Red White & Blue for you ...

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine

I’m here to share my card for the new color challenge which started today at The Outlawz Challengesand our sponsor this month with a prize of 3 images is MariDigis

This week Ursula has challenged us to use Red, White & Blue with the twist of adding a bow.

Here’s my card

Supplies

• Card stock (base) from The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!
• Design Paper from Doodlebug Designs “Patriotic Parade”
• DMC Craft Thread
• Embossing folder from Stampin Up! “Subtle”
• Freshly made Sketch FMS126
• Star button from my stash
• Star Punch from Martha Stewart

Heres the inspiration picture

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to stop by The Outlawz Challenges where a new challenge starts every day of the week!

(Hugs) Cara

Red, White & Blue Birthday Wishes ...

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~James Bryce

  

Hi!

A new color challenge as started at The Outlawz Challenges.

Our sponsor this month with 4 images is Bugaboo Digi Stamps

  

Lauren selected the colors this week using the United States Flag.

I did not use a Bugaboo image for my 5 x7 card which was made for a close family friend

Supplies

Card base - The Paper Studio

Cardstock from Stampin up!

Design paper - Cracked Stars from The Paper Studio

Die - Banners from Stampin Up!

Die - Banners Trio from Spellbinders

Embossing folder - stars from Cuttlebug

Gemtstones from The Paper Studio

Sentiment - Banner Wishes from Close to My Heart

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

CHALLENGES ENTERED

Love to Craft Challenge #12 - Anything Goes

Happy 4th of July

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Louis D. Brandeis

Good morning Everyone!

The Outlawz has a monthly progressive freebie challenge. This month we were given a great boy image from Blueberry Bear Digi Stamps! I thought he was perfect for a Fourth of July Card.

Card size 4 x 9.25

Supplies

Card stock and DP from The Paper Studio

Sentiment from Stampin Up! (Set unknown)

Image from Blueberry Bear Digi Stamps, colored with Prisma Color Pencils

India Ink from Memories

Heart button from my stash

Twine from Close to My Heart

Die "Classic long rectangles" from Spellbinders

Silver Smooch for the overall buttons

Thanks for Stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Red, White & Blue of Old Glory

If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Hello Everyone!

I hope you have having a enjoyable weekend.  We have just been hanging out around the pool and not much else.

Today is the start of a new CAS challenge at The Outlawz and our sponsor this month is Fresh BrewedDesigns.

Today is Flag day and the challenge is to make a card using the colors of your country or state flag.

My A2 card is based on CASe this sketch #28 and uses the Red, White and Blue of Old Glory.

SUPPLIES:

Cardstock: The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!

Various circle punches from Stampin Up! and EK Success

"Swiss Dots" Embossing folder from Cuttlebug

Little heart die from PTI

The Outlawz: Thankful for you!

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~Michel de Montaigne

Good morning!

Today is the start of another awesome week (Must be positive here!) and also the start of another Clean and Simple Challenge at the Outlawz!

This week, we are "Thankful for You!" 

We, none of us, can never say thank you enough to family, friends, strangers.

This is another card that I made for an Honors Flight to Washington D.C.

It was so gratifying to make the earlier cards that I wanted to do it again so I contacted Kathy Mansur, the Veteran Coordinator for the Honor Flight Southern Arizona Chapter and she readily accepted my offer to make and send thank you cards!

I was in the nick of time too. They had one last flight leaving this year before they shut down until Spring and I had a little over one week to make 25 cards and get them mailed off to her.

I am looking forward to Spring when the flights start up again so that I can do this again.

If you live in Arizona and are interested in sending thank you cards here is the contact information for Kathy ... tmansur@honorflightsaz.org

Thanks!

Cara

Supplies:

Card stock from American Crafts

Embossing folder "Forest Branches" from Cuttlebug

Star punch from Fiskars

India Ink from Memories

Sentiment from Inkahootz!

North Country Honor Flight - More Thank you

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. 

Hamilton Fish

So I decided to make a Thank You card for every Veteran that is supposed to be on the North Country Honor Flight that leaves for Washington DC today.

These men and women are veterans of several campaigns over the last 50 years.

I have a ton of things going on right now but frankly, giving a few hours out of my busy schedule to make Thank you cards is nothing compared to what these Veterans have given us over the years.

The cards are size A2 with personal notes on the inside for each person.

I did use my printer and a larger font to make it easier for any who are visually challenged, plus my handwriting is probably not the best for them to try and cipher!

The flag is attached with a foam dimensional.

Supplies: Card stock, ink & image "God Bless America" (Stampin Up!), Embossing folder "Stars and Swirks" (Sizzix). Sentiment (The Angel Company), Dies "Hearts" (Spellbinders).

Thanks for stopping by

Cara

Honor Flights: I am Grateful

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

Felix Frankfurter

I had planned on posting this yesterday on 9-11-14, but I was remiss and did set the schedule and for that I am very sorry.

I want to say that everyday I wake up without shackles, seen and unseen on my wrists, I am grateful to a higher power and the men and women who have sacrificed much for this Country, This World.

I understand we may not agree on politics or religion or personal choice.

But the freedom to be able to express those opinions without physical or emotional retribution are invaluable and are a right for every living being. Period.

I made this card for a friend who had a special request for cards! If, after reading this, you would like to send a card too, the address is at the bottom.

The card is for her Uncle, a 92 year young WW2 Veteran. He spent the entire war aboard Liberty Boats carrying supplies to support our efforts in Europe and the Pacific. He is one of the lucky ones to have survived as the Liberties were a sought after slow moving target for enemy forces. Thousands were lost.

On September 27th, 2014, her cousin Rob has the honor of being his father's escort on the WW2 Honor Flight to Washington D.C.

I have heard of the Honor Flights and their purpose. They are a volunteer group of pilots that fly WWII Veterans to Washington, DC for the day, just so they can see the WWII memorial that is built there for them.  Many would never see it if it weren't for these generous volunteers.

If you would like more information please click Honor Flights.

They not only treat these Veterans as the hero's they are with the trip to their Memorial in DC but they are given a hat and jacket.

One other thing they do for these warriors is on arrival of the return flight at the end of a long day they have a mail call. Friends, Family or anyone can send them a short note thanking them for their service to us all.

Please if you can spare five minutes and a stamp PLEASE do so. The address is

PO2 Robert H Rennell 

PO BOX 2644

Plattsburgh NY12901

Additional names for this Honor Flight

Wouldn't it be grand to see them all standing amidst piles of cards and letters from grateful benefactors of their service and dedication to us all.

Thank you!

Cara

God Bless America

4th of July is right around the corner ...
I made these two cards.

This particular card will be sent to my daughter in Japan and I also entered into The Outlaws Greeting Card Challenge where we were tasked to use stars and/or strips. I opted for a patriotic theme.

SUPPLIES
Card base: Paper from Michaels
Card Stock: Stampin Up! - Brilliant Blue, Real Red and White
Ink: Memories India Ink Stampin Up! Real Red
Sentiments: Stampin Up!
Star punches are from Marvy
Embossing folder is the Distressed stripes from Cuttlebug
Stars from my stash
A brayer was used to ink the stripes after embossing

This card I will be mailing out to family and friends

Card base: Paper from Michaels
Card Stock: Stampin Up! - Brilliant Blue, Real Red and White
Ink: Memories India Ink Stampin Up! Real Red
Sentiments: Stampin Up!
Star punches are from Marvy
Embossing folder is the Distressed stripes from Cuttlebug and Star and Swirls from Sizzix
A brayer was used to ink the stripes after embossing