February ODBD Challenge

What beautiful cards you all made for the January challenge…..so glad we made it to over 50 entries!! So Our Daily Bread Designs will be sponsoring two boxes to go to our heroes. Thanks to all who entered, and to our friends at ODBD for their generosity!

Rick, Sandy, and Kelly at CHA! What fun meeting this generous couple!

The winners for that challenge, who each win a $25 gift certificate, were chosen by random.org, send your contact info to sandy at operationwritehome dot org to hook up with your prize 🙂

Kristie

Katie H.

Congratulations! Email dotti at operationwritehome dot org with ODBD winner in the subject line, and she’ll hook you up with your prize!

On to our February challenge!
And in honor of our crafters who are sailing away with our fearless leader Sandy today (the cruise sets sail!)….this month we’re having a challenge to USE YUMMY RIBBON on your card! You know how much she loves it….so let’s see how many creative uses we can come up with for ribbon.

You have until March 2nd at midnight to get your card linked up before the March challenge is posted on the 3rd. And the prize? ODBD is offering TWO generous $25 gift certificates for prizes!

Bonus prize for our heroes:
Our Daily Bread Designs will be making a shipping donation based on the number of cards in the InLinkz (only one entry per person!) – ODBD will sponsor one large box of cards for every 25 cards linked to the challenge post, with a maximum of 2 boxes per month. So be sure to tell all your friends to come and enter the challenge too!

Here’s this month’s inspiration from the ODBD gallery….this should get everyone’s mojo on!

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January ODBD Challenge!

This is SO much fun….monthly challenges give so many folks time to participate. We’ve made it to 50 cards two months in a row – by the skin of our ATG tape! – two more boxes for our heroes! And random.org drew these two fabulous cards to win a $25 gift certificate each to the Our Daily Bread Designs store! Go leave these lucky ladies some congratulations on their blogs by clicking on their names.

Cara

Becca

Email sandy at operationwritehome dot org and she’ll connect you with your gift certificate!

And now on to our January challenge:

This month is a recipe challenge: Use THREE patterned papers on your card! 

You have until February 3rd at midnight to get your card linked up before the February challenge is posted on the 4th. And the prize? ODBD is offering TWO generous $25 gift certificates for prizes!

Bonus prize for our heroes:

Our Daily Bread Designs will be making a shipping donation based on the number of cards in the InLinkz (only one entry per person!) – ODBD will sponsor one large box of cards for every 25 cards linked to the challenge post, with a maximum of 2 boxes per month. So be sure to tell all your friends to come and enter the challenge too!

We’ve got some crazywild inspiration for you from Our Daily Bread Designs – what beauties!!

Angella Crockett

Lorelie Kim

Grace Nywening

Now go make your card, link it up – and get your friends to make one too. Blog about it, tweet it, facebook ’em. Don’t make us bite our nails wondering if we’ll make it to 50 entries! 🙂 🙂 🙂

And – ODBD has posted a piece on your fearless leader…it’s a totally humbling piece, but I am honored that they posted it! Read it here.

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ODBD December Challenge: Get Sentimental!

Thank you so much to all of you who participated in last month’s challenge to make love/valentine cards – WOW! Beautiful works of art! If you want to have a mini-hop this weekend to get your mojo kicked into gear, go check out all the cards in InLinkz – and leave some love for each other. If you like to get comments — you know everyone else does too!

November Winners 
The 2 winners of the ODBD November challenge, drawn by random.org, made some really beautiful love cards….ladies, email sandy@operationwritehome.org and I’ll hook you up with your prizes! Everyone else, be sure to click on their blog links and leave them some congrats!

Donna at Designing Keepsakes

Adele, at Bits and Pieces

PLUS we made it past 50 entries – so Our Daily Bread Designs will be donating funds to ship TWO boxes to our heroes! THANK YOU ODBD!

December Challenge: Get Sentimental
This month’s challenge is one that the coloring-challenged will love: make a card with a SENTIMENT as the main image on the card!

