I wanted to share with you today about an organization that I have recently learned about. It’s called Operation Stars & Stripes and a friend of mine is the President. And they are going to turn this – 60 packs of the 99cent Stampin’ Up! Fabric.
Into this – Stockings for the troops –
But they need more fabric! They are out of fabric again, and still need about 4000 more stockings made for the holidays. If anyone else wants to donate clearance rack fabric, we are happy to provide them with a receipt for tax purposes. You can send it to this address:
Operation Stars & Stripes, Inc.
2146 Roswell Road NE
Suite 108-101
Marietta, GA 30062
Here is some information:
At Operation Stars & Stripes, Inc., our dedicated volunteers have been busy sewing stockings year round to prepare for our 12th annual, Operation Holiday Stockings Campaign. Thousands of stockings will be filled with highly-requested items and seasonal treats and sent to our service members overseas for the holiday season. Many of the troops decorate their otherwise austere living quarters with the beautiful handmade stockings and often bring them home to reuse year after year or give to their children. We were thrilled to learn about Stampin’ Up’s clearance rack fabric and know the troops will enjoy the lovely patterns offered by Stampin’ Up. There are many ways to use your creative talents to support the troops at little to no cost to you. If you are interested, please contact us at www.OperationStarsAndStripes.org or [email protected]. We would love to speak with you about ways you may enjoy becoming involved to support our heroes and their families.
Operation Stars & Stripes, Inc. is a 501(c )(3), not-for-profit organization that supports America’s military and their families at home and abroad. They were founded in May of 2001 and are based out of Marietta, Georgia.
Thanks for visiting today. It’s a day to remember…..
Just a quick post for today showing this pretty fall card using the French Foliage stamp set and the new Core’dinations card stock.
This card was not my idea – but right this minute I can’t find where I got it from. I’m pretty sure I copied it pretty close to the original one that I saw. I thought Pinterest would help me find where I get ideas from but this one I didn’t see on my boards so I’m not sure where it came from now. The card base is Crumb Cake and then a layer of the new Core’dinations card stock in Early Espresso – it was embossed with the new Woodgrain Embossing folder! And then I sanded it just a bit more – it really looks like wood! The stamped piece used French Foliage and I used the Rock ‘n’ Roll technique on the leaves – so ink in one color and then roll the edges in another – so on here I have More Mustard with Cherry Cobbler, and then Cherry Cobbler with Early Espresso.
Lots to do today – tonight Cindy and I are having an intro class for My Digital Studio 2! It’s going to be fun. I’m making little cupcakes and picks to go in them like I had at my Getaway Party. Oh speaking of which I got a UPS notice that I have a package coming from the company that organizes the Stampin’ Up! incentive trips. That must mean something is coming for the Getaway Trip that I get to go at the end of this month! Now to patiently wait until UPS delivers it on Monday! I wonder what it will be? And if you happen to know – don’t tell me I want to be surprised!
We went apple picking on Labor Day and had a fun family day together. All the boys were with us and we drove north to Blue Ridge, GA and went to Merceir Orchard. They take you by tractor out to the middle of the orchard and turn you loose to pick whatever kind of apples that you want. You have to buy a bag and then you fill it up with all of your apples and while your out there you can eat the apples too. So my project today was inspired by the apples!
This week’s Create with Connie & Mary Thursday challenge is a Sketch Challenge. I love to have a sketch to start with and I like to take a card sketch and use it for other things – and turning it is fun too. I like to do something different – be unique. And this time I decided to take the sketch and create a gift bag instead of a card – but it would make a cute card too. We picked some apples on Monday for my mother-in-law and so I thought wouldn’t it be fun to put them in a cute little bag, and since I needed to create something for this weeks sketch I figured I would use that for inspiration. One big problem though – I don’t have any current apple stamps right now – ugh! I’m trying really hard not to buy everything in the Holiday catalog and every couple of days I think – I wish I had the Perfectly Preserved stamp set – and here we go again – it has apples in it! I really needed it for this project. But do you know what you can do instead? It’s My Digital Studio to the rescue! Yep – I did buy the Digital Download for Perfectly Preserved – yeah! So not only did I not make a card, and I turned the sketch, but I also made a My Digital Studio Hybrid project – how do you like them apples!
This bag turned out so CUTE! And while I gave it to my Mother-in-law it would be an awesome teacher gift too! Or a welcome gift for a new neighbor. This is a small paper bag and there are about 5 small apples inside of it. I used the sketch to create the front panel. Here is the sketch –
So I started by creating the white panel in My Digital Studio 2 – have you tried it yet? OMG – the new feature where you can color the stamp images is so awesome! Here is that piece –
The apple is one stamp and I used the color feature to recolor the seeds to Early Espresso. The stem/leaf is another image and I used the recolor feature to change the stem to Early Espresso. And the “just for you” banner was also colored – so the letters were Cherry Cobbler. Love it!! So I printed that out on Very Vanilla card stock and then cut it to fit my project.
I added the Ribbon Border strip – that’s Gumball Green. Tied some Cherry Cobbler ribbon around my Early Espresso piece and then attached the apple piece over it. I added that to a Cherry Cobbler piece and put in three little brads from the vintage trinkets. Then glued the whole piece to the front of my bag. Its’ really cute! I hope it inspires you to try something different with a sketch! Play along with us this week! And for more fun crafting ideas the Holiday edition class is going on too. You can see last weeks preview projects but if you want the class projects you have to join the class. Do it today – I’m a guest designer and have a fun project planned for later this month.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
Stamps: Perfectly Preserved Digital Stamp Brush Set
Ink: digital colors – Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso
Card Stock: Early Espresso, Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla
Accessories: My Digital Studio2, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding, Vintage Trinkets, Paper piercer, Scalloped Ribbon Border punch, brown paper bag, printer
Visit Create with Connie & Mary and submit your creation for this weeks challenge – each week 3 top creations are selected. Each challenge is open for a week. And then a new challenge will be issued. I hope you’ll play along with us!
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Are you ready? I made another video! This was a fun technique that I taught at my Hands-On class last month. The class was all about Baker’s Twine and different ways to use it. In this video I’m going to show you how I used Baker’s Twine to make a cool stamp! I’m still learning how to create videos so sorry for the shadow puppets at the beginning, and for moving off the screen a couple of times. Hopefully you can hear me better – I tried to talk louder – that was the most common comment from my first video. I learn something new every time!
Here is the card that I’ll be showing you. You can see the original post for this card HERE.
I hope you enjoy the video and this fun technique!
Let me know what you think. Could you hear me better?
A rainbow card today. I told you the other day I had lots of rainbow things going on and this was one of them. This one is slightly different because I used the Summer Smooches Designer Series paper so a couple of the colors in my rainbow changed – O became Tangerine Tango, G is Lucky Limeade and then BI is Island Indigo.
This card idea came from another demonstrator (Colleen Vassos) that won one of the monthly art contests that Stampin’ Up! has. Each month the winners are published in our demonstrator only magazine called Stampin’ Success. It’s packed full of ideas and projects and there are ideas and MDS articles as well as business tips for us. I read it cover to cover every month.
Cut the strips of DSP and attach to a piece of card stock and layer that on the Crumb Cake card base. I used the paper flowers with a Rich Razzleberry button in the center – tied with some white baker’s twine. The Teeny Tiny Wishes set adds the greeting that was punched with the Word Window punch. She sure did create a cute card!
And finally I did record another video today. I’m going to try to edit so that I can post on Wed but it may be Friday.
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