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Saturday, April 18, 2020

Previous Cards from Album...

 That photo album in the mid-lower right of this picture with the Operation Write Home business card in the cover, I used to carry around with me to show random people some of the cards I had made in the past. I haven't shared this in YEARS so I was thinking it was time to take them out, put them on card-backs and send them out. Why not? They're doing nothing for me here and they have such fond memories attached to them...

 I first became interested in cardmaking when I took a couple classes in Massachusetts AND a former classmate in California was sending cards to the troops, back in early 2010. The card on the left, I still make and often use as a sympathy card. The card on the right started the mad obsession with Copics...

 The background paper on this was cut circles from magazines and pretty paper. The cake and the sentiment, I made on the computer. For awhile, I loved making these for Operation Write Home...

 The former classmate I mentioned, became my mentor and in October of 2010, I went and spent a week with her at her home in Fremont, CA. These are two of many cards that we did. The one on the right is the actual original. When I re-made it, many times, I kept this one in the album...

 I must have made a bazillion of the card on the left for Operation Write Home. I loved the entire process. The card on the right is a Bargello Technique I tried and loved. I couldn't ever part with it...

 These two were just fun, fun cards to do for Operation Write Home...

 Of course, I made a lot of these for OWH but they also became one of the many we used when Zack did his campaign to get every student at Marblehead High School to write a note to one of our troops back in 2012... 

 I remember thinking how fun this card was but, there's just so many people to whom you can send it...

 One of the first videos on YouTube that I ever watched. I kept this card because I thought it was so cool how the birds accidentally landed in such a perfect place on the card. It WAS NOT planned... 

One of two I made...

Update 4-22-20: Somehow missed in the group photo above but one I've made many, many times over the years. Designed by my mentor when I visited her in 2010. I brought the stamp, she had the idea. The symbols mean "Faith, Hope and Love"...

So, my thought is, let's get these postal. They're doing me no good sitting in an album that no one looks at. Which is your favorite?

6 comments:

  1. Well it would be hard to pick just one... so many different techniques and ideas! I am loving the bird one...and who doesn’t love a happy little accident ❤️ Great cards created by a lovely lady😘

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  2. I have to pick 2.... Sending you a smile and your Congratulations baby card. Hard to even just pick 2. They are all adorable Cindy!!!

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  3. They're all terrific! I love the CAS kitty card! And the xylophone is fun and unique!

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    1. It's fun to go back too and see how much your style has changed...

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