OWH Mid-Month Throwdown - Grateful

Today's pair are for the OWH (new) Mid-Month Throwdown and you can read about it here.  The challenge is to make Grateful or Thankful themed cards.  The side panels were dry embossed before the paint was added, the sentiment panel is raised and the leaves are punched with a textured paper... all to add as much texture as possible to these cards.  I'm thankful for this uninterrupted day to make cards and tinker in the crafty zone!  :)

OWH - MWT - Red, White and Blue Any Hero Card

The challenge for this week is a color challenge of red, white and blue and to make an Any Hero card.  This is one of my favorite sentiments by Paper Inspirations.

MWT - Any Hero Card with Stars

I think pretty much the Any Hero cards I've made lately all have stars on them.  It just seems right to have some stars for our Heroes.   Check out the glossy gel letters!  :)

OWH Midweek Throwdown - Any Hero Card

The Midweek Throwdown for this week can be found on the Stars & Stamps blog, here.  Continuing with the July patriotic themes I made this one with shiny stickers for maximum effectiveness of the word Hero.  I know this looks similar to another one I made recently but I had more of the circle flags and the star paper so I decided to NOT add to the scrap basket.  :)  Edit:  The circle flags were a 3-d border strip that I believe is K&Co, it was mixed in with other things in my patriotic supply bin.  I just cut off the number of circles I wanted for each card.  They really were nice since the stripes are all shiny like the Hero sticker letters.

OWH - MWT Any Hero Card with a Flag

Today the Midweek Throwdown for Operation Write Home is to make an Any Hero card with a flag on it.  As we approach our nation's biggest celebration we all need to be mindful of the Heroes that away from home.  (The base of the card is actually oatmeal... not sure why that doesn't show up right... hm?) 

MWT - April Showers Bring May Flowers

I had made these 2 while cleaning up the scrap pile.  The paper had such pretty flowers........  The free digi is from Create with TLC.  I hope the families can feel those long distance hugs.

MWT - General Love Cards

The Midweek Throwdown for this week is general love themed cards. 

 

Sandy is getting the Valentine themed cards ready for shipping out and some general Love cards would round out those boxes nicely. 

 

So here are a few!

Midweek Throwdown - Seeing Stars!

I've got some time today to catch up on some posts and make a few cards so here goes!  This week's Midweek Throwdown at Operation Write Home is called Seeing Stars. 

And as you would guess we are making cards that have stars.  My favorite star cards are for Heroes and children.  Today I'm doing the Hero cards.

OWH Midweek Throwdown - Fall Theme

The MWT is for Fall themed cards.  I know these don't have leaves or pumpkins on them but I see colors of fall in them.  The gold strips have a nice bit of shimmer to them.  These were made doing a bit of Scrap Wrangling as well.  Waste not!  :)

OWH Midweek Throwdown - Things With Wings

I know it has been awhile since I have posted so there will be several today as I attempt to get caught up.  This morning the challenge is to make a card with something on it that has wings.  I made this butterfly on the Cricut and his little antennae with a small old border punch.  The ribbon is May Arts and the sentiment that I grunged up a bit is from Designer Digitals.

OWH Midweek Throwdown - So Sentimental

This challenge is to make the sentiment the focal point of the card.  I also tried to incorporate the lesson from May's Design Bootcamp in using 2 shapes of frames, the brads and the velvet ribbon. 

OWH Midweek Throwdown

This week's throwdown is to make Thank You cards for our nation's Heroes to send home.  They often use them to thank organizations and individuals who are sending support and encouragement to them.  In continuing with my inspiration from sketch #170 from Sunday and trying to use up the Fleur de lis' I had already cut, this is a sample of the next stack I am making with various colors and patterns.  I love this deep purple velvet ribbon with the gold edging and the shiny texture of the blue.  These just looks and feels so yummy!

MidWeek Throwdown - Bugs Life

The MWT at Stars & Stamps blog is to make cards with bugs.  It appears that all I can find for bugs at the moment is the butterfly.  This one is a 3-d embellishment from K&Co and I have a few more so don't be surprised when they show up.  :) 

OWH Midweek Throwdown and Sketch #24

The OWH Stars and Stamps blog MWT challenge is to use blue and green.  There is an additional challenge in adding orange to the mix as well.  I just couldn't find a place to put the orange.  This is also using Sketch #24 that according to my list I hadn't done. Check!  And into the box for OWH.

MWT - Cards 4 Kids

Does this look familiar?  It might if you have seen some of my cards from a year ago.  The Midweek Throwdown is Cards 4 Kids.  I don't have many stamps for children's cards but I do have Mickey and his friends!  I CASE'd my own cards from last year to make a pile of these happy looking guys/gals.

The squares of the "gang" were all lightly popped for a little interest.

 

I found 3 sheets of 12x12 stars in my stash so that will make 27 cards! Yay!

MWT - Birthday Cards

This is a great Midweek Throwdown as it is wide open in layout, style, color, age and gender.  I had gotten this wonderful stamp just a little while back and tried it out on 3 different cards.  The box for OWH will have multiples of all three.  The red lace border is a Martha Stewart punch.

 

One a little masculine.

The border on this one is a cradstock sticker border from K&Co.  The twinkly leaves don't show up too well in the photo but I thought it made it look almost like lace.  Ha! It's early in the morning, it could just be that I need more coffee! LOL!

MWT - Show Us Your Green

This week's challenge is a color used on cards and it is to be green.  I'm not making St. Patrick's Day cards but I do love the greens in nature.  Playing with the new Cricut cartridge I got for Christmas.  I made 6 of these!

Midweek Throwdown - Missing You

This week's throwdown is to make any kind of Missing You card.  Now, it being right after Christmas and Santa brought me a new Cricut cartridge I had to tinker.  I know it is kind of wild but I like it!

Midweek Throwdown Color Challenge/ Sketch 148

Holy Moly!  I got a two-fer!  The MWT Color Challenge is also Sketch 148.  Yay!  Ok, calm down.... whew.  I liked this sketch so much for some odd reason.  I hadn't used tags in a long time so this was fun.  And the paper I made the tags with is sooooo yummy!  ALL the stripes are glossy raised embossed.  How fun is that?  And the ribbon is velvet..... more yummy!

And the blues and reds were scraps so maybe this is a three-fer!

 

One style of flower had dimensional sticky on them so I pulled that off and just laid it flat so that I could fit the little bit of bling without creating bulk for our Heroes to have to pay extra for when sending them home to loved ones.  The others were cardboard die cuts.  All the bling was from a set by PSX and the ribbon is holiday ribbon from Michael's.

Midweek Throwdown Love & Hugs

The Midweek Throwdown is for Love and Hugs!  Think of all the loved ones we make smile with these.  I got on a bit of a "roll" using the black velvet sticker that comes on a roll.  :)

This stuff is cool but requires some patience to peel off the backing and not have it turn into a curly wad.  Since I am on a quest to use what I have, not make too many leftovers or scraps of anything, I made love cards untill it ran out.