Happy New Year...

I know, it's a little late in the year for that but I've been busy and I swear it was only yesterday that we were snowed in for 3 weeks. Of course I also feel like there's no way in the world that my daughter is going to hit 18 weeks this Friday.

I mentioned in my last post that I had been making cards to send overseas. I did make some cards but they never made it overseas. It's not surprising. Let me put it this way, it's a good thing a human pregnancy goes for 40 weeks. I'm not sure what else my daughter would have broken if she had remained in utero any longer.

Obviously after putting out lots of pregnant woman effort I didn't want the cards I made to go to waste. Through Facebook I found a wonderful group, Operation Write Home. Please, please, please take the time to visit them. www.operationwritehome.org

The cards that I will be sending are pretty basic. I did make some of the work hard on myself because I started from scratch with everything. I always do my best to make sure that I am extremely thrifty with my supplies and in this case because the idea was quantity as well as quality, I made the cards from basic white card stock that I'm pretty sure I bought from Walmart. On top of that, I layered patterned paper that was cut from 12x12 sheets that I found at Michael's in the $1 bins. The stamps I used were from Close to My Heart and I used Stampin' Up! ink. As you can see in the pictures, the layouts themselves are minimal but the end result is still pretty snazzy.

This is something that I fully intend on continuing to do in the future so I went ahead yesterday and made a small investment in two OWH stamps. I believe my total was about $10 and that was including shipping. The shippers for OWH do have a stamp of their own but when you watch the video on the website, it quickly becomes apparent that they are taking on a huge task as it is and I don't think the kitty is much help. ;)

(Pictures coming as soon as I find the scanner, lol)