Patriotic ODBD Challenge for January

This month the challenge at ODBD (Our Daily Bread Designs) was for a patriotic card.  I'll be making more, but this is one I whipped up this morning.  I used washi tape on it too, but it kind of got lost against the patterned paper, so I put the tape on white card stock and trimmed it to the edge of the tape.  This is OWH Sketch 226 and the sentiment is from a brand new SU set "Four You" that I got recently.  CS and DP are from my stash.  Ink is also SU - Night of Navy.  I'll make a bunch of these to take to our next OWH card making party for people to write Any Hero notes in.

Masculine cards with non-traditional colors.

January 20th, I put forth a challenge on Seongsook's Stampers page on FB to make masculine cards with non-traditional colors and pulled out this crazy paper I can't remember where I got it.  It's all kinds of 60s flower child, don't you think?  Then I made the sentiment on the computer and punched it out, and colored the white with a couple of colors using Tim Holtz Distress ink and dobbers. I think it looks sort of tie-dyed.  Far out man!

The little hearts kind of get lost with that patterned paper, but they show up better in real life.  I may rethink these and put on solid colored hearts.  But then, all the colors and the flowers take me right back to the 60s, groovy.

Monster Card Challenge

Jan 15th, a challenge was issued to make cards using monsters and I remembered this great stamp set I got years ago from SU with little monsters on it.  I think it was more of a Halloween set, but I like it for kid cards too.  This one I made for Ann Merkins' grandson, Ghabe, who just had surgery recently.  I thought he might get a smile out of another card.  I also sent him a sheet of Knock Knock jokes from this cute book I have.  I'll let you know if Ann gets back to me on that.  LOL

These little monsters were colored using Copic markers

CS - my stash

Little flags on bottom punched using a SU Mini Banner punch

Sentiment stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black

I also made some where I replaced the sentiment on the sign around the big monsters head with "thinking of you", "missing you", and "I love you".  I took about 6 of them to our OWH card making party yesterday at Molly's Craft Shack (our first meeting in this venue, nice store).  We ended up putting together over 200 cards from kits several people brought.  The box will be going out to Sandy in Federal Way today, thank you Esther!  It's still such fun to get together and make cards for such a great cause.

It was hump day yesterday, I couldn't help myself...

Putting more birthday cards in my card drawer...

Image was a free picture I snagged from the internet, printed on cream card stock

Sentiment - River City Rubber Works

DP - SU

CS - SU / Early Espresso

Ink - SU / Chocolate Chip

Ribbon - stash

Feel Better Soon for Ghabriel

In our group, Seongsook's Stampers, one of our ladies asked for get well cards for her grandson Ghabriel, who was going in for surgery.  So I sent him this one.  He made it through surgery with flying colors and even got to go home after 9 days in the hospital, rather than the full 14 days, the doctor thought he would have to stay!  Go Ghabriel.

Sentiment - Whipper Snapper Designs

Brownie w/pill bottle - Stamp Francisco

DP / CS - stash

Ribbon - stask

Ink - SU / Night of Navy (sentiment

CTMH / Indian Corn Blue (Brownie)

2014 Christmas Cards

I see I haven't gathered all my Christmas cards in one post from this last Christmas, so I wanted to get them all in one place.  The first three designs I made last winter right after Christmas, so I didn't have to make all my cards this year right before Thanksgiving.  I was planning on making a batch each month so I'd have them all done long before the holidays, but I sort of got side tracked.  Hey, I didn't have to make ALL my cards in November.  :)

          This one was a challenge on ODBD for a card with non-traditional holiday colors.

These screen cards were fun to make, but with all the embellishments, they were really thick and required extra postage.  The vintage images are chipboard embellishments.  I did not send them out after all.  Maybe next year, or I will hand deliver them.

This was an idea borrowed from my friend Joanne Masury on FB.  

She had seen a box of cards with a similar design in the PO and posted a picture, so I CASE'd it.

I colored this darling little car stamp to match our red Scion.  It sort of looks like a Scion, don't you think?

These two were made with an image gifted to me by another FB friend, Paula Bloom.  She sent me an e-mail with several digital stamps for the holidays and I thought this was so sweet.

And this last one, also a digital stamp,  from Linda Jackson (another FB card making friend), I used for a special Christmas card for my dear friend Kathleen Payne.  We both are deathly afraid of spiders, but this was so dang cute, I couldn't resist.

Pretty embossed piece from Cindy Rapson

Last month, one of my new friends from Seongsook's Stampers, Cindy Rapson, sent me a card with some extra bits in it for me to play with.  So today I took out this lovely embossed card and inked and chalked it up and voila, a love card.  I don't know if I'll keep this and give it to you-know-who, or toss it in my next OWH box.  I haven't decided.

Sentiment - Jillibean Soup / Handwritten Sentiments

Colored with CTMH Decorating Chalks / Spring collection

Ink - CTMH / Sorbet

Baker's twice - stash

And I colored over "love" with a sparkly gelli pen, so it shines