OWH Midweek Throwdown Challenge... Sending You Birthday Wishes

The Midweek Throwdown Challenge on the OWH Stars & Stamps Blog was to use a digital stamp on a card... I used this adorable silhouette digi that I got from the FreeVintageDigitalStamps blog.

I am battling a terrible cold right now.. hoping that it leaves my body sooner than later.

The sentiment is from a $1.00 stamp I got from M's this past summer.

I used black, white and summer sun card stock, black ink, black brads, a nestabilities die and dimensionals.

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

Merry Monday Card Challenge... Christmas cards

I happened upon a blog this past week that posted weekly sketch challenges.. and I love sketch challenges, so I thought I'd play along.

Merry Monday Card Challenge #8 posted on Always Playing With Paper Blog.

I made two cards... this one above uses a Santa Claus stamp from a stamp set I got a while back from a fellow SCS'er.. the stamp set is from Flourishes called Santa, I Believe. I had the hardest time getting a clean image with the Santa Claus image.. I stamped it 7 times before I finally did.. a lotta work for one image.. but it was worth it.

used on this card:

card stock: Stampin' UP! Early Espresso, Marina Mist, white

ink: Memento Brown

access: bigkick, nestabilities dies, Stampin' UP! houndstooth embossing folder, Stampin' UP! white ribbo, brown brads, hole punch, and Dimensionals!!

stamps: Flourishes Santa, I Believe

This next card using some Hero Arts stamps.. Winter Scene and the sentiment is from Greatest Gift.

used on this card:

card stock: Stampin' UP! Ruby Red, Always Artichoke, White

ink: Memento Black, Ranger distress ink.. one of the winter colors

acces: bigkick, Stampin' UP! embossing folder, punch, nestabilities oval and scallop oval, and Dimensionals!!!

stamps: Hero Arts, Winter Scene and sentiment from The Greatest Gift

Here is the sketch layout:

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

Christmas Cards... for the January Christmas Card Challenge.. I'm a bit behind.

I am signed up for a Christmas Card Challenge on SCS and I needed to get caught up with posting January cards.. I still need to make February ones, but I found a challenge online and am hoping to get those made tonight.. as long as my hand doesn't get so numb that I can't.. wish me luck!

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

GOD is your............ inspirational cards

Earlier this month I seen a digital print that you could get with a donation of only $2.00 on the Create with TLC website. I got it and printed some off and then last night trimmed them up and this morning put a couple of them onto cards.

I made two of these cards.... I hope that the recipient of them enjoys them as much as I had making them.



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

.. one more window card... sweet flowers for MOM

I already had this window cut out and had pulled out the stickers I found in the box of goodies my friend sent to me, so I was ready to make another card.. this one is for MOM.

I used my favorite brown card stock in the whole wide world... It's Classic Crest 100lb cover Cayon Brown ... I bought mine from XpedX.. they had to special order it for me. I got a ream of it, a ream of the Epic Black and two reams of white 100 lb cover card stock.. I got everything, plus shipping, less military discount for $124.00.. this will last me a very, very long time. I had to order it because the XpedX store here in town is closing in April and I didn't want to not be able to get some.. the stuff is fabulous.



used on this card:
card stock: Neenah Classic Crest Cayon Brown, White, Summer Sun
ink: Memento brown
pattern paper: My Mind's Eye "Love me Do"
dies: Grand Madison Window, Grand Flower box from Memory Box
misc: Bigkick, CB embossing folder, medium oval punch, scallop oval punch, tulip stickers, brown brads.. and Dimensionals!!!

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

Window into Springtime... I Miss You ... card

About two weeks ago I bought the window die I used on this card, then last week I purchased the window box die among others that day.

While digging through a big box of goodies that my friend Neva sent to me, I found these tulip stickers from Martha Stewart.. a lightbulb went on and I'd thought I'd use them in the flower box on the window. I put together the window, background cloud paper, window box and tulips earlier today.. and tonight I thought I'd use it on a card.. and this is what I ended up with.

Used on this card:

card stock: Stampin' UP! Perfect Plum, Barely Banana, Certainly Celery, white
ink: black
pattern paper: My Mind's Eye "Love me Do"
dies: Grand Madison Window, Grand Flower box from Memory Box
misc: Bigkick, CB embossing folder, Card Candee, large oval punch.. and Dimensionals!!!


