Operation Julie's Smile!

this is my post 2 of 2 for today...please click HERE for my Flashback Friday 16.0 post!


Hello and Welcome to the Operation Julie's Smile Blog Hop!  This is a Ginormous blog hop so if there is a break somewhere in the chain, bear with us.  A complete list of blogs participating in the hop is posted on the Sweet Stamp Shop Blog!

You should have arrived here from Sheri Gilson's blog:

Paper Crafty's Creations

The creative blogging community is coming together this weekend to help one of our friends, Julie Ranae.  You may know her as the Design Team Coordinator for many wonderful companies from bakers twine, die cuts, rubber stamps and more.  What many people don't know about Julie Ranae is that she has had some pretty major dental surgeries in her lifetime due to medication she had to take as a child.  It was in her plans to think about having all of her teeth  replaced at some point in the next 5 years, a decision that was pretty easy to plan out.  But then it happened…she chipped her front teeth on a weekend a month ago. The dentist told her there was no way to save them & that it was his recommendation that she give in and have them all her teeth removed soon, but for that day, they needed to get her front teeth done so her gums could begin to heal. He said he would 'work out payments with her to have ALL this work done...but when she called to make her appointment for the first step of impressions, they told her the amount of money that was needed and that the 'payments' applied only to the two teeth that were extracted that day. Her husband Paul was with her and that too, was his understanding as well. So this is how she has found herself in this situation…Needing at least $4000 to get started and another $3000 to finish the process…a total of $7000.

Nicole Rixon, owner of Sweet Stamp Shop, put together this benefit after finding out about the situation.  It is the goal of all of these friends and sponsors to help make this situation more manageable for our friend so that she can share a brand new smile with all of us soon.

If there is anything you can do to help with a financial donations there is a donation button ready for you to click {see my side bar}.  Any amount is appreciated and ALL DONATIONS will be eligible for prizes from the sponsor pool of over $2,500!

Prizes will be drawn for the following:

1. from blog comments left

2. From Paypal donation list

3. For Blog Hop Hosts

Okay, I decided to do a card that uses The Craft's Meow stamps...Julie and I are both on the Design Team AND The Craft's Meow is participating in today's blog hop!!!

Here's my first card:

recipe

What's not to love about this fun{tache}tic stamp set?!!!!

I was inspired by the latest Card Patterns sketch:

Here's another one using the same set:

recipe

Now hop on over to the FAB Laurel Beard's blog:

Paper Crafts by Laurel

Make sure you leave a comment here before you go so that you can have a chance at the amazing prizes up for grabs and if you can, please make a donation {on my side bar} so we can help bring back a new smile for Julie!