Operation Write Home CArds and why I make cards for them.

I think it was 2010 when I began sending Operation WRite HOme cards. I made lots of Christmas cards on my first load. That little red card peeking behind the other cards the deployed hero is holding on the OWH button was one of them. :)

But here is what keeps me making these cards. Most years I am able to send a couple of boxes full of them. But the time I spend in the "tower" (as I call my scraproom) is a time of meditation, prayer and recharging my energy. It's a ministry and service that only in Heaven will I know how fruitful they were.




Sandy from Operation WRite Home is now unboxing cards and sharing them with us the cards of many contributors from all around the country. I was so inspired I decided to share my cards the same way. So my box is full, my cards are packaged, my packing slip is filled out and I am taking this box to the post office to ship. Enjoy the video below where I share my latest shipment of cards to OWH!






Do you make cards too? Would you like to join us and show our heroes some love by sending them some of your handmade cards?

Blessings,
Tereza

Cleaning my Studio: Stamps for sale

Hi Everybody,

I am already Spring Cleaning and have some Scrapbook and Card making items for sale. These are clear stamps and a couple of rubber stamps already mounted on wooden blocks. All of them are BRAND NEW and have never been used!! Prices and description will be below each item.

If you are interested, email me with the items you want and I will send you a Paypal invoice.

BUY 5 OR MORE STAMPS AND SHIPPING IS FREE!!

Otherwise shipping will be actual cost. No handling or packaging fees!

The Stamps are adorable but I have way too many things.

Don't let this opportunity pass you by!

$ 3.00 - Hampton Art - Celebrate.

$3.00 - STampabilities - urge to Exercise

A kiss for Chloe - $5.00 - Brand new

Angels Rejoice- $5.00 - Brand new

Puppy Love - $5.00 - Brand New

Time for Apple Pie - $5.00 - Brand New

Country Girl - $5.00 - Brand NEw

Orbit Collection - Crate Paper - $3.00

$3.00 - Stampabilities - Rejoice

If you buy them all you can have them for $30.00 

and 

shipping if FREE!! 

Email me if you are interested!!

Thanks and be blessed,

Tereza

For the Mother of the Bride

Not only do I make Bridesmaids cards I also make cards for anyone else involved in the Bridal Party! Look at these fun and modern cards that can be used for Mom in any occasion!!

Email me if you would like a custom order! Blessings,

Tereza

God rewards Patience.

I have been meditating on the Word of God a lot lately. I got this sudden hunger to know and live more of it in my life and to see it prosper in my children and husband's lives as well.

I found this article on PATIENCE. I had never heard that God rewarded patience. I didn't realize how blunt and straightforward the Word of God was when talking about perseverance and patience.

I mean, I knew patience was an important tool to the Christian life but as I read this article it was like a light bulb went on.

How are you feeding your heart lately? Eat and chew on the Word of God everyday. Have faith. :)

Blessings,
Tereza

Webster's Pages journaling cards

So what do you do with the journaling cards or tags from Webster's pages?? This is what I made this past week before we began our new schedule for our home education.

Take Joy in Today is from a stamp set from PaperTrey Ink. I also used their buttons set stamp.

Take Joy in Today...

enjoy every moment....

BABY... Love grows in happy homes...


enjoy every moment.

This is a BABY card... have you noticed that it is the same journaling tag as the one used in the above card? But I used it for a different theme. How fun is that??



What have you been up to??

Blessings,
Tereza

More Beatriz Jennings

Hi everybody,


I hope you are enjoying this last part of Summer.

Today I have some cards to share. As I shared HERE I bought some Digital collages created by Beatriz Jennings. She is a designer and has been published many times on various magazines. Recently she began creating her own digital sheets that you can use on cards and even scrapbook layouts. You can find a link to her Etsy shop on her blog.

  

Here is a close up of that darling label she made. I created the card with a birthday or encouragement in mind, but once I was done I realized that it could be a Christmas card too!!

 

This is a baby card that I made using her scrabble letter digital sheet. They are adorable. I am completely addicted to them!!

