An American Soldier

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If you have not thanked a soldier, do it today at www.amillionthanks.org This website is our service project for Youth Conference this year. We will be making 3 thank you cards each at our conference in Asheville, NC. If you would like to send cards with ours, get them to me before June 9th. Thanks for remembering OUR TROOPS. I know that they think of us everyday.

I have sold some of the great discount cards that I have! I have only 3 left. Get yours today and save at 31 different places where you spend your money anyway. Email me so I can hold one for you.

Somber weekend. We lost a dear church family member this weekend. Lawrence Byers lost his battle with cancer Friday night. Can I just say that I HATE cancer! Don't you too? Give to Relay for Life and lets find a cure so that nobody else has to lose a loved one to this dreadful disease.

Cards!

Stampin Up Blue Bayou is the base for this one. Le Jardin designer paper is an added layer behind some off white textured cardstock on which I stamped from an old SU set named Little Inspirations the sentiment in Old Olive. The scallop punch has a Friendly Flower stamped in Soft Sky with a rhinestone added. There are a couple of olive eyelets on the mini book mark. I used So Saffron ink to color in the flowers around the little lamb with an eye shadow applicator and then colored the lamb with a white Souffle marker. A little soft yellow rick rack also added to give another texture. It's a sweet little card for a friend to remind her that she is in God's care.

Bonjour friend!

Le Jardin is the designer paper by Stampin Up and I used SU Friendly Flowers to stamp the flowers in Soft Sky and So Saffron and the "friend" sentiment in Soft sky on the flip side of the same designer paper. I used my circle punches to punch out the flowers and added rhinestones to both.

Rainy weather is good for staying in and creating! Of course, the boys are screaming for Dairy Queen. Oh well, I must suffer through a trip to DQ!
Do you have your discount card for the coming year yet? I have some great kids at my church that are in the Blacksburg Marching Band and they are selling the best cards right now for only $10! Some of the merchants are Dairy Queen, Sonic, Broncos, Taco Bell, Starmax,Cinnabon, Pizza Inn, Aegean, McDonald's, Burger King, Bruster's and many more for a total of 31 merchants! These cards are fantasic! I can hook you up. Let me know asap if you would like to get one. I don't know when the deadline is.

Bakerella on Martha Stewart today!

This is the best website for the cutest cupcake ideas! www.bakerella.blogspot.com I just watched her on Martha and had to share this with my friends. I have 2 cards to post but I have to take the pictures so I will do that later today. Come on back later. Hint.... I am loving the new SU papers that I got last month.

Monday morning surprise!

This is my beautiful daughter and her family. Brett (looks a little like me-don't you think?) and DJ (best SIL in the world) and the most precious grands Jack and Abbie! What a great Monday morning surprise for this grandma to get these in my email!

On our way to get Barry's shot in the right eye! Squint!!!!!!!!!!

Longaberger basket for the Cure!

http://basketsforthecure.blogspot.com/ go here to bid. It's a race to find the cure for breast cancer. We all know someone close to us whose lives have been altered by this disease. Here is your opportunity to help researchers find the cure!
Prayers for Lesa are needed too. So please add her to your prayer list as she battles for her life against breast cancer.
Update on the love of my life: Barry is driving again finally! He goes Monday for the second shot in his right eye. Still no improvement in that one yet but the left eye is doing great. He read the doctors report to me last Wednesday! We will be 4 shots in and 2 more to go after Monday. Our prayers are being answered for his recovery. We know the doctors are putting in the shots but we know Who is doing the healing! Thank you Heavenly Father. Thank you friends for standing in the gap for us with all of your prayers.
I will be making some cards with all the great new goodies I got during Su's Salebration. Come back to see them in a few days. Feel free to subscribe so you can be notified when I make a new post! I have a lot of new papers, inks and stamps!

Cards!

This is SU Le Jardin designer paper with a Cricut George and the Basic Shapes cutout of Hello in what I believe to be SU Bashful Blue cardstock. An EK Success flower punch that is inked in SU Old Olive and an olive button with pale yellow DMC floss tied on.

This one is SU Le Jardin designer papers and Old Olive Classic Ink. The Happy Easter is a dollar stamp by Studio G that I picked up at Michael's. The pale yellow ribbon was in a Colorbok dollar mini scrapbook kit from Big Lots.

This is the one that was the free make-n-take at Scrapbook Creations. I loved the colors and the layout. I also liked the technique of cutting out the diagonal pattern for the dark lilac paper to show more. I do not know the designer papers we used as they were out of them at SC. I am sure that the solid was Bazzill cardstock.

That should do us for the day! I did get the new Afternoon Tea papers by SU today. They are so pretty! So come on back soon to see some cards made with those.

Another shot in the eye!

Barry got a second shot in his left eye this past Monday. Today, riding down the road in the car, he was able to read the doctor's report to me! A wonderful improvement in the left eye but the right eye is the same or worse. He is 20/50 in the left eye and 20/300 in the right. He is able to read because of the improvement in the left eye and with the help of glasses. Your prayers are helping, I know! Thanks a ton.
We made a beautiful card today at Scrapbook Creations in Spartanburg. They offer a free make-n-take every Wednesday morning from 10 'til 12. I will post it tomorrow so you can check it out. I also plan to remake it with the great new SU papers that I picked up from http://www.stampinsusan.com/ today.
See ya tomorrow!