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Friday, October 7, 2011

Operation Julie's Smile


Welcome to the amazing blog hop for Operation Julie's Smile!  If you came here from Agnieszka Malyszek’s blog, then you are in the right spot.  If not, you may want to start from the beginning at the Sweet Stamp Shop’s blog and take your time.   You have ALL WEEKEND to hop with us and win prizes!

First a little background information about Julie and her story:
“The creative blogging community is coming together this weekend to help one of our friends, Julie Ranae.  You may know her as the Design Team Coordinator for many wonderful companies from bakers twine, die cuts, rubber stamps and more.  What many people don’t know about Julie Ranae is that she has had some pretty major dental surgeries in her lifetime due to medication she had to take as a child.  It was in her plans to think about having all of her teeth  replaced at some point in the next 5 years, a decision that was pretty easy to plan out.  But then it happened…she chipped her front teeth on a weekend a month ago. The dentist told her there was no way to save them & that it was his recommendation that she give in and have them all her teeth removed soon, but for that day, they needed to get her front teeth done so her gums could begin to heal. He said he would 'work out payments with her to have ALL this work done...but when she called to make her appt for the first step of impressions, they told her the amount of money that was needed and that the 'payments' applied only to the two teeth that were extracted that day. Her husband Paul was with her & that too, was his understanding as well. So this is how she has found herself in this situation…Needing at least $4000 to get started and another $3000 to finish the process…a total of $7000.
Nicole Rixon, owner of Sweet Stamp Shop put together this benefit after finding out about this situation and before Julie Ranae knew it, it took flight!
Because she is an event organizer by trade, she has taken on the job of organizing all of the blogs in this hop as her way of ‘working overtime’ for what she needs, the same as if she were able to work overtime at an outside job to pay for the work to be done. 
It is the goal of all of these generous friends & sponsors to help make this situation more do-able for our friend so that she can share a brand new smile with all of us soon."


For the hop today, I made a sweet little card using two Sweet Stamp Shop sets, Cool Scoop and Sweet Tooth.  I just love the cherry image in the Cool Scoop set and realized I hadn't even used it for a card yet!  So I inked it up right away and created this little card!  The patterned paper is from the Echo Park Springtime collection, which I got at my favorite store, i {heart} papers!!

I hope you enjoyed your stop here on the hop!  The next stop is Nicole’s blog.  Make sure you leave a comment here before you go so that you can have a chance at the amazing prizes up for grabs and if you can, please make a donation so we can help bring back a new smile for our friend.  Thank you so much for stopping by to support Julie.  Don't forget that all comments and donations are in the running for the amazing prizes!!  If you would like to see a list of the prize sponsors, just visit the Sweet Stamp Shop blog!

ETA:  I apologize for the missing information this morning on my blog, no idea what happened, it was all there last night!  Should all be fine now:)!


102 comments:

  1. leaving a little happy comment to say it's a great cause. Loved yesterday's card too.

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  2. Hi Geny, What a great cause! Thanks for helping out!

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  3. This is just a wonderful thing to do!

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  4. Leaving a comment showing my support for Julie.

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  5. Wavin' hi, Geny! Hope you have a great weekend!

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  6. A great post about a great benefit. Thanks.

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  7. Great benefit, hopefully it will result in a beautiful smile!

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  8. What a wonderful blog hop for a wonderful person :)

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  9. What a great thing everyone is doing to help Julie!!! Linda harris Lsunflower58@aol.com

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  10. leaving a little comment to say Hi.. :)
    I "heart" Julie.. and donated! HUGS

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  11. Thankful for the wonderful blog world for coming together to help out such a nice lady!

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  12. Thank you for being a part of this!

    Holly

    hollyshobbie at gmail dot com

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  13. Can't wait to see Julie's beautiful smile!
    Hugs
    Laura

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  14. This is a great way to give support to Julie! Thanks for posting this!

    ~Vanessa W

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  15. The next stop is:

    Nicole Rixon
    http://www.onesweetromance.com/

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  16. A truly wonderful cause for a wonderful kindhearted and inspirational woman! :D Julie is truly special! Have a wonderful weekend!

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  17. This is an amazing thing to do.

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  18. I've emailed Geny about her post (seems like it might have gotten cut off for some reason)... she'll fix it soon! (Geny's amazing like that!) But until then... hop on over to www.onesweetromance.com ... it's the next stop on the hop! Thank you!

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  19. such a bright cheery (or is it cherry?) card!

