OWH MWT Summer Fun

When I think of summer, I think of the 4th of July, baseball, swimming, grilling, and fishing. I had recently purchased this great pack of Americana borders made by K&Company. When I decided upon the bunting border, I knew what I wanted to do. I used the "celebrate" and "fireworks" from Creative Cafe and made up my own "day from Studio G dittos. Adding the hemp was the hardest part of putting it together, but it adds so much.

Necktie Card

This card is my first attempt at this. Yes it is fairly easy but I have 3 suggestions for myself on the next one:

1. Start with lightweight paper for the tie because of all the folds.

2. Use double sided paper for the shirt(base).

3. Trim the paper next to the collar.

I will definitely be making more of these. The tutorial can be found here: http://www.owhstarsandstamps.org/2011/05/tutorial-necktie-card.html.

OWH MWT

The challenge this week has the theme “Things with Wings”! I am not really feeling the love for the first card; probably because I do not like to color. It is a free digistamp. I have started to save the blog name as part of the file name so I can give the creator credit. Unfortunately, I saved this one before I got that idea. The second card, which I thought about trying again has already been shipped out, but it is one of my favs. My sis says I have staples on all my scrapbook pages--not true. This is one of the very few cards I added staples to as an embellishment. These are two very different cards which do not look like they were made by the same person...definitely not a bad thing!

OWH Sketch Challenge #69

My niece's graduation party was Saturday, so I have been a little tied up with the preparations and missed a few challenges. I may try to catch up or say oh well...I have not decided yet. Yesterday, I caught the cleaning bug when I could not find my black ink pad and now on a mission to get things back in place especially my stamps. Here is my card, made from mostly scraps. Have a great week!

OWH Sketch Challenge #68

I am still focused on potential Father's Day Cards. Made this mostly from my purchased scrap pile. Lately I have been trying to minimize how much I purchase in supplies-because I realize I have so much stuff that I think I could scrap forever and never get it all used up, except of course the adhesives.

OWH MWT

The challenge this week is to make cards of appreciation for a military spouse! I have been so focused on yard work all this week, that I got a little behind on other stuff and not really feeling the card mojo thing. It did not help that I did not have an "appreciation" stamp. Sometimes I get stuck on a little thing like that; but I pulled myself out of it and designed the sentiment on my computer. I had started these two cards on Wednesday evening, but just got them finished last night. The patriotic card was made from scraps I had purchased at a scrapbook sale. I guess I did not think I had enough scraps of my own!

OWH Sketch #67

Simple sketch. I decided to break out a double-sided In My Minds Eye for this one. Punched stars out of scrap and stamped a star in the middle and inked the edges for more visual depth. When I got all that done I decided I really needed to flip my sentiment to make it all work. I really need to purchase some brown brads for the future. Have a happy Sunday!