How do you spend two days snowed in with the family?

I make cards in the basement!  Six people, 1 internet connection and 1 TV everyone wants to watch.  I just spent my time in the craft area downstairs and came up with my next batch of OWH cards.  These are very simple cards.  I just took papers from the DCWV Flower Shower stack and started combining colors and images.  There are only three that I used the Cricut to make.  The rest were punches.  Let's see if you can tell the difference.  Sorry there are so many shadows in the pictures.

Card  # 1 Hearts and Flowers

 Card #2 Have a Tweet Day

 Card #3 Hearts and Flowers #2

 Card #4 Oh Hoppy Day!

 Card #5 Six Medalions

 Card #6 Ziggy

 Card #7 Surprise

 Card #8 Country Love

 Card #9 Love Birds

 Card #10 Tulips and Daisies

 Card #11 Gold Fish Bowl

 Close up of the fish bowl card

So which ones are Cricuts?
Numbers 6, 7, and 11.  Numbers 6, 7 are cuts from Plantin Schoolbook and 11 is a card cut from Life's a Beach.

Number 4 is a Cuttlebug die cut, the rest were hand punches.  On #10 those little purple tulips were punched from one of those tiny punches Michaels has in their dollar bin.  I glued them into the beige dots.  Kinda looks like ribbon. This is a great stack of papers.   The owls, birds "love cross stitch" and flowers are all parts of the paper stack.  I needed the bright colors to cheer me up - at least until we had to start shoveling!!

Stay warm and safe everyone.
Sue

OWH Birthday Card

Operation Write Home Stars and Stamps is the bloggers circle for the organization Operation Write Home.  They offer tutorials, there is a cute circle card there now, and challenges as well as information about the cards for the men and women in the U S Armed Services.  The current challenge is this sketch:

I chose to make a child's birthday card.  Since glitter is not allowed, I always try to decorate the cards with other fun embellishments.  These are Puff Stickers.  They add dimension and imagery at the same time.    If you don't make cards for a charitable organization but would like to, OWH is a great, great organization.

Thanks for stopping by.  Leave a comment if you have the time.

Sue

Soldiers need birthday cards to send home to their children.

Closeup of Puff Stickers.

Another closeup of the card.

OWH Halloween Card

This is a Halloween card I made for Operation Write Home (OWH).
Thanks for taking a peek.  Sue

Frame is inspired from http://capadiadesigns.blogspot.com/2009/10/happy-halloween-title.html

Pumpkin Patch Card

This is a standard A2 card (5 1/2 by 4).  The base is white card stock.  The first layer is 4 by 5 1/4, the second is 3 3/4 by 5. Both papers are from GCD called Autumn Afternoon.  I cut the pumpkins (3 pumpkins cut twice each) from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge on page 33 Accessory 1- shift.  I cut them at 3.10 inches.  One layer was cut on moss green paper from my stash and the other layer on orange card stock from Recollections.  I used my gypsy (can't remember what the function is called) to eliminate the jack-o-lantern face cuts on two of the pumpkins and left them for the center pumpkin.  Those cut lines were highlighted with green chalk.  The eyes are highlighted with white and black gel pens.The "Pumpkin Patch" tag, stars, moon with bats and night stickers were stickers from my stash.  Under the pumpkins I cut a three inch piece of DMC memory thread.  It worked great to make the vine.  I wrapped it around a paint brush then flattened the loops.  It is held onto the card by a single glue dot in the center and parts of the foam tape that raise the pumpkins from the card base.  Since this is a card for OWH I leave as much white in the inside as possible for the soldiers to write home.  I cut a 1 1/4 by 3 1/4 inch strip of green and rounded the corners. The happy halloween is from the Holiday Cakes cartridge on page 75.  Both the plain phrase and the plain phrase shadow were cut at .95.  The brad came from The Eyelet Outlet www.eyeletoutlet.com  I love their varieties.  Thanks for taking a peek.  

Haunted House Card

Halloween cards for Operation Write Home are do in September so I've started making them.  I cannot send this one because I chose to emboss it and they don't accept glittery cards.  But I do like these cuts.  

Papers used: Recollections white, black and orange card stock.  A lime green card stock from my stash.  I don't remember where it came from.

I heat embossed the orange with MS crystal embossing powder.  I used the Zyron machine to apply glue before embossing.  It worked very well.

On the Holiday Cakes cartridge the Halloween items are all called "SPOOKY".  The haunted house image is on page 35 and the phrase image is on page 75.  I welded to of the base shadows (flipping one upside down) to make the card. It was cut in white card stock. All cuts are 5".  The haunted house is the shift cut on page 35 cut in black card stock.  I used the plain base cut the background in orange.  I removed the fence, porch, and chimney before I embossed it.  The "BOO" is the plain phrase cut at 5 inches.  I cut two of them and glued them together so they stood out from the card front. 

This scan does not do the image justice.  the background is a very pretty shimmery orange, but the image came out beige.

Hope you like it.

Sue