Crafty Friends Give

Welcome to the Crafty Friends Who Care blog hop. We are so glad you could join us for Day 1 of this very special hop. The mission of this blog hop is to raise awareness about bone marrow donations to help Leukemia patients.

Bone marrow donation technology has come a long way, and is now as simple as giving blood. So we are trying to raise awareness and get people to register at http://marrow.org to be a bone marrow donor. And why are we doing this you might ask? To help a friend and fellow crafter, Liz Decade. Liz is battling 2 different forms of acute Leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. We are hoping that this hop will help her to find a match. You can see her story at My Story.

Even if you are not a match for Liz, you can still help her. You see bone marrow registrations drives are expensive, you have to pay for each person who is registered, and Liz is trying to raise money for bone marrow drives and medical expenses (it costs a lot of money to get a transplant). You can donate to Liz at DONATIONS. All of the money donated will go to bone marrow drives or medical expenses.

And we have some wonderful sponsors who have donated prizes for our hop.

Sweet Stamping Treats Digital Stamps, Trendy Twine, MB Treasurista, Paper Piecings by Nikki, Inspired Stamps and My Pink Stamper have all donated prizes to this hop. In order to be eligible for one of  these prizes you must comment on every blog in this hop!


If you are coming from Leslie's blog, you are right on track. If you just came across my blog and would like to hop along, please start over with Liz (http://decadeofscrap.blogspot.com)

As my project for this hop I have created my first explosion box. I have always loved these and wanted to try one so badly. I have inserted pictures of my family and will be sending this little box to my sister-in-law who lives out of state and we never get to see each other. All contact is either by phone or email. I know she will love this little gift and it is so much more entertaining to get photos displayed in interesting ways.

All papers used in this project are from the Above Rubies Studio Club Ruby monthly kit. The tags were cut from TBBM and sentiments stamped with stamps I picked up at last year's Scrapbook Expo very cheap LOL. The LOVE and FAMILY stamps were heat embossed.

I found this tutorial here: scor-pal  Now I didn't use the scor-pal I used the Martha Stewart score board, but the tutorial will work the same. There are tons of variations on the explosion box but this was the easiest one and because it was my first box I didn't want anything too complicated.

Now, for MY blog candy what I am offering up is a $1 donation for every new follower I receive from this hop, up to 100 new followers. Currently I have 274 followers. That's right, you can play your part in this cause by just following me. So for only following my blog you too can help Liz D. spread awareness for this worthy cause! Make sure you send invites to all your bloggy friends and have them follow me too! Come back on Sunday Feb 19th to see how much was pledged!

Thank you for stopping by and don’t forget to go to marrow.org and find out how to become a marrow donor


Your next stop is ...Lina


This is a two day hop with different blogs and projects tomorrow. Make sure you start back at Liz's blog tomorrow too.

Here is the entire hop list for day one incase you get lost:

Complete line up:

Day 1-Friday, February 17th

Liz - http://decadeofscrap.blogspot.com
Amber - http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com
Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com
Tiffany - http://creativeconfessionsoftiffanyleola.blogspot.com
Leslie- http://ScrapOfArtDesigns.blogspot.com
Liz C. - http://tryin2craft.blogspot.com <-- you are here
Lina- http://sweetnothingspaperco.blogspot.com <-- go here next
Jamie- http://jamiek711designs.blogspot.com
Tonya - http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com
Angie - http://atuttletime.blogspot.com
Doris - http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com
Michelle - http://scrappinforkenzie.blogspot.com