Latest Shipment to OWH

After slaving away (lol!) despite being sick (hacking cough & slight fever) for about two weeks, I finally filled the large Priority Mail box with 346 cards that I've been working on since after Christmas.  (If you click on the photo, you can see the individual cards better).  This shipment was mostly blank cards and 'miss you'.

This card is a set I ordered from the Stampin' Up SaleABration catalog which I then mounted on a "background" to make it be an A2 card size.  Just wanted a different kinda card choice.

It's really hard to see the detail from the outside...It has the two 'button' closure with baker's twine.

Much Delayed Card Gallery Session

These were the cards we were to have made a few months ago at Emily's but it was delayed until this past Saturday due to illness and some other planned activities.

Operation Write Home (continued)

These are the cards no one wanted to try on Saturday.

After working on the one card (the birthday cards with the stacked flowers in yellow & blue) off and on all day to make 24 of them, now I know why. They didn't seem to be so time consuming when I made the samples...learned my lesson! There was a lot of cutting out of flowers, etc., because I don't have a punch for the stamp and for some I should have used the Cricut to cut out the nose and eyes for the dragon card (that would have saved a lot of punching). I had cut all the other pieces for that card; Helen inked all the edges and assembled about half the cards which I finished today.

Cards for Operation Write Home

Last Saturday, Bonnie, Patricia, Esther, Helen, Beth, Margie, Eva, Ida, and I finished making 182 cards to be sent to Operation Write Home. I'd like to be able to do this about every other month; unfortunately, we plan to leave in April for the Oregon coast (nine weeks on the road in our RV)so that puts paid to that plan. We had some cards left over from the last card making session that wouldn't fit into the large Express Mail box provided by the Post Office so I put them in this box and managed to get 285 in to be mailed tomorrow. I believe I have enough cards no one was brave enough to attempt on Saturday to probably fill a small box. Hopefully, I can get them finished and mailed before we leave on this next trip.

2013 Sale-a-bration Card Gallery

The "Hello" card is a freebie kit (all the elements including the envelopes to make eight cards) during Sale-a-bration when you order exceeds $50. I was finished in under two hours making these twelve cards. Because I don't need a graduation card, I changed it to a Thank You card to send to Operation Write Home next month.

Reverse Iris Folding Cards

The instructions for making these cards are found under the "Operation Write Home" web site. You will also find over 100 card templates with the measurements for the A2 size cards they prefer. Unfortunately, I misread the instructions so the first card was a little wonky.

Donna's Last Open House

Alas, Donna is moving out of Florida to become a Georgia girl!! Today was her last event. She couldn't leave without giving us one last technique class on how to make ribbon roses. NOT easy! First I rolled and twisted the ribbon from the left, then I rolled and twisted it from the right and made a mess of them both (the examples below are Donna's rose). This is a 5.5 inch by 8.5 inch card. The ribbon was 1/2 inch grosgrain.

New Catalog Card Gallery

These are the cards made in June (the event I missed as we were out of state)

New DMC Color Infusions Products

While in Michael's yesterday, I ran across a new product from DMC called "Color Infusions".  The only items from this new product line, unfortunately, carried by Michael's is the "Memory Thread".  Picking up the free craft brochure, which was also the only one available, showed several cards using the Memory Thread and Cotton Cord (which Michael's doesn't carry) so I substituted #5 DMC Perle Cotton.  The instructions are clear and easy to follow.  Handling the perle cotton was a little tricky as the one-inch circle with the punched holes was so small.  Hopefully, some day I'll run across the "Sparklers" from DMC.

Extra Large Card Gallery

Today I went to Donna's for the extra-large card event....she had to handle it alone as her sidekick, Emily, is on a two-month RV trip to Alaska with her husband and his parents.
I like all the cards. On a couple of ones I did change the sentiment (no dad) and added a sentiment to the large flower card.