10 "Greetings from TEXAS" hero cards for OWH

Today I went into the garage and went digging through some boxes. I marked boxes very well, so I didn't have to go through all the boxes, I just needed to find the ones I wanted. I was looking for some Army/Airborne/Engineer stamps and the first box marked "stamp sets" they happened to be in.. yeah!!!

After dinner I cut out 30 Texas shapes and shadows using my Cricut set to 1 1/2".

I changed these cards some from the one the other night.. made the card base More Mustard because I had only three sheets of Cajun Craze left... cut out the Texas shapes using Crumb Cake card stock and layered them onto black card stock.

I used some stars I got at Michael's this past week.. and I sponged every layer.

These will have notes written inside each one for a Hero that is deployed, I will then send them to Operation Write Home.

Here's my messy grid paper after all that sponging... you should see my fingers.

thanks for looking ~

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

~* GREETINGS FROM..... TEXAS *~

Yesterday when we got done at the Outlet Mall.. my sweet hubby drove me to a little stamp store here in El Paso called The Stamp Act. I picked up these two Texas stamps from Deadbeat Designs and thought I'd use them on a card tonight... er, I mean morning since it's after midnight.. ha ha.

I seen a card that Polly and her friend had just finished ~ it was representing the Texas Longhorns.. the thing that I really liked about it was how she did her TEXAS word stamp.. randomly punching out holes on it.. then layering it on black.. so that's what I did on a tag. I stamped the shape of Texas stamp with Versamark onto Cajun Craze and then cut it out.. stuck that on onto some black card stock and then cut it out. I used a star brad from the Stylized Silver Hodgepodge Hardware set I have from Stampin' UP!

The sentiment: Greetings from... I typed on the computer and printed it off on Very Vanilla and sponged around on it and the tag too.


thanks for looking ~

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

now there's a whole dozen.. YOU are loved cards

I made another 11 of these "YOU are loved" cards so now I have a whole dozen of them that I will send to Operation Write Home.

I cut the "loved" part of the stamp off and then stuck it on the block so that it was under that "are".. that way it looked a bit better when punching it out with the heart punch.

I am going to have to do some digging in the boxes on the garage.... I didn't think I would mess with those boxes until we moved.. however my Hooah Army and Engineer stamps are all out there and I want to make a thank you to send to the SGM that hosted the Engineer social the other night.. so I will be digging through boxes tomorrow because it's that important to me.

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Sketch #82 ~ YOU are loved ~ card

I used the same layout as the previous card for this one as well.. I thought I had a small heart punch.. but noooooooooooo... so I had to use a Martha Stewart heart corner punch to get the three small hearts that I put on the heart with the sentiment.

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Sketch #82 ~ Happy Birthday Love Bug ~

It's been a busy day.. today we went to my daughter's school and got her schedule, books and picture taken for ID card. We did all the registration stuff back on August 2nd so we wasn't there too long. We went back for what we were told was the Freshman Orientation from 1-4 however it was in the morning time.. frustrating not getting the right info.. but that's okay, I know who was the one who gave us the wrong info and I will speak to her because I understand they gave out t-shirts to those that attended.

My card uses this week's sketch challenge on Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps site. I used a Unity Stamp Company stamp set called Love Bug... the Happy Birthday sentiment is from a new Stampin' UP! Birthday set I got this past week.

thanks for looking ~

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

Snow Much Fun ~ set of 8 Christmas cards

Snow Much Fun is one of the new sets I got from Stampin' UP! this week and tonight was the first time inking up some of the stamps from the set.

I seen a card in the upcoming Holiday Mini and thought I'd case the layout for it. I made one using a corduroy button and didn't really like it.. then I punched a snowflake using shimmery white paper and used a clear button with some red/white baker's twine.. didn't like that one either.. so I went with buttons that matched the card stock.. Old Olive. I also used a couple of More Mustard ones because I didn't have enough of the Old Olive ones.

These will go in the box and will be sent to Operation Write Home.


thanks for looking ~

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

Dear Santa...... stockings hung by the fireplace card

In my box of new goodies I received yesterday from Stampin' UP! was a new stamp set called Stitched Stockings.. I also got these adorable mini bells and a punch that goes along with the stocking set.. how cute is that??

I got the Dear Santa stamp in NC before we moved and I thought I'd use it on this card. It was a fun card to put it together.

These are the items I used:

Stamps: SU Stitched Stockings, $1. stamp
Card Stock: Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Very Vanilla, Brushed Gold, Kraft
Tools: Brick Embossing Folder, Distress Ink, Sponge, Blossom Punch, Iron Fence MS Punch (I used an exacto knife to cut off the bats on the bars), Dimensionals, Corner Rounder, Nestabilities Dies, Copic Marker, Black Ink, Bigkick, Floss, SU Mini Bells, Glossy Accents, Stocking Punch


thanks for looking ~

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

A Merry Christmas card using some new items

I got a new stamp set yesterday called Christmas Lodge ~ it will be in the upcoming Stampin' UP! Holiday Mini. I also got some Crumb Cake Seam Binding.. so pretty in real life. I used a sentiment from another set.. can't remember the name of it.

I made the snowflakes using some new Nestabilities dies that I got this summer in TN.

thanks for looking ~

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

~*MACKINAC BRIDGE*~ many thanks card (repost)

I thought I would repost this card that I made back in July 2009 .. it was a thank you card that I sent to Steve's grandmother to thank her for letting us stay at her house during our visit there that summer. Nothing fancy.. just a quick card I had made to say thank you.

I had bought this stamp at a store in St. Ignace, MI called the Victorian Village.. a tiny little shop with lots of unique stamps that have a lot to do with the outdoors and places around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Sketch Challenge ~ "Happy Birthday" cards

I am not so sure that I like the way these turned out.. but they are so bright and cheery that I do think they will brighten someone's day.

I used the Operation Write Home Sketch Challenge for this week:

For my card I used these supplies:

Card stock: Pacific Point, So Saffron, White

Ink: black

Accessories: Bigkick, Top Note Bigz Die, Embossing Folder, Large Oval Punch, Hole Punch, Dimensionals, Brads, Corner Punch to make triangle cut outs on Happy Birthday sentiment pieces

Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes

thanks for looking ~

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