Cards for Heroes - I made some!

I think the cards for heroes project is a great idea, so I've started making some cards for them... in the last few weeks since I heard about it here, I've made 33 assorted cards. Yesterday and today I experimented with my water colour pencils and some direct-to-paper inking to make some romantic I love you cards and before that I made a random selection of birthday/general greeting cards. Their current challenge is 'christmas in July' so I've made them an even dozen christmas cards too... their most important rule is that you can NOT use glitter on your cards because it can come off and get onto the soldiers' uniforms etc and be dangerous because it sparkles in the night (not to mention messy) and half of the Christmas stuff in my embellishment box is liberally pre-glittered so I couldn't use it! You can still use metallic paper etc...

I made a folder for my cards in my webshots... so you can see them all here -

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Kajikit
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Karen, You come up with some of the best ideas for using paper scraps. I'll bet you never throw anything away. Your cards are great. I think we should crown you the 'Scrapbook Paper Recycling Queen"

Sandy

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Sandy

Thanks! Nope. I don't throw paper away until it's a scrap less than 1 inch square or it's been mangled too much to cut up... (not even I can find a use for the remains of a sheet once I've taken my paper punches or stencils to it...) I put all my cut-up sheets into paper drawers sorted by colour, and it makes it easy to pull one out and find a bit roughly the right size/shape for my needs... I HATE cutting into a full sheet of paper - it's psychologically traumatising to me. Every scrap of pretty paper I can manage to wring out of a sheet is one less sheet I have to find the money to buy! And it makes me be creative with my cards...

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Kajikit

Serendipity squares/circles/oddball shapes, etc! :-)

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whodunit

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