Family Challenge – from Ciara!

Mom told me I could be the center of attention again – yay! Happy birthday OWH!

Ciara, our OWH mascot, wanted to get in on the action – so she’s posed for some brand new free digis and is offering up some prizes for those who use them! 

Below is a single page with the set of digis; be sure to click on the image first and then right-click the second image, so you get the best resolution when you print it out. Or click here to download a zip file with each as individual files that you can resize as you wish! 

KIDS! There are also coloring pages just for Christmas – click here to download a pdf! Remember, the deadline for Christmas AnyHero letters is November 30th!

The challenge
Ciara LOVES kids. Just loves them. Loves to kiss them and play ball with them! And she wants to see kids making cards, writing letters, and drawing pictures! Post a picture of yours and your child’s creations using the digis or coloring pages – or better yet, show us your child with their card so Ciara can see their adorable faces!

Prizes
You’ll have til the end of September to upload your link to qualify for the drawing; prize winners will be announced in early October. Mom/kid submissions will be eligible for the first photo shown here, and TWO kids will win a kids pack of markers and foamies!

Will be awarded to a combo mom/kid art submission!

TWO prizes for kids to win – markers and patriotic foamies!

FOUR copies of this book have been donated by the author – so we’ll pick FOUR more winners!

If you can’t wait to see if you won this lovely book by our cardmaker Sherry, you can order it on Amazon right now! Stay tuned on Saturday – Sherry’s going to have a wonderful new digi to share, and we’ll hook you up when it goes live!! Here’s a sneak peek…hint: it involves cake!

To play along in this challenge, simply upload a project using this week’s sketch to your blog or online gallery then leave a direct link to your project using the Inlinkz widget at the bottom of this post. We encourage everyone to take a few moments to visit and leave comments for the other participants. Comments are a wonderful way to say thank you for sharing your creative project and inspires everyone to create.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you join in the fun!

To play along this week, please enter your name, URL and email address in the link below then press next step and select the photo of your creative project. An icon will appear on the blog featuring the photo you selected. If the photo doesn’t appear right away, don’t worry, it will after the page has been refreshed.

Theme Challenge: You Light Up My Life

Where does the time go… here it is the end of the month again already!!!  This week we have another fabulous theme challenge lined up for, compliments of Tammy A.!  Before we present this week’s theme challenge though, let’s take a look at all the participants’ cards from last weeks stash challenge. To see details about their cards or to visit their blogs… please click on their names in the original post. Many thanks to all who played along with us this week!

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Theme Challenge: You Light Up My Life
Since we are so close to the OWH Memorial Day Bloghop we thought some of you might need a little help getting ready… so how about we light those pants on fire!!!

This week’s theme challenge is sure to get your mojo flowing!  And if you haven’t figured out the theme yet, well… I’ll help you out!  This week’s theme challenge is to create any card with the theme, “You Light Up My Life!”   And wait, that’s not all.  We have a gorgeous sample card created by Tammy A to share with all of you!  To see more of Tammy’s gorgeous artwork, please visit her blog, My Craft Central, and leave her lots of love!  Thank you, Tammy, for the awesome theme challenge and stunning sample card!!!

And here are a few more ideas from Tammy to get you started: Flames, Fireworks, Fire, Christmas lights, Lamps, Lighthouse, Sunlight, Moonlight… well, you get the idea!

And unless you want to be burning the midnight oil, you best get started!!!

To play along in this week’s challenge, simply upload a project to your blog or online gallery then leave a direct link to your project in the Mister Linky widget at the bottom of this post. When a NEW challenge is posted next week, we’ll include photos of the cards that used this challenge before then!

Thanks for stopping by and we hope you join in the fun!

A note for those who join us for multiple challenges; Be sure to copy the FULL url for the whole blog post to copy into Mister Linky. It automatically seems to remember the last card you entered the last time you used Mister Linky, and will link to the post with that card instead! To view the FULL url click on the post title or select the post in your archive.

Theme Challenge: Wild Thing

Hi everyone, it’s that time again!  Hope you are ready for another Stars and Stamps theme challenge. Before we present the theme challenge though let’s take a look at all the wonderful cards submitted for last weeks stash challenge. To see details about their cards or to visit their blogs… please click on their names in the original post. Many thanks to all who played along with us this week!

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WINNER! Our blog candy winner was chosen by Random.org – and here you go: #7 was Barb!! Congratulations, your prize will be on the way soon!

Theme Challenge: Wild Thing
This week you are going to go wild over the theme challenge we’ve lined up for you!!! Actually, Tammy deserves all the credit. She thinks up the best theme challenge ideas and we simply post them here on the Stars and Stamps blog for all of you to enjoy! A HUGE thanks to Tammy for all her fantastic theme challenge ideas!

