Susan R. Opel
When it comes to celebrating, the Paper Crafts office is the place to be! From birthdays to Halloween to National Pink Day, St. Patrick’s Day and Super Bowl Sunday, we’re always ready for a reason to party! (Although, if you’re like us, you never need a reason to party!)
It seems only fitting then that we’ve created our very own worldwide holiday to celebrate our passion and yours – World Card Making Day!
We’d love to celebrate with you, too, (at least in spirit)! And since we love to plan parties, there are tons of great ideas of ways to spend your day HERE at the World Card Making Day web site. (Remember: it’s not too late to plan a whole day of fun-filled celebration!)
Here's some celebratory highlights from the Paper Crafts team.
If you are a complete over-achiever and have all of your Christmas cards done or you’re a total procrastinator and just don’t feel like getting started yet, you could spend your day looking for inspiration online by visiting inspiring blogs on our blog tour. Cozy up at home in your jammies and fall into creative nirvana with bloggers from all over the world.
Whatever you do this Saturday, just take some time to enjoy the very essence of World Card Making Day. Creating, giving, celebrating, and sharing – it doesn’t get any better than that!
I have some fun KI Memories stickers, paper pads and copies of Holiday Cards & More, Volume 4 to give away to two commenters who tell me a fun and wacky holiday they celebrate or share an unusual holiday tradition. All comments must be received by midnight (MDT) on Thursday, Oct. 1.
Two lucky winners will each take home this prize pacakge!
C’mon, let’s celebrate!
Susan
P.S. Make sure you hop on over to Cath’s Moxie Fab World blog! Today on her world tour of card-making, she’s spotlighting cards from Australia and the United Kingdom! G’day, mate!
My daughter and I celebrate the last day of school by having afternoon tea at a local tea shop. We both look forward to the chance to dress up and drink tea with “pinkies up”!
In my house as a child we always had a Christmas stocking full of food. I know its traditional in some cultures but not so much in America. I definitely plan to continue that with my children.
The only tradition we have and I’m not so sure it’s wacky is we make a ton of gingerbread men and women of course, and then the cousins all get together to decorate them…my motto is less is more, but not everyone agrees about that!! It ends up being so much fun!!
Wellllllllll, I have my Thanksgiving cards done. Does that count? Wacky celebrations? The only football game I watch all year is the Super Bowl because friends have a party and I like a party. Our grandsons love to have sleepovers especially when we all sleep in the the travel trailer in the backyard!
We celebrate by daughter’s half birthday. We have friends over to play and eat cupcakes. It is such a fun day for all of us.
I will keep all my children Chinese New Year “lucky” money (received in red envelope) from relatives till the eve of the next Chinese New Year. I would then let my kids have a balst ripping the envelope and getting the money out from them.
For the first 11 years of our marriage my husband Chad and I would get together with other married friends (that were also childless) and start celebrating every holiday with cocktails the day before the holiday. So when it came time for Christmas we would be pretty toasted by the time midnight would come. We would open at least one present at midnight, then continue with celebrating! Now we all celebrate a bit differently. We have been blessed with children. So Christmas eve we open 1 present, Christmas pj’s! No more toasting with all the cocktails
The first Sunday in October, we have a family get together to celebrate our German heritage. It’s our own little Octoberfest. We have German food, drinks and all kind of fun going on. Oh…and don’t forget the German music playing in the background. Just a very fun day for everyone.
I like to celebrate National Talk Like a Pirate Day by throwing in an “arrrrrrrr” here and there when I talk to me mateys. National TLAPD should come more than once a year, if you ask me. It’s just plain goofy fun.
Well, one of my MOST FAVORITE holiday traditions is more FUN than WACKY! I started this tradition three years ago with some of my closest paper crafting addicts — oops, I mean friends!!!
On the second Saturday in November each year, I rent out the clubhouse in my neighborhood. I invite all my friends who love to paper craft and stamp. We enjoy an ALL DAY STAMP-A-THON where each attendee brings plenty of supplies to work on all day long. Most of us work on completing our holiday cards and getting them in the mail by December 1st! It is SO MUCH FUN to walk around periodically during the day and check the progress everyone is making on their treasured projects, cards and holiday gifts!
Half of the attendees bring brunch type food items, the other half brings lunch items. We have coffee, tea and hot mulled cider going all day long as well as soft holiday music playing on CD’s in the background.
It’s absolutely one of my most favorite days out of the whole year … I spend the entire day doing something I have a huge passion for and get to enjoy the company of my dear paper crafting friends in such a wonderful, holiday surrounding! IT’S ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and I can’t wait until this year’s all day holiday stamp!!
Not really a wacky holiday tradition, but we have Christmas Eve dinner – clam chowder and make it yourself sandwiches – with my folks, my husbands family comes too. Then we get up bright and early Christmas morning and go to my in-laws for breakfast – breakfast is the only time they accept as Christmas. Then back to my folks’ for lunch on Christmas day. By evening, when we get home to actually have our Christmas, none of us want to eat, so we generally have a light salad, open presents, and watch one or more of the DVDs we generally get. Hectic family togetherness, but we enjoy it!
We don’t have any wacky traditions but I think we should start one this year – thanks for the inspiration! We used to go bowling after a big holiday dinner. I don’t live near any bowling alley’s any more.
Thanks for the opportunity to win this great prize!
We live in hot and sunny Brunei, bur we celebrate the arrival of Sinterklass by boat on our Borneo river! He comes all dressed in his winter finery and accompanied by the crazy Black Peters. It is great fun for the kids who scramble to catch the Pepernotenn sweets that they toss to the crowd.
The only thing unusual about our holidays is that I’m a stick-in-the-mud about decorating my home in holiday or seasonal themes. I am no doubt in the minority of this group but I just can’t bring myself to deck the halls or even carve a pumpkin until great pressure is applied by my family. In contrast, I’ve ALWAYS loved to decorate cards and gifts to make them a little more special for the recipient!
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