An overdue post

I haven't fallen off the face of the earth - yet!
I've been working on manly cards.  No sentiments.  Hopefully guys will actually want to use these.

And I made some girly ones too.  Some of these are from past sketches where I made the cards, but never got around to posting.  Better late than never.

The flower cards were fun.  I stamped the flowers with versamark on white paper, then embosssed with white powder.  After the heat cooled down, I rubbed over the flowers with pigment stamp pads.  Then I stamped with coordinating colors on white and cut into three strips and mounted them on foam tape with an added ribbon.

And today's sketch:

Our Daily Bread - Operation Write Home - August Challenge

Use pink, brown and green.
Done!
I also used Sketch 184.

Still being lazy

Still working on filling the box for Kris, but not too much to say about it.

Lazy

Card production for Operation Write Home is still going strong!  We're just too lazy to blog!

Our Daily Bread July Challenge for postage money for OWH

Stitching, ugh!  I saw that challenge and thought I wasn't going to get anywhere with it.  The more I sat around, the more guilty I felt because this is for such a great cause.  For some reason, I decided that stitching and Raggedy Anne would go together.  So, this is my effort.  I hope it works.

I've also been trying to get back to my first love, which is stamping.  I used markers this time and no fancy die cuts!

~Nancy F.

Operation Write Home - Sketch 179

Joanne's back!

'bout time!

Midweek Throwdown OWH

I normally stink at CAS, but I pulled out some stamps that were given to me by Kim, and she's really great at it and I was hoping it would rub off on me.  This is my attempt at CAS with texture.

Sketch 178 and my regular catching up

Sketch 178 -
Love this sketch!

Midweek Throw Down - Cards for kids - my favorite to make:

And a window card from Tuesday's tutorial.  I used my trusty, old Coluzzle on this one.  It's a two piece:

Thanks for looking!

Sketch 177, MidWeek Throwdown, Boot Camp and Joanne made some cards too!

Sketch 177 - I went girlie on this one, coz I rarely ever do.

Mid Week Throwdown - things with wings.  Gargoyles have wings.

Bootcamp - principle of repetition. - circles on the paper, sentiment is a circle, and tiny bubbles.

Joanne managed to haul her stuff over to my house and she whipped up these:

And I made these.  I think my box is finally full and I can mail to Kris.

A watered down Sketch 176

Sketch 176 got combined with the midweek throwdown for cards with water this week.  I made 4 cards using the sailboat stamp, all with various sketches.  Some came from my head because I was in the mode to use the entire sheet of paper that I had started with.  Sometimes my best cards seem to be the ones where I just use scraps.

And here's another water card.  I deemed this one inappropriate.  I seem to do that a lot.

Since six out of six so far have said they like the fish in the jar, I'm going to make another four and send them to Kris and hope that they are usable.  Thanks for liking my quirkiness!

It's June already!

How did it get to be June?  Things are whizzing by me this year.  I used to be able to make at least a card or two a day and now it seems like each weekend is a constant frenzy to get all the challenges done and get a post up.

Sketch 175 

Midweek Throwdown to transportation

Our Daily Bread June Challenge - water

That's it!  Thanks for checking in!  ~Nancy F.

Memorial Day, 2013

I'm late again, as usual, with my posting.  I spent most of the weekend making cards for Operation Write Home.
Sketch 174

The midweek throwdown:

And the cards I was inspired to make from the blog hop:

There are more hop cards to come.  I barely got started, there were so many good ideas that I kept getting 

sidetracked.

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!