Reason to party

One of my best friends is celebrating with her husband that he is still alive!  Not let me explain.  Last year, just after Labor Day, her husband suffered a massive heart attack and was not expected to survive.  Since then, he has controlled his diabetes which was diagnosed at the time of his heart attack, had a pacemaker placed, and now has an ejection fraction of 30%.  He worked for the railroad for many years, and I noticed that he had been losing weight and I thought he "just didn't look right".  I was concerned that he was diabetic since I am a nurse and have had diabetes since the age of 11 so I sent him a train card that I made in February urging him to see a doctor.  When I went to visit him after his heart attack, the first thing he said is, "You were right, I should I gone to the doctor sooner."  The other night he commented that he has now seen the doctor plenty.  I laughed and told him he wasn't suppose to make up for all those missed years in one year.  To celebrate his one year post heart attack anniversary and his upcoming birthday, I made him a card using Mo's image "The engineer" along with the sentiment from TLC, Create.  Mo's Challenge is for "B" so I used a black bow, blue bibs and bitty buttons on my card so it was BB.  I guess there is a bandanna on the engineer also.

For my second card, I used an image from Paulette's latest club from TLC, Create.  She has another club before the Christmas one that will begin October 24 thru October 28th.  It is called the In Between Club and check it out here.  The Christmas Club will start November 3rd and watch for more details.

Patterned Paper:  Simply Stories; Sweet Shoppe - Little Steam Engine & Naturally Merry
Cardstock:  Bazzil & Recollection
Stamp:  Mo Manning - The Engineer
Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Never to old to Party
Border Punch:  Fiskars
Spellbinders:  Label #22
Buttons:  Dress It Up
Ribbon:  Offray

Challenges
Sketch Saturday - Sketch #229
Mo Manning - B
Do You Stack Up - Challenge 93 Wheels     http://doyoustackup.blogspot.ca/

Patterned Paper:  Sweet Shoppe - Every Day Autumn

Cardstock:  Bazzil & Core-dinations

Stamp:  TLC, Create - It's Turkey Time

Spellbinders:  Small Circle, Eyelet Circle

Die Cuts: My Favorite Things

              Acorn - Quic Kutz

Twine: Stash

Thread: stash

Challenges

Mojo - Sketch 263

Scrap Creation - leaves  http://www.scrap-creations1.blogspot.com/