It's Bunny Hop Day!

From Our Heart to Yours, we present the 1st H2H Bunny Hop! We will start posting links at 8 am so come back then and post away! We can't wait to see what you have all created!

One more day till our Bunny Hop

Are you ready? Got your Easter/Spring artwork ready to post? Cause our 1st H2H Bunny Hop is tomorrow!!! 

Only one day this week to post your artwork and that's Monday, April 18, from 8 am EST to 8 pm EST. Then we can all hop around through the day and check each other's artwork!

Join in the fun - grab your Bunny Hop badge below (right click on the badge and Save As to your pc, then upload as an image to your blog) - and we'll hop over for a quick hello on Monday!

If you missed all the details on this hop and want to be ready, scroll down to this past Monday's post. Remember, all artwork posts that do not use CTMH products will be removed!

Blog Hop badge

Just a reminder - our Easter/Spring Bunny blog Hop is this Monday! Get your artwork ready now so you can link up Monday, April 18th between 8 am EST and 8 pm EST. These are the only hours in which you can leave a link for your artwork next week!!

Here is a badge you can place on your blog post to advertise the hop. Be sure to add our blog address as well: http://heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com/

So hop to it and plan on participating in the Bunny Hop! See you then!

Bunny Hop reminder!!

Don't forget, this coming Monday, April 18th, we will host our 1st ever blog BUNNY HOP and we want you to participate!

Create a project with an Easter (or Spring) theme, post it to your blog, then come back here Monday, April 18th from 8 am EST to 8 pm EST and add your link. YOU CAN ONLY LINK TO YOUR PROJECT ON MONDAY! After that, the link list will close.

So hop over here, leave your link, then bunny hop around to all the links on the list for a fun Easter showcase of artwork!

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Bunny Hop info!

So much to tell you so let's get right to it!

Before I get to this week's challenge, I want to tell you about what will be happening next week. Every other month we have a From Our Heart to Yours challenge. Well this time around, we want to share a blog hop with all of you!! On April 18, we will be sponsoring our first blog hop - the H2H Bunny HOP and we want you to play along.

Here are the details: Before Monday, April 18th, create something Easter or Spring themed. Post it to your blog. Then on Monday April 18th, add your link to our Mister Linky here on the H2H blog. You can ONLY post your link between 8:00 am EST and 8:00 pm EST on that Monday!! After 8:00 pm, the link list will be closed and no other entries will be added through the week. You also MUST include CLOSE TO MY HEART products or your link will be removed. Then through out the day, you can bunny hop among the links to see what everyone has created.

We would love to see a big turn-out for this hop so spread the word! There will also be one random blog hop participant chosen to win a prize so you want to play along!!  I will post reminders through the week so get your creative thinking caps on!

As for this week, we have an early Earth Day challenge for you! We want to see what you can include in your artwork that is recycled or re-used. This can be a piece of ribbon from a gift or a scrap of paper that came from a book or anything you can repurpose and use in your artwork. Let's see what the Design Team created - and be sure to visit their blogs for a description of what they recycled on their project -

Lisa 

Debbie

Lorrinda

Mary

Corina

Karen

Jessica

Melinda

Oh, these girls know how to go green! Now let's see what you can reuse or recycle. Create your artwork using Close To My Heart products and link up below. And don't forget to work on your blog hop project for next week too!! We are looking forward to seeing what everyone creates!!

Spring has Sprung!

Well it's not really Spring-like where I am quite yet but it is time for those dreaded April showers! And that's part of our theme this week but before we get to that, I have a lot to announce.

First, be sure to check out my post from yesterday announcing our March Top Ten and our Guest DT for April!!

I also was offering a little goodie package to one lucky player from last week's challenge and that person is......#7 Chrissy Winters!! Chrissy, please send me your mailing address so I can pop something in the mail to you!

This week we are starting up with 2 new sponsors - please welcome Michelle Zimmerman of Life's LITTLE Things and LeAnne Dudley of Dudleychick Designs.

LeAnne is offering one lucky player from April's challenge the following prize package:

and Michelle's prize is what you see below:

Thank you to these two generous ladies! Remember, you have the whole month to play along with the challenges and the more you play, the more chances you have to win!

Now on to the challenge. The theme is April showers brings May flowers so we want to see what you create with showers and/or flowers. Let's see what the DT created:

Karen

Corina

Melinda

Debbie

Lisa

Lorrinda

Beautiful and sooo Springy!

Now it's your turn - create something with showers and/or flowers and let us see your artwork. Just link up below (be sure to use a direct link to the page of your blog with the challenge artwork, not to the whole blog) and we'll stop by and see what's "springing" up in your artwork~

Oh and be on the lookout for an announcement soon about our 1st blog bunny hop that you can participate in - it promises to be a hare-raising good time!!

Our March Top Ten and April's Guest DT!

I'm a little later than planned this week with the Top Ten and Guest DT post but I have good reason - I became a Grandma this week to a 1 lb. 1 oz. baby girl!! Born 15 weeks early, little Liberty Ann is doing well and she already has all of us wrapped around her very tiny finger!


So here we go - 1st up, I'd like to introduce you to our Guest DT for April - Shari Maclaskey:

"I am 34 years old (sshh, my son still thinks I am 28), I just celebrated my 5 year anniversary with Close To My Heart in March, I have been married to my soul mate for 15 years and I have an amazing 14 year old son.  I also have 2 dogs, a Yorkie named Dallas and a Bassett Hound named Flash.  Plus, two cats, Smokey and Julius Caesar.  I have been a housewife for the past 15 years although I did work for the postal service as a Postmaster Relief for 5 years.  I have been paper crafting for the past 6 years and I enjoy it immensely, though I have to admit that 6 years ago I told my friend, a CTMH consultant, that I would not like it one bit, but agreed to hold a gathering anyway.  I have been hooked ever since.   I am also crazy about ancient history.  It started when I was 7 and read a National Geographic magazine featuring the discoveries at the ancient city of Pompeii.  I am an avid reader of anything to do with ancient civilization and culture.  I stay very busy with CTMH since I teach a scrapbooking class weekly at my local library and my son keeps me on my toes with all his school activities.  I enjoy spending time with my family and we still take the time to play a board game or card game at least once a week.  I also love working in my flower gardens and decorating around the house."

Welcome Shari - we're happy to have you joining us this month! You can visit Shari at her blog Shari's Paper Trail and check out her CTMH site HERE. Shari will be joining us for 2 of April's challenges so stay tuned!

And now we have our Top Ten to introduce - let's take a look at our picks for March:

From the Color Challenge week:

From the Times 3 challenge week:

From the Home Decor challenge week:

And finally, from Baby week:

And our top of the Top Ten and our May Guest DT is.....

Joelle Hiller! Congratulations to our Top Ten!

The Top Ten will all be receiving badge information by email soon. Jennifer, Theresa and Amy - please contact me at mbryt1@bex.net so I can send you the badge info.

That's it for me until tomorrow when we welcome 2 new sponsors and issue our next challenge. See you then!