Merry Monday Challenge/StampersBest... miss you snow much

I haven't done a Merry Monday Challenge card in a while and the other day when I was searching out challenges, I found this one and thought I'd play along this week.

I used a new StampersBest ~ OWH Fundraiser set on this card "Snow Much"

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This is the sketch I used:

Supplies:
card stock:  Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy, White
pattern paper:  Echo Park Winter Park
ink: memento black, blue and a red copic
accessories:  Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon, Nestabilities dies, Corner Bracket punch, MS heart corner punch and dimensionals!!!

thanks for looking ~

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

MFTWSC91 ........ I MISS YOU

This is my second card today using this week's MFT Wednesday Stamp Club Sketch #91 .. I liked it so much I thought I'd make another one.   This time I used MFT Pure Innocence Making a List.

Here is the sketch I used:

Supplies:
card stock:  Not Quite Navy, More Mustard, Brown, white
pattern paper: My Mind's Eye Stella Rose
ink: memento black, asst. copics
accessories:  fishtail tag dies, scallop border punch, brads, hole punch, prima flower, brown button, hemp cord and Dimensionals!!!


thanks for looking ~

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

SC404 I Love You So Much

For this card I used this week's sketch on the SCS Card Sketches Challenge Thread.

I had a lot of fun making this..  because I "LOVE" layers.. the more layers the better!!!..
I just had a thought.. maybe the reason why I love layers so much is so that I get to use my
favorite thing in my stamping arsenal.. DIMENSIONALS!!!!!    I have 11 packs of an order
right now..  and I have a handful of packages still.. one can never ever have enough of them.

This morning while vacuuming.. I noticed that there was dimensionals papers in the living room, the kitchen, the bedroom.. bathroom.. and some even upstairs... I must've brought them on my clothes upstairs.. Them things are everywhere.

Here is the sketch I used on this card:

Supplies:

white, red and black card stock
pattern paper is from a paper stack that I forgot to bring upstairs with me ** the paper is from Echo Park and is from the Yours Truly paper stack.
ink is tuxedo black memento ink
accessories are some heart dies from nestabilities, a corner bracket punch to make the banner ends and dimensionals!!

thanks for looking ~

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

MFTWSC91... You Are Bee-Utiful

I recently got an order from MFT and this cutie "Bee Yourself" was one of the stamp sets I ordered.  I have been wanting to participate in the weekly MFT Wednesday Sketches, so I was tickled that this week I'd actually get my card posted during the time the challenge is ongoing..  unlike my  "Wild Thing" card that I was a day late with.

The papers I used on here were gifted to me (along with a TON of other papers and stamp sets) .. when the boxes arrived, I had already colored in my image and was looking for papers and seen these.. I need to see who/what it is.. I left the package downstairs and forgot to bring it up with me.  **the paper is from pinkpaislee and is from the Indigo Bleu paper pack.

here is the sketch for this week's challenge:

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Sketch Challenge #139.. Veteran's Day card

For this week's OWH Sketch Challenge #139, I thought I'd make a Veteran's Day card for the upcoming holiday on November 11th.   The card went together rather quickly.. the embossed and sanded stripe of stars was already made...  after making it and looking at it, I wish I had just done a strip of gold instead of more stars.. I'll do that next time.

Here is the sketch I used:

The papers I used are some from a Hobby Lobby paper pack, the die is a Stampin' UP! Top Note Sizzix die and the sentiment is punched out from a 3" Fiskars circle punch.   The stamp I believe is from DRS.  It's downstairs right now and I totally forgot to look at it before coming up here to make sure.

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

All I Want Is You SC403 "love" card

This card was one that I made this past week, but never got around to taking a picture of it. It uses SCS Sketch Challenge #403. On this card I used some retired Stampin' UP! pattern paper and a stamp from the Hero Arts ~ OWH Winter Wishes stamp set.

