RAK Hop, Can you join in?????

I'm calling on all my stamping friends to once again bring some joy and smiles to a little girl who really needs them.  Her name is Bella Tucker and she was in gymnastics with my eldest daughter.  Although they were not in the same class, as Bella is a bit older (8 years old), it's a close community and we'd always stay to watch "the big girls" when we could.

Bella developed a serious illness on Easter.  Although the survival rate was very low, she was a brave fighter and made it through a 5 day coma.  Unfortunately, she lost her arms and legs to the disease.  You can read the story in depth at http://www.bellatucker.org/.

I am looking to host 4 small blog hops.  The last hop I hosted had over 50 people and it was long, I thought this was it would be easier for people to participate and to keep the awareness going all month long.

The hops will begin at 12noon EST on Tuesday June 22, 29 and July 6 and 13.  I was thinking of drawing a small prize winner on each of the Mondays and then a grand prize winner on July 20.  I was hoping to have about 15 people in each hop. 

So I am looking for hoppers, blog candy donations and for you to pass this message along to anyone you can.  Anything you can do to help to spread the word, help Bella or help the hop just let me know at this address please ebailey1000@yahoo.com

People can contact me to be part of a hop at this address ebailey1000@yahoo.com.  People can sign up for 1 hop or any combination of the 4.  Your card can be new or old, just as long as you can mail it to bring a smile to Bella. 

Once I get prizes and players lined up, I'll email everyone with dates, blog hop orders and badges.

I think that is it for now, except for the first of many GIANT THANK YOUS!!!!  This is one of the most amazing communities and I know we can bring Bella some sunshine. 

Thank you!!!
Erin
www.scrapstampandbemerry.blogspot.com

Something with a Birthday Recipe ~CHALLENGE~

Good morning everyone!!!!  We hop you are enjoying our month long birthday extravaganza!!!  I know we are!!  What an exciting month it's been!!!!  Before we get onto today's challenge, I have the winners of the hop to announce......
From Tanja's blog.... Sandra P
From Melissa's blog....#3 - Sylvia from Minnesota
From Guest Designer Lol's blog...Crystal
From Dorte's blog.....Wenche
From Sandie's blog...Manuela
From Denise's blog...Kona Jamie
From Diana's blog...Saskia
From Erin's blog.....Deb
And Finally the winner of the Simon Says gift certificate.....
Here are your random numbers:

63 

Timestamp: 2010-05-28 11:49:36 UTC
That is  63. Minnamanna
Congrats to all the winners!!!!!  Please contact the team member who's candy you won!!  The winner of the Simon Says prize can contact me, Erin.

Now for today's challenge!  It's a birthday recipe!!  We'd like to see you use...

some designer paper

a ribbon

a bow

and a tag

The perfect recipe for a calorie free birthday treat!!!  Have fun with this one!

We are happy to welcome back  Paper Jewels  as our sponsor this week!!!  Jenny has recently added C.C. Design Stamps to her product list!!  So you'll now be able to buy Bildmalarna, Sweet Pea and C.C. Designs all in one spot!!

This week jenny has donated a fabulous prize......Ching-Chou Kiuks Sheet #1, how great is that!!!

All you need to do for the chance at this prize and to become one of our Top 5 Stamp Something Stampers is leave a DIRECT LINK to your NEW project using the froggy below by 7pm EST Thursday, June 3rd!!

Please remember to turn off word verification on your comments so we can come and visit thanks!!!

Finally, wow it's a long post today!!!  Check back later in the week for details on our Design Team Call!! That's right we'll be looking for a few more talented crafters to join our team!

Until then, have fun cooking up something with this birthday recipe!!!

BLOGAVERSARY BLOG HOP AND CELEBRATE WINNERS!!!

Evening everyone!!!!!

We are so excited about our 2 year blogaversary this month!! Woo Hoo!!!  A big huge thank you to all of you who have played along from the beginning, those of you who've just found us, and everyone in between!  We've had such a great time these past two years and you all have made that possible!!

So as a fun way to celebrate we are having our first ever Stamp Something blog hop!!!!  Our fantastic monthly sponsor, SIMON SAYS, 

is sponsoring with the grand prize for the hop winner!  Heidi has generously donated a 20$ gift certificate to our random winner!!!  And as always, she pays for shipping too!!!  To enter for this prize, please leave a direct link to your blog in the linky below after you've completed the hop!  Only participants who comment on each DT blog will be eligible to win



Along the way you'll see plenty of cakes and cupcakes!! And for some added sweets many of us have candy on our blogs too!! So make sure you leave comments and/or enter linkies along the way!!  You'll also notice a new face!!  That's right Lols, as most of you know her, from Lorraine's Loft is helping us out by guest designing for the hop and we are so excited to have her on board this week!!!!

The hop starts here right now! It will close at 7pm ET Thursday, May 27.  All winners will be announced on the Stamp Something blog with the challenge on the morning of May 28th!

Don't worry there is still a challenge tomorrow too, so you can play along with us for another chance to win some goodies and help us celebrate 2 fun years!!!!

From here please hop to TANJA'S BLOG to start our cupcake blogaversary hop!!!!
In case you get lost along the way...
Stamp Something blog to
Tanja's blog to
Janna's blog to
Melissa's blog
to Guest Designer Lols (woohoo)
to Dorte's Blog
to Sandie's Blog
to Denise's Blog
to Diana's blog
to Lisa's blog
to Erin's blog
end back here at Stamp Something

See you back here at the finish line and tomorrow morning for the challenge!

Now before I forget, the winners from the last challenge are....

Celebrate Something's Top 5 Stampers....

12 Penni

69 Wishcraft

103 Marianne-db

118 Mandy

249 Crafty Emma

Please grab our badge for your blog :)

And Celebrate Something's random winner....

Here are your random numbers: 193

Timestamp: 2010-05-20 20:39:20 UTC

That is 193. Adela  Please contact Denise for all the prize info!!!!!