Welcome to OWH Hop/Card drive!

Hello everyone. We are so thankful For heroes.

Today we bring our creativity together in the hopes that we would inspire you to join us (DT members) in doing a good deed!

Most of you know our Boys and Gals from the armed forces are deployed all over the world. Sometimes these men and woman are in places that make it very hard, or they’re far away from anywhere that they can pick up a sweet card to send a quick note home. Luckily, they have OPERATION WRITE HOME (OWH). OWH is a non-profit organization that sends special boxes filled with cards to soldiers all over the world. How can you help OWH keep the good deed going? Making cards!!! Yes! OWH angels receive tons of handmade cards from crafters all over the world, then they check and organize cards to be sent out to our soldiers.

Would you like to see how happy you can make a hero?

Check it out this video produced by OWH

Take a look at some of their own words about OWH packs over THE HEROES BLOG too!

Now we would love for you to join us to help OWH. We thought it would be amazing fun to do a blog hop to inspire you! Design Teams from Paper Temptress, Oozak and Color me Creative Class will join together in one amazing Card Drive HOP. The fun just gets better! You can join in by making a project (following OWH – size and safety guidelines), entering a picture of the project on the hop inlinkz (One project linked per person please) then mailing the project to us. We would loooove it if you could send as many as you can by November 7th (we will screen them and send all of them to OWH) . You could win super prizes from amazing, super generous sponsors!!! YES!! You do a good deed and you also can win a sweet gift!!!

Inlinkz will be at you final hop stop .

Thank you to our sponsors

♥ Paper Temptress (2 $25 GC)  ♥ Oozak (3 $15 GC) ♥ Color me Creative Classes (class of winners choice!)♥

♥ Heartfelt Creations ($25 GC) ♥ Gilli Stamps (Set of stamps) ♥ Bugaboo stamps ($30 GC) ♥

♥ A day for daisies ($12 GC) ♥ Through the Craft Door Room Magazine (1 yr subscription!) ♥

♥ Floppe Latte (3 Digis) ♥ Pizzaz a plenty ($10 insponsor choice of goods) ♥ Sweet pea stamps ($15 GC)♥

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eros..that is what I had in mind when I created this projects to share with you. I hope these cards will be a little way to say to each one of them THANK YOU for your service. Thank you for your commitment to freedom and keeping us safe.

The first project is quite simple I colored a Gilli soldier image with copics and added a few layers with PaperTemptress papers (Safari Brown Skinny Columns, Cryogen paper and Poptones). A little punch (Martha Stewart) to frame the image and a touch of distress on the edges to give a nice touch. To bring some more color I used some green washi tape from the Dollar store. The sentiments are stamps from dear lizzy and amy tangerine.

Since I know some of us do not use copics I created this second project by just using different washi tapes and beautiful paper from Paper Temptress (Pop Tones and Heavenly White. Hello stamp by studio g. Vavoom you are done with a sweet and good quality card .

For the crafters that are just starting coloring, this one you could do with any marker or color pencils…cut a few little hearts color to match. Add strips of cute washi tape and add to a base layered with colorful papers (Papers from Paper Temptress, Starbust Glichen Glimmer - the blue has a shimmer to die for, Antique gray linen and Butternut treasures). Specialty papers with textures will add interest to the card without adding bulk to the envelop!

I hope these projects will inspire you to create lots of cards of your own to enter this hop/card drive!

It’s time to HOP around. Leave little note as you pass by these lovely designers’ blogs! Don’t forget to add you project to the inlinkz at the end of the Hop! You can Hop throughout the month of October. This way everyone in their own time can hop and join in!

Please now go have some fun and be inspired by no other then

SANDY ALLNOCK

OWH founder & amazing designer!

Huge hug & thank you sooooo much ♥

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Blog Hop list directory

♥ Anary ♥ you are here.

Sandy Allnock

Patricia St Martin

Steph Ackerman

Ann Fran

Dana Joy

Anita Autore

Danni Bindel

Lynne Haston

Monica Lowrance

Suzanne J Dean

Linda Payne

Amanda Reed

Nancy Jensen

Cathy Preissing

Vickie Kertz

Holley Barnhart

Karen Gautier

Samantha Casey

Christine Riley

Melanie Jacquie Heffner/Paper Temptress

Miss You and Heads Up for a ♥ cause

ello everyone! I missed you all! Yeap true…I love to be in touch with my fellow crafters as much as I can. I enjoy sharing and listening about the life updates..birthdays..graduations..all the trimmings. But you know who needs helps doing that? Our wonderful soldiers! Yes. Our Boys and Gals that are deployed all over the world. Sometimes these men and woman are in places that is very hard or far away from anywhere they can pick up a sweet card and send a quick little note home. Luckily our Armed forces have OPERATION WRITE HOME (OWH). OWH is a non profit organization that send special boxes filled with cards to soldiers all over the world. How can you help OWH keep the good deed going? Making cards!!! Yes! OWH angels receive tons of hand made cards from crafters all over the world then check and organize cards to be sent out to our soldiers.

Now we would love for you to join us to help OWH. We though would be an amazing fun to do a blog hop to inspire you! Design Teams from Paper Temptress, Oozak and Color me Creative Class will join together in one amazing Card drive HOP. The fun just gets better! You can join in by making a project (following OWH – size and safety guidelines), entering a picture of the project on the hop inlinkz (One project linked per person please) then mailing the project to us. We will loooove if you could send as many as you can by November, 7th (we will screen and send all to OWH) . You could win super prizes from amazing super generous sponsors!!! YES!! You do a good deed and you also can win a sweet gift!!!

Just as a initial idea I created the little card above following OWH guidelines. Amazing quality paper and NO glitter. Everything is super duper glued so it will resist battlefront conditions.

Stay tuned our OWH Hop Card drive will happen on OCTOBER 2nd!

THANK YOU to our sponsors!!!

Check them out!

♥ Paper Temptress ♥ Oozak ♥ Color me Creative Classes ♥

♥ Heartfelt Creations ♥ Gilli Stamps ♥ Bugaboo stamps ♥

♥ A day for daisies ♥ Through the Craft Door Room Magazine ♥

♥ Floppe Latte ♥ Pizzaz a plenty ♥

 

Cannot wait to see you lovely project!!!!!!!!

I am sure you will create amazing cards for the soldiers!

 

 

 

Paper Temptress Ruche paper (amazing texture), column paper and marble paper. The ribbon is also from PT! I also used copic paper, copic markers and Gloss accents for an extra texture on the sentiment (studio G).

Congrats Grads

ey you! I am sure you are enjoying the break. Kids out of school and proud parents are celebrating the culmination of years of their babies work..well theirs too! As a friend said…I am also graduating : ) after all this year of tutoring. . Well more to come. A chapter is completed and many many more beautiful chapter are to come in the lives of these kids! Congrats Grads!

 

My project today is all about graduation. I created this card as a gift for a very dear girly…she just finished HS and will be off to college soon. Guess what her favorite color is? HA my fear factor color…PURPLE. LOL. Yes I have not yet passed of my purple fear. I still do not get why. I like this color on others and things…but never pick an item in purple for me hehe. I guess my friends, and I seriously say that 4 out of 5 LOVES purple, will get anything I thing is cute in purple.

I used Gilli Graduate for this project. One little adaptation I extended her little original hair to match my friend’s hair (gorgeous and smart…oy that is dangerous lol).

All the papers are from Paper Temptress. People, you must get by Patricia’s store. Some specialty papers that you will NOT find in your mega craft store. And they give that extra bam you need in your cards/projects. Just check that distress..and the columns of the paper. This paper also picked the inks very nicely allowing me to create a super personalized background. I am not going to even mention that the weight of these Pop tones papers are perfect for creating layers (and match the inks out there folks!!).

For coloring I used my faithful copics and my multiliners. I have been coloring less then I would like to …but OH I love  my markers LOL. I know  you understand me..’cause most people..don’t.

I guess I will need a few more occasions to get my card making kick up to speed!

I am so glad you stopped by..Leave a hello if you feel like it…I say I have been missing my craft buddies : ).

More project to come..sooner then you think .

Love to you all!

 

 

 

 

 

Gilli rubber stamps :: Gilli Graduate ; Copic markers (RV69,66,19; V05,25,99; BV13,0000; E21,000,02; C9,7,5); Copic multiliners; Liquid pearls (majestic purple and orchid); Queen and co Twine (purple); Memento inks (london fog, sweet plum and peanut butter); Martha Stewart punches; Ribbon; Clear stamp (gotta look for name ooops); Distress Inks.

Today is a special day!!

 

 

ello Helloooo!!!! Boy oh boy! It has been a long winter! Yeap I have been away for far too long from the blogsphere…gosh I miss you all so much! I will share a bit more of the backstage and what have been happening over here in my neck of the woods…lots of people to thank also for their support! Today I have something very special to do…join the CMC Design Team to wish Suzanne J Dean a fantastic birthday!!!

If there is one gal that you can count on for the good the bad and the ugly is Suzanne! I am more then happy to call her my friend (right bestie? LOL). Not unusual for me to end up with my cheeks hurting from laughing so hard when we manage to get together. Even when we are apart we have a ball…distance is not an obstacle for this lady…we manage to keep in touch through out her travels (and crazy adventures!) around the US. A true entrepreneur she is an inspiration for young ladies out there.

On your day Su I wish you a lot of health and that your wishes will all come true! The rest is I know you will conquer! Cheers my friend!

So here is my gift for you Bestie!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A Suzanne Mobil!! LOL Kidding! Well I wish I could! You would look lovely in this wild thing! HAHHAHAH. For sure all neighborhood will know where you are HAHAH.

For now I am sending this virtual card…wishing you a colorful and splash FULL birthday!!!  You  bring so much joy to your friends…it is just fair on your special day you have a load of fun!

It is good to be back crafting! I am so glad to be back (specially for such sweet occasion!). I missed my markers, papers and glitter!!! I have a lot to catch up!

I feel a little rusty on my coloring..it happens when you lay the pen down for a while…but the passion still here!

Gilli painter in “Mermaid colors” (I am just going with the flow and I will pledge the 5th in case I am called in as witness in sanity case LOL) to celebrate Su’s bday!

I hope you enjoyed this little project and thank you for coming by! I MISSED YOU!!!!!!!!!Please don’t forget to stop by the bday girl blog and wish her tons of good vibes!!!!!!!!!

As for me…I will see you soon…sharing the news : )

Muahhh! Now you are off to Melanie LaBelle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Be inspired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the blog list just in case you get a little lost LOL

Tina Gilliland

Brook Guinn

Anary Baumgarth (guest DT) :: You are here ♥

Melanie LaBelle

Marie Gamber

Pat St. Martin

Jenn Cochran

Michele Spera

Andi Murdock (guest DT)

Shelby Goolsby

Marti Wills

Linda Payne

Julie Price

Karen Gauthier

Shannon Kromeke

Kim DeRuosi

 

I used little things that I love in this card…papers from Paper Temptress, Washi tapes and memory box dies from Oozak, DP from Michaels and lots of ♥

Holiday wishes

inter is here! Unbelievable but we did get some snow a couple days after winter arrived. It looked so pretty! It melted away already but the best pics are the ones you did not take..right? ; )

Well lots of celebrations going on…Merry Christmas for dear friends that are celebrating today with their loved ones..and happy new chapter for all of us. The world did not end! BUT Regular old new year is creeping out on all of us..so you better hurry up if you still need to tackle and put some check marks on your 2012 list LOL. No don’t tell me you already have a new one going on? LOLOLOL Everyone does!!!  What is your FUN New Year resolution? Organized Craft space anyone?? LOLOL

I prepared this little project inspired by the magical aura that people seems to get this time of the year. Touch back with innocence past that once again resurface : ). No matter what you celebrate..you play the dreidel, you décor the tree..you feast in abundance for Kwanzaa…it is time to gather and enjoy love in its essence. Wishing that this feel could last every single day..in moments that life challenge us.