As a background Daisy D's baby scrapbook papers. They are old but I loooove them. I save every little piece of scrap to use them in my cards or even in mini albums.

This rose bud is made of cotton t-shirts. In my house, I use our old, torn clothes as rags. Sometimes they are kitchen rags, wash rags and sometimes I tear up some strips and transform them into roses.

Even the leaves are cut from the fabric and then I dye them with distressed ink pads. So easy!

Let me know if you would like to see a demonstration. I might make a video of them.


I hope you enjoyed my cards today. I have more coming soon. What have you been up to??

Blessings,
Tereza

Just so you know...

 yes, I am still around here...

I haven't posted much of my art lately and some people have been complaining... so here are a few of my latest creations...

 

More coming soon... I promise!

Blessings,

Tereza

Expecting Matron of Honor

A few weeks back I had a request to create a "Will you be my Matron of Honor?" card for a bride's friend that would be 7 months pregnant at the time of the wedding.


How fun!! I had a couple of images and the bride got to pick her favorite!

She picked the image on the right and I got to color the baby shoes in baby blue since her friend is expecting a baby boy!

The other fun and personal touch is that inside there is a poem that says something like "I hope we are both able to fit into our dresses on the wedding day."

Would you like a custom card made? Can't find what you are looking for anywhere? Please email me... I work hard toward customizing and personalizing handmade creations for weddings, showers or keepsake treasures. Browse my Custom Work, Bridal Cards, Altered Albums categories to see some of my work.

Be blessed,

Tereza

Operation Write Home Blog Hop

Hi everyone,

Today I am blog hopping with the awesome card makers that send their handmade cards to Operation Write Home. If you haven't come from the blog hop you might want to start HERE.

I have lots to share so make sure you go all the way to the end of this post. BLOG CANDY is at the end of the post.

I want to share with you a bit how I create my cards. Yesterday, it went like this....

I was reading the Country Living magazine of this month and saw the  photo of a hallway with a staircase and a dresser that had flowers for knobs. (picture on the right) The wall color was a beautiful guava rose and there were white flowers and black and white and stripes... I had to put the magazine down and run to my craft table and make a card. The inspiration juice was dripping off me as I found the guava cardstock and cut it into 3 cards and then found my white flowers. Then I quickly searched for something to make the yellow centers... Ah-ha!! 3D yellow paint. The scraps of striped black and white papers were easy to use - they were just laying around on my messy table. So here is the result of such great inspiration...

Have we inspired you enough to make a few cards and send them on to our Heroes?? I hope so. :) The next deadlines are:
March 18th for Easter cards
March 31st for Mother's Day cards

If you need some more encouragement be sure to check out my videos and some tutorials on my YOuTube channel. :)  Also check out OperationWRiteHome Ustream videos...they are so much fun and you get to meet Sandy the lady who began all this!!!!

Make sure you hop over to Misty to see what Springy creation she has come up with. :)









And above the BLOG CANDY... Every comment will be entered to win, if you follow me you get an EXTRA chance to win, and if you sign up for my newsletter you get ANOTHER chance... so there is up to 3 chances to win this awesome vintage kit... Melissa Frances papers, handmade embellishments, Prima roses, a Sarah Kay stamp, ribbons, laces, wrinkled baby pink seam binding, manila tags, raw chipboards, doiliesand even some Papertreyink cardstock for you to get started making cards. The winner will be announced on March 12. So you have a whole week to come back here and enter for more than one chance to win.

I have used these gorgeous papers to create my last vintage chipboard album. Go check it out!!!

Have fun this weekend blog hopping and be blessed,
Tereza

Hoping to inspire you...

 Hi everyone,

here are a few of the cards that I made these past couple of weeks to send to OperationWriteHome. Because of my busy life at home, I haven't been as active listing and selling my cards and scrapbook layouts on Etsy. Although I am still available for custom orders (Email me anytime) I have reduced the amount of time I am spending listing items in my shop. So if you find anything on my blog that you are interested in, just email me, I will be happy to duplicate or re-create something for you.

