Lots of 1/2" strips leftover

I was doing a little craft table clean up and made a couple 

Any Hero cards to send to Operation Write Home.  

Now I have room to assemble some card kits for a Red Hat class I am teaching on Monday.

I'll be entering this bottom card in these challenges:

Crafts for Eternity R#189 - something old (My something old would be the stamps I used)

Sister Act Card Challenge #70 - Anything Goes

Milk Coffee Challenge - Add Stripes 

Stamping Sensations August Challenge - Anything Goes

 

Hero Card with no stamping

For this card, I brushed my denim blue ink pad across one corner of the raised side of a star embossing folder.  Then I brushed a cranberry ink pad across the opposite corner, leaving the middle section clean.

After running it through the cuttlebug, this is the effect achieved on the debossed side.  I used a CTMH cricut cartridge to cut the "Hero" from navy CS and also added a layer on navy between the inked paper and the white card base.  This card will be going to Operation Write Home.  

I'm entering this card in these current challenges:
Fan-tastic Tuesday Challenge #46 - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door July 29-Aug 4 - Anything Goes
Pile It On Challenge #30 - Embossing
Crafting From The Heart Challenge #29 - Anything Goes
Crafting When We Can Challenge #74 - Make Your Own Background

One Layer Muse

A quick post for a super quick card.....

I made this one for The Muse Challenge #73

and to send to Operation Write Home.

Stamps are from CTMH and SU.

Here's what this week's MUSE card looks like:

I'll also be submitting the card to these challenges:

City Crafter Challenge #217 - Red, White and Blue
Twisted Tuesday Challenge #79 - Red, White, Blue + stars
Artistic Inspiration Challenge #97 - Anything Goes/One Layer Card
Craftin Desert Divas Linky Party #34 - Red, White and Blue
Squigglefly Challenge 2514 - One Layer Card
My Sheri Crafts Challenge #136 - A Star is Born
Open Minded Crafting Challenges #13 - Patriotic Colors
Freshly Brewed Designs June Challenge #2 - Red, White and Blue

1 Pesty Cat = 1 Early Mojo

He doesn't really meow.  He makes this very annoying "aaat" sound, over and over and over.  And it's especially annoying at 4:30 am!  He jumps up on the bed, spreads out right next to me with his head rubbing the corner of the pillow and goes, "aaat, aaat, aaat".  If I roll over, he climbs to the other side, stepping on me  of course, and repeats the process, over and over, and over.  Sometimes he lets me fall asleep for 5 or 10 minutes.  But eventually he returns to his annoying "aaat, aaat, aaat".  If I pet him several minutes, he quiets down.  When I stop, he's back to "aaat, aaat, aaat".  I should have just responded to the initial, "aaat, aaat, aaat" by getting out of bed and letting him outside.  But by the time I did, I was thoroughly awake.  There might have been a slim chance or returning to sleep, had I not sneaked a peek at today's Mojo Sketch.  Then the wheels start turning and next thing I know.... I'm cutting paper.

 (Image by Gerde Steiner Designs.)

Lately, when I don't need a card for something specific, I try to make an "Any Hero" card for Operation Write Home using the Mojo Monday Sketch.  

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Great Impressions is having a great blog hop this month to support OWH and a sketch challenge of their own.  Since I was up early, I had time to make 2 "Any Hero" cards this morning and do their blog hop.  

 

This is the OPW sketch I followed.

 If you ever need a sketch, OPW has hundreds on their blog and all with measurements.

(Stamps are all from Stampin Up)

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Note to self:  Shut bedroom door tonight or duck tape cat's mouth shut!

Some Wednesday Mojo For OWH + CTMH Card Workshop 6/3/14

This 'Any Hero' card for Operation Write Home follows this week's sketch for Mojo Monday's Contest #348.  

(I usually only make one card for MM but I'd really like to increase my chances of winning since there is a prize the first Monday of the month.  Like that's gonna happen!)

(The HERO stamp is from SU; the rest are from CTMH.)

 

Besides entering this card in Mojo Monday, I am entering it in these challenges:

Clear It Out Challenge - Father's Day/Male + Stars

Inky Chicks Challenge #30 - Metal Embellishment (star brad)

Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge #106 - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge June 3-9 - Always Anything Goes

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #21 - Always Anything Goes

Love to Scrap Challenge #31 - Love Your Banners

Stamp and Create June Challenge - Thank You  (Although this isn't for a teacher, it certainly could be.  With kids today and the way the world is, most teachers are heroes in their own right!)

Use Your Stuff Challenge #138 - Patterned Paper (This paper is a collection called Americana and is my 'Go To' paper right now for OPW cards.)

A2Z Scrapbooking June Linky Party - Stars and Stripes

Allsorts Challenge #261 - For the Guys

Little Claire's Monthly Challenge #45- Spots and Stripes

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Father's Day/Special Man/Boy

Frosted Designs Friday Challenge - Stars and Stripes

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A Big Congrats to my friend KT Kitty!  She's been published in Take Ten Magazine!  

Check out her cards here.  

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Here are the cards we made at Joyce's CTMH workshop yesterday:

AND

Joyce posted the recipes for Ham and Cheese Sicky Buns and the Cauliflower Soup we had at the card extravaganza in May.  You can find them under the Recipe section of her blog.

Memorial Day Mojo

Oh no, it's the last Monday of the month!  That means a Tall and Skinny card for Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #347.  But, you gotta go with the flow....

Card measures 3.5 x 5.5 inches and uses a SU HERO stamp.

My friends and I are currently putting together an entire box of Any Hero cards for OPW .  This is how Operation Write Home explains, on their  blog, what Any Hero mail is:
" These are cards and letters (or, with kids they can be drawings or coloring pages) from people across America with messages of gratitude and encouragement inside. We call them “AnyHero” letters because they’re going to be given out by our contacts to those who get little or no mail. If they were “Any Soldier” they would have to go to the Army, so we keep away from branch-specific language."



 
Other challenges into which I am entering this card include:
Scribble and Scrap Challenge #19 - Always Anything Goes
Splendiferous Creations Bloggers Challenge - Armed Forces
Brown Sugar Challenge # 95- Anything Goes
Crafty Catz Challenge #232 - Embossing
Frosted Designs Friday Challenge - Stars and Stripes
Simply Create Too Challenge #62 - Father's Day or For a Male
Art Impressions Challenge #136 - Operation Write Home Cards
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #133 - Anything Goes

CTMH Catch Up + Mojo Monday

These are the cards we made at Joyce's CTMH Card Workshop 3 weeks ago.  

I forgot to post them.  

Sorry!

These are more cards using the Lollydoodle paper pack that's available here.

By the way, Joyce has posted the recipes from Saturday's Card Extravaganza.  You'll find them here. 

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 And here is my card entry for this week's 
Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge # 346:
 

I've used a fun paper pack called Americana by Pebbles, Inc. The "HERO" stamp is SU; the star stamp is CTMH.  I love this star embossing folder.  And I added silver brads and silver Candies.  Pretty simple.

This Any Hero card will go in the box for Operation Write Home.  
and will also be my entry for these challenges:
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes, Option - 3 shapes (rectangle, star, circle)
Addicted to Stamps Challenge #82 - Inspired by a Song (Star Spangled Banner)
Glitter n Sparkle Challenge #85 - Cards for Men or Male Colors
Hiding in My Craft Room Challenge #149 - Embossing