OWH Cardmakers

Had a great time Thursday (11/14) making cards with the gals in the community.  We managed to finish 65 cards for Operation Write Home.  They will be on their way soon to some of our heroes so they can write to their families.  Seems strange that we are done with Christmas cards for them to write home and working toward Valentine's Day.  They are so far away though that enough lead time is needed to be sure they have the right cards for the right season.



This image is from Sparkle Creations, Chef Oliver. 
He's been colored with Copics.
 

 Theresa brought this design with labels done one the cricut.

 



 Close to My Heart has this robot stamp in a set called
 Outta This World.  It works with their Artiste Cricut
 cartridge so it's easy to cut out.



This was cut with the cricut.

 



Another cricut card cut using Nifty Fifties.



An old Stampin' Up set and circle die from
 My Favorite Things.

 

Doodle Pantry had a fundraiser for OWH so I got this
digi from them.  So much fun to play with.

 

We'll be getting together  once a month to keep this going.  Hope I have a little more creativity going this next month.  And still trying to figure out formatting and posting on this blog thing.  Hope I haven't bored anyone completely but this is a great way to document what we have accomplished.  Until next time, have a wonderful fantastic day.

Happy Halloween

A few days early but I wanted to make sure I wished everyone a Happy Halloween.  Time sure has been flying by.  This week is really busy with preparing for a doll show Saturday in Kissimmee and an OWH card making event on Friday.  Squeeze in a doctor's appointment somewhere in there. 

Here's a few cards I made for this Halloween:

 

Thanks to my cricut for some great images.  They are from the Paper Doll cartridge.  My favorite is the cat.  I just had to add some googly eyes to him.  Happy Halloween everyone!

OWH Our Daily Bread Designs September Challenge

Our Daily Bread Designs challenges Operation Write Home card makers each month.  For every 50 cards linked to the challenge, they will pay for shipping two boxes to our heroes.  This month's challenge is wheels.  I haven't made to many cards with wheels on them.  Guess I'll have to look for more stamps and papers with some wheels.  At any rate, here's my submission:

The background was cut on the cricut from various papers I had in my stash.  .

Had a wonderful "field" trip yesterday to My Favorite Things.  I love their boutique.  It's so well laid out.  They refill copic markers so that was the main goal.  They also had several of their pure innocence stamps on sale.  Now I have more images I can practice coloring with the copics. 

Hope you are having a wonderful Sunday!

Fourth of July!

I had hoped to do a better job of keeping up with a blog but time has gotten away from me again.  It's been a good month of card making even though many of my crafty friends have gone North for the summer.  With the heat waves across the country though, I doubt they are fairing much better than we are in Florida. 

One of my favorite completed cards is made from Graphic 45, one of their steampunk lines.  I love the look of this Victorian lady and thought that just the paper with some small embellishments was enough.

 

 

I've been having a great time this month learning new techniques from the Operation Write Home website as well as various items on YouTube.  There are so many things out there to explore!  It's just amazing.   I purchased the Close To My Heart Artiste cricut cartridge.  This cartridge has so many things on it, it will take ages to go through it all.  I had purchased some robot paper at Tuesday Morning a while back and thought the robot from this cartridge would be perfect to go with it.  What I like about the CTMH cartridges is they have stamps to coordinate with the cuts on the cricut as well as information about what size to cut.  I thought a general robot card would be great to send to a little boy for any occasion.  So here is how that card came out when I finished it:

 

I'll be experimenting more with the Artiste cartridge and coordinating stamps.  Hope you're having a great Fourth of July!