Preparing cards to send overseas

I have two large flat rate boxes packed full of cards that were originally made to send to OWH, but at the time they were ending taking in card donations I had a whole lot of stuff going on.  I actually had four boxes full, but filled two boxes of cards and mailed them out to two friends to share with their FRG groups.  

Last night I pulled out the cards shown in the picture above to get ready for mailing overseas.  All were stamped on the back with a big OWH stamp, so I had to put some labels on the back of each one that has my name, blog, email on them to cover it up.  

Today I filled the box, but had some room on the top so I am going to make some "birthday" cards tonight to fill the box and get it on it's way overseas with tomorrow's mail.

I was asked to share this to my Pinterest board and the easiest way I know how was to share it here.

All of these cards are ones that when made I shared here on my blog and on my Pinterest board.



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

Day 30 "WHAT'S UP?" Giraffe card using Avery Elle stamps and die MOJO437

I am taking part of the ‪#‎thedailymarker30day‬ and this is my Day 30 coloring project

The March Challenge on the TupeloDesignsLLC Facebook page is to use Avery Elle products. Today I thought I'd make a card using a stamp set that I bought a long while back, but had never inked up.  Isn't the elephant adorable?

I stamped the elephant in Versafine Black ink onto a piece of Bristol Smooth Card stock. I colored him up with my Zig Clean Color Brush Pens.

To do the glasses for the giraffe I stamped the face and colored over the middle of the face as shown in the picture below.  

I then stamped the glasses onto the area I colored onto the face.

I cut out the glasses, took a black marker around the outside to cover the white, attached them to face using foam tape and applied some glossy accents.  I set it aside to dry.

I used this week's MOJO Monday Sketch #437 (I flipped the sketch):   MOJO437   

SOME MEASUREMENTS I USED:

on strip it's 7/8" x 5" with a black layer of 1" x 5 1/8"
square is 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" with a black layer of 2 5/8" x 2 5/8"


 SUPPLIES:

card stock:  black, Bristol Smooth White Card stock
pattern paper: Authentique Playful
stamp set: Avery Elle What's UP?
ink: Versafine Black, Asst. Zig Pens
accessories: Scor-Pal, MFT Award Seal Die, MFT Circle Stax, Lawn Fawn Spring Showers for Clouds, Avery Elle Dotted Die set for the banner and Foam Tape



Day 30 for the 30 day Color Challenge is in the books.. or on the rather on the blog! 
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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

Day 28 Zig Pens "WISHING YOU TONS OF FUN" card using MFT Adorable Elephants stamps & dies

I am taking part of the ‪#‎thedailymarker30day‬ and this is my Day 28 coloring project

Since I had two elephants already colored up from yesterday, I thought I'd color up four more balloons. I had plans on making two cards tonight, but it's been a long day so I just put one toghether.

I used a piece of the fun plaid paper from the MFT Plaid Patterns paper pad, some MFT Blue Raspberry card stock that I die cut using a MFT Circle Stax, along with a black layer. I embossed the blue circle with a Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder.    I have never used sequins on cards before, but had a pack of Lawn Fawn sequins I hadn't even opened and I've had them for quite a while so I added three to the card.

I put it all together and now it's ready to go in the box to send to someone special!

SUPPLIES;

card stock:  black, Bristol Smooth white card stock, MFT Plaid Patterns paper pad
stamps:  MFT Adorable Elephants
ink: Versafine Black, Asst Zig Pens
accessories: Scor-Pal, MFT Adorable Elephants dies, MFT Circle Stax dies, Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder, Lawn Fawn Sequins and Foam Tape


Day 28 for the 30 day Color Challenge is in the books.. or on the rather on the blog! 
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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

Day 27 Zig Pens VLVFEB2016 "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" card using MFT Adorable Elephants stamps/dies

I am taking part of the ‪#‎thedailymarker30day‬ and this is my Day 27 coloring project

This adorable elephant is from the MFT Adorable Elephants stamp set. I recently purchased it and the coordinating dies from a lady in a FB group I am in.     I colored up three different elephants, but for the sketch I used only this one. I might make two more cards just like this one using the other two elephants.   I colored the elephants with some Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens.   I cut a little slit to fit the balloon strings in.



