CAS-ual Fridays • Operation Julie's Smile

 

Come play along at CAS-ual Fridays where the Craft's Meow is a sponsor this week and 

support fellow team member Julie Renee in bringing her beautiful smile back!

I am so glad that you joined us on this amazing blog hop for Operation Julie’s Smile.  If you came here from Andrea Ewen's blog, then you are in the right spot.  If not, you may want to start from the beginning at the Sweet Stamp Shop’s blog and take your time.   You have ALL WEEKEND to hop with us and win $2500 in prizes donated by some very special sponsors! A list of these sponsors can be found at the Sweet Stamp Shop's blog.

*NOTE*

Prizes will be drawn for the following:

1.     from Blog Comments left

2.     from PayPal Donation list

3.  for Blog Hop Hosts

The creative blogging community is coming together this weekend to help one of our friends, Julie Ranae.  You may know her as the Design Team Coordinator for many wonderful companies from bakers twine, die cuts, rubber stamps and more.  What many people don’t know about Julie Ranae is that she has had some pretty major dental surgeries in her lifetime due to medication she had to take as a child.  It was in her plans to think about having all of her teeth  replaced at some point in the next 5 years, a decision that was pretty easy to plan out.  But then it happened…she chipped her front teeth on a weekend a month ago. The dentist told her there was no way to save them & that it was his recommendation that she give in and have them all her teeth removed soon, but for that day, they needed to get her front teeth done so her gums could begin to heal. He said he would 'work out payments with her to have ALL this work done...but when she called to make her appt for the first step of impressions, they told her the amount of money that was needed and that the 'payments' applied only to the two teeth that were extracted that day. Her husband Paul was with her & that too, was his understanding as well. So this is how she has found herself in this situation…Needing at least $4000 to get started and another $3000 to finish the process…a total of $7000.
Nicole Rixon, owner of Sweet Stamp Shop put together this benefit after finding out about this situation and before Julie Ranae knew it, it took flight! Because she is an event organizer by trade, she has taken on the job of organizing all of the blogs in this hop as her way of ‘working overtime’ for what she needs, the same as if she were able to work overtime at an outside job to pay for the work to be done. It is the goal of all of these generous friends and sponsors to help make this situation more do-able for our friend so that she can share a brand new smile with all of us soon.


If there is anything you can do to help with a financial donation, there is a donation button ready for you to click, on my side bar of my blog.  Any amount is appreciated and ALL DONATIONS will be eligible for prizes from our sponsor pool of over $2500.”

I hope you enjoyed your stop here on the hop!  The next stop is Ruby McGuire's blog.  Make sure you leave a comment here before you go so that you can have a chance at the amazing prizes up for grabs and if you can, please make a donation so we can help bring back a new smile for our friend.


Thank you and keep smiling! :D

•You Bring Out the Monster in Me•

This week at The Cutting Cafe the DT was assigned to work with the darling Monster Sets! This set is perfect for birthday parties or Halloween. Head on over to the blog to check out the fabulous creations made by our talented design team.

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

October • Stampendous Challenge

• Happy World Card Making Day•

Stampendous Cling Manger Scene

It's the first Saturday of the month, and that means it's time again for a new challenge with the Stampendous team!  This month, to kick thing off and celebrate World Card Making Day, we are looking towards the holidays AND trying to keep it Clean and Simple.  That's right - we are making Clean and Simple (CAS) holiday cards!!  You'll see a few team members showing off more than one card today; some chose to make one CAS and then take that design and showcase how to "step it up".  Others chose to make sets of CAS holiday cards that could be given as gifts or used to make a dent in the Christmas card list. 

Our challenge to you this month is to join us in making CAS holiday cards.  We want to help you get into the holiday spirit, so this month we are giving away a Cling Jumbo Sparkle Joy set to a random winner. You don't have to use a Stampendous image or products to play along, but we sure love it when you do!  

You have until Thursday, November 3 at 11:59 PM EST to add your link to the linky tool at the Stampendous blog, and we'll draw a random winner.  You can enter as many times as you'd like.

