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Friday, September 28, 2012

OWH Blog Hop! Welcome


Welcome to the CropChocolate OWH (Operation Write Home) Blog Hop!  If you've landed here, welcome to the fun!  If you'd like to start at the beginning, please head to my good friend Amber's blog (http://ambaju.blogspot.com).

Operation Write Home is an awesome organization that provides handmade cards to the troops all over the world for them to write back home to their families.  There are many guidelines that OWH requires and requests of the cards they receive and ultimately send out, some of the guidelines will be listed below, or you can visit their website directly at http://operationwritehome.org for further information and to order a OWH stamp for the back of your cards.

What I've chosen as my challenge is something I'm hoping everyone can participate in and the cards turn out flat enough to send to OWH but they still have dimension.  Create a card using a stamp and a punch. It can be like this card of mine where you stamp the image, then punch it out:



or it can be like this one and have a stamped image with a border punch:



or it can be like this one that has a stamped image and punches everywhere else:




or it can be anything you can come up with that has a stamped image and a punch!

Have fun with it but please remember NO GLITTER! We do not want to endanger our troops with glitter that gets everywhere (we all know about the glitter mess, right??). A little dimension is ok, stickles are ok, just no loose glitter please!

Also they ask for A2 (4.25" x 5.5") sized cards, use good quality supplies.  Don't forget these cards are going to be mailed to our troops overseas, to write letters home to their families. They need to be of good quality cardstock and have adequate strong glue.  Some dimension is ok, but no BIG buttons or deep 3D embellies.  

Lastly, this one seemed important to me, just as important as the NO GLITTER thing is no handwritten sentiments, please.  Some of these cards are going to wives and girlfriends that this is their only communication with their loved ones and to see another woman's handwriting on the outside or inside may be a teensy bit disheartening.  

There will be a prize given away after all is said and done.  The very technical....one random name from a "stick the names in a hat" drawing!  Now if you've read all the way down here, good for you because this is where you'll find the final blog to visit, my good friend Chris (http://thriftysisters-chris.blogspot.ca)!!

Leave me some love, create away and post your card using the linky thingy!! :o)   Don't forget at least 50% CC product and NO GLITTER! :o)


32 comments:

  1. Love your cards but this one will be a challenge for me..I don't actually own any punches.....oh wait !Maybe I have one kicking around...Ok off to look!

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  2. Love your cards! You did a GREAT job, Jenni!!!

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  3. Great challenge! It's time to dust off my punches! Love all of your cards, but ESPECIALLY love the last one!

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  4. Cute cards, and I love using punches!

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  5. Well I thought I was already following you but no. I've corrected that now! This is going to be quite a bit of fun, just to get some time alone to start scrabbling together some cards!

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  6. Hmmm, I don't have a lot of punches, so this will take some thought!

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    1. Nina I think I am in the same boat! Not a big punch collector...

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    2. Corner rounding punches count too! :o)

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  7. Yeahhhh an excuse to dig out the punches!!!

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  8. Great challenge, Jenni. I just linked up a couple cards I made using a scallop punch and a stamp set.

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  9. I added one card, love your challenge I have tons of stamps but only a few punches. Your cards a great too. ;)

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    1. Sorry my first link didn't work :( but hopefully the second did .

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  10. each day takes me longer & longer to get the challenges done... good thing I'm close to the end ;-)

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  11. I love using stamps and punches this may be one I could do, lol. Love your cards though...they came out very nice!

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  12. Just linked up a couple cards...this was a GREAT challenge for me! I have loads of punches and stamps!
    Great cards!!

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  13. project done and linked. One more to go!

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  14. I like this challenge! I should be able to get at least one card done this weekend :)

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  15. All linked up Jenn! I made 7 cards for your challenge!

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  16. Cute cards! Love that birthday card especially - so bright and cheery! I linked up my two.

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  17. Hi Chris, I really liked this challenge -- it pushed me out of my comfort zone. I don't usually use stamps because I'm not really confident with my stamping ability. That being said, I love the way my card turned out and I think I'll venture into the stamp world a little more often. Thanks a bunch. I posted all the cards I worked on this weekend in one blog post so please scroll down to find the card I did for your challenge. Thanks.

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    1. Oops, I mean, Jenni. I was getting ahead of myself and wrote your name wrong. Sorry!

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  18. I got one card done for this-all linked up!

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  19. I linked up another card this evening. It's been a fun week. Thanks for your part in the hop.

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  20. All linked up! Love your cards!

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  21. I'm closing the entries.....no idea how to turn off Mr. Linky, but off to work I go. Currently I see 18 entries and Laura, you are the final entry! Good job everyone!! Hoping to announce winner tonight, maybe not until tomorrow. Keep your eyes peeled!!

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    1. well i figured out how to close it! yay for me!! (patting self on back)!! i'll draw a name tonight!!

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  22. It is the weirdest thing... I have commented multiple times and it keeps disappearing :(

    I love your cards! Thank you for the inspiration and challenge! It was fun!

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