I made a card for the Operation Write Home sketch challenge #128. As soon as I saw the sketch I knew what I wanted to do. Here is the sketch:

Ignoring the measurements they provided I stamped up three of the Hero Arts / Operation Write Home houses and five of the clouds from the same set. I cut off a bit of each of the houses to show more of the background papers and used a white gel pen to trim out the roofline, windows and door. Then I added white woodgrain to the door and yellow copic marker to the windows.

I let the clouds run off the edges of the card and trimmed them off. I added hand-drawn birds to the sky and cut down a pre-stamped sentiment to glue at the bottom edge.

Ddd

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ANOTHER HEART? Will they never end? If they do, I can always stamp more, huh?

I fell in love with this background paper - actually, BOTH of the background papers. I naturally gravitate to the dotted ones but that diagonal plaid is unusual for me. It is pretty busy so the dotted paper tones it down a bit. I pulled colors from the plaid for other elements of the card: brown for the scallops and the sentiment, green for the dotted paper, blue for the heart and the rhinestones.

I wrapped some scrappers floss three times around the decorative paper and knotted it on the right. The heart is popped up on foam tape over the top of the floss.

Ddd

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From the kits I selected one with some table scraps, a 'ColorMe' tag that I had already colored with chalk ink, and a duck from an old calendar. I selected a sentiment from the pre-stamped bin in the same color as the bird and applied it on the upper edge like a tab.

This will make a nice card for a guy, I think.

Ddd

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From the scrapbooking page-a-day calendar I culled this printed lacy heart and stamped a framed sentiment into it. I created a background from table scraps and a couple of die-cut swirls.

The heart is popped up on foam tape.

This was created with another one of the 'kits' I assembled a while back.

Ddd

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We were having a barbeque at the house and I needed to have a new manicure. I REALLY wanted to have little ants on my nails but did not have a stencil for them in my kit. So I settled for dragonflies, of which there were two. But that is A-OK cause I do like me some dragonflies.

I used a metallic magenta for the base color and stamped with the black nail art polish. This time I sealed the tips with an extra coat of topcoat in hopes of making the manicure last a little longer.

As you can see I used the two dragonflies on apternate fingers and also twisted them this way and that for a little more interest.

Here is a close view of two nails.

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From the old stamp catalog I colored up the balloons and the cake square with matching colors. Then I selected some 'party papers' and bordered them all with teal. Very light teal printed paper was border-punched and used as the background. I then layered the party papers and topped these with the balloons and cake square. The package is a silver peel-off that is backed with more of the teal and popped up on foam. Then I used a ruler to draw in strings for the balloons.

The squiggle streamers are stickers.

Ddd

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I can't even remember what project originally inspired me to stamp SO MANY of these hearts on patterned paper. I just keep running across more of them!

I started the background with a brown script paper and then prepared a layer of dots by rounding the top corners and tearing the bottom edge. Over this I glued MOST of a tag printed with script and used scrappers floss to wind and tie into a bow.

The stamped heart is mounted with foam tape.

Ddd

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Some time ago I made a bunch of these little dresses by cutting Vs out of the sides of diecut scalloped circles. They were originally designed to be strapless but I think adding loops of ribbon makes them even cuter. I also used a strip of the same ribbon for a waistband. I used floral wire to construct the little hanger.

For background I selected a printed tag and then found papers that copied some of the same elements. I aligned one edge of the blue dot paper with a line in the tag and adhered the little dress at an angle.

I added a line of silver peel-off zig-zag border to the bottom and top edges of the dress and then applied a silver peel-off greeting.

Ddd

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Wh, here I am with another 'kit' card. I wanted to use a collage stamped piece that was a make-and-take from a stamp show I went to several years ago. I love the range of colors in this and the use of masking paper strips to create the grid for stamping.

I used a lavender card base and a printed teal background paper to pull colors from the stamped piece. A yellow punched border is in keeping with the overall pallette and I bordered the stamped purple heart with teal before mounting on foam tape.

Very, very simple - oh, so classy!

Ddd

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With an assignment for 'the great outdoors' I took to the skies with my hot air balloon pattern. The background paper selected was so expressive that I went with pastel versions of my standard hot air balloon colors. I think it looks very 'French' in this combination of thread colors and background.

