18 September, 2010

A Busy Day

There is a special Challenge going on over at Bugaboo today in honor of Operation Write Home's Birthday. See all the info below and then head on over to the Bugaboo Blog and see what all the Designers came up with for you.

Operation Write Home is an organization that sends blank handmade greeting cards for all occasions to deployed service members to write home on. They’ve mailed approximately 500,000 cards so far—and are still going strong!
Operation Write Home is celebrating their birthday in this month and has invited us to join their party. It is very easy to help out so please read on:
Several Teams are helping them with their cause this month by hosting special challenges for different events we have been picked to handle holidays! So to join our challenge we ask that you use a holiday theme.
VERY IMPORTANT: Please read the basic guidelines
here; it’s important to; it’s important especially to remember that glitter is NOT allowed (it’s a safety hazard to our heroes), handmade cards only, and OWH needs A2 sized cards. “Operation Write Home” needs to be on the backs of your cards—it can be stamped, handwritten, or printed on labels. Please include a packing slip inside your box or envelope, and mail them to any of their shippers listed on the Mailroom page. In your package, you can also include notes written to a deployed service member.
Please consider entering a card for
Operation Write Home into Jo-Ann’s Craft for a Cause Contest. You can win $1500, and OWH could win $50,000! How many boxes would that ship! Please see their site. for detailed rules and regulations.We love our followers and our challenge players but this week is special we encourage you to not only send this card to OWH but any others you may have or take the time to make some and send along! Address for mailing cards is located on their sidebar.
Below you will find Mr. Linky but don’t forget the general rules:
1.) Have fun!
2.) Multiple entries are fine - but each one must be a completely different card or project.
3.) Combining challenges is completely acceptable, so long as you follow our theme.
4.) You must use a NEW card/project! Back-linking of old cards/projects is NOT acceptable.
5.) You may use any stamp from any stamp company. However, you get TWO CHANCES to win for each card/project you link using a Bugaboo Image. To get a second chance please enter your name in Mr. Linky Twice (ex. Name1 and Name 2)
6.) You MUST post a direct link to the project or card you wish to enter in this challenge. General links to your blog will not be counted. PLEASE TURN OFF WORD VERIFICATION!!!
Participate in the challenge for a chance to win one of the following prizes
1st prize - 7 Bugaboo Digi Images of your choice2nd prize - 4 Bugaboo Digi Images of your choice3rd prize - 2 Bugaboo Digi Images of your choice\
Have you checked out the New “Members only” Bugaboo Club?
Check out the store here! How cute are these. and you get all 20 for $20. Is that the best or what?

Here is a card I made last night using one of the new images.



A christmas card for my class I have today. Stamp image on accetate with Staz-On. Add some Liquid Pearls and fine glitter to the top of that. The piece of glossy card stock was painted with acrylics and the smooch and lift method of application.




This is one of the cards I have made for Operation Write home. I have to get together all the others I will be sending later today. This is a Bugaboo image and you can find it and more Here.




One more Christmas using a SVG cutting file from My Scrap Chick.



Have a Great Weekend

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