Oldie Moldie Monday

Oldie Moldie Monday - time to show some love for some older paper.  I chose to use this holiday paper - I thought the little skiers would be perfect winter cards - not specifically Christmas cards - I made a total of four cards.  I made two like the top card.

These cards will go into my next Operation Write Home box.  The Friday Mashup (one of the choices) was to make cards for a charity or organization of your choice.  There are so many organizations to donate our cards to - Operation Write Home - receives the majority of my cards.

Thanks for stopping by and remember to show some love to your old supplies and find a good cause to donate your extra cards too.

Oldie Moldie Monday and Sweet Sunday Sketch

It is Monday - time to show some love for your older supplies.  Of course, you need to know where the supplies are that you want to use.  I had put everything away at Christmas but I had this one piece I had left out so I could color my images - took me awhile to find the remainder of the collection.

I have a special group of friends and I did not get holiday cards made for them so this is their holiday card.  They can be a flaky group of friends.  So to add the flakiness of the card not only being late - I made the cards so they all open backwards to make them smile.    I hope they enjoy them - each card is different but all use the same image and the same paper collection.  The stamp is a Whipper Snapper Design and the paper collection is from Collage Press.

The card is based on the sketch from Sweet Sunday.  The sketch is active for two weeks.

I had been going to do the sketch from the last two weeks but work has been busy and there was no creativity in my soul for the last couple weeks.  But yesterday, mission accomplished - I was able to complete that sketch also.  I just moved the accent to the other side of the circle.  

Here is the sketch I used.

I have two more cards I am working on - stop by later in the week and you will be able to see them.

Remember to show some love for your oldier supplies.

Riley and Company

This is my first Riley and Company card.  Discovered these stamps at a store in Wisconsin - so then we investigated and found all these cute stamps.  Mary and I placed an order which just came yesterday.  This stamp was bought at Polka Dots - the Wisconsin scrapbook store.  I love that you can get them just on cushion mount.

My daughter has moved to Alaska so these will be perfect stamps for her.  She talks about seeing moose all the time.  I think this card will be mailed to her in January.

The stamps will also make great Operation Write Home cards.  Every card made with Riley will bring lots of smiles.

I also discovered there is a blog for Riley and Company and they have challenges.  This is my first challenge - it is for Christmas in July.


I also used the sketch challenge from Unscripted Sketches.  I am not even going to attempt to load the sketch - I have been having blogger issues with uploading pictures.  

The paper is from Collage Press.  I love the bright cheerful colors of this collection.  The sentiment was computer generated.  I am lucky to have snow blowing fairies in my neighborhood that take care of my driveway and long sidewalk.

Enjoy the remainder of your Sunday.  My Oldie Moldie Monday card is done and now I need to make my Welcome to the Jungle card for our new employee in the office.

Stampendous and Operation Write Home

Good Tuesday morning - sneaking in a card at the last minute for the midweek throw down at Stars and Stamps - Operation Write Home's card blog.  The challenge is to make a winter/Christmas card.  Well of course I wanted to participate in this challenge.

I dug out this cute Stampendous stamp which has this coordinating sentiment with it.  The clear set has two snowmen and three sentiments.  I colored him with Copics and also colored around the sentiment to give it some color also.  I have two more snowmen and sentiments colored - but the scarves are pink - so this color combination may have to be changed up.

Enjoy your day.  Another hot one today in Wisconsin - approaching or will be 100 degrees today.

Warm Winter Wishes - no - Warm Spring Wishes

Close up of snoflake embellishment



Good morning - my first personal Christmas card for 2012.  I made this card for the Merry Monday sketch challenge. 

I am taking an Online Class about using your diecuts and Silhouette Machine.  The classes have been fun - the first lesson -part of it - was making your own embellishments using diecuts.  I posted a closeup of the snowflake one I made.  This is from a Spellbinders die cutting set. 

The paper is from Collage Press.  The penguin is from Whipper Snapper Stamps - a Wisconsin stamp company.  The sentiment is from Fiskars - another Wisconsin company.  The ribbon is from May Art - I just added a touch of red to the pink/blue card.  I even used some Stickles on the snowflake - when you make cards for Operation Write Home - the glitter goes away.

Enjoy your day.