Saturday, December 31, 2016

Seasons Giving Blog Hop 2016

Welcome!  I'm so grateful that you've stopped by to celebrate this beautiful Season of Giving with us.  Our ever-growing crafting community is filled with talented artists who inspire us, and generous companies and individuals who give their lovely wares to help us grow in our ability to create art and make new connections in this community rich in talent, generosity and creativity.  We all become broader artists by gleaning tips and talents from one another; and we need to be really mindful and grateful for all the wonderful companies out there who keep making the most wonderful embellishments, papers and goodies for us to create with and enjoy.  We are SO blessed, and we each just wanted to give back in some small way.
There will be a prize or gift of some sort at each stop along this exciting hop, so be sure to read each blogger's details and rules for winning.  There are some really AMAZING prizes again this year with 16 companies, and 56 individuals.....HOW EXCITING!!!  For this year's Seasons' Givings Blog Hop, I am giving away some authentic antiques/vintage findings including an antique floral frog, some wooden spools with vintage lace, several wooden antique thread spools, antique clothespins, and some other little vintage pieces (buttons, trim and tin cups, etc.) for you to use in some lovely whimsical project.  To be eligible to win, simply leave me a comment telling me what you would like to do or create with these items.  I love hearing your creative ideas.  I'm so sorry, but because the floral frogs are SO heavy, my give-away is for the Continental United States only.  I will leave commenting open until January 5, 2017 and announce the winner within a day or two of that.  I wish you the best of luck in the random draw.  I don't like to make it a stipulation that you have to follow my blog in order to win my prize, but I will be honest enough to tell you that I really would appreciate it if you would follow me (if you're not already).  I'm happy to do the same for you if you leave me a comment telling me your blog address.
OK....here's the entire Seasons' Givings Blog Hop list.  We realize that it's long, but trust me....that's a good thing!  There is a lovely PRIZE AT EVERY STOP you make, so don't forget to comment on a single one, or you won't be eligible for the prize on that particular blog.  Again....good luck!!


For this year's hop, I wanted to create something that represented my gratefulness for all things....including the crafting community and all the blessings in my own life as well.  I chose to create this little card, and I hope you enjoy it.  I used paper scraps, a Papertrey Ink die-cut set, and a Paper Sweeties sentiment.
Thanks for visiting me, and for celebrating this beautiful Season of Giving with us!  I leave you all with this verse - Acts 20:35(b) ".......It is more blessed to give than to receive".

86 comments:

  1. I love, love, love your giveaway!!
    Fingers crossed and have a Happy New Year!

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  2. Love your sweet vintage style! Just became a new blog follower and am excited to be inspired :) Great giveaway - those spools will be a wonderful base for picture holders, buttons as embellies on projects, tins for storage and others...I can on & on! LOL! Happy New Year! P.S. Thanks for visiting my blog <3

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  3. OMG. I absolutely Love vintage items.
    So many possibilities on what a person could do with your giveaway items. Ideas are just spinning in my head at the moment. The clothespins would be made into beautiful angel ornaments; the tins; made into wind chimes. Face it; I absolutely love making projects using vintage items. I am so having my fingers crossed.
    Like Margie; a person could go on and on.
    Thank U for this wonderful giveaway package opportunity.
    ColleenB.~Texas

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  4. Happy New Year! Love your prize package - thank you for the chance to win! I love painting and altering little things - I'm always surprised how easy it is to transform them!

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  5. Thank you so much for sharing your creativity and artistry; you inspire me so much. My crafting goal for 2017 is to try to create at least once a week. Doesn't seem like a lot but balancing work, my family, and taking care of my mom leaves little time for anything else but crafting freshens my soul so it's important.

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  6. Such a sweet giveaway - I cannot find antique floral frogs around here (maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?) so I adore your little collection. I like to display vintage items on my window sill and change them out from time to time. I am thankful for blog hops like these as I find new blogs to add to my Feedly that I would never have known about otherwise. Love what I see so far and can't wait to see more of your vintage inspiration!!

