MFT Let's Picnic

My Favorite Things is a generous supporter of Operation Write Home.  One of their lines of stamps is called "Who's that Guy/Girl?" and features characters with their faces either cut off or obscured by an object.  They're a versatile way to add to your stamp collection because they could resemble almost anyone you know and they come with numerous sentiments.  

Stamps- My Favorite Things Let's PicnicPaper- We R Memory Keepers Fiesta
Ink- Versafine and Memento
Glossy Accents
Flowers with gems- Michael's dollar bin

 

 

Earlier this week, Allison posted some cards using this We R Memory Keepers Fiesta paper which reminded me that I'd barely touched my stack, so I decided to dive into it this week.  

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Cards shipped to OWH in 2013: 340 blank and 140 AnyHero (as of 1/7/13)
Cards shipped to OWH in 2012: 1284 blank and 218 AnyHero
Cards shipped to OWH in 2011: 1695

Check out OWH at www.operationwritehome.org to learn more about its mission and how to get involved.

ODBD/VCMP Rebel Challenge #5

In honor of Cinco de Mayo and the 5th VCMP Rebel challenge of the day, we were asked to make cards with 5 elements.  This is May's Our Daily Bread Designs challenge for OWH. 

My card includes:

• OWH Sketch #72
• Flowers by Making Memories
• Flocked Brad from stash
• Patterned Papers from Madame Royale Collection by We R Memory Keepers
• Sentiment by Studio G

Time to give posting a rest for tonight, go to bed, and see what new fun awaits in the morning.  My predictions for the upcoming challenges are the Sunday Sketch, an AnyHero card, a color challenge, and a technique/fold challenge. 

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Cards shipped to OWH in 2012: 620 blank and 200 AnyHero (as of 4/24)
Cards shipped to OWH in 2011: 1695
Check out OWH at www.operationwritehome.org to learn more about its mission and how to get involved.

Sketch #9

Just a few cheery cards made with some papers a friend gave me for my birthday a while ago. These cards use OWH Sketch #9. I'm having a hard time getting motivated to do season-specific cards, but these are bright enough to be spring cards, I guess. The papers are from KI memories, paper or felt flowers from Making Memories, punches from EK Success, and brads from my stash (probably JoAnn or MM brands).

Cards shipped to OWH in 2012: none thus far, but my box is filling up nicely!
Cards shipped to OWH in 2011: 1695

Sketches #23, 24, 26

These sketch cards are for Easter. I haven't been much for making holiday cards of late. I should get on it!

Sketch #23: I made 8 of these, my first multiples of the year.

Sketch #24:

Sketch #26:

Cards shipped to OWH in 2012: none thus far, but my box is filling up nicely!
Cards shipped to OWH in 2011: 1695

I love DCWV's Green Tea stack. I know it's one stack I'll actually finish at some point! I used all of the small Prima flowers from the bottle of blue flowers I got recently. Now, it'll be time to use the larger ones.

Cards shipped to OWH (as of 9/12/11): 1325

Tonic Challenge

It's practically the end of September, so the OWH birthday challenges are almost over. I'm bummed about that because I've gotten to know a lot of companies over this month of daily challenges, have pushed my limits to do new things, and have made plenty of great cards for OWH.

Today's challenge from Tonic asked us to use Tonic punches to make a fall card. Good thing I bought a couple over the summer! I have a small square and an egg shape. See the punch in the photo? I love how they look like little sneakers, at least to me. I used about 14 of the egg punch to make this cute flower in colors that remind me of fall leaves. Apologies for the crummy picture. I'm getting my Ott Light this weekend, so I might finally get decent photos!

Punch: Tonic
Paper: general cardstock and shaving cream paper I made
Stamp: Hampton Arts sentiment, flower stem from SU Simple Sketches
Other: Circle Nestabilities, button

Cards shipped to OWH (as of 9/12/11): 1325

First Spinner Card

I read a tutorial on the Stars and Stamps blog about making a spinner card and was intimidated. Then, today Sandy posted the first OWH Christmas break challenge and asked us to use a tutorial that we hadn't tried before. I hadn't done any of them (after all, I just learned about OWH this month) and this one seemed cool.

I didn't intend to copy their design exactly, but it's fairly similar. I incorporated another tutorial into the same card: using vellum.
Materials included:
Paper: black cardstock, heart vellum, pomegranate shimmer cardstock
Ink: pixie pink, pink passion, basic black, and versamark inks
Stamps: heart from Dollar Tree, "Love" by Inkadoo, sentiment by Studio G.
Other: silver embossing powder, foam mounting squares


I was SO rockin' the card making mojo this weekend that I decided to see if there was another tutorial I could tackle. I found a much simpler tutorial on an accordian/zig-zag fold card.
I changed it up a little bit by punching along the fold where the "thanks" stamp is (mostly because it wouldn't fit right without a tweak).
I was happy to use some materials that I hadn't given much time before, namely SU's Riveting set and paper flowers.


Materials:
Papers: robin cardstock from DCWV, green cardstock from heidi grace, pale blue cardstock, patterned paper from Making Memories
Inks: Tempting Turquoise
Stamps: SU Riveting
Other: Paper flowers from Making Memories, brads from Dollar Tree, border punch by Martha Stewart, clear embossing powder

Can't wait to see what other challenges bring! I'm enjoying using my supplies that don't always see the light of day because my family occassions don't always include everything I have stamps for.