Operation Write Home Memorial Day Sketch Blog Hop

Welcome to our Operation Write Home Memorial Day Sketch Blog Hop!

I LOVE OWH sketches and have a few cards today sharing those sketches.

My first card uses OWH Sketch #79 one of my very favorites!

The cute ladybug is from Bugaboo Stamps and colored with Copic markers.

Sketch #26 with more Bugaboo Stamps digital images.

Sketch #46 with another Bugaboo Stamps digital image.

Enjoy our Operation Write Home Memorial Day Sketch blog hop!

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Challenges:

Ladybug Crafts - Things With Wings 

Oozak - Spring Colors

Hambo Stamps Dr. Needle

My card today is for the Hambo Hoedown, the challenge theme is paper PIERCING, I always confuse that with paper piecing...  as you can see I did both.  Not really to be on the safe side, those crazy stripped pants reminded me of a doctor who we saw recently so I just couldn't resist.

Here's the quick story - 

My husband has prostate cancer so we've been seeing several different doctors since just before the first of the year.  My husband works part time for his sister in her very fashionable local clothing store.  I know if I could have worked there when I was in high school I would have felt like I'd died and gone to heaven.    When we first met his Urologist he was wearing the usual white lab coat, scrubs pants and these wild athletic shoes.  He looked up at my 6 ft. 5 in. tall husband, shook his hand and looked at his feet and told him his shoes weren't very fashionable...  I think we both cracked up laughing, what is "fashionable" in a size 13 shoe? lol 

There are several inspirations for my card today.  I was looking at the "Make It Monday" challenge and saw the most gorgeous card from Mary J. who's blog is Where's My Creativity that made my mind whirl with ideas.  We also have a dear friend who will be having surgery in the near future and I was thinking this might be a fun card to give him to cheer him up during his recovery.  

Along with paper piecing I colored Dr. Needle with Copic markers R20, E000, E00, E11, E40, E41, E43, Y26, E49, C0, C1, W0, W4, B0000, BG10, YG11.  The patterned papers are from the Basic Grey Granola mini paper pad, copic coloring on Copic X Press It.  I added a little Stickles and Glossy Accents to certain areas that I thought should shine.  The shape of my card is made with a Cheery Lynn designs French Flair regular and scalloped dies, the border is a die-namics die and for the banner I used a square Stampin' Up! punch to punch the end into a banner. 

I also decorated the inside.

I think Mary J.'s are nicer but I'll keep working on it.

Hey, I almost forgot I was the Hambo Stamps Channel Surfing blog hop winner!  I won a $20.00 shopping spree at Hambo Stamps, yippee!  You can be sure I placed my order already :)

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Challenges:

Hambo Hoedown - Paper Piercing
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes
Card Makin' Mama's - Punches (the "V" in the banner die)

Hallo World

Hallo World....!!

Digital Delights by Louby Loo Augustus

I seem to have an animal theme going this week, today I bring you Augustus the dragon from Digital Delights by Louby Loo.  I was experimenting again with Violets and Blue Violets but in the end I was having a hard time blending so I turned to Blues.  I have a supply list below:

ALL DDSTAMPS USED:  Augustus

CS AND PAPERS:  Via Vellum Basic Black, Neenah Solar White, Stampin’ Up! Almost Amethyst, Basic Grey Marrakech paper pad
INK:  HP LaserJet – Copic markers
MARKERS (if any):  B69, B66, B63, B60, B21, B23, E04, W3
ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS:  Cheery Lynn Designs button dies, Fiskars crimping tool, crochet thread
COLORING MEDIUM (if any):  Copic markers

I hope you'll stop by our Digital Delights by Louby Loo blog and see all the fun creations from our design team!

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Challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes
Stamps & Fun - Anything Goes

Pollycraft Sweet Love Set

I have two blog posts today, I've been trying hard not to do that anymore but every once in awhile something special is going on!  I had to come back and tell you about our Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown challenge that starts today, our theme is "Love You".

