I have winners!

Thanks to everyone that participated in Cely's 1st blogaversary blog hop. I hope you enjoyed yourself and became inspired to think pink!

Now I did promise to give some blog candy to not ONE but TWO hoppers and the winners are:

DeniseB who wrote:

Cute card... lots of fun details!

Congrats! Please email me your address and I will get the stamp set out to you!

AND

SHartl who wrote:

Really love your fun pop up card, especially the bright colors! So summery! I am a new follower!

Congrats! Please email me your address and I will get the 7 Gypsy's paper pack out to you!

Thanks again to Cely for having me in her hop!

Oh! Guess who planted her Heirloom tomatoes this past weekend? Yay! I also decided to plant some bush beans, green beans that is, not the kind with the cute talking dog in the commercial, and since I have no idea how to grow these any advice would be more than welcome! Anyone?

Take care!

Susan

Hawaii Paper Party Hop!

Aloha and welcome to Cely’s 1st blogaversary hop! Hawaii Paper Party just turned ONE! You should’ve gotten here from the wonderful Diana's blog at  http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/ .  If you are just tuning in and would like to start at the beginning, head on over to Cely’s blog to start hopping!

The theme of this hop is PINK, since it is Cely’s favorite color. We’ve all created some cute pink projects along the way. Don’t forget to visit, follow, and leave a comment on each post along the way and head on back over to Cely’s blog so you can win the GRAND PRIZE blog candy!

Now, on to my project:

I recently learned how to do a new way of making pop up cards so that is what I decided to make for today. I too love the color pink and when I think summer I think pink and yellow. So I thought I would make a pop up card and add a little silliness to it.




 Notice the little yellow arrow above the glass of lemonade? When you pull it up the card unfolds into this:



The "guide" is a reminder to chillax!

Now you might be thinking, "hmm, where would you sign this card? If you look at the top picture on the very bottom you will see a little tab that says pull and a little paper slides out to write whatever you would like. Also, the little glass of lemonade is actually attached to a paper clip that helps hold it closed. Here's another view:

I used the Savory cartridge to cut the pitcher and glass, Flower Shoppe for the daisy's and Lacy Labels for the sentiment, which was from two stamp sets actually. 


Guess what? I'm offering some candy! I will pick two winners on Monday and if you would like to play along just make sure to follow my blog and leave a comment. Make sure I can get a hold of you if you win! One person will win the fun stamp set and one person will win a mini book of Seven Gypsy's paper. (I also have a habit of throwing in extra stuff, what can I say, I like to be a giver!)

And a heads up, some of you may remember my post about being RAK'ed by Cely not long ago. Well, I will also be RAK'ing someone next week when I mail these out, so watch your mail if you've been a past winner of my blog candy! I'm hoping to make someones day!



Hope you enjoyed my project and thank you much for stopping in! Head on over to the very talented and fabulous Carri’s blog next!


Here is a list of all the stops, just in case you lose your way:


Cely – http://hawaiipaperparty.blogspot.com/

Lori – http://reflectionsfromgranny.blogspot.com/

Starla – http://youcouldbewishingonastar.blogspot.com/

Shirl – http://creationbyshirl.blogspot.com/

Dena – http://missdjones.blogspot.com/

Diana – http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/

Susan – http://cricutandgrasshopper.blogspot.com/ <--- here! :)

Carri – http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com/

Karen – http://haveascraphappyday.blogspot.com/

Cyndi – http://strwberizncream-cyndi.blogspot.com/

Happy blogaversary to our dear friend Cely!!! Happy hopping everyone, have a safe weekend!

Susan

Finally!

I finally get to play on my blog AND in my craftroom! Just in time too, the crazy train was on it's way to pick me up! (I'm a frequent rider so they know where I live). My son had four impacted wisdom teeth that needed to be removed last Friday so I've been very busy in the role of nurse. (Cindy, you would be proud). I've also become quite the expert in cooking potatoes as that is all he could, I mean would, really eat. And eat he did. I should have posted for you all to buy some stock in Or-Ida, I'm sure it skyrocketed in the last week! But he is doing really good now, the swelling is almost gone and all the stitches have fallen out but the biggest indicator that all is well is his consumption of Whoppers again.

Thanks for all the congrats on winning the blogaversary blog candy from Lisa at http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/ and a big thank you to Lisa for sending all the fun stuff to play with! Included with all the fun stuff was a Cricut cartridge called Four Legged Friends and OMG do I LOVE IT! I made this little card just for the fun of it and was it ever fun!

The stamp is from 7 Gypsy's



I am going to be having a LOT of fun with this cartridge. I think it was created just for me! Don't get me wrong, I like Create a Critter too but I like this one for all the fun looking dogs on it, and cats, and hamster, and frog..well you get the picture. Thank you again Lisa!

Now I have something really exciting to share...another blogaversary is coming up and there will be a fun blog hop involved! Cely at http://hawaiipaperparty.blogspot.com/ is celebrating her first year and I'm so honored to be a participant, so mark those calendars and join the fun!

Spread the word, add to your sidebar!

I hope you all are having a wonderful day and I can't wait to see what you all have been working on! If you'll excuse me now, I just ate a bunch of these Reese's peanut butter eggs and I think I may be going into a sugar coma. ;)

{{Hugs}}

Susan

I've been RAK'ed! Will you be next?

What I am talking about is of course a Random Act of Kindness. However, this one was a RAK that was so ORIGINAL I had to shared it with all of you. PLEASE take a minute to read this post. When a blog friend goes above and beyond they deserve recognition!

To spare you all of my boring details I'm going to sum it up by saying this past week for me was one from H-E- double hockey sticks, if you know what I mean. (Which is why I haven't posted this week). By yesterday afternoon I was feeling spent, physically and emotionally. My son brings in the mail and there is a package for me, a package I had no idea was coming. I look at who sent it and I see it was from Cely, one of my blog friends. Not long ago Cely was a winner of my blog candy. Now Cely lives in Hawaii and as a joke I told her I needed to find a box big enough to hold a gift card and myself before I could send it out. Cely replied that maybe she could send Hawaii to me instead. Now fast forward about three or so weeks and I had completely forgotten about our exchange of emails. So I open the package Cely sent and would you believe, she did send Hawaii to me! Cely had sent me packages of a variety of Macadamia nuts, a package of an Hawaiian coconut pudding and the most beautiful card that she made. I can not even describe just how much that random act of kindness lifted my spirits! Not to mention my love of what she sent! Cely at http://hawaiipaperparty.blogspot.com/ , you my friend are one classy lady. Thank you so very much for your thoughtfulness. Please know that your random act of kindness meant so much to me. {{{{BIG HUGS}}}.

Cely at http://hawaiipaperparty.blogspot.com/ rocks!

Don't you love that picture of her? I crack up everytime I see it! I had to share this story with you all because I thought that this is such a wonderful thing we could all maybe start to do. Everytime I send out blog candy I hold on to the addresses in case I ever have to send them candy again. So in honor of Cely,  I am going to make it a point once a month to just send a blog buddy something out of the blue in hopes that it will do for that person what Cely did for me. It could be anything, a "thinking of you" card, anything really. The smallest gestures can have the biggest effect on others.

I hope you all have a great weekend and a wonderful Easter! Thanks for stopping in! And Cely, thank you again for turning my frown upside down!

Susan