Lots of cards!!! I Love You So Much

I had the house all to myself today. My two youngest were in school and my husband took our oldest daughter to the lake fishing in the boat. I turned on Roku and cranked up Pandora.. on the Bee Gees channel of course ~ my favorite!!

I got busy cutting some papers.... this time I grabbed a pack of some Stampin' UP! Designer Series Paper.. can't remember the name of it, it was on the clearance rack on the site, might still be. Not all the sheets in the pack are double sided. The light pink polka dotted strip is like card cover.. nice and thick, the heart piece is regular paper.

NOTE: my kraft paper looks terribly fuzzy on the edges.. I used a sanding block and trimmed them down.. I should've been using my Tonic trimmer to cut them.. but grabbed an old Fiskars cutter and the blade is long past due to be replaced.


I used the same layout as the last two days.. and then I turned it around .. then added some brads and I "really" liked the way they turned out.

Here are the measurements:

strip across top is a 1" strip with a 1 1/8" layer under it
the lower piece is 2" x 3" with a 2 1/8" x 3 1/8" layer under it.

The circles are based on what size sentiment you are using

thanks for looking ~

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

Wishing you a Beautiful Day!!

This card.. and the other that I made of it were kinda "throw togethers" while playing with dies and stamps and markers... always fun to do that.

The die is a MFT Die-namics die, the sentiment is MFT, the flower is from a Hero Arts sympathy set, the bling was colored with a Bic Mark-It red marker. I put dimensionals under the die cut and that was it.. some more super quick cards.

thanks for looking ~

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

You Make Me Smile... set of cards

I made six of these cards today. I used the same layout/sketch as the cards I made last night.

This is how I had things ready before I assembled them all together.. I punched, cut and stamped all that I needed and then got busy putting them together. The butterflies ended up being punched out of some other papers.. I didn't realize I had put the strips on the wrong side in the photo.. and when flipped over it was the same as the butterflies.. oops! so I punched them out of another piece of pattern paper.

These are super easy to make. Here are the measurements:

strip across top is a 1" strip with a 1 1/8" layer under it
the lower piece is 2" x 3" with a 2 1/8" x 3 1/8" layer under it.

The circles are based on what size sentiment you are using.. I made a card this morning that was like the ones yesterday.. I used an oval on it because the sentiment I was using was a tad wider then these. I didn't photograph it because it went right in the envelope to be mailed out.



thanks for looking ~

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

I Love You So Much... set of cards

I made a set of 6 of these cards last night.. super easy to do and I had so much fun making them.



thanks for looking ~

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

I'll Be Home For Christmas... quick & easy card

Yesterday while I had some time before the kids were due home from school and I had to go to the bus stop and pick them up.. 1 mile from the house, I put together two of these Christmas cards.

They were super easy to make. I used a tree stamp from a Stampin' UP! set that I bought last year and I paired it with a sentiment from a new Hero Arts ~ Operation Write Home set called Winter Wishes. Some ribbon, a scallop border, rounded corner and it's done. super easy!

thanks for looking ~

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

Hey Lil' Monster... HUGE Hugs !!! cards for kiddos

My cards are based off this week's OWH Sketch Challenge #135. I bought a bunch of papers from Tuesday Morning and had to use them on some cards (justifys purchase you know!.. ha ha) I ended up making 8 of these cards so far. When I took the pictures I had three done.. but kept on making them. The card bases are this really cool holographic paper and the "monster/alien" layer has shiny stuff on it.. such neat papers. I hope the kiddos that receive them enjoy them.



here's the OWH sketch I used:



thanks for looking ~

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

All I Want is You! Snowman Christmas card using OWH Sketch

I used last week's Operation Write Home Sketch Challenge #134 for my card.. as well as some new Hero Arts ~ OWH stamps "Winter Wishes".

Here is the sketch I used:



supplies:
The Paper Company blue shimmery paper, Stampin' UP! Riding Hood Red, My Mind's Eye Merry Pattern Paper, White
stamps: Hero Arts ~ Operation Write Home Winter Wishes
ink: Memento black, asst. copics
accessories: Nestabilities snowflake dies, button, floss, Nestabilities octagon dies, sewing machine, and Dimensionals

thanks for looking ~

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

Let Love Soar.... new OWH ~ Hero Art stamps

I got a package today that had two of the new Hero Arts ~ Operation Write Home stamp sets in it.. yeah!!

We have a leak in a water line outside and are waiting on the plumber to show up so I wanted to make a quick card using some stamps from this fun set. Stamps used on this card are from the Happy Birthday set.

thanks for looking ~

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

it's a girl! it's a girl! it's a girl!

I finished up the baby girl card a little bit ago.. I did it like the boy one I made yesterday but changed up a few things.

here are both cards together.. I hope that they like them.


thanks for looking ~

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

it's a boy! it's a boy! it's a boy!

I am attending a coffee tomorrow night with some other ladies from our battalion and we are going to be packing some baby baskets and I offered to make the cards for the ladies to all sign. I need one boy and one girl card.. this is the boy card.

I gotta run to go pick up my son at the high school. He went to day one of Freshman Orientation.... here are the supplies: Stamps are from Hero Arts and baby onesie is I think Studio G, papers My Minds Eye, ink Memento brown, ribbon Stampin' UP!, dies are Nestabilities.. I think that's it.. oh.. and Dimensionals!!!

thanks for looking ~

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

Hey Lil' Monster... hope you have a monster sized birthday!!

