Patriotic Birds for OWH 143

This week's Operation Write Home sketch is a nice, easy one.  I just heard about "One Stop Craft Challenge" today, when I was posting to a Doodle Pantry challenge.  Doodle Pantry is sponsoring the current challenge at One Stop, and they have a darling set of patriotic birds.  It just seemed natural to combine these challenges. I'll use this card to write an "Any Hero" letter.

Hero Arts, JUGS159 & Pink Gem Designs 57 "flowers"

Another sketch from the Hero Arts October Contest, and this one uses the color scheme from Just Us Girls (coral, blush, white, sahara sand, and grey), and the Pink Gems Designs challenge #57 to so something using the theme "flowers."  This Hero Arts sentiment seemed just right, and the little paper flower was the finishing touch.  I also used a print paper with flowers in it on the sahara sand banner.  For some reason the coral and blush papers look deeper in the photo than they do in person.  The sentiment is also on a paler version of blush.

Viva le Verve Sketch #4 for October

I combined the fourth Viva le Verve sketch for October with an Outlawz Tuesday Color Challenge.  The Outlawz challenge was to do a card in yellow, red, and green (like a variety of bell peppers), and the card should have "Something to do with cooking."  Gina K. Designs has this image of a woman by the refrigerator, so that seemed to fit.  The sentiment came from the Gina K Designs set called "Not Forgotten."  I figured kids artwork is one of the wonderful memories a parent has.

Hero Arts Sketch - Thanks

The Hero Arts contest/challenge this month offered several choices, including three different sketches.  This card follows one of those sketches pretty closely, but I made it a gate-fold card just for fun.  The designer paper is from Stampin' Up!, the Thanks stamp is by Hero Arts, the green strip was made using a Stampin' Up! border punch. The right side of the card was just plain white (as it is in the sketch), but that didn't look right.  So I used another Hero Arts stamp and iridescent embossing powder to glitz up the right side.  Then I used that same stamp (a square with various sized circles in it) with Spun Sugar Distress Ink to give that side a little more texture. One other note - the base card was about 1/4" short of 8.5" for a full A2 card.  Solved this by adding the border at the edge of the card-front "gate" and letting the loops overlap the opposite side of the gate.  The irridescent embossing powder makes this card work for the Cute Card Thursday challenge, too. 

Hero Arts Photo Contest - Decorate It now at Target

Well, actually, it isn't.  We went to Target to see the new Hero Arts "Decorate It" line, but they didn't have it out yet.  Looked on the Target Web site, but couldn't find it there, either.  We had gone to Target just for the Hero Arts product, to take photos for their contest, but the only photo we got was of me in front of the store.