Operation Write Home is hosting a bloghop this weekend for Veterans Day. The hop starts at the Operation Write Home Blog and starts at noon CST today, November 14.
For the bloghop, we are to make an AnyHero card, which is a card with a message written in for any service member, and a Valentine’s Day card for a service member to use to send back home to a loved one.
The deadline for Valentine’s Cards is January 8th, 2010.
Let’s get to the cards!
First is my Any Hero card.
I wanted to use the colors red, white and blue. I cut a piece of Real Red cardstock in half at 4 1/4″ and scored at 5 1/2″ to make a top fold card. I adhered a piece of designer paper in patriotic colors cut at 4″ x 5 1/4 to the Real Red cardstock. I cut a Real Red 2 1/2″ square and a Night of Navy 2 1/2″ inch square. I layered them on the diagonal for some interest. I cut a piece of Whisper White at 2 1/4″ and used the Real Red and Night of Navy markers to ink the flowerburst stamp. I layered the sentiment on a piece of Night of Navy cardstock. I also adhered a piece of Whisper White on the inside for the message.
Here is my Valentine Card.
I had a lot of fun with this card. I cut Whisper White cardstock to 4 1/4″ X 5 1/2″. I cut a piece of Melon Mambo for the top section to 2″ X 5 1/4 and cut a piece of Rich Razzleberry for the bottom section to 2″ x 5 1/4″. I stamped hearts from the Happy Hearts set in Melon Mambo ink on the Melon Mambo piece and did the same in Rich Razzleberry on the Rich Razzleberry piece. I punched out coordinating hearts and adhered them to the alternating sides. I stamped the sentiment from Short and Sweet in Rich Razzleberry ink on Melon Mambo paper and punched it out with the Scalloped Oval Punch. I popped up the punched hearts and sentiment with dimensionals.
I hope you enjoyed this stop on the bloghop.
Up next is Simply Sarah who designs some amazingly beautiful scrapbook pages.
Loved your cards. Thanks for sharing.
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Love that Any Hero card. The red and blue flower is so cheerful!
Love you!
I’m glad you like it. I was kind of at a loss as to what to put there.
Thanks for all the support and encouragement. Love you.
Awesome cards.
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Love your cards — all those hearts on your valentine convey a lotta love :) Thanks for joining in the hop!
Thank you for all you do!
So cute! Love that red, white, & blue card!
Thank you! I’m glad you like it!
Love you cards! thanks for sharing them!
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This is such a heartening venture. Here in Canada, the painting guild I belong to also creates and sends cards for our troops. They range from painted, thru to stamped and embossed cards in every style imaginable and are received with great appreciation. It’s such a little thing we can do for our heroes!
~ Shelley
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Really like the colors on you valentine card, just lovely.
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Beautiful cards!
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Beautiful cards! I love the heart one! Thanks for sharing today!
great cards!
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Different blog set up, I was looking at the bottom for a place to leave a comment! Both cards are so nice, but what a cool idea for the valentine. Very nice!
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Great cards! Love that they’re simple yet still have so much panache. Beautiful work!
Great cards. Really like the flower with the strips and the heart stamping!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful cards!
Just lovely!.. thanks for being part of the hop and for sharing your talent. Hugs, Peggy
Love the cards – the Valentines one is my favorite though.
Super cute cards! Thanks for supporting OWH!
Those are some really great cards.
What great cards! Thanks so much for sharing with us!
Super duper cards!
Awesome cards! What a wonderful crafty and supportive thing we can do for our troops! God bless them, and you!
Great cards! I like how you layered and rotated the squares on the first one and added the cut-out hearts on the second one. Thanks for sharing! :)
I love your cards. Especially the first one!
wonderful cards.
{hugs}
M.E.
Stunning cards!!! I know they are going to make a couple soldiers and their loved ones very happy!!! Thank you for the inspiration and for supporting our nation’s heroes!!!
Hugs!
Carolyn
Thanks for sharing – I love the colors of your blog :)
Great cards. Thanks for the instructions on how you made them. This is helpful for us card newbies. Thank you for supporting OWH
Great cards! Really appreciate you sharing with our heros.
Pretty, pretty, pretty! Our heroes will enjoy these for sure!
Very nice cards! Our troops will be thrilled to send them to their loved ones!
Awesome cards. Thanks for supporting our troops!