Getting ready to put together 24 more Gus the Golfer cards

Last weekend while watching some Nascar racing.... I colored in a bunch more of the Gus the Golfer images. I have everything cut/layered, etc.. and am going to put these together.

UPDATE: I got through more than half of the cards when I ran out of the "golf balls" for the cards... I had to stop because I need to do some ebay and craigslist to sale some things that we don't want to take with us on our move here in a couple of weeks... wish me luck!!


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

CCC12 ~ Merry Christmas cards

I like this week's sketch challenge on the OWH Stars & Stamps blog.. that I used the layout on a set of 10 Christmas cards for the Christmas Card Challenge on SCS.. which I am one month behind. With my surgery happening mid-April.. I totally forgot. Time to catch up because with moving and being on leave.. I won't be with my stamp stuff again once it leaves here, until mid-July.





Supplies:
card stock: Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Jolly Holiday DSP, cream
stamps: sentiments are from Stampin' UP! sets
ink: red, old olive
accessories: Nestabilities dies, bigkick, sponge and dimensionals!!!


thanks for looking ~

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

more Sketch Challenge cards.. May Your Travels and Life is Sweeter

I am not usually a morning person, but this morning when I got up I was wide awake. I made breakfast for everybody and then got busy with these cards.. while doing some laundry as well.. I hope I'm not coming down with something!!! ha ha.

Both of these cards use this week's Sketch Challenge off of the OWH Stars & Stamps Blog.


here is the layout:


Supplies: May Your Travels
card stock: Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit, Gumball Green (all of these are new Stampin' UP! In Colors that are in the upcoming catalog).. White and My Mind's Eye pattern paper
stamps: $1.00 stamp set by Studio 112
ink: Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit
accessories: punch to make banner ends and dimensionals!!!

Supplies: Life is SWEETER
card stock: Green Gumball, Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit (all of these are new Stampin' UP! In Colors that are in the upcoming catalog).. White, Basic Grey pattern paper from Wander paper pad
stamps: Unity Stamp Company ~ Rockin' It Unity Style KOTM
ink: black, asst. Stampin' UP! in color markers
accessories: punch to make banner ends and dimensionals!!!

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Bonus Sketch Challenge.. TEXAS SIZED BIRTHDAY!! and Just a Note

This week there was a "Bonus" Sketch on the OWH Stars & Stamps Blog. I made these two cards using that layout.

here is the sketch:



Supplies: Texas Card

card stock: brillant blue, real red, white, pattern paper from HL paper pack
stamps: Doodle Pantry free digital stamp (scroll to bottom of page for digi)
ink: laserjet printer, assorted markers
accessories: star punch, paper piercer, brads embossing folder and dimensionals!!!


Supplies: Just a Note


card stock: kraft, white, Basic Grey pattern paper from a paper stack
stamps: Hero Arts sentiment
ink: black, distress ink
accessories: EK Success Brick Punch, Brads, paper piercer, Nestabilities die, sponge, ribbon and dimensionals!!!



thanks for looking ~



have a great airborne day!

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

OWH Sketch Challenge ~ TLC "My Hero" ~ Patriotic Card

My card today uses this week's OWH Stars & Stamps Sketch Challenge #123 layout. I printed off the sketch yesterday ~ along with the bonus sketch (I'll make a card with that later today).. and set it aside. This morning while reading through my Google Reader, I come across Create with TLC blog and seen this "My Hero" Memorial Day Freebie.

As soon as I seen the "My Hero" digi, I knew I wanted to use it on a card using this week's sketch... and here is my card:



Here is the sketch that I used for it:



supplies:

card stock: Cherry Cobbler, Navy Blue linen card stock, white. Star pattern paper unknown
ink: HP laserjet printer
accessories: sewing machine, Quickutz alphabet die, bigkick, punch (for banner ends) and dimensionals

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

StampersBest ~ Chevelle... I "heart" my DAD card

I started this card using the layout for this week's OWH Stars & Stamps Blog Sketch Challenge #122... the image I chose is one that I got last week from StampersBest. It is the Chevelle with Chrome Nameplate stamp (*I actually cut my stamp apart and didn't use the nameplate on the outside of the card. I am going to stamp it on the inside on the panel opposite the one where a greeting/note will be written). NOTE* use code: airbornewife at checkout to save 10% on your order.

