OH My another great mail day … I  received  D Sparks  cards  ..YAHOO!  so many Great  cards .. Thank you so Much  D!!

So are you all  enjoying the  samples I have been sharing  from everyones  cards they sent in .. every  single card I  recieved  is soooo beautiful . My hubby’s  portable Hallmark store over there will be  better than any  Hallmark store here in the US thats for sure ..  Thank you  everyone ..  Its not to late to join in   you have until May 1st to get in on the blog candy give a way BUT  I will be accepting  cards for troops all year long  since I will be  doing lots of mailing to  hubby  so Keep them coming  ..   

I also received  some  cards from my  Momma  yesterday .. Seems she  was in a cleaning mood  this past weekend  and  is cleaning out  her  back  bedroom  for me to  sleep there in case I need  to after  my knee surgery .. she is the Bestest Mom .. Richard called yesterday out of the blue .. That was  awesome ..  Richard  still has not  received  any mail  That I have sent yet ..But  Wednesday and Thursday Jessie and I started to receive  His mail so  I hope  he  starts  getting our mail  even though it seems like we talk about everything  that we write each  other Its just something about getting a card/ letter in the mail KWIM?  Rich sent  Jessie  some  money he had  got over  there  and she  was sooo excited about it and couldn’t wait to show everyone at Church and at school  what her dad  sent her .. money exchange over there seems  to be  $3.56 Iraq to $1.00  US Thats if I remember right  since Jessie  took the letter  so Fast   and I have no clue where it is .. But thats  what I remember of it  anyway ..Rich had been  working nights over there  now ( his thoughts  was that he wanted to be up when  me and Jessie   are  up and and about with our day  too .. so sweet )  Rich  told me   he was on  call  all night Monday  because a Marine Corp  was Hit with a IED bomb  right out side his  Base gate  and Rich said he was on stand by all night at the hospital  for the  doctors  with the  generators , lights  etc.. Just in case anything went  out  during the time to help this Marine ..  The Marine  corp  was alive when Rich  left his shift  But lost both his legs  and they were getting ready to fly  this  Marine to Germany  Once they got him stable .. Just Terrible I tell ya  what  these men and women are facing every day over there .. I think this is why I am SO  excited  about getting these cards  over there  for all of them ..  Such a small piece of  home  and for a Brief moment  to  let them forget  whats happening over there Ya know ?   I also made a few more cards for the HUGE  bunch to  go  I made  a few of these Lady Bug cards  last night ..  Kinda reminds me of my  Honey Shadow box I think so  But of course with lady bugs .. Funny  thing  Rich has  always  called me HIS LADY!!  so maybe that was the base of my Creativity with this  card idea  I  don’t know..  I Sure Am Missing him !!

The Lady Bug Card I used  the  all wrapped up  stamp set for the  Jar and the  Lady bugs came  in the All wrapped up accessories .. Can you see the  tiny  small Red  stickles glitter dots ..( wow  say that  10 times fast )  I even touched a  small dot on the lady bugs backs  too .. I used my Karen Foster  snap stamps  for the "I love my Lady "   I also cut out the  lid and propped it up  against the jar  and added a red  gingham  bow.. Pretty simple card  really adding the glitter   dots with the stickles was  the  trickiest since I didn’t want to squeeze to much out and  get a Big BLOB  KWIM?

Things that make you  go HUMMMMMM

Why is it  Vanilla Ice  cream  white  when  Vanilla  extract is  Brown ??   HUMMMM

Why is Charlie short for Charles  when they both have the same  number of letters ?? HUMMMMMM

Have a Fantastic Friday !!

P.S ENABLER  ALERT!!  Joanne has a 50% coupon   until tomorrow  the 21st …

Until later … Happy Stampin!!