With Heartfelt Sympathy

Todays post comes with a heavy heart. I made this card for first time parents and friends John & Danielle, who are grieving the loss of their precious baby boy Nathanial.

Nathanial was born prematurly on May 27th with congenital heart disease and some other complications. Nathanial and his Mommy and Daddy spent most of his life in the NICU in Toronto Sick Kids Hospital. Nathanial caught a virus and was put on a respirator on July 6th and taken off of life support on July 18th and was able to go home for the first time. Nathanial (along with Mommy & Daddy) had a lot of "firsts" like a buggy ride, a walk to the park, meet his puppy, sleep in his own bed, attend church and be close to his entire family.

Nathanial lived 5 weeks and 4 days off of life support and went home to be with Jesus on August 26, 2009.

I am convinced God had a plan for Nathanial and that Nathanial has completed His work. Nathanial has touched so many hearts and we saw God's hand at work.

Nathanial recieved the best care from doctors and nurses in the NICU and was given so many nick names; he was a fighter for sure. Nathanial left the doctors puzzled and amazed that such a tiny little body could endure so much pain.

Today at the funeral service, a celebration of his life, Danielle expressed that her little man had taught her more in such a short time than she could have learned in a life time.

Nathanial, you have blessed so many.

Love and Prays for you John & Danielle.

Orange You Glad Take Three

Ok this is the last of my orange cards for a little while.
I made three cards to send in to Stampin' Up! to better my chances of winning using as much orange as possible. All three cards used the stamp set Thoughts and Prayers and the Sweet Always Designer Paper. I also used as much orange embellishments as possible too.
I bet you are wondering if I won anything aren't you? No I did not win, I don't even know what the winner received. It didn't matter what the prize was, I just wanted to enter and try to win. Of coarse I was disappointed...after all did you see how many corduroy buttons I gave away!?

Orange You Glad Take Two

You are probably wondering with the title why on earth I made another orange card right?!
As a demonstrator, I receive a monthly publication called "Stampin' Success" and each month there are contests and you guessed it, I entered a contest.
The contest was "Orange You Glad" and I had to use orange. If you remember yesterday I said I like pink so this is a great way to incorporate my favourite colour with the orange by using the Sweet Always DP (which is retiring at the end of this month).

Orange You Glad Take One

Orange is typically not a colour I gravitate to unless of coarse it is Halloween or Thanksgiving. It's not that I don't like it, I just really like pink better! So you can imagine when Sweet Always came out, I had a reason to include orange into my projects.
Sadly, this designer paper will be retiring at the end of the month. This is why I have a surplus of retired designer paper on my shelf...I like it and want to keep it so that when it retires I still have some. Then SU! comes out with new product and I want to use it and never go back to the retired stuff and my pile of designer paper grows. Does this make sense? Is there anyone else out there that does the same thing?
Recipe:
Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers
Paper: Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Sweet Always DP
Ink: Pumpkin Pie
Embellishments: Felt Fushion, Corduroy Buttons (both in Pumpkin Pie), Linen Thread