 However it's difficult not to create at all, because I am such a creative spirit and I really need an outlet to express myself. So making these cards for our heroes to use is really refreshing.  I cannot resist and play with some of the digital things available on line. These beautiful silhouettes were found HERE. ArtCult is one of my favorites shops to purchase digital collages.

 I have also used a new technique for me. I have stamped on pages of old books and then cut out the images. Those stamped frames are from Prima and I just love how they look stamped and cut out. I have a few more sets of Prima stamps that I definitely need to use this technique on, so be sure to subscribe to my blog to see what I have coming up.

I also found Crescendoh Stamps!!! Oh, my!! I love to stitch or sew my cards and layouts, but sometimes it is just not possible. I have a baby sleeping, or my machine is acting up or I don't have enough time or the right thread. So when I found these stamps that look like stitches I just jumped for joy and purchased both of them. Doesn't that look great? Oh, it makes my heart soooo happy!! You can find the stamps I used HERE and HERE.

While browsing the Crescendoh blog I saw this post with these adorable cards and it inspired me to create these darling ones to your left. Aren't they adorable?! 

I hope to make some little girls day when she receives these in the mail from her Daddy or Mommy. :)

The little girl is a Sarah Kay stamp that you can find HERE. Besides stamping the image on a page of an old book, I water colored it and cut it out. I also water colored the background and doodled a border around it. Cut out some strips of gorgeous scrapbook scraps and used my Cynthia Shaffer's stamps on them.

This is another batch of cards that I made using digital papers and my first purchased stamps at PaperTrey Ink. You PaperTrey Ink fans out there, can you see the stamps I used?

Now to finish this sharing session, I think these on your left are my favorites.

I used my favorite scraps of my most precious favorite scrapbook collections: K&Co., Daisy D's, Websters' Pages, Basic Grey. Can you spot them? When I fall in love with a collection I have a hard time throwing away the little scraps, so I hold on to them until I can make little quilted cards. I used the Crescendoh and PaperTrey Ink stamps again. I think I will be stamping everything with them. :)


The heart is just some acrylic paint on bubble wrap stamped on pages from an old book. I talked about this technique in my last Thrifty Thursday. My husband thought that these cards were too busy. I loved them, mainly because I had so much fun making them and they are so colorful. What do you think?

Ooh, did I wear you out? I hope you had fun checking out my latest creations and get inspired to donate some of your time to brighten someone else's lives.  How do you give back from the abundance you have in your life?

Let me know you stopped by and tell what you think. You don't have to leave a comment if you don't have time, but do tell what you think by checking one of the REACTIONS boxes below. Thanks so much and be blessed, :)

Tereza

Cranberry and Apricot Wedding Color Scheme

It beginning to feel like fall around here. I can feel the breeze and the temperature has dropped a bit. I am already missing the summer. Summer time is my favorite time of the year. I dread the winter and I can only be thankful that I live in a part of the country that if it does snows it's only for a couple of hours. :)

Here is a recent custom order for bridal cards with a fall color composition. We first went with a cranberry background and then switched to the classic black and white damask background.





These turned out so classy and chic. The inside contains the bride's personal message to each of her friends. The bride in the front is also colored to look like the bride.





And the best of all were the bride's happy comments:

"Thank you so much for the beautiful chic bridesmaid cards! I absolutely love them and so does my mom. I cannot wait to give them to my bridesmaids! I will definitely be coming back for any type of cards I need! Thank you again." J.

I have so much more to share so be sure to come back. :) As always, if you need a custom order for bridal cards, a vintage scrapbook or handmade do email me.

Have a blessed week!

Tereza

Another submission!

My parents are here and I have been busy with the children enjoying the pool and finishing up some custom orders.

I have also submitted this tag below to another design team. I will let you know how that goes. :)





I hope you are enjoying your Summer. Thanks for stopping by!

Tereza

Happy Father's Day!

Below a batch of cards I sent to Operation Write Home.

I hope they made a Father's Day!!






Kiss your Daddy today! Mine just arrived all the way from Brazil. :)

Tereza