I decided to make another card for this week's OWH Midweek Throwdown Challenge, which is to make KIDS cards. I pulled out a Hero Arts set that I got when I bought a big lot of stamps from someone a while back.

I paper pieced the "monsters" and when I was done with the card I set out to find the "googlie eye".. and could only find a pack of small ones. I know I have more, I even have some with eyelashes.. but they are not in any of the drawers/bins downstairs.. they are probably among one of the boxes that are stuck upstairs in a closet.. maybe I'll find some time next week and see if I can look through the boxes to find some of the bigger ones.


thanks for looking ~

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

SCS Card Sketch Challenge #397 ~ THANKS SO MUCH

I have several "thank you" cards that I need to make... soon as I seen the sketch challenge #397 on SCS... I knew I would make a "thank you" card.

Here is the sketch layout I used:



thanks for looking ~

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

OWH MW Throwdown ~ Kids cards: Paper Dolls "Sweet" little girl card

This week's Midweek Throwdown Challenge on the OWH STars & STamps blog is to make KIDS CARDS!!!

I had already colored in this sweetie and so I made this one almost the same as the last one.. but made the strip across the middle a little different, using the Paper Dolls die. I used some other papers too.

thanks for looking ~

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

......... SWEET! ........

Hi Everybody... this morning I colored in two more of this adorable little girl stamp from MFT ~ Pure Innocence "Paper Dolls".. and before the kids and I headed out this afternoon going to town, I put together this card.

I used my new Chevron Stripes Die-namics die from MFT across the center of the card.

supplies for this card:
card stock: Stampin' UP! Not Quite Navy, Pumpkin Pie. White
pattern paper: My Mind's Eye paper stack.. I think Vanity Fair
stamps: Pure Innocence Paper Dolls, More Essential Sentiments
ink: memento black, asst. copics
accessories: Stampin' UP! label punch, Chevron Stripes Die-namics die, 3" circle punch, Nestabilities circle die that I traced and cut out, rhinestones and Dimensionals


thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Sketch Challenge #132 ... ~ Big Hugs ~ ...

This morning I thought I'd make another card using this week's sketch layout from the OWH Stars & Stamps Blog. I had stamped the image last night, actually stamped a whole sheet of them and sat down to watch the Olympics and color.. but I ended up watching Olympics and not coloring anything.. haha.. this morning I colored the image and set out to make the card. I had my pieces cut to fit the sketch as it is below.. but the sentiment didn't fit so I had to turn it and my "paper dolls" piece wasn't long enough for the whole card.. but it works and I really like how it turned out.. I hope whoever receives it likes it as well.

Here is the sketch that I used:


Supplies for this card:

card stock: Stampin' UP! Not Quite Navy, white
pattern paper: My Mind's Eye Fine and Dandy pad
ink: Memento black and copics
stamps: Pure Innocence-MFT Paper Dolls
accessories: CB embossing folder, MFT Die-namics Paper Doll border, Stampin' UP! Label punch, orange button, yellow/white twine, and Dimensionals!!!

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Sketch Challenge #132 ... ~ Missing You ~ ...

This week's Sketch Challenge #132 on the OWH Stars & Stamps blog was posted yesterday.. I didn't get to sit down to make anything until late last night and came up with this "missing you" card.


Here is the sketch that I used:


Supplies for this card:
card stock: Stampin' UP! Purely Pomegrante, Confetti Tan
pattern paper: My Mind's Eye Vanity Fair pad
ink: Memento black and one of the Distress inks, it's from the winter set, Versamark
stamps: Hero Arts Butterflies, MFT More Essential Sentiments
accessories: MFT-Dienamics Hexagons die, Sizzix Framelits butterfly die and Dimensionals!!!

thanks for looking ~

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

Sending You lots of hugs

Last night while watching the Olympics.. I was going through some magazines and tabbing pages with post it notes where there were cards that I liked the layout/sketch used on them. In between some of these magazines were some printed off pages of sketches and I seen the one I used (pictured below).. I started on the card last night and then worked on it a little this morning before church and then afterwards I finished it up. I used my favorite brown paper.. ahhhhh, it's gorgeous!!!


supplies used on this card:

card stock: Neenah Cayon Brown #80 and #100 cover, White
pattern paper: not sure who this is made by, maybe My Mind's Eye.. it was scraps in the basket that I grabbed to use
stamps: Hero Arts Truly Appreciated
ink: Memento Brown
accessories: CB embossing folder, Corner Chomper corner rounder, Stampin' UP! Star punch, Paper Piercer, Brads and Dimensionals!!!



thanks for looking ~

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

......... Missing You .........

It seems that the last few days I have just grabbed paper and went for it! I made this card early this morning. I used an OWH Bonus Sketch #24 for this card.. sketches can be found at this link.. click on the Bonus Sketch Link to find this sketch and a bunch of others. OWH SKETCHES

Supplies:
card stock: Neenah Cayon Brown 100# cover, Stampin' UP! Riding Hood Red
pattern paper: American Crafts
stamp set: MFT More Essential Sentiments
accessories: white brads, border punch and dimensionals

thanks for looking ~

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