For this project I used a Gilli Fairy rubber stamp colored with copic markers and decorated with dies from Silhouette cameo. The little ornaments I made by hand..just any round cut will do it..you just have to embellish your way. : ). Papers from Authentique..one of my favorite lines of paper (you can find  at Oozak). Lots and lots of glittah! Hey it is the season (but if you follow me..glitah is a whole year season for me LOL).

well I will keep this post short but soon a new one to rise LOL. For now enjoy your real gifts…blessings and hugs!

If you have  a little time on hands don’t forget to drop by The outlawz! Greeting card challenge is rolling and it always fun fun!

If you did not get your Cameo from Santa or through the eight nights of Chanukah….you still have a chance at color me creative!!! The holiday bash still going on..but it won’t last forever sooooooo check it out!! Good luck and have fun!

Huggies!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gilli rubber stamp :: Gilli Fairy; Copic markers; Authentique paper, Copic multiliners; Stikles; ribbons, Cardstock.and Liquid Pearls.

CMC Blog Hop! Let’s party!

My dear friend Suzanne Dean is starting a huge celebration at her Color me Creative classroom. Check this out!

Starting December 7th the CMC Classroom will have its annual month-long Holiday Bash Celebration! Nothing more fun then having some fun challenges, games and prizes to start the season off right!? I hope you will find time to stop in and look around, join in and just have some fun. The Holiday Bash is really my way of THANKING ALL OF YOU for your continued support, friendship and patronage to the Classroom. So a lot of fun and a way to WIN SOME HUGE prizes from our sponsor!

 

♥ Starting today Dec. 7th with a Holiday Blog Hop featuring projects by the CMC DT to kick off the month-long CMC Challenge!! And another way for you to win if you hop along! Don’t forget to leave comment on each blog to be eligible!

♥ Every week will be a NEW Challenge and Prize...think scavenger hunts, puzzles, games!

 

♥ Charity Raffle - I'm giving away a NEW Silhouette Cameo machine to a lucky someone! How can you win it? Every time you participate in a challenge during the month you get an entry for it. Also for every $3 you donate to the Charity (TBA) you get an entry. Every year I pick a different Charity to help...so far we've raised $3200 over the years..and to me the season is all about GIVING so that's why I always include this.

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ellooooooo! Thank you for coming by! I bet you are having  load of fun already at the CMC bash party! So how many people have you visited yet? Now the cool part is there is a lot more to go! Have you seen the CRAZY good prizes? Also a ton of inspiration and fun!

Wasn't Karen's project divine? Yeap my fellows DTs have their way with markers..Don't you think? LOL

So here is my contribution to the party...I know we are still a little away from it, but honestly days are going by so fast that maybe this project is not so far ahead of schedule! Since we are on a party mode..how about go into a NEW YEAR'S groove! AHA!

In my book all that sparkle and glitter suggest party time...Gilli is dressed for the occasion. Doesn't she look like a "Dream girl"? LOL. Yup her metallic plus sparkly sequins dress was all colored with copics. Nothing like metallic sheen and sequins to makes you have 'Supreme" glam!

Also who doesn’t want to start a brand new year wishing upon a gold star? I do! The little golden stars (Cut with Silhouette cameo btw) were colored with copic..Markers are my best buddies! LOL. If you would like to learn quite a few tricks about coloring you definitely should take a look at Color me creative classes. You can study on your own time and there is a whole network to help you out all the way through your journey…not forgetting the fun biweekly challenges!

Back to the layout..I used four different embossing folders to create all the textures in the card. The circles and ovals were cut using Spellbinders and the bubbles and numbers were die cuts made with the Silhouette Cameo. Toss in a super cute Sea foam glitter and voilah! The show can get started...Shall we start the countdown? LOL

I hope you enjoyed this little project! I will see you soon...in 2013! LOL I told you it is around the corner! LOL 10..9..8..7..