My card is made using a Pollycraft set called Sweet Love, I colored this cute image with Copic markers R20, R21, R24, R27, R35, R46, R59, R81, R83, R85, E000, E00, E11, E25, E29, E30, E31, E33, E35, E40, E41, E42, E43, E44, E47, E53, T0, Y32, Y17, BG000, B91, B93, B95, YG01, YG05.  The layout for my card is Sweet Sunday Sketch #143 with the strip down the center left out and my color scheme came from the Pollycraft challenge or pink, red, cream, white.

I hope you have time to play in our Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown challenge this week!

Be sure to stop by Pollycraft too if you like they're digital images they are having a huge going out of business sale going on right now.

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Challenges:

Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps - Love You

Pollycraft - Pink, Red, White, Cream
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes

Crissy Armstrong's Mort The Frog

I'm a guest designer today at For Fun Challenges!

Kathy contacted me and asked me if I'd like to be their guest and you know I said yes!  The theme for the challenge is Fully Relying On God, I knew I had a couple or more really cute frog digital stamps in my files.

The image I decided on is Crissy Armstrong's Mort The Frog, he's available for sale at Squigglefly.  I colored Mort with Copic markersYG01, YG03, YG23, YG63, W1.  My card layout is a sketch from Totally Gorjuss back in October 2011.  My papers are a mixture of scraps that were beside my paper trimmer.  I did use a Cuttlebug embossing folder and thought it would be fun to randomly color some of the dots to mimic Mort's skin, I did that with YG03.  The F.R.O.G. sentiment is computer generated.  I forgot to take a photo of the inside of my card, it's plain and white but says, "Fully Relying On God".

I made my card with specific friends in mind.  Our family has been praying for our friends Steve & Dottie, Dottie and I found out about the same time our husbands had cancer.  We're "online friends" through Operation Write Home so we've e mailed back and forth and gotten acquainted.  

Our family has been following her husband Steve's progress through his cancer.  I am truly inspired by their faith and dedication to each other.  They have been fully relying on God for their strength to get through this time and our family has been keeping up with them through a site called Caring Bridge and keeping them in daily prayer.  I enjoyed making my card today with Steve and Dottie on my mind, I'll write a note of encouragement inside and mail it off soon. 

This challenge theme was also inspiring to me, we all have a story and we all have our struggles and issues in life.  Sometimes we find ourselves wounded and crawling away from God, when actually we should be running to Him or crawling to Him if that's all we're capable of at the time. What a great reminder that we all need to be Fully Relying On God.

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Challenges:

For Fun Challenge - Fully Relying On God
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes
Just Tracy's Crafts - Anything Goes
My Heart Pieces - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Oozak - Spring Colors

Cuddly Buddly LilyBoo Creatures Hedgie

My card today uses a cute digital image from Cuddly Buddly that's been waiting for me.  It's been printed and waiting in a cello bag with several others.  

I had a minor malfunction with my desktop computer keyboard recently and had to wait for a new keyboard to arrive from Staples online.  Would you believe the small town we live in there isn't a computer keyboard for sale to be found?!  We had WalMart come to town a few years ago and put most of the other small businesses out of business and our WalMart doesn't carry computer keyboards... 

Ahh, don't get me started huh?  Anyway I wanted to work on cards and couldn't use my desktop computer so I colored one of my just for fun images.  I had the idea of printing a sheet of blue on blue polka dotted paper for this project too, after I realized I couldn't I got "creative" and used a Sizzix embossing folder and colored the dots with my B24 Copic marker.  

This image is colored with Copic markers B21, B23., B24, B28, B0000, YG21, YG23, YG25, E50, E30, E31, E15, E17, E25, E81, V0000, V000, RV10, Y18, YR18.  The layout for this card is a sketch from Priscilla Styles Midnight Madness challenge blog.

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Challenges:

Midnight Madness - Sketch