After starting my card.. I realized that I wasn't going to be able to put the card together as the sketch was.. so I improvised and turned some things around.

Here is the OWH Stars & Stamps Sketch #122:



I stamped a bunch of the Chevelle image.. I'm going to color them in so I have them ready when I go to put some more cards together, they'll be ready to go.



used on this card:

card stock: black, white, Real Red
ink: black, asst. copic markers
stamps: StampersBest Chevelle and Chrome Nameplate stamp, Hero Arts: I "heart" my DAD
accessories: diamond embossing folder, paper piercer, black brads, punch for banner ends and Dimensionals!!!


thanks for looking ~

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

Watercolor Effect with Direct to Stamp Inking

I received some emails and comments about how I did the image on one of the cards I made for this past weekends OWH~StampersBest BlogSkip and I said I would show how I did this.. but wanted to have all three of the images so I could show the progress from beginning to end.. however I couldn't find that middle image.. and after searching high and low.. I finally found it in a basket of scraps.

The image I used I actually got by accident.. really, by accident.

I had recently received a set of Distress Markers and was getting ready to go to bed one night and thought I'd mess around with them first. I grabbed the stamp I had been working with earlier in the night to stamp some other images that I colored in.. and thought I'd directly apply the ink to the stamp and see how it turned out.

The first stamping was really what I thought it would be.. liked it.. then I thought I'd spritz it with water.. course, all my mini misters are packed up somewhere so I grabbed an empty spray bottle and filled it with water.. spritzed it and stamped.. yikes.. too much.. then I stamped it again and left it and went on to bed.

The next morning when I got up and seen the sheet of watercolor paper laying on the washer where I had left it last night and was like "wow!".. I really like the way that turned out.

These were my images from that night:

Tonight as I started to put this together.. I couldn't remember if I had spritzed the stamp a second time or just stamped it after the second stamping.. so I did it all over from beginning to end.. and not only with Distress Markers but I also used some Stampin' UP! markers as well. You could do this with any waterbased markers. I have some Tombow markers but didn't have a dark navy blue so I passed on using them.

*NOTE: I only inked the stamp once. I then stamped it then I spritzed it with water then stamped and then stamped it again for the third time.

DISTRESS MARKERS:

STAMPIN' UP! MARKERS:

The more the papers dry.. the softer the image looks. I stamped all these images on some 90lb watercolor paper.

Give it a try.. I would love to see what you create.. add your blog here so I can check it out as well as others.



Happy Stamping!!!



thanks for looking ~

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

"Welcome Home" StampersBest stamp set winner

Happy Tuesday everybody... I am a day behind in posting this. I did contact the winner yesterday morning and then things got a bit crazy and I totally forgot about posting.

Thank you for all the wonderful comments... each of you made my day.. weekend!!!


I wrote down the name of every commenter and numbers for all of those who posted a link in Mr. Linky.. cut them into strips and folded every one of them and this is what I ended up with:




I mixed them all up real good and then had my daughter pick one out.. and she picked "hello holley"...

Congratulations to Holley!!!



Your stamp set will be on it's way today.


thanks for looking ~

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

OWH & StampersBest Armed Forces Day BlogSkip & GIVEAWAY!!!

Hello and welcome to this stop on the Armed Forces Day 2012 OWH BlogSkip. If you started from the OWH S&S blog.. you should be arriving here from Susan Janicki's blog ~ StampersBest. Be sure to scroll to bottom of post for a giveaway!!!

All the cards in this post were made using StampersBest OWH stamps.


These two cards use images from the Welcome Home stamp set.



*I have received some comments and emails about how I did this card.. I will make a post with pictures on how I did it soon.. it's super easy to do.



StampersBest supports Operation Write Home by making a donation for every OWH stamp purchased.. this weekend they are running some specials.. here they are:

1) StampersBest will DOUBLE the donation to OWH for any fundraiser stamps purchased this weekend, i.e. for each fundraiser stamp sold, $2 will go to OWH!