I stamped clouds on decorative papers, trimmed them out and popped them up on foam tape over the edges of the balloon. Then I added some gold peel-off tree-tops to the bottom edge to set the scene.

Ddd

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I have an assignment coming up to stitch a card with a favorite animal. That was easy! We have plack-tail deer on our property and are delighted when the does drop their fawns in the back yard. This year we have two single babies and a set of twins. We've been enjoying watching the pair play together - jumping, playing tag and hide-and-seek.

I found this pattern in the paper embroidery book I own and had to stitch it upin honor of our local babies. I colored the spots black as the instructions specified but, in reality, our fawns have white spots.

I also added more grass than the pattern contained, but it was needed. A little butterfly gold peel-off is perched on the fawn's nose.

Ddd

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For some project a long time ago I stamped out a bunch of these phoenix on kraft cardstock from my hand-carved stamp. I don't even remember what I was going to make with them!

I pulled out a black and white paper to use but the white was too stark so I toned it with 'old paper' distress ink. So the layers are black folded card base, cream cardstock, toned black and cream patterned paper, stamped image. I also pulled out a variety of die-cut swirl in different neutral tones. Since I had multiples of the image I used a star punch on one and inked the edges in black to make it stand out. This is popped up on foam over the main image.

No sentiment for this one.

Ddd

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I had one of these frilly heart prints left from the scrapbooking book with pages of images to use. I trimmed it out close around and combined with a tag, sentiment and background using colors pulled from the image.

I rounded the corners to unify the elements.

Ddd

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This little 'onesie' is another image that I stamped a long time ago for another project and then didn't use it. It is stamped on patterned paper so no coloring was needed. I did, however,do some shading in the leg holes and neckline for dimension.

I just selected a bunch of masculine-looking papers for a fun mix and added a pre-stamped sentiment.

As a finishing touch, I used blue marker to make faux-stitching on two sides of the sentiment block.

Ddd

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From the old stamp catalog I colored up all the elements of a little garden set and cut them all. Then I arranged them into a little vignette on a tag for this card front. Some bright striped paper and a brown cardstock complete the scene and I added some 3D elements to the upper left for balance.

The sentiment is a gold peel-off.

Ddd

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I decided to work from the 'kits' I put together the other day and pulled out a bunch of them that use the stamped 'Love' heart image.

This one uses a variety of patterned papers. I unified them by using a gold metallic paint marker toadd a band to all of them. Two have rounded corners as well.

These went together really quickly since I already had all the elements selected.

Ddd

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I just can't stop using this cute stamp! I had colored this one up and set it aside. But when I ran across this page from the scrapbooking page-a-day calendar I thought how fun it would be to feature him laying in the flowers. I used a bit of wiggly green trim to stand in for the grass and made a sun by punching a circle from yellow cardstock. I had lots of clouds stamped out on white card with raised dots so I trimmed out three of them to mount on the card.

I stamped the text on the sun and added dashed rays around it. Some fun, huh?

Ddd

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I used up more of the blue Hobby Dots as designed. This one makes a round frame which I had pricked out on a pink cardstock with doily print. I filled it with a dark blue floral 3D image and added a dark blue double-loop satin bow to the bottom. This is backed with a dark blue folded card base.

This is also a 5 x 6.5 card, like yesterday's.

Ddd

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The blue sheet of Hobby Dots is actually the one the book is designed for. So I tried a pattern using the dots as they were meant to be used. This one is two side borders and I filled the center with a frame-style foil 3D image. I love the effect of these. For the base card I used a brushed gold metallic so it would fit with the foil 3D.

I added a shimmery gold ribbon at the bottom and a prestamped sentiment at the top. The pattern makes a larger card than most I make but I trimmed it to fit envelopes I keep on hand. It is 5 x 6.5 inches.

Ddd

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I had another run at doing a project from the Hobby Dots book my friend gave me. This, again, had to be done with a different page of dot shapes than those the pattern was designed for. I had a sheet of metallic finish pink shapes and I had already pricked out the design on pink... voila! Then I added some from the red sheet and went looking for a 3D element that would go along with these colors.

Only one really worked which made the 'decision' easy. I chose a dotted green cardstock to fill the other half of the page, coordinating it with the green of the leaves.

Crazy camera ... there is much more pink in the left side and the shine on the rose is because of the glossy finish.

I used one of the pre-stamped sentiments and backed it with a thin pink border.

Ddd

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