Donations from Karen Foster Design.

**This is another post detailing donations I’ve received for the auction to try and raise funds for my trip to Canada to deliver Anita’s scrapbook to her.  If you’re a new reader to my blog and don’t know who Anita is, you can read my previous blog post here.  To see other donations I’ve received that will be put up for auction in February and March, you can go here and here  and here.

Okay, Karen Foster Design officially rocks, people.  They sent me a huge box of supplies for the auction.  They even bundled them up by theme and packaged them for me. 

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We have the picnic/family bbq package.  Included in this is a picnic page kit that has papers and a sticker sheet inside, another set of cardstock stickers, a big title rubon, a package of fancy brads, a package of button brads, and a package of metal mini bbq charms.  Awesome!

Then we have what I am calling the love package.  Inside this one is a package of fancy brads, a little license plate embellishment, 2 sheets of cardstock stickers, a big title rubon, a 12×12 rubon (looks like an overlay but works like a rubon), and 12 sheets of paper (2 sheets of 6 designs).

Then there’s the brad/book bundle.  They sent their spiral bound book called Braditude, the book of brads, and 4 packages of different brads, 1 button brads, 1 macaroni brads, 1 brad lines, and 1 loopy brads.

This one is my personal favorite.  I called it the amusement park bundle.  It has an amusement park page kit which includes 6 cardstock, 6 patterned papers, cardstock stickers, a big 12×12 rubon, and a diecut tag sheet.  Then they added a big title rubon, a package of mini metal charms, more cardstock stickers, a package of loopy brads, and a package of scrappers floss.

AND…..if that’s not enough, they also sent 2 huge stacks of patterned papers.  There are 25 designs and 2 sheets of each, so 50 sheets of paper in each package.  WOW.

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I am blessed.

I’ve been talking here on the blog about the scrapbook that my friends and I have been working on for Anita in Canada and my attempts to raise money for the trip to hand deliver it to her.  It’s a lot of work that I didn’t foresee.  Quite exhausting! 

My friend Jill Brush, who helped me make TONS of pages, also did some fundraising of her own out in California for me!  She had a scrapbooking garage sale at her house and sold her supplies and raised money for me and then chipped in some cash of her own.  How’s THAT for being blessed with friendship?  Jillie, you ROCK!  Thank you from the bottom of my heart.  Go check out all the creativity on her blog and give her some love, people! 

And…. if that doesn’t make me lucky enough (and it does…), my friend Thea White did sort of the same thing.  Except I helped her last fall organize and purge her scrapbooking studio and brought home tons of stuff to sell for her on an organizing group I belong to on Yahoo and I’ve just been selling her stuff and collecting the cash for her for the last few months.  The other day she told me to take the cash I’d made for her so far and instead of sending it to her just put it into my “Anita fund.”  Thank you, Thea, from the bottom of my heart.  I’d tell you to go to HER blog, but she’s a really sucky blogger and never writes on it. 

I am so grateful to have friends like Jill and Thea and all the other girls who helped me make this beautiful book for Anita.   I am so thankful for all their support and help they’ve given me in this cause I feel so strongly about.  Once I get all the pages from the girls, I’ll be scanning them and showing them here on the blog, so stay tuned.

Products donated from Kelly Panacci.

**This is another post detailing donations I’ve received for the auction to try and raise funds for my trip to Canada to deliver Anita’s scrapbook to her.  If you’re a new reader to my blog and don’t know who Anita is, you can read my previous blog post here.  To see other donations I’ve received that will be put up for auction in March, you can go here and here .

One of my favorite designers, Kelly Panicci from SandyLion, has donated items from her new His & Hers line and the 360 Degrees line.  I love all of this stuff!  I have actually loved all of the stuff she’s designed.  I just like the style of the flowers and the words and everything!  LOL  This lady ROCKS!!  Thanks so much Kelly.

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Donations arrived from Jennifer McGuire!

***This is another post detailing donations I’ve received for the auction to try and raise funds for my trip to Canada to deliver Anita’s scrapbook to her.  If you’re a new reader to my blog and don’t know who Anita is, you can read my previous blog post here.  To see other donations I’ve received that will be put up for auction in March, you can go here.

I’ve been getting some donations in the mail this past week.  I’m telling you people, my faith in humanity is renewed.  I’ve had so many companies say no, they couldn’t donate supplies, and I partially expected that.  But then I started contacting PEOPLE, scrapbookers who have blogs, scrapbookers who write in the magazines I love, scrapbookers who have layouts published in the magazines I love, and the response has been much better.  These girls are generous and I have gotten lots more Yes answers and haven’t even asked as many people as I did companies yet.  Thank you all from the bottom of my heart if you’ve agreed to send me items.  I’m still trying to figure out how to do it.  Someone suggested I make a new blog post every day or every few days and let people bid on it in the comments section for a few days before moving on to a new post.  If any of you out there have done this before, please contact me if it worked well for you!

One donation I received this past week was from Jennifer McGuire.  Her blog is here.  She’s a contributor to Creating Keepsakes magazine and a design team member for Hero Arts stamps and a 2Peas Garden Girl.  I just enjoy everything she does!  I subscribe to her blog and she’s always showing the cutest projects on there.  So, this is what she sent.  Can we say GENEROUS? 

She even threw in a cute little tag and signed it inside.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart Jennifer!

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Kitty Humor.