Purple Vase with Flowers

A purple vase with lavender flowers. The pennant shape adds the look of ribbon to the vase. A wavy-edged strip of paper grounds the vase and the sentiment. For today's Operation Write Home Stars and Stamps midweek challenge, to make "Miss You" cards for our heroes to send to loved ones at home.

Card details:

Card stock is Papertrey Ink (PTI) vintage cream, lavender moon, and plum pudding (purple), with patterned paper from the Guide Lines paper pad.
Dies are PTI mega gracious vases, PTI beautiful blooms II #3, PTI heart-2-heart #7, My Favorite Things wavy edge, and My Favorite Things mini wavy pennants. I used a 1/4" hole punch to make the flower centers.
Die cuts are edged with V15 Copic marker. The stems are drawn with Copic 0.3 purple multiliner.
Sentiment "Love you, miss you" is computer-printed with purple ink in Papyrus font (expanded spacing, small caps).

Created for Operation Write Home, "supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them." (226)

Operation: Quiet Comfort

Starting in early 2016, most of my cards are now made for Operation: Quiet Comfort.
As explained on their web site, "Operation Quiet Comfort exists solely for the purpose of honoring and comforting America’s military men and women who become sick and injured while serving in harm’s way. We also provide support to those who care for them. We collect, package and ship supplies for U.S. Military men and women receiving care at medical facilities abroad." These packages also include cards with messages of support and encouragement ... "thinking of you, patriotic, thank you, cheerful cards." I'm happy to have the opportunity to support our troops in this way.

About My Cards and My Blog

Unless noted otherwise, all my cards are A2 size - 4.25 x 5.5" when folded.

I was making cards long before I started stamping, so for my card images, I sometimes will do my own line drawing, then color it with markers. To use it multiple times, I scan it before coloring, then computer-print it. For more on my drawing process, see "How I Draw," and also "Anybody Can Draw."

I use Copic markers (I prefer "original" and also have some of the "sketch" type), Copic multiliner pens, and the Copic airbrush (airbrushing with my markers). See "About My Tools and Materials" for my Copic colors and other tools, materials, supplies and sources. Techniques and materials may also be noted in the blog post.

I will post a few times a month, whenever I have a new card to share. For cards before 2012, the date on the post is the approximate date of the card, not always the posting date. Reference posts like "About My Labels" are filed together as 1973, but are much newer.

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Unless otherwise noted in the blog post, this is my original creative work. All of my cards, drawings and text are copyright, and are shared only for your personal, non-commercial use and enjoyment. Copyright © CPOvermyer 2009-2024.

5 comments:

Marilyn's Cricut Crafts said...: I'm loving that ribbon look on the vase! Great card colors!; December 27, 2012 at 12:19 AM
Kristie said...: Soooo pretty! I just love the variety of purple papers together! And the die cuts are wonderful! I recently discovered My Favorite Things die cuts and I just love them. Guess now I need to check out the ones by PTI. Great job on this week's MWT!; December 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Jan Hunnicutt said...: Oh I love your card! Great colors, layout and the extra ribbon on the vase is neat!

Thanks for playing in our Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown challenge!; December 28, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Carol L said...: I just love the sentiment and purple colors and I WISH I still had some of that pretty dsp in my stash!!; December 29, 2012 at 5:41 AM
Cynthia T said...: Great ideas on this beautiful card including the banner/ribbon and the computer-generated sentiment. Love this :); December 30, 2012 at 8:46 PM

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