Stampers Best My Hero Sentiments

My card today is for our Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown Any Hero challenge.

I used the Stampers Best My Hero Sentiment set with a sketch from Stamping Royalty and papers I found in my scrap drawer.  I wanted patriotic papers but didn't want to print any if I really didn't need to.   I searched around a little and found the stars & stripes digital paper.  The blue is a sample I won from Hero Arts called "layering papers", the red is Neenah Red Pepper Linen.  I used my neglected Spellbinders Labels 4 dies to cut out the focal sentiment.  The other sentiment is stamped repeatedly on the Red Pepper card stock, cut into a strip and punched with a square EK Success punch to make the banner tail. 

I hope you'll join us for our Any Hero challenge this week at Operation Write Home Stars & Stripes!

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Challenges:

Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps - Any Hero Cards
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp & Show - Hero

Operation Write Home Clean & Simple Skip

Welcome to our Operation Write Home Clean & Simple Skip - that was a mouth full!

If you've arrived here from Brenda's blog you're on the right track, if not I highly recommend starting at the beginning here.

For my clean and simple card today I used a pre-colored digital image from Mellonheadz & our Operation Write Home Sketch #82.

The body of the card is embossed with the Cuttlebug Stars embossing folder, the bottom panel is Neenah Red Linen matted with Neenah Navy Blue.  I re-sized and printed Nikki's wonderful Hero digital image and cut the panel and matted it with navy blue.  There was a place for an embellishment in this sketch and I was thinking a star at first but realized it would be over kill.

I went with a navy blue button with a little crochet thread for a bow.  Can you tell if my button is real or paper?  It's a fun die made by Cheery Lynn designs, a nice way to cut down on the bulk for our Operation Write Home cards!  I also used Nikki's Hero digital image and made myself a sheet of paper for an envelope liner.  I think our heroes deserve the best and a lined envelope makes my card feel a little more special.  The envelope liner die came from Papertrey Ink.

Here's a copy of the sketch:

Actually mine version is:

That might be easier to see in my card now.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my clean and simple card today.  Be sure to leave a comment so you're in the prize drawings!
  The next stop on our hop is the fabulous Dawn!

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Challenges:

Challenge Up Your Life - No Patterned Papers
Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps - Sketch #82
Cardmadfairy's - Digital Images & Buttons
CASual Fridays - CAS + Embossing

Inspired Stamps His Little Ones: boy soldier

Inspired Stamps is sponsoring the Fussy & Fancy challenge again this week!  The challenge is to use three or more of your favorite embellishments.  Living where we do I'm not big on lots of embellishments so I went with three stars that I made myself with a punch.  

My card is a Z Fold card and I used the Inspired Stamps "His Little Ones" boy soldier and for the inside "More Perfect Sentiments" acrylic stamp set.  

The papers I used are a Camo digital paper pack from Sassy Designs. I paper pieced my boy soldiers uniform and colored him with Copic markers E81, E49, E47, E44, E31, E00, E000, E0000, R20, YG61. I added Sizzix Steampunk Gears with star embellishments on top and a camo envelope liner printed on text weight paper.  

My card will go with my next box to Operation Write Home as an Any Hero card after I write a personal note inside.

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Challenges:

Fussy & Fancy - 3 Or More of your Favorite Embellishments
Bug A Boo Stamps - Anything Goes

Inspired Stamps His Little Ones: boy soldier

Hi blog friends, I'm so excited about my card I have to share with you today!

This is an Inspired Stamps design team card, our assignment was to use one "His Little Ones" characters & one Scripture stamp.  

I decided I'd like to make a flip card (my name for it), started thinking about it and my card came together in my mind so I had to see if I could figure it out.  I saw this card on my friend Marilyn's blog and was intrigued.  

I started by printing the digital camo papers in the sizes I'd need.  The paper pack is from Sassy Designs and is a fairly large set.  (As I put the link in all their paper packs are on sale for $1.00)   I cut all my pieces and die cut the Sizzix Steampunk gears border die and figured out how to get my card to open and close.  Since I have this wonderful camo paper I cheated on coloring my little soldier and paper pieced his cap and uniform.  I colored him with Copic markers E81, E49, E47, E44, E31, E00, E000, E0000, R20, YG61.  I also made an envelope liner using my Papertrey Ink envelope liner die.

Here's where the second part of our assignment come into play, the Scripture verse, for that I used the Birthday set.

I'm really excited about my card, I love the way it turned out!  I'm going to write a note on the back and use it as an Any Hero card for Operation Write Home.  I hope who ever receives it gets as much enjoyment out of it as I have.

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Challenges:
Elephantastic - Add Some Layers