Stockings for Soldiers

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3000 Christmas cards made/pledged as at 1st August 2012

Many of you know that I make cards and contribute to the military that are deployed overseas. This year I am going onboard and coordinating the card section of  
Stockings for Soldiers Project 

co-ordinated by Selena Smith and Michelle Potter
on behalf of our Soldiers based mainly in Townsville, Queensland.
Last year they sent out 1550 boxes to our Military.
This year they are sending 3000. In the small way that I can contribute, I will be making Christmas Cards for the deployed.

You are very welcome to contribute as well. You can send your cards to me no later than the 31st August 2012 so they can be forwarded onto Selena and Michelle to start the public signing process.

The cards need to be 10cm x 10cm single sided, i.e no folds  so they can be hung on metal walls/lockers with magnets (do not attach magnets to them-the recipients will put it on themselves). Decorate the front only. 

Here is a video via Channel 9 about the boxes that were sent in 2011 which is the first year this has been done.

Feel free to EMAIL me if you have any questions

A huge THANK YOU to contributors to date

Aileen Flynn

Anna Holcroft

Anne-Marie Slattery

Carolyn Passfield

Dell Armistead (for organising 8 July stamp up day) with Sara Wise, Marcela and Elisa Bonilla, Shirley Gerrard and Bridget 

Dianne Slade

Evelyn Poole

Grace McAndrew

Jean Considine

Jenny Hubbard

Kathy Duffy

Laisie Murphy

Linda Aldred

Nola Murdock

Penelope Dickens

Shirley Gerrard

Wendy Camplin

Mystery contributor

Virginia Purdey

Bridget

Thursday 10 minute card challenge Nov 23rd

A few of you have been coming to this blog via WOYWW by mistake and commenting. The blog I do WOYWW on is PHOTOGRAPHY AND ME 
and my craft blog is 
FRUIT SALAD
but thank you for visiting this blog and saying Hi!

I know it's not Thursday but I forgot to release this

on Oct 22 and kept advising everyone that

it was up on my blog hee hee sorry about that.

This is a very cool Scrapbook Tag Book

that I first saw here

http://stampingwithroxy.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/10/iiii.html

If the above link is broken or doesn't work for the

video tutorial then click HERE

only half this project qualifies for the 10minute challenge

that Sandi MacIver and Carole' Anne Sluchinski

do each week

CLICK ON EACH PHOTO TO GET A LARGER VIEW

You will need 1 piece of sturdy 12"x 12" double sided

paper, I used Parisien Breeze Specialty Designer Paper

cut one at 6" x 11 1/2" and scored at 4", 5 1/2", 7", 8 1/2" & 10"

cut a second one at 6" x 7" and score at 4", 5 1/2"

then on plain cardstock to complement the dsp

cut 3 pieces at - 3 3/4" x 4 1/4"

and

cut 3 pieces at - 3 3/4" x 1 1/4"

then

fold the dsp pieces at the score point

overlap the left to the right piece at the folds

and adhere with red liner tape, this

strong tape will hold it together better

this is what it looks like joined together

I lay the cardstock pieces to see how much room I needed,

ok now you see the paper and cs has changed

because the original 12 x 12 paper I used wasn't

as thick and I tore it when scoring

that is why it is better to use a thicker

dsp for the concertina pieces

view from the end

using the corner rounder on two sides of

it took 10minutes up to this point of adhereing etc

from here on end it was downhill LOL

and took me all day to design and position the

rest of the decoration

Stamp on the vellum and adhered the

top with brads

Notice I left a piece on the left to overhang

The underside piece was stamped and embossed in clear

I put double sided tape on the overhang vellum and

adhered it to the back so you cant see the tape

stamped additional star images on vellum

rest of pieces decorated and assembled

adding brads to the words and middle of each snow flake

inside of scrapbook assembled and adhered

again using red liner strong sticky tape

decorating and assembling front of book

view of front of finished scrapbook

view from the top of opened book

Voila!! this was a gift to friends Norma and John

who were very kind in sharing their

hospitality with us earlier on in the year

Stamps used: Snow Swirled and Solemn Stillness (retired)

Paper: Parisien Breeze and Baja Breeze, paper vellum

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Not Quite Navy, Versamark

Not Quite Navy and White brads,

5/8" Baja Breeze striped grosgrain ribbon

Filigree designer brad

Thursday Oct 29 10 minute card challenge, Mini Card Holder

It's Thursday again and the 10 minute card challenge

that Sandi MacIver and Carole' Anne Sluchinski

do each week keeps my mojo going.

Click on each photo to see a larger view

I just had to make one of Jan Farring's Mini Magazine File.

I've seen these being paraded around the web

and put it in the too hard basket because I'd never seen

a tutorial before hers.

She was so correct when she said they looked

confusing but once you've done one

they are easy peasy!!

Here's Blythe's version

I made 13 in 2 hours.

Now I had to alter mine abit because it would

not fit our card size which is slightly larger

than US size. Jan kindly gave me permission

to post up my version of the tutorial.

Ingredients: 1 of 12" x 12" textured cardstock

1 of dsp 1" x 12"

1 of dsp 1" x 5 1/2"

1 of dsp 1" x 4"

Red liner tape

Score 1 1/2"and 6 1/2"

Turn around and score 5" x 7"

Cut the 1 1/2" and 6 1/2"lines up to the 5"mark

turn cardstock and cut to the 7"line

This is what it should look like,

Score the middle piece at 2", 3 1/2", 8 1/2"and 10"

Make a pencil mark 1"up the top part

and 1 1/2"on the right side of the 7" score

Cut that triangle off

Do the same on the other side where the 5"

score is

Cut just a small piece off the middle section

...............and the other side

Make your folds with the middle piece

valley, valley and mountain fold as shown

Fold the 1 1/2"part up as in photo

Tuck the middle piece over like this

Turn around and do the other side, no tape needed for this

Flip over and lay red liner or sticky strip

tape as shown, if you don't use

the sticky strip it will pop open

believe me I was being stingy

with the first one and everything

fell apart LOL

Remove sticky strip backing and hold

the section and shown and slowly

let it stick to the smaller section

Lay it down and smooth it out

...turn over and do the other side

Stick the 5 1/2"dsp to the back of the card holder

you can be stingy here and use the snail

Take the 4"dsp and place it on the back as shown

Lastly place the 12"dsp over

Here are some of the ones I did

ok I skipped lunch to do these

it's now 2.30pm and my stomach is rumbling hee hee