Created With Love Challenges #68

Welcome to a brand new week....

and the start of our next challenge at

Created With Love Challenges.

Our theme this week is

Sympathy/Missing you.

So you can decide which direction you would like to take your project.

This is the adorable image I chose
from this week's fabulous
sponsor.

Our sponsor is

Broken Box Stock.

**I didn't even realize I had chosen the logo image until I was typing up this post.....

my power of observation is usually much more acute than that!**

I opted to go with the Missing you theme for my card and keep it at an A2 size. This way it could be included in my November shipment to Operation Write Home.

I once again played with the spotlighting technique.
This time I colored the non-spotlighted portion in black & white.
It was really fun coloring it this way and I love the results!

You can see in this photo that I've kept the profile very low.
This is another big must for OWH cards.

These fun blue patterned papers are from Studio G.
I got them in the dollar bin at Michaels.
They are also available at WalMart and Meijer.
Great value and I highly recommend you picking some up
if you spot them!!

In addition to the Studio G paper, the other ingredients of this card are:

Coloring Medium:  ProMarkers

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink

Button brad:  Recollections

Sentiment stamp:  Papertrey Ink

You can find this card in the following challenges:

Challenges 4 Everybody -- Anything goes #34
Color Me Creative -- Anything goes #82

Be sure to check out all of the other Design Team inspiration pieces at Created With Love.  You won't be disappointed!

All of us on the team look forward to seeing your new projects this week.  Good luck to all who enter!

Thanks so much for spending some time here today.

I hope you have a great day!

OWH Missing U cards

Yesterday on the Operation Write Home Facebook page,

Sandy announced a need for more Missing You cards.

I've had these cards made for about a week; ready to go in with my OWH November shipment.  So I thought I'd share them today.

In doing so, I hope that some of my lovely friends/followers can also contribute cards for this incredible cause.

I found an A2 sized alphabet embossing folder on the clearance rack at Hobby Lobby.  It's from The Paper Studio and I thought it was too cute to pass up....not knowing what I would do with it.

But it was on clearance.  I had to buy it.

After embossing, I just gave a quick swipe with my
white ink pad to accentuate the letters a bit.

All of the u's were punched out using my
Crop-A-dile Big Bite.

The sentiment is from 3 stamp sets.
The "missing" is by Papertrey Ink.
The "u" is by Studio G.
The arrow is from Cricut Posh Frames.

All of the papers (other than card bases)
came from my scrap box.

You can find the pink card in the following challenges:

Crafty Little Fairies  -- Top of the pops, inspired by a song
(Missing you by John Waite....love that song!)
Crafty Ribbons -- #70 Anything goes with ribbon
Addicted to Stamps & More -- #71 Anything goes
The Paper Shelter -- For someone special
Chocolate, Coffee, and Cards -- Monochromatic 

The cards were super easy to do and the results are kinda' cute.

I think so anyway.

Now I'm really happy I'm a craft hoarder I can't pass up a bargain.

The embossing folder was definitely worth the couple of bucks I paid.

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope some of you will be able to get some cards made for our great American service members.