Cards for Soldiers

Many of you may know this but for those that don't know. I am a shipper for the central time zone for the Cards for Soldiers project through the Cricut website. My friend Sue and I had a goal to make 2000 Christmas cards for deployed troops and we are approximately 600 cards from our goal. So at our crop this weekend we designed and cut all the pieces for those cards and got 300 cards fully assembled. These are some of the designs we came up with and completed this weekend.

Be on the lookout as I will be posting a challenge to you all with some blog candy up for grabs- this will be in support of our troops!

Hugs,
Christy

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KLM Digital Designs Cards

Aren't these great images? These are all from the November release at KLM Digital Designs and I will have several more cards to share with you over next week. Wait until you see some of these latest images, you are gonna love them and December images are just as great!

I will share all the details on these cards later as I am at work, but wanted to share a little Monday inspiration with you all!

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Three's A Charm Blog Hop!Winner!

Thanks you to everyone who left comments even with my computer glitches, which I am still dealing with. Hope you had a great time hopping and picked up some of the newest images from all 3 companies!


The winner of my giveaway is, Drumroll please..........


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Looking forward to joining in.
Love Sandra xx

Congrats Sandra, please pick out your images from The Stamping Boutique and send me an email at micahzane@yahoo.com with your email address and choices so I can get those over to you asap!

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Three's a Charm Christmas Blog Hop Today!!!

There's nothing like a blog hop and how about a blog hop times 3- yes that's right I said 3 different companies hopping together TODAY!!! The Stamping Boutique, Sunshine Stamps, and Ildi Co are having a Christmas Blog Hop. All three companies have come together to promote the versatility, functionality, and fun of digital images.

All 3 companies are releasing their Christmas images today and be sure to stop by every blog and leave a comment to win some fabulous prizes!! Tracey over at TSB will have a set of copics up for grabs-yes that's right COPICS!!!

If you have come here from
Tracey M. you are on the right track, if not start over Sunshine to begin the HOP!! Make sure to leave comments on all blogs to be entered in prize drawings.

For my card today I decided to go use this super cute image from
The Stamping Boutique. Ok I am still having a technical difficulty, so please enjoy this card for your viewing pleasure.

So what do I have up for grabs today? How about $15 in images from The Stamping Boutique, I will randomly select one commenter to receive these free images of your choice! What are you waiting for leave me a comment and hop on over to see whatRhonda has created. You ahve until Sunday to leave me a comment to be entered for free images!!

Blog Hop Order just in case you lose your way:

Sunshine START HERE!!!
Kym
Ellen
Jerusha
Kylie
Tracey
Jenny
Jacquie
Nicole
Melanie
Erin
Alcia
Tracey M.
Christy YOU ARE HERE
Rhonda
Maria
Vicki
Mary
Patricia
Stef

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DZ Doodles New Release Day!!!

It's new release day at DZ Doodles and Diane has come up with more fabulous images. Hurry over to DZ Doodles to see the rest of DT creations and get your images!

I got to work with this cute penguin, I have to admit I had trouble figuring out just where to color black so hubby helped. I think he turned out good, papers are from Basic Grey. I distressed edges of penguin image and blue background is colored using copic also.

Also be ready as I making several samples for new releases on November 1st from KLM Digital Designs and Squigglefly. Don't forget we are having a blog hop at The Stamping Boutique next weekend too, look for more details soon!

Supplies:
Papers: Basic Grey
Copics: R59/R27/Y17/C1/B00/100/blender
Image: DZ Doodles
Miscellaneous: bling-Studio 18

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A Thanksgiving Day Challenge

Today in the VCD group on PaperCraft Planet there is a Thanksgiving challenge. Here it is: I know that Halloween is just around the corner- but it's time to think ahead to Thanksgiving....Harvest....Fall cards! Let's see your Thanksgiving/Harvest/Fall cards!

Once again I went digital in paint and made this cute turkey invite, the poem is from my Ultimate Guide to the Perfect Card. Come join the challenge and see the other wonderful creations by the DT.

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VC Stamp Challanges #23- A sketch

Another Thursday bring us another challenge at VC Stamp Challenges and this week is a sketch using no layers. Now normally I would have trouble with this, but since my home computer has shot craps and I have to work off this laptop with no card reader I decided to make a digital card using paint. So what do you think?

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Project Christy featured on Victoria Case Designs

I was so excited and honored to be one of the October guest designers for Victoria Case Designs and am so sad to see my time ending. I was super excited when Victoria allowed me to do a project ans feature it on her blog here. Since I have boys, I decided to make these cute little treat sacks using sports images from VCD. These would make great party favor bags, treat sacks for school parties, etc. So what are you waiting for, I would love to see what cuties you come up with.



Supplies:
1- 8.5 x 11 sheet of cardstock & 1- 8.5 x 11 strip of patterned paper
Victoria Case Digital Image
(used: Soccer, Playing Ball, Baseball)
Copics
Ribbons and embellishments
Crop-a-dile or hole punch
Chestnut Roan & CTMH Black Ink



Score your 8.5 x 11 piece of cardstock on the long side (11”) at 3, 5, 8, 10, & 11 and then rotate and score shorter side (8.5”) at 2.





Cut out a small piece as shown above to make easier for folding. Place adhesive on pieces as indicated above-note adhesive for middle flap will go on inside. Before assembling I added my strip of patterned paper, colored my image, and decorated outside of bag. Assemble your box and then add your ribbon. For soccer/baseball bags I slightly creased sides of bag and then punched holes with my Crop-a-dile to run my ribbon through, for basket ball bag I just punched hole and added my ribbon securing with brads.

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A color challenge.....

I finally got to make a card for Stef's aswesome color challenges over in the SNR Squigglefly group. Stef challenged us to use fall colors yellow/gold, orange, and green. So I grabbed this wonderful Pilgrim Bear Shy Bear image by Lynne Stansbery and colored him up with my copics. Papers are from a Creative Memories kit I got at a crop I went to this weekend and yellow patterned is from DCWV stack. Come join the challenge for your chance to win the gold star!

Supplies:
Papers: Creative memories, DCWV
Inks: CTMH Autumn Terracotta, Cat's Eyes-amber clay, dark brown, evergreen
Images:Pilgrim Bear, sentiment-CTMH Thank You set
Sketch: CTMH Wishes book
Copics: C7/C5/B00/CG93/G99/R20/R59/R27/Y17/YR07/YR04/E08/E21/E37/E33

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Squigglefly Challenge # 25

Monday brings another fantastic challenge over at the Squigglefly Challenge Blog. This week the challenge is to make a gate fold card, which I had never done before but how super easy (you can get directions on Splitcoast Stampers). I chose to use the sweet stamp Pop and the Kids by Crissy Armstrong, you can get it here. I also finished the inside of my card using the distressed striped Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Supplies:
Paper: cs-CTMH desert sand, pp-DCWV
Ink: CTMH desert sand
Image: Pop and the Kids
Copics: E37/E35/E33/E21/R20/C1/100/blender
Miscellaneous: Cuttlebug embossing folder-distressed stripes

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