Cards for Little Hearts Winter Card Drive: Gingerbread Hugs

fireplace crackles

sparks of love

rich hot cocoa

in festive mugs

~Terri Guillemets, "Winter heat," 2008

Cards for Little Hearts is a global card drive, comprised of crafters dedicated to bringing smiles, hope and encouragement to as many children with congenital heart disease as possible by providing heart center staff with handmade cards that are given to patients during their hospitalization.

Our Winter card drive for Cards for Little Hearts (HERE) is winding down so only a few days left to get your cards mailed in.

The current card drive ends November 1^st with a need for Winter-Themed (non-religious) "Thinking of You" type cards. Please read the guideline page located on the Cards for Little Hearts' website for important guidelines prior to making and sending in your cards. You can also find additional helpful resources on the FAQs page and a Sentiments List. There is also a Gallery page if you need some inspiration. If you have any questions about the guidelines or the card drive itself, please contact Christina Hor directly (HERE), founder of Cards for Little Hearts.

I’m sharing another Winter Themed card based on Stamps to Die for Sunday Sketch SS00. I didn’t follow the sketch exactly but close enough to call it good I think.

Sketch

Supplies:

• Card stock: The Paper Studio (Base), Stampin Up!
• Design Paper: Unknown
• Embossing folder: Cuttlebug
• Image: Whimsy Doodle Digi Stamps
• Ink: ProMarkers, Memories India Ink
• Judikins Diamond Glaze
• Sentiment: Unity Stamps
• Sketch: Stamps to Die for Sunday Sketch SS007

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Get well Soon ...

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health.  There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this.  We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying.  We have lost all confidence in the human body.  ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979

Hi everyone! Today I am sharing my card for the new color challenge which is currently running at The Outlawz Challenges.

Our sponsor this month with a prize of a $10 Gift card is DigiStamps4Joy

Our challenge this week we have a lovely pallet for you to choose two colors to go with the already selected yellow. There is an optional twist of get well.

Supplies:

• Image from DigiStamps4 Joy (Flowers JA57-DS4J) printed on Stampin Up! Whisper White Card stock
• Card stock: Stampin Up! / The Paper Studio (base)
• Embossing folder from Cuttlebug
• Ink: Fun Stampers Journey / Memories India Ink / ProMarkers
• Ranger Distress Stickles
• The “card candy” on my card was create using a punch and Judikin Diamond Glaze

Here’s the Board: My two colors were Blue and White

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

Dreams ...

Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?" ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Good morning!

Today we start a new Anything Goes Challenge at Through the Craft Room Door and our sponsor this week is Dis Digi Stamps with a generous $12 store voucher

My card is based on I Spy Sketch ISSC33

Supplies

• Image and Sentiment from Unity Stamps
• Card stock from Stampin Up! / The Paper Studio (base)
• Design paper from Stampin Up! and Provocraft
• Ink: ProMarkers / Memories India Ink
• Stash: Card Candy

Come play along with us!

(Hugs) Cara

Cards for Little Hearts Winter Card Drive: Warm Wishes

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. ~Virginia Woolf

  

Cards for Little Hearts is a global card drive, comprised of crafters dedicated to bringing smiles, hope and encouragement to as many children with congenital heart disease as possible by providing heart center staff with handmade cards that are given to patients during their hospitalization.

Our Winter card drive for Cards for Little Hearts (HERE) is winding down so only a few days left to get your cards mailed in.

The current card drive ends November 1^st with a need for Winter-Themed (non-religious) "Thinking of You" type cards. Please read the guideline page located on the Cards for Little Hearts' website for important guidelines prior to making and sending in your cards. You can also find additional helpful resources on the FAQs page and a Sentiments List. There is also a Gallery page if you need some inspiration. If you have any questions about the guidelines or the card drive itself, please contact Christina Hor directly (HERE), founder of Cards for Little Hearts.

I’m sharing another Winter Themed card today.

  

Supplies

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

Design paper unknown

Rhinestones: Unknown

Stamps: Stampin Up!

Vellum: Unknown

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs, Cara

Patches 'lil nap

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

Milan Kundera

Good Morning Crafty Peeps!

A new month and new Progressive Freebie Challenge at DigiStamps4Joy Facebook Group.

This month our image is adorable puppy! Patches 'lil nap … If you wanna play along with the rest of us you can purchase the image HERE for a discounted price to get started!

My card is on the clean and simple side this month. I had ordinally printed the image so I could do a single layer card but when I started coloring I used ProMarkers instead of my Prisma Color Pencils and well … all that lovely bleed through had me getting creatiive with a few cuts and layering up! I am also practicing coloring with shades of black ... I'm not super thrilled with how his coloring turned out as it appears I did not do a grat job blending out the black but I'll get better.

Close up of the leaves with a touch of glitter to them.

Supplies

Digi Image Patches “lil nap from DigiStamps4Joy

Card stock from The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!

Glitter Glue from Studio G

India Ink from Memories

ProMarkers

Sentiment from Unity Stamps

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara