Many Thanks for someone special...

Tonight is a farewell dinner for one of the spouses in our brigade. I was asked the other day if I would make a card and they were specifically asking about the Eagle card I had recently made. I said "of course I'd make a card"... so I made this one and it's big.. 5 x 7. Tonight I just made an envelope for it to fit in and stamped on the outside of it as well. There is plenty of room for friends to write greetings inside it for the special someone we are saying goodbye to tonight.
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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

...another 10 Christmas Cards ~ SANTA CLAUS suit cards

I made this set of ten cards rather quickly this afternoon. Now I only need to make twenty more to have myself caught up until August... yeah!

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

all complete.. Have a Holly Jolly Christmas.. 10 cards

I just finished the lot of 10 Christmas cards from earlier.. I decided to go with Very Vanilla ribbon instead of the Riding Hood Red and I embossed the Always Artichoke layer too. I really like the way they turned out. I used some pieces of pattern paper from a Basic Grey paper pad.

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

... getting ready to make 10 Christmas cards

I do a Christmas card challenge each month and my goal is 10 cards. Since we are moving, I've wanted to make the cards to cover me through August and we get settled in in Texas. I am going to make four batches of ten cards and this is my first batch. I am making these card blindly because I have no clue what it will end up looking like.

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

Blog Candy Winner ~ Lori. Please Contact me

I still haven't heard from the Blog Candy Winner Lori. I will draw another name on Friday if I haven't heard from her by then. I still have all the rest of the papers with all the printed out comments.

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

... made more of the cute Giraffe birthday cards

I made 8 more of the Giraffe cards.. the paper was too cute to put down! I used a stamp that says "It's Your Day" on this group.



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

OWH Sketch #69 "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" Giraffe card

I bought a paper stack at a local craft store the other ~ because it was 50% off and because it was SO very adorable!!

I pulled it out and thought I'd use parts of it on some cards.

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

OWH Sketch #69 "LOVE YOU MUCH" card

When Steve was in Iraq and one of the months I made Valentine's Day cards.. I stamped, punched and put together a ton of the "love you much" layers, so I still have a bunch left and thought I'd use one on this card.


I thought I'd try using the Operation Write Home Sketch #69 for this card.


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

... another dozen complete of the Father's Day ~ Thinking of You cards

When I showed Steve the card I had made last night.. he said "now that's nice".. I thought I'd make another dozen because these can be used for many things and went together quite easily.

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

12 more Father's Day ~ Thinking of You cards are complete.

I just finished the dozen of cards that I will be sending to Operation Write Home. These can be used for Father's Day or Thinking of You in general cards. I really like the way they turned out.

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

first of twelve cards done.. and I'm liking it.

I just put one together and I like the way it looks... so onward to make the other eleven. I used the same concept as some cards the other day.. I just put in an extra couple of layers and put the top two layers on dimensionals.


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

getting ready to make a dozen more Father's Day ~ Thinking of you cards

I seen a card that I liked the layout of and used that sketch for my card I am about to create.. I have no clue how they will turn out.. so here's hoping that they look good. I am using a new stamp I got in the mail today. It is a beautiful Eagle stamp called "Freedom".

I am using Night of Navy, Craft and Cream card stocks, some Distress inks.. not sure if this brown one I have in the picture is the one I'll end up using,, I'll stamp the eagle in several different colors till I get the one I like. I used the Modern Label and Word Window Punches. I will add brads on the cards too.

Off to put these together.

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

a dozen golf themed Father's Day cards

I've been working on these cards for the last two and a half hours.. they are all done ~ yeah!

I used a really fun set from Stampin' UP! titled And Many Mower. I think that I have officially used up all the Bravo Burgundy (I think I have 1/2 sheet of card stock left).. and all the Handsome Hunter (only scraps left). I have been using up some plaid paper that was in a stack that my mom gave to me many, many years ago.


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

CONGRATULATIONS!!! to the Blog Candy Winners

I printed off all the comments.. cut each one out, folded up the paper, laid them in a pile on the floor and mixed them all up. I then asked my daughter to pick two of them for me. She didn't know what they were for and asked me about them. I told her that she just picked two winners of some stamp sets. She was tickled. My daughter has cerebral palsy and said she's excited for those that won and to tell you each congratulations.

Congrats are in order for:

Lori said...
I too am a military wife so I appreciate what you do. I love the cards you make. Great Job!

