer each other on in the process.

Your PPF hostesses, EVA & Kristin (from the archives)

We are so grateful for the community and connections that have been created through PPF, but like all good things, this party is coming to an end next week with one final "After Party". Since good-byes are hard, and we'd love to stay in touch, we hope that you'll share your Instagram names with us. (You can find EVA here and Kristin here.)

As we celebrate the final two check-ins, we'd like to offer a final giveaway. So, in honor of eleven years of friendship, community, art, and inspiration...

We are gifting one of our treasured PPF friends a $25 Blick e-gift card!

All you have to do to enter is share a painting using Mr. Linky below. We will use the random.org number generator to choose the winner. The winner of the random draw will receive a $25 e-gift card.

Good luck! Now... Let's Party! 

As always, please make sure to use your post URL address NOT your blog home page URL address as there are many late visitors who get confused as to which post is for PPF when they arrive (after Friday) at your website. If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Linky, an explanation of how this tool works can be found on Year 1, Week 1. Hope you have a wonderfully creative week!