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.

The Best Nana Ever! {PP108}

Happy Sunday, friends! Sorry to be a little late with my Paper Players project today.  Sometimes life gets crazy, right?  Anywho....It's color challenge week and Ann has a fabulous one for us:

These colors were perfect for a little gift box I needed.  See, my wonderful mom is visiting us this week to help while my traveling husband is back in Africa.  She will spend the whole week with our daughter while I am at work--we call it "Nana Camp"! 

Here is her little Best Nana Ever present!  Ann's colors were the perfect match for the Blue Ribbon stamp set that was sitting on my desk crying out for some ink!  I paired the Matchbox Die with Crumb Cake & Not Quite Navy,

using the Take a Ticket wheel in Crumb Cake ink on the outside part of the box.  I also made a rosette from Crumb Cake DP to sit between the layers of the blue ribbon stamp set.  A blue ribbon is so quick and easy with this stamp set because the scallop circle and inside circles all coordinate with a punch--love that!

And, I couldn't forget the inside!  Here, I just cut a piece of Not Quite Navy cardstock and scored two lines on both sides to form an insert for the box.  I finished it off with another stamp from the set and an Itty Bitty Banner for express our thanks.  A little bit of Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon strung between two punched holes made sure that the Pandora little girl bead doesn't roll around in the box.  Cute?  I sure had fun making this little box--and I am pretty sure it will be big hit!

The design team knocked these colors out of the park so be sure to stop by for a visit.  Then, I hope you'll go get crafty and join us for the fun!  Just make sure to load your creation to The Paper Players before Friday, August 17th at Noon (PST).  Thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jen Arkfeld
Lesley Croghan (on break)
Dawn Easton
Helen Heil
Jaydee
Nance Leedy

Anne Marie Hile

LeAnne Pugliese

Ann Schach

Amy White

Supplies 

Stamps: Blue Ribbon, Itty Bitty Banners; Take a Ticket Wheel

Ink: Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy, Cherry Cobbler

Paper: Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla CS; Neutrals designer patterns pack

Extras: 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Punch; 1 3/8" Circle Punch; Simply Scored board; Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon; Itty Bitty Banner Framelits; Cherry Cobbler wide striped ribbon (ret.)