OWH Sketch Challenge #209 "DAD" mustache card

Sometime last year I picked up a pack of these "mustache" paper clips for .50 cents at a local store and tonight was the night for one to end up on  a card.

I used this week's OWH Sketch Challenge #209 for this card:

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  black

pattern paper:  Echo Park Times & Seasons

stamps:  Gina K Masculine Messages

ink: Versafine Black

accessories: Scor-Pal, Mustache Embossing Folder, Mustache Paperclip, Large and Small black brads from Michael's, 1 1/2" circle Punch, MFT Die-namics Pierced Circles, Fishtail Flags, Hole Piercer and Dimensionals

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

SSSC204 "Butterfly Kisses & Dandelion Wishes" card

I haven't been feeling well since last week.. and this past weekend I think I spent more time in bed, then upright!

Tonight I really didn't want to spend laying in bed. so I thought I'd make something.    I pulled out this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #204 and got busy.   

After I finished the card.. I put the two brads from the lower corner.. in the corners of the middle panel.. those corners looked bare and needed something.

here is the link to this week's SSSC204:

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  white, black

pattern paper: MME The Sweetest Thing: Tangerine

stamps: My Favorite Things Make A Wish

ink: Versafine black, Memento black, asst. copics

accessories:  MFT Die-namics Dainty Doily, Vertical Frame, Sentiment Strips,  silver mini brads, hole piercer, Scor-Pal and Dimensionals

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

MFTWSC160 "Spread Your Wings" card

My card started out with a panel that I had stamped the bird from the MFT stamp set called Birds..  but the ink I stamped the bird in didn't look right,, so I grabbed some papers from the MME paper pad that I had used for the other pattern papers.   

here is the sketch I used:  MFTWSC160

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  Kraft, white, black
stamps: MFT Birds
pattern paper:  MME Follow Your Heart ~ Be Amazing
ink:  Versafine Black
accessories:  Annabelle Stamps Satin Ribbon, MFT Die-namics Circle Stax, Photo Corner punch, Scor-Pal, black brads, hole piercer and Dimensionals.


thanks for looking ~

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

"I LOVE YOU" cards ~ two ways.

After making the "I Love To See You Smile" card earlier tonight..  I was flipping through more of the MME papers that I had and thought I'd make a quick card using some of it.

I made the card on the left first..  and then decided to flip the papers and add another layer and I think I like them both..  but think I need to add another layer to any future ones of #1 that I might make.

The papers are from The Sunny Side collection.. the sentiment is from MFT Airplane Greetings.

Let me know what you think..   thanks.

thanks for looking ~

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

SSSC203 "I LOVE TO SEE YOU SMILE" card

A few days ago when I was doing some organizing of my dies.. I found that I had purchased this sweet bicycle die and had yet to use it.. not sure how I missed it because all the envelopes around it were all empty and the dies in the magnetic books where I store them..  oversight then but now it's cut some paper and I am glad that I found it and used it.

I used this week's SSSC203 sketch for this card:

Supplies:

card stock:  white, Real Red, Kraft
pattern paper: MME Sunny Side
stamps:  MFT All Smiles
ink:  Versafine Black
accessories: MFT Pierced Circle dies, Circle Stax, Memory Box Bicycle Die, Photo Corner Punch and Foam Tape


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

Property of Team Awesome cards

I made these two cards tonight using a past Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #201 sketch.  

I have a bunch of these sports themed papers that I purchased from a local scrapbook store that was closing, and have been wanting to use some of it on cards for Operation Write Home.  

I need to die cut a bunch of these jerseys and then I'll be ready to make the cards.. I did this with the MFT Typewriter and paper die last summer.. I just die cut one after another and when I felt I had done enough. I stopped and ended up with like 30 something typewriters and papers..  I need to do that again with some of the dies I have that I would love to make bunches of cards with.   

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

Lot of 5 Christmas Cards ~ January

Sometime last week on the OWH Facebook page, I seen a post that was I believe posted by Jennifer..  mentioning about making Christmas cards each month of the year.  Two years ago I did a Christmas Card Challenge on SCS and did 10 a month.. it was a lot of fun.     Anyways.. I can't find the post about making the cards on the FB page anymore.. but I did make 5 cards.   

This paper is from a My Mind's Eye Christmas pad.. I purchased maybe 6-8 of them on discount..  and today while at Michael's in Southern Pines/Aberdeen area.. I got one for .01 cents!!!! 

The sentiment is from a MFT set called Clearly Sentimental about Christmas.   The Santa images and the enamel dots are all from MME.   I used Cherry Cobbler and Kraft card stock for the layers.

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

10 more Gus The Golfer cards.. and I'm calling it a night!

I made 10 more Gus the Golfer cards..  they are so much fun to make.    

I was going to take the kids and drive to Greensboro in the morning..  but just realized that it's 11:49 pm ~ yikes.. not sure if I'll be up early to get headed north.

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

Gus the Golfer images.. and what I am going to make with them.