 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

Patriotic "Thank You" cards for guests at military ball

I was asked to make some "thank you" tags/cards to put on some wine bottles in gift baskets for some guests that were attending our battalion's ball this past Friday.   Here are the five cards that I made.. inside has a bunch of "Engineer" stamped sayings/Sapper tab and a thank you sentiment.     I was approached by one of the guests who received one and was told how beautiful she thought it was.. made my night for sure!!

thanks for looking ~

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

Holiday Greetings & Snow Much Christmas cards ~~ StampersBest/OWH

I got the new StampersBest stamp sets last week and was so busy that I only got to make a few cards.. one from each set (Valentine's Day card in another post).. these are the two Christmas ones that I made. I used Holiday Greetings and Snow Much, you can order these individually or OWH Bonus OFFER Rubber Stamp Sets For a limited time, get all 3 new collections for a discounted price in celebration of OWH's birthday. BONUS: You also get 1) Clear ClingStamp Storage Card and 1) Sheet of Cling Cushion Mounting Foam. ($9.50 total savings) (from StampersBest website)

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

To My ALL AMERICAN Valentine ~ StampersBest & OWH

The new StampersBest ~ OWH stamp sets are so cute. I used the Patriotic Love set on this card.. you can order it individually.. or OWH Bonus OFFER Rubber Stamp Sets For a limited time, get all 3 new collections for a discounted price in celebration of OWH's birthday. BONUS: You also get 1) Clear ClingStamp Storage Card and 1) Sheet of Cling Cushion Mounting Foam. ($9.50 total savings) (from StampersBest website)

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I really like the way this card turned out.. but wish I had stopped my banners at the top of the white layer.. I plan on making some more of these.. after all, I am at Ft. Bragg.. home of the 82nd "All American" Airborne Division.. love seeing the sentiment saying "To My All-American... " love it.

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

"Wild Thing" MFTWSC89

I have been wanting to participate in the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Club Challenges, but always forget.. then I made this card several days ago.. only to see that I was a day late! ha ha. I really like the way it turned out and hope that whoever receives it enjoys it.

thanks for looking ~

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

oh my gosh... my card was chosen as "customer card of the day" on the ODBD blog.

Oh my gosh.. imagine my surprise when I opened an email this morning that was a private message through SCS to me.. saying that a card I posted for the OWH monthly ODBD challenge was chosen as a "customer card of the day"... wowzers! I was laying in bed this morning reading the email on my Kindle and my husband is saying "you're a superstar!!".. ha ha.. what a funny man!

here is the card that was posted:


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

My Little Loveosaurus...

Well.. I thought my MFT order was coming today, after checking the tracking on it and seeing "Sanford" I thought it was here.. however it was Sanford, FL, it will be here tomorrow. The day I put my order in and had wanted this set, but it wasn't available, I went to SCS and found one in the Buy/Sell/Trade forum. I emailed the lady, paid her pronto, she mailed it out that day and it came in the mail today.. yeah! I stamped a whole sheet of them and colored in one.. I thought I'd make a card with it.. just love this image, it's so adorable.

supplies:
card stock: Neenah Black #100 cover, Neehan White, Marina Mist, My Mind's Eye pattern paper
ink: memento black and asst. copics
stamp set: MFT Loveosaurus
accessories: Stampin' UP! Embosslit heart, button, twine, brads and dimensionals



thanks for looking ~

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

Happy Birthday........ Army themed

Last night I sat down to make a birthday card and I wasn't sure where to go with it. I had an SCS sketch and that was it.. one thing that this person likes is a sport that I have no stamps related to it.. so we decided to go with an "Army" theme.

Here is the sketch layout I used. SCS Sketch Challenge #402:



I altered my card to fit the images and such on it.. making the strip across the card on the bottom to go only half way.

I used three different stamps on this card. The collage image from a retired Stampin' UP! set Courage & Honor, a Sapper Tab and an Engineer Castle. Army themed papers, the gold piece with the embossed stars on it is some awesome paper I recently got at Tueseday morning.. it looks black and when you turn it, it's gold, not bright gold .. so pretty.