This week’s theme challenge is the “Wild Thing” and if you are like me, you may be thinking of the hit song “Wild Thing” but this weeks challenge isn’t about music. Oh, and let me know when you get the lyrics to that song out of your head, LOL!!! This week’s theme challenge is to create any card featuring a wild animal.

Some ideas to get you started… think of animals you may see at the zoo, in the jungle or on a safari! While you are humming the tune to the song “Wild Thing” take a look at the goregous card Tammy created to get you inspired. To see more of her amazing creations, stop by her blog, My Craft Central, and leave her some love.

To play along in this week’s theme challenge, simply upload a project to your blog or online gallery then leave a direct link to your project in the Mister Linky widget at the bottom of this post. When a NEW challenge is posted next week, we’ll also include photos of the cards completed before then. 

If you’d like to create a card for an upcoming mid-week challenge (color, shipper’s choice, stash or theme), please send us an email and we’ll get you lined up!  We encourage everyone to take a few moments to visit the other participants’ blogs and leave them some feedback.  A HUGE thanks to everyone for doing so!

Thanks for stopping by and hope you join in the fun!

A note for those who join us for multiple challenges: Be sure to copy the FULL url for your blog post to copy into Mister Linky. It automatically seems to remember the last card you entered the last time you used Mister Linky, and will link to the post with that card instead! To view the FULL url click on the post title or select the post in your archive.

Theme Challenge: Four Legged Friends

Hope you are ready for another Stars and Stamps mid-week challenge.  Before we present the mid-week challenge though let’s take a look at all the participants’ cards from last weeks stash challenge.  To see details about their cards or to visit their blogs… please click on their names in the original post. Many thanks to all who played along with us this week!

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Theme Challenge: Four Legged Friends
To get you inspired and mix things up a bit, this week we have another theme challenge for you!  The challenge is to create a card using any four legged friend.  That’s right, it may be a dog, cat, pony, bunny or if you tend to be more on the wild side… a lion, tiger, giraffe… well, you get the idea.  This week’s theme challenge is hosted by Tammy.  While we were all having fun and very busy blog hopping this weekend she was busy as a beaver creating this adorable sample card to get us all inspired!  Thank you, Tammy, for the fun theme challenge and cute sample card!  To see more of Tammy’s beautiful artwork, please visit her blog, My Craft Central, and show her your appreciation for this week’s theme challenge. 

Here are the awesome cards made this week!

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A note for those who join us for multiple challenges: Be sure to copy the FULL url for your blog post to copy into Mister Linky. It automatically seems to remember the last card you entered the last time you used Mister Linky, and will link to the post with that card instead! To view the FULL url click on the post title or select the post in your archive.

Midweek Challenge: Masculine Card

This week we have a theme challenge preparing us for Father’s Day cards: create a masculine card using this digi freebie from Hambo Stamps! A message from our friends at Hambo:

 With Father’s Day approaching Hambo Stamps wanted to donate an image to OWH for all of the fathers, sons, and daughters serving our country. OWH does such wonderful  work and we at Hambo wanted to help in whatever  way we could. Hopefully  this Wee Henry Fishing image will inspire many of the awesome volunteers and hopefully some new ones who spend their time making the cards for OWH. Thanks  everyone for all you do!!
Tim and Monica Hunter-Hambo Stamps
 

Be sure to pay them a visit at their main page and/or their Digital Image page…they have some AWEsome stamp designs!! Thank you, Tim and Monica….we appreciate your support!

So for this week’s throwdown, your card can be for any occasion (it’s a great one for Father’s Day, of course, anf might help with your Half and Half Challenge cards!) and could be for adult men or for boys—but it should be a card for our heroes to send to a dude!

 

Click here and “Wee Henry” should download to your hard drive right away, ready to place in Word for re-sizing (if you right-click on the image above, your image may be fuzzy since it will be downloading a jpg rather than the high-resolution tif file, so try clicking on it once and check your hard drive).  Please do not re-post or email out this digi, at the request of Hambo; you’re welcome to link to this post to tell your OWH friends about the availability of the image, though! If you don’t know how to use digital images, check out the digi tutorial we did on the Homefront Blog a while ago. 

ETA: Some of you have been having trouble with the download 😦 Try downloading this – it’s a Word doc with the image placed in it; you should be able to resize it however you wish.

To get you started, a few of our crafters created sample cards using this great image…thanks, ladies!

Post a link to your card below….let’s go fishing!

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