I used the Sketch from Operation Write Home to make my first card combined with the OWH midweek Stars and Stripes Challenge of Paper Piecing. It took me a while to figure out how to get a 6 x 6 piece of SU DSP thru my printer, but as you can see I got it figured out. The image is by Stamping Boutique and the sentiment Create with TLC.
This next card is another Stamping Boutique image paired with a SU sentiment. The Sketch for this card is from Cards and Things.
Finally, I used an image by Create with TLC and lightly colored with Copic markers. I embossed the background white cardstock and the main image- it needed a little ‘pop’, so I added the red scalloped circle. I used Wisped Frames from the Technique Junkies for the sentiment part of the image and finished the card off with a nice organdy bow.
Bloggers Challenge players can be found here- lots of great Patriotic inspiration.
Challenges for my cards:
Operation Write Home- Sketch #1
Stars and Stripes- Paper Piecing #1
Paper Sundaes- for a man or boy- sending these to soldiers!
Cards for Men-anything goes
Pink Elephant-Red, Blue, Yellow- card #1
Cards and Things-Sketch #2
Creative Card Crew-Let’s Punch it
My time to Craft- quick and cute
Papertake Weekly-for men/boys
Delightful Challenges-Stitching
Paper Play-circles
Sassy Studio Design-Get Stitchy
Stamp Insanity-Punches
Stampin B’s- a bird in a die cut- #3
Alphabet Challenge-B is for Birds
Raise the Bar- Let’s see those curves
So, my three cards fit into quite a few challenges. I want to give you the links for some places to find challenges:
Feline Playful lists WHAT the challenges are for the day (gotta love that!)
The Daily Dare-lists challenge blogs
Sketch Challenges can be linked here: Stampin When I Can
I hope you have a great weekend! Our Cross Country State meet is tomorrow in Peoria- Go Tigers!!!
Thanks for stopping by,
Shelly
43 comments:
Just dropping by to say hello and remind you how much your work astounds me! I love coming over and getting a real fix of "eye candy"!! Hope all is well!
hugs
donna
Fabulous cards very patriotic thanks for joining us at Alphabet challenge x
Cute cards !! Thanks for playing along with C& T !!
Oh wow a real patriotic card, love them all, fabulous colouring to. Thanks for joining us at CFM, good luck with the Challenge. With hugs Shirleyxxx
Wow - these are great. i love them. the girl reminds me of Holly Hobby. Are you old enough to remember her? They had books and stuff with her. Such fond memories. The paper piecing is great on these also. Love them. I'm also looking forward to the blog hop. I work with cards for soldiers so I too, love making cards for service men and women to use to write home.
Very cute, Shelly!!
Wonderful cards Shelly! I especially like the cute images from the first two! Well done! :D
Wow Shelly they are all so fantastic!! I think I have most of these ditigals too and you have given me such great ideas!
These are terrific. Love the paper dress!
Gorgeous!!!! Those are amazing cards. Thanks for playing along with SSD!
WONDERFUL cards! ALL are just great.
Lynn
Wow Shelly these are fabulous cards! How did you get the 6 x 6 paper through the printer? I usually tape mine to 8 1/2 x 11 copy paper cross my fingers and send it through ;)
Great job on the OWH sketch and MWT challenge, thanks for joining us for both at Operation Write Home! Hope to see you in the OWH blog hop next weekend too!
Awesome! I love patriotic and these all are simply perfect! Great job!
Fabulous cards Shelly :)
Hope you're having a great weekend.
Hugs
Tracey
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Amazing cards! Thanks for joining us at Delightful Challenges.
Hi! So glad I stopped over from OWH. Your cards are wonderful; just love the stitching and how you sanded the embossing. I'll be on the OWH bloghop too! Look forward to you visiting my blog!
WOWZA! These are fantastic :0)
I love the paper pieceing in the first one, but these are all darling cards! Nicely done!
All of these are fabulous, I love the paper piecing on the first card, very cute.
great card and layout. Thanks for joining us at Paper sundaes this week.
fi
Wow, Shelly! These are so perfect! Such a GREAT cause, too! :) These are really fabulous!
Hi Shelly,
lovely cards, great job.
Thanks for sharing your cards with us at Delightful challenges,
Mary
I have to admit that I get weary posting more than a half dozen links! You have great endurance for that sort of thing. Thanks for posting those other challenge collection sites.
Oh, and your cards are too cute for words! I was wondering if there were going to be any Veteran's day themed challenges!
These are the cutest patriotic cards I have ever seen! Love these adorable little images and your design!
Really cute cards. I think the eagle is awesome.
These are all fantastic! I love those images! {SMILES}
Super cards, great images. Thanks for joining us at MTTC this week.
Pat xx
Oh, these are great patriotic cards. Your digis are wonderful and you've done a splendid job. So glad you joined the Stampin B's this week.
wow what an amazing collection of cards, i adore your style and the papers are fantastic
good luck in the challenges.
Sarah-Louise xx
tiggertastic blog
(CPF - DT), (CCC - DT) & (BMD - DT)
awesome inspiration for patriotic cards! enjoyed them all and esp the eagle! thanks for listing all the challenges - lot of time in this post and its appreciated,
hugs (-:
Hi, these are all lovely cards. Thanks for playing along at The Pink Elephant challenge
Wonderful patriotic cards, great mixture of images and papers!
Terrific "Trio" of Patriotic cards. Wonderful images, papers and layouts. You were a busy lady!
Wow, these are gorgeous! Hugs, Karen
These are so adorable. I love the patriotic theme! Thanks for joining us at TPE!
I love all of your cards for this theme!!! They are so well done and really show your patriotic spirit!
All of these are wonderful Shelly. Great combinations on all of them
Fabulous cards chick and great images and colours :) Thanks for joining us this week over at Papertake Weekly, hugs, Dawny xxx
All your cards are so wonderful!
Inken
Alphabet Challenge
Three great patriotic cards Shelly. I always love how you donate so many cards to the troops, such a great thing to do!
Fabulous cards Shelly.
Thanks for joining us at Paper Play for our "Circles" challenge
hugs Mandy xx
all three are great cards! so patriotic! Thanks for sharing your Punch Love with us at StampInsanity!!
Shelley, you have been a busy bee in your craft room. And I have been remiss in coming around and seeing all the beautiful work you have created.
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