Thank You Card

Hi everyone! I hope your weekend has been going great! My husband and I did a little shopping yesterday which was really exciting. My favorite part was spending some time with him since we have not been able to do that for the last 3 years it seems. He now has no excuses to go shopping with me :)

Two weekends ago, I decided to rearrange my craft room as I felt like I did not have that much space to actually craft.
My craft room is one of our unused upstairs bedroom (we have a 5 bedroom home) which actually used to be my husband's office space until I kicked him downstairs to our formal office area.
I painted the walls myself and picked out my furniture. I have two craft desks but even though I have 2 desks, it still felt like little space.
I used one entire desk for my die-cutting machines including my Cricut Expression 2, Sizzix Big Shot, and my Cuttlebug. I only really used that desk for die-cutting and felt like I had limited space even for that.
I took the advice of a friend and placed both desks back to back in the middle of my room and bought some storage pieces from Ikea.
I also needed to make space since I am wanting a sewing machine for Christmas :)
We went to the Container Store and found great storage bins for my crafting supplies. Terry even found some storage containers for himself and his CD/DVD collection.
Anyway, we had a good time out yesterday and even had lunch together at Pappasito's which he really likes.

Anyway, onto my project for this week which was a Thank You card my mom requested about 2 weeks ago.
She is wanting to give a donation to a local church back home - their pastor came out and held a prayer vigil after my sister was diagnosed with Melanoma last month.
It was a small prayer vigil but it really touched our hearts. Out of appreciation, she is wanting to send them a little thank you present.

I felt like I lost a little of my card making "mojo" so had to turn to a sketch to help me plan my card for this project.

I then found Kimber's Saturday card sketch challenge at Two Peas in a Bucket for this past week and really liked the sketch.
I also went ahead and decided to upload my card for the challenge.
Found out yesterday that I did not win but had some great comments on my card. Oh well, you can't win them all :)


Here is Kimber McGray's card sketch challenge:

Here is the card I made:

After I had adhered everything, I realized that the plain kraft cardstock tag was too plain but it was too late to take apart.
I think if I had at least embossed a design, then it might not look so plain.
I still really like the card and I hope my mom does too.



I was also able to put together another layout using papers and embellishments from my August Studio Calico kit.
I made a photo collage from pictures that I had taken on my trip home in July. The pictures are all centered around food and people hanging around my mom's kitchen island. Her kitchen island is not that big but for some reason, we all always hang out there.



Here is my layout:

This particular trip was filled with Mexican food, candy, and sweet bread. Note the picture of the tamales and then one of course of my favorite sweet bread called "ojo". This means "eye" in spanish as the bread kind of looks like an eye :) Yummy!
My aunt from Mexico also brought us some new tamarindo and chile candies called "Swinkles". They resemble sour strings without the sour.
Of course the important people in my life are captured in my photo collage - my mom, dad, sister, and aunt.

I hope you enjoyed this week's projects and hope to post again next weekend so please stop by again!

Have a great week everyone!


Ana



Supplies:

Layout:  paper and embellishments from Studio Calico's August kit.

Card:

Cardstock - Papertrey Ink
Patterned Paper - Studio Calico "Take Note" collection
Chipboard embellishments - October Afternoon "Woodland Park" collection
Wooden flag - Jillibean soup
Tag - Cricut "Art Philosphy" cartridge
Pearls - Kaisercraft
Twine - Hemptique