It's a Hero Hip Hop!

We are focusing on our heroes this week.

 With a bit of a patriotic slant, today's focus on my blog was an easy one. 

This is my husband, Ben. 

We have been married almost 17 years. 

In January, he will have spent the last 20 years of his life serving as Active Duty in the Air Force. 

It goes without saying, that I love this man with all my heart, but I am also so proud of him and what he does for our country and for our family.

I won't go into the specifics of his life in the Air Force. 

I will only say that without a doubt, he is my hero. 

I know the sacrifices that he has made. 

He is a good man and a great officer in our military.

{I don't want to get all gushy, so I will end it with that.}

Now for the projects. I wanted to do a card that had a patriotic look, 

but was for DH and this is what I created.... 

I used this week's CPS sketch (#116) for the layout of the card.

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. Stars of Worn Background

*Unity Stamp Co. Another Sweet Day (fleur corner swirl)

*Unity Stamp Co. Fresh Beginnings (i love you sentiment)

*Cosmo Cricket papers (cherries)

*Heidi Grace paper (blue)

*ribbon

*Bazzill Kraft

*memories brown inkpad

*CTMH Cranberry inkpad

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This second project is a double layout. I probably haven't done a double layout in over 5 years, but I wanted to use all these photos and they were already printed at this size so I went with it. This is a layout about Feb 12, 2008... deployment day... the day that Ben left to spend 4+ months in Iraq.

I don't like to look at these photos, but I think that it's important to have it documented for our family history and the kids.

Here is a close-up of the left side. 

Hopefully my blogger and Mac are cooperating together today so that you can click on these to read the journaling. I don't want to re-type it.

Here is the close-up of the right side.

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. Stars of Worn Background

*Unity Stamp Co. Love Etc. (large worn stars)

*Unity Stamp Co. Just My Type alphabet

*Unity Stamp Co. Let's Get Scrappy (date block)

*Creative Imagination Narratives paper

*Making Memories journaling paper

*Bazzill Kraft paper

*Memories brown inkpad

*Marvy Uchida scallop punch

*ribbon

*Zig Writer

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***Natalie's Blog***