If you’ve kept up with my blog for a while, you should have learned two things about my crafting habits by now: 1) I love participating in a variety of card making challenges, and 2) I enjoy making cards for Operation Write Home. These two things mesh together quite well because most of the cards I create for the challenges end up being sent to OWH. (I do keep some for personal use.)
So as I was working on cards to fill up the box I sent to OWH this week, I came across this week’s CAS-ual Fridays challenge. This time they are asking the challenge participants to create a card using no stamps. Zero. Zilch. Nada. I needed some thank you, birthday and thinking of you cards for OWH. So I decided I’d try to create a no stamps card for one of those categories.
I looked through my rub-ons, but wasn’t liking anything that I was coming up with along that line. Then I thought about using some of my dies. Bingo! I remembered one of my sets of Cuttlebug alphabets contained the word “thanks”. So I pulled it off the shelf and chose to use that along with the vase and floral images in that set. Picking the colors didn’t take long; I had actually used these colors together on a card about 5 years ago. (And as I’m typing this post, I realize that all of the SU colors are retired.) Once I figured out how to fit everything on the card front (the vase and flower ended up taller than I realized at first, so I snipped a bit off of the flower stem) and ran it through my Xyron, I had a reasonably quick one-layer card.
See the dot in the center of the flower? That’s actually the scrap punched out by the letter “a”. I like when I can use little pieces parts like that! 🙂
So, that’s another card for my latest shipment to OWH. I’ll have another one to share later today.
Supplies:
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs); Cool Caribbean, Cameo Coral, Blush Blossom, Mellow Moss (Stampin’ Up)
Other: “Olivia” Cuttlebug alphabet dies (ProvoCraft); corner rounder (EK Success)