Halloween Batch of OWH Cards

 I am shipping off another big box of 192 Operation Write Home cards to our fine Soldiers!  I wanted to share them with you before I got them mailed off.  Most of the cards are Halloween but I also made some for Everyday, I love you, Missing you and Thinking of you.  I worked on this project while I was in the car traveling to our camping trips this past summer.  I will have a future video showing just how I can scrap in the front seat of a car (no, we weren't traveling by moder home, LOL). All of the Halloween cards were made from one single paper stack.  I used the Ravenhead Manor paper stack by Recollections, I purchased it on clearance last year after Halloween. Since I was away from my studio and only had the supplies that I brought with me it challenged me to work with what I had.  I enjoy a challenge and challenge you to also do the same sometime.  It is rewarding to find out what you can come up with when you are not able to have all your resources available to you.  Once my brain started really cranking I started thinking of ideas for other things too.  I had to write them down so I wouldn't forget them by the time we got home. 

All packed up and ready to go!

Here's a peek at what's inside, this is just SOME of the cards...

Some of the die cuts words were made at home using the Cricut Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake cartridge.  There are some great seasonal words on there...Boo, Trick or treat, Happy haunting, etc.

As you can see with the cards below the same paper I used it in both landscape and portrait format.  When I cut all my mats I was not sure what my plan was going to be for them at that time so I gave myself some options.

 I also created some everyday, I love you, and I miss you cards to send.  They always need those!

 For these butterflies below I used a layering punch from EK Success.  It has all 3 layered punches in the one single punch. Ingenious!

A Haunting We Will Go!

I made this adorable little mini book while in the car on our way to our campground.  I find I get lots done while glued to my seat for 6 hours. LOL

 Page 1 & 2 has this adorable dangling spider, space for journaling and a place for a picture of Kyler, my grandson on his first Halloween.

 The next two pages have sections that flip out making it ideal for extra journaling or photos.

 Pages 5 & 6 are pocket pages with 4 double sided tags for photos.  You know us Grandmas, we like to take lots of photos!!!

 The last two pages have a cute little quote, another dangling cutout and space for one last photo.  Probably the classic, Kyler sleeping in his costume. There won't be candy this year as he is still just a sweet little angel baby.

To keep everything in place while driving I use my Scrap N Easel.  It has magnets to hold everything in place and I can put everything aside when I get to where I'm going or if we make a pit stop.  Here is a video on how it is used.  The one thing you won't see in the video is that when I'm in the car I have it flat on my lap.  Here's the video... Enjoy!

Happy Halloween