Made a baby card and was so upset with myself afterwards

Yesterday morning I got an email from my husband telling me that the wife of one of his soldiers had went into labor, her due date wasn't for another week or more. The solider was already sent out of Iraq on emergency leave... then, I get another a short time later telling me that she had the baby, and he asked me if I could make a card and take it and a gift from the two of us up to her.

I made the card and afterwards was so upset with myself because I had gotten some black ink on the ribbon that was already ahered to the card.. uggghhh!! I had gotten in injection in my shoulder yesterday and my hand was as good as rubber and I didn't realize that I had ink on my hand and it touched the ribbon. I said that I would just apologize for it when I got there. I grabbed two boxes of baby wipes and wrapped them up like a pretty present in some beautiful white ribbon with a bow on top, then grabbed the card, printed off the email so I knew who I was going to see and then on my way out of through the garage I grabbed a bag of Luv's diapers.. off we went to the hospital. She loved the card and the gifts, I apologized for my gimpy hand/arm.. she didn't care, she was glad that we had came. The kids were so good too.. I was so proud of them being so quite and polite. Her husband didn't make it in yesterday, but he is probably home by today.

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God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

more St. Patty's Day cards.. added the wheel to them now!

I cut up every piece of Green Galore and Gable Green.. so I had to get into another green color and used some Certainly Celery. I am going to be out of green cardstock before I get all the cards made that I would like. I did make some in purple the other day (didn't take pictures of them) ~ but I do like the green card base better.

I added the SU jumbo wheel and can't remember the name of it.. but it's St. Patrick's Day themed.

I used some Old Olive ink because that is the only "green" jumbo cartridge that I had. I lined up one of the dvd style boxes that the new unmounted Stampin' UP! stamps come in about halfway on the card base and used it as a guide for the wheel and wheeled it on.

NOTE: please disregard the messy grid paper that is below the cards.. I have a brand new paper pack and just haven't managed to get it the five feet or so from the table in the middle of the room to my desk! ha ha

I put together 5 cards and will finish them tomorrow. It's nearly 10:30 and I am getting tired.

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"Welcome Baby" card for newest additon to Battalion

One of the families in the battalion has a new member to their family.. a baby boy!
I made this card for the company to give to the soldiers family. I seen a card made by JennD and liked the layout so much that I used it with this card.


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some progress made... UPDATED: *53* cards completed so far

I had to lay off the cardmaking for a few days.. my right shoulder has been giving me lots of problems (nerve damage and very painful) ~ last night/this morning it kept me up till after 3 am. I am going to have to go back to the doctor and request another shot in that shoulder. The only way I could fall asleep was to take a very strong pain pill, put a fleece blanket around my shoulder to keep it as warm as possible and cushioned and sleep in a somewhat upright position.. I think once the pain med kicked in, I must've fell asleep because I was so tired. Very scary when you are alone and not really sure what's going on.

I did work on some cards this morning/afternoon.. I already had everything stamped, cut, scored, etc.. I just needed to assemble. I will need to do more stamping, so I'll wait till later to do that and give my arm a little rest. I hope that the soldiers who receive these, enjoy sending them to their families and friends.

UPDATED: After posting this, I decided to put some more cards together and got 13 more done, then did another 9..... on a roll!

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...... st. patrick's day cards .......

While the kids were eating the snacks I made them after they got home from school, I went about making these cute cards. I seen a card on SCS by you betcha! and thought it was one I could put together quickly. I made these four in about 30 minutes, the only time consuming part is the film strip edge.. I might pick up a border punch by Fiskars when we go into town here shortly, I have a half-off coupon for Michael's but can use it at other stores except Hobby Lobby.. I'm not sure who has it, but I know I've seen it.. oh, it might be EK Success brand. I could punch more than two little notches at at time that way.


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more.. St. Patrick's Day Cards for soldiers families/friends

I made 5 cards just like this today:

I'm not sure how many more I will make.. they are not hard at all and not really time consuming, but the sizzix die when cutting more than two envelopes at a time actually is cutting on the crease lines, so that part might be time consuming only being able to do two at a time .. when I plan to make many. I'm happy though.. I have 10 cards completed so far.. I guess if I do 5 at a time it won't be too long till I fill the box.. I do not really like making the same card over and over again, so it's a good thing mixing things up every so many cards.

I cut the shamrock out using a Cricut Paper Dolls Dress Up cartridge.. I have the bags, boxes and tags (I'm sure that's not the correct name!) and Plantin Schoolbook that have envelopes on them.. so I'll check them out for the envelope.. or I might just double layer the leprechaun at an angle in that left corner.

I have these to add to the box.


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Starting on my next round of cards for soldiers ~ St. Patrick's Day Cards ~

The box of Valentine's Day cards that I sent to my husband for the soldiers in his company arrived in Iraq last week. My husband said that by the next day there was hardly any left. I am glad that the soldiers are going to be using them to send to their friends and family.. Steve even said "honey, you'll be getting one, because I'm sending one to you!" ~ that's what their for.

Tonight I started working on St. Patrick's Day cards. I want to get these done and off to Iraq, so I can spend more time on Easter cards and then Mother's Day... and if I can pull it off.. I might make Father's Day cards so that they can receive them there in Iraq and get them off in the mail to their dad's.. they will be returning the end of May and this way they won't have to worry about going out and finding a card and getting it in the mail on time. I'll pace myself, but am hoping to be able to get this done. I am going to be making cards for a unit in Afghanistan as well, so I am going to be busy, busy!

These are some of the cards I made tonight.. the first card in the lower left corner, I do not like at all. My Glorious Green pad needed to be reinked and I didn't like the way it was stamping, so I went to using a different color scheme and like it, so I'll be doing more of them. I need to punch something with my scallop punch to sharpen it up, it's punching sloppy. I need to order some more green cardstock. I just opened the Green Galore and Gable Green packs tonight, but I need lots of cards and one pack of each won't cut it.


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God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them