wednesday...April ODBD and OWH

Quick post to share with you my take on April's Our Daily Bread Design Challenge by Operation Write Home. This month's theme is masculine card and I just got a new (to me!) Our Daily Bread Designs stamp that is perfect for masculine cards!

Here's what I came up with:

I stamped and lightly colored the image with Prismacolor Pencils and blended them with OMS. I used a bunch of layers and inked the edges for a distressed, masculine look. I finally added some twine and two small brown circles as embellies to the bottom right corner and called it finished!

I love how it turned out and I'm so loving this new stamp! Here's one last look at my card:


Thanks for stopping by today and come back soon! Have a great day!

sunday...OWH 4-way sketch #248

Hi everyone! I managed to get a few minutes to myself after the baby fell asleep last night and I made 4 very different cards from the same sketch (Sketch #248) for Operation Write Home. You can see the sketch HERE.

I admit that it was out of my comfort zone but that made it challenging for me which means that I had to try it a few different times!

Here are the cards that I made:

I made a Love, Masculine, Kid and Feminine following the same sketch and I love how they all turned out! I used the same card base and generic sentiment so that they can be used for any occasion by our Heroes.

Card #1:

I always struggle with children cards but I picked up this little dinosaur at Hobby Lobby last week and I'm having so much fun using him in my cards! I made the card bright and happy and used primary colors for it.

Here's a close up of the card:


Card #2:

My second card is a Feminine card that can be used for Easter or even Mother's Day. It's pretty, pink, and it has tiny flowers and rhinestones on a soft cream background. I machine stitched the edges and doodles with a white pen around the circles to give it a coherent look.

Here's a close up of the card:


Card #3:

This is my Masculine card and just like most people, I have trouble making these but I'd say that this was a success! I love how the greens and blues work together so well with the brown and the buttons bring them all together! Remember that for OWH you need to use very thin buttons (the size of a man's shirt button).

Here's a close up of the card:


Card #4:

My last card is a Love card and I kept if simple and bold with the black embossed background and pops of red and pink. I did use glitter on my hearts but I sealed them with glossy accent. Remember that we can't use loose glitter on our cards for our Heroes because that can endanger them.

Here's a close up of the card:


Thank you for stopping by my blog today! Hope you have a wonderful week!

sunday...OWH love/valentine cards

Happy Sunday! Today I want to quickly share some Love themed cards that I made for Operation Write Home!


I had so much fun playing with pink and reds since these are not colors I use often. Most of the papers are scraps (they were just too pretty to throw away!) so I made good use of them!

Here are some close ups:

This card is loosely based on Sketch #242.


This one is for the ODBD November Challenge (use hearts!). I like how simple but elegant it came out!


This one was a lot of fun to make! I saw the idea on pinterest and had to try it! I did include a few butterfly among the flowers and I love how it adds a little bit extra to the heart!


I was definitely thinking Spring with this "Thinking of you" card! Notice the boy and girl bird? (*heart*)

This one is based on Sketch #241 and is one of my fav!

Last but not least, this layered card uses bold patterns and colors but everything comes together because I used the black cardstock (and ink and faux stitching) to bring it together. I love that butterfly!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today and have a great week!

thursday...snowflake challenge card OWH

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I want to share my non-Christmas card for OWH October ODBD Challenge!

I wanted to make a layered but clean and simple card (is that even possible?) so I just used Heartfelt Creations snowflakes dies (the only ones I have since in FL I don't need many snowflakes for my pictures!) and a few punched snowflakes that I made with my mother in law's punch (she lives in Seattle!) and added a simple sentiment to the larger layered snowflake. I embossed the background and machine stitched it to a blue snowflake paper. I love how simple but elegant it looks and because of the sentiment I used it can be used for pretty much anything and anyone!

He's a side view of the card:

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day! :)

monday...a few more OHW cards

Happy Labor Day! I spent the day playing along the Operation White Home Labor Day Weekend Virtual Card Making Party.

Challenge #6 is to make a card for a hero to send to a child and use the tic tac toe board below.

I ended up making two children cards, one for a girl and one for a boy.

The girl card:

(Things with wings/Stamping and/or coloring/Using punches or dies)



and the boy card:

(Using punches or dies/Things with wheels/Kid-friendly Embellishments)



I had fun with the boy card and added a little doggy inside the red truck. The door of the truck opens as well :)


Challenge #7 is to use fall colors to make a general themed card and not a Thanksgiving card. I made a thinking of you card and used the emboss resist technique to make my background. I love using this technique and this was my first time doing a Fall card!




Challenge #8 was a fun one as well! The challenge is to use one or more images of a BEE and use a creative BEE sentiment for it!

The 9th and last challenge is to use the negative of a die cut or punch to make a card. I made two for this one! A feminine and masculine version!

Thanks for stopping by my blog again today! I had so much fun during this virtual cardmaking (my first time being involved!) and I'm so happy with the fact that I managed to make 16 cards total!

Thanks OWH and the challenges hosts for your amazing work during this weekend!

sunday...sharing some more OHW cards

Hi everyone! I'm back today to share some more cards that I did last night for Operation White Home Labor Day Weekend Virtual Card Making Party! I'm having so much with their challenges and even learning new techniques!

I played along with Challenge #3, which is to make a card using the Triple Die Cutting Technique. She actually has a tutorial on her blog using the nesting rectangles. However, I do not have them so I used my Pazzles Inspiration to make a quick template and I ended up making three cards with this technique.

Challenge #4 is a sketch challenge so that was an easy one for me. You can find the sketch on the challenge blog. We also had to make a love themes card.

Now, Challenge #5 was a bit of a challenge since I've never tried this technique before. Their challenge is to make a card using the Masking Tape Block Stamping Technique. She has a tutorial on her blog as well but the concept is easy. Add strips of masking tape to your clear acrylic block. Ink it and mist it with a  bit of water, and stamp it on your paper. being a perfectionist, I had to try this 4 times until I was happy with the results.

The next challenge is to use the new Sunday sketch (Sketch #188) to make a card. Again, another easy one for me since I love sketches :)

Thanks for stopping by my blog! I'm having so much fun trying new techniques and getting my Christmas/Winter cards for OWH done this weekend! :)