OWH - Sketch #217

Happy Spring! Here is this week's card for Operation Write Home's sketch #217. The focal point for my card is a tag that I recycled from my husband's jeans. I distressed the tag and used the banner to cover up the name of the jeans. In looking at the other cards that have been posted ... I hope I have gone too far out of the box.

OWH - Sketch #210

Happy Super Bowl Sunday! Here is this week's card for Operation Write Home's Sketch #210. This week I decided to go digital for a change and tried to keep the card somewhat masculine. I hope you like it.

Tim Holtz - 12 Tags of 2014 (Feb)

Here is my take on Tim's tag for February. To achieve the chalkboard look I stamped on black cardstock using white craft ink and then rubbed chalk over the stamped image. I finished the edges with faux stitching using Stampin' Up's new chalk marker. I used the same chalk marker and SU's air spritzer tool (retired) to add little white speckles to simulate chalk dust. The silver accents were cut from HVAC tape using the adorning accents edgelits die and matching embossing folder.

Bleaching Technique

Here is my swap for this month's technique. I used the "Inspired By Nature" stamp again and added a punched butterfly. I applied bleach to the edges of the card and then outlined the edge with faux stitching. The instructions are listed below.

OWH - Sketch #172

Happy Mothers Day!  Here is my card for sketch #172 from Operation Write Home. I used the "Inspired By Nature" stamp from Stampin' Up! and used bleach as my ink, yes good ole Clorox bleach. I added some faux stitching and finished the card with a rub on sentiment.

OWH - Sketch #169

Happy Spring! Circles are the focus of week's sketch from Operation Write Home. Fortunately I had most of the components of this card sitting around but I just wasn't happy with how they were going together until I saw this sketch. The sun was colored using markers and blender pens from Stampin' Up!

OWH - Sketch #158

Here is this week's sketch from Operation Write Home. The heart banner and the text were cut from Newsprint DSP using my silhouette. I then applied cherry cobbler ink using a sponge and added faux stitching in white. Both were originally intended for my Tim Holtz tag but they just didn't work out.  I thought they went well with the woodgrain texture in the background since they were fairly light and airy.  

OWH - Sketch #146

This week's OWH sketch was very easy.  I used scrap pieces of paper and the christmas tree left over from my glitter window card.  I tried a new Sharpie marker for the faux stitching but I'm not really loving it and may have to go back to my white Signo gel pen.