Operation Write Home - More Than Cards

Operation Write Home requested photos or video from us to create a video to submit to ABC's Your Three Words project. These 3 words are to express what Operation Write Home means to us. So I thought about it, what Does OWH mean to me? Why do I make cards and send them off, to be shipped to our troops...

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OWH Stars & Stamps Sketch Challenge #31

Yes, they got me again! After being sick and Non-crafty this weekend, I was inspired by the Sketch challenge over at the Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps blog...Here is what I made tonight, simple 10 minute cards for sure, but limited edition :-) as they are made with the last of my retired stash...

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OWH Sketch #30 and the Mid-week Throwdown Challenge

Over at Operation Write Home's Stars and Stamps blog I was looking at the Midweek Throwdown and the cute digi-stamps offered up for the challenge, when I remembered I had not done Sketch #30, and it seemed like these might go together... so here we have Two-fer Thursday yielded another dozen cards,...

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S.o.S. Card Chain Challenge August

This month the Society of Stamp and Scrap-aholics Card Chain Challenge has thrown me for a loop, but I persevered and this is the end result: Augusts Challenges were: SKETCH -- COLOR PALLET - and/or THEME - Middle-Eastern - in honor of the Ramadan Holiday Dogs - in honor of National Dog Day or...

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Whooo's Expecting? Memory Jar Project

Some friends of ours are expecting a baby boy, and they have the most adorable nursery started with hand painted Trees and Owls etc... so for their Owl Themed baby shower I made a Memory Jar to gift along withsome of their registry items. Here is the card that coordinated: This is again stash clearance,...

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Friday Freebies - Tropical Party

Tropical Party 118515For most of us, summer is as close as we get to the luxuriously balmy weather of the tropics. But you can make the most of what you have with our Tropical Party set. Create an atmosphere of lazy breezy days on the beach and in the surf with these island flora and fauna. And why...

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OWH Midweek Throwdown - Stash Challenge

This weeks challenge at the Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps blog was to use patterned paper on your cards. I don't know about you, but it really screamed One Sheet Wonder!! to me... so I found a lonely sheet of 12x12" Designer Series Paper (this is from the retired Rasberry Tart pack) in my...

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Wow! Watercolor Trio

Watercolor Trio 117050Paint some beautiful floral watercolors on your projects with a few simple stamps from our Watercolor Trio set. These silhouette images were artistically designed to imprint the look of watercolor. So, though we know you still love to watercolor, you can still get the watercolor...

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Mini Catalog Must Have : A la Carte

It’s Monday!! As you come down off your Crafty Weekend elation, I have for you some Must Haves from the Mini Catalog. These are from our Summer 2010 Mini, and time is running out! You have until August 31st to order these sweet Singles. A la carte stamps are sold individually, so you can get started...

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