Ebay auction for my buddy Luke

I have posted about my little buddy Luke before.

You can read about his card drive here and his story here.

But to quickly summarize...

On New Year's Eve he suffered a 30 minute seizure caused from Spinal Meningitis. He has been in the hospital or inpatient rehab ever since. He has loss of movement on his left side, uncontrolled movement on his right side, loss of speech and swelling on his brain. Recently he had some setbacks and is now back in the hospital again.

Luke just turned 6 years old yesterday. We lived across the street from Luke for about 4 years and he was one of my son's best friends.

He will be transferred to Mayo in Rochester, MN in a few weeks (which will not be covered by his insurance).

A friend of ours is hosting an Ebay Auction to raise funds for Luke's growing medical expenses (plus the cost of plane tickets and housing while in Minnesota).

I have donated 4 $50 gift certificates to the auction

I have also donated a new/in-box Stampin' Up Color Caddy as well...

If you are interested in getting a great discount on the gift certificates or if you are in need of a SU color caddy, you can go to Ebay and see the items for Auction for Luke here...

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m570&_nkw=auction+for+Luke

I will probably have more items to add later. But those were items I was quickly able to provide for the Auction.

If you would like to just donate money to Luke and his family, you can send me a paypal payment using my paypal email address at laceysoliving@bellsouth.net - just write in a comment that it is a donation for Luke and I will give 100% off the donation to Luke's family.

It just breaks my heart! There were no warning signs...one moment he was fine, then the next he was seizing and has not been the same since. Luke is a BRILLIANT boy (at the age of 5 1/2 years old he read the novel "The Chronicles of Narnia"!! My 6 year old is still learning how to sound out the words he reads!!). Luke also plays the violin - even playing for the former First Lady once.

Thank you so much for your help.

Product Spotlight Belles 'n Whistles

Welcome back to Stamp and Create!

I hope you all are having a LOVELY Valentine's Day filled with lots of Chocolate and time with your special someone!

I received two orders over the weekend, so make sure to scroll down for yesterday's post if you missed it.

Also, I received notice that my Stampavie CHA order is shipping out today. It should arrive in a few days. Pre-Orders will ship out first.

And now it's time for this week's Product Spotlight.

For this week, all Belles 'n Whistles stamps are on sale 25% off!!

These may be the cutest stamps ever!!

Here are the awesome DT samples...

Joy

Joy used the stamp called CUPCAKE from Belles 'n Whistles. She decided to make a slider pop-up card for a friend's birthday. She used her label seventeen & classic large oval nesties, cuttlebug embossing folder, flowers, bling, sparkle spray and a few sentiments.
here's what the card looks like once it's popped up.

Lacey

Lacey created this card for Luke's mom (you can read about the card drive here).

I used Belles 'n Whistles A Child's Prayer along with some Basic Grey Nook and Pantry DP, and Tim Holtz Adage Tickets.

Heidi

Heidi used Belles 'n Whistles Tea Time. The sentiment if from Friendship Ticket sentiments by Whimsey and is cut using the Whimsy Ticket Die. She used Basic Grey Capella Paper, May Arts Ivory Satin Pleats Ribbon and Trimming, a large Prima Tropocale Liliput Rose , small poppyfield Prima- Fairytale Roses, and two Large Half Round Headpins with some added pearls.

Vicky

Vicky has used Kitty Love with Lilac Avenue papers by Kaisercraft. The ambesslishements are Cluny lace, love charm, green half pearls.

Chris (Oh my, this is awesome)

Chris created this watering can gift holder with Watering illustrated by Elizabeth Bell for Belles n Whistles. She also used the Love charm and bow easy available in the store.

Don't forget about our Monthly Challenge!!

Happy stamping and shopping!

Wags 'n Whiskers restock & new CC Designs

Welcome back to Stamp and Create.

I received the new CC Designs and restocks this weekend...

This release includes a new Die set with coordinating stamp set...

Plus, I brought in the Sweet November Baby Bunny stamps from last year...

I also received a restock of the Wags 'n Whiskers Fairies #1 release...

We will be back tomorrow with the new Product Spotlight post.

Happy stamping and shopping!

New Whiff of Joy & Flower Fairies now shipping

Welcome back to Stamp and Create.

The new Whiff of Joy Ben and Nora stamps arrived and are now shipping...

Jeanette created this adorable card using Nora with Spring Birds and some ruffled lace to border the image.

I have also received the larger sets of the Flower Fairies by Crafter's Companion...

The smaller sets are on back order and should arrive some time next week. I did receive a few Christmas Tree and Holly smaller sets.

Don't forget about our Love/Valentine's Day Sale

And our Monthy Challenge

Happy stamping and shopping!!

Challenge: Love

Welcome back to Stamp and Create!!

We are back after taking some time off with our challenges!!

This Month's challenge is: Love

The prize is:

**You are welcome to use any stamp for our challenges, but please make sure to adhere to the challenge theme and mention our challenge in your post**

If you are looking for this week's Product Spotlight, click here.

Now here are the design teams take on the love theme...

Chris

Chris used the adorable image Steal a Kiss from Wags N Whiskers illustrated by Crissy Armstrong from the Kidz 'n Paws Collection. This stamp is available as a digi or rubber stamp. She also usedlight blue silk ribbon from May Arts and the bow easy.

Vicky

Vicky has used Melinda blowing kisses, coloured in copics. The paper is Kaiser Kraft lilac Avenue, a love charm has been added. The lace is of course cluny lace and the grosgrain ribbon has been bowed using the bow easy.

Jeanette

Jeanette has used Sweet November's Arabella which is colored with Copic Markers. She used Whimsy's music notes background stamp as well as their friendship ticket sentiments and ticket shapeology die. The bow was created with the Bow Easy.

Heidi

Heidi used four images out of the Penny Black Every Which Way set. She also used Whimsy sentiment and ticket die, May Arts Light Pink Satin Pleats Ribbon, pink satin pleats trimming, Heart Flower Spacers, a Love Charm, Cotton Candy Stickles and Basic Grey Sugar Rush Paper.

Lacey

Lacey used Sweet November A Bunch of Love stamp along with Basic Grey's Olivia DP, Basic Grey Heart, Kaisercraft Rhinestones, Prima flowers, and Polka Dot Ribbon.

Product Spotlight: Love/Valentine's Day week 2

We are back this week with week 2 of the Love/Valentine's Day Product Spotlight.

All stamps in the Love/Valentine's Day category are 25% off through Sunday.

It's also time for a new challenge!!

Check out the new challenge to see all of the DT's "Love" samples.

Also, quick reminder that the Stampavie new release are now available for pre-order!

Also, a Sweet Pea restock order arrived this weekend along with some new designs as well.

I also received a restock of The Bow Easy.

Since they sold out quickly during the Product Spotlight week, I will keep them on sale through the end of today.

Lastly, the new CC Designs are on order and I hope they will arrive soon.

Don't forget to check out the new challenge!!

Happy stamping and shopping!

Fairytale princesses

Vicky has used Swan Princess by Kraftin Kimmie, Utopia paper by Kaisercraft and a flower charm and white pearls.