It's Lawn Fawn Week at Operation Write Home!

Hello! Hello! It's been quite the week around here, leaving little time for card making. I really, really wanted to get in on that challenge from Lawn Fawn so I used the Lawn Fawn bonus sketch from Monday and the Mid-Week Challenge from Wednesday. My sweetie really loved the skunk card so I am going to mail it to him with a paper letter inside, let him write a note home to me on the card itself, and skip the "middle man" (also known as my East Coast Shipper)!! 

Mid Week Challenge: Scallops and Kids

Monday's Bonus Sketch from Stars and Stamps

Speaking of my sweet husband, I let him choose our Virtual Card Making Party winner from last weeks big card making weekend. He chose a number from the total number of cards linked up. The lucky winner of the Clip It Up is...

#17

Kara from www.madamewong.wordpress.com

Kara, please send me an email at sddouberly@yahoo.com with your shipping address and I will get it out when I mail my now full box for OWH! 

Thanks for stopping by! 

It's Been a Busy Weekend!

I hope everyone is having an awesome time with this weekend's Virtual Card Making Party. I know I am having so much fun and totally neglecting my other "duties". It's Monday morning and I've completed all 10 challenges! You can visit the Master Thread here.

Our Daily Bread Designs: Scripture or Uplifting Sentiment

Recipe Challenge: 1 Image, 2 Patterned Papers, 3 Words

Snowflakes, but not Christmas!

Triple Time Technique

Cowboy Challenge

Sketch #136

Christmas Twins

Sports Theme 

Home Sweet Home Challenge

Who Doesn't LOVE a Great Party?

Welcome to our Labor Day Virtual Card Making Party! 

If you'd like to head over to the complete challenge list on the Stars and Stamps Blog, click here!

 I hope you are having a great time creating with us this weekend! As many of you know, my own sweetheart is currently deployed and I know how much these cards mean to those of us at home.
You are not just making cards- you are creating happiness! 

CHALLENGE: Use a neglected crafting tool. It can be a stamp set, a punch, a cricut cartridge, an eyelet setter, or a die cutter. Any tool that you haven't touched in a while is fair game. Use the InLinkz tool at the end of this post to share your creations. One lucky card maker, I mean happiness creator, will be randomly chosen to win a Simply Renee Clip It Up Wall Mount organizer!

The two craft tools I chose for this challenge were my stitching alphabet stamps with floss and a needle, and a few of my very neglected Sizzix Paddle Punches. 

Neglected craft tools are so sad!

The stamp set was something I had to have the minute I saw it and I used it as soon as it came in the mail. I loved the look of the sewn letters, but for some reason I never used it again. The paddle punches are also great tools that had gotten lost at the bottom of my punch bucket. The last time I remember using them was more than 4 years ago! They are especially cool because you can punch anywhere on the page at any angle. 

My Cards

All three of my cards were also made from a neglected paper pack (which doesn't qualify)! :) 

Paper: Die Cuts with a View Indian Summer Fall Stack & Indian Summer Fall Cardstock Stack

Sizzix Paddle Punches: Primitive Star #1, Primitive Heart #1, & Leaf

Stamp: Thinking of You by Stampin' Up & Stitch Alphabet by Close to My Heart

Ink: VersaMagic, Hint of Pesto

Floss: DMC

I hope you have a good time bringing life back to a neglected tool!