July 2025 Special Cards

 

I made this card for my son-in-law Gabriel.  He is commissioning into the Arizona Army National Guard Reserves as a Chaplin Candidate.  He has been working on his Divinity Degree for a number of years and doesn't have long to go.When he completes his Masters in a few months, I believe.  He will be a Chaplin.  When he met my daughter he was in the Army training for Explosive Ordinance Disposal (Bomb Squad.)

My other projects this month are the Fourth of July cards for my five grandsons.  It is a tradition now that I make a crda for each grandson on every holiday.  I add a ten dollar bill in each one.  It''s not a lot, but it is 50.00 every holiday.  My oldest daughter shows them the cards and puts them back in the envelopes with the money so when they get older and understand about money they will have a little stash to spend on the fun things in life.

All images below are from Silhouette.  It saves a lot of time to use pre-printed images when I have to make so many. 

Lucas, age 12

 

 

Ethan, age 10

 

 

Logan, age 4

Aidan, age 2

 Ari, age 1

 

Splitcoast Dirty Dozen December 2024

 The Dirty Dozen theme for December 2024 was Wintergreen.

This is an image from Lili of the Valley.  Such a cute, chubbie little bird.  

I believe it is colored with pencils.

             The above image is from the Spellbinder's Betterpress Collection. 

It is colored with pencils.

              This is another image from the Spellbinder's Betterpress Collection. 

 It is colored with pencils. 

 Lastly, is another Betterpress image.  I have a stencil for this image, 

but I preferred to color it with pencils.

I actually ended up being two cards short.  I had re-injured my back.

Lighthouse

 

I used a lighthouse image that I got from Etsy.  I got a whole set and hey were very inexpensive!  I use the when I need a quick birthday card that involves almost no work.

Morgan's ArtWorld Challenge Blog June 2025

 

I chose this beagle image for my card this month.  It is available at Morgan Fitzsimons Art Studio.  I colored the image with Copic markers.