Smiling Pumpkin Card

For November, the children in the Pediatric Ward in the local hospital will each get one of these "smiling pumpkin" cards. I found the pumpkin through Google's image search, printed them out as 3"x5", then cut them out to place on homemade woggles. The cards say, "You make me smile...all over my face".

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.

Hooo Loves You???

For October, I found this baby owl which was at www.uprintables.blogspot.com and created by Rebecca B. Rebecca has a lot of free printables which she has designed on this blog. What I really like is that she makes maximum use of the 8.5 x 11 inch cardstock/paper for printing the images.

I printed, cut them out, and mounted them on woggles which I made, and added googly eyes before placing them on the card fronts. Hope the kids in the local hospital like them!

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)

September 2012 Secret Pen Pal Cards

Found this little guy by Googling 'monkey' images. The cards were quick to finish once I figured out how to feed the cardstock into the new printer.

I-Phone Pocket Pouches

Using designs by Cindy Cseh (e-PatternsCentral.com), I slightly altered the width and height of the animal pouches in order to make a dark brown puppy with tan stripes for Sammi, the pink pig for Hope, and the sock monkey for Hannah to put their I-Phones in to always have them handy. The straps are 40/42 inches long so they can be worn across the chest.