Labor Day Weekend OWH VCMP - Challenge #1

I spent much of the rainy Labor Day weekend making cards for Operation Write Home and following along with the Challenges for the Virtual Card Making Party.  I finished most of the challenges by Tuesday, but I am just now getting around to taking pictures of my cards and posting them.

I always enjoy the OWH VCMP & Blog Hop challenges.  They really help me expand my techniques and card making ideas.  It is also tons of fun to see the many different interpretations of one idea across the family of OWH card makers!  There are lots of creative people out there!!!

Challenge #1 - follow this sketch submitted by Nancy Keller over at Scrap Happens

Because I am working on a new box of cards for OWH for Christmas and Winter that is due in before October 31, I tried to make all of my Labor Day VCMP cards fit that category.

Here is my Christmas version of Challenge #1.

Quilted Merry Christmas
OWH VCMP Labor Day 2013 - Challenge #1

Not a Card - Quilt Square

Today I am posting one of my creations .... not a card, but a quilt square.

I was asked to design and make a square representing our church. My only restriction was the overall size of the square.

This square will become part of a quilt representing churches in the Greenville, SC Baptist Association. The quilts from all over the state will be displayed at the annual meeting in March 2014. This is in celebration of 125 years of the Women's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention in the USA.

DISNEY HI! - OWH Sketch #184

Today's Sketch instantly made me think about this Mickey Mouse paper that I have. I knew that my card would feature our favorite Mouse!

This one is for you Michelle H. - I know that you are a big Disney fan!!

Mickey says "Hi !"

OWH Sketch #184

All of the papers are Disney licensed products from EK Success, Queen & Company, and Sandy Lion.

The sentiment is computer generated with the Walt Disney Script - free download.

I hope that it made you smile!!

OWH SKETCH #183 - Inspired by my card !!

Check it out !!! 
A card that I made and published on May 29, 2013 for a masculine card challenge for Operation Write Home (OWH) was the inspiration for this week's OWH Card Sketch #183.

This was a great surprise for me to find my own card posted when I logged on to the OWH Blog, Stars and Stamps, today to see this week's new Sketch and sample card.  Just a little bit proud!

OWH Stars and Stamps Blog link:  

http://operationwritehome.org/sketch-challenge-183/

Here is Sketch #183:

My Card:

The Original Post:   

http://scraptower.blogspot.com/2013/05/owh-mid-week-throwdown-5292013.html

OWH Sketch #181 - Hello Handsome Cowboy

This week's Operation Write Home Sketch #181 was a challenge.


I had to look through my stamps and digital images to identify an image or sentiment that would fit the focal point square.  Once I did that it came together quickly.

Hello Handsome Cowboy

I really like this layout for the Distressed Cowboy rubber stamp (Stampabilities) and I matched the Hello Handsome clear stamp sentiment (Hero Arts) to round this one out as a masculine card.


Here is OWH Sketch #181 that I used for the inspiration for this card.

Girlfriends Card

Here is a card that I was 'commissioned' to make for a couple of gals at work.  One of their lunch break gals retired this week.

The stamped image is by Art Impressions Girlfriend series.
It is colored with Copics markers
Papers are Bazzill and Core'dinations
Several of the gals make jewelry, so I added seed bead necklaces to the image and a product called Glossy Accents to the earrings and bracelet to make them shiny.

Bead Buddies

RED, WHITE, BLUE & KRAFT Hugs & Kisses - OWH Sketch #179 & Midweek Throwdown Color Challenge

Hey every body!! From soggy upstate SC.  I don't remember how long it has been since we had a day without some rain.  Thankfully, we are no longer in a drought.  And .... thankfully we have on again, off again periods of sunshine, but the ground is saturated.  LOL - the grass is growing so fast you can almost see it grow, but mowing the lawn involves dodging showers and hoping the mower doesn't bog down or get stuck!

Today, I am sharing one of my latest cards.  I used  Operation Write Home Sketch #179 from Sunday, June 30, 2013. I also incorporated the Midweek Throwdown Color Challenge to make a card with red, white, blue and kraft.

I am pleased with the result.

Red, White, Blue and Kraft - Hugs & Kisses

Paper: Kraft cardstock
           Kraft DP - My Mind's Eye Indie Chic - Nutmeg
           Little Yellow Bicycle - Just Because 6 x 6 pad
Sentiment Stamp:  Hero Arts Year Round Sentiment set (one of the OWH fundraiser sets - yay !!)
Ink: Memento Paris Dusk
Embellishments:  Heart Brad - Spare Parts, the Paper Studio
                          Hemp Twine - Darice