World Card Making Day - OWH Blog Hop

It's World Card Making Day ! 

I made Love cards that could be suitable for parents to send home to their kids for the Operation Write Home World Cardmaking  Day Blog Hop ! Although they have several layers, they are still quite flat and mail friendly.


Supplies Used:
Stamp sets: Darling Dragons - retired Stampin' Up!
                  Circle Of Friendship - retired Stampin' Up!
                  Just Sayin' - Stampin' Up!
Card stocks: Watercolor paper
                     Basic Black
                     Whisper White
                     Lovely Lilac
                     Pink and Green white core card stock, Die Cuts With A View (old , from my stash)
Black Stazon ink
Assorted classic ink pads and markers, Stampin' Up!
Aquapainter to watercolor the images using water based inks
Punches and die from Stampin' Up! :
                      Circle
                      Label(?) - retired
                      Slot(?) - retired
                      Word Bubbles die
Cuttlebug Hearts embossing folder
Fiskars Leather Texture Plate
Big Shot die cut/embossing machine
Black 5/8" grosgrain ribbon
Yellow ribbon, Michael's Dots Dashes and Checks
Fine sandpaper to remove pink from the embossed hearts background paper
Adhesive
Dimensionals, Stampin' Up! (pop dots to raise the stamped images slightly)
Fray check for the cut ends of the ribbons
Double Stick tape, heavy duty, to adhere ribbon




Be sure to bookmark the post at Operation Write Home and keep checking back throughout the day as other cards are shared at the bottom in the InLinkz for the hop ! Submissions are accepted from 6 AM PST until Midnight PST October 4th - plenty of time for you to make a "Love" card and share, too !

Want to find out more about Operation Write Home and how you can help make cards to send to the troops ? Read this post for all the current needs.

Smaller sentiment stamps were colored directly with water based markers to get the multi colored stamped image. Be sure to "huff" your warm breath onto the inked rubber stamp before stamping onto the card stock to moisten the water based inks if they dry as you are coloring.

Once your card stock is embossed with an embossing folder,

texture plate, brass template with stylus, etc,

you can add color by rubbing an ink pad directly to

the raised areas or by lightly sanding white core card stock

with a fine grit sandpaper to reveal the white core. 

Thanks for looking =)