Theme: Love Lyrics/Romance Songs

I had SO many ideas for this theme: “Do you love me… check yes or no”; “She signs her letters with xs and os”….and ended up with “Hey Mr. Postman….is there a letter for me???” lol…go figure! I’m writing a sweet note to my dh and mailing to his work addy….wont’ that be a fun surprise when the mail cart comes thru?? grin  The birds remind me of a kids song my mom taught us when we were younger (in German) about a little bird that that ” lands on my foot, with a letter in her beak from my mother.”  I was found myself humming it the entire time I was making this card…lol…

Please Mr. Postman....

A few close ups

close up dew drops (hand colored)

and this:

close up die cut bird; love note

Stamp set used: Heart Strings, You Hoooo, With a Flourish, Snail Mail, Going Postal (retired)      Digital image used: Conversation Heart Papers: Plain white cs, copy paper, DCWV blue scrapbook paper, Halcraft Card base-6.5×5             Colors: Copics, Triart Markers       Inks: Adirondack-sailboat blue, yellow sunshine; Stampabilities-baby blue; Memento-black          Extras: Sakura gelly roll pen-clear star, white    Ribbon-Michael’s;  hand colored dew drops

Steps:

1. Inked the background of a plain white card base with yellow and blue inks, using a kitchen sponge.
2. Stamped the postage stamp, added the heart image (heart strings), colored the heart and then stamped the canceled postage images (Going Postal)
3. Stamped the flourishes in baby blue on one side.
4. Printed the digital image-plain white cs. Stamped the heart inside the large heart, (heart strings) colored  all, then stamped the XO (heart strings). Ink edges using Whisped Frames (TJ)  technique
5. Stamped the larger blue bird (on a die cut-coming soon) (You Hoo) colored with copics accented with white gel pen.
6. Stamped the phrase at the bottom (Snail Mail), folded a small white piece of copy paper, inked edge (baby blue) stamped words (heart strings) for note.
7. Mat digital on light blue paper, add ribbon to top. Pop dot larger bird, add a small slit in beak, add a bit of glue to back of head to give the note a place to hold on to.  Attach bird to top of digital/ribbon. Add a bit of glue to card base, so bottom of note also stays in place.
8. Add a bit of glitz with the glitter pen, carefully go over some of the black lines, swirls only.

Blog Hop Details:

This is a “circular blog hop” where the only beginning is wherever you start!!  You no longer have to go to a ’starting blog’, or try to find your way to the ‘ending blog’. You will know you are at the end of your blog hop when you’ve come back to the blog you’ve started from!  It’s not a huge circle…so it should be easy to remember where you started. :0)

BLOG CANDY!! One winner will be chosen from a mystery blog hostess…so you’ll want to leave a comment on EVERY blog so you don’t miss out! It’s like a treasure hunt inside a blog hop…he he he Prize?     A free stamp set, of course!! (my choice)

Your next stop is URSULA!!

Welcome to the first FCD Blog Hop of 2010!!

This is a “circular blog hop” where the only beginning is wherever you start!!  You no longer have to go to a ’starting blog’, or try to find your way to the ‘ending blog’. You will know you are at the end of your blog hop when you’ve come back to the blog you’ve started from!  It’s not a huge circle…so it should be easy to remember where you started. :0)

BLOG CANDY!! One winner will be chosen from a mystery blog hostess…so you’ll want to leave a comment on EVERY blog so you don’t miss out! It’s like a treasure hunt inside a blog hop…he he he

Your next stop on the hop is URSULA!!

Stamps used: Riley Raccoon, Many Thanks Inks: Memento-Black, Adriondack-Lettuce, Cat’s Eye-Chestnut Roan   Colors: TriArt Markers Extras: Star tags, ribbon          Papers: DCWV fall stack (I think)   Card base cut down to 5.25×5.25

SKETCH used: FCD017

This is a “circular blog hop” where the only beginning is wherever you start!!  You no longer have to go to a ’starting blog’, or try to find your way to the ‘ending blog’. You will know you are at the end of your blog hop when you’ve come back to the blog you’ve started from!  It’s not a huge circle…so it should be easy to remember where you started. :0)

The winner will be chosen from a mystery blog hostess…so you’ll want to leave a comment on EVERY blog so you don’t miss out! It’s like a treasure hunt inside a blog hop…he he he

And now your next stop along the hop: URSULA

**To find out if you’ve won… I will contact you via e-mail (so be sure to leave it with your comment.) and you can also find out on MY BLOG around Nov 24th.