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  7. Hi Karen!
    Happy New Year!! Thanks for the opportunity to win. Frankly, I do not know what to do with these goodies but I'm glad I found your blog & am your newest follower.
    Leanne

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  8. Your card is so cute! I would love those vintage spools to create the bases for vintage cloches. Thank you so much!

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  9. Beautiful! You're a blessing to the cardmaking world dear friend. Thanks for all you do to share and the support to the entire community. Wish you a creative 2017!

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  10. Your card is absolutely beautiful! I love the sweet sentiment and vintage style!Happy New Year!!Thanks for the chance to win!

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  11. What a sweet vintage card and wonderful collection of prizes. I would love to use the floral frog in my card photos. Best wishes to you for a very blessed New Year.

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  12. I just love to make cards. Give me a some stamps and dies and I wait for the inspiration to hit. Making something new and different every time. Thank you for all the hard work you do giving us inspiration throughout the year. Happy New Year. Mkschmidt4atgmaildotcom

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  13. Absolutely beautiful card - I love that pretty bit of lace and ric rac across the bottom! (Great prize too!)

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  14. What a beautiful card with the added lace. Love it.

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  15. I appreciate all of you who blog and share
    your projects and ideas. I don't have a
    blog - have a FB page MaryLouH Stampin'Up
    and I show cards that I've made for my
    Stampin' Night/Day classes. the ladies
    get to make three different projects each
    month. I enjoy doing that. The vintage
    pieces will be incorporated into a wall hanging
    or wreath for my craft room. Some of them I'll
    probably be using.
    thanks for sharing.
    Happy new Year

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  16. Your card is so cute, and I love all your vintage goodies. I'd love to use that floral frog to photograph my cards. Thanks for the chance to win.
    Sierra
    www.sierrasgift.blogspot.com

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  17. OMG, where have you been all my crafting life?! lol I simply adore your creations & am happy to follow your blog. Looking forward to the inspiration. Your work is amazing & fun. Hope your 2017 is a blessed year! And thank YOU for the giveaway.

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  18. Happy New Year! I would use the buttons on some of my cards and use the floral frog to display a card or two. I would use the spools to put loose lace or ribbon on. Thanks for the giveaway. My blog is www.jssjourneys.com , a crafting and travel blog.

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  19. HOwdy Karen - your are a vintage queen when it comes to creating - I would have to steal an idea from you if I won this lovely prize - congrats as being part of this hop! Blessings!

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  20. Definitely a mixed media project :P I rarely plan projects. When I start with something things just come together over time. But I can already see the lace framing a vintage photo :)
    Happy New Year!

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  21. I love the vintage giveaway and I'm sure I will find something crafty to do with those. I have got to say that I really like the snowman designs on your cards. I love the snowmen. I hope you have a wonderful new year!

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  22. Just found your blog! How pretty! Happy New Year to you and yours!

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  23. Hello Karen, I am your new follower.
    Lovely giveaway, thanks for the chance to win.
    http://ellyscardcreatief.blogspot.nl/

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  24. I love old things, what a great give-away, Karen! Off the top of my head I think a grouping of these as part of a staging for a card would be lots of fun! Thanks for the chance to win them!

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  25. Happy New Year to you. Thanks for the chance to win a fabulous prize. I love your beautiful card.

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  26. Hi, Karen. Your cards are such an inspiration! One of my goals for the year is to be more creative and this prize would go a long way to meeting the goal! The blue and peach I see in the photo is a favorite combo and I know the buttons and lace would find their way to some of my cards!

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  27. Thank you for the chance to win your give away! The spools would be awesome as picture holders. Happy New Year!

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  28. Beautiful card and love all the vintage goodies in your giveaway. I think I could make something to decorate my craft room with these items.
    slrdowney at hotmail dot com

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  29. I would like to create some cards, mini albums, ornaments and scrapbook pages with these goodies. Thank you for the inspiration. Happy New Year!
    God bless,
    Peggy Allen

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  30. Thank you for the chance to win!
    Happy New Year.

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  31. Very sweet card. I love the lace along the border. Thanks for sharing. I really love the frog. It would be so helpful in taking photo's of my cards. Happy New Year

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  32. Happy New Year Karen! I'm not sure exactly what I would create with your awesome prize package. I would have to give it some thought. I may make a mixed media canvas and use the lace and the antique clothes pins. Thanks for the opportunity to win and for sharing. Hope you have a blessed 2017.

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  33. What a great prize! I hope you have a very Happy New Year and I would love you to follow me back :) StampinDiva at yahoo dot com

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  34. Happy New Year! More inspiration for this coming year! Karen, your cards are beautiful!

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  35. I'm glad for this hop because I found your website.

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  36. Hello, my friend. What a creative gift package. I can't even begin to think what I would create with these pieces but I sure would like to have that floral frog! Displaying my cards in that might even help me make more vintage type cards - haha. Maybe a wooden spool snowman. The best to you and your family in 2017.

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  37. Love your style. Look forward to seeing more of your blog in the coming days ahead. Love vintage anything. lol
    XO Nana

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  38. Happy New Year. Thank you for participating in this year's Season's Giving, and offering such a generous prize. I would use what I could for cards, then on the web for ideas for the spools, etc.

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  39. Such a beautiful warm homey feel card!!! I love the vintage feel too!! I love antiques, so it would have to be a mixed media project or maybe and old stlye time memory album!!

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  40. Love the antique goodies. The card looks like a a dress with a frilly skirt. Too cute. I thank YOU for the giving.

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  41. Blessed New Year Karen. What a fun give away. I can't tell you rivht now exactlywhat I would make. I cant draw things oyt inmy head. I get materials in hand and go as inspiration leads. There are so many awesome ideas from all you wonderful designers. ~blessings, Louise

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  42. Vintage makes me SWOOOOON! What a FABULOUS PRIZE & CREATION for us! I think I would use these items to create something for my laundry room. I am ALWAYS LOOKING for Vintage things to decorate that room. ;)AND of course, I would use them on my cards! ;) HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU & YOURS! ;)

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  43. your card is gorgeous and I love the vintage bottle of buttons in the background. my grand use to save buttons. when she passed I was far away and didn't get an opportunity to get them. truly a shame. new follower. :)

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  44. What fabulous blog candy! I have been collecting antique spoons to hold my twine and random bits of ribbons, etc. These items make for terrific props and display items. Beautiful card and best wishes for a wonderful 2017!

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  45. Love your give-away! I'm sure these items would find a wonderful spot in my craft room and would spark an idea or two for creating with them! Would put those items to good use, I'm sure!

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  46. Love the antique items! I am a hoarded of antique buttons and sewing items. Loving the floral frog to display my favorite projects in.

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  47. Thank you for the opportunity to win this wonderful giveaway! Your card is just lovely, a great way to start the new year! Happy New Year!

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  48. Thank you for the opportunity to win this wonderful giveaway! Your projects are wonderful and I appreciate you sharing your creativity. I love hvintage antique projects. Happy New Year!

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  49. would probably use the twine on a card.

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  50. Fabulous prize package! I happen to have started a small collection of frogs and I'm keeping them in a rustic shelf cabinet that was my Mom's. And I have been saving special vintage buttons to make a pretty button bracelet! The lace pieces would be used to embellish cards! Happy to have found your blog and I signed up to follow! Love your pretty card!
    Happy New Year!

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  51. Super pretty card Miss Lady and thanks for the kind words on my blog they mean a lot to me!!! You ROCK!! Thanks for the chance to win!

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  52. Thanks for the inspiration and for the opportunity to win such a generous prize! Love Vintage but always afraid to use...or else just want to keep on display for myself.

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  53. Beautiful card. I would love to make some cards with your giveaway, thank you for the chance to win. Happy New Year!!! hollysilva911@hotmail.com

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  54. Love your card. Thanks for sharing this with us. And thanks for your generosity

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  55. Awesome card. Glad to find your blog. Happy 2017!

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  56. Happy New Year Karen!! Love your giveaway, such wonderful items!! I have little areas in my house with antique items that I'd add those items to. These 3 areas are on my antique treadle machine, antique cabinet and antique buffet. Some of the twine and buttons I'd use in on my project I will be starting. Ive been putting away stamps, dies, papers, stickers to put together a Memorial cookbook of all of my Mom's recipes. I'm making two copies, one for my brother and one for myself to pass down to our kids. This is one project to complete in 2017. Thank you for a chance to win. Blessings to you and your family!!

