Operation Hero Watch

Many people know Kelly.  Her children started Operation Hero Watch-they are trying to collect at least one card from every state while their dad is deployed. I had been meaning to send a card to them and you know how things get.  Well July 4th came and how could I not make Kelly's children a special card since their dad is risking his life so I can stamp.  So here is what I came up with.  It is a case from A Stamp Above.  I hope they like it.  Can you see the birds?  It was super easy. If you have time please send Kelly and her children a note or postcard.  It is the least we can do for them.

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VC Rocks Kids Cards

I joined many swaps this year during our Virtual Convention. In May, I joined 3  card swaps and completely forgot to take photos of them! Luckily the great hostesses take photos to share with the group. Here is a card I did for a Kids Cards swap.  I stamped the images and didn't color them since I included a package of crayons!

VCRocks Blog Hop #3

There is only about a month left of my favorite group VC Rocks!  Where is the time going?  We are already on our third blog hop.  You should have joined me from Barb Furlong .Or if you are joining me out of sheer randomness you can see the entire hop from here.

For today's hop, I made this fun card.  Using Tempting Turquoise, Regal Rose, Rose Red, Garden Green and Velum card stock. I used Beautiful Butterflies die, Elegant Bouquet & Petals a Plenty embossing folders, Fancy Flower punch, Two Step Bird punch (for the leaves), white gel pen, clear rhinestone brad, silver cording (retired) and dimensionals.

The butterfly was cut from the Rose Red and Velum card stock tied with the silver cording that made the body & antenna.  The flower was punched three times in Regal Rose and embossed with Petals a Plenty folder. Two of the flowers were snipped to the middle of the flower and then the petals were brought in tighter so they over lapped and became more 3D. A clear rhinestone was put in the middle. The leaves are the wings of the bird punch.  The white gel pen was used to color the centers of the flowers of the a base of the  card.

Don't forget to come back August 21 & 22 for this years final blog hop.

I hope you continue on with our blog hop by visiting Lori Palmer. 


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Come Visit My Craft Room

For years now, I have not been mounting my stamps and I have stored them in jewl cd cases.  I used to have a bookcase with boxes that held the cases.  But I was running out of room and I had to find a creative way to use my space.  I have only a few small walls that are straight up and down.  I have a 17ft. that slants 4 ft off the floor, and the eaves of the roof start (needless to say most of the room you cannot stand up straight in most of this room)  Well I found this cd/dvd rack online and it only takes a 2x2 ft area on the floor.  And it holds more cd cases than I could ever own!  It was a bit pricey but it is sturdy. I have one side holding my Big Shot dies, SU stamp sets, one side holds other companies stamps.  There is even a section that holds cds and movies that I like to listen to when I craft.

This next picture is of a corner desk I bought dirt cheap from my local stamp store when it went out of business :(  On one side I have my laptop, printer, tv & dvd player.  The other side is left blank for when I have to start taking courses for my job this fall.  And you can also see the slant of the ceiling.

Here is the newly purchased wall unit I bought at Home Depot.  And it is the only full length wall in my room and it is the length of my desk LOL!  And for this moment frozen in time my desk is clean.  I have two shelves with misc. things stored on it.  The hanging basket hold the XL Big Shot dies.  I have enough room for one more shelf on top but last week my wallet said not today.

Here is my ink unit.  I had to finally buy a curtain so the sun wouldn't ruin my things.  Underneath the ink, is two of the 12x12 three draw storage containers you can buy at Walmart, it has a piece of wood on top to hold my ink storage stable.


The nest two photos are of my window above and below.  Sorry the pictures are not better but it hard to get a good photos with the sun coming into the camera.  I bought a regular curtain rod for my punches.  The ones that are now being called the
"Old Style" punches are on that.  Then I bought a cafe style curtain rod to hang under a small built in shelf that is attached to the window.  On that I have my ribbon.  I didn't realize I had so many rolls of the same color since before that they were all dumped in a box.  I am trying to put everything where I can see it so I will use it!

I hope you enjoyed your visit to my craft room.

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Cupcakes Anyone?

Here is a card I made for a blog hop but used some colors that I thought were retiring and they weren't.  Oh well, I think it is still a cute card.  I used the ends of some Top Note die that I cut off for another set of cards I made.  I put the black ribbon over the seam so it wouldn't show.  Then I just stamped, colored and layered the cupcakes on the stand.  I put glitter on the frosting.

I hope everyone had a safe and Happy 4th of July.




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For My Dear Husband

My Dear Husband puts up with so much from me, it isn't funny!  Some days I wonder how he does it.  Here was a simple little card for him.  I was torn on how far to fill the meter.  I thought of filling in I'd marry you again and penciling in but not having the kids....They must have been driving me crazy at the time.  Oh kids, you have to love them so much.

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VC Rocks Blog Hop #2

I hope you have enjoyed the VC Rocks second blog hop so far.  You must have joined me from  Mary Campbell's blog.

This month our blog hop is suppose to feature something retiring, something from the summer mini, or a sneak peak.  As they say, two out of three aint bad.

This scrapbook page was something my demo came up with for our June stamp club; and I thought it was just perfect for this blog hop.  It has things that are retiring at the end of June, it has items from the summer mini catalog and it has a Monkey!  Monkey's are notorious for the  havoc they cause at the VC Rocks Hotel. (Of course, sometimes I think it might REALLY be a few out of control Rockers! LOL)

This scrapbook page is made with retiring colors: Glorious Green, Creamy Carmel, Chocolate Chip, Only Orange, and Pink Passion.  All colors I absolutely love and will miss greatly. Also, the stamp set Enjoy is retiring along with the brads.  All the punches used are staying-they will just be a new style except for the flower trio which make cute little hands.  If you like punch art, get that one right away.

The flowers and grass are made from Tropical Party from the Summer Mini catalog. The flowers were made with Versa Mark and clear embossing powder & cut out.  The centers are brads from the bold brights set. The bamboo hut is Creamy Caramel put through the Big Shot with a texture plate, then sponged with Chocolate Chip ink to make it look more like wood.  The wood lines are made with a Chocolate Chip marker. The window frame is Chocolate Chip strips about 1/2 wide-and the curvy ends were free hand with a pair of scissors.  The "string" is a white gel pen.  Real hemp could have been used as well.

I hope you enjoyed today's project.  Maybe you can catch some little monkeys of your own.  To continue the blog hop visit Deborah Robb

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