OWH Sketch Challenge #137

The summer is ending, and I can't seem to catch up!  Once again, I'm trying to gain card making ground by combing two challenges into one, OWH #137 and last week's MWTD kid cards using scallops.  I'm not naturally adept at making kid cards, but I like my end result!  Happy Birthday OWH.

OWH Virtual Card Making Party  VCMP 

Labor Day Weekend 2012

Operation Write Home doesn’t need much of an excuse to throw a party – - a Virtual Cardmaking Party, that is!  To celebrate the 3-day weekend, they planned 10 fun card challenges for us to participate in. Links appeared on OWH Stars and Stamps every few hours, with challenges hosted by various OWH bloggers.  Wow!  So in between GJ Rockies baseball games, yard and house work and "babysitting" my daughter's precocious boxer, I managed to get a few cards in.

OWH VCMP #1 Our Daily Bread Designs Inspiring Sentiment

To kick off this great party Our Daily Bread Designs challenged us to make a card with a scripture or inspirational sentiment.  ODBD a great supporter of OWH, donating every month, the shipping costs toward two boxes of our special, handmade cards to our deployed heroes .  I used Carla's card over at Gina K Designs Stamp TV for my inspiration, CASE-ing her beautiful design elements. 

OWH VCMP #2 Recipe Challenge

Oh, I love recipes, especially one with only 3 ingredients!  Cherie's Corner of the World gave us the recipe:  1 image, 2 patterned papers and 3 words.  I counted the two puzzle pieces as one image, 'cause two halves make a whole, don't you agree?

OWH VCMP #3 Snowflakes But Not Christmas with VCMP #9 Forgotten Tool

Winter is fast upon us with the next challenge, creating a card with snowflakes on it without using a Christmas theme.  Cindy over at Cindy Card Co gave us the inspiration.  I realized all too soon that I probably wasn't going to get all 10 VCMP cards made during the Labor Day holiday, so I combined a couple into one.   Shannon  shared VCMP #9, challenging us to create a card with a long neglected tool.  Mine is my Spellbinder dies, especially the Label ones.  The dies always seem to slow me down!

OWH VCMP #4 Triple Time Stamping Technique

The next challenge offered up a new technique (at least to me), Triple Time Stamping.  I'd seen this around Pinterest and OWH and was eager to try.  I had just one problem, I don't own any large stamps that are used in this technique.  I did however have plenty of those larger print DSP that come with the big packs of seasonal paper.  Using Donna's great tutorial, I used 3 sheets of the same paper overlapping to make my first cuts, then downsized from there.

OWH VCMP #6 and Sketch #136

This challenge incorporated the weekly sketch #136 into the weekend fun.  Although the deadline for OWH Halloween cards have come and gone, it's never too late to create one more for personal use!  I love to mat all my DSP papers, so I ran out of room at the bottom for the sentiment, so I went to plan B.  I think I like it better!

The weekend came to an end faster than I could create, so alas, I'll probably never make it through the rest of the VCMP challenges.  Thanks OWH, it was fun!

OWH Midweek Throwdown - Supply Challenge

Happy Weekend!  The last ten days just flew, so busy at work.   So much, that I'm "catching" up by combining two challenges into one card, OWH Sketch Challenge #134 and Midweek Throwdown Supply Challenge  http://operationwritehome.org/midweek-throwdown-supply-challenge/.  The challenge is to combine patterned paper, dies or punches.  We're starting to cool down here in Western Colorado, spurring on the mojo for fall and Thanksgiving cards.  Best wishes to all for a great weekend!

Happy Birthday Friend

My crafty, young adult daughter got "the bug" to create her very first card.  The trials and tribulations of a new paper crafter, it took her 20 minutes just to pick out the paper.  Very pretty end result!

Operation Write Home Sketch #133

I recently purchased one of those "seasons" paper pads.  The fall colors just beckoned me to cooler weather.  Can you say 60 degrees?

Our Daily Bread Designs August Challenge

ODBD sponsors Operation Write Home, enabling two boxes of handmade cards to be shipped free to our military folks serving abroad!  The challenge for August is Masculine cards.  As my friends know, I'm partial to wearing black, so this card was a natural.  I used OWH sketch #23 and a digi from A Bit of TLC createwithtlc.blogspot.com

Operation Write Home Weekly Sketch #132

I love this week's sketch!  Last year I saved the "faces" found on computer stationary and I knew it would be perfect for the sketch.  Did I say I love Halloween?