Independence Day will be here before you know it!
In today’s Tuesday Tidbit, I’d like to share a quick tutorial on making 3D stars. These are easy to make, and you can add them to your Fourth of July Projects, or any project.
Learn to make 3D stars by clicking here.
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One of the things my stamping group does is support our local veterans center in Radcliff, KY (RVC). Once a month or so, we take handmade cards and help the residents send them to their friends and family members.
We also do other things like volunteer at some of their activities and events. We’ve found out that our veterans really like their sweets! So, some of us got together and made them each a cute little powdered donut snowman.
I have the best friends ever, and they are so generous with their time and talent! They just don’t know how much I appreciate them!
Me, Kim, Nan, Janet and 75 little edible snowmen!
THANK YOU, LADIES!!
Do you know what 90 pinwheel tabletop decorations look like? Well, here’s a picture!
Last week, a few of us got together to make decorations for our local VA Center. Each resident will get one of these to decorate their room for Independence Day. The pinwheels are from a Paper Pumpkin kit from 2014, so I’ve had these in my closet for a while.
Yes, it was a lot of work, but thanks to these lovely ladies, it went quickly. The lady in the middle, my good friend Nancy, came up with this cute idea, and provided everything but the pinwheels. Thanks, Nan!
If you have free time, I highly recommend reaching out to your local VA Center, to see if there are ways you can help show our veterans how much we appreciate them.
God Bless the USA and those veterans and active duty service members who defend her!!
With the help of a lovely group of ladies, we support our local Veterans Retirement Home. One of the things we do is provide “Welcome to the Neighborhood” cards. If you missed my earlier post on these, you can find it here.
In addition to the welcome cards, we decorate boxes that are stuffed with slipper socks, those socks with non-stick bottoms like they provide for you in the hospital. I have several generous friends who donated the money to purchase the socks.
Last week, we delivered 70 boxes of these socks to the VA Center.
A good friend of mine, Janet, helped me get these together. The boxes were donated by another friend, Nancy, who saved them from the trash at an event she attended. What a great upcycle!!
If you’re looking for a good cause to support, please consider your local Veterans Center.
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I have a super group of ladies who stamp with me. They are all caring and supportive, and willing to help with almost any crazy project I come up with! We regularly support our local VA Retirement Center in Radcliff, KY.
We take handmade cards to the center and help the veterans write messages to send to their friends and families. We also volunteer to help with some of their activities, like Casino Day, which is happening today. I’ll post more on that later.
The center is still not at full capacity, but new residents are coming in. To welcome them, we make Welcome to the Neighborhood cards.
Several months ago, I stamped the birdhouses and the ladies took them home, colored them, and returned them. Now, we’re making those into cards like these. We make different colored frames, based on the colors used on the birdhouses. Inside it says “Welcome to the Neighborhood”.
Today, we made 24 of these.
This is also a good time for me to use up some retired products, so I used the following:
Home Tweet Home stamp, Tangerine Tango cardstock, and Tangerine Tango Bakers Twine. I can’t tell you what was used to color, as each of my ladies used their favorite supplies to color as they desired.
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Happy Fourth of July!!
I hope you are having a great day celebrating the birthday of our country. When I think about Independence Day, I’m reminded of all the veterans who have sacrificed for our freedom.
I recently gave stamped birdhouses to all my stamping friends, and they colored them and returned them to me. We are now making them into Welcome cards for the veterans who are moving into the new Veterans Center near Fort Knox. It’s a brand new nursing home, and they currently have 8 residents, but will have 120 once they’ve passed all the inspections.
This is the second group of cards we’ve made. You can see the first group here.
A few people and businesses were kind enough to donate money to purchase slipper socks (you know, the ones with the rubber grips on the bottom) to be given to the new residents. Another friend, Nancy, donated white boxes leftover from a project at her church, and we packaged the socks and decorated the boxes. Didn’t they turn out nice?
And, here’s a picture of Janet, who helped me package and decorate this group of socks!! We delivered them to the VA Center Wednesday.
Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your holiday! And, if you see a Veteran, thank them for their service. It means so much to them.
My stamping friends and I have adopted a Veterans Nursing Home that’s being built near Fort Knox, Kentucky. I stamped over 120 of these birdhouses and gave them out to stampers to be colored and returned to me. We will then make them into cards welcoming the new residents. This is one of the first group of cards. The inside of the card says Welcome Home.
Stamps: Home Tweet Home (vintage)
Cardstock: Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Basic Black
Dies: Lots of Labels Framelits
Other: Colored using various supplies (choice left up to participants), black ribbon (non-SU), embossing folder (unknown)
If you see a veteran, I hope you’ll thank them for their service. And, thank you for stopping by today.
My husband spent 28 years in the Army, and we live near Fort Knox, Kentucky. A lot of my stamping friends have connections to the military so we try to support the military by making cards. We give thank you cards to Veterans at various events and locations, and we also provide cards to units overseas for them to send home to their friends and families.
At my last party, almost everyone who attended was either a soldier or married to an active duty or retired soldier. We decided to do not only a Make-n-Take, but also a Make-n-Leave!
We made a cute little Make-n-Take using the Reverse Words stamp set that was available during Sale-a-ration. You can see that card here.
This card was the Make-n-Leave. Each stamper at the party made one of these for a Veteran. My father (who is a veteran of WWII) and my husband gave these out at a local Veterans Breakfast last month.
Stamps: The Wilderness Awaits
Cardstock: Whisper White, Night of Navy, Real Red
Ink: Night of Navy
Dies/Punches: Stars Framelits, Medium Star Punch
Other: Lucky Stars TIEF, Red Cotton Ribbon (vintage), Metallics Sequin Assortment
Thanks for spending a few minutes here today. If you see a Veteran, thank them for their service. It really does mean a lot to them.
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