First Cards of 2015

Thrift shop stamps are hit or miss, but a get well stamp and a package stamp are winners.

Most of the Get Well images I have aren't appropriate for men, but this little pill bottle can be paired with more masculine papers and the pills inside colored to coordinate.

                                            Masking can make stamping multiple images easy.

These eight cards were made today in Vicky's card class. 

Top Cards of 2014

Have you seen all the great cards posted at the Operation Write Home Blog Hop?  Please visit and be prepared to be inspired!  Here are my favorite cards in no particular order, photographed with questionable camera skills. 

 Playing around with two hexagon punches - a great activity while watching Netflix movies.

 Four sheets of double sided paper, four cards, including the base and all matting pieces - use up that paper!!

 Playing around with the Owl Builder punch and some springy wire.

Proof that it's possible to CASE an idea even when you don't have the same die to use as the original card had.

One of my favorite sketches.

 Just because I love red, black, and white.

 Learning how to use the dies that go with these cute stamps.

Funny birthday stamp with a paw print embossing folder.  "Birthdays are like hairballs...the more you have, the more you want to gag."

I hope you've enjoyed seeing some of  my cards.  I'd love to hear which you like the most.   Please feel free to make suggestions for improvement.  It's always good to get advice from others, don't you think?  Happy hopping!  Here's the link back to the beginning of the hop. 

Happy New Year!

Operation Write Home Card Sketches 1 - 75

Now that some troop deployments are drawing down, fewer cards are needed.  That means we can put more into each card rather than mass producing large numbers of identical cards.  It's a perfect opportunity to work through the OWH Sketches beginning with the first one.  There are also bonus sketches, but for now I'll go through the 245.  For some reason the blog post and the pdf have different #34 sketches, so I did both. 

1 - 5

Stamps and stamp sets:  Missing Ewe, Cats Galore, Funny Bunny, In My Heart

6 - 10

Stamp sets:  In My Heart, Love Robotz

11-15

Stamps and stamp sets:  Love Robotz, Studio G Series 57, PSX Iris

16 - 20 

Stamps and stamp sets:  I Spy, You Are Unrepeatable, The Artful Stamper,

Giggle Greetings

21 - 25

Stamp sets:  Giggle Greetings, Hero Arts, Traveler

 26 - 30

Stamp sets:  Traveler, In My Heart, Dog's Life, Bark, Love Robotz

 31 - 35

Stamps and stamp sets:  Doodle Birds, In My Heart, Stampin Up Lighthouse,

Graceful Cattails

 36 - 40

Stamp sets:  Bird Builder, Doodle Birds, Stampin Up, In My Heart

 41 - 45

 Stamps and stamp sets:  Posh Impressions, Stampin Up, Countryside, 

Dog's Life

46 - 50

Stamps and stamp sets:  Doodle Birds, Posh Impressions, In My Heaert

 51 - 55

Stamps and stamp sets:  House Mouse, Missing Ewe, Graceful Cattails, 

Doodle Birds

 56 - 60

 Stamps and stamp sets:  Graceful Cattails, Missing Ewe, Countryside, Inkadinkadoo

 61 - 65

Stamps and stamp sets:  Missing Ewe, The Fox Says, Countryside, The Artful Stamper, 

Too Much Fun

 66 - 70

Stamps and stamp sets:  Countryside, Hero Arts, Graceful Cattails, Latte Love

71 - 75

Stamp sets:  Latte Love, Studio G Series 47, The Fox Says, Traveler

Final 2014 Box of Operation Write Home Cards

A hundred ninety one cards - that's a lot of cards!

All of the cards

Birds

 Digital stamps

Birthday cards using brads

 

More birthday cards

 

One of my favorite sketches

 Flowers

Hexagons

 Framed inchies and hexagons

Inchies

Ciara's Friends

 Lady slippers

 Lil Hoot stamps

 Mama Elephant little kids stamps and dies

Cats and snowman

 

 

 Miscellaneous cards

 Missing Ewe stamp set

 Inspired by quilts

Red, white, and black make striking cards

Stampin' Up card classes

Pink and chartreuse thank you

Brown and green thank you

 Purple and yellow thank you

 Blue and white thank you

 Cards made from the prize card kits.