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Today is the day!!

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a wonderful day so far. Thank you so much for joining us today! For Jessica's Blogaversary we were to pick one of her creations as an inspiration. I knew immediately what my inpiration was....

This wishing well she made for her sister's wedding. I thought "what a wonderful and sweet person she must be to spend so much time creating something like this for her sister". And, I absolutely LOVE wishing wells! This was the first time I had ever visited her blog and I am soo glad that I did. I have found a very wonderful Blend!

Smash books are all the rage now and I never really thought I would like one, until I was trying to remember the other day where I saw something that I liked and couldn't remember where it was!! Then I saw that Ellen over at Card Monkey had made her own.  So this is my version of a smash book with some inspiration from Jessica,

I was playing around with my distressing inks on this one lol.

Aren't these paper gorgeous!! I love the way this turned out, every page has pockets for a tag or other items.  I had several more pics to show, but I am going to keep mine short and sweet, because there are several "candy" pics to show you, and I know we all like to see the candy haha. I am going to have some posts here on my blog with the rest of the book, and the details of it. If I feel really courageous, I will make a little video to show you the book.:)

Now  This is the line-up and all the deets for the candy.

 Stephanie of Whimsical Designs is our Grand Prize Sponsor

One Random Hopper will be selected to win
the entire New Release of Whimsical Designs Stamps
This is a fabulous stamp set with wonderful and unique images and sentiments. You are
sure to find a sentiment to fit every occasion!!!!

Jessica also has  Julie K of A Little Bit of Bling and 3 Girl JAM
as an additional Prize Sponsor

 One Random Hopper will be selected to win the entire Valentine's Day Bundle
This ribbon is just gorgeous! I love the colors of it.

Jessica is offering not 1, not 2, but . . . 3 Unity Stamp Goody Bags to 3 lucky Hoppers!!!

Each bag is filled with 16 random Unity Stamps

Jessica is also offering 2 Lucky Hoppers
1 set (5 per set) of  her Handmade Corsage Pins
for you to use in your own creations

 For a final prize to a lovely Hopper   Jessica will offer one
$10 Gift Certificate to be used at
Pink By Design

For my prize, I am offering the cricut tool kit. It is awesome and I use mine all the time!! Just leave me a comment and be a follower!! Happy hopping :)

? ? ? How about THOSE PRIZES ? ? ?
And, there is SURE to be more
awesome CANDY along the way!!!
Here is the WONDERFULLY TALENTED Lineup:
1 . Jessica - Jessica's Craft Shaque http://jessicascraftshaque.blogspot.com
2. Candace - Scrappin' 2 Lil Princesses http://scrappin2littleprincesses.blogspot.com/
3. Luisa - Creative Designs by Luisa http://www.creativedesignsbyluisa.com/
4. Cindy - Tools of a Cropping Queen http://toolsofacropingqueen.blogspot.com/
5. Lisa - A Mermaid's Crafts http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/
6. Beckie - Just B Creative Crazy http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/
7. Julie - A Little Bit of Bling / 3 Girl JAM http://jk-littlebitofbling.blogspot.com/
8. Carri - Double Click Connections http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com/
9. Sonia - Cards, Crafts, and Kids Projects http://cardsandschoolprojects.blogspot.com/
10. Cindy - cre8ivecindy http://cre8ivecindy.blogspot.com/
11. Robin - The Cricut Scrapper http://thecricutscrapper.blogspot.com/ (That's Me!!!)
12. Nataliya - Love Crafts Forever http://lovecraftsforever.blogspot.com/
13. Stephanie - Whimsical Designs http://www.whimsical-designs.com/

Now, for the Rules (pretty simple)

1. Hop along to each of the Hop Stops

2. Leave a comment and become a follower at EACH stop, if you aren't already

3. Stop back here and let Jessica  know what you thought about the entire Hop
and tell her which Project was your favorite

4. For an extra entry into the drawing for any of the prizes here, join in on the fun!!
Create a project by using one of Jessica's past creations as inspiration. Post about it on your blog, explaining which project inspired you, and leave  her another comment with the link to your project!
You will have until January 25th at Noon (EST) to finish the Hop and Link Your Projects.

5. For another chance to get some extra entries into the drawing for any of the prizes she is offering,
SPREAD THE NEWS!!!
Just stop back to let her know how you did it...sidebar, blog post, FB share, etc.....(1 extra entry for each time you spread the news)

* * * * *ONLY THOSE FOLLOWING THE RULES WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE RANDOM DRAWINGS FOR THE PRIZES * * * * *

The winners will be chosen by Random and announced after Jessica has gathered all the comments and consulted with all of  her Blends!!!