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have a great airborne day!

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

OWH Sketch Challenge #109... Hugs & Kisses

What a fun sketch that is for the OWH Sketch Challenge this week.

I made one card.. that after making it.. let's just say that I did not like it at all.. not even a little tiny bit.. none. So I thougth I'd make something else.. I dug through my Hero Arts stamps and realized that the XO set that I bought when I bought the Operation Write Home Hero Arts stamps had never been inked up... so I decided to use it.

I need more practice stamping repetitive things.. not as easy as I thought it would be.

My friend Neva from Ohio recently sent me a huge box of goodies.. trinkets, stickers,,, you name it and it was probably in that box! I found this red heart and put some white card stock under it.. I knew that black would show through better.. but didn't think that black on a heart was a good thing, so I stuck with the white.

Here is the sketch I used on this card:



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have a great airborne day!

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

My country, 'tis of thee........ Patriotic card using new stamp

This card was made using another of the new stamps I received today from StampersBest.. it is called My Country... use code: airbornewife to save 10%. This stamp is also a stamp that StampersBest donates $1.00 to Operation Write Home for each one sold.

For this card I used:
stamps: StampersBest My Country
ink: Night of Navy, Red
card stock: Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, White, Brushed Gold and some pattern paper from HL.
accessories: star embossing folder, red brads, Quickutz alphabet die Chocolate, paper piercer, Night of Navy Ribbon, Bow Easy, thread and Dimensionals!!!

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

*HERO*.. . Patriotic card using a new stamp

Today in the mail I received a package full of some new stamps... we were busy this afternoon/evening so I just now got a chance to get ink on one of them.

Hero Panels.. from StampersBest (code: airbornewife to save 10%). When I received the email the other day saying there was some new releases.. some Operation Write Home ones, I had been laying in bed... I got up and hopped on the computer right then and placed an order for all the new ones.. with the sale of each stamp a donation is made to Operation Write Home.. so it's a win, win for everybody!!

for this card:

card stock: Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Brushed Gold and white

ink: black and asst. markers

accessories: star embossing folder, star punch, brads, paper piercer and Dimensionals!!

thanks for looking ~

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

Sweet Little Valentine's for my kiddos.

I seen this adorable digi I used on these cards on the Free Vintage Digital Stamps Facebook page this morning.. and just had to use it on Valentine's for my kiddos.


I thought I did all three cards the same.. but when I was done, I realized I had one as an upright card and the other two on the side.. oh well.. they won't even notice..haha.


I used black card stock for the bases, layered on with a layer of Cherry Cobbler, I layered the digi layer with black. Black ribbon up the one side and then I used the Bow Easy to make three bows and attach them with some glue that goodness sakes, that stuff came out and would hang like a string from the bottle.. it was driving me nuts trying to clean up all the excess that came out.




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

OWH Sketch Challenge #108 and VCMP #10... Life is not about...

This card uses this weeks Sketch Challenge #108 from the OWH Stars & Stamps Blog and the VCMP Challenge #10 Vintage.

I used a Tim Holtz stamp set. Black ink, clear embossing powder, Slate, Black and White card stock, Stampin' UP! corner punch and a brad.. oh, I can't forget.. Dimensionals!!!

Here is the sketch layout:




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

OWH VCMP #12 Boats & Ships... I LOVE MY DAD

For the OWH VCMP Challenge #12 which is to use a Boat or a Ship image on your card.. this is what I made.



Not sure why I chose Black, White and Wild Wasabi.. but I like the way it turned out.

The image is from a retired Stampin' UP! set called Gone Angler and the sentiment is from Hero Arts ~ I Heart My Dad. Black ink, black brads, CB embossing folder, Stampin' UP! punch and Dimensionals!!

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

VCMP #7.. Clean And Simple Just Saying Hello

Today while at a local craft store (HL)... I picked up a pack of some Letterpress cards that are on clearance.. I grabbed a package of square envelopes for them as well.

When I seen the VCMP Challenge #7 Clean and Simple.. I knew just what I wanted to do.

I used a Hero Arts stamp for the Three Ferns image that I stamped in Peeled Paint ink onto Stampin' UP! Crumb Cake card stock, layered that onto Always Artichoke card stock.. stamped on the card base a sentiment from a Hero Arts Truly Appreicated stamp set.. added some "bling", layered on the main image onto the card using Dimensionals.. and it was done!

