Top Ten (ah, Twelve) Cards of 2012 for OWH

 1. This one with the AE's girlfriends created lots of peals of laughter in the office as I gave a few of these to friends/coworkers. I used some numbered paper tape from the stash.

2. Truck is from Stamper's Best. I used the Martha Stewart punch that I finally found online.

3. This little monkey was in a contest on the We R Memory Keepers's site but I realized it too late to get the vote out for it. The sentiment is from Hobby Lobby and the monkey is from Michael's .

4. I did a pink girly version too of this birthday card. Clear stamp set on sale at Tuesday Morning.

5. I love this stamp! I think it is a Fiskars clear stamp. It reminds me of my son and my future DIL, who played French horns together in college orchestra.

6. I love Dearie Dolls!! This little cutie is one of hers! You can find her free digi stamps at http://deariedollsdigis.blog.com/ . I used some red, white, blue ribbon on this one and a cute little sentiment that I got a garage sale.

7. Another favorite of mine is Riley. Here he is Mailman Riley. Riley's home is at http://www.rileyandcompanyonline.com/home so check him out there. I used the red, white, blue bakers twine I found online and ordered 2 rolls of it for OWH cards. 

8. DCWV stacks are my downfall. I created this card from one of their Christmas stacks.

 9. I seem to collect bike stamps and finally used one for this card. My older son rides bikes in triathlons. I really like this stamp set from Hero Arts. It has another cute sentiment in the set too.

10. Arrggh! a pirate card!! The little hats were on clearance at Archiver's and the pirate paper was from a DCWV stack.

11. I love bears and this one is from a British set I bought on my trip to Russia on Spring Break. Enjoy life is from Stampin' Up sale at an expo.

12. This card is another one I sent to OWH and gave a few to coworkers/friends. They loved the sentiment from Create with TLC. She has daily freebie digi stamps at http://createwithtlc-createwithtlc.blogspot.com . The lettered paper was in a fall DCWV stack.

Ok, that's my Top Ten (Twelve) Cards of 2012. I had blogged about some of them and others were neglected in blog posting. 

Hope you enjoyed my cards.  Happy New Year!! Time to welcome in 2013!

Making sketches from the OWH List

           Operation Write Home had a big blog hop on Memorial Day Weekend and all the entries used the OWH sketches. There are 120+ sketches on the OWH blog. Some of the participating blogs used the same sketches but all of the cards looked so differently. I generally just make my cards as I go and I haven't used many sketches. But my personal challenge for the summer break is to see how many sketches I can use to make a boxful of cards for OWH.

To see the OWH sketches, go here. http://www.owhstarsandstamps.org/p/owh-sketch-collection.html

Now, here's my first cards, using the sketches.

 I used Sketch #1 first. I had this paper with the letters in my school collection .

A bit of orange ribbon from Joann's hid the seam of the 2 papers.

 I had a jar of orange Got Flowers and 

put little gold pearls on the flowers for a bit of bling. 

I love the freebie sentiment I picked up from Create with TLC

 ( http://createwithtlc-createwithtlc.blogspot.com/. ) a bit ago.

I had purchased a new teddy bear stamp from Stamper's Best 

(  https://www.stampersbest.com/  ) and had to use it. 

I punched the scalloped circles and then stamped the image (bear & flower). 

I used colored pencils on the image. The sentiment and tiny flower are from 2 word sets of

 Riley & Co. ( http://www.rileyandcompanyonline.com/word_sets ).

 The paper was in my paper stash. 

I cut the two design papers in 3 3/4" by 5" then cut them diagonally in half. 

When I put the two triangles on the card base,

 I could leave a bit of room between the triangles and it looks like a ribbon.

 Two sketches down. And 120 more to go.

Time to go pick another sketch or 2 from the OWH site. Later.