January Cards

Hi Everyone,

Here are some new birthday and thinking of your cards that I made to continue to send to military personnel.  I decided to skip Valentine’s Day since I don’t have any great ideas for using hearts.  I figured there is a demand for Birthday and other generic cards  all year round. 

If you would like to contribute cards for the military who are stationed overseas, Operation Write Home is a great organization to get involved with.  They supply cards for those who are stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other bases around the world so they can keep in touch with their loved ones in the States.  It’s amazing how many people are hearing about this organization and getting involved.   From the thank you letters that I read from the servicemen and women, they are very grateful that we are thinking of them while they are away.

Here are a few I made recently:

Brown/Pink Polka Dot Birthday

Pink/Green Thinking of You

Yellow/Green Birthday Wishes Card

Lilac/Green Happy Birthday Card

Birthday Card

Here is another birthday card using my favorite new MS punch.  It also has stickle on the 3-D flower, which I’m hoping you can see clearly in this picture.  Enjoy!

Purple/Green Birthday card

November Cards

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Christmas cards were due in at the beginning of the month, but I couldn’t resist making one more.  But now I’ve started to make Birthday cards.  Of course, people have birthdays even in December, so there is always a need for these.  Anyway, I took a design that I used for Christmas and made it into a birthday card–here’s a comparison.  Hope you like them!

Red/Green Poinsettia

Purple/Green Birthday

More Cupcake Cards

Hello Everyone,

Last night OperationWriteHome put out an APB for a hero that had returned from the Middle East and was involved in a 27 car pile up.  She left her car to help others who were hurt in the accident, since she had training, and was then hit herself by a truck.  The rest of the story is not good.  So, in order to cheer her up and help her thank those who have helped her since this accident, we were asked to create a few cheerful cards for her.  These cupcake cards seemed like they would cheer her up, so I was happy to make them.

Chocolate/Pink Thank You

Blue/Pink Thinking of You

Cupcake Card

My daughter, Colleen, just loves anything cupcake.  She loves to make them, decorate them, scrapbook them, make them into cards…..everything can be cupcakes in her world.  So I found this set of cupcake stamps and scrap lifted the design from a YouTube video, and here is the final product:

Cupcake Card

The stamps are from Basic Grey and the cardstock is from Joann’s.  The video on YouTube is part of the Finally Friday series.

Finally, the Christmas cards for OperationWriteHome are due to be mailed this weekend, so I’m winding down  on making these.  I did some very simple ones the last few days, with the goal being quantity as opposed to my usual outstanding quality!!  Here are a few of them, and you’ll probably agree, they are very simple:

Green Holly Card

Red Holly Card

Red Christmas Presents

Red with Green Bow

Hi Everyone,

I am spending this last week of October finishing up Christmas cards for the military people who are deployed around the world.  This organization is now OperationWrite Home (they just changed their name from cardsforheroes.)  Last week I sent a box of 132 cards that my students made on their lunch hour, and this week I’m working at filling up another box and getting it mailed by Saturday morning.  So I really haven’t spent much time with new designs, just making lots and lots of my tried and true designs.  But here is a  card that I scrap lifted from a video on YouTube.

Red/Green Poinsettia Card

Here is a card using the exact same layout, but this time I used Apricot Appeal ink and tried to give it a look of fall.  It’s amanzing how different it looks:

Apricot/Green Get Well Card

Anniversary Card

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Here is a card I made for my cousin’s 50th Wedding Anniversary.  I’m still making Christmas cards.  They are due to be mailed by the end of this month, then I’ll start making some of these for the troops. 

Gold 50th Anniversary Card

More September Cards

This month I made both Christmas and birthday cards.  I have over 100 ready to be mailed out.  Here are a few of them:

Blue/White Snowflakes

Blue/White Snowflakes

Navy/Green Snowflakes

Red/White Bow

Red/Green Bow Christmas

Red/Green Christmas

Green/Blue Birthday

Blue/Green Happy Birthday

Purple/Green Wish Card

Yellow/Green Happy Birthday

Red/Green Happy Birthday

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Red Happy Birthday

 

Red/Gold Happy Birthday

Blue Happy Holidays

Aqua/Green Wish Card

Aqua Happy Birthday

Blue/White Snowflake

Blue/White Snowflake

September Cards

This month I concentrated on Christmas cards, since they need to be ready by the end of October. But, of course, birthday cards are always in demand, so I made a few of those, too.

Red Happy Holidays

Navy Happy Holidays

Aqua Happy Holidays

Blue/Green Happy Birthday

Gold Happy Birthday

Red Christmas

Green/Purple Merry Christmas

Red Happy Holidays

Navy and Green Happy Holidays