Cast your cares on the Lord

This piece of Me and My Big Ideas paper has been in my stash for a long time.  I think I got it from a friend in 2007, so it was time to use it up for some masculine cards.  I cut it into 12 strips, paired it with some Bazzill card stock and an ODBD sentiment, and created a dozen of these cards for my next OWH box.  It's a very simple card, but the texture of the Bazzill and the visual texture of the patterned paper make it look a little more special than it would otherwise be.  

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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.

Got the Blues?

I was having some trouble getting stamps in this set from TPC Studios to ink until I pulled out my Staz-on.  When I started stamping, I had no idea how many kinds of ink existed, or that they all had a specific purpose.  :)

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Cards shipped to OWH in 2013: None thus far, but I will be mailing a box of 300+ blank and 140 AnyHero notes this week!
Cards shipped to OWH in 2012: 1284 blank and 218 AnyHero (as of 10/9)
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.

Scrap to Treasure Swaps

A few weeks (months?) ago, a swapping page for OWH was started on FB. I am not a huge swapper since I have almost 10 times more than what I need of most things, but I have participated in two swaps when things sounded good or when I had something to share that someone else wanted. People always want to send something in return (which I understand), so even if I'm hoping to downsize some things, swaps won't make that happen.

Here, I am showing off some things that Karen G. sent me about a month ago. She sent me great Debbie Mumm Christmas papers and I used all of those up right away. They're pictured in a previous post. She also sent a pack of four cross embellishments and I knew I wanted to make this design, but I had to wait until I got the Swiss Dots folder. It was getting hard to find in stores, even at regular price, so when I had a coupon for AC Moore and it was in stock, I snatched the last one.


I apologize for this card's rotation. IPhoto has been giving me fits recently and I'm not motivated to upload the pic again to straighten it. Karen sent me the alphabet stamps. We'll be making 23 more of these at my card party on Friday night.
Next, I'll have to get cracking on the label die cuts that Laura S. sent me. They're beautiful, so I'm saving them for just the right card.


Can I ask you a favor? Please go vote for my card at Spotted Canary http://goo.gl/34Q6o. If I win, I'm going to donate the prize money to OWH. You need to be logged into FB and you may vote once a day until Sept. 7th. Tell your friends!!! Thanks so much!

Cards shipped to OWH (as of 8/2/11): 964