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Handy List of 2022 Cat Lovers Hop Links
(Times
for posts going live is just after Midnight ~12:05 am, Pacific Daylight
Time..... or whenever I manage to get them up!! lol...)
Welcome to Day 6 of the
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(Whether your country celebrates cats today or not, you can celebrate it with us in the USA!!)
To help us all celebrate National Cat Day, our friend and Helpful Hopper Becca sent me a link to a fun daily e-newsletter all about cats....the Daily Purr Cats!! You can find out about it and subscribe HERE. I had never seen it before and immediately had to sign up. It's FREE! Yay! Thank you, Becca!!! ❤
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Hi, Friends........
Wow....we made it! We are on the Day 6 of our Hop. The week has really flown by.....like kitty crazies in the middle of the night! Ha.
Have you enjoyed the Daily Games? Thank you for indulging me on the silly Day 4 - Cat Riddles and Jokes Game. The ones you have shared have tickled my funny bone!! Thanks for taking part in that.
Many of you have already linked up your 5 projects for the week and will spend National Cat Day with your kitties....and maybe CATching up on thanking sponsors and commenting on all the projects!! For the rest of you, TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO LINK UP PROJECTS!!! All projects must be linked up by 11:55 pm Pacific tonight, October 29th.
Despair not, though, because you can still COMMENT (on projects and the Daily Games) through next Wednesday!!! Comments close at 11:59 pm Pacific, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022.
Yes, you get an 4 extra days to catch up on your
commenting...especially helpful for those last-second projects that get linked
up near midnight tonight!!
Next Wednesday's post will be a Wrap-Up Post
and will have a link-up for you to enter if you have heroically managed
to comment on every single project!! (You
marathon commenters must have a much faster internet connection than
mine is here in Idaho. I am still trying to catch up!!)
BLOGGER TROUBLES CONTINUE.....Have you noticed how this year is worse than most for accessing blogs, leaving comments, getting logged in/out, etc???? I found another thing Blogger is doing....sending a bunch of your lovely comments on my Daily Posts into the spam folder!!! ARRRGH!! I get email notifications that you have commented and just assume they actually posted onto my blog. Not necessarily!! So frustrating.
I went to my Blog's Spam folder today and found over a dozen of your comments that somehow triggered the filters. I have them all properly added to my posts now, but it made me think that this is possibly happening to other people, too. So please check your Blog Spam Folders. I can't include Hopper comments in for the Comment Prizes if I don't see them when I visit your blog! Thanks for your help!!
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Blank Page Muse
Getting us started for today is the wonderful returning sponsor: Blank Page Muse!!
They offer high quality red rubber stamps (pressed to order right here
in the USA), clear stamps, and stencils....from vintage to grunge and
many themes in between!
PRIZE: Blank Page Muse is generously providing TWO Prizes: #1- Rufus the Cat stamp/stencil set and #2 - Edgar Cat stamp/stencil set (2 winners!) These sets are super!!! Love that they have fun stencils that come with the stamps!!
BONUS: The fabulous team over at Blank Page Muse are playing along with us today and have a special Cat Lovers Hop Blog Post for us to enjoy. Hop on over there and see what they are sharing!
Please take time to visit Blank Page Muse at these social media spots: Blog, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. Don't forget to Like, Follow, Share, and Comment with a big "THANK YOU for sponsoring the 2022 Cat Lovers Hop at Her Peaceful Garden!"
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I Brake For Stamps
I am very excited to introduce a New Sponsor to our Cat Hop Family. I Brake For Stamps is not a new company but due to the recent retirement of owner Della, it has now been entrusted to the lovely people at Blank Page Muse. They generously offered to sponsor our Hop with prizes from both sister companies!
PRIZE: I Brake For Stamps has a wonderful Mystery Bundle of 5 red rubber Cat-themed stamps for a lucky Hopper! Fun!!!
BONUS: I Brake For Stamps is playing along with us today and has a special Cat Lovers Hop Blog Post for us to enjoy. Let's all go on over there and welcome them to our Hop!
Please take time to visit I Brake For Stamps at these social media spots: Blog, Facebook, and Instagram. Don't forget to Like, Follow, Share, and Comment with a big "THANK YOU for sponsoring the 2022 Cat Lovers Hop at Her Peaceful Garden!"
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The Scrapping Cottage
Please help me welcome another new sponsor for today: The Scrapping Cottage. They are home to the wonderful CottageCutz line of dies and Lil' Bluebird Designs!
Please take time to visit The Scrapping Cottage at these social media spots: Blog, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest. Don't forget to Like, Follow, Share, and Comment with a big "THANK YOU for sponsoring the 2022 Cat Lovers Hop at Her Peaceful Garden!"
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Waffle Flower Crafts
Say Hello to another one of our fabulous returning sponsors, Waffle Flower.
PRIZE: Waffle Flower Crafts has a $15 Gift Code to their online store to one lucky winner!!
BONUS: Helpful Hopper Karen L is kindly joining us again as a Guest Designer today. Thank you so much, Karen!! She has made a lovely card using Waffle Flower's Hello Stampurr. Such a homey little scene!
You can find out more about her card over at her blog post HERE. Thanks, Karen, for sharing your cards with us this week! ❤
Please take time to visit Waffle Flower Crafts at these social media spots: Blog, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Don't forget to Like, Follow, Share, and Comment with a big "THANK YOU for sponsoring the 2022 Cat Lovers Hop at Her Peaceful Garden!"
