Minnie Mouse Cards

How cute are these fairly simple cards ?! 

As I was making cards to donate to 

Operation Write Home,

I decided to dig through an old box

of rubber stamps I had for my children 

to play with many years ago. 

Some of the stamps were bought for myself

nearly 30 (yes thirty! I admit it...) years ago,

other stamps were bought specifically

for the kids to play with.

I never heard of making cards and such

with stamps, I just liked to stamp them

on pieces of paper I wrote letters 

to pen pals on many years ago.

This Minnie Mouse stamp is one I bought

for myself and I totally forgot I had her !

I keep the old "kids stamps" in another part of 

my "craft dungeon" so I never think to look through them.

I'm glad I did - and now must remember I have some

of those stamps I had forgotten about ! 

Anyway, I don't know the stamp manufacturer

and I am pretty sure that it was bought,

of all places, at our local Spencer's store.

Way back when, they used to have a tiny section

of rubber stamps and stickers. 

That was the only section of the store I could shop in :)

Sticker collecting was quite popular at the time,

companies even made scratch and sniff stickers

and special books to collect stickers in. 

Yes, I had (have!) one of them. 

Maybe I should go dig it out of the attic

and share it someday...........

Back to the card:

I cut my own tag to stamp Minnie on.

She was colored with markers.

I used a Texturz plate to give the white background

some embossed polka dots.

The scallop circle was stamped and 

then punched, adding a punched 1/4" circle 

of black as a "faux brad".

I left the card blank inside so it could be 

used for any occasion - 

and sent to Minnie Mouse lovers, young and old alike !


I plan to share many more of the cards I donated
to Operation Write Home over the next month.

Thanks for looking =)