For a BEARY good cause!

Happy Canada Day & Happy July 4th to my USA neighbors.
This weekend we are having Canada Day celebrations in our neighboring town.
 This picture is of my kiddos at the parade yesterday collecting candy (Hannah front & center in the striped hoodie, Reade to the right with the sideways hat & Merik in his blue sweater & blue crocs behind Hannah).............
Today we are going to the fair & watching the fireworks! YAY!

Now onto my card:

 

I was touched.....totally & completely touched with a challenge going on at Whimsical Wednesdays, I knew I just had to create a little something for it......more importantly for Angelo, "who is a 15 month old grandson of a fellow blogger who recently had a brain tumor removed & who is currently undergoing chemotherapy". You can read the little blurb on Margie's blog.
This touched a nerve with me as my youngest is 15 months right now & I could just cry thinking about him undergoing surgery & chemo, spending his days in the hospital.
[ below- My son, Merik. 15 months. ]



I immediately knew I wanted to use an image by the Stamp Fairy called Chubby Scarecrow & once I had the image, I remembered the little straw hat embellies I bought ages ago......I quickly sewed it in place after I had my sketch all laid out. I added some real & faux stitching and a heart doily inside & out.

This card will be on it's way to Angelo sometime next week.

I'm off to hug my loved ones........you should too!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Challenges for my card:

Stamp Fairy- teddy bears picnic
Top Tip Tuesday- letter T (Teddy Bear)
Flutterby Wednesdays- open
Stamp Something- digi day
A Spoon Full of Sugar- get well soon
Really Reasonable Ribbons- Picnic/Summer fun Theme
Bearly Mine- summertime

Whimsical Wednesdays-special get well wishes

Sweet Stamps- sketch (see below)

A very busy post! Why not check it out?

The good news:

I won the December challenge at Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges!

I get 5 digital Whimsy images. I'm so excited!

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The Bad news: 

Me & my 10 mnth old have come down with a nasty case of Strep Throat! 

I have had a fever  (on & off) of 38.3 for 3cdays.

He is feeling better with his second day of Antibiotics, I on the other hand am still waiting for them to kick in!

Aches, chills, hot sweats, headaches.....uh,,,,,you name it!

Hubby is limiting my computer time & maximizing my 'bed rest ' time!

But before all this went down I was able to complete the following creation.

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I've recently discovered Stamp Fairy Stamps thru my blogger bud Dora who is on their DT.

Their challenge right now is a blog hop with a recipe challenge with GREAT prizes.

You can see all these fantastic prizes & details on how you can win any of them HERE !

And every Friday they have new releases, check them out HERE!

I decided I HAD to take part in this.

I purchased some of the Stamp Fairy images when they were on sale at 50% off at Christmas time.

This little girl is Nelly.

I decided to make tag with her WITH MY NEW CRICUT MACHINE !!! (woot woot for Christmas)

And as per the challenge requirements, I've used COLOR EXPLOSION COLORS plus 2 DP & 3 embellies (raffia lace, raffia ribbon & gems)

The sentiment you see below is from Bizzy Becs (where; by the way; there is chance to win a SPELLBINDERS GRAND CALIBUR MACHINE [for Australian residents only] --Go check it out for details)

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OH WHAT ABOUT A DT CALL!

At Fairy Fun Friday & at the Prairie Fairy blog you will find the announcement of a DT call

We are looking to add 5 people to fly with the fairies!

Specifically we are looking for scrapbookers- Digital & Traditional- that can use Prairie Fairy images in their layout!

We are NOT discounting card makers. We want to see what you have to offer too, so

If you are interested, go check out all the details at the above links, the Prairie Fairy herself has a freebie supplies specifically for this DT call.

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Finally---

 I found an amazing artist (funny how I always find amazing bloggers I didn't even know were out there)

Her name is Barbara (aka "BA") and she is having a whole lotta candy to give away for her birthday.

It goes until Jan 21.

Check this out!

Whoa! Head over to see what you need to do to get in on this lot!!

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Challenges for my tag:

Stamp Something- Digi Day

Sentimental Sundays- celebrate friendship

Claudia & Company- Tag it With Love

Papetake Weekly- anything goes

Fab'n'Funky- anything goes

Cute Card Thursday- out with the old (I've had these rhinestones since Jesus was a babe)

PaperPlay- CAS

Crafty Sentiments- anything but a card (blog hop)

ABC Christmas- A for anything goes (thanks Samantha!)