Operation Julie's Smile Benefit Blog Hop

Welcome to the Operation Julie's Smile Blog Hop. You may know the wonderful Julie and her story but in case you do not here is the story behind this fabulous hop and benefit:

“The creative blogging community is coming together this weekend to help one of our friends, Julie Ranae. You may know her as the Design Team Coordinator for many wonderful companies from bakers twine, die cuts, rubber stamps and more. What many people don’t know about Julie Ranae is that she has had some pretty major dental surgeries in her lifetime due to medication she had to take as a child. It was in her plans to think about having all of her teeth replaced at some point in the next 5 years, a decision that was pretty easy to plan out. But then it happened…she chipped her front teeth on a weekend a month ago. The dentist told her there was no way to save them & that it was his recommendation that she give in and have them all her teeth removed soon, but for that day, they needed to get her front teeth done so her gums could begin to heal. He said he would 'work out payments with her to have ALL this work done...but when she called to make her appt for the first step of impressions, they told her the amount of money that was needed and that the 'payments' applied only to the two teeth that were extracted that day. Her husband Paul was with her & that too, was his understanding as well. So this is how she has found herself in this situation…Needing at least $4000 to get started and another $3000 to finish the process…a total of $7000.

Nicole Rixon, owner of Sweet Stamp Shop put together this benefit after finding out about this situation and before Julie Ranae knew it, it took flight!

Because she is an event organizer by trade, she has taken on the job of organizing all of the blogs in this hop as her way of ‘working overtime’ for what she needs, the same as if she were able to work overtime at an outside job to pay for the work to be done.

It is the goal of all of these generous friends & sponsors to help make this situation more do-able for our friend so that she can share a brand new smile with all of us soon.

If there is anything you can do to help with a financial donation, there is a donation button ready for you to click. Any amount is appreciated and ALL DONATIONS will be eligible for prizes from our sponsor pool of over $2500.”

DONATE HERE:

If you arrived here from Holly Dixon's blog then you are on the right track for this hop. If you stopped by and would like to start this hop from the top then please head on over to the Sweet Stamp Shop's blog.

Here is a card I created for Queen Kat Designs and it is from the October release!


I also wanted to share one of my "older" {ippity} cards! You may have heard {ippity} just had a new release this week! Check out this post. But let's not forget about all the wonderful {ippity}stamps.

Here is a tag I created using the Now and Always kit by {ippity}



Thanks so much for taking the time to stop on by. I hope that you can make a donation for this benefit.

Be sure to swing on by the next wonderful designer on this hop Sheri Gilson's blog.

Thanks for stopping by!