Operation Write Home - Valentine's Day #3

These are the last 2 Valentine's Day cards for OWH.  TFL!

Operation Write Home Valentine's Day #2

The next 2 Valentine's Day cards for OWH.  TFL!

Magical Monday Challenge

This is the card I made for the Magical Monday Challenge.  I wanted to use a different image this week.  I usually go to images from Sweet Pea Stamps for this challenge.  Since I don't have that many fairy stamps, I made a fairy image.  I used Anya (The Greeting Farm) and gave her wings from the butterfly image from the Indie Art Cricut Cartridge.  My husband, Dan, has been following the blog of a young girl, Fiona.  She has been fighting a very rare disease.  This card will be sent to her in hopes of cheering her up.  

Stamps: The Greeting Farm Anya Dress Up

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper: K and Co.

Misc: Indie Art Cricut Cartridge, Making Memories Flowers, Cuttlebug Swirls embossing folder, rhinestones

Operation Write Home - Valentine's Day

After I made the cards for Operation Write Home, I decided to clean my craft room.  I found these Valentine's Day card kits.  I thought soldiers away from loved ones would have more use for these than me.  So I made six more cards.

TUIC Challenge

This is my card for Tangled Up in Creativity's challenge this week.  Our hostess for the challenge is the very talented, Danie.  Check out her blog (D-Dazzled Designs); this week she is focusing on a fundraiser for Prostate Cancer Research.  

Our challenge - use "Pacific Point" blue (or close to, which is what I did) by SU, make a masculine card, and also use ribbon on the card.  It is very difficult for me to use ribbon on a masculine card.  But I did it!

Stamps:  Simply Home by {ippity}

Paper:  DCWV

Ink:  Burnt Umber Hybrid (for the tree), Memento Tuxedo Black for the House, Stazon Black for the sentiment

Misc: Ribbon from Walmart, leaf shape made from Fimo clay

Thanks for looking!

Operation Write Home

Cards for Operation Write Home.  I should explain.  These cards and the cards from the August 12th and 16th postings were made from images I had received in swaps.  One Saturday, I had a yard sale and business was slow.  So, I sat on the front porch and colored images.  I knew they'd come in handy one day. 
Thanks for looking!

HAPPY MAIL!!

Last Thursday I received a WONDERFUL  package from Australia!  Danie (D-Dazzled Designs), a member of the blog group -Tangled Up in Creativity sent me some delightful goodies.  She had recently revamped her blog and offered a chance for some candy if you left a comment.  Well, her blog is FABULOUS, check it out when you have a moment.  This is a picture of the card and sticky note holder she sent, beautiful.  She won't take credit for the card, she said another SU demo made the design.  Danie you did a lovely job putting it together.

These are handmade embellishments her friend makes.

The card set on the right was actually a set of 6, very elegant.

Look at this AWESOME BLING!!  On the card envelope she wrote "You can never have too much 'bling!"

I couldn't agree more!  Thank you so much Danie, you don't know how happy  (and lucky) I was to receive this.

So, what took you so long to post this, Monica?  When I got this package I was in the middle of a project.  I was at the point where I knew I had bitten off more than I could chew, and I couldn't turn back and give up.  Don't you hate it when that happens (really, it happens quite frequently to me).

I saw this cool posting on the blog Triple the Scraps, she made a catalog of her stamp images and sentiments using a Rolodex.  You can find it here.  When I read it I thought, "what a great idea."  So a few days later on Freecycle someone offered a Rolodex and I got it.  It took a week and I'm finally finished.

Thanks for looking!