    ~~Catherine

    catherinesangels@yahoo.com

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  57. You have beautiful cards on your blog. I enjoyed looking at them

    Kathleen

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  58. Love your very pretty card
    Thank you for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge this week and Happy New Year !

    Jo x

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  59. I love your pretty heart-shaped card! I have enjoyed inspiration form you all year long! Have a warm and wonderful 2017!
    Michele

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  60. Such a beautiful card! Thank you for the chance and happy 2017!

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  61. Oh, WOW!!! What an incredible giveaway! I collect antique flower frogs, and would be absolutely thrilled to add this one to my collection! I would use it to display cards, tags, and other work. I like to use things like button cards and ribbon on pins to create little vignettes, so those would likely move into something like that. What a fun collection of findings!

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  62. Gorgeous card, Karen! Love Love Love the trim you have added! Thank you for taking part in the Seasons of Giving Blog Hop. Appreciate the chance to win your fabulous giveaway! Happy 2017!


    Sammibug in Ohio

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  63. Thanks for an opportunity to win a prize and such a lovely card- I hope your year is filled with much love and joy Have a blessed day
    DIANA L.

    DL.ART DESIGN TEAM MEMBER
    DL.ART crinkle ribbon
    http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com
    http://dianamlarson.ctmh.com

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  64. LOVE your SWEET Card!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE Vintage Goodies and think I use these on Cards and some Pretties for my Sisters New House!! They will be buying a New House as they will be moving closer to home and I think something Sweet will be in order!! =)THANKS for sharing and for the chance to WIN!! Have a FABULOUS New Year!! HUGS!! =)

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  65. What a lovely card, Karen. Thanks for an opportunity to win your vintage goodies. I would probably use some of these for my cards and the flower frog would wind up in my craft area displaying cards for sure! Wishing you a year filled with joy and happiness!

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  66. How can you even bear to part with these beauties!? Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to do them justice, so I will pass if my name is drawn. But I wanted to say happy new year and such a beautiful card you created!

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  67. Sweet card! Thanks for participating in the blog hop!

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  68. Wow what beautiful prizes! I would love to use them to make a shadow box to honor my mom. She taught me to be crafty from a young age and I will be a crafter all my life because of her! She passed away in 2010 so she has been gone nearly 7 years now but she is always on my mind when I'm crafting.

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  69. I have several vintage shadow boxes just WAITING for the right items! Sounds like you may have found them!

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  70. Love vintage items and love to put lace and buttons on cards and scrapbook pages. thanks for a chance to win this great prize package.

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  71. Hi and happy new year. Your work is amazing and I'm looking forward to following you in 2017!

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  72. Love your pretty card. Thanks for being part of the hop and what a fantastic prize.
    gildmc@hotmail.com

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  73. I think my email was wrong on the previous post. Sorry.
    gildamc@hotmail.com

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  74. Your card is lovely and such a tremendous prize. I would ask you to pick someone else as I'm newer to this and would want it to go to someone who could create beauty. God bless you and your family.

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  75. What a beautiful card Karen! I love all things vintage and would use some of the items to make a journal for my granddaughter....she is nearly 9 and already loves to journal.

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  76. Yes it is more blessed to give than to receive! I would create something beautiful with these treasures, most likely a card with the frog to hold it up!

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  77. Your card is beautiful and a reflection of your godly character! Happy New Year and God bless!

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  78. Gorgeous! I would love to use those supplies and make some feminine cards with a vintage/antique feel! Thanks for the chance to win!

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  79. Wow - what a pretty card!! happy 2017!

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  80. What a delightful card and amazingly fun prize! I am mostly a cardmaker, so lace and buttons for those. I've always wanted to do a clothespin doll, but no clothespins, so that would be fun!
    I am now following your blog and look forward to your inspiration. Mine is https://dannscraftingwhims.wordpress.com/

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