OWH Memorial Day Blog Hop

Hope you are enjoying the OWH Memorial Day Blog Hop.  They are always so much fun and it's great to see all of the talent out there.  Memorial Day is always special for me as that was the day I got married to my late husband.  He was a Viet Nam vet so this seems like a special way to honor him and our special day.

I could not decide which card to post today so here is the first one.

 

The sentiment is from the Silhouette store, Lucky Charm paper from American Crafts and stamp is from the Stampin' Up Set Sail set.

 

 

The die cut of Minnie Mouse is from Cuttlebug, You Rock die cut from My Favorite Things, and paper is miscellaneous stock.

 

 

So after you leave a comment move on to the rest of the hop.  There is lots more to see!  You don't want to miss any of the goodies out there!

 

 

Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge #46

I love Doodle Pantry images.  They make creating card kits so easy and fun.  Their May challenge is to use any digital image in a card.  Of course, they really appreciate it if you use their image but any will do.  Be sure to visit the challenge and enter.  There are some great free images to be had if you use their images.  Great ideas for card making.   Here's the card I've created for May. 

 

 

This card was created using Charlie Horse and Hey!  Paper from We R Memory Keepers.  I used the Silhouette Design Studio to pull in the images and cut them out.   This card will be going to Operation Write Home so one of our Heroes can let someone know how much they are missed.

 

 

Today I ran across a post about Polka Doodles.  They are running a blog hop to celebrate their 5th birthday!  They have some really adorable digis.  If you check out their blog hop, you can score some really great free digis.  Check out their 5 Years of Polkadoodleicious!! blog hop and see their designers in digi form! 

 

So glad you stopped by.  Hope to see you again soon!

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!

The Easter Table

We had a wonderful Easter dinner at my brother and sister-in-law's with a few of their friends.  I brought the centerpiece and it was so fun to make.  It took me a while since I had downloaded the update to the Silhouette designer software.  It had so many bugs and looked so different the I restored my old version.  Well it wasn't a complete restore as it dropped the designer part.  I wasn't able to upload the SVG file I needed.  After trying all day to get it back, I finally decided I'd trying going back to the email that I got the update from.  I reloaded it and fortunately the bugs had been fixed.  So after much trial and error, I finally got the file I purchased from SVGcuts loaded and ready to cut.  I think it turned out quite well.

The bunny is from SVG CUTS  I filled his tummy with chocolate eggs.

The carrots are from Silhoutte and are filled with chocolate eggs.



I added some paper eggs and daffodils from Silhouette.



The meal was delicious and everyone seemed to enjoy the decorations.  Hope all had a Happy Easter!


OWH cardmaking for April

The Pennbrooke ladies have done it again and completed a nice batch of cards to send to Operation Write Home.  I created the kits with images from Doodle Pantry, Lettering Delights, and Silhouette.  Digital images are so easy to use for kits.  Being able to cut them on the Silhouette makes it even easier.  Here are the April kits that were completed:

 

Father's Day deadline is coming up soon so our focus was on masculine cards.  I think these would work for Father's day or most any other occasion that requires a masculine card.

OWH Sketch #219

Doodle Pantry sponsored Operation Write Home's Sketch Challenge #219.  They make the greatest doodles for card making.  It's a great place to get inspiration.  So I had to join along with this card:

 

This was an easy and fun card to make. 

Western Request

Operation Write Home had a request for western type cards.  I didn't have much time but I had started a kit for jean pockets.  Thought it might make a good western theme.  So here's my quick and simple card:

 

I did a few cards with cows earlier so maybe they can be used for a western requestor.  At least they could be considered country!  :)

 

So that's it for my western cards.  At least for today!  February is almost over so I guess I'd better get rolling on kits for March!