OWH Challenge Sweet Treats ... "Hi Cupcake!" card

There is a challenge this week on the Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps site that is called Sweet Treats.. you are to make a card with a "Sweet Treats" theme... so I grabbed the Hero Arts Cupcakes stamp set that I have and set out to make a card.. this is what I ended up with.

For this card I used: Stampin' UP! card stock, GP white card stock, Memento Black Ink, Asst. Brads, Paper Piercer, Stampin' UP! Oval Punches, Stampin' UP! Crushed Curry ribbon, Blue Button, Embroidery Floss, Bigkick, Embossing Folder, Copic Markers and DIMENSIONALS!!!!

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have a great airborne day!

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

... the other 10 Have a Great Day cards are now complete

I went to Michael's and JoAnn's today with no luck in finding the brown/white checkered ribbon.. I had to get home to attend a PTA meeting, that wasn't to happen... so when Steve got home I was telling him about it and he told me to go on over to Hobby Lobby.. I said I didn't want to drive there and he offered to drive me.. I couldn't resist that now could I.

They had some, not the same.. but it would work and now all my cards are complete.

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

10 cards completed and then... OOPS!!

I ran out of the brown checkered ribbon... utt ohhh!! Hopefully I can find some tomorrow at a local craft store so I can finish up the other 10 cards.

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

getting ready to make 20 of the "Have a Great Day" cards...

I have everything cut, except the ribbon, and I am ready to make 20 of the Have a Great day cards like the one I made a couple of days ago.

See the item in the lower right hand corner of the picture??? those are my favorite thing in my whole stamping room.. I go through hundreds of these things.. I can go through a whole package in one day.. when I order them, I order them in lots of 10 or more.. I so love them.. okay, love story over.. I need to get busy putting some cards together.

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

OWH Birthday Bash: Gelatins "Fall Card"

One of the Birthday Bash Challenges on the OWH Stars & Stamps site is one hosted by Gelatins. Here is the link to the post on the OWH site: GELATINS CHALLENGE. The challenge is to use the sketch layout provided and make a "Fall" themed card.. here is mine:
For this card I used: stamps from Stampin' UP! On Gossamer Wings (retired). Card stock brown base is card stock from XpedX, some with cream colored card stock. Orange from Stampin' UP!, Pattern paper from K&Co. fall pattern paper stack. Leaf die is from Nestabilities, Ebroidery floss, button from Stampin' UP!, markers to color in image. Stampin' UP! scallop border punch, Stampin' UP! brown ribbon and Very Vanilla ribbon too... and DIMENSIONALS!!!


here is the layout:



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

OWH Sketch Challenge #88 ~ You are in our thoughts and prayers

I made this card using the sketch challenge layout #88 on the Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps site.

This card will be going to a wounded warrior... he is the son of a family who is also here for the Academy. As I understand, he was injured by an IED in Afghanistan. He is recovering at a hospital here in TX and his mom posted an address to send cards to him.. so this is going to him.

For this card I used:
stamps: Hero Arts With Sympathy
card stock: Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler both from Stampin' UP!
cream paper from a print shop back in N.C., pattern paper from a paper stack from Hobby Lobby.
accessories: Stars embossing folder from Hobby Lobby, Bigkick, Hole Punch, Red Brads, Stampin' UP! small star punch and DIMENSIONALS!!!



Here is the sketch:

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

OWH Challenge: Case Charlsie S. "Thinking of You..."

One of the Birthday Bash Challenges on the OWH Stars & Stamps site is to Case Charlsie S.

I turned layout on the card I cased upright. I used a new stamp set I got today from Hero Arts.

For this card I used: Brown card stock for card base and cream layer is from XpedX, pattern paper is from a paper stack from K&Company, stamped layer is from a print shop back in N.C. Stamp set is from Hero Arts ~ With Sympathy. Nestabilities Dies, Stampin' UP! Very Vanilla Ribbon (there is only about 6" left of the stuff... insert sad face here), Stampin' UP! button. Embroidery floss. Ink is Stampin' UP! More Mustard and Momento Brown

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

.......* PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN *.......

My card started out using a sketch layout for a challenge I seen on a blog.. however midways
through I realized that the card was supposed to be a "fall" themed card.. so I scratched that
and changed things around and this is what I ended up with.

We went to Hobby Lobby today and Steve seen a paper stack with Patriotic Papers in it.. I picked it up and flipped through it.. ohhhing and aahhhhhing.. he said to get it, so I did.. when we got home he told me that if I had put it down he was going to buy it for me anyways.. what a sweetie. I used some of the star paper from the stack on this card.

For this card I used: stamp sets from Stampin' UP!: Liberty for All and Free & the Brave. White card stock for card base is from XpedX, Stampin' UP! Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy and Crumb Cake (kraft), GP white card stock. Memento brown ink and Versamark. Stampin' UP! Crumb Cake (kraft) seam binding. Hole Punch, red brads. Nestabilities die, Stampin' UP! Star punches. Red, white and blue rhinestone bling from a friend.. and DIMENSIONALS!!!!






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

Have a Great Day ~ new stamp set.. had to make a card

I got a new Hero Arts stamp set the other day and tonight wanted to use the set, but didn't know where I had put it.. it was in the bag with some socks I bought to donate to the Veterans Affairs.. once found, I had to ink it up.