May 13, 2011 6:15 PM

and

Craftaholic said...
Hi Pam!!! Love your cards--you are an inspiration to all military spouses!!!! Happy Spouses Day to you!!! Denise I.

May 13, 2011 1:24 PM

I will be contacting each of you to get mailing info so I can get your stamp sets off in the mail to you.

Thank you to all who left a comment.. it was so much fun to read all of your posts. I wish I had stamp sets for everybody.

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

It's time to CELEBRATE!

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This card uses another of the $1.00 sets I got from J's yesterday.

I stamped the clock face from the retired Stampin' UP! Artifacts set on the plaid layer, but after I had already attached it to the kraft layer.. it was an afterthought. The brads are only through the blue layer on each scallop, so they do not lay flat and give it a little lift.

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

... four cards I whipped up last night.. using the same papers

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Looks like Blogger might be back to working now.. yeah! Last night was Game 7 of the Red Wings vs. Sharks. I like to stamp while watching and listening to the game.. otherwise, I'd have my hands free to throw stuff at the TV, just kidding! I do really get into the games and las night was no exception.

I used the same papers on these cards and used some new $1.00 stamps I got at J's yesterday.

Here they are:






On the Butterfly card... I stamped the butterfly with StazOn black in onto Vellum, then cut it out.. I colored it on the back using Copic Markers. It is attached using mini glue dots.

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

... now is when I wish I had an extra set of hands or two...

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I cut through a half a pack of the GP Card Stock that I get from Wal-Mart, that I use for inserts in the cards that I send out to family, friends and Operation Write Home. The stack I've cut is several inches tall,,, but I know it won't be enough.. I need to put inserts in nearly every single one of these cards in this picture. Now is when I wish I had an extra set of hands or two.. or three.. or... ha ha

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

21 total cards done.. "Happiness is a Journey... "

I just finished 20 more to make it a total of 21 of these Happiness is a Journey... cards. I did some in Night of Navy card bases and some in Always Artichoke. The nice thing about these is that the insides are done too! yeah~!!
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God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

... Happiness is a Journey.. not a Destination card

I seen a card made by Sandy of OWH either yesterday or the day before and it had a really neat Eagle on it. This is the only Eagle stamp I own and so I thought I'd give it a try on a card.. the sample card I made I stamped the trees using my Stampin' UP! Always Artichoke ink pad, it needs reinking, so I'm going to use a distress ink instead for the next ones. I stamp the Eagle in black, trees in green and the sentiment in blue.. layer that layer on the Night of Navy card back.. stamp some trees on the bottom of another cream layer and attach it inside.. I get the top and inside done in one swooop.
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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

... all 30 Father's Day (DAD) cards are completed... yeah!

I have just finished this batch of 30 Father's Day (DAD) cards. I wanted to finish them last night, but trying to do lots of things while trying to put cards together doesn't work out too well. With 90 brads to put in each hole and opening the backs, it took some time. Today it was tying the ribbon that took a little time.. but I like they way they turned out and am glad to add them to the box to head to Operation Write Home.
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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

... almost done with the Father's Day (DAD) cards

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These are taking me a little longer then I had hoped they would. While trying to put these together, I was watching a Hockey game, uploading photos to our Brigade's FB page, talking to kids, husband and anyone else would wanted to talk.. ha ha!

I have all the layers put together.. as I go to put the top layer on the cards, I am tying some thin ribbon around them and tying a knot.. then putting on the circle layers with the DAD sentiment on them.

They are not my normal cards.. I would've liked to have more stamping on them.. but I needed a bunch of cards quickly and these are just what I wanted. It's 12:30 and I need to be up in six hours, so I need to hit the sack.. I'll finish these tomorrow.

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

... getting ready to put together 30 Father's Day (DAD) cards

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I was going to make 30 Christmas cards tonight to get months ahead in the Christmas card challenge.. but earlier I seen a video from Sandy (OWH) that said they were short of Father's Day cards... so I thought I'd make some of them instead.

I just finished cutting, punching and stamping everything I need to put together these cards.. I haven't even done one yet, I seen this layout in a book and thought I'd use it because it looked like I could crank out a bunch of cards really quick.. I am adding brads to my card because I don't like a bunch of "blank" area on my cards.

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

another card using Live Your Dream...

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Since I had the stuff already pulled out and laying on my desk.. I thought I'd make another card using the Stampin' UP! stamp set Live Your Dream along with some Afternoon Tea DSP. I colored my brads with a dark brown Copic marker.. the sharpie wasn't brown enough.

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