Ho! Ho! Ho! Santa Christmas card

.......... a long time ago I printed off this adorable Santa Claus image from the Dustin Pike blog.. he has lots of freebies and they are so adorable. When I went to get the link to his blog, where it says "he is available here" it doesn't have the file there.. but you can click on the image and save it as jpg.. that is how I have it saved on my computer.

I had a whole sheet of these printed off and yesterday while watching the NASCAR race, I colored in the whole sheet and some other images that I have printed off as well.. I have a whole stack of things to color so I was having a blast doing so.

For this card I used:

stamps: $1.00 clear stamp set

card stock: Stampin' UP! Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green

GP white, black, and some American Crafts pattern paper

Ink: printer, copic markers, black ink

accessories: hole punch, red brads, circle punches, Tim Holtz retro circles embossing folder, bigkick, and Dimensionals

thanks for looking ~

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

Merry Christmas Ya'll! ~ Patriotic Texas ornaments cards

After I finished the last Texas themed Christmas cards.. I decided to find a different sketch and didn't find one I liked.. so I just kinda winged it and ended up with this. I made 9 of these babies and they'll all go in the box (if they can fit~ 300+ in the box and still lots more to fit in) to head to Dixie for Operation Write home and then off to deployed military around the world.. Hooah!!

For these cards I used:

stamps: Deadbeat Designs

card stock: Stampin' UP! Riding Hood Red, Brillant Blue. WeRMemoryKeepers Yankee Doodle pattern paper, GP white card stock, watercolor paper

ribbon: Stampin' UP!

Nestabilities die, circle punch, dimensionals

ink: Memento black, assorted Copic Markers

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Birthday Bash: Free Digi ~ Thank You card

Be sure to hop over to the Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps site to get some FREE digis.. they are featuring the state flower of Illinois. There is a Thank you and a Miss you digi... OWH STARS & STAMPS SITE.

Here is my card using the free digi.

For this card I used:
card stock: Stampin' UP! Almost Amethyst and Lavender Lace. GP white, Basic Grey pattern paper from the Euphoria stack.

ink: copic markers, Distress inks, printer

accessories: Bigkick, Spellbinders, Cuttlebug Seeing Spots embossing folder, hole punch, brads, sponge and Dimensionals

Card stock:

thanks for looking ~

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

SCS Sketch #348 ~ Texas themed Christmas card

I used the sketch layout on SCS this week for this card.

Merry Christmas Ya'll ! Texas style.

For this card I used:

Stampin' UP! card stock in the colors of Riding Hood Red, Brillant Blue
GP white card stock
WeRMemoryKeepers Yankee Doodle paper from paper stack
Cuttlebug Stars embossing folder
Dimensionals
Spellbinders, Circle Punch
Stampin' UP! Red Taffeta Ribbon
Cropadile, Stampin' UP! Eyelets
Copic Markers, Memento Black Ink

This is the SCS sketch that I used for this card:





thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Sketch #85 ~ Yankee Doodles patriotic card

This card was super quick and super easy.. I just pulled some papers from a big paper pack from WeRMemory Keepers called Yankee Doodles. I used the sketch from Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps site for this week. The card base is Stampin' UP! Real Red card stock.

Here is the sketch:

thanks for looking ~

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

Thank you for your service... OWH card for Heroes

I got an order in from Stamper's Best and received as a freebie.. this stamp of soldiers walking arm in arm.. like a Band of Brothers. I ordered the special Operation Write Home stamp set and the sentiment stamp was in it.. I thought it would be a nice sentiment to include on a Hero Mail card.

Cardstock is Stampin' UP! More Mustard and Basic Black, and GP white cardstock.

Embossing folder: Cuttlebug Stars

Black brads, hole punch, dimensionals, bigkick

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Birthday Bash Challenge: Casing Ardeth card #2 Thinking of you

This is another card I cased from Ardeth T. Here is the link to the OWH Birthday Bash Challenge.

I cased the fifth card posted on the post.

For this card I used: Stampin' UP! Basic Black, some grey cover I got from a print shop in N.C., GP White card stock. Black brads, hole punch, Bigkick, Diamond Plate Embossing Folder, Sponge Dauber, Memento Black Ink, Circle Punches, Dimensionals Stamps: Motorcycle from Stampers Best and a sentiment from a Hero Arts set.

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Birthday Bash Challenge: Honor Eagle card

The challenge for this card.. that is posted on the OWH Stars & Stamps site is to case a cardmaker ~ Ardeth T. from Glendale, AZ.

I cased the third card on the post... I drew the sketches to the others she did and am going to try and get them cased tomorrow.

For this card I used: Stampin' UP! Basic Black, More Mustard card stock, GP white card stock, Memento Black ink, Circle Punches, EK Success border punch. Stamps: Unity, Unity in America and Bald Eagle from Stampers Best.

thanks for looking ~

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

OWH Birthday Bash 2011: use eyelets JUST SAYING HELLO CARD

OWH is having a Birthday Bash this month and they are having some challenges. This challenge is to use eyelets. I had started this card last night and tonight when I sat down and seen it.. I knew right away I would use a large eyelet as a tire swing and then added the sentiment... I really like how it turned out.

I got some new dies a week or so ago at a local stamp store and wanted to put them to use. The dies are from Memory Box and are called: Twiggy Tree and Leafy Canopy.

I used a sentiment from a Hero Arts set.. it's out of it's original packaging so I don't know the name of it.

Stampin' UP! Early Espresso and Certainly Celery card base and layer, GP White and the pattern paper I think is from My Mind's Eye. I used a micro pen to draw the line from the eyelet to the tree branch.

thanks for looking ~

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

look at this spread..... getting ready to get all these cards ready for mailing.

I pulled out all the cards that I need to get ready for mailing to send to Operation Write Home. I have a dining room table full.

I laid them all out last night... then tonight I went to the PX to buy some address labels to print off the info onto the labels to affix to the backs of my cards.. I got a deal because they had the spot for the $4.55 packs loaded with $8.95 packs.. when I asked if they had any of the $4.55 ones, the lady said that I could get the $8.95 at the $4.55 price because it was their fault that they were in the wrong place.. well alrighty then.. so I got three packs.

I printed off all the labels and am now working on getting them attached to the cards.

thanks for looking ~

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