Kristine Reynolds 

Pam Hornschu 

Taylor Usry 

Cyndi Bundy 

Krissy Fossmeyer 

Jenn Dove 

Wendy Jordan 

Wendy Price 

Lynn Mercurio 

Melinda Gleissner 

Piali Biswas 

Suzanne Czosek 

Laura Davis (me) 

Rachel Sztonyk 

Stampendous Blog 

Thanks for all your sweet comments! 

CAS-ual Fridays • Feeling Loopy

It's that time again to get all Clean & Simple!

This weeks challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is "Feeling Loopy"

The sponsor is the Ribbon Carousel. I recently purchased a bunch of ribbon from them along with a four post ribbon carousel and I am smitten with it! What a great way to store your ribbon, I highly recommend it!

Hurry over to CAS-ual Fridays to play along for your chance to win some fabulous prizes!

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

Thank You • Gift Card

This week at The Cutting Cafe the designers all worked with the "Welcome Fall" printable stamp set. This set features 46 adorable fall images. I chose the sweet little apple, enlarged the image and made a gift card.

Check out The Cutting Cafe's blog to see what all the other talented designers made with this awesome set!

Thanks for all the sweet comments!

Love to You • Stampendous

Good morning everyone, I hope you all are having a fabulous weekend! Today I thought I would share with you a little card I made using Stampendous Stamps.

Stampendous Stamps are such a delight to work with. Here is a card I made using the beautiful Jumbo Cling Dogwood Set, I also used the Love to You stamp from Stampendous Sentiments.  

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

CAS-ual Fridays • Mostly Monochromatic

Happy Friday everyone! This week at CAS-ual Fridays the theme is Mostly Monochromatic 3+1! ( three shades of the same color + one color, brown )

This weeks sponsor is Stampotique Originals, what a great site! I got to work with the "Love is a Verb" stamp.

Stop by and play with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

Harvest • Bingo

This week at The Cutting Cafe the design team worked with the fabulous "BINGO" cards. I chose to work with the Fall bingo cards and made this little card. This set contains 60 images!

Make sure you check out all the design teams fabulous creations on The Cutting Cafe blog!

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

• Blog Candy Winner •

Yay, we have a winner... Congratulations Eva!

Please send me your mailing address Eva and I will get our goodies out to you asap. :)

Thank you to everyone who played along. I will be having LOTS more giveaways in the very near future so stay tuned!

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

My Scrap Room & Blog Candy

A bit of cleaning, purging and a little decorating has been going on in my craft room so I thought I would share it with you all. I love having my own little oasis to work in. As you can see I have a bit of a ribbon problem, I just can't get enough of it!

Since I was cleaning, I have a little giveaway, some yummy GCD Christmas paper, and a pack of Clear and Simple Christmas stamps. To enter all you need to do is leave me a sweet comment and you will be entered to win! I will draw a random winner Monday September, 19th!



Thanks for all your sweet comments!
  

CAS-ual Fridays • Mini Cards

Hello my friends, and happy Friday! This week at CAS-ual Fridays we have loads of fun planned. This weeks challenge is Mini Cards CAS style!

 I love making mini cards, they are sweet and simple with a big impact. This weeks sponsor is Annabelle Stamps, what a fun place to shop!

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

The Cutting Cafe • Grateful

This week at The Cutting Cafe the team and I are creating with Regina's fabulous "Gratitude" file. This file contains 75 printable images that are full of ways to express your blessings, gratefulness, and thankfulness.

I made a fold out card using the grateful circle to make a scalloped tag on the front of my card.  A little card like this can make a big impact expressing yourself.

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

 

Blog Candy Winner!

Thank you to everyone that played along, I love reading your sweet comments. I will be having more giveaways in the near future so stay tuned.

Now for the winner of my Just Because blog candy... Marlena M. 

Congrats Marlena!  Please email me, your mailing information and I will get your goodies right out to you.  :)

Thanks for playing!

Just Because... Blog Candy

I did a little organizing/purging the other day and decided a little blog candy was in order! This bundle contains two packs of Piggy Tales paper, stickers, ribbon etc.

 All that is required from you is to leave a sweet little comment in the comments section at the bottom of this post. You may leave as many comments as you would like, increasing your chances of winning. :)

Also I would be honored if you all started following my blog, but it is not required. Just click on the "join this site" button, on the right hand side of my blog, and you are set. I will randomly choose a winner Monday, September 12th

Thanks for all the sweet comments!