August make and takes

Operation Write Home's Birthday Bash

OWH's birthday is September 12. They are having a Birthday Bash for all of September. They are asking for lots of cards to be sent in, Half of them Christmas Cards and the other half anytime cards (birthday, miss you, thinking of you, anniversary, I love you). If any of my card making friends would like to help me support this cause in the month of September; send me your cards I will stamp the back with the OWH logo and send them in. Usually I fill a small sized flat rate box (around 45 to 50 cards) every 2 to 3 months and send in. My goal this time (with your all's help), is to fill a medium sized flat rate box. I'll even pay to ship even more boxes if we fill them up.

Your cards should be handmade only, A2 sized, no glitter, if it is dark cardstock have a light colored liner inside. Here is a link to OWH's website. It has tips in what they want for the cards.
http://operationwritehome.org/
If you want to learn more about the Birthday Bash click on the sidebar.

July Make and Takes

Cards I had fun making.

Here are some of the cards that I have had fun making this last week.

S&S Sketch Challenge #19.

The link http://www.owhstarsandstamps.org/2010/05/s-sketch-challenge-19.html

My card.

All Stampin' Up products

Stamps: Pedaling Past

Paper: Apricot Appeal, Sage Shadow, Noveau Chic dsp

Ink: Apricot Appeal, Sage Shadow, Basic Black

Stampin' Up is retiring some of their core colors the end of this month. Sage Shadow and Apricot Appeal are a couple of ones I am going to miss.

Thanks for looking!

2 cards I cased.

When I was looking around on Splitcoast Stampers I saw a couple of cards I just had to make!
Here are the links to the ones I cased.
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1711530?&limit=last1

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1626788?&cat=500&ppuser=138472

I just love the color combos on both of these!

Thanks for looking.

Making your own shimmer mist spray

This is not my original idea to make the spray using these products. I've read about it in several different blogs. My apologies that I don't remember whose blogs I've read it on so I can give credit where credit is due. I do a lot of web surfing on card making blogs.

Here is what I did; I filled a small spray bottle half way full of rubbing alcohol then dumped in a little of the Stampin' Up's Champagne mist shimmer paint. I thought to add just a little bit, test it, and if I wanted more shimmer I would add more of the paint. I got lucky and was pleased with what I added the first time. You do have to keep shaking the mixture because it does separate.

The shimmer paints were offered in Stampin' Up's last Holiday Mini Catalog. They were so popular that they still offer them as a write in on orders. They are $5.95 each.

116806 Champagne mist
116854 Frost White
116807 Platinum

If you don't want to mix your own up; Stampin' Up is offering Smooch Spritz in their current Summer Mini Catalog. Smooch spritz comes in Gold Glow, Silver Foil, Vanilla Silver and Log Cabin and are $4.95 each.