Thank You!

Wow was today a long day!  First, let me say a huge thank you to soooooo many of you that lifted my dad  up in prayer today.  The gratitude that I feel for so many of my stamping sisters, friends and family is just overwhelming.  I am so excited to tell you that my dads surgery was a huge success.  In fact, they went in and there is NO cancer.  I actually felt weak at the knees when my mom called today.  I know I asked her to repeat what she said 5 times.  I was just in disbelief.  It was truly amazing.  My dad’s response in the oh so groggy state was, "Hot Diggity Dog!"  He quickly fell asleep after that.  In fact, so asleep they had to give him a medicine called Narcan that reverses pain medication to make him wake up.  Of course he did not like that and clearly woke up!  This was good. 

I heard from so many of you today of personal situations that you have experienced and please hear me when I say Thank You.  I just cannot express how overcome I was by the kindest words expressed to me.  I’ve always said I was the LUCKEST girl around for the greatest friends in the world and it stands true even more today.  I am lucky to have YOU! 

I am mentally worn out today but had a club tonight with my dear friends and laughed.  It felt so good.   

Not much personal stamping happened today, but I do have something I will share that we did a little over a week ago at a stamp camp. 

This tin was a blast to make and I used the Great Friend stamp set along with the Blooms & Bulbs wheel. 

Above you can see I just made an accordian album inside that held seed packets.  Wouldn’t this be a fun gift to give to a friend? 

They were fun to make and not really difficult.  My friend Janet made me one ver similiar that held gift cards.  You can see in the

 pic below you could either use seed packets or gift cards to insert into the pockets. 

It’s time for me to rest this little pea brain of mine.  I think it’s been on overload most of the day.  Again, I thank you for all

your support today.  What an amazing group of people you are!

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God’s Beauty

Today I worked on a card for a special group of women that are so kind to me.  They are all spanish speaking and I only had a few spanish sets to work with when making the card.  I just wanted to let them know I think they are great women!  Here is the card I came up with!

After seeing a few of Stampin’ Up!’s Co-Founder Shelli Gardner’s cards and all the beautiful layers she throws on her cards, it’s been my new thing the last couple of days.  You know how it is.  You find a technique or tool or even a stamp set that you love and all of a sudden you use it on the next 10 design projects you come up with.  I love looking through my scrapbooks to see my "trends".  There was the chipboard trend, chalk trend, draw my own title trend.  These all make me smile because it really defines me as a paper crafter.  I must admit the products get used during that time frame when I am in the TREND zone.  I loved all the layers this card has and giving it to the special ladies was even more joy.   Luckly it didn’t have to go through the mail or the butterfly would have never made it. 

It’s rare that I  air my family life on this little blog of mine, however I need your help.  I need  prayers thrown my direction for my dear Dad.  He goes in for surgery tomorrow to remove a mass in his colon which they suspect is cancer.  I hate that word cancer.  Such an unsettling word.  I have literally just felt helpless being here in Colorado and my family in Florida.  This is when being a military wife quite honestly SUCKS.  Not being there to support either of my parents tomorrow makes my heart ache. Tomorrow  I will be saying lots of prayers that the surgery goes well, there is no other cancer around the mass and that the recovery goes smooth.  My friends, I don’t ask many favors but this I do…  Just say a prayer.  Tomorrow I will keep myself busy as I wait to hear how the surgery goes.  My kids have their last day of school tomorrow and then the evening will be filled with some of my dear stamping friends.  Prayer is good and I know it’s in Gods hands!

Time for me to go to bed. 

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