I made this quick card.. I will make some more tomorrow.. but I need to head to bed sometime soon... we are getting up early and heading to the range to heat up some brass.

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

more Hero Mail and some Love you much cards..

Last night I made a bunch more Hero Mail cards.. same as the ones before.. I so enjoy making these kinds of cards and could really do this every day... but unfortunately I cannot write inside each one, so I have to make others.



for these cards I used: (top) Stampin' UP! Godspeed (ret.) stamp set, memento black ink, more mustard ink, ribbon die, bigshot, embossed top layer and white card stock for card base are from XpedX, black card stock and Dimensionals.

Tonight I made all these "Love You Much" cards.. Love cards are always needed by OWH.



For this card I used: Stampin' UP! Cherry Cobbler card stock. Black card stock, White GP card stock. Heidi Swapp Damask Sticker, Heart Punches, Stampin' UP! Well Scripted sentiment, Dimensionals

For this card I used: some pink Stampin' UP! card stock, GP white card stock, black card stock, Stampin' UP! punches. Stampn' UP! Well Scripted stamp set, Ribbon, Heidi Swapp Damask sticker, Dimensionals.

For this card I used: Stampin' UP! Real Red card stock, GP white card stock, black card stock, Heart punches, Stampin' UP! Well Scripted stamp set, Real Red ribbon, Dimensionals.

thanks for looking ~

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

today I have made 48 Hero Mail cards ~~~ WOW!!! ~~~

I just finished a bunch more and my total for the day is 48.. holy smokes!

I'd stay up all night making cards.... but I have a housing meeting at 10 to learn about how they are going to start tracking electricity in housing and either charge you if you go over your allotted allowance or get a refund.. I'll learn all the gibberish about it tomorrow.. tonight I'm having fun making cards for Heroes.

NOTE: the other cards I made today are in a previous post.

for these cards I used: StampersBest Bald Eagle (www.stampersbest.com use code: airbornewife to save 10% on your order) , Stampin' UP! Service & Sacrifice sentiment, white card base card stock and embossed top layer from XpedX, black, gold and white. Memento Black ink. Dimensionals

For these cards I used: (top) Stampin' UP! Courage & Honor, Sassy Sayings. Memento black ink, red card stock for base and white embossed layer are from XpedX, Brillant Blue, white, red brads, hole punch. (bottom) StampersBest Bald Eagle (www.stampersbest.com use code: airbornewife to save 10% on your order), Stampin' UP! Service & Sacrifice sentiment, Stampin' UP! punches. Red for card base and embossed top layer are from XpedX, Memento Black ink. Red, white and blue rhinestone bling is from my friend Faith.

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

Working on more OWH & OQC cards... for Heroes

I just whipped up these 15 cards... they went together rather easy since I already had the main images stamped from last night or the night before.. I am trying hard to make as many cards as I can to take to the two FRG meetings that I am attending tomorrow afternoon/evening. I am also going to take a stack of the white inserts that I have.. that way if I run out of cards, I can have the inserts with handwritten notes and I just need to make the cards for them... easy as pie, right?
Black card base, embossed white layer from XpedX, Stampin' UP! punches, Eagle from Eric Dull Broken Road Creative Studios, Sentiment Stampin' UP! Service & Sacrifice stamp set, Sepia and Black ink, Dimensionals.
StampersBest soldier stamp (www.stampersbest.com use code: airbornewife to save 10% off your order), sentiment Stampin' UP! Wonderful Words, memento black ink, embossed white layer from XpedX, black card base.
StampersBest Bald Eagle Stamp (www.stampersbest.com use code: airbornewife to save 10% on your order), Sentiment from Stampin' UP! Service & Sacrifice stamp set, Memento Black ink, Stampin' UP! punches, red card base and white embossed layer both from XpedX, Red/white/blue rhinestone bling sent to me from Faith.

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Sketch Challenge #87 card

I made this card a couple of days ago for the OWH Sketch Challenge .. here is my card.

here is the layout I used:

I used a large stamp that I have in my stash, along with some pattern paper from K&Co. Brown card stock from xpedx, cream paper from print shop in NC and Cajun Craze. Black ink, Linen thread and a brad.
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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

You make my heart flutter... Love card

One of the postings I seen on the OWH Stars & Stamps site was to make a "miss or love" you card and post it on the Inspired Stamps blog.. I cannot find the posting on their site now about it, but if/when I do find it, I'll add it here.

I made this card last week, but forgot about it.





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

.... some Hero Mail cards I have been working on

Yesterday in the mail I received the most beautiful card from a stamping friend of mine (thanks Faith).. and inside the card was two packs of Red, White and Blue "Bling"... I had already planned on making Hero Mail cards last night, so the bling would be a perfect addition to the cards.

The embossed white topper are from a box of 250 that I got when I went to xPedx that day a while back and got all the deals on the envelopes and card stock.. they are perfect to stamp on and layer onto a card base.

Here are all the cards that I made:








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

OWH Missouri State digi Christmas and For You cards

I love making cards to send to Operation Write Home. Sandy has been putting out some state digi stamps and last week my name was drawn and I got to bump up the next release of a state digi and I picked the great state of Missouri.. yeah!!!

When Sandy emailed it to me, she mentioned trying to incorporate it into a Christmas card.. so I gave it a try and this is the card I came up with.

Then I went back to the digi last night and make another card, this is that card:

here is a link to the posting with the Missouri State Digis posted on the OWH site.

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