Stampers Best Turtley Awesome OWH Fundraiser

Welcome to our Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps Animal Pun blog skip!

If you've arrived here from Kristie's blog you're in the right place, if you just happened upon my blog and would like to start at the beginning click here to go to the OWH Stars & Stamps blog.

We are previewing the new Stampers Best Operation Write Home fundraiser stamp sets and I'm excited to be part of our blog skip line up today!

My card uses the new Stampers Best Turtley Awesome OWH fundraiser stamp set

and is colored with Copic markers:

Shell - YG01, YG13, YG25, YG67

Body - YG61, YG63, YG67

Toe Nails - YG11, YG61

The layout is from a sketch, the papers are Papertrey Ink's Green Boutique designer paper, card stock is Stampin' Up! from the "In Colors" collection 2008 as well as Astrobrights Eclipse Black and X Press It blending card.

Tools & Accessories:  Spellbinders Ovals dies, Corner rounder, Papertrey Ink Envelope Liner die.

With the launch of the new Stampers Best OWH Animal Puns stamp sets they will be buy two get one free!

You can buy them here at Stampers Best.  

 Your next stop is Kathryn, thanks for visiting my blog and happy skipping!

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

Stamper's Best Ciara

Operation Write Home is having a "blog skip" today featuring cards made with Stamper's Best rubber stamps.  To see all the beautiful samples you can start at the OWH Stars & Stamps blog.

For my card today I used the Stampers Best Ciara rubber stamp, an Operation Write Home Fundraiser Stamp.  With each purchase of this stamp, StampersBest.com makes a donation to Operation Write Home. 

Pretty cool huh?!

I used Sandy Allnock's Copic coloring tutorial to color Ciara, she's the artist and Ciara is her dog so who better to follow along for my coloring today.  You can see her tutorial here.

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Challenges:
Shelly's Images - Anything Goes