I recently discovered a new challenge blog, Stamping With The Oldies.  I love their tag line:  “Inspiring Stampers to Dig in their Stash and Stamp with their Oldies but Still Goodies!”  Goodness knows that after ten years of stamping, I have plenty of “oldies but still goodies”!

For their first challenge, they asked viewers to create something with their oldest stamp set.  I still have the first stamp set I bought – Stampin’ Up’s” Just A Note Mini”.  However, the images in the set just weren’t speaking to me this week.  So for my challenge card, I used one of the sentiments from my first set.  The note image is from another one of my first sets.  I used a ruler to help me draw the lines straight.  The notes aren’t completely random – if you’ll forgive my lack of drawing in the treble clef, key signature, and time signature, and that the note image is eighth notes rather than quarter notes, it’s actually the first few notes of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”.  I used this week’s Splitcoaststampers Clean and Simple challenge colors for my color scheme.  I meant to use my corner rounder punch but grabbed the wrong punch by mistake.  Ooops.  Oh well. It’s still a decent card for Operation Write Home.

I hope you’ll take the time to check out Stamping With the Oldies!

All supplies for this card are from Stampin’ Up:
Stamps: Just a Note Mini, Mini Medleys
Cardstock: Whisper White, Night of Navy, Whisper White textured
Ink: Night of Navy
Other: Night of Navy marker, ticket corner punch