Oldie Moldie Monday

Today I am showing some love to an old collection from Piggy Tales. These cards will go in my next Operation Write Home box.   By the time the cards get to our Heroes to mail home - these fallish colors will be wonderful.  Two feminine cards and one masculine (argyle screams masculine doesn't it - especially in these colors)

Everyone enjoy your Monday and the work week.  Come back tomorrow to see another mixed media project.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Good Wednesday morning - why is it that during the work week - you could sleep in the morning and on the week end - we are wide awake when it is the time we normally go to work. At least today is hump day.

The cards I am sharing for you today are cards for Operation Write Home - do you like to make cards, do you have lots of card making supplies, do you like to buy new stuff for card making, do you like to make people happy - then Operation Write Home is for you. Why not put your talent, desire to help people, and use up some of your supplies to a good use. Make cards for Operation Write Home. And to top it all off - it is tax deductable.

I had 4 6 x 6 sheets of coordinating paper - double sided - that I made these cards from. The first card is based on the weekly sketch on OWH's card blog Stars and Stamps. It felt good to use up those pieces of paper that have been floating around my work area for several years. I had just bought the stamp on the week end because I thought it would be a great stamp for OWH cards. The image will make everyone who sees the card smile.

Well I must go and get myself ready for the day. Everyone have a wonderful day.

Card Details:
Size: 4.25 x 5.5
Paper: Piggy Tales
Stamp: Stampendous colored with Copics

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Good Tuesday evening - are you sure it wasn't Monday. We had a furlough day yesterday so it was a Monday on a Tuesday. Very busy day after being out of work for over a week - the next 30 days are a marathon for me at work.

Sunday I had a card making marathon working on a grouping of paper I had received at CHA several years ago. Tonight I am sharing 3 more of the 11 cards I made. I still have one grouping of paper to use. The cards are for Operation Write Home. I really should send out one more box to end the year and start at 0 for 2011. If you want to make cards for a worthwhile cause, OWH is such a good one - so many smiles are generated by one card. The card that keeps on giving.

Everyone have a wonderful evening. Big 10 basketball started tonight and the Badgers won - go Bucky - can't wait till the Rose Bowl this Saturday. Wisconsin versus TCU. Go Bucky.

Card details:
4.25 x 5.5
Paper: Piggy Tales
Stickers: SRM Stickers
Flowers: assorted companies - Prima, American Crafts
Scallop Die cut: Papertrey Ink

Monday, December 27, 2010

Good MOnday morning - I am happy to report I survived the holiday season - and once again I can return to card making - I had to clean up my area so we could eat at the tables I pile (excuse me - create on). I think I need a new year's resolution to put things away - that might last a week. Christmas day was a wonderful gathering of family - and granddogs - lots of good food and lots of leftovers. I return to work tomorrow so I think I may need to take some treats. I went no where yesterday -today I will venture out because I have company coming and they want to go shopping. I know we will be stopping at Hobby Lobby and Papa Murphy's for a pizza.

Well - yes today is Monday - so that means it is Oldie Moldie Monday - time to show some love for your old paper. It still makes beautiful cards. I had this grouping of paper from Piggy Tales - 6 x 6 samples of all their new collections one year which I got at CHA. It has been floating around my crafting area for years so I decided to start creating with it. I got 11 cards made yesterday - I have one more set to create with. All the cards are for Operation Write Home.

The first card is based on the weekly sketch at the Operation Write Home card blog - Stars and Stamps. Every Sunday they offer a new sketch to help your creative juices. With the holidays I did not get a chance to play - but yesterday - as you know - the paper came back out.

Well I need to go and get a few things done - the thought of returning to work tomorrow - very sad - now I can relax - the last two mornings I got up at my normal time - but at 7 I took at nap for 2 hours - it was very nice. Maybe over the New Year's week end I can continue this napping.

Everyone enjoy your Monday. Maybe I will buy myself a present today.

Card Details:
Size: 4.25 x 5.5
Paper: Piggy Tales
Stamps - I don't know - they were in my box already stamped and colored and who knows where the stamps are right now
Stickers: SRM Stickers
Sentiment stamp: Hero Arts
May Arts Twine
Spellbinders
Prima Flowers

Hello Monkey

Inside of card

Envelope

Good morning - very early - normally I am an evening poster but no work today - at work - anyway - I do need to get some things done around the house and go to the grocery store so I have food for the week. I do wish someone else did that for me and had a nice healthy meal waiting for me when I got home each evening.

I got 3 cards made yesterday. We are in the "interim world" at work. We have a new "interim" person starting work on Tuesday. I made this card to welcome her to the office - thus the monkey/jungle theme. She has small children so she will appreciate it.

This card actually satisfies 3 challenges. It is the sketch challenge on The Fresh Batch; the color challenge (blue and green) on their sister site - Our Creative Corner; and finishing the inside of your card on Moxie Fab World.

Everyone have a wonderful day - I need to get stuff done around the house plus play with some paper.

Size - 5 x 7

Patterned Paper - Piggy Tales

Stamp - Inky Antics colored with Copics (monkey); sentiment - Hero Arts

Button - American Crafts

DMC Floss

Spellbinders

Brads - Imaginisce

Twill - Wrights

Thursday

Another exciting title to a blog post. I wanted to post my card. Last night I could not get to sleep so finally I got up at eleven and made a card I needed for a baby shower this week end - luckily I knew the paper I wanted to use and the images. I had colored these images before and they were already cut out. Now looking at them with a little more awake eyes - it looks like the monkeys may be two different colors of brown - Hmmmmmm - I will have to look at the card to see.

Card base - Bazzill scalloped paper
Patterned Paper – Piggy Tales
Stamp – Stampabilities colored with Copics
Buttons – American Crafts Twill Tape - Wrights