Annual Fundraising Blog Hop

Welcome to the Annual Fundraising Blog Hop sponsored by SVG Cutting Files and Jaded Blossom

We are asking YOU, our fans, to GIVE BACK on this ONE HOP a year,

 as we give to you ALL YEAR LONG!

This Fundraising hop is to help 5 year old Brad, who has Type 1 Diabetes and is trying desperately to get his "DAD" (Diabetic Alert Dog")

Read all about BRAD HERE!!!!

In honor of the this years theme, I selected to do a project with Huckleberry Hound.

The shape of this file fits perfectly on the side of the JB Candy Caddy Holder die. 

I used some wilderness looking papers and added a border with some fish directly under the canoe. 
The sentiment Is from the Jaded Blossom Great Outdoors stamp set. The caddy is filled with mini candy bars which are always need on any canoe trip.

Now you have a chance to get this and some of the past hop files and here's how.

UNLIKE our other ones, THE ONLY WAY FOR YOU TO GET FILES is by DONATING to this fundraiser.

There are different levels for all, so that EVERYONE can make some sort of donation.

Here are the LEVELS available, with a VERY SPECIAL offer too!

Did you see what we did there?

For every $25 increment over the initial one, you can earn a PAST BLOG HOP set.

As many of you know, they are LOCKED and UNAVAILABLE once a Hop ends, so this is your

ONLY Chance to get them!!

If you donate enough to qualify for the previous blog hops, we will contact you to ask which one(s) you want.

Here is a link to the PINTEREST board to show you files from those hops

https://www.pinterest.com/fam4kelly/ 

(please scroll toward the bottom of the page to view)

Here is the list of what hops are available

DONATE NOW BY CLICKING THIS LINK!!!!

There are NO forms to fill out, NO validation process. 

Simply make a donation in any amount and we will send the files you "earned" by your donation amount.

 This hop is ends PROMPTLY Saturday May 30th at 11:59 PST TONIGHT!

Make sur to donate to get your files!

We still would LOVE for you to do the following as well!!

1- Be a FOLLOWER on each stop along this hop. 

Learn more about HOW TO FOLLOW A BLOG by clicking HERE

2- Leave a comment on each blog to show some love for the inspiration you have just seen! 

Learn more how to LEAVE A COMMENT by clicking HERE

**Kindly remember that all our hop files abide by our TERMS OF USE

You can read all about our BLOG HOPS and how to participate HERE

BLOG LINE UP

Here is the complete blog line up for you!

Candace http://www.papercraftsbycandace.com/
Gwen http://thisandthatbygwen.blogspot.com/
Jamie http://jamiek711designs.blogspot.com/
Brigit http://www.brigitsscraps.com/
Barb http://bugbites411.blogspot.com/-- you are here!
Michelle http://scrappinwithmybug.com/
Crystal http://crystalscreativecorner.blogspot.com/
Annie http://creatinganniething.blogspot.com/
Mel http://doxiemeldesigns.blogspot.com/
Poppy http://www.svgcuttingfiles.blogspot.com/
Cindy http://cindybcreations.blogspot.com/
Lily http://lilycriswelldesigns.blogspot.com/
Gigi http://thecricutbug.blogspot.com/
Candio http://www.pcquickutzclub.blogspot.com/
Sara http://www.designapartybysara.blogspot.com/
Cassandra http://ctimz3.blogspot.com/

NDOS - Girls Love Mail

Last Thursday, the company I work for celebrated a National Day Of Service. All employees are encouraged to participate by supporting a local charity.

Because I work from home, I selected to write letters for the Girls Love Mail charity. These letters are gifts to newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. 

Rather than just write a letter, I made some pretty note cards to put my hand written notes in. 

Here are a couple I did...

I hope this letters will bring some hope and comfort to those that receive them. 

Ribbon die cut is from the Cricut Design Studio. 
Sentiments are from Scrappy Moms Stamps Believe in Miracles stamp set. 

Have a crafty day!

Dragon Poop- who knew!

Happy Monday!!

It's my day over at the Jaded Blossom Blog and I have funny little project today. 

Here it is... one large box of Dragon Poop!!!

I embellished a box of whopper candies with a dragon I found in the silhouette store. 

It's a quick treat that will make anyone who's received it laugh. 

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The Knight Bites stamp set is one of my favorites and  it worked well with the Dimensional Dies 

Have a crafty day!!

SVG Cutting Files School Challenge!

Hi Everyone!  There is a new challenge at SVG Cutting Files, this month we want to see your special teacher appreciation or graduation projects.  Just remember, the project just include something from SVG Cutting Files. Projects should be linked on the blog or Facebook Galleria Group by June 15. As always, there is a great prize up for grabs. 

I have been looking at this mini bottle caddy box file in the store for a few months and finally used it for this challenge project. 

My caddy holds two of the little hand soaps but you could add anything from candy treats, pencils, lotions... well you get the idea.

I added the cute Kawaii Nerdy School Pencil to the front to look like it wrote the Thank you. The sentiment is from the Jaded Blossom Kind Thanks stamp set. 

I hope you'll join us for this school themed challenge. 

Have a crafty day!!

Happy Mother's Day

Hello and a happy Mother's Day to all the Mother's out there. 

I wanted to share with you a pretty card I some special Mom's I know wishing them a relaxing and wonderful day!.

Flowers are from Miss Kate's Cuttables

Sentiment is from My Pink Stamper

Shaped mat is from the Silhouette Store. 

I hope you all have a very special day!

Jaded Blossom May Release Hop - Awesome to the Core!

Hi Everyone! Welcome to 

Jaded Blossom's May 2015 Release Blog Hop!  

Now if you're here from Cindy's Blog you're in the right place, if you just happened to stop by, you'll want to start at the beginning so you don't miss anything.  I have the complete line up at the bottom of this post.

School is almost done and everyone is thinking of teacher gifts. Thought this might be a simple and quick little treat for a teacher. 

Everyone loves those cider spices in the winter for a hot beverage, but they are great for summer apple pies and other baked goodies as well.  I simple attached a luggage tag die to each side of the carton top and embellished it with the cute apple .  Here are all the other JB and cut files I used today.
Luggage Tag Dies Berrylicious stamps Kawaii Nerdy School from SVG Cutting Files

I hope you enjoyed this weeks release projects as much as we have. 

To wrap up this release week, we have to have a deal for you right? This weekend only you can get the entire release package for $139.99

Regular Price for the Release Package is $152.99 after 5/10.

1 - Free 2x3 Stamp for customers that spend $40 or more before Taxes and Shipping! FREEBIE is only available until Sunday 5/10, 11:59pm pst.

If you order the new release, you'll get this super fun treat too!

Of course, here is what everyone will receive when you order the new release.

BLOG CANDY

1 Lucky Winner will get to pick a stamp set of their choice!

 Just leave a comment on all the blogs along the hop!

The more blogs you comment on the more chances you have to win!

Now on to the HOP....

Next up is Crystal

Just in case you get lost here is the Entire Line Up: 
Candace

Sherrie (May Guest Designer)
Cindy
Barb
Crystal
Candace O.
Mel
Gigi

Sara
Jamie

Michelle

Jaded Blossom May Release Day 5 - Be Creative

Hello Everyone, It's Release Day over at Jaded Blossom!  

We hope you all enjoyed our projects this week.  As you know we have one more stamp set and our May Freebie.

In case you missed my Release Day Projects, here they are: Monday: Dino-Mite Tuesday:Let's Go Camping Wednesday: Gear-tastic! Thursday: Swinging By

Today I am using the Paint Splatters 2 stamp set. I used one of the stamps in the set to make a pattern background for my Chibi Painter from SVG CuttingFiles. 

 This card went together super fast. I finished it with a sentiment from the Dream in Color stamp set.

Here's a look at the the full set of stamps and the freebie released today...

Paint Splatters 2

For our Freebie of the Month

Big Foot Bites

Free Stamp for customers that spend $40 or more before Taxes and Shipping! FREEBIE promotion STARTS later at 4pm PST and ends Sunday 5/10 11:59pm pst.

Be sure to come back Later at 4pm, PST for our Stamp Release Blog Hop!  

You won't wanna miss it.

To visit the Jaded Blossom Store HERE and for Favor Boxes HERE

"Like" us Facebook and share your Jaded Blossom Stamps Creation with us in our Garden of Creativity.

Last but not least don't forget to join our May Challenge.....Go Wild, Use any wild animal here!

Jaded Blossom May Release Day 4- Swinging By!

It's Thursday and day four of the May Jaded Blossom release week. 
What a great week and so many fantastic ideas using these new stamps and dies. There is still more so read on!

Today we have another fun and versatile stamp set to show you. The Monkey See, Monkey Do stamp set is super cute. It has sentiments that can be used for many types of projects.

I am  using the Luggage Tag Dies released earlier this week to make a treat bag topper. This fits the 2.25" Jaded Blossom treat bags perfect. 

I simple folded some card stock and lined up the top of the die just above the fold so when it cut it was still folded in half. I trimmed of the bottom to what I felt was a proper topper length and attached it to my filled treat bag. 

I stamped the sentiment from today's stamp set on white card stock and hand cut the words before attaching them to the topper. 

The cute Spider Man is from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons here. 

Here is a look at the complete sets of stamps and dies being featured by the Design Team today.

Monkey See. Monkey Do

Be sure to stop by the Jaded Blossom blog to see what the other great projects the Design Team has to share with you. 
Have a crafty day!

Jaded Blossom May Release Day 3- Gear-ific Day!

Welcome back to  day three of the Jaded Blossom May Release week. We still have a bunch more to show you this week. 

Today we are talking nuts and bolts and Bots! I used both the Robot Candies and the Robotastic stamps for my project today.

This little treat box called, Robot Gear Box is new and in the SVG Cutting Files store now. 

