~ Thinking of you ~ butterfly card

I seen a card in a magazine last night at Michael's and I really wanted to buy the magazine because I really liked the sketches in it and the card samples.. however they won't let you use a coupon. I left there and headed to JoAnn's.. mainly because I was looking for some ribbon.. but at JoAnn's I noticed that the magazines weren't signed as if they were on sale.. and they had the same magazine. I had the lady scan it and it wasn't on sale.. score!

Tonight I wanted to make that card.. and pulled out my Sizzix Tim Holtz Rosette die.. and there is a love hate relationship I have with that thing.. more in the hate column because that thing perforates the lines to much that it tears the paper.. grrrrrrr.. I tossed it aside and decided to use a new die I got the other day from Memory Box called Woven Circle. I cut it in half so that it spread out in the box I had cut for all my stuff to go on.

The card stock I used is all Stampin' UP!.. Early Espresso and Cream Confetti.

The pattern paper is from Dream Street Papers

The stamp sets are Hero Arts Antique Engravings and a sentiment set that is out of the package so I don't know the name of it anymore.

The rhinestone brads are Stampin' UP!

The distress tool I used is from Stampin' UP!

I used a punch from Stampin' UP! that has corner pieces on it.. I use it to cut the sentiment piece at the ends.

The inks are Memento Black ink and Copic markers

and my favorite thing on the whole card... is the Stampin' UP! Dimensionals.. ha ha.. they are my fav!

thanks for looking ~

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

... just finished 8 more "You're ONE in a Million" cards

I thought I had printed off two sheets of these digis.. but I guess I only did one.. I made 8 more of the cards and am so happy with the way they turned out.. and gosh were they so easy to do.

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

You're ONE in a Million ... thank you card for OWH

Earlier today I was reading a tutorial on the OWH site and happened to click on the blog of Paula S. at Handmade by Paula (link goes to post where the FREE digi is)... and was cruising through her blog and found this awesome free digi. I saved and printed some off right then.. I sat down a little bit ago to stamp and seen the sheet of these digis I printed off and thought I'd use them to make some cards.. this is just the first one, I am going to make some more after loading this.

I already had a stack of Night of Navy card bases cut and scored.. I also had a stack of blue (can't remember the name of it) already cut.. I went to emboss them and my hubby came in and helped me finish them up.

I already had the parts from the Top Note Bigz die leftover from another card project (the snowmen cards I made a week or so ago).. so my card is mostly made from stuff I already had cut.. just sitting there waiting for me to use.

Taylor thought she'd fancy up my card and used the website PICNIK... I liked how it looked, so I thought I'd post it too.. she say's that it's called the Final Space Launch... pretty neat huh?

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

~*Season's Greetings*~ Christmas cards

I got this new stamp from Memory Box the other day and thought I'd use it tonight. I made these two cards and messed up on both of them when using a dauber and the black to go around the outside edge.. grrrrr. I do not like when that happens.

I really wish I had some black baker's twine to put on these cards, but I didn't.. maybe I'll find some tomorrow, I'm hoping to find some vanilla or white satin ribbon.

I cut a bunch of card stock to make some more of these.. so hopefully I don't mess them up too.

thanks for looking ~

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

another 14 ~* Seize the Cupcake *~ birthday cards

After making the last card I posted.. I decided to make 14 more.. I did them just a tad different.. in the coloring of the cupcakes is all.. plus I didn't cut out an extra layer for the flowers. I think they turned out cute and hope that they are enjoyed.

These will go in the box headed to Operation Write Home

thanks for looking ~

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

~* Seize the Cupcake *~ birthday card

I happened upon a blog this morning by Darlene and read through the entire thing.. I seen this card posted on her blog and had to case it.. such a fun card. Someone gave me this Hero Arts stamp set and I have used it in the past for cards for Operation Write home.. and I am going to make some more of these cards as well to send to OWH.

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Sketch #84 ~ Thinking of you makes me SMILE ~

I seen the new sketch posted on the Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps site this morning. When I sat down to stamp, I wasn't sure what I was going to use.. I remembered some new goodies I got the other day at a local stamp store here in El Paso and decided to use one of the stamps I got.. and this is what my finished card looks like.

