Please Help Little Lauryn!

       I would like to invite you all to join me and several other craft friends who have put together a "Card Drive" in the form of a blog hop that will take place on Monday, April 14th, all for a sweet little 2 year old girl, "Lauryn" who was just diagnosed with Leukemia and is now hospitalized and undergoing treatment.    A blog called "Lots of Love for Lauryn" has been created where you can also read about her story.  Lauryn, is also the Grand-Daughter of Linda Payne, who you may know from her blog - Payne Holler Cards or from one of the many groups and design teams that Linda is part of!    I had the pleasure of meeting Linda, and her daughter (Jennifer), who is Lauryn's Aunt, when I traveling to Baltimore, for The Outlawz Girls Retreat Weekend, back in May of 2012.   It just breaks my heart to think of how hard this must be for this dear family and I wanted to do whatever I could to help support them.  

    I hope you all will take a moment to read about sweet Lauryn's story and to help her and her family in ANY way that you can.   We want Lauryn's hospital room walls to be decorated with hundreds of wonderful handmade cards and creations to help brighten each day.   Her family is very much trying to make her hospital room, look more like her bedroom and to make it a very comfortable place for her.  You can keep up to date on her treatments and what the family is doing, by following her Facebook Page "Fight One Little Lauryn" and we also ask for you to pray for her and her family, as they begin this long journey towards remission.  Another goal is to help raise funds for her medical care along with the costs of the family being away from their home, to be with her.   This is a wonderful caring and loving family who our help and support.    We are very grateful to all those who have already donated to the family, to the artists who have generously donated the talent and gifted us digital images we are offering for donations, and to those who have donated a prize for the blog hop.    We hope that every card-maker will make a card and send it off and keep them coming.   The hospital address and more details are all on the blog HERE!!   Please share and please keep those cards coming!

    We appreciate you kindness and generosity and any and all help will be greatly appreciated.    We are also thankful to those who have donated prizes for the blog hop and continue to look for more donations for this dear family.   We know that the craft community can be very generous and we are looking to you now to share that generosity with this family.   Feel free to leave me a comment, if you would like to help us!  Thank you!!   

   I sent off my first card and a little "care" package to Lauryn and her family this week.  This is a little wall decoration that I made with one of the fabulous "Sentiment Circles"  that "Claire Keay" of JellyPark, donated on her behalf.   It's one of the images you too can purchase, by donating on Lauryn's blog -- please go HERE to see the other images.   

Lauryn's Card

   After reading on her Facebook page about her love of Princesses, I thought that she needed to have her very own little "Princess Lauryn" crown and I used my Silhouette to create this one, which I hope she'll like!  

   I already have a few more cards done and will try to keep them going out every few days.  I do HOPE you'll be inspired to make something cute and help us do something kind for this wonderful family.   Thanks for stopping by and please get to work on those cards!