Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all you out there.  I hope this day finds you celebrating your mother or being celebrated by your children and/or grandchildren. 

I've previously shared my Mother's Day cards for this year.  You can check out previous year's creations here, here, and here.  It's good to celebrate mothers after all their hard work and perseverance.  I say yeah mom's everywhere.

I also wanted to share a little goodness that arrived in the mail this week.  You might remember our Contagiously Crafty milestone celebrate earlier this year.  To celebrate, we offered a small bundle of blog candy to a random commenter.  We don't get too many visitors, but Loly Borda-Towery was our winner.  She blogs over at Card Ville.  You should go check her out.  She's pretty good about joining in challenges and her card creations are very inspiring.  Well, she ever so generously popped this card in the mail to thank us after receiving her small blog candy.  Inside was a very nice note of thanks.  No doubt about it, there is nothing random in this world and I'm so glad she was our winner.


I've heard it is not good etiquette to say thank you for a thank you.  So, I'll just say one more time, congratulations Loly.  We're glad you stopped by to visit us here at Contagiously Crafty.  We'll be watching to see what you do with the blog candy.

Brandy and Andie

Blog Milestone Winner! Loly Borda-Towery

This is a day late (blast that working every day!), but a winner of our first blog candy has been selected.  random.org provided the winner through a random number selection:

That's right, Loly Borda-Towery, you are a winner!  Loly said "how I celebrated an accomplishment: it's very hard for me to loose weight, I've put on 10 extra pounds this winter, so at the beginning of March I gave up all sugar and flour from my diet, in these 3 weeks I lost 3 pounds, so to reward myself I bought 1 set of stamps from CAS-ual Fridays."

Hooray.  This makes you a winner twice over- new stamp set courtesy of weight loss and this small prize package from both of us here at Contagiously Crafty.  Please email me your address directly at viralscrapa(at)gmail(dot)com and I'll drop this in the mail.

Thank you to everyone who commented.  Big or small, accomplishments are to be celebrated.  It was fun to see how you all do so. We'll look forward to the next big accomplishment.

Brandy and  Andie

Blog Milestone!

Just days ago our tiny little blog, carved out of a desire to spread our passions and inspirations about papercrafting, hit a major milestone.  Well, truthfully this is a minor if not inconsequential blip on the screen of Internet life.  However, it is our inconsequential blip and so we thought that it needed some celebrating.  As the picture testifies, our blog passed the 10,000th view!  Yay! 

The part that will forever be a source of joy for Andie personally is that the most popular post by far is one of another person's (yeah Keri!) inspiration.  Yes, it's true- the post regarding the Bubble Guppie party for Keri's one year old posted last year has double the views of any other post made by the blog authors.  Never (and I mean never!!) underestimate the google searching capabilities of parents of young children on a quest to host that perfectly memorable birthday party!  More than a tenth of all visits forever!

This momentous milestone requires a celebration of the bloggish kind.  It is small- and, therefore, maybe reflects the smallishness of the accomplishment :)- but we thought we might offer up some blog candy for the occasion.  We'll mail this tiny set of coordinating paper, rub-ons, brads and ribbon to one randomly drawn commenter from this post to win the prize.  Please tell us one smallish way you've celebrated an accomplishment.  It doesn't have to be of the bloggish kind.  All comments must be made before midnight March 31st, 2013. 

Let's hear it for milestones!

Brandy and  Andie