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  20. This is adorable...love the sweet cherries!

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  21. This is lovely!! Great colors and I ♥ the cherries.

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  22. A very fun card with cute cherries!!

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  23. Red and green are one of my favorite color combinations. Thanks for sharing.

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  24. So pretty! I love the two-colour cherries paired with the fun patterned paper.

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  25. Just delightful! Thank you so much for supporting my sweet friend and partner Julie Ranae :) I'd like to personally invite you to link your project up at http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com for our special OJS CAS challenge :)

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  26. Beautiful CAS card! Lovin' those sweet cherries!

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  27. Cute card! I love the cherries!

    Tracy
    owlbecraftin at gmail dot com
    owlbecraftin.blogspot.com

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  28. go operation smile! :D

    xo
    Lauren
    onestorydown.com

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  29. Geny this is a bright and happy card! Reminds me that summer is on it's way (at least here in Australia!!) Fiona (madebyfee)

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  30. What an amazing card Geny! I love it! Great way of using the cherries! Hugs,
    N.

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  31. What an amazing card, very pretty

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  32. love the cherries all in a row very cute.

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  33. lovely card. Those cherries look so cool on the card.

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  34. Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing!

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  35. Thank you Geny for helping my mom!

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  36. Love this CAS design and row of darling cherries. Super cute!

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  37. Great card! Love your colors!
    DeniseB

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  38. B E A U T I F U L!
    ♥Thank you for sharing♥
    Hugss and Blessings,
    KimberlyRae

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  39. What a sweet card. Love the edge and colors.

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  40. Love the cherries and summery colours!

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  41. Such a sweet card with those cherries!

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  42. Very cute! I love the colors and the sentiment!

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  43. Great card, love the cherry stamps!

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  44. lovely card,loved those cheeries and the sentiment just fab!!

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  45. Adorable, I love the outlined look of those cherries!

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  46. This is definitely the cherry on top!

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  47. AWESOME card! Those cherries are just fabulous!!!

    housesbuiltofcards@gmail.com
    www.housesbuiltofcards.blogspot.com

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  48. Such a cute card with a sweet stamp!

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  49. What an adorable card! Fun and colorful! Love the way you stamped the cherries along the edge!

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  50. Such a sweet card for a great cause!

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  51. How very sweet of YOU! I'm sure Julie will love it!

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  52. This is such a cute CAS card! Great work!

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  53. Cute card. It's very cheery and colorful.

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  54. Very sweet of you to join this great operation....hope it is successful. I am doing my part by participating in the blog hop.

    Denise

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  55. Love the CAS card! The cherries are great!

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  56. Adorable! Love the pop the red border gives to the card. Cute!!
    ~ky
    scrapacat at yahoo dot com
    http://bunnynest.blogspot.com

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  57. This set is so versatile! Great card!

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  58. lovely card.
    Eva :0)
    evascrapslife(at)gmail(dot)com
    http://evasscrapsncards.blogspot.com
    I have a giveaway on my blog

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  59. Thank you for being apart of such a great hop and cause! Love the cherries!
    sweetheartcopper at msn dot com

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  60. Those cherries look so delicious! What a fun card!

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  61. Love those cherries and your card is fab.

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  62. Love the cherries on this card!

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  63. Thanks for sharing your creativity. It's so cute. Here's to Julie's new smile.

    Wendy K
    Chicago

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  64. what a cute card! It is simple yet colorful and cheerful. I love the cherries! It is truely inspiring to see so many people giving of themselves to help a friend! God bless!


    Have a scrap-happy day
    Lisa G
    http://lisa-scrappingspot.blogspot.com/
    lkgra@hotmail.com

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  65. Such a cute card! Those cherries look lovely inked up in different colours!

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  66. A 'perfectly' sweet card. Darling!

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  67. Super sweet CAS card! I LOVE how the cherries are just outlined in color----really makes them POP!!!

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  68. Those cherries look great with that green patterned paper!

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  69. SUPER duper cute--I LOVE those cherries down the side! SO CLEVER! AMAZING:)

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  70. Love the layout, and the red, green and white are so fantastic together!!

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  71. What a CUTE card!! =) I LOVE the details and the colors that you used!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)

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  72. Super sweet card, Geny! Love those cherries!

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  73. So VERY sweet!! I love those cherries and what a cute sentiment!!

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  74. This is super cute, Geny!! Love the fun, bright colors and the layout is devine! Thanks for playing with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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