yeah... all six "Be Merry" Santa Claus Christmas cards are done.

I finished the other five with an hour and one minute to spare.. yeah! These were fun to make.. next month I won't wait till the last minute.. I can't, the packers will be here the last day of the month, so I have to have them done early.

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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

Be Merry... trying to get my Christmas cards done for the challenge

The clock is ticking... 1 hr and 40 minutes left to get 5 more cards done.. among other things I need to get done in that short of time.. some things I can't say because I'd be letting the cat out of the bag for some... this is one of six.. the next five to follow. I've already, stamped, cut, punched, etc.. all I have to do is tie the bows and put them on the cards.. that's all.

Supplies on this card:
card stock: Stampin' UP! Garden Green, More Mustard, Cherry Cobbler, Confetti White
Basic Grey Fruitcake pattern paper
Stamp: Tim Holtz Santa, Stampin' UP! Warm Words
Punches: Stampin' UP small and medium ovals
Ribbon: Stampin' UP! Riding Hood Red Taffeta... love this stuff!
and of course... Dimensionals from Stampin' UP! my favorite item in their entire catalog hands down.


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... another "OH SNAP!" card...

After dinner I was helping Jackson with a project for school and then I spotted the rest of this beautiful striped paper laying on my stamping desk, and thought I'd make another card. After I put this together, I noticed that the camera looks like I stamped it a big off tilt.. oh well!

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

"OH SNAP!"... fun camera card!

Wouldn't this be a fun "sorry I missed your birthday" card??? I used some bright colors on this one.. and I really like the way it turned out.

Stamps are Unity Stamp Co.

Cardstock Stampin' UP!

Pattern Paper Scenic Route Metropolis/Main Street

Rhinestones $1.00 from ACM.

Punches Stampin' UP! circle punches

Ribbon Stampin' UP!

Embossing folder Seeing Spots Cuttlebug

Markers Copic

Ink Memento Black

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.... Thank you HERO... You make America proud.

The challenge on the OWH Stars & Stamps site this week is an Any Hero challenge..

make some cards for Heroes.... Here is the link where you can go and get this digi for FREE...

THANK YOU, HERO.... YOU MAKE AMERICA PROUD.

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

OWH Sketch #66 Challenge "YOU MAKE MY HEART FLUTTER"

The card I just made it one of those cards that I made.. and after I did, I wished I had changed things... I think it's my paper choices.. and that River Rock panel, I wish I had embossed before putting it all together.. oh well.. it's done, not my favorite, but a card for a deployed military member to send to their loved one to let them know that they make their heart flutter.....

I used the Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps site sketch challenge #66 for this card:

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

... another masculine card using Serengeti.. Elephants

I thought I had used all the pattern paper up.. then I seen a piece laying in my never ending box of paper (love it.. thanks B.)... and made another card using the elephants from the retired Stampin' UP! set Serengeti. Same supplies as the other cards.


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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

.. three more MASCULINE themed cards...

Since I already had card stock cut.. I thought I'd go ahead and make some more "masculine" themed cards. I used the same card stock, layout, punches, etc.. just changed the main image.
supplies on this card: Stampin' UP! Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Confetti White card stock.
Pattern paper: My Mind's Eye 29th Market Place silly stripes
Stampin' UP! punches: large oval, tag punch and medium oval
Dimensionals
Brads, paper piercer
stamp set: Stampin' UP! The Back Nine (retired)



supplies on this card: Stampin' UP! Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Confetti White card stock.
Pattern paper: My Mind's Eye 29th Market Place silly stripes
Stampin' UP! punches: large oval, tag punch and medium oval
Dimensionals
Brads, paper piercer
stamp set: Stampin' UP! Angler (retired)



supplies on this card: Stampin' UP! Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Confetti White card stock.
Pattern paper: My Mind's Eye 29th Market Place silly stripes
Stampin' UP! punches: large oval, tag punch and medium oval
Dimensionals
Brads, paper piercer
stamp set: Stampin' UP! For Father

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

OWH FB card challenge.. theme "masculine"

Here's my "masculine" themed card for the OWH FB card challenge:


Supplies used on this card:

Stampin' UP! card stock: Cajun Craze, Early Espresso
Watercolor paper
Stampin' UP! punches: oval, tag punch
ink: memento brown
distress tool: Heidi Swapp
pattern paper: My Mind's Eye 29th Street Market Silly Stripes
Stampin' UP! Twill
Brads, paper piercer

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

OWH FB card challenge.. "weather" card..

