Time Out To Salute…

Hello everyone in blog land. I hope that your day is going well and you are enjoying summer.

I had the opportunity to visit my oldest son for “Family Weekend” which happened to follow a very significant event…the successful completion of Army Boot Camp. Completing Boot Camp signifies officially becoming a ‘soldier’… and the ceremony includes soldiers removing their camouflage caps and donning the Army black beret for the first time.

To mark this event, I made a card using “Time Out To Salute” from Mo Manning’s digital collection. Mo also has different hats for our armed forces (and rumor has it that there will be hats for firemen, policemen, etc. in the near future).

 

This card was a huge hit. The hats are adhered with Velcro so they are interchangeable.

And here’s a picture of my personal Patriot in his new beret.

Thanks for stopping by… enjoy your day, have a laugh or two, and be safe in all you do.

 

Details: White linen, SU Kraft and red linen paper, Copic Markers, Velcro, Sentiment: MFT, SU ticket corner punch.

Cards for Heroes – Memorial Weekend Blog Hop!

This Memorial Day weekend is the first bloghop for the Cards for Heroes (CFH) volunteer program. This bloghop is intended to help spread the word to paper crafters and blog followers that cards, envelopes and monetary donations are very much needed to get cards to our men and women serving in uniform. You can learn more about this great program by visiting their site and while there you will find the “TOP OF THE HOP”.

The military has been an important part of my family and of my dear friends, and I’m sure the same is true of you. After we were taught to have good manners and be respectful as kids, we were taught about the importance of patriotism, dedication to our country and about giving something back. Our country and flag deserve the highest honor and respect.

We have men and women serving throughout the world making personal sacrifices and giving of themselves selflessly. Whether we personally agree with war efforts or not, these men and women are giving their lives to serve our country in the highest possible way and they certainly have earned our respect, thanks and admiration.

So if you can help us spread the word about this important project, you can also start by visiting Nora's Blog. Once there Nora will provide you a link to the next blog, and so on. We promise a lot of patriotic inspiration. Leave comments, feedback, praise as you go, especially on blogs not getting a lot of comments - we want everyone to feel your love and support!

It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle, it takes a hero to be one of those men who go into battle. - Norman Schwarzkopf

I hope that you enjoyed these two cards today.. I certainly enjoyed creating them. Thank you very much for stopping by.. thanks for doing the blog hop. Enjoy your holiday…don’t forget to visit Nora's Blog. We begin at 2:00 central time today!

Details: (Card 1) Retired “Make a Wish” stamps from SU, Night of Navy and Real Red, stamped onto white linen cardstock and used Night of Navy for the card base. The sentiment is from SU Short and Sweet set.

(Card 2) Tore pieces of deep red designer paper (from my scrap bin) into strips and glued onto card base, leaving areas of white card in between, I punched the stars from SU Night of Navy cardstock, and used a Signo uniball pen to create the stitches. The sentiment is computer-generated, and the gold cord is from Joann’s.

Upcoming Blog Hop and a Card for Father’s Day

Happy Friday stampers! Before I tell you about my card, I wanted to let you know what’s happening this holiday weekend. The Cards for Heroes Volunteers have a bloghop in the works and the response from the papercrafting world has been unbelievable… please check back here tomorrow, Saturday, after 2:00 CDT to see what’s in store. We are working to create a lot of attention about this important program and the need for donated cards, envelopes, and money to defray the expense of shipping cards to our service men and women. There are opportunities to win prizes along the hop. Check out my blog tomorrow to read my post and see how it works.

And now for a card. This is another Dustin Pike image that was released this week. Can you imagine that there are ten images for ten dollars again this week!  Wow… what a deal. I especially like that I can resize the image for the project I have in mind. That’s so cool.

This adorable dragon is a handy kind-of-guy…We all know there isn’t a whole lot in the way of masculine images, so this image is a very welcome addition to my collection.

 

Thanks for stopping by.. Enjoy your day and have a safe holiday… and please stop by tomorrow to check out the ‘hop’!

Details: Dustin Pike’s Digital Images, copper brads, prisma pencils, various Basic Gray DP’s.

Got cards??

Many of you know that the Cards for Heroes campaign is close to my heart as the military was such a significant part of my family's life. The most recent campaign was to get Valentine cards into the hands of our men and women in uniform overseas. Check out this link to see how successful this program has been. http://www.cardsforheroes.org/heroes/stats.php

If you have cards to donate, please consider contacting Cards for Heroes to learn how you can be part of this important project.