I used the Viva La Verve February Sketch 1 for my card:  VLVFEB2016

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  black. Bristol Smooth Card stock. MFT Blue Raspberry. PTI Lemon Tart
pattern paper: MFT Plaid Patterns
stamps: MFT Adorable Elephants
ink: Versafine Black, Asst. Zig Pens
accessories:  Scor-Pal, MFT Sentiment Strips Dies, Circle Stax. Cuttlebug Large Dots embossing folder, Chiffon Aqua Ribbon and Foam Tape



Day 27 for the 30 day Color Challenge is in the books.. or on the rather on the blog! 
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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

Day 26 Zig Pens "SUPER ~ HAVE A SUPER DAY!" card using MFTWSC269 You're Super stamps and dies

I am taking part of the ‪#‎thedailymarker30day‬ and this is my Day 26 coloring project

I recently bought this adorable stamp set from someone on FB.  She arrived today and I just had to use her on a card. MFT has such fun images to color.



I used this week's MFTWSC269 Sketch:  *I didn't have room for the little banner, so I left it off

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  white, black, Bristol Smooth Cardstock
pattern paper: Doodlebug Hip Hip Hooray
stamps: MFT You're Super
ink: Versafine Black, Asst. Zig Pens
accessories:  Scor-Pal, Enamel Dots from The Eyelet Outlet, MFT Rectangle Stax, MFT Stitched banner from one of the Blueprints Sets, Misti and Foam Tape



Day 26 for the 30 day Color Challenge is in the books.. or on the rather on the blog! 
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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

Day 25 Zig Pens ~ MFTWSC269 "SENDING WELL WISHES" card using MFT stamps & dies

I am taking part of the ‪#‎thedailymarker30day‬ and this is my Day 25 coloring project

I needed a "get well" card to send out today to someone who is having surgery today.   I knew I wanted to use an MFT Pure Innocence image for my card and after seeing this week's sketch (below) I got after it. 

I colored the image up with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens.   I am not sure why the bear and her shirt look like the same colors in the image because in real life the bear is definitely darker. I received an Amazon order yesterday that had a Bristol Smooth Card stock pad in it.  I read that a fellow stamper really liked it with the Zigs so I thought I'd give it a try ~ she was absolutely right!   thanks Nichol.

I used this week's My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge #269: MFTWSC269

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  brown, Bristol smooth card stock
pattern paper:  unknown
stamps: MFT Pure Innocence Better Get Better
ink: Versafine Black, Asst. Zig Pens
accessories:  Scor-Pal, MFT Blueprints 5, Banner Flag Stax, Rectangle Stax, Sentiment Strips. Enamel Hearts and Foam Tape



Day 25 for the 30 day Color Challenge is in the books.. or on the rather on the blog! 
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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

TDLLC February Card Challenge: MFT "YOU MAKE EVERY DAY A HAPPY ONE" and "YOU'RE A STAR" cards

On the TupeloDesignsLLC Facebook page they are having a monthly challenge. February's challenge is using My Favorite Things products. 

On this first card I used two MFT stamp sets:  Bold Greetings and Distress Patterns.   I chose some random colors to stamp onto a white layer, then I layered it onto some orange MFT card stock and then onto a black card base.

On this card I used two MFT stamp sets:  Distress Patterns and Bold Statements.   I stamped the distressed stripes in Red, Blue and Gray onto a white piece of card stock. I then layered it onto some navy blue Bazzill card stock and then onto a red card base using some MFT card stock.   The sentiment was stamped and layered, then I die-cut three MFT stars and randomly put them on the card.

