Just to say

Hi all and welcome
It is Faith week over at Card A Day Blog and today I'm the designer. My card was very easy to make and with the items already on hand really made it easy.

I started actually with the sentiment, which I came across in the book: Just the Right Words. Sometimes when I'm stumped for a card I investigate the books or magazines I have on hand for a bit of help. This one created the whole outlook of the card.
I seen on a facebook group today a tag that was printed and found out from the girl how she did it. She said to do a word document with the writing in the size you want and print it out.

Then pick your choice of what you want the print to go on (I have these (Stampin up) scallop punch Kraft paper ready in a drawer) use removable adhesive and put the piece to be printed over the computer print, wow it worked! I can see this coming in handy for a lot of things.
Then I chose the pieces that I wanted to use for the card. I knew that I had some stamped motorcycles in a drawer already stamped I got in a swap all I did was color it with Bic fine markers. The card base was a ready made one I found in another drawer (really trying to use up stuff I have on hand).

The swirls around the sentiment was cut from, I think, the Storybook cartridge that I cut out months ago for another card, that it didn't work on then. I thought this would add some nice dimension to the sentiment. The ribbon came from a roll and the background paper I got at Big Lots (cheap, wish I would have picked up another pack of the paper that day). So the background paper was embossed with a cuttlebug folder diamond plate.
This card is fantastic for a male taking a big step in life: Graduation or a new job, maybe in a new state.
This card took less that 2 hours to make cause I already had the items on hand, probably the longest part was deciding what to do for the theme. So if you have a few minutes take out some tools and stamp, or punch or even emboss those scraps and you next card will come together in a snap.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a fantastic day!

Christmas Thank You Card

Hi All,
I'm the designer today over at the Card A Day Blog and the theme this week is Christmas Thank You card. If your from the CADB thank you for joining us today.
Now myself I would never have considered a thank you card until I joined in with CADB and seen as a theme and thought yea why not. So I get the blessing this year of not hosting my family this Christmas but my Sister-In-Law is so I decided to make this card and then send it to her and my brother after the holiday for hosting this year and maybe start another tradition. So here is the card

 This is probably the easiest card I have made yet. Clean and simple and who doesn't need that this time of the year.

Here are the pieces to the card that I made. It is a 5.5" X 5.5" red cardstock base. Doily seem to be the in thing at the moment so this packet of doilys I found at one of the local dollar stores and used that for the background piece. The lettering came from the Storybook cartridge on pg 71 in your handbook. I cut it in 3 layers: shadow in white, the main piece in green and the extra T and Y in a red glitter paper @ 1.25". Glued everything together and pop dotted the lettering to give it a float look off the background. Added gold stickles in each corner to frame it and that was it. Done in an hour from beginning to end. Easy Peasy!

Have a fantastic day!

Drywall Completed

Yea the drywall is completed, I came home from work yesterday and Dave was putting primer on the ceiling and the walls of my craftroom. The finallity of the room is nearing the end, it should go pretty quickly now. I am so looking forward to this room being done, where I can have my little spot in the house to craft at anytime that the mood strikes me. To have everything laid out till fully completed instead of doing a part and moving it out of the way for a meal or the unexpected company arriving. I'm hoping that by Memorial Day I may be in the room, that would be a great Anniversary gift. I have been taking pictures during the whole process. I even purchased items specifically to scrap the renovating of the room. Can't wait to share it all with you.
Okay now I should get back into the mode of crafting and what I have done lately. April was a month of birthdays in our household and I shown off a few of the cards that I have done. So I have another birthday card that I made for my youngest granddaughter Isabelle.

Albert's name for Isabelle is princess, for as long as Isabelle's been here this is what he lovingly calls her, so that brought about the theme for this card. The crown and birthday girl came from the Storybook cartridge. Pink is such a girlie color that it was used in various tones throughout on the card. It was a fun card to do and make. The ribbon came from a scrapbook kit I received, used various papers in my collection of scrapbook paper.This card was submitted to the BBTB2 challenge-crown.
I hope you all have fantastic day....