Basically, as reported in the The Arizona Republic, "Ten-year-old Stephen Goodman, a fifth-grader in Surprise, Arizona, wants to send a thank you card next to military personnel. Not to one platoon, or to just one division, but to every actively deployed service member in the U.S. military."
Stephen has come up with the number 180,000! That is a major undertaking for one little boy, so...
To help him out Bazzill is asking for handmade cards for his project...and for every five you send in, you get entered into a drawing for a pass to this year's Creative Escape weekend...
The drawing and chance to win aside (although it sure is a nice perk) I decided to send some cards in...
I'm shooting for making 20...
So far I have two, it's a start...and really, I just started on Wednesday...
I usually make two of each card I make...not always, but usually...so I made two of these.
And had a very happy mistake in the process...
Basically the mistake all boils down to the fact I'm pretty impatient. My intention here was to have the "Star Spangled Banner" stamped faintly in the background in a medium brown ink...I used TH's Tea Dye Distress ink...and then on top of that I wanted to heat emboss in black "Thank You"...but I didn't wait for the Distress Ink to dry before I poured on the embossing powder...
I have done that so many times, you would think I knew better...
But, lo and behold, I really like the look of it...
I hope I can use this happy mistake again sometime!
Beautiful card. I really like you creative accident.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing is I do this all the time as well. I keep meaning to heat emboss 1st then add distress ink...yup forget every time, teehee.