Father's Day, Pinwheels, & 1,000,000!!!

WHEW!!! Finished just in the nick of time! Father's Day cards for Operation Write Home need to be in the shipper's hands by the 21st of this month, and I JUST finished my little batch!

 This motorcycle is a digi I found online and, for the life of me, can't find the blog I found it on. If you know who it's from, PLEASE let me know so I can link back to them!
*sidenote: I found the motorcycle digi! Please visit Bird's Cards

 ... and this '56 Ford Fairlane digi is from Yolanda. She has a wonderful blog, so please visit her and tell her I sent you!

 These are just a couple of the 16 Dad's Day cards I made. I used SU paper, punches, and markers to decorate all of them, and embossed the kraft paper with my Cuttlebug.

In the box of about 50 that I'm sending in, I'm also sending some great pinwheel cards. You can find the tutorial on these at OWH Stars and Stamps, where there is also a link to the article about Denise, who originally made the pinwheel.

I made these without sentiments so they can be used for any occasion...

And in case you haven't heard, the AWESOME cardmakers for Operation Write Home have reached ONE MILLION cards!!! On May 12th, we all watched anxiously as Sandy counted cards until she reach 1,000,000! This means that 1,000,000 cards have been made available to our wonderful Heroes to send home to their loved ones! What an amazing group of cardmakers! Please watch the video via the link and make sure to leave a comment for either our cardmakers or our heroes! And here's a link to the 1,000,000th card sent in by Seongsook Duncan's Blog... stop in and leave her some love too!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

OWH Sketch #60

Just a real quick post today... here's the sketch and my entry for OWH Sketch #60...

I got the brads from a Scrapbook Expo about 2 years ago and the patterned paper is from one of my old paper packs, added brown rafia and inked the edges... That's it!!

Thank you again for visiting! I know your time is valuable and I appreciate you using some of it on my page!!

OWH MWT Any Occasion Challenge

This week's challenge for the S&S MWT is to make an "any occasion card"... this one was easy for me!!

It also goes along with the masculine challenge for last week!

I used Sliekje Digi Stamps for the image, Cuttlebug for the embossing, SU markers to color the digi, SU ink and stamp for the sentiment, Celebrate It paper rafia, and Memories brown ink to distress the edges.

Enjoy!!

Another Masculine Card & My FIRST Digi!!!

Okay... So I spent about 4 hours tonight "Digi-Searching" and found some amazing digis!!! (A digi is a digital image that can be resized to fit your cards or whatever other project you are working on!)

I had never heard of a "Digi" until I started working with Operation Write Home and even then, I haven't had ink in my printer for about 5 months so I couldn't print anything out! So today I bought some ink and then went blog-hopping and found a bazillion cool digis!!

Here is my very 1st attempt at this... the image was found on Sliekje's Digi Stamps, where I actually found about 10 images I hope to use soon! This is also going to be used for the Stars and Stamps Mid-Week Throwdown, which calls for Masculine cards...

 Besides the digi from Sliekje, I used dark brown and dark blue generic cardstock, a SU sentiment, and SU markers. I also used a sponge to distress the edges with Memories ink (another technique I learned from OWH... although I didn't have a distressing tool like the one Sandy used in the OWH UStream TV practice run last night!!)

It's only my 1st and I hope to improve on this, but I'd love some feedback!

Thanks for visiting!!

OWH- Masculine MWT Challenge

This week's MidWeek Challenge for OWH Stars and Stamps is to make a masculine card for our heroes to send home to their men and/or boys. I wasn't going to participate because I have a really hard time making masculine cards BUT.... since I've been venturing out of my comfort zone lately I have found that I am learning a lot about cardmaking!!

This card took me about 3 1/2 hours to make!! I used papers from Tada and Stampin' Up, a stamped sentiment from Stampin' Up, and a roll of rope string I found in my husband's toolbox! Oh, and the star was cut with my Cricut!

If you are struggling with ideas on masculine cards, I encourage you to visit Stars and Stamps for some great samples!!

Masculine Cards

This week the OWH Challenge is to make "Thinking Of You" cards.... apparently they have a slight shortage so we need to get them caught up! There was also a request for masculine cards, so I put the 2 together.....

...not sure why the writing is blurry, but it's a Thinking Of You from Stampin' Up. Same with these 2...

I made a bunch of Valentine's Day and Love cards over the last couple weeks. Here are just a couple...

I was trying to get away from non-traditional colors. I think all the paper I used on these were from Stampin' Up as well.

Until next time!!

Operation Write Home

One more thing before I go to sleep...

I came across this wonderful organization that collects handmade cards from cardmakers around the country and sends them to troops overseas so the troops can send cards to their loved ones at home. They collect cards for every holiday, birthdays, thank you cards, thinking of you cards, kid's cards, etc.

They also give us the opportunity to send cards to the servicemen and women to thank them for their service, which I understand are received with tremendous gratitude!

I've been working on my first box to send in but, like all my other projects, it's moving a little slower than I'd like! If anyone would like to get together and make some cards for OWH, please leave me a post with some info on how to best contact you. Or, if you would like to make cards on your own and send them all together, we can do that too!

Here's what I have so far.... (there are just a little over 20 cards ready)