Help for Japan-Blog Hop-Take Out Gift Box

For the Whimsy Digital Hop click here (ends 4/8)

Hello and welcome to a very special blog hop today! The illustrators of Whimsy Stamps have come together to draw a special set of digi images for the purpose of raising money for the relief effort in Japan. All proceeds from the sale of these images will be donated to that cause. Kenny K, Raindrop Echo Designs, Meljens Designs, and Crissy Armstrong all contributed art work.

For the whole month of April, you can purchase the images as a set or individually (your choice) by visiting this page on the Whimsy store site. Please consider helping this special cause by purchasing one or all of the digital images we are offering.

If you have landed here from Maria's Blog, you are right on track. If you would like to start hopping from the beginning, please go to Crissy's blog. She has the blog rotation order posted if you need to refer to it.

The amazing ladies of two design teams have come together to host this blog hop for you! Crissy's Crew from Sundays With Crissy and Denise's DT from Whimsy Stamps have joined forces to design some amazing jaw dropping creations for you. You have seven days to hop through all the blogs and enjoy all the lovely creations from these talented people.

The hop runs from now through til Sunday April 10 at noon. There will be several opportunities to win blog candy! Four random commenters will get a chance to receive one of the three individual images or Ann's sentiment set. So be sure to leave comments all along the way for your chance at a free digi! Also, if you post the "Help for Japan" button on your blog's sidebar, you can enter into the draw for the grand prize! The grand prize will consist of the entire digital set made just for this cause as well as a gift certificate donated by Ann of Raindrop Echo Designs worth 10$ to use at the Whimsy Stamps store! To enter, you must help us advertise for this cause by posting the "Help Japan" button on your blog's side bar (just grab it from my side bar or from the top of this post) and then get your name on the Inlinkz option on Crissy's post so we can be sure to find the winner.

Now on to my project:

Supply List
Image-Meljen's Designs "Kimono Bear" for Whimsy Stamps
Sentiment-my own and computer generated

Paper
Neenah Smooth white card stock
Solid color card stock-Red Bazzill Basics
Designer Print-Origami paper

Copic Markers
Bear Hair-w5, w7, w9
Bear Fur-e41, e42, e43
Clothing-r24, r37, r39
Umbrella-bv11, bv13, bv17

Misc. Supplies
Gold adhesive gems
Silver wire for handle
Red Taffeta ribbon (Stampin Up)
Take Out Box Template- I enlarged this
black Sakura glaze pen
Scoring Board
Spellbinder/Nestability Die-Classic Circle
Cuttlebug or Big Shot
Chalks
Scotch ATG gun and adhesive

Next you'll want to visit Mary Lou's blog to continue hopping.
Thank you so much for stopping by, and for your support of this very worthy cause.

Challenges this project qualifies for:
Ellephantastic-#25 Anything but square/rectangle
Moving Along with the Times-#92 More than one fold
Sassy Studio-#66 Fancy Fold
Just Add Ink-#62 Box or bag
Simple Doodles-#40 DIY
Etsy Inspired-#133 inspiration item here