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Stampendous!
Please give a friendly purr to returning sponsor Stampendous!
BIG NEWS!:
Many of you might not have been aware that Fran, the owner/creative director behind Stampendous!, had recently announced her retirement.
I was so happy to see this announcement on Facebook:
Fran from Stampendous! is happy to announce that moving forward the Stampendous brand is joining forces with
Spellbinders Paper Arts!
Remaining inventory of existing designs will be available for purchase from Spellbinders in early November, and Fran is already busy working on new designs for early 2023!
PRIZE: Even with all the reorganization, Stampendous! was generous enough to still sponsor our Hop!! They have provided an adorable Kitty Therapy stamp set to a lucky Hopper this year!!
GUEST DESIGNER: Mandy from A Teacup of Scrapisms is back with one more card. This time she used a couple of retired Stampendous sets: "Laurel Burch-Cat and Feathered Friend", and "Cat Sayings". How cute!!!Visit Mandy's Blog Post HERE to find out more about her card. Thanks so much for sharing with us this week, Mandy!! ❤Please take time to visit Stampendous! at these social media spots: Due to their reorganization, I am only including their Facebook link (which is still active for now). Don't forget to Like, Follow, Share, and Comment with a big "THANK YOU for sponsoring the 2022 Cat Lovers Hop at Her Peaceful Garden!"
Please keep an eye on the Spellbinders FB to follow the latest developments!
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Blue Knight Rubber Stamps
I am truly thrilled to introduce Blue Knight Rubber Stamps as a New Sponsor to our Cat Lovers Hop Famiy.
I had heard of this company but didn't know their story. You can read it HERE. It's an honor to have them join us!
Blue Knight Rubber Stamps is generously donating one of their adorable Climbing Kitten stamps to a lucky Hopper!
Please take time to visit Blue Knight Rubber Stamps at these social media spots: Blog, Facebook, YouTube, and Pinterest. Don't forget to Like, Follow, Share, and Comment with a big "THANK YOU for sponsoring the 2022 Cat Lovers Hop at Her Peaceful Garden!"
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Inkylicious
You are going to be so excited to see who our final New Sponsor for the Hop is this year: Inkylicious!!! They have a special surprise for us.
The wonderful Deby at Inkylicious has designed a brand-new stamp set with our Hoppers in mind!! It is a Christmas variation on an old favorite. Here it is, hot off the press (literally!!): Christmas Cats on a Branch!
But wait........Deby isn't only giving one of these lovely stamp sets to a lucky winner....oh, no.....PRIZE: Inkylicious has generously put together THREE Mini-Kits to give to some lucky Hoppers!!! Each kit contains: 3 x 5.5" & 3 x A6 Stamping card, Christmas Cats On A Branch Stamp Set, Sakura White Gel Pen, and a Mini Versafine Onyx Black ink pad!!!! WOW!!!
GUEST DESIGNER: Our final Helpful Hopper guest designing for us this year is the very talented Carole J of Craftilicious. She has a gorgeous card to share with us today using these Inkylicious products: Cats on a Branch (Large), Bare Branches, and Moonscape Stamp & Stencil.
You can find out more about Carole's card on her blog post HERE. Thank you so much, Carole, for finishing out the Hop for us by Guest Designing!! ❤
Please take time to visit Inkylicious at these social media spots: Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Don't forget to Like, Follow, Share, and Comment with a big "THANK YOU for sponsoring the 2022 Cat Lovers Hop at Her Peaceful Garden!"
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DAILY GAME TIME!!!!!
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The Daily Game has been sponsored each year in the past by Ike's Art.
Sadly, our dear friend Ike is gone now, but we will continue the
Games....although without a sponsor. I know Ike would want this feature
to continue!
NOTE: Comments on The Daily Game posts will be included when I do the random draw comment prizes. You
might recall that half the prizes are drawn from projects linked up and
half from comments here and on the linked up projects. So the more you play in these games, the more chances you have to win a comment prize. Yay!
COMMENT here on the Daily Games and on any or all projects that are linked up on the MAIN HOP POST by 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Wednesday Nov. 2, 2022 to be in the drawings for Comment Prizes! Be sure to SIGN IN.....required to be eligible for prizes.
DAY 6 GAME: Where Do Your Cats Sleep? Do they hog your pillow or do they have a secret nest?
I'll go first.....
We have an upstairs loft with a pull-down ladder for access. The cats love sleeping up there in the loft where the warm air rises. Even dear old Jetta, age 19, shoots up that ladder (she is faster than I am!!!) to take a nap in her favorite nest up there. At night, though, she often sleeps on top of me, esp if I have the heating pad on! My sweet snuggly Judith sleeps on my pillow or at the foot of the bed. Othello usually sleeps with my son in the loft at night or on the couch.
Okay, now it is your turn!!
Tell us all about the interesting places your kitties sleep.
Remember to SIGN IN and then COMMENT here through Wed. Nov. 2, 2022, 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time to be eligible for Comment prizes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Okay, now go get those last projects finished and posted because TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO LINK UP PROJECTS!!! But you will still have through next Wednesday, Nov. 2nd, 11:59 pm Pacific to finish up your commenting.
Thank
you sooooooooooo much for being a
part of the 2022 Cat Lovers Hop. Your excitement and participation
has been such a joy! Now get that last project linked up and finish
leaving your comments and next Wednesday, Nov.2 will be the Wrap-Up Post. I will
see you then!!
🖤
Janis