VCMP Saturday Challenge Entries

The Operation Write Home Virtual Card Making Party continues.   So I have completed a few more cards. 

The first challenge of the day is Things with Wings for the Our Daily Bread Designs  monthly challenge.  So for this challenge I used Graphic 45 Birdsong collection and a sentiment from My Favorite Things.

 

The next challenge was a Miss You card using one circle and 2 banners.  I used paper I got at Tuesday Morning last year and a Hero Arts sentiment.

 

 

This challenge was a little harder.  Use at least 3 textures on a card.  I used a cricut layered Christmas tree, textured a background with embossing and used a ribbon and star for embellishments.

 

 

The next challenge was Travel.  This was a little easier since I just got this Unity stamp and used the same Hero Arts sentiment.

 

 

Tami's challenge had a patriotic Santa I thought was so cute.  So here is my red, white and blue Christmas card.

 

 

That's it for Saturday's challenges.  Hope you are all playing along.

 

ANDREA

 

 

ODBD May Challenge

The ODBD challenge for May at Operation Write Home is embossing.  I chose to do a card in dry embossing I've been going through my left over pieces of this and that.  Here's one of the cards from that exercise:

The image is from Graphic 45 paper.  I don't remember the name of the embossing folder.  You never know what you will find in the scrap box!

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!