I went over to a friend's house yesterday and had a stamping day. It was great fun! In between eating and talking, I started on my Christmas tags for this year. I didn't have a project in mind for the day so I ended up taking a bunch of stuff, but not everything I ended up wanting to use. Note to self: Plan ahead next time!

Images from The Angel Company, Sugar Lump Studios and Close To My Heart.

Another wonderful challenge over at The Vintage Veranda - "Woman and Child/Children" to represent the monthly theme, Generations. I created this piece for it:

Chipboard, gesso, alcohol inks and distress inks make up a good portion of this piece. Image courtesy of Cora at paperflowers1.blogspot.com.

I made a birthday card for my nephew - he's turning nine next week. I'm pretty sure that my nephew doesn't read my blog, so I'll go ahead and post it. But it had to be a "boy" card. Luckily, I have some Fiskars baseball-themed stamps that I was RAK'd during a Two Peas stamping event. I made the card really simple, because he and his brothers are into sports - not crafting!

I'm not sure why the background looks green on my monitor, since I stippled it with a brown ink!

On the inside (I had already written in the card before I thought to take a photo, so I cut that part off):

Sentiment is from The Angel Company.

Lots of Holiday cards for CARDSFORHEROES.ORG!

A total of 72 cards this time. These will get shipped out tomorrow, just in time for the holiday deadline. In addition to cards, CFH also gratefully accepts donations via check or Paypal. It costs each shipper $10.95 per box to ship these cards to our soldiers overseas, and each shipper usually ships several boxes per month - more during the holidays. If they don't get donations, it comes out of their own pockets. Especially in these times, a little bit from a lot of people would go a long way. Can you help?

Like the cards we sent to CFH for Thanksgiving, my husband created all of the stamped images and coloring for these cards. I just put everything together. Now we have to do our own holiday cards!

I'm down to the last minute, but I'm working on Christmas/Holiday cards for CARDSFORHEROES.ORG. Deadline for Holiday cards is November 15, in order to get to our soldiers in time for them to send back to their family and friends. Since I've waited until the last minute (I so wish I could say that I don't normally do that, but alas...) I'm feverishly working on getting cards together to mail off to a CFH shipper.

You know those fake credit cards that you get in the mail with all those offers? Don't toss them - cover them! They make great chipboard pieces - like the one on this card.

Want to contribute to CARDSFORHEROES.ORG for the holidays? See this post on their homefront blog. If you can spare some change to help with postage, you'll be blessing a lot of our soldiers and their families who won't be together this holiday season.