Sketch 173 - Operation Write Home

Sketch 173 - I'm back to doing multiples.  It was taking way to long to get the carton filled for Kris......

While I was trolling around blog land, I saw this sketch by Seongsook, who showed a bunch of ways to cut up one sheet of 12 x 12 two-sided paper to make a nice variety of cards.  So I thought I'd try it with some of the paper from Kim.   

Our upcoming weather for the week is what they are calling "unsettled", which means I should be able to get in some good card making time!

Thanks for looking in on me!  ~Nancy F.

Sketch 172

Happy Mothers' Day!
Here's my take on Sketch 172.  I used Stampin' Up's Sock Monkey set.

Short and sweet today.  Not a lot of blah, blah, blah.......  

Cards for Jane

Friday's featured cardmaker for OWH this week is Jane E, who passed away last October.  In her honor, we are asked to CASE some of her work.  I am so happy to do so!

OWH MidWeek Throwdown

His and hers.
Dixie - you inspired me to do these!  I've learned a lot from cruising around your blog!

I was so out of my comfort zone with CAS, but I'm really happy with how these turned out.  I might even make more......

OWH and a VCMP and a beautiful weekend!

(This post is still in progress.  I didn't get all the challenges finished because a load of mulch arrived unexpectedly.  The rest of the challenges shall be forthcoming!  Promise!)

Finally!  Nice weather in Pa.!  Woo hoo!
So, let's get busy...............  We've got Our Daily Bread's monthly challenge - Miss You cards -

And Sketch 171 -

And a kid's card using a sketch - I just went with the same one Paula used - #28.

Sandy wanted romance cards.  My stamp selection in that department is slim.  This is the best I could do and it may be a little too cutesy.

Use a photo on a card.  Well, I don' t have any way of doing a nice print out of a photo, so I had to go with this awesome stamped image that Mary Anne sent me.  She used a plethora of stamps to make this image.  It's as close to an actual photo as I could get.  And I don't think I really did it justice on my coloring.  Hers was spectacular.

Looks like I missed the midweek throw down too.  Here's my thank you card for that.

Still working on the VCMP challenges......here's my take off on a scrapbook page that I had  made a few years earlier.

And of course, booglie eyes.  Things are getting kind of rushed now, it's a work week and I'm not as happy with how things are turning out.

A little late on adding Joann's summertime request, but better late than never!

Double Duty

We both got into the action this weekend.  The challenges earlier in the week were for flowers and clocks.  (ooops, looks like I forgot my sentiment on the clock card...)

The Sunday Sketch #170 was awesome.  We both enjoyed the heck out of it.   These are mine.

The card below goes to Joanne's cat rescue group, Absolutely Purrfect.  We don't send things like this to the heroes......

And these are Joanne's cards.

It was quite the productive afternoon!

~Nancy F.

Finally! A new post!

It's about time!  Talk about slacking!  Well, actually, the slacking was only in the posting, not in the actual card making......
For starters, here's Sketch 169 at Operation Write Home.  The stamp is from Circus Stamps.  I have a lot of these and they go way back.  Some of you know that I am a juggler.  Yes, I said it, a juggler.

Next is the midweek throwdown, a call for bugs.  I went with bees.  I'm also combining this with this month's boot camp - the rule of odds.

I suppose this would also count for the rule of odds, or maybe more like the rule of odd - odd like me.....  I got a little crazy in the booth with all the brads at the rubber stamp show last weekend......

This brings us to last weekend, where I apparently started to slack off.

Sketch 168.