2019CatLoversHop | D.Ann's Crafting Whims

Well, the fun is over already. Sorry, I totally missed out on the last few days of the 2019 Cat Lovers hop!

What a great hop this year with 288 amazing and inspiring projects, including papercrafts, jewelry, sewing, needlepoint and more!! There were many laughs, a few tears, pawesomely fun games, many purrizes and loads of ca(t)maraderie!

BTW, my BFF’s Maine coon cat, Charlie (of THIS post), sends his greetings!

Now, on to what you are really here for… Here are the winners of the prizes mentioned in my blog post HERE.

First, one of the kitten-in-the-craft room enamel pins from The Gray Muse goes to Beverly Sizemore! Beverly, please scroll down for instructions on how to claim your prize.

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Next are the nominations for the Cardmaking Talent enamel pin (provided by me). If you want to see a few highlights of the talent in this hop, click on any one of them to see their beautiful cards:

Mr. Random.org chose Carole J! Carole, please scroll down for instructions on how to claim your prize.

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Here are nominations for the funny/humorous CUT-UP award (the interactive paper cutter enamel pin). If you want a good chuckle, click on any one of them to see their fun projects:

Mr Random.org chose Alex/Pink Crafty Mama! Alex, please scroll down for instructions on how to claim your prize.

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Finally, we have the rest of the enamel pins that The Gray Muse sent chosen randomly from your e-mails.

Below are the winners:

a. Arianna Barbara
b. Karen Ladd
c. Janis Woolbright
d. Suzanne Harkinson
e. Roberta Stevenson
f. Denise Bryant

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Congrats to all the winners! Ladies, to claim your prizes: You have 48 hours to contact me with your snail-mail info at d.annscraftingwhims (at) gmail (dot com) or I will draw a different winner. (That’s by 3:15pm EASTERN Standard time on Sunday, November 3, 2019.) I will mail out your prizes as soon as possible. (Except for Bevery… I will pass your information on to Rubeena of the Gray Museas I receive it.)

For those of you that didn’t win… as you dejectedly take to your couches…

…perhaps with a warm beverage… I’ll sing you this comforting song to console you…

Again, please know that I appreciate ALL of you and your kind support! Looking forward to seeing your all again at the 2020 Cat Lovers Hop, if not before!!

Have a PAWsome day!

– D.Ann

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pps: For those of you who weren’t with us for the Cat Lovers Hop in previous years, I close with this comic that always makes me giggle…

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Hello and welcome to the 2019 Cat Lovers Hop celebrating our 5th year – MEOWZA!! Paws up to Janis, who puts loads of hard work into putting this hop together for us each year!!!

Unfortunately I won’t have as many posts as I’d planned for you this year (see previous post for deets), but I do have at least one card and a fabulous giveaway sponsored by Rubeena at The Gray Muse for you at the end of this post. In fact, I used her fun new Cats in the Craft Room stamp set to create a card for my dad who just got home from the hospital:

I wanted the front to rouse curiosity, so I cut out the cat that’s coloring and had him peeking into the ‘window’ with no sentiment

On the reverse side I found kitty on the craft mat in the same set that pretty nearly fits the head size and stamped it on the back for the face. The kitty in the CRAFTS box (that’s FTs, not Ps) in the set provided the paws… I just cut them out and folded them over the edge before gluing down the cat.

To give depth to the inside, I stamped the cat drawing 4 times and cut out each ‘page’, distressed the edges and then layered them exactly as the stamp, with the kitty on top. Then I drew thought bubbles to the stamped sentiments and wrote in my explanation of the scene below (now you know why I prefer using stamps!! lol!).

This card says everything I wanted to say! I’m SO happy that Rubeena has branched out into stamps! The Gray Muse is most famous for her fun enamel pins. Some are true-isms like this one: We rise by lifting others!

Supplies:

The Gray Muse Cats In the Craft Room stamp set
Spellbinders Gold Labels 4 dies
DCWV Mercury Glass Stack & Glitzy Glitter Stack
AC Cardsctock glitter card base
Core’dinations white card stock
Tsukineko Memento dye ink Tuxedo Black
Tsukineko Versamagic chalk ink Red Magic
Marvy Le Plume II pen #1122
Kaiser Craft Neon Gel pens
The Paper Studio Gemstones
Sookwang Scor-tape
Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue

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Now, for the part you’ve been waiting for!

First, in case you want that terrific cat stamp set, some of her other lovely stamps or some of her fabulous enamel pins, The Gray Muse is offering an exclusive 10% discount to all hoppers and readers of my blog during the hop (Oct 21-26)… just use the code: SPONSOR10:

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In addition, Rubeena has kindly offered to give away one of her recent kitten-in-the-craft room enamel pins to someone who comments on this post!

You can read about her Kitten & the Craft Box pin HERE and her Kitten & the Craft Mat pin HERE… they are based on her own cats! We can all relate to their shenanigans!!

What do you have to do to be entered to be the winner of one of above cute pins from The Gray Muse? Well, let’s show her some gratitude… First, go to her Facebook page HERE, like it and leave a message thanking Rubeena for her generosity! Then come back here and leave me a comment that you did so. Easy peasy. If you’re not on Facebook, or for a second entry, you can go to her Instagram Page HERE, follow it and comment on one of the two pins pictured above (just click on the picture to go directly to the post) and then come back here and leave me a comment that you did it. Maximum 2 entries per person. (BTW, while you’re there, I highly recommend signing up for her informative and entertaining newsletters. You will have until Midnight, Eastern Standard Time, October 27, 2019 to get your comments in. Sometime during the next week, I will publish a post listing all winners from giveaways on my blog from this hop (chosen using Random.org). Winners will have 48 hours to claim their prizes so be sure to subscribe to my blog so as not to miss that post!!

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But wait! There’s more!! Rubeena went above and beyond and sent me several of her pins as samples and I’ll be giving them away. In addition, before the cat pins came out, I had already purchased the trophy pin for this years hop:

Here’s how these enamel pin giveaways will work: On Sunday, October 27, 2019, you can send me ONE e-mail (d.annscraftingwhims (at) gmail (dot com)) with your entries (please mark your calendars as I may not be back here to remind you this year) as follows:

You can nominate someone else’s card for the Carmaking Talent award pin (presented by me). Did someone enter an exceptionally beautiful or difficult card that caught your eye. Please let me know the name and entry number from the Main Hop Page. Please send only one nomination.

2. You can nominate someone else’s funny/humorous card for the CUT-UP award (the interactive papercutter).Please let me know the name and entry number from the Main Hop Page. Please send only one nomination.

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d e f

3. Would you like to be in the running to win one of the above enamel pins?

Please let me know the letters of the ones you’d like to win (in order of preference) and I’ll use Random.org to pick winners.

You will have until Midnight, Eastern Standard Time, October 27, 2019 to get your e-mail to me at d.annscraftingwhims (at) gmail (dot com). Sometime during the next week, I will publish a post listing all winners from giveaways on my blog from this hop. Winners will have 48 hours to claim their prizes so be sure to subscribe to my blog so as not to miss that post!! Sorry I can’t be more specific on the date, but everything is up in the air as dad just got home from the hospital and starts chemo Monday. Thanks for understanding!

Thank you, Rubeena and The Gray Muse, for your generous support of this crafty Cat Lovers Hop!! Your goodies and discount make this event even more fun!!

Phew! I’m ready for a cat nap after this!! I look forward to seeing all of your crafty projects but I may not get around to commenting on them all as I have done it the past. Hopefully, next year I can be back with you all in full force! Have fun hopping!!

~D.Ann

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