I found all these Gus The Golfer images in a basket on my desk.. and so I decided it was time to put them on some cards.  I have made LOTS of cards in the past using this Bugaboo stamps image and I have more images colored and on full sheets (see pic) and some that are half colored.     The circles that are embossed are ones leftover from when I had my Rotator Cuff surgery (10/10) and my husband had punched and embossed them for me because I couldn't do it.. or rather was afraid to do all that working using my right hand/arm so soon after surgery.. so he did it for me and he did a TON!!

So after digging around for a sketch that might work with this size image.. and not finding one.. I just laid down some stuff and went with it.. and this below is card #1 that I completed..  not sure how many more there are to make.. but there is a bunch! haha.    I'm going to go cut stuff and then have it ready to assemble.   

What do you think??   

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  white, black
pattern paper:  MME Lime Twist Out of The Blue, Trinity Paper Arts Surf N' Swim
stamps:   Bugaboo Gus The Golfer, Stampin' UP! And Many Mower
ink:  HP Laser Jet Printer, Versafine Black, asst. Copic markers
accessories:  MFT Die-namics for sentiment, Fiskars Circle Punch, Embossing Folder 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 #208 "YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE" card

What a fun sketch this week's OWH Sketch Challenge #208 is.     I have had this Lawn Fawn set called Sunny Skies and only used it I think once before.. so it was time to get it inked up again. 

Here is this week's OWH Sketch #208:

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  White, Neenah Cayon Brown
pattern paper:  MME Fine & Dandy
ink:  Versafine Black
stamps:  Lawn Fawn Sunny Skies
accessories:  Lawn Fawn dies Sunny Skies, MFT Scallop border and Dimensionals


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

SSSC203 "LOVE YOU DEARLY" card

 It's Sunday and that means that there is a new Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.. yeah!!!

I seen the banner across the middle of the sketch and reached for my Paper Smooches set called Pretty Phrases.. and then for a paper pad from Echo Park called Bundle of Joy, and I got busy making the card.

The papers go together so nicely that it was so easy to pick and choose which ones to use.

Here is this week's SSSC203..   give it a try!!

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  Neenah Cayon Brown, White
pattern paper: Echo Park Bundle of Joy
stamps: Paper Smooches Pretty Phrases
ink: Stampin' UP! Early Espresso
accessories:  MFT Die-namics Circle Stax and Pierced Circle Stax, Photo Corners Punch, Brads, Paper Piercer and Dimensionals.


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

Annabelle Stamps Sketch Challenge AC175 "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"

What a full day it has been today..  I got to watch my youngest son score the first basket in his basketball game.. and then a little while later see him sink a 3 pointer.. it was so much fun watching all the kids playing and having fun.   After the game we came home, fixed dinner, cleaned up and then the boys went to reload some ammo.. and I decided to make something.   I had printed off the Annabelle Stamps sketch challenge AC175 and so I decided to make something using it first. 

 Here is the sketch for  AC175:

Supplies:

stamps:  Annabelle Stamps  Rockin' Instrumental
ink:  Versafine Black
card stock:  Black, Tortilla
pattern paper:  7 Gypsies  Venice
accessories: Dimensionals

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

MFTWSC159 "HOWDY" card

I so look forward to the MFTWSC and this week was a fun one.    I got to use my new Traditional Stax Tags.. both Pierced and Regular... plus a bunch of other MFT Die-namics dies as well.  Lots of these goodies are from the stash I got for Christmas.

Here is the MFTWSC159  Sketch:

Supplies:

card stock:   Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Neenah Tortilla, Neenah Cayon Brown
pattern paper:  Authentique Thankful
stamps:   MFT Howdy and Western Backgrounds
ink:  Early Espresso, Sepia
accessories:   MFT Die-namics: Circle Stax, Pierced Circle Stax, Traditional Tag Stax, Pierced Traditional Tag Stax, Howdy Frames, Crown Border, Woodgrain Embossing Folder, Dots Embossing Folder and Dimensionals



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

Thomas The Tank Engine set of cards.. using stickers!!

Earlier tonight I had went to the garage to grab a can of soda and seen this sticker sheet laying on top of a basket..  I grabbed it and laid it on my desk.    When I sat down to make something, there it was..   so I decided to make some cards using the stickers.. and I used every single one.

I adhered the stickers to some shimmer paper.. and cut them down to size.. layered them onto a piece of Real Red card stock that I had cut to size.       I used a MFT stamp set to stamp the speech bubble and the I "love" you sentiment.       Each card is on a Kraft card base, a shimmer layer and then a Textured Brillant Blue layer... then everything is on top of that.      

When my youngest son was little.. he LOVED Thomas The Tank Engine.. so I'm hoping that some other little boy or girl  loves Thomas too and will enjoy getting one of these cards.


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

OWH #207 "I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART" card

This past summer a stamping friend in TN loaned me some of her Papertrey Ink stamps and dies.    I am ashamed to say that this is the first time I've used this die..  what in the world I was waiting for, I don't know..  it's beautiful and cuts to nice.  

