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!!

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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)

If you use code: airbornewife at checkout, you can save 10% on your order.

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)

If you use code: airbornewife at checkout, you can save 10% on your order.

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



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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