Hope House Home for Boys

The cards that I sell here in Chapala and Ajijic, Mexico benefit the dental program for the boys at Hope House in the nearby village of Ixlahuacan. There are close to 30 boys at the home and many of them come to the home having received no dental treatment. If you live here at Lakeside and would like to order a quality, hand crafted card for a special occasion and help me contribute to this worthy cause, please e-mail me at bettyinchapala@yahoo.com Card price is 50 pesos; the entire sales price is donated to Hope House.

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

A Look of Nature



Good Morning All! I surely do hope that Blogger is more cooperative today than it was yesterday. I had a lot of trouble getting to blog posts and once there, more problems leaving comments.

My card this morning uses Repeat Impressions Sketch J1112 --


I will also enter the Dutch Dare Challenge -- For the Boys. I need to get some masculine birthday cards made for folks in the church this next month so this challenge was perfect!

I used Annabelle Stamps, All Things Grow and cut the sentiment with a Spellbinders Ribbon Tags Trio die. The green background panel was embossed with a Cuttlebug Folder, Forest Branches, and the border was done with Martha Stewart's Grass border punch. The border is adhered to the inside bottom edge of the card and the front panel is cut a little shorter than the rest of the card.

Thanks for coming by,
Betty

16 comments:

Hannelie said...

Hi Betty!
Clean and simple... my favourite style. You did a great job with this , letting the gorgeous green do the talking!
Thanks for joining the Dutch dare card challenge!
Hannelie
DT member

Mary Anne / MA54K said...

You are so good with CAS cards and sketches. I just draw a blank. Bravo!

A Consuming Passion said...

Ahhh so beautiful Betty!!!

Colleen said...

Betty,
This is great for a masculine card!
That is kinda funny that you mentioned that, I just went through my stash of cards looking for some boy birthday cards and realized I'm really low. I think Adrieene took all my little boy cards back to NY with her. I'd better get busy with some more I need 3 for this month.

craftieodmae said...

think everyone had the smae problem yesterday, lets hope today is better, girl you have made the perfect make card, I love this and have to case it!!!! TFS

Theresa's Studio said...

I too had a problem w commenting and still seems to be spotty. Great card for the sketch...will be doing this one too. Like the grass border.

Theresa's Studio said...

I too had a problem w commenting and still seems to be spotty. Great card for the sketch...will be doing this one too. Like the grass border.

The Other Patti Sue said...

LOVE this... "man" card perfection my friend!

Kym Weber said...

Wow, Betty! Such an awesome card! It's clean and simple but so perfect and masculine looking! Wonderful job!

Payne Holler Cards said...

awesome card! love it and will be casing (-:
I ended up downloading FoxFire and so far am finally able to comment - hope blogger fixes itself soon!

Becky said...

What an awesome card, love the embossing and the border.

Cheri said...

Hi Betty,
Love your textures....the grass and the branches...they really POP that image and what a great guy card.
BTW....blogger is still being a brat!

CĂ©line said...

What a beautiful card! Thanks for joining us this week at DDCC!

Anonymous said...

I love the green Betty, gorgeous card!
Andrea :)

Patti P. said...

Betty, I adore this card...such a clean look but with so much texture and depth. I love nature images and this is the best.

Kendra said...

Great grass border at the bottom! Thanks for sharing with us at The House That Stamps Built!