Wait...there are more people to visit...you can not miss that out! Head off to Marti  and be inspired!!! She is awesome!!!!!

Super hugs!!! Thank you in advance for your feedback..I love to hear all your comments! Leave a shout out so I can visit too!

 

 

 

 

Gilli Rubber Stamp :: Gilli Lady; Copic Markers ( E0000, 02, 000, 11, BG0000, 18, 72, 90, 78; E35, YR24, E31; Y28, Y21, Y26 ); Copic Multiliner; Liquid Pearls, Life Style Embossing Folders; Spellbinders Die Circle and oval nestability, Embossability folde, Glitter, Silhouette die cut samples, Stickles, Versa Magic Chalk Ink and ribbon.

Hop around, leave some love and be inspired by the super cool projects from the color me creative DT..you could win an amazing PRIZE!

Suzanne

Tina

Jenn

Linda

Andi

Karen

Anary ♥ you are here

Marti

Mel

Julie

Katie - Guest DT

Marie

Shelby

Michele

Brooke

Season Greetings

ey you all! Long time no see! I had to take a tiny break, some changes happening and one of them involve packing my studio. Do I hear a “WHOA!? Yeap..you trully know what I mean...just take one quick look around you…how do you pack all your craft stuff? HEHHE. Well I am about to start that challenge…hang on…Did I tell you I like to crochet, knit, paint and cake decorate? But wait there is more….Sewing! I am not even telling you my craze with wrapping paper…yes, I go all the way when I hand a gift…full experience. So I am taking a deep breath…and getting started. If you notice some hic ups on my presence around…you know where I will be …under my embellishment pile probably!!! LOL
But now is holiday season time. I hope even though reality sucks sometimes, we can keep in mind the tons of blessing we receive every single moment. I will share with you what I do…I give myself 5 minutes of self pity evry day. That is all LOL. I can tell you I am booked HAHAHHA. The rest of the time I try to focus on positive things…here is a big example. Share my work with you! I always have a load of fun sharing ideas and learning from you my fellow crafters!
This new Gilli Project was inspired by the lights and cheer that this time of the year bring us. For this project I used Gilli Fairy 2…she lost her wings as you can see, but make no mistake the magic is within . I used copic markers to color the image…lots of blues and high contrasts. I added a little bling to the dress. It’s the holidays after all.
It has been a while I created and I missed all my knick knacks and tools. So I pulled my dies and my designer papers and went to town! At Oozak blog
challenge this month we have a different challenge! Anything goes with a twist…Red! So I picked my color choices..blues (one of my fav colors and sprinkle of reds). The little candy canes I created by using a wired ribbon that I found last year at Michaels. Since I wanted a heavy “winter wonderland feel” to this card without being too traditional I added glitter to the swirls and flourishes I used. Another way of adding a little holiday touch was by adding little berries around the layout (I used liquid pearls and stickles for that).
Talking about layout, this one was inspired by the Greeting Card challenge over The Outlawz…It’s an eye sideways. A little cherry winky hehe. The theme focusing on eyes inspired me to do a holiday make up to Gilli eyes too. I loved doing that (I can use some practice) and I see myself doing this more and more.
Well I hope you are having a lovely season and please give yourself sometime to enjoy what really matters…the people that we love…the friendships and every good thing that comes with it. Forgive and forget…reconnect and reach out. Rekindle…don’t hold back…magic does happen. . Although twisting my nose seems not to be working when comes to get my studio packed HAHAHAHHAHA. See Ya!
Huggies!


 Ps: Don't forget to join us also at House of Gilli Challenge...easy one!!! See you there.





Gilli rubber stamp :: Gilli Fairy 2, Copic Markers, Copic multiliners, Memory box dies, October Afternoon , Glitz papers, Sizzix embossing folder (sugar& starry night), Stickles (stardust and xmas red), Glamour dust, Liquid Pearls (Platinum, white opal and rouge), Lace, Wired ribbon, Brats and Cardstock (Michaels and Paper Temptress)