• You can add other embellishments, but make sure it’s the words that sing. We know our heroes love to carry heartfelt messages home, so let’s give them great choices. (And don’t get Sandy started on the live laugh love thing, ya know. LOL!) 
• You can use any stamp company’s products aside from glitter and follow the other normal OWH guidelines – ODBD stamps and supplies not required. (If you link to a card that doesn’t meet OWH guidelines, your card will be pulled out of the drawing.)

Prizes

Every first Saturday we’ll be posting the challenge here on the Stars and Stamps blog, and you’ll have all month til just before next challenge starts in January to get your card linked up. ODBD is offering TWO generous $25 gift certificates for prizes, so you’ll want a chance at that!

Bonus prize for our heroes:
Our Daily Bread Designs will be making a shipping donation based on the number of cards in the InLinkz (only one entry per person!) – ODBD will sponsor one large box of cards for every 25 cards linked to the challenge post, with a maximum of 2 boxes per month. So be sure to tell all your friends to come and enter the challenge too!

We’ve got some great inspiration designs for you from Our Daily Bread Designs – wow wow wow! What beautiful ways to use sentiments!

On your mark, get set….
Now after seeing these and take a trip to see the love cards from the November challenge, your creativity tank should be filled up and ready to go! Reminder: Dec 10th is the due date for Archway Valentines; and Dec 31 is the last last last date for any valentines at all. Don’t miss out on helping our heroes send their sweetie a note! And let’s be sure to reach 50 entries this month too…..share share share and get all your OWH cardmaking buddies to join in!

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New! ODBD monthly challenge: Valentines

It’s Sandy here with a special new challenge! Our new friends over at Our Daily Bread Designs came to OWH after hearing about us from a wonderful cardmaker, Michelle – and ODBD wants to sponsor a monthly challenge in support of our heroes! Woohoo!!

Every first Saturday we’ll be posting the challenge here on the Stars and Stamps blog, and you’ll have all month til just before next challenge starts in December to get your card linked up. ODBD is offering TWO generous $25 gift certificates for prizes, so you’ll want a chance at that!

Bonus prize for our heroes:
Our Daily Bread Designs will be making a shipping donation based on the number of cards in the InLinkz (only one entry per person!) – ODBD will sponsor one large box of cards for every 25 cards linked to the challenge post, with a maximum of 2 boxes per month. So be sure to tell all your friends to come and enter the challenge too!

November’s challenge: VALENTINES and LOVE cards!
Yes, valentines…it’s time to really turn our minds from the Christmas cards for our heroes, since the elves are already en route – but we always need extra valentines due to all the new contacts we get every holiday season. You can use any products aside from glitter and follow the other normal OWH guidelines – ODBD stamps and supplies not required. (If you link to a card that doesn’t meet the guidelines, your card will be pulled out of the drawing.) 

I was so excited about this challenge that I grabbed this gorgeous butterfly corner stamp and went to town with it! I’ve got a few more ODBD cards on my blog today if you want to check them out.

I asked ODBD for some beautiful inspiration to share with you today – and spent HOURS in their gallery browsing. Oh MY! It was so hard to pick out just a few. You will absolutely want to go spend some time there…just check out the incredible detail in so many of their lovely creations!  ODBD Gallery Here are a few of the cards I picked out to share…. by Lisa Somerville, “Love that Binds” – blog: Designs by Lisa Somerville by Angela Crockett, “Love is the thread” – blog Body, Mind, Spirit, and Stamps! by Connie McCotter, “God Loves You”; blog: McStampin Dusk til Dawn And if that didn’t inspire you, check out their blog, too – they’ve got challenges going there as well, and beautiful eye candy to get your creative juices flowing: ODBD Blog Now go make a love card – and add yours in the InLinkz below! Let’s see if we can reach 50 entries – one per person. Go share on your blog and get your friends to add a love card for our hereotoo!

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