Thanksgiving Cards

Here's what you can do with one sheet of extra nice decorative paper and some solid color layering, ribbon and stamps...

First Grandbaby!

My first grandchild arrive this week!  I haven't met her yet except through video chat but I will get my chance to hug and squeeze her in just a few short weeks.  In the meantime I'm sending a package off to her today from Omi (german for Grandma).  Here's a card I made to go in the package:

And as soon as I get this package off, I'm heading to the frame store to find a frame so I can frame my finished product pictured here below.  I think this is my last counted cross stitch though...it's getting too hard to see the squares.  Guess I'm too old to do cross stitch now that I'm a Grandma - hah!!!

And here's another one with the same papers...might be one more yet and then all my scraps will be used up!  (I just noticed that in the picture the background looks like a dark blue, it is actually a teal to match the one stripe in the plaid paper).

And because I can't throw the tiniest scrap of paper away (LOL!) here's another card in the same color hues.

OWH Sketch Challenge #197 - Needed to make a birthday card for a very special son this weekend so this came at the right time.  Here's the link to their page - http://operationwritehome.org/sketch-challenge-197/#comments.  Here's my take on their sketch, a masculine birthday card.

OWH Midweek Throwdown Challenge

This week's Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown was to create something with pink and green for Valentine's Day - here's the link to the challenge - http://operationwritehome.org/midweek-throwdown-color-challenge-11/.

Midweek Throwdown: Color Challenge

Posted by AllisonGinTX on Oct 23, 2013 in Midweek Throwdown Challenge, Stars and Stamps | 4 comments

You all seemed to have “snow” much fun making the cards for last week’s challenge.  Thank you for participating!  Are you ready to move on from Winter and Holiday cards yet?  I know some of you have been hard at work making Christmas cards since early in the summer.  Well, here’s a color challenge for you that would work perfectly for Valentine’s/Love cards: Pink and Green!  It’s not too early to start working on cards for Valentine’s and we ALWAYS need Love cards because our heroes use our cards to keep in touch with those they love most.  The Valentine’s deadline is December 31 so mark your calendar and start today!

Here's my take on a pink and green card for OWH this week!

OWH Midweek Throwdown: SNOW !!!

Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown: Snow Much Fun

http://operationwritehome.org/midweek-throwdown-snow-much-fun/

I just sent a box of cards in and changed some of the sayings at the last minute from Christmas to an all around Winter theme since I figured she probably gets A LOT of Christmas and not so much all around Christmas.  Then yesterday the Snow Much Fun Challenge was presented.  Here's a couple of my cards: