Military Love for Sunday Stamps

Welp, I'm late again with a post. Seems to be my new norm lately, not sure what my problem is! I think I'm just enjoying my month off from work and spending time with hubby and kids. I swear I'll get my act together soon.

We've got a sketch this week at Sunday Stamps and since I promised my cousin that I'd make her some cards to send to her stepson in boot camp I made a military themed card. The silhouette of the solider is the 2 flower images on the right side of the sketch and the hearts are the one on the left. 

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see how you interpret this sketch!

Let Freedom Ring

This week at Sunday Stamps we have a color challenge, and when I first saw the colors I immediately thought of a patriotic card. With the recent loss of 15 Marines and a Navy Corpsman in a plane crash and a local solider from Wasilla killed in Afghanistan my heart is especially full of gratitude for our service members and their families. My dad was a Marine and my husband is a retired FMF Navy Corpsman  and I'm very lucky that they always came home safe. Sadly not all military families are that lucky and we must not forget why we have the freedoms we do.

The sentiment is a free one offered from Power Poppy stamps, you can find it HERE. I uploaded it to Word and changed the color to blue to go along with the scheme of my card. After using the circle die cut I used dimensionals to adhere it to the card.

My layout is from the current CAS(e) this Sketch challenge, it was perfect for what I had in my mind for my card.  After seeing some of the cards by their DT I figured it was ok to put the circle on the card like I did.

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us!

Stamps: digital sentiment from Power Poppy

Paper: Night of Navy (SU), Neenah Solar White, Authentique Seafarer and Seafarer Two, Pebbles America the Beautiful

Ink: Printer Ink, Night of Navy (SU)

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Zig Zag Stitch Circles, Dimensionals

Camo Chef

In August of last year my nephew left Alaska to begin culinary school in Boulder CO. He called us last week to tell us he had joined the Army! We were definitely shocked, but not surprised. My husband and I are both Navy veterans and my dad (his grandpa) was a Marine during Vietnam, so military service and pride runs deep in our house. We were just shocked he chose the Army LOL Needless to say he won't be living that down anytime soon :)

He flew home to Alaska on Saturday for 9 days and his 20th birthday was on April 2nd. I was at work one night last week after he had told us about the Army when the idea for his birthday card popped into my head....I was going to combine the 2 big chapters of his life right now, culinary and military. As soon as I got home from work I pulled out the Recipe for Happiness set from MFT and got to work.

I've never colored a camo pattern before so I looked at my husbands camo uniforms from when he was in, and then I had a friend send me a close up picture of his Army uniform, since he is serving right now and the uniforms have been updated over the years. I colored the entire chef uniform with a base color of E31 and then with 3 different greens I just did short, quick strokes across the uniform to create my camo pattern.

My layout is from last weeks sketch at The Paper Players. The camo paper was on clearance at my local JoAnn's and the embossing folder is a Cuttlebug one.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Recipe for Happiness (MFT), It's Your Birthday (SSS-sentiment)

Paper: Always Artichoke (SU), Early Espresso (SU), Crumb Cake (SU), PP from JoAnn's, Neenah Solar White

Ink: Always Artichoke

Copic: E31

BG93, YG63, G99

BG96

E50, E51, E53

E37

Accessories: Cuttlebug, CB Stars EF, MFT Zig Zag Stitch Circles, MFT Blueprints 20, dimensionals