Circle Mania - My Operation Write Home Cards

Here are the cards I made for Operation Write Home. If you are not familiar with this project you can find out more by going to their website: http://operationwritehome.org/.  It is truly a worthy cause and anyone can do it. Just follow the guidelines. You can help make a soldiers day.

All of these cards were made with my Cameo (print and cut feature), Washi Tape and Dies, except the "Howdy Partner" is a Cricut cut from the Western Cartridge.

 

Circle Mania 2013 Make-n-Takes

I did not get to participate in all the make-n-takes at mania this time (too busy shopping!!) I did get to participate in one of Renee Cooper's Christmas cards make-n-takes though. I call it the "Speed Card Class" because we made 12, yes 12 cards in about an hour!!!  We did the basics there and I took mine home to add a few embellishments.

Renee is an amazing teacher and so talented.  Check out her blog here: You will see some amazing crafts!!

Anywho, here are the cards: (oh and we got to keep all the extra paper, tags and labels in the kit!)

 
I didn't get to participate in this one but isn't it so cool?

Look at this one!!! How pretty are these??? They were called the Shabby Beau Chateau Collection

Circle Mania, Crop T-shirt and Calling Card

Hello everyone!!

This month has and is going to be just crazy for me. I have a crop every weekend up until Thanksgiving and even one after that. Whew!!! There was not much crafty time for me to come up with projects other than what I did for the crops, so I'll share them with you.

I attended a crop last weekend at a friends house where I was able to get 30 card bases ready for Operation Write Home, (OWH) cards for soldiers. This may not sound like much, but those who know me now I never do ANYTHING at crops other than socialize!!!

This weekend I am attending a 3 day crop called Circle Mania. It's a huge semi annual event hosted by Paulette Trent (Scrapalette) in Alpharetta, Ga.  Crafters from all over attend. Provo Craft(the makers of Cricut/Cuttlebug) came last year bearing gifts and is schedule to attend this year as well. They are providing us with lunch on Saturday and bringing a special guest!!!  I can't wait to see who it is!!  We always have a lot of fun and leave with a lot of gifts and crop bags!!!  I will post more pictures throughout the coming weeks. Also, the Maniacs always turn in cards for OWH. Our goal is 1000 cards, so far I have 70 made!

Be sure to click on the links to get more information about the events I mentioned above. OWH is great for those you who like to make cards and it serves a great purpose. Check out the link.

Okay, lets start with the calling card. It is a 3"x3" trading card for crafters. It usually has a theme, and you make a card for however many are attending the crop, in this case 50. Here's mine for mania:

I use the Crafty Girl Stamp, scaned it into my Silhouette software (ya, I know, not Cricut) and colored it. Normally I would use my Copics, but this was 50 cards!!! The actual size of the girl is 2.50 inches!!! I also did the Chevron background with my software.

Here's a close up shot.

I put my name on the craft bag and I made my Cuttlebug the new Anna Griffin one! See all the supplies in the bag??

 

I try to make a gift for each Mania event I attend.  This time I made a charger. It's not clear whether or not this will be a give-away or a hostess gift. So far none of my gifts have made it to give-ways!!!  lol.

 

 

I also made "me" a matching T-shirt with my heat press.

Here's both together

Here's the back of the shirt

Thanks for looking and be sure to check back soon as I will be posting more pictures from Mania and my other upcoming crops.

 

 

Circle Mania 2013

Some more Circle Mania pictures.  Sorry for the delay in posting.

This darling little hat pin was made by Sandie O. Isn't it just marvelous?

We had the choice of a brooch or a hair pin. I choose the brooch so I could sport it on my shirt!!

This adorable little number was made by Paulette, aka Scraplette. It was filled with kettle corn.  I just don't know what happened to it!! 

Here's a cute little basket from Jayne. It "was" filled with chocolate but I think it went to the same place that kettle corn did!!!        

Check out this little suitcase filled with goodies from Gina P!!

Another goody from Sandie O. It has my favorite candy inside, Ghirardelli!!!  I won't eat it because it's only one and that's just gonna piss me off!!!  lol

I got this a gift from Sandie O.  Wasn't that sweet of her?

Here's a flower pot goody from Sis-O-Snap.  It's so cute!!  How come I'm just now figuring out that pot is made of chocolate?  I'm going to have to do some further investigating of this!!

Here's my Mania badge made by Paulette.  Strange......it was the only chocolate one there. lol  Oh I added the bling on the sash, you know I had too!!

This was a canvas made by Barbara S. for mania. The picture does not do it justice!!  And she even included me down at the bottom!!!

Barbara S also made this beautiful tag.  Each tag she gave out was different. She's very talented.

Calling Cards!!! 

I don't think I got all the CC's that were there, if fact, I know I missing some. Well, maybe next time!!

Operation Write Home

I almost forgot!!!!  Here are some cards I made for OWH (cards for soldiers) at the Circle Mania event I attended. I'm proud of myself because I actually turned in 15 cards!!!  That's a lot for me especially in one day!! We earned 1 ticket for every 5 cards we turned in.  The winning ticket got the grand prize, which was a new Cricut E2.

The goal was to get 1000 cards, we ended up with 995, but..............Annette was making 5 more cards that day to make it 1000, so we made it!!!

I also learned how to use washi tape as you can see on the cards. I think I like it. I really didn't get why people are going crazy over washi tape. I now see that it can actually make a card "pop", add color and/or depth. I'm not going to run out and buy hundreds of rolls, but I have added a few to my stash.

I also included some pictures of some of the other amazing cards turned in at Mania for OWH. I know I didn't get a shot of all of the cards, but I posted what I did.



 

 

Here are some of the other cards: