Addicted to Cards!

I am totally addicted to making cards for Operation Write Home! So today I decided I needed to halt somewhere and send off what I have to OWH before I make any more. Yikes! I've made almost 50 cards in the last month or so! Here's what's going out in this batch, along with the lovely cards my scrappy friends made at a recent crop:

General theme:

More general. The silver squares are pieces of a coffee can liner embossed in the Cuttlebug and matted. Don't you feel smug when you do something thrifty and crafty like that?

Love theme:

Miss You and Thinking of You themes:

Thank You and Congrats themes. I feel good about the butterfly thank you too. I cut a circle for a layout a while back before I realized I ran out of paper and it was flat on one edge, so I threw it in the scrap bin. Later I used it to cut out a butterfly, and threw it back in the bin. I fished it out and flattened the other end, backing it with patterned paper, and I think it made a pretty cute card!

Birthday:

So much is fun about this! I use up paper scraps that are taking up way too much room. I use odds and ends I would never otherwise have a use for -- test Cricut cuts, test stamping and paper piecing, experimental water color and embossing, stickers and embellishments I've acquired that I really have no use for. There's a lot of freedom in making a card:.and it doesn't take as much planning and angst and second-guessing as a layout. Best of all, I can hope that I'm giving someone, somewhere a smile!