I used this sketch layout for the card:


For This card I used:

card stock: Stampin' UP! Shimmery White, Perfect Plum and Pale Plum

stamps: Memory Box "thinking of you makes me smile", Hero Arts "Dogwood"

Embossing Folder: Tim Holtz Flourish

Copic Markers, Memento Black ink

ribbon: seam binding I got at the local stamp store, I think it's from May Arts

Spellbinders Dies for sentiment

Bigkick and of course... Dimensionals from Stampin' UP! ..... my Favorite!!!

thanks for looking ~

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

Distressed ~* TEXAS *~ hero mail card for OWH

Earlier today while I was supposed to be getting ready to go to a birthday party.. I was stamping.

When I left the house this card had a card stock vellum overlay with the embossed Texas in the middle of it and in the corners were stars punched out ... I didn't like it.

When we got home after the party.. I decided to take that top layer off.. cut the Texas out from the middle and layer it on dimensionals.. I put the brads back in the corners.. now I like it.

I will write a note inside for a Hero that I will send to Operation Write Home.

thanks for looking ~

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

Quick & Easy "Hero Mail" cards

When I went to put these cards together today using what I punched and cut out last night.. I realized I needed red stars instead of blue ones.. and then instead of a brad in the center of the stars, I used some more of the star bling that I got at Michael's a couple of weeks ago.


I seen a card that Roxie on SCS had made that I really liked and so I cased it for these.

thanks for looking ~

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

Getting ready to make some "HERO MAIL" cards

I made some cards the other day... but didn't take any pictures of them and I haven't felt too good the last few days and haven't stamped at all. Today was a busy day with three meetings to attend.. but tonight I thought I'd get some card stock and pattern papers cut, stars punched and so I am ready to put together nearly a dozen cards to send to Operation Write Home as Hero Mail.

I have red card stock card bases cut already as well.. so when I'm done with these.. I'll start on them.

thanks for looking ~

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

10 "Greetings from TEXAS" hero cards for OWH

Today I went into the garage and went digging through some boxes. I marked boxes very well, so I didn't have to go through all the boxes, I just needed to find the ones I wanted. I was looking for some Army/Airborne/Engineer stamps and the first box marked "stamp sets" they happened to be in.. yeah!!!

After dinner I cut out 30 Texas shapes and shadows using my Cricut set to 1 1/2".

I changed these cards some from the one the other night.. made the card base More Mustard because I had only three sheets of Cajun Craze left... cut out the Texas shapes using Crumb Cake card stock and layered them onto black card stock.

I used some stars I got at Michael's this past week.. and I sponged every layer.

These will have notes written inside each one for a Hero that is deployed, I will then send them to Operation Write Home.

Here's my messy grid paper after all that sponging... you should see my fingers.

thanks for looking ~

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

~* GREETINGS FROM..... TEXAS *~

Yesterday when we got done at the Outlet Mall.. my sweet hubby drove me to a little stamp store here in El Paso called The Stamp Act. I picked up these two Texas stamps from Deadbeat Designs and thought I'd use them on a card tonight... er, I mean morning since it's after midnight.. ha ha.

I seen a card that Polly and her friend had just finished ~ it was representing the Texas Longhorns.. the thing that I really liked about it was how she did her TEXAS word stamp.. randomly punching out holes on it.. then layering it on black.. so that's what I did on a tag. I stamped the shape of Texas stamp with Versamark onto Cajun Craze and then cut it out.. stuck that on onto some black card stock and then cut it out. I used a star brad from the Stylized Silver Hodgepodge Hardware set I have from Stampin' UP!

The sentiment: Greetings from... I typed on the computer and printed it off on Very Vanilla and sponged around on it and the tag too.


thanks for looking ~

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

now there's a whole dozen.. YOU are loved cards

I made another 11 of these "YOU are loved" cards so now I have a whole dozen of them that I will send to Operation Write Home.

I cut the "loved" part of the stamp off and then stuck it on the block so that it was under that "are".. that way it looked a bit better when punching it out with the heart punch.

