Any Hero Cards

When we send cards to Operation Write Home for our deployed service personnel to use when they write home, we also send Any Hero Mail, which are letters and notes of encouragement and support.  This time I ended up with 45 Any Hero Cards, so typed up a chatty letter, printed out enough for each card, and added a short hand written personal note when I signed them.

Last month when I saw the 12x12 packs and 6x6 pads of "Pages of Honor" paper by Glimpses by SignifyPink at the Mighty Dollar store, I knew the 6x6 pads would be perfect for Any Hero cards.  They're no longer available since SignifyPink discontinued their scrapbooking supplies in 2012.  I made 45 cards with the 25 sheets in this one 6x6 pad of double-sided paper.  There are two pieces of each patterned paper, one with a large and one with a small motif.  I used random sketches from cards I've seen for most of these.

Brave, valiant, proud, courageous, and patriotic spelled out in camouflage colors.
I made a bunch of sentiment pieces that fit into the Spellbinders rectangle, but had to cut off the last two words "and service" to make it fit.  The next time I'll stamp them separately instead of putting them onto the same acrylic block.  I think there's too much space between the lines.

Camouflage

I used the cutting formula from Poetic Artistry for the cards in the next two photos using two flag papers and two solids.  The formula shows four cards from one 6x6 sheet.  Since I have more paper than I can use in several lifetimes, I realized there's no need to make cards using such little pieces, such as the four cards with the 1-inch square and strip.

At least the group above uses larger pieces!

There were four of these, but I'd already sent one to a friend before taking the photo.

 These card bases were smaller to make them fit into the remaining space in the Flat Rate box of cards.

These are Stampin' Up stamps which go so well with the Unity Stamps sentiment "Real men don't wear capes.  Real men wear dog tags and combat boots."