Cards that Care

I learned about this wonderful opportinitiy on Kristy's blog here.   As you know, I have been following the Odd Girl and Some Odd Girl for awhile now.  This cause is near and dear to me.  I am social worker and I work alot with nursing facilities in the area.

Cards that Care is a card drive that collects holiday/christmas cards to send to the elderly in nursing homes across America. Grandfathers and Grandmothers who may be missing their families or may just feel lonely this holiday season. Just by doing something you already love to do, cardmaking, you can send smiles, love and lift spirits. Please hop over to Vera’s blog to read all the details about how you can get in on this wonderful cause.

The details:
This card drive will be going on till November 31, 2011.

• We will need to receive your cards by November 31, 2011.
• Please make the cards for Christmas or Holiday Wishes. Anyone can send a card, your children, church group, scout troops, etc.
• All cards need to have a message in it.  Please also sign your name and where you are from.  On the card envelope, write your name on the top left corner.  Also, please don't seal the envelope.
• Please stick to just cards.
• And please don't use any pins (safety reason).

You can mail the cards  to either one of these awesome ladies:

Jennifer McGuire                              Vera Yates
P.O. Box 428612                                P.O Box 17596
Cincinnati, OH 45242                        Sugar Land, TX 77496

In each package, PLEASE include a piece of paper with your name, address, email address and how many cards you sent.  This helps us in keeping track for prizes! For each card you send, you will get a chance.  So the more cards you send, the better your chances.

More Oddies for you!

I totally am in love with Some Odd Girl's images.  They are so fun and fresh.  This month, Kristy is celebrating her birthday all month with tutorials every day.  Some new ideas and some old.   Some refreshers too.  I am really enjoying the Copic tutorials as I am a Copic novice.   You can view the tutorials on her blog HERE and while you are there, grab her birthday badge and get in on her surprises this month!  On the SOG blog there are two challenges a month.  This first card, using one of the SOG new holiday releases, also uses a sketch.  With some of the new transitions shading techniques i learned on Kristy's blog, I was able to really do the pumpkin well:

On the Flickr Group, week 3 is about using craft brown paper and twine.    I just love this image and find so many uses for him!

ANd finally, week 4 on the Flickr group was to do a snowy theme.  I used one of the tutorials on Kristy's blog from the very beginning of the month to make this shadow box like card that goes flat for a regular size A2 mailing:

 I wanted you to see the close up of the fuzzy earmuffs and boot cuffs using the heated up liquid applique.

Thanks for looking!

Getting so Odd with Some Odd Girl Digital Stamps!

Some Odd Girl is having a weekly challenge at their Flickr Group here.  They are doing the 12 Weeks of Christmas Holiday challenge. This week we are to create a card that has non-traditional Christmas colors.  One of the DT members has inspired me to NOT color in my digi so here it is:

 On their Blog here, they are having a color inspiration using this:

My lighting is sucky but hereis what I came up with:

I got the MOJO!

If you have lost your MOJO, I have found it!  This first project is brought to you by Some Odd Girl.  They have some super fun digitals that I love to color.  There are biweekly challenges on their blog and they are also doing a 12 week of Christmas challenge on their Flickr group.  This tag was for week One.:

 The next projects are all for the Design Star Challenges at Scrap-Friendzy.  I keep going back to this forum as it is fun and challenging.  They always have something cooking!

Why don't you join us at Scrap-Friendzy this weekend?  They are celebrating their birthday and there will be challenges, games, and prizes galore.  Besides the fun forum, they also have some rockin' kits.  Head on over there and join the fun.  there are some pre-weekend preparations going on and you sure don't want to miss.  Tell them I sent ya!

More Design Star Challenges at Scrap-Friendzy

 Nicholas lost his first toothe this week. Isn't that PAPER DISGUSTING!  Trash to treasure was the theme.  2004 trashy paper of course

 a TERRIBLE family portrait for the church directory.  BLECH.

 This one of my DD is using the Midnight Rooster Summer Shandy Kit from August!!!!!

What do you think of my peacock feather?  It has gone to the birds!   LOL

Some Odd Girl keeps me in STITCHES This week!

I am so happy to get back into the copic marker coloring groove and my favorite digi's have been the Some Odd GIrl  digi stamps.  This one below is Sweet Kaylee.  I made this card for my sister in law's birthday that is this week.  The task this go around was to incorporate some sort of sewing into the project.  I did this with some embroidery floss on the fabric piece that i cinched.   The papers used were from  Midnight Rooster.  I purchased a YUMMY kit from them.  It was August's kit called Summer Shandy and boy was it LOADED with beautiful goodies.

Summer Shandy has this in it:

My Minds Eye – Hazel “Mother” Ledger Paper

American Crafts – Peachy Keen, My Darling

My Minds Eye – Hattie “Buddies” Argyle Paper

Echo Park – For the Record, Fancy Floral

Cosmo Cricket – Odds and Ends, Junk Drawer

Crate Paper – Emma’s Shoppe, Playhouse

Studio Calico – Countryside, Wildflower

My Minds Eye – Hazel “Memories” Lithe Lines Paper

Sassafrass – Starters, Intro

American Crafts – Hello Sunshine, Jovial

Bazzill

Kraft

French Vanilla

Sunflowers Light

Coastal

Embellishments

Wood Veneer Alphas – Studio Calico

Sticky Keys mini alpha – October Afternoon

Phrase Stickers – Crate Paper

Fab Rips – Studio Calico

Chipboard Butterflies – Maya Road

Midnight Rooster Exclusives

6 x 11″ Fabric

3 pins

1 yard butterfly trim

6 butterflies with hand sewn buttons

6 fabric covered buttons, 1 large, 1 medium, 4 small

15 fimo cabochons, 3 large, 3 medium, 9 small

The kits are so unique and have beautiful elements in them!

More from Scrap Friendzy!

I have continued to play along with this month's Design Star Challenges at Scrap-Friendzy.  I even decided to purchase one of their kits seeing as though there are no more LSS near me  **SNIFF**.  The projects below have elements that are essentially all from their August kit.

Been a long time....

It has been an incredibly long time since my bloggity blog has seen any action.  So long that I have moved and we no longer have a local scrapbook store.  I am now purchasing kits on line to feed my addiction....I found one of my favorite scrappy communities and jumped right in with their September Design Star Challenge at Scrap-Friendzy

Some Odd Girl Digital Stamps...

I really love working with digital images.  This one I found so interesting that I had to get it from Some Odd Girl.  What's more is now they are going to have some clear polymere stamps available for purchase in the future.  I got this one from their store thinking that it would be a great card...then I thought of a welcome sign repurposing a great plastic doodad I found in some packaging at work.

Thanks for looking and Happy Scrapping!

Inspiration for you All...

I have had a trying 5 weeks.  My father passed away and life has just been, well, different for me.  I have been hoarding my crafting things for awhile and thought I would just post everything at once... here you go!

Limited Runs Digi Day!!!

I was a WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER in February and so I received a terrific opportunity to showcase some cards using digis from Limited Runs.  There is a digi day going on right now which is a fantastic time to try their digital stamps out for FREE!

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