Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner NOT!

I must apologize for keeping everyone on hold about my blog candy.  I hate it when you state you will be drawing on a certain day, and you don't.  Oh well, I guess I can put myself into that category now.

I want to thank all of the hoppers for participating in the Operation Write Home Bunny Hop!  What a great turnout!  Thanks to all that left comments.  I love getting to know more about you and why you're involved with OWH, and comments are a good way to start.  I loved all of the creative cards I saw on the hop, and now I have lots more layouts, color schemes and more to work with in my idea book that's getting bigger with every hop.  I even won some blog candy myself from Sue Blondin.  Thanks Sue!  I'm waiting on my order to arrive from MFT stamps, and then I can get inky!

Now for the blog candy.  Since I received over 25 comments, I added additional goodies into the box that are pictured in the second picture below.  Hopefully, we'll see a bunch of these goodies on more cards for OWH!  Now, without further ado, the blog candy winner is...

Cherie

of

Cherie's Corner of the World

I've contacted you to get your deets, so I can send this goodie box out to you.

Thanks again to all that participated in this and the other events concerning OWH.  I can't say enough good about this awesome organization, so if you haven't had a chance to go to their website and check them out, do it now.  Don't forget to check out their blogs, too.  Why not start at the OWH Stars & Stamps blog, and join in some of their challenges?

~~~Lee~~~

Mega Thanks for Mega Box of Blog Candy!

Operation Write Home had a fabulous Be My Valentine Bloghop last weekend, and I was lucky enough to be one of the winners of some fabulous blog candy from this hop.  This particular win was from Jan Hunnicut at Jan's she's gone stampin blog.  I was expecting some cardstock, stickers and stamps, but I wasn't prepared for all of the goodies packed inside of this USPS Priority Flat Rate box!  There were sets of stamps from Stampin' Up!, Penny Black & In Style Stamps, a very gracious handful of cardstock, stickers, chipboard tags, chipboard letters, metal tags, Button-Ups, Fresh Cuts, Glitter, badge stickers, vellum phrases, cards & envelopes, clear overlays, woven words and more!  Talk about some awesome candy!!!!  I can't thank Jan enough for offering this awesome candy in support of Operation Write Home!

I know I've asked you all before, but it's so important to vote everyday for Operation Write Home at Joann's Craft for a Cause.  I vote every morning at 9:00, so I can get the maximum number of votes for this awesome organization.  Operation Write Home always needs your support of your hand-made cards for our soldiers, so why not send them some today?  Even if you can't fill up a USPS Priority Flate Rate Box full, maybe you can fill up a USPS Priority Flat Rate Envelope.   We're still working on Valentine's cards until the 10th of January, but if you can get them in by December 1st, Archway will be adding up to 4,000 of their tasty confections to go with these Valentines!  Please, remember not to use glitter on these or any other cards that you make for our troops.  Again, thanks for supporting our troops!

~~~  Lee  ~~~

OWH Bloghop Blog Candy Winner!

So, I hope that all of you have had a chance to make it through the Operation Write Home Be My Valentine Bloghop by now.  Wasn't it amazing?  If you haven't been already, and you want to start at the beginning of the hop, just go to the Operation Write Home Stars and Stamps blog.  I just love all of the eye candy and tutorials and of course the blog candy!  I guess that's why you stopped today, so maybe I should get to who won my blog candy.

I keep saying I'm going to use the Random Generator for my blog candies, but I forgot to look into it again!  I'm not sure if the Random Generator can check it against who is a follower or not, so if any of you know the answer would you please let me know?  If I still have to check all of the commenters against the followers, it defeats the purpose of using it.

Before I announce the winner ;o), I want to remind everyone to vote everyday for OWH at Joann's Craft for a Cause!  Can you imagine how many boxes of cards we could send to the troops with the $50,000 prize????  Wouldn't it be nice to give Sandy and the others a break from constantly looking for contributions?  Make sure you let all of your family and friends know that we need their votes, too!  Post the link for Joann's Craft for a Cause on your facebook page, tweet about it on twitter, or even use the old-fashioned word-of-mouth!

Well, I guess I made you wait long enough to find out who won the blog candy, so the winner is:

Beth from

Beth Horn's Stamp Pad 

Congrats to Beth on winning this bundle of goodies!  I'm on my way to email Beth about her win as well as list it on OWH.  If I don't get a response with an address of where to send these papercrafting goodies by Sat., November 20th, I'll draw another winner.

Thanks to all who commented, hopped and especially the bloggers who made this hop another success for OWH!  Most of all, I want to thank all of you who make cards for our soldiers!  You may not get a personal thank you, but I can tell you that it meant a world of good for my daughter and her unit while she was stationed in Iraq!  You're the greatest!!!!



~~~  Lee  ~~~



Horse Stamp Mystery SOLVED!

Many thanks to Robyn on Paper Craft Planet who found the manufacturer of the Patriotic Horse that I used on my OWH Be My Valentine Bloghop card.  It can be found at I LOVE RUBBER STAMPS.  If you go there, be forewarned!  Linda Schmidt has some super awesome stamps!!!!!  Tell her Operation Write Home sent you.  Maybe she will sponsor us on some challenges or future bloghops! 

~~~  Lee  ~~~