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming of our Spotlight Guest Designer to bring you this important blog hop.

If you have landed on my blog because you came from Megan Lock’s blog post then you are in the right place. If you came to this post from somewhere else, please start this hop on Katharina Frei’s blog (she’s the beginning of the hop)

Begin on Monday, November 2nd at 10am ET

End on Monday, November 9th at 10am ET.

This gives you all a week to make a card, and mail it to her and her father.

The story of Jaimie:

“On October 4^th, 4 teenagers armed with knives broke into a home in a small town in New Hampshire. Alone and sleeping inside were a mother and her 11 year old daughter. These 4 boys broke into this home with the intent to rob and kill anyone inside. They stabbed the mom, Kimberly Cates, to death and left her daughter, Jaimie, for dead in their driveway. It was a completely random act, their home was chosen only due to its secluded surroundings.”

Our hope is that everyone hopping around today will stop for a moment and think about Jaimie and her father and what life must be like for them now. This incredibly selfish and RANDOM act  has changed their lives forever. We are asking that everyone reading this message please take a moment to make a card and send it off to Jaimie. You can make something very simple or much more involved, but please share some words of hope and love and let her know that people do care and want the best for her. Please send your card to the address below:

Jaimie Cates
c/o Mont Vernon Fire Station
Main Street
Mont Vernon, NH 03057

I hope you all will share a link for the new blog called “Stamp Something…for Jaimie: Spreading Love and Hope” where everyone  can read more about Jaimie and have all the info to send a card as well as join their special Card Drive Challenge. There are several generous sponsors who have kindly offered up some prizes to anyone who makes a card, posts it on their blogs, and lets them know the card was mailed.  (FCD included! I hope you will join us, and make a card for this young girl, I can’t even imagine what she is going thru)

I heard that Jaimie is not really a girlie girl, but likes hot pink and black. She likes outdoor activities such as biking, skateboarding, razor rip stick, snowboarding, and karate. AND  she is a black belt in karate. SO, here’s my card for Jaimie:

Stamp sets used: Karate (retired), Yoga 2 (Be strong phrase); Doodles-Inspire Me, Papers-RAK (thanks Carole)        Sketch-cased from Michelle Bartnett    UPDATE: I’ve added the karate trio images to my digital downloads page, here.

To continue on this hop, please go to:

Micki at http://artfulxpressions.net/

For more information on this story: New Hampshire News 1

Union Leader News 1

Light a virtual candle: We are better than this

To make a donation: Neighbor 2 Neighbor

How it works:  This is a “circular blog hop” where the only beginning is wherever you start!!  You no longer have to go to a ’starting blog’, or try to find your way to the ‘ending blog’. You will know you are at the end of your blog hop when you’ve come back to the blog you’ve started from!  It’s not a huge circle…so it should be easy to remember where you started. :0)

Blog Candy: One winner will be chosen from a mystery blog hostess to win a free set of rubbah stamps oh yeah!!!! …so you’ll want to leave a comment on EVERY blog so you don’t miss out! It’s like a treasure hunt inside a blog hop…he he he

**To find out if you’ve won… I will contact you via e-mail (so be sure to leave it with your comment.) and you can also find out on MY BLOG around Oct  20.

Ok, that’s the business part of this blog post, now the fun stuff:

I created this card while my friend Karyn Campbell was visiting me….so no pictorial, but I have to say it was such a pleasure meeting her irl!! She came to Charlotte with her dh for the races this weekend, and she made a special stop over my way on Wed. and even had dinner with us! We has SO much fun!!

Stamps sets used: Turkey, Crow (due in stock soon!*) Inks: Adirondak-Cabin Fever, Palette-Noir,  Cat’s Eye-chestnut roan, burnt sienna  Extras: negative from diecut, white gel pen, black ep, metal charms (colored with TriArt markers); pop dots, mesh, bling from the dollar row at Michael’s, ribbon-Michael’s;   Paper: DCWV fall stack, Xerox white 110# braying cs; card base-The Paper Studio

I was so excited to see the phrase from the crow fit so exactly in the Turkey box, I can’t believe I hadn’t put them together before!  lol

Here’s the link for the new Christmas sets!! Stamp some magic!

And now your next stop along the hop: URSULA

*should be in the shipment due in on Friday!