2) For every order that includes an OWH Fundraiser stamp, you get a FREE Statue of Liberty ClingStamp

3) As always, all orders over $35 get free shipping (USA). As a BONUS offer, any orders over $35 that include at least 1 OWH Fundraiser stamp, will also receive a FREE 3-Pack of Clear ClingStamp Storage Cards ($5 value).


These specials apply to orders placed Saturday, Sunday and Monday only.

**Wanna save 10% on your StampersBest order??

Use code: airbornewife at checkout.

Here are a few more cards samples I made:

This card uses the E Pluribus Unum Rubber Stamp and a sentiment from the My Hero stamp set.
This card uses a sentiment from the stamp set My Hero.

This card uses the stamp set Band of Brothers and a sentiment from My Hero stamp set.


Your next stop on the BlogSkip is Seongsook Duncan's blog.

If you want to start back at the beginning of the BlogSkip .. click here to head to the OWH Stars & Stamps Blog. Happy Skipping!!

GIVEAWAY!!!


You can win the Welcome Home stamp set of you own.... Leave a link in the Mr. Linky below... or post a comment and spell out your email address. I will pick a winner on Monday 5/20 in the morning and contact the winner.




thanks for looking ~

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

2012 Graduation card for nephew....... Way to go Cody!!

I made this card yesterday for my nephew who is graduating this upcoming weekend. He is Valedictorian of his class ~ Congrats Cody!!!

The High School colors are Blue and White.. and they are the Lions.

I hope he likes it.

Supplies used on this card:
card stock: Stampin' UP! Brillant Blue both smooth and textured, White and Cardstock Vellum
ink: Brillant Blue
Stamps: Lion from Serengeti stamp set, Great Grad stamp set
accessories: embossing folder, clear embossing powder, heat gun, Quickutz numbers die, nestabilities circle and square dies, corner punch and dimensionals!!!

thanks for looking ~

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

Finished up all the Gus the Golfer cards....

I finished these up a few days ago and I had taken a picture of them... however the card reader on my computer wouldn't read the card and I was going to load it in my laptop and totally forgot.


Yesterday, while loading images of a graduation card I made for my nephew, I seen that the picture were still on the card.

I ended up with 42 of these fun cards.. and plan on making some more in the future.. I already have a whole bunch of the golf balls already punched and embossed.. gotta use them up!!

Have a Super Duper Day!!!

thanks for looking ~

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

.......... ~*HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY*~........

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mother's out there. This card is one I made for my mom.. she received it in the mail yesterday so now I can show it. I had a lot of fun making this for her.. love ya' Momma!!!

Supplies:

card stock: Stampin' UP! Ruby Red, Groovy Guava. White and some Pattern Paper that I think is by My Mind's Eye

ink: Ruby red

stamps: Verve Because of You

accessories: Spellbinders Butterflies, scallop circle dies, circle die. Distress ink handle/sponge applicator, pearls,Stampin' Up! Lattice embossing folder, Dimensionals

thanks for looking ~

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

... a sneak at a card I made for my Mom for Mother's Day

I told myself on Monday to get in gear to make a card.. forgot.. same on Tuesday and yesterday.. then today I am thinking it's Wednesday.. nope, it's Thursday.. come on Pam get it together. I pulled out some papers, already had the stamp set Verve's Because of You that I had purchased from a fellow SCS'er some time ago.. and got to making the card.

The card is a square card.. I like making square cards for special occasions.. you can put more on it!

I mailed it out today via Prioity Mail.. so let's hope that by now, it's already hit the airport and is on a plane heading to TN.

I'll post the full picture as soon as I know my mom has received it.. hope she likes it. Love ya' Momma!!!


thanks for looking ~

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

Getting ready to make a bunch of "Gus the Golfer" cards

I colored in a whole bunch of Gus the golfer images the last few weeks while my arm was healing/recovering from surgery and the last two days I have been feeling well enough to make some cards. Tonight I cut a bunch of card bases, my husband punched and embossed the large golf balls for me.. and I printed out and cut all the sentiments.. I just need to layer them and the rest of the Gus images.. tomorrow I will put these together.

Here is one of the cards completed:

thanks for looking ~

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