I am going to have to do some digging in the boxes on the garage.... I didn't think I would mess with those boxes until we moved.. however my Hooah Army and Engineer stamps are all out there and I want to make a thank you to send to the SGM that hosted the Engineer social the other night.. so I will be digging through boxes tomorrow because it's that important to me.

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Sketch #82 ~ YOU are loved ~ card

I used the same layout as the previous card for this one as well.. I thought I had a small heart punch.. but noooooooooooo... so I had to use a Martha Stewart heart corner punch to get the three small hearts that I put on the heart with the sentiment.

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Sketch #82 ~ Happy Birthday Love Bug ~

It's been a busy day.. today we went to my daughter's school and got her schedule, books and picture taken for ID card. We did all the registration stuff back on August 2nd so we wasn't there too long. We went back for what we were told was the Freshman Orientation from 1-4 however it was in the morning time.. frustrating not getting the right info.. but that's okay, I know who was the one who gave us the wrong info and I will speak to her because I understand they gave out t-shirts to those that attended.

My card uses this week's sketch challenge on Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps site. I used a Unity Stamp Company stamp set called Love Bug... the Happy Birthday sentiment is from a new Stampin' UP! Birthday set I got this past week.

thanks for looking ~

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

Snow Much Fun ~ set of 8 Christmas cards

Snow Much Fun is one of the new sets I got from Stampin' UP! this week and tonight was the first time inking up some of the stamps from the set.

I seen a card in the upcoming Holiday Mini and thought I'd case the layout for it. I made one using a corduroy button and didn't really like it.. then I punched a snowflake using shimmery white paper and used a clear button with some red/white baker's twine.. didn't like that one either.. so I went with buttons that matched the card stock.. Old Olive. I also used a couple of More Mustard ones because I didn't have enough of the Old Olive ones.

These will go in the box and will be sent to Operation Write Home.


thanks for looking ~

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

Dear Santa...... stockings hung by the fireplace card

In my box of new goodies I received yesterday from Stampin' UP! was a new stamp set called Stitched Stockings.. I also got these adorable mini bells and a punch that goes along with the stocking set.. how cute is that??

I got the Dear Santa stamp in NC before we moved and I thought I'd use it on this card. It was a fun card to put it together.

These are the items I used:

Stamps: SU Stitched Stockings, $1. stamp
Card Stock: Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Very Vanilla, Brushed Gold, Kraft
Tools: Brick Embossing Folder, Distress Ink, Sponge, Blossom Punch, Iron Fence MS Punch (I used an exacto knife to cut off the bats on the bars), Dimensionals, Corner Rounder, Nestabilities Dies, Copic Marker, Black Ink, Bigkick, Floss, SU Mini Bells, Glossy Accents, Stocking Punch


thanks for looking ~

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

A Merry Christmas card using some new items

I got a new stamp set yesterday called Christmas Lodge ~ it will be in the upcoming Stampin' UP! Holiday Mini. I also got some Crumb Cake Seam Binding.. so pretty in real life. I used a sentiment from another set.. can't remember the name of it.

I made the snowflakes using some new Nestabilities dies that I got this summer in TN.

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

~*MACKINAC BRIDGE*~ many thanks card (repost)

I thought I would repost this card that I made back in July 2009 .. it was a thank you card that I sent to Steve's grandmother to thank her for letting us stay at her house during our visit there that summer. Nothing fancy.. just a quick card I had made to say thank you.

I had bought this stamp at a store in St. Ignace, MI called the Victorian Village.. a tiny little shop with lots of unique stamps that have a lot to do with the outdoors and places around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Sketch Challenge ~ "Happy Birthday" cards

I am not so sure that I like the way these turned out.. but they are so bright and cheery that I do think they will brighten someone's day.

I used the Operation Write Home Sketch Challenge for this week:

For my card I used these supplies:

Card stock: Pacific Point, So Saffron, White

Ink: black

Accessories: Bigkick, Top Note Bigz Die, Embossing Folder, Large Oval Punch, Hole Punch, Dimensionals, Brads, Corner Punch to make triangle cut outs on Happy Birthday sentiment pieces

Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes

thanks for looking ~

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