Howdy! Card

After having Cooper last week, it's taken me a couple of days to get my housework caught up and back into making some cards for Operation Write Home.  We had Cooper for portions of two weeks during the month of June so it's no wonder my box of cards isn't full and ready to ship!  Love every minute of having the little guy with us.  Cards can wait, babies can't.  They grow up too fast.  It's hard for me to believe that he's going to be two in just a few weeks!

I used Color Box ink to stamp the pocket image and Tuxedo Black Momento ink for the stitching.  Using my Stamp-a-ma-jig made it super easy to line the stitches up properly on the pocket image.

The bandana is clip art.  I resized it and trimmed it by hand so it would look like it's hanging over the edge of the pocket.  The sentiment was printed on my computer.

Howdy Card

A super fast and easy card to do.  I inked the background to make the clouds, added a clip art image of a comical cowboy and printed the sentiment.

Old West Card

This background paper has been in my stash for quite a while and I finally came up with a good use for it.  Making cards suitable for children or young boys is a struggle for me.  It's much easier to make more feminine ones, in my opinion.

I used the Old West cartridge for all the cuts on this one.  The slits in the images were all shaded using a Promarker and instead of fighting with the little black pieces for the hay bale, I colored them too.  Added a few stickles onto the word "Howdy" and was done.