Annual Veterans Day Poker Run

Hi friends! Just a quick post today for two reasons... First to wish all of our veterans a Happy Veterans Day and thank them for their honorable service to our country and our freedom!  Second to share a card I made in honor of Veterans Day.

 

Every year my husband, an avid cyclist, sponsors a Veterans Day Poker Run.  On this poker run, participants ride a 70+ mile route through our county stopping at each of the Veterans Memorial sites in various towns.  At each stop, riders draw a card to make a poker hand and at the end of the ride, the best hands win 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.  Riders pay to join the race and my husband donates all the money to a local charity serving veternas.  Pretty neat, huh?  Yeah, I'm proud of him for doing it!  My job each year is to make the winners cards to hold the prizes.  I was particularly happy with this year's easy but effective design:

I downloaded a bicycle image from the Silhouette store and cut it out of black cardstock.  The Work of Art stamp set in Real Red and Night of Navy made the perfect flag background.  Not a new technique but I love the look behind the bike.

 

The Blue Ribbon stamp is perfect for the inside of the card.  I typed the text on the computer and printed it on Whisper White cardstock stamping the blue ribbon image in Smoky Slate.  I didn't take a picture of it (silly me!) but I used the same stamp sets on the front of each envelope too.  

Just a quick and easy little card that was the perfect fit for this special occasion.   Thanks for taking a look today friends....enjoy the day!

  

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Ka-Washi for the PP {PP192}

I am excited today to be this week's hostess over at The Paper Players where we have a fun Clean-and-Simple challenge:

I have several different sets of SU washi tape and decided to work with Gingham Garden because it hadn't seen the light of day yet!  As soon as I saw this great sketch on the Cardabilities blog:, a card design popped into my mind's eye.

The images and patterns of Gingham Garden are small and delicate so I wanted to keep the other design elements and images in keeping with that theme.  The light and airy scrolling flourish from Creative Elements makes a pretty background pattern especially when stamped in Pear Pizzazz to coordinate with the color in the Washi Tape.  

I've been so enamored with flowers lately, that my butterfly stamps and punches were starting to feel lonely.  I inked up Papillion Potpourri in Melon Mambo and layered an elegant and bitty butterfly.  Island Indigo is also one of the colors in the Washi Tape and I just happened to have some matching Baker's Twine to wrap up the butterfly.  A couple tiny butterflies cut and embossed from Vellum cardstock with the Beautiful Wings embosslit add a little dimension without adding more color.

Very easy to pull all these elements to the inside of the card as well....I had so much fun with this one that I decided to make a second, more gender neutral, card with the same sketch but different Washi Tape:

Here, I had fun playing with the colors from the Retro Fresh Washi Tape as well as elements from several stamp sets including Just Sayin', Peachy Keen, Starburst Sayings and Gorgeous Grunge. I mean because once you start...

you just can't stop....now go Washi something!  I have to tell you that the name Washi Tape makes me giggle.  DD has camped locally with the Girl Scouts at Camp Kateri where we learned at orientation that they don't call their bathrooms restrooms or toilets.  They call them....wait for it....Ka-washis!  So, now I want to call it, Kawashi Tape!!  :-)  Be sure to check out all the Ka-washi-tas-tic Kreations from my friends on the Design Team:

The Paper Players Design Team
Ann Schach
Anne Marie Hile
Jaydee
LeAnne Pugliese
Nance Leedy
Sandy Mathis

Card #1: Click image for details and ordering info:

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Card #2:  Click image for details and ordering info:

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.