Don't lose hope

I am so excited to share this wonderful stamp today, this image was created just for me by artist Sandra Caldwell!  It is the cutest hippo with a head injury.  This stamp is called #2010 Holley's Ouch Hippo!  How awesome is that?  I added the perfect sentiment for the occasion "Don't lose hope. You never know what tomorrow may bring."

For me I can say for the last year or two prior to surgery I was so very sick. I was sleeping 10-12 hours a day, barely making it.  Hope was pretty low on my list.  In fact the doctor who sent me to Dr Aboumatar, really should get a lot of credit as she told me she would fix me....I literally laughed when she said that.  After a year of working with me, she sent me to Dr Aboumatar and my life changed pretty instantly.

Consider the question of the day: do you have a die cut machine? Be sure an leave a comment today, winners will be picked from among those who comment below.  Those who comment below is separate random drawing contest from the "CONTEST OF THE MONTH" project making contest which will have a bunch of winners selected.

CONTEST OF THE MONTH--there's only one contest this month, here it is!!  these prizes are in addition to all the goodies you will already get :)  You know you want to play with us! Join in!

So now on to a contest that will be going this month!  It's a fun card making (or any type of project, ATC, bookmarks,....anything handmade).  Sandra has put 4 awesome images on sale for the contest!  It's a HIP HIP HIPPO Celebration!   Create any card theme card you like. You can enter up to 4 times, once per image.  There will be a bunch of prizes, 2 prizes (one from Sandra, one from me) overall so across the 4 groups will get digis from Sandra's store!  PLUS 1 prize in each digi group (i.e. one winner will be chosen from each of the entries per image) will win a die cutter (one I will pick special for you, or if you have no die cut machine, I will substitute a rubber stamp);


The four stamp choices which Sandra Caldwell has put on sale are (click on each name to see the stamp in her store)
2010 Holleys Ouch Hippo
1712 Doctor Hippo
1592 Ballerina Hippo
2036 Bunny Hippo

You can enter one project for every image.  That makes a total of 4 projects if you use each image available.  The theme is anything goes .... there are prizes for each image and prizes overall...so more than 6 prizes available for this contest!  Enter ALL your creations here, you may enter a card with each image once, as each image will have it's own prize, as well as an overall prize. IF you don't have a blog or an account to put your file in simply send me your creation at htondre@aol.com


NOTE:  If you didn't leave comment on Feb 1st,  please go back and do so as winners will get picked from there everyday! CLICK HERE.