Fall Leaves Card for OWH

    Last Saturday (8/25/12), I attended an Operation Write Home card making event with their goal of having at least 500 cards made and ready to be shipped to our soldiers all over the globe.  This wonderful organization, OWH sends good quality A2 sized hand crafted cards that are blank inside, complete with envelopes, so that the soldiers who serve our country can write home to their loved ones.  The cards are made by cardmakers/stampers all over the country.  Click on the OWH widget on the left sidebar to check out the site for more info.  It's facinating to see how it all works!

     I traveled with my two Thursday Craft Night pals, Cherie and Jill, to make a day of it helping to meet their goal.  And did we?  You betcha!  And then some, for a grand total of 755 cards!   Special thanks go to Nancy, who along with a few of her long time friends put the event together.  This was their first event and they did a fantastic job!   Looking forward to the next one.  See Nancy's blog for more details about it :  http://stampstramps.blogspot.com/

    Another positive outcome of the event is that Cherie, Jill, and I decided that we would each make one card a week for OWH, share at our weekly get together, and then mail them all at the end of each month.

   Below is the card that I made for this week.  I've just recently learned that this technique is called "inlaid embossing". The leaves are actually stamped die cuts that were glued to the deep yellow cardstock, which was then placed into the wonderful SU  square lattice emboss folder.  It actually makes it look embedded or quilted.  Really cool looking in real life!  The result was then attached to an ivory cardstock base and finished off with a miss you stamped label.  Miss You is one of the frequently requested sentiments to go on the front of the soldier cards. 

Cardstock: SU chocolate chip, garden green, retired SU baroque burgundy,other
Ink:  SU chocolate chip, garden green,  retired baroque burgundy
Stamps:  SU Wonderfall,  Retired SU - unsure of set name for sentiment
Die Machine: SU Autumn Accents Bigz die, SU square lattice emboss folder, SB labels#10 die
Other: EK oval punch, green brads

Thanks for looking,
~~~ Kathi