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God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

Day 22 Zig Pens "YOU COLOR MY WORLD" using Lawn Fawn stamps & dies *w/measurements

I am taking part of the ‪#‎thedailymarker30day‬ and this is my Day 22 coloring project

I shared a card I made yesterday >>{HERE}<< and I shared it in a FB group I am in. I was asked by one of the members how I made the card.  I said that I would make another one and shared the details.   The card is pretty easy ~ the most time is spent coloring and die-cutting the crayons. If you have the stamp set, but not the die ~ these are super easy to cut out.

First I stamped six crayons onto Watercolor paper. I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens to color the crayons ~ you could use whatever color medium you have. If you are using Copics you would probably want to stamp them onto regular card stock instead of watercolor paper. 

After coloring the images up using my Zig Pens, I then die-cut them all out. 

After die-cutting I lined up the crayons onto the white card stock I had cut out. I thought I took a picture but I guess I didn't.  I lined up the crayons where half the crayon is off the side of the card stock. I left a little space of card stock showing to the left and right of the crayons. I then took a Pen and scribbled the color on.     I then cut a strip of foam tape about the length of the crayon, cut it up the middle and then snipped a little off to angle the top of the foam tape and adhered it to the back of the crayon.   

After putting the foam on the crayons I lined them up again onto the card stock as shown below.

 I then put the piece with the crayons centered and about 1/4" down from the top of the pattern paper, then put the sentiment piece up under the crayons and across the card.  That's it.  Hope that all made sense.

MEASUREMENTS:

card base:  4 1/4" x 11" scored at 5 1/2"  *you can also cut the base 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" and score at 4 1/4"

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

Crayon piece:

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

sentiment piece:

white layer:  7/8" x 5 1/4"
black layer:  1" x 5 3/8"


SUPPLIES:

card stock:  black, white, watercolor paper
pattern paper:  Lawn Fawn Let's Polka paper pad
stamps:  Lawn Fawn Color My World
ink: Versafine Black, Asst. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens
accessories:  Scor-Pal, Lawn Fawn Color My World Die and Foam Tape




Day 22 for the 30 day Color Challenge is in the books.. or on the rather on the blog! 
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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

Day 21 Zig Pens "YOU COLOR MY WORLD" card using Lawn Fawn stamps & Dies

I am taking part of the ‪#‎thedailymarker30day‬ and this is my Day 21 coloring project

Lawn Fawn has the most fun images to color up.   I stamped and colored all the crayons. I cut the sentiment apart to make it fit across my card instead of masking/taping it off. After the crayons were mounted on foam tape and adhered I stamped the smiley faces on each one ~ so much fun to make this card.

SUPPLIES;

card stock:  white, black. Watercolor paper
stamps: Lawn Fawn Color My World
ink: Versafine Black, Asst. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens
pattern paper: from a SSS card kit
accessories; Scor-Pal, Lawn Fawn Color My World Die and Foam Tape




Day 21 for the 30 day Color Challenge is in the books.. or on the rather on the blog! 
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have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

Day 19 Copic Coloring "WISHING YOU SUNSHINE" card using Paper Smooches stamps

I am taking part of the ‪#‎thedailymarker30day‬ and this is my Day 19 coloring project

I recently bought some Paper Smooches stamps from a lady on SCS and these adorable images are from one of the sets that's called Eco Friendly.   I stamped the sun and the clouds.  I used Memento black ink and had a little issue with the ink bleeding into the clouds, so I tossed them and used some Lawn Fawn die cut clouds.   The ink bled on the sun as well, but it went out instead of into the image.  

I used an OWH sketch #49:

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  white, black

pattern paper: SSS card kit

stamps:  Paper Smooches Eco Friendly

ink: Memento Black, Asst. Copic markers

accessories:  Scor-Pal, Lawn Fawn Sunny Skies Dies, MFT Rectangle Stax Die-namics, MFT bobble (?) border die and Foam Tape

Day 19 for the 30 day Color Challenge is in the books.. or on the rather on the blog! 
#thedailymarker30day

thanks for looking ~

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