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

OWH Sketch Challenge #137 cards.. & my messy desk

I made three cards today using this week's OWH Sketch Challenge #137 layout.

Here are my three cards:

This card uses an adorable Pure Innocence girl that is from My Favorite Things (MFT .. I placed a big order with them two days ago and it will be here tomorrow morning.. yeah!!) The papers are from My Mind's Eye, Scallop border punch from Stampin' UP! The strip with the sentiment on it was from one of the papers in the paper stack.

This card uses stamps/dies from Sizzix/Hero Arts, sentiment from a Stampin' UP! set, papers from My Mind's Eye, scallop punch from EK Success.

This card uses a stamp/die set from Sizzix/Hero Arts.. the sentiment is from a Stampin' UP! set God's Beauty, the papers are from My Mind'sEye, large scallop punch from EK Success.
yikes!!! what a mess.. wait, this is actually pretty neat. I do have a pile up on my card stock cart.. that orange Fiskars rotary trimmer I was using because the blade in the blue one was terrible.. that rotatry trimmer was a pain.. so yesterday I went and bought four packs of replacement Titanium blades.. hopefully those last me for a short while. I need to re do my desk stop.. that rack with a small portion of the Stampin' UP! ink pads I have is really taking up room.. I don't use them (or I haven't in the last two months.. less maybe one or two).. so I am thinking of moving it buying one of those over the sink shelves to hold ink pads on top and underneath.

This is the sketch layout I used on the cards:: OWH SKETCH CHALLENGE #137




Note: I made my square 2 1/2" (2.25" was the measurement on the sketch posted on the OWH blog).

thanks for looking ~

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

Warm Wishes ~ Christmas cards

I made this Christmas card two days ago.. and today decided to finally get around to cutting all the layers needed to make 10 more. I have them all ready to put together now.



supplies:
card stock: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive
pattern paper: Stampin' UP! DSP
stamps: Santa is Inkadinkado and sentiment is Made with Love from Hero Arts
ink: Distress inks Red and Green
accessories: brads, button, twine and Dimensionals

**I am not using buttons on the cards that I cut all this stuff our for.. I used it on the first one because I had stamped my Santa so close to the top and it looked funny, so I added the button for interest.. I am concerned with the button making the card bulky for mailing, so I am going to leave them off.

thanks for looking ~

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

Your Kindness is Truly Appreciated

I made this card a few days ago and had set it aside.. I had forgotten where I had set it and today while getting ready to cut some card stock for some Christmas cards, I seen it sitting on a shelf. I thought I'd share it. Super easy card. It uses a nestabilities die that I had wanted for so long and none of the stores in El Paso ever got any in.. then after we moved I walk into an AC Moore store and they have all these sets of dies on sale from $19.99 to $10.00.. and there it was.. I was super happy because it only ended up costing me $9.00 ~ AC Moore graciously gives a military discount every day.. thanks AC Moore!!

I used some My Mind's Eye pattern papers.. some stamps from Hero Arts ~ don't throw anything, I forgot the name and it's downstairs.. yikes! should've remembered to bring it up here with me. I think it's something like Made With Love.. oh yeah!! that is the name.. I googled it up and it is the one.

While the piece that I cut was still in the die, I sponged in some distress inks.. that way you get a nice white border around your piece.


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

OWH Mid-week Throwdown Challenge ~ Kid's card w/scallops

The challenge for this week's OWH Mid-week Throwdown Challenge is to make cards that have "scallops" on them.

The layout I used on this card is an OWH Bonus Sketch.
Here's the sketch:



supplies:

card stock: white 100# cover from International Paper, Glorious Green, Brillant Blue and Summer Sun from Stampin' UP!, Red from Neenah
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, asst. copic markers
stamp set: Circus set ($1.99 from Tuesday Morning)
accessories: Cuttlebug folder, Nestabilities dies, hole punch, brads, scissors and Dimensionals!!!

thanks for looking ~

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