Finishing Strong May 23, 2015
Posted by Danielle in Crafts.Tags: Columns 80#, Operation Write Home, Unity Stamp Company
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Operation Write Home, a charity that has supported heroes with handmade cards since 2007, will be closing later this year. All cards need to be sent in by August 1st, so I’m helping to get the word out!
Thank you for visiting, and I hope that you’re enjoying the blog hop! What bittersweet news to hear that Operation Write Home will be closing its doors. I wanted to take part in this final blog hop to help it to finish strong.
Here is my card for the blog hop. For this card, the base and main layers are made from Columns 80# cardstock in Solar White and Red Pepper. The white cardstock is stamped with Unity‘s Secret Garden stamp in Versamark Ink and then embossed with navy embossing powder. I colored some white crochet thread with a red alcohol marker and wrapped it around the card.
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Danielle's Corner 
What a fantastic card! I love the stamping! I’m sooooo sorry to hear that OWH is closing its doors. They provided such a powerful and useful service.
Thanks for sharing,
Judy
Love all of those embossed butterflies and the twine. Great card!
What a great use of the thread. Love the simplicity of this. Very nice card.
Oh what a pretty card!! I love the blue butterflies and embossing. Excellent!! Thanks for sharing your work with us on this fantastic blog hop!
Love the butterflies! Great card!
Nice card!
Lovely group of flutterbyes! Thanks so much for hopping along to support our heroes! 🙂
GORGEOUS!!!! Love the blue embossed butterflies and great idea to color the twine- it adds the perfect embellishment!
Your red white and blue card in the blue butterflies are beautiful with the red background
So very beautiful Danielle!!
All those butterflies look very nice on the card. Love the striking colors.
Lovely card, I think the embossing takes it to the next level.
Never considered make a whole background out of butterflies. Looks great!
Beautiful card, I love all of the butterflies!
Great idea to color the crochet thread with a marker to coordinate with your fun red,white and blue patterned butterflies card.
What a fun card! Thanks for the tip to use alcohol inks to color your thread and thanks so much for your support of OWH!
Your card really caught my eye in the link up! Love all those gorgeous butterflies! Thanks for supporting OWH. Have a great day.
I love the butterflies Danielle. Your card is so pretty.
Those butterflies are so pretty and that little bit of thread is all you need to complete this one. Thanks for sharing!
Flutterbies!! Straightforward and can be used for almost anything, as there is no sentiment!
All those butterflies are gorgeous! Love your card!
Very pretty with the navy butterflies.
Great idea to dye your twine with alcohol markers. I have done that with ink, but it smears easily. Thanks for the idea!
The butterflies are a great take on the red, white, and blue. So original. The string is the perfect touch for your butterflies.
Well done! Love the butterflies, and thanks for the tip about coloring the thread. Clever!