OWH - Memorial Day Blog Hop

Operation Write Home is such a great organization, one that I am happy to make cards for throughout the year.  For this blog hop we were asked to make cards using some of their sketches, which you can find here. Their blogs are a wealth of information, challenges and fun!  If the link above is broken just go here!

Here are a few cards I made using the sketches and my May Simon Says Stamp card-making kit.  The colors in this kit are really fresh and fun and I can tell you  I've made 6 cards from the supplies so far, and can easily make many, many more!  These cards will be going out in a shipment to OWH as soon as my box-o-cards is full and ready to mail!

Sketch #119

sketch #85

sketch #101

Super Simple Card

I got the idea for this quick and easy card from Kay Kaltoff's blog.  Many, many years ago I participated in a monthly card swap, and Kay was a one of the regular swappers.  She makes the best stuff!  You can see a detailed video on her card here.  Mine is pretty simple: run cardstock through the Cuttlebug with the Sizzix stars die (I got mine on sale at Michaels) and then I used a couple of the stars with pop dots and some baker's twine.

Be sure to check back tomorrow for the Operation Write Home Blog Hop!

Up, Up and Away!

Got my Stampin' Up order today and wanted to try out some of the new stamps.  I'd had this Up, Up and Away set on my wish list for several months, and finally got it!  I followed the sketch over at SCS and am entering it over on the OWH blog for the them "Love You".   I love the colors, inspired by the Basic Grey papers.

Tomorrow, another card and don't forget this weekend is the Operation Write Home Blog Hop!


supplies:
Cardstock: American Crafts & Club Scrap
Paper: Basic Grey - What's Up
Stamps: Stampin' Up; Up, Up and Away
Inks: Hero Arts, Distress
Twine: Martha Stewart

CAS

CAS = Clean and Simple.  Using some of the patterned paper and stamps from my Simon Says Stamp card kit for this card.  I picked up the Sizzix star die at Micheal's on sale and have found it works for lots of ideas.  This is a pretty simple card; some die cut shapes, a stamped saying and a sheet of background paper.  Done!

I'm submitting it over on the SSS blog for their CAS challenge this week.

supplies:

Kraft carstock, stash

 patterned paper and stamp, Simon Says Stam

 star die cut, Sizzix

Distress Markers

Just a quick card using Distress Markers direct to rubber... or in the case of the pennants, direct to acrylic!

supplies:

Stamps: Stampin' Up, My Mind's Eye

Paper: Club Scrap

other: Distress Markers, Tiny Attacher (staples)

Squirrely Challenge - Colorful Silhouttes

 I've challenged the Squirrel Girls to try this fun technique from the Technique Junkie Newsletter, August 2011.

The original directions call for using dye inks, which I have used on the top card (Distress Ink) but I thought I would mix it up a bit and try other coloring methods. 

I started the fish background with some Distress Stains on my craft sheet, spritzed a little water then "smooshed" the cardstock around in it.  I thought the colors would look great with the fish image.

Check out the other Squirrel Girls via the links in the right column or the Mister Linky below!

supplies:
Paper: Club Scrap
Inks: Distress Ink, Distress Stain
Stamps: stampin' up, A Stamp in the Hand

Relationships - a scrapbook page

For the May scrapbook challenge over at PaperArtistsOnline "Relationship" was one of the choices, along with some colors and use of trims.  I really like this photo of my Mom and Dad that I took over the holidays last year on one of our walks along the creek trail.  I used some of the things I learned in a recent class with May Flaum, specifically the layering of papers, tapes and tags along the bottom and the use of the scattering of small embellishments that you see along the lower right.  The background paper is some of the Tim Holtz resist paper, that I just spritz in a few places with some watercolor sprays from Stamp Zia.  I will add this page to my Weekly Chronicles book for the week that called for "favorites", because they are two of my favorite people!

supplies:

Paper:  Tim Hotlz Resist, assorted pieces Pink Paislee, BoBunny

Ink: Stamp Zia spray

Stickers: Pink Paislee

tag: My Mind's Eye

other: button is  Prima, tape is Queen & Co., small embellishments - stash, clock die cut Sizzix