"Every Flower" - D2D Friday Free Digi

Here's my card using Designed 2 Delight's Friday free digi.

OWH Sketch #83

Hi! More fun DPs from Cosmo Cricket's "Odds & Ends" mini deck, which I've been using for the last few cards. I followed the new sketch, #83, from the OWH Stars & Stamps blog. I didn't get the measurements right to say the least, but it was one of those days when I couldn't seem to cut straight with either my paper trimmer or scissors! I decided to just roll with it as is because the DPs are so pretty. I hope a soldier Mom or Dad will send it home to say hi to their kids and perhaps ask how school is going!
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Anything Goes at D2D

The Designers Challenge at Designed2Delight is "Anything Goes"! So I used a D2D digi, Autumn Kaela. She's rockin' her shiny turquoise Mary Janes!

Hambo Geranium and a Clean And Simple skip at OWH S&S blog!

I absolutely love this week's new digi given to those who joined in the Hambo Hoedown progressive challenge last week. I think it's a beautiful drawing and I wanted the geranium to stand out on my card. Our challenge this week also is to include "scoring" in our creation. I created a scored double border around the geranium, and distressed the scoring with this little flower shaped sander I have. There's different kinds of writing on both DPs, which I love, and when someone gives you a beautiful flower like this, no extra words are necessary!
I really like how my card turned out, especially the sponging that creates kind of a light around the geranium. And I think this would be considered a "Clean And Simple" card, which is the theme of OWH's blog skip today. What do you think?
In addition to this fab Hambo digi, I used these materials:
Memento Dewdrop Ink in "London Fog"
Copic sketch markers
DP: Cosmo Cricket "Odds & Ends" mini deck
Memory Box "Minuet" 6x6 paper collection
Half pearls
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Autumn Inchies etc.

I made this card for the Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown; the challenge is to use inchies. I used one clear stamp from an InkAdinkAdo set. I inked it with various color stamp pads and then added some other colors with Copics. It's one of those cards that was almost a train wreck but I think the inchies are pretty. Not satisfied, tho, and trying to make some autumn cards to send to Dixie at OWH, I made another inchie card, using a leaf stamp from the same set:

And just to share the other card I made today, using the same stamp I used for the first card and a different sentiment from the same set:

Tuesday Throwdown 8-17-11

TWO Operation Write Home crafters were just selected to the design team at Tuesday Throwdown. Hooray for two talented OWHers: Yolanda and NanaConnie!
So I checked out the Tuesday Throwdown and it sounds like fun. The challenge this week is to make a card with a non-stamped sentiment.
This sentiment is a digi from Designed 2 Delight.
Ths image is a digi drawn by Sandy Allnock, president of OWH! I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and added Glossy Accents.
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Papercrafts Connection August Gallery Challenge: girlfriends

If I can figure out how to post it over there, I thought it would be fun to make a card for the Papercrafts Connection Monthly Gallery Challenge for August. Since the theme is "girlfriends" (those friends who support us through thick and thin; I've needed them lately!) I wanted to use one of the many cute digis created by Nikki at Melonheadz Illustrating . I wanted to make the card suitable for friends of almost any age by limiting the colors to black, white and red.
The DPs are from a pack I found at Michael's; I think it was called Black & White Elegance. I think the dotted and striped papers go well with Nikki's drawing style as well as the BFF rubber stamp. It's a $1 rubber stamp you may have seen in the bin at Michael's.) The background script paper reminds me of the letters friends write to each other.
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