Christmas in July with Operation Write Home

My card works for OWH's Midweek Throwdown Challenge (Christmas in July) and the latest OWH Sketch, #76.
I picked up a Melissa Frances vintage DP pad and sheet of Christmas stickers when I went to the Great American Scrapbook Convention. The little green DP mat is from my stash. The distressed edges are inked with cranberry ink and that's cranberry ribbon. Ho ho ho!

"Dog House Blues" - Hambo Hoedown!

When I saw the new "Dog House Blues" digi at Hambo Stamps for this week's challenge, I knew I wanted to use shades of blue for my card. I really like navy but it's not a color I go to a lot. The little dog might have the blues but that's one cool dog house he lives in! I wanted to make it look like a weathered New England beach cottage with the grays and blue (Copics -I'm a beginner, lol). I found the little "dog tag" in a pet-themed sticker set at Michael's and pasted "I Miss You" over it. I love my new Xyron for putting adhesive onto rickrack, woohoo! Sometimes those tiny little premade bows are just the thing, and I thought it would work well here. This will be a cute card to send to OWH for a hero to write home on!

First card for the D2D progressive challenge!

I decided to have a go at the Designed To Delight progressive weekly challenge. In order to jump on the bandwagon, I purchased this cute Summer digi. I colored it with my small but growing collection of Copics; love the hot pinks and limes:

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Somebody Squealed (That it's your birthday)! Hambo Hoedown fun

Inside of card:

The challenge at the Hambo Hoedown this week was to use Pig Inmate (digi available at Hambo Stamps) and fiber, i.e., twine or string (no ribbon). I have had so much fun with many of the Hambo challenges, but this one was probably more fun than is legal to have, lol!
I found a great background image of a brick wall with a Wanted poster on it at Shutterstock.com and attached a tiny cut-out of the wayward pig. I put the second part of the sentiment on the inside of the card. I colored the pigs with Copics and distressed the bg and kraft card. I found the baker's twine at The Paper Source. The key is a rubber stamp that I stamped and cut out. Hope you enjoy this "ham on the lam"!!! I know I did.

OWH Sketch #75

Special OWH Mission: Thank you, Veterans!

OWH is having a special call for cards to be sent to a VA hospital.

OWH Midweek Throwdown: I Love You cards

Our challenge for the MWT is to make "love you" cards. I think this DP is so pretty!