"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!

OWH Sketch and Back to School

I used the new OWH Sketch and a Hambo Stamps digi for this card, which I hope will make a nice general "hello" card for a hero to send to a child. I need help learning to re-size digis; the image was a bit big so I had to cut it out and let it overlap the circle a bit, but I kind of like that look. I colored it with Copics and shaded in the background with a colored pencil because I only have a few Copics so far!

Digi: Hambo Stamps
DP: We R Memory Keepers "Grandma's Kitchen"
Imaginisce "Bedrock"
Copics and Prismacolor pencils
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Here's a second card for the Sketch; I thought the image was cute for the OWH Midweek Challenge (I'm a little slow) to make Back to School cards. All of Slieke's cute digis at www.sliekje.blogspot.com are free if you haven't checked them out!

Digi: Sliekje
Copics and Prismacolor pencils
DP: stash
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One more for the Back to School theme! I didn't know that Nikki had a teacher digi among her collection at MelonheadzIllustrating. I hope there are heroes who have a spouse or daughter who is a teacher, perhaps even a first-year teacher, who might like to receive this card:

Digi: MelonheadzIllustrating
DP: Stampin Up papers from stash
Copics, baker's twine, silver pen on her belt
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Sherry