He is adorable. How cute would he be for a youngsters birthday party. 

I added some candy stamps to the bottom of rolos and the sentiment on a tag from Mini Tag Dies 2. 

Here is a look at the complete stamp set being featured by the Design Team today.

Robot candies

Robotastic

We have our Gotta Have it Now Package for $139.99

May 2015 Release will include:
8 - 4 x 6 Stamp Sets 1 - New Dies 1 - 2x3 Freebie
freebie is for orders $40 or more (before tax and shipping), Friday 4pm PST through Sunday 11:59 pm PST
NO PREORDERS! NO BACKORDERS! No waiting WEEKS for your stamps. WE SHIP ASAP!!!
This Package is only available till Wednesday 11:59pm pst, then will be back up on the store on Friday at 4pm pst during our Stamp Release Blog Hop!

Regular price for the release package is $152.99

Have a crafty day!!

Jaded Blossom May Release Day 2- Camp Out Treats

Welcome to day two of the Jaded Blossom May Release week!

It's summer time and time to enjoy the great outdoors. So today's stamps are perfect. 



I am using the Beach Tote Bag Holder to hold some smore goodies. I embellished the treat bag with some camping items like the sleeping bag and lantern that can be found in the Let's go camping Page layout file set.

I attached a tag using the Mini Tag Dies 2 and the new Great Outdoors stamps. 

Here's a look at the complete stamp sets and die showcased today. 

The Great Outdoors

Camping Candies

We have our Gotta Have it Now Package for $139.99

May 2015 Release will include:
8 - 4 x 6 Stamp Sets 1 - New Dies 1 - 2x3 Freebie
freebie is for orders $40 or more (before tax and shipping), Friday 4pm PST through Sunday 11:59 pm PST
NO PREORDERS! NO BACKORDERS! No waiting WEEKS for your stamps. WE SHIP ASAP!!!
This Package is only available till Wednesday 11:59pm pst, then will be back up on the store on Friday at 4pm pst during our Stamp Release Blog Hop!

Regular price for the release package is $152.99

Have a crafty day!!

Jaded Blossom May Release Day 1 - Dino-mite!

Welcome to day one of the Jaded Blossom  May Release week!

It's another fantastic month of release projects and stamps this month.

And, starting off the week, we have a new die along with a couple Dino-mite stamp sets.

I used the new luggage tag dies to make a cute treat holder.

I took two of the tags, scored that  1" up from he bottom and glued them together. 

I then used a 1" x 2" strip of paper, scoring 1/2" from each and to make the sides just glue then in place.

Filled it with chocolate squares and tied it all up with some ribbon.

You'll find the cute dino in the  SVG Cutting Files Dino Migration. 

I used the sentiment from the new Dinotastic stamp set which I stamp on a banner from Dimensional Banner dies.

Here's a look at the complete stamp sets and die showcased today. 

Dinotastic

Dinosaur Candies

Luggage Tag Dies

We have our Gotta Have it Now Package for $139.99

May 2015 Release will include:
8 - 4 x 6 Stamp Sets 1 - New Dies 1 - 2x3 Freebie
freebie is for orders $40 or more (before tax and shipping), Friday 4pm PST through Sunday 11:59 pm PST
NO PREORDERS! NO BACKORDERS! No waiting WEEKS for your stamps. WE SHIP ASAP!!!
This Package is only available till Wednesday 11:59pm pst, then will be back up on the store on Friday at 4pm pst during our Stamp Release Blog Hop!

Regular price for the release package is $152.99

Have a crafty day!!

Feel Chipper Soon!

It's time for the Jaded Blossom's May Challenge!

This months challenge theme is Go Wild- any wild animal on your project! 

If you're new to Jaded Blossom, be sure to jump over to their blog now and become a blog follower so you don't miss out on all the super fun stuff. 

Also, visit the Garden of Creativity in Facebook and "Like" the JB Facebook Page.

Challenge Guidelines: 

1) Project must be new for this challenge, no back linking

2) Project must have a Jaded Blossom stamp somewhere on it. 

3) Only one entry per person

4) Link it up here by 6/2

Seems there is always someone feeling under the weather. So its good to have cards and things like this on hand. 

I love how this little tissue card turned out. 

You can find several tutorials online as to how to make it. It's simply a sheet of paper wrapped around a travel size tissue pack.

The chipmunk is from the SVG Store and part of a page layout kit called Let's Go Camping. I turned him into this little forest nurse by adding the nurse cap and thermometer from the Nurse Olivia file.
The title cute file is from Miss Kate's Cuttables.

The phrase from the Forest Friends stamp set is also a perfect fit for this project. 
I also used the JB Mini Tag Dies.

I hope you will join us and link up your JB stamp inspired project on the Jaded Blossom Blog. Please be sure you check out the challenge guidelines before linking. 

Prize:

This month's prize for a randomly selected winner is:
While you're there, check out what the rest of the design team created. They are so extremely talented. 

Have a crafty day!!