I already had some white card bases and the Brillant Blue layer was cut as well..  I die cut some hearts so I could stamp the "I love you.." sentiment on one of the hearts.

the sketch I kinda based my card one was this week's OWH Sketch #207.  I wasn't sure about using  the square shapes on the panel going across the card.. so I left mine solid and tied ribbon around it.. using the heart shape for the middle shape on the sketch.  

OWH SKETCH #207:

SUPPLIES:
card stock:  white, brillant blue, real red
ink: Versafine black
stamps: MFT Love
accessories:   Papertrey Ink Quatrefoil die, Spellbinders Heart and Scallop Heart die, Stampin' UP! Grossgrain Ribbon and Dimensionals

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

SSSC202 "MANY MILES APART..." card

After dinner tonight, I ran upstairs to print off some sketches and came back downstairs to my stamp room to make something.     When I seen the panel on this week's SSSC202 sketch, I started looking through all the MFT stamps I got for Christmas and I immediately seen First Class Friend and this sentiment.    I knew it wouldn't look right just stamped on the panel, so I used pulled out another new goodie.. the MFT Layered Treat Tag.. LOVE THIS!!!       

Here is the SSSC202 sketch:  

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  Cherry Cobbler, Midnight Muse, White
pattern paper: Echo Park Winter Park
ink:  Versafine Black
stamps:  MFT First Class Friend
accessories: MFT Die-namics Fishtail Flags, MFT Die-namics Layered Treat Tag, MFT Die-namics Primitive Hearts, Twine, Cropadile, LifeStyle Crafts Embossing Folder, MFT Die-namics Pierced Rectangle and Regular Rectangle Stax and Dimensionals.

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

SSSC201 "BIG SMILE" Monster card *with measurements

I just love how bright and colorful this card is..  I hope it puts a "BIG SMILE" on the face of whoever receives it.    

This cutie got tossed into a basket I keep on my desk that has some colored in images like the MFT Pure Innocence images...  and because when I die-cut it, it didn't cut out as nicely because I had kinda guessed where it was to cut.. anyways.. I set it in the basket and had forgotten about it. Today I go looking for an image to add to my card and find him..   I thought it was time he earned a spot on a card.  

Here is the SSSC201 sketch:

MEASUREMENTS:

card base:   5 1/2  x 8 1/2" scored at 4 1/4"
white layer:   5 3/8" x 4 1/8"
black layer:  5 1/4" x 4"
pattern paper:   5 1/8" x 3 7/8"

polka dot layers:

black layer:  2 1/4" x 4"
pattern paper: 2 1/8"  x 3 7/8"

white embossed panel:

black layer:  2 1/8" x  3 1/2"
white layer:2" x 3 3/8"

Supplies:

card stock:  white, black, Real Red
pattern paper:  Simple Stories Snap Color Vibe paper pad
ink:  Memento black, asst. copic
stamps:   Annabelle Stamps Lil' Monster's Balloon, Versafine black
accessories:  MFT Dienamics circle dies, Lifestyle Crafts ebossing folder

thanks for looking ~

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

American Bald Eagle "THANKS" cards *with measurements

Ahhhhhh..   working with one of my favorite stamps again..  the Bald Eagle Portrait stamp from StampersBest (use code: airbornewife on any orders to save 10%)

I am working on filling a flat rate box to send to Operation Write Home. They are all "Thank You" cards and I need to get this out in the mail pronto..   The bottom of the box is full..  but none of the cards are tucked in envelopes.. so by the time I do that, I do believe that it will fill up not only the bottom.. but the top as well and I can get it postal.

I made a card like this a while back that had a "Thank you for your service" stamp on it..  I just changed the sentiment strip to read "Thanks" and got busy making some more.  I could only make 6 since I could only find one sheet of the gold star paper that was in an Army paper pad.   It's late or I'd dig through papers to find some more, or something like it...   after tucking the cards in envelopes and if I still need more, I will find some then.

Here are all six of the cards I made:

**NOTE:  I have received some questions about the embossed layer that is on the card.   It's a 5 Bar  Card Panel.  I purchased boxes of these (in different sizes, ie: 4, 5 and 5.5 Bar) at XpedX when we were in El Paso, TX.   They are something that you probably could find at a local printer or paper supplier.  The 5 Bar  is my favorite because they measure 4" x 5 1/4" and make easy toppers for cards.


MEASUREMENTS:

card base 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" scored at 4 1/4"
black layer:  5 3/8" x 4 1/8"
white layer:  5 1/4" x 4"

stamped Eagle layers:
white layer:  3 5/8" x 3 1/4"
black layer: 3 3/4" x 3 3/8"

sentiment:  (depends on size of sentiment)
white layer:  3/4"  x however long you need it
black layer:  7/8" x however long you need it

pattern paper layers:
pattern layer:  1 3/4" x 5 1/4"
black layer:   1 7/8" x 5 1/4"


SUPPLIES:
card stock:  black, white
pattern paper:  from an old Army paper pad
stamps:  MFT Sending Thanks, StampersBest Bald Eagle Portrait
ink:  Versafine black
accessories:  paper piercer and brads, punch to make banner ends


thanks for looking ~

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