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

VCMP #6.. Sand & Sea.. using Tan and Blues

This card started out using the sketch challenge for this week.. however the "mother" panel was kinda too big so I decided scratch the bottom layer on the card, center the "mother" panel and use it that way.. I cut out a seperate butterfly and after attaching it using double Dimensionals on each side.. I covered it in some Rock Candy glitterly glue stuff.. it's from Ranger, can't remember the exact name.

When digging through some boxes in the garage last week I unearthed a whole bunch of Sizzix and Fiskars embossing plates.. so I grabbed one of the Sizzix ones, I think it's called Strung Beads, something with Beads in the name.. oh how I wish my computer was in my stamp room like it was before, then I could just get up, walk a few feet and grab what it is I used on something.

The challenge I ended up using this for is VCMP #6 Sand & Sea ~ using Tan and Blue.

here's my card:



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

OWH Sketch Challenge #107... VCMP #8-Jungle Animals Kids Card

This card was made using the OWH Sketch Challenge #107 for this week.. and for VCMP Challenge #8.. Jungle Animals-Cards for Kids.

I have some Jungle Animal stamps.. but I had remembered that I had a paper pad that had lots of fun Jungle animals on the papers.. so I used some of it for the Airborne Monkey Paratroopers.


The Happy Birthday Sentiment is from one of the Hero Arts OWH stamp set, the Time To Celebrate is from a Lizzie Anne set. All card stock is Stampin' UP! Embossing Folder is Seeing Spots.. Stampin' UP! More Mustard ribbon, circle punches, a brad and Dimensionals!!!

Here is the sketch layout:

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have a great airborne day!

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

OWH Cruise Challenge #2.. Nautical Masculine card

I didn't think I was going to be able to do this challenge.. since I don't have any "Nautical" stamps.. but then while looking over my shelves of individual stamps I found two Lighthouse stamps.. score!

I have a stamp that says "I (heart) my DAD" and I only inked and stamped the DAD part of it for my card.

This card was made for Challenge #2 on the OWH Stars & Stamps blog.

Here is the card I made:


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

OWH Cruise Challenge #1.. Hot Tropics

This week many OWHer's are on a Cruise.... for those who didn't go, there are all kinds of challenges and prizes for participating this week. Each day there will be two challenges posted. The first challenge on the OWH Stars & Stamps blog is HOT TROPICS!!! To use Hot Pink, Yellow and Green.. any sentiment or theme.

I found this fun digi on a site this past weekend called Ginger's House.. here is the post with this digi on it AND SUDDENLY THE MOUTH GOES

On the inside I am going to put... WHEN I'M THINKING OF YOU.

here's my card:


I ended up making four of these cards.

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

Tent Topper Card... A Merry Christmas

A while back OWH had a "pick your top 10 cards of 2011" and one that I had picked was a tent topper Christmas card I had made. A fellow stamper asked me how I did it, so I thought I'd make another and explain.. it's super easy.

For this card I used an image from a Stampin' UP! set called Boughs & Holly.. and one from Stampers Best (use code: airbornewife) titled Winter Church. Cherry Cobbler card stock, as well as cream and some patterened papers. Riding Hood Red ribbon, a big brad, bigkick, Top Note Die, Oval punches and Dimensionals!!!

I cut a 4 1/4" x 8 1/2" piece of card stock, score it at 4 1/4" and fold.
I then cut some layers to go on top of it.

On the card I made here I used a Stampin' UP! Top Note Die.. but you can use anything.. a big square, circle, rectangle.. any shape. Then I put some layers on that piece as well.

On my grid paper I put a mark at the 5 1/2" line.. I set my card base near the edge of the paper and then put my topper on it.. I did have adhesive on the back of my topper piece.. in fact I had laid it on it to get a mark as to wear to put adhesive.. I put it a little bit below that mark and put some at the top of the card base itself.. that way I didn't have a bunch of adhesive showing on the back of the topper.

When I am putting the topper on my cards.. I do not have the layers on the lower portion glued on the card base itself.. I do that in case I want to put brads or wrap ribbon around it.... that is the last thing I do is attach the lower top layers with topper attached to my card base.. hope that makes sense.

then just decorate your card.

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