OWH Memorial Day Blog Hop Today!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! With thoughts of our military men and women strong in our hearts, I'm taking part in Operation Write Home's HUGE blog hop!

The guidelines include creating a red, white and blue card using one of OWH's card sketches. Here is my birthday card. I enjoy this quote from Club Scrap's Big Deal Collection Rubber Stamp Set and felt it would work for today's heartfelt blog hop.

I chose Operation Write Home Card Sketch #197 as the building block for this quick card.

After cutting the panels, I simply added a little rubber stamping and assembled.

Enjoy this great big Memorial Day Blog Hop, and thanks for stopping by!

Kay at Club Scrap

Top 13 Cards of 2013

Happy New Year to you! Wishing you all the best in 2014!

I'm hopping in on the Operation Write Home Top "13 of 2013" Blog Hop.  It is a fun reason to revisit some of my favorite handmade cards created throughout 2013.

Card #1. I created this card using Club Scrap's Time Of Your Life Unmounted Stamps. I really enjoy the clock images and feel it's great for Birthday Time, Thank You Times, Party Time, Graduation Time, well . . . you get the idea.

Club Scrap's Time Of Your Life Retreat UM

Inside the card.

Card #2. Club Scrap has a new referral program . . . refer a member, and you get a free sheet of these Weathered Florals stamps! This card uses my favorite masking technique.

Weathered Florals Unmounted Stamps - Club Scraps New Member Referral Gift

Card #3. This card has a bit more dimension using the Lock & Key Stamps and Metal Key.

Club Scraps Lock & Key  Collection

Card #4. This card took me out of my normal element with the scoring and folding technique, but it's so cool! The Lock & Key Scrap Rap has directions and an easy to follow diagram on page 15!

Also from the Lock & Key  Collection

Card #5. Who doesn't love dragonflies? I used mini foam squares behind the wings of this stamped dragonfly to add dimension. Rubber stamps images from Club Scrap's 2013 Bugs Unmounted Stamp.

Club Scrap's Bugs Collection

Card #6. I had so much fun with this masking technique! The Take Wing Scrap Rap shows the details on page 11. Stamps are from Club Scrap's Take Wing Collection.

Club Scrap Take Wing Unmounted Rubber Stamps

Card #7.This card uses a stamp collection called Postcards From Paris. I enjoy the collage stamping and masking technique . . . so why not make it #7 on my list?

Club Scraps PostCards From Paris, 2012 Retreat

Card #8. From the Wisteria Collection, this card not only has pretty florals, it has more scores and folds then what I normally do in a card. Page 16 of the Wisteria Scrap Rap shows the how-to!

Wisteria Unmounted Rubber Stamp Collection

Card #9. Look at this sweet Valentine's Day card featuring a hot air balloon stamp from the Up, Up, and Away Collection. I have the stepouts available if you click HERE.

Card #10. This card was also created with Up, Up, and Away materials. Adding the beading and stitching to the stenciled hot air balloon was a challenge for me, but worth the effort!

From a past collection, Club Scrap's Up, Up and Away! 

Card #11. Lovin' the collage look using this Get The Picture set of stamps.

Club Scrap's Get The Picture 2013 Winter PSL, Globe stamp from past Bookshelves Collection.

Card #12. There's something about the Aspen Stamps that make me want to cut out the birch tree limbs and attach to the card front with mini foam squares. I like the look of this!

Club Scrap's Aspen Collection UM

Card #13. This card uses Club Scrap's Graffiti Collection. It's going online this week so it's very exciting! I love how the fill-in stencil works with the stamps.

It was a lot of fun to review my creative year!

Thank you for stopping by . . .

Kay Williamson

OWH World Card Making Day

Operation Write Home Friends,

Welcome to my stop on the hop. For those of you not familiar with Operation Write Home, check them out and join them in their mission to support our troops! Today is World Card Making Day and OWH is celebrating with this gigantic blog hop! 

I chose OWH Sketch #B-29 to model the background of my thank you card.

I used Club Scrap's fun Comics Unmounted Rubber Stamps for this card.  

This is how you do it . . . 

1. Stamp "thank you" inside the fun comic-style speech bubbles.

2. Stamp and color a background panel with your favorite colored pencils. 

3. Trim the text bubbles and attach to the card panel with foam adhesive.

The Comics Thanks Wood Mounted Stamp was the perfect touch for the inside of this card.

Enjoy the OWH Blog Hop with all the inspiration it offers! Thank you for stopping by!

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Blog Candy Alert!

Club Scrap has a Comics Unmounted Rubber stamp sheet to give away to a randomly selected comment. Please leave an email address so that I can reach you for your mailing address if you win! We will randomly select the winner one week from today.

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Enjoy!

Kay Williamson at Club Scrap 

Supporting Our Nations Armed Forces - OWH Blog Hop

Welcome "Operation Write Home" Blog Hoppers!

To check all the Thank You cards created for this blog hop, click HERE to go to where the OWH blog originates! Scroll down a bit to see access to all 146 participants! I'm #86 on the list with this card below. Enjoy the hop!

"Proud As A Peacock & Thankful" are the feelings when thoughts of our Nation's Armed Forces are in our hearts this special weekend. Club Scrap's Peacock collection is perfect for this thank you card going out to OWH. For those of you not familiar with Operation Write Home, check them out by clicking here.

I chose Sketch #B-10 from the OWH Bonus Sketches for this card.

Just a little more about making this card . . .

I used a couple of different ink colors on the same stamp.

Color the stamp with a Faber Castell 's Big Brush Pen for additional detail.

It's fun to see the colorful result.

Here are a my stamped Peacock feathers attached to the card.

Altered white photo mounting corners.

Adding the greeting.

In honor of this grand Blog Hop, Club Scrap is giving away - FREE - a Peacock Rubber Stamp Sheet to a randomly chosen winner! All you need to do is comment on this blog for a chance to win. We'll be selecting our winner on Friday! Please be sure to include your email in the comment so I can contact you if you are the winner, or send it to kay@clubscrap.com. Good luck to you!

Wishing you a great Memorial Day.
With special thanks to Operation Write Home,
Kay

****05/31  We randomly chose the winner of the Peacock Unmounted Rubber Stamps from the comments below!**** Hope Jen enjoys the free stamps!

JenMay 27, 2013 at 3:55 PM

This card is totally stunning. LOVE!!! Thanks for the chance to win; I don't have anything like this! Jen

Operation Write Home Sketch #60

Operation Write Home has given us a choice of 121 card sketches to pick from for their OWH Stars & Stamps Blog Hop Event going on this weekend. I choose sketch #60 shown below.

I grabbed my Club Scrap Time&Space stamps and enjoyed creating the nine 1" squares for the front of this card. I liked the orientation of the sketch, so I just left it as is.

Sending handcrafted greeting cards to OWH (for deployed heroes to write home) is a little way of showing my appreciation for our troops' tireless efforts and sacrifice.

Thanks, OWH for organizing this blog hop!

It seems I have a hard time just leaving it at that, so I have more crafting pics below, but if you are short on time - hop to the next blog. There lots tons to view! 

Here are a few picks about creating this fun card.  I began by using the Time & Space Stamps and Club Scrap's Black India Ink (this ink won't bleed when I use the waterbrush with the colored pencils later).

Now adding a little color...

...and cutting into 7/8" squares...

...matted onto black 1" squares and attached to my card front.

Thanks for stopping by,

Kay Williamson

Club Scrap Design Team