I made this card for the OWH FB card challenge.. the theme was "weather".. here is my card:



Supplies used for this card:
word window punch from Stampin' UP!
Stampin' UP! card stock: Taken with Teal, Kiwi Kiss
watercolor paper
wide grossgrain Stampin' UP! ribbon
pattern paper: Scenic Route Metroplis
stamp: Inkadinkado $1. stamp
Dimensionals
markers

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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

a couple of OWH FB challenge cards.. Food & Ruffly dress

Today on the OWH Facebook page there are some challenges going on.. one is to make a card with the theme as "food" and the second was to draw inspiration from a dress that a little girl had on with lot of ruffles. Here are my two cards:




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.. six "LOVE YOU" cards in shades of green and brown

I made some "love you" cards the other day in shades of pink and burgundy.. but my ink pad wasn't very "inky" and so tonight I thought I'd try the same layout/cards, using different colors.. this is what I came up with... I ended up making six of these cards.

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

15 more dog photo cards.. assorted sentiments

I made 15 more cards using photos from the book I got yesterday. I am going to take a break from these cards and make some more "love you" cards.. happy stamping!

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

22 cards completed using the Dog photos from book...

I have completed 22 cards tonight/early morning.. they sure are fun to make. I'll make some more tomorrow.. happy day ahead to all!!
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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

.... some fun cards with photos from a book.

I picked up a book today at a thrift store for .25 cents. Each page is full photo in black and white of "dogs".. I immediately knew I wanted to use the pictures on cards. I colored in a little bit of each picture with a Copic marker and layered it with a coordinating color. I have a whole bunch more to make.. this is the first three that I've made tonight.

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

3 ~ "LOVE YOU" cards....

Here's a set of three quick cards I just made. I seen this layout on a card in the SCS gallery yesterday and had left a comment telling the card maker that I was going to be making some myself. I added eyelets (I have many and am SO happy to use some up) and the sentiment in an oval punch layered on a scallop oval and turned the to layer at an angle.


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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

ahhhhhh.... Serene Spring layered card using OWH tutorial

I seen a tutorial on the OWH Stars & Stamps site and thought I'd give it a try. I seen this done a while back on Sherry Cheevers blog using printed images.. but since I never hooked up either of my photo printers since I moved here 2.5 years ago.. what a shame, two really nice HP Photosmart photo printers and I upload and get my photos printed at Walgreen's.

I used a sketch challenge layout from OWH.. it was a Bonus Sketch:

Anyways... I thought I'd try it.. and midways through the coloring I wondered what in the world I was thinking choosing to go this route.. ha ha.. I like the end product.. not sure if it's too thick to be mailed (for deployed military to mail).. but we'll see.. I'm sure it'll get tucked in an envelope and make it through just fine.

I used Stampin' UP! Serene Spring.. one of my all time favorite Stampin' UP! images. I messed up on my bird..but I still like it.

supplies: Bravo Burgundy, Basic Black, Gray paper that I got at a local printer, Watercolor Paper, Tombow Markers, Mounting Tape, Black Brads, Paper hole punch, embossing folder, Grand Calibur, Nestabilities, Water Brush, Daisy D's Maybe Baby Collection pattern paper, script stamp is from Stampin' UP! Botanicals stamp set.
some more views of the layering:

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here's my OWH sketch card

I am not sure of the sketch number... I'm working via a phone. This is my card for the challenge. UPDATE: Internet has been restored, so I can post more info about this card. I was asked about what stamps were used. These are from a Tim Holtz Purely Random set. I used Soft Suede, Night of Navy and white card stock. Blue and brown Distress ink. Night of Navy Taffeta Ribbon.

Sketch Challenge #65




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