Goin' Batty

We're all going batty, and maybe a little catty, here this week.  Vicki had a great card yesterday, didn't she?!  I just love that foil tape.  You're here with Christine Patton today, and I'm so glad to be bringing you my card.  I had a blast making this one.  To paraphrase one of the great lines from a favorite old movie, 'cats and bats and spiders, Oh My!'  I hope you'll visit Creative Genie for the details on this fun creation!

Be sure to get in on our challenge.  We love to give prizes, but more important, we want to see what you come up with.  Whether you use our weekly theme, or come up with your own idea, it's all about fun, creativity and inspiration!

Your Card A Day Blog designer for tomorrow is Kristin Keller.  Be sure to stop by and leave her some love.

Bats & Cats

Welcome!
We're revving up the Halloween card ideas this week with our Bats & Cats theme! 

Hi, my name is Vicki Schram and I'm today's designer.  Today's card features an embossed foil tape background (have you played with foil tape yet?!...it's so cool!), lots of layered elements, and of course...a bat and cat!  Check out my blog, Paper Squirrel, for full details on how I created this card.

Stop by again tomorrow for more bats and cats inspiration from designer Christine Patton.  Also, don't forget to enter the monthly challenge.  Your entry can feature any of the month's weekly themes and we have a wonderful selection of prizes, so don't miss out!

Giving Thanks

Hello and welcome! My name is Cindy Pointe and I'll be your designer for today. 

This is the final day of this week's theme:  "Giving Thanks" and I have a cute turkey card for you.

I used the following sketch for inspiration:

The turkey diecut was created by me.

 

If you have an electronic cutter and can use SVGs, I have the file of this turkey on my blog and it will be available free for one week. You can grab it and all the details on how I made the card HERE

Next up is Vicki with the kick off to a new theme: "Cats & Bats". Be sure to check back and don't forget about the monthly Challenge.

All the details can be found on the Challenge page that can be accessed from the menu above. Hope you'll join in!

Thankful For You

Hi everyone!  It's Christine, back with you today to bring you another CADB inspiration. Our theme, this week, is 'Giving Thanks.' With Canada's Thanksgiving holiday right around the corner, and our US Thanksgiving not far behind, it seems an appropriate time just now to be making those cards.  I've made a fun Autumn banner card for you.  Please visit my  Creative Genie-ous  blog to check out the details.

We'll have one more offering tomorrow to end our week of cards for giving thanks.  I hope you'll come back and take a look.

You still have two weeks to get into our September challenge.  Click on the Challenges link above.

Thanks for joining us today.  We love your comments!!

Giving Thanks

Thanks for coming to get some card inspiration! This week’s theme is Giving Thanks.  It is an appropriate theme, with Thanksgiving right around the corner for us Canadians, but also because there is so much to be thankful for.  One of my favorite things is to be able to make a special card to give thanks with, that and being able to use different techniques to make them with.  On this card I microwave dried some flowers from my garden to put on the card! For all the information on the card, visit my blog at Garden's Crafts 'n' More.

Make sure to come back for some more inspiration with a card from Christine!

Thank You for Your Friendship

Last year I took a series of card-making classes with Jennifer McGuire at our local scrapbooking store.

There were three classes in total and we made eight cards in each class. The pace was fast and furious. In fact, we had to bring the cards home and finish most of them after the classes because there simply was not enough time to learn all the techniques and finish the cards. Of course, needless to say, I have not finished them yet. This blog will make me finish those cards and this is one of the cards I did not finish in class.

The name of the class was Creativity Kickstart.

This is a 4-1/4" x 4-1/4" square card. The card base is from Hero Arts and we used a Hero Arts text background stamp with light brown ink. Jennifer supplied the resist stamped image on the piece of sticky back canvas, some buttons and hemp.  I used a stamp from my stash for the sentiment.

Jennifer also supplied a standard A2 brown envelope because Square envelopes can be more expensive to mail.

I hope you enjoy this card.  Please visit my blog at http://scrappercreations.blogspot.com for more project ideas.

Happy Birthday!

This is one of the cards I made to have on hand in case I need a birthday card. I saw something similar in a crafting magazine and thought the strips of patterned paper would be a fun look.

I wanted to add a bit of dimension to the elements so I attached some of the stickers from the collection to cardboard I had on hand and cut around the shapes. I used an emery board to smooth out the jagged edges.

I used glue dots to attach the baker's twine to the balloon.

Above is another sticker on cardboard. I used dimensional stickers to attach it to the card. At first, I just attached it straight to the card, but it was a bit lost with all the stripes and patterns around. One of my scrappin' sistas suggested placing a bit of the red polka dot paper behind it to make it pop more. What a great idea Charlene!!

Ingredients:

Pattern paper: Happy Day collection by Simple Stories
Card stock: Very Vanilla by Stampin' Up
Other elements were from my stash

Giving Thanks

This week's theme is Giving Thanks and today Shirley Ross is sharing her card. The card uses colors of Fall and shares a thankful sentiment.

Hop on over to Shirley's blog, Mom 'n Me Scrap for more details on this card and to see the inside sentiment.

And come back tomorrow to see our next Giving Thanks card.

Giving Thanks

The theme this week is Giving Thanks. Today’s designer, Cindy Foster, has made a leaf shaped card for the occasion.

Please hop over to Cindy Foster’s Blog for the detail on how this card was made.

Thanks for stopping by and come back tomorrow to see what our Designer Shirley Ross has in store for you.

Autumn Owl

Hello everyone, I hope your having a great weekend so far. My name is Jill Figley, and it's my turn today to post a card, and here it is.

I just fell in love with this cute little owl, and just had to use him for my card entry. If you'd like to see more details on how I created this card, please visit my blog, Created By Jill. Please come back tomorrow, and see what our next designer, Cindy Foster, has created. 

Hoot Hoot

Welcome to another day on the Card a Day Blog.

My name is Adele Robbetze

My card features a cute image from Dustin Pike and a sketch from Becky Fleck.

For more details, please visit my blog.

Thank you for visiting!!!

Thanks! It was a Hoot!

I wanted to design a thank you card that gave a hoot by using recycled bits of paper I had stashed away.  It really was a hoot to make! You can read all about it here at my Gardens Crafts "n" More blog.

Come back tomorrow for another dose of inspiration from Adele!

A Hootin' Good Time.....

That's what I'm having with this week's theme.  Hi, Christine Patton here with another fun card idea for you to play with.  We've been having a Fall-like nip in the air the last couple of days, and it's started me thinking about Halloween.  I hope my card gives you some inspiration for your upcoming Fall events.

All the details for making this card are on my Creative Genie-ous blog.

I do hope you'll use some of our ideas to participate in our monthly challenges.  WE HAVE PRIZES!!!  And please come back tomorrow for a dose of inspiration from Shelley.

Give A Hoot!

The theme this week is Owls. They can be beautiful, majestic, spooky, or silly. Let’s find our “Inner Owl” and be inspired by these feathered friends to create something we can all hoot about. Okay, enough with this fowl language. Today's designer, Kelly George, has made a card using a sketch from Becky Fleck at Pagemaps.



Complete details on how to make this card can be found on Kelly’s blog, Sassy Scrapper Studio.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to come back tomorrow and see another one of our fine designers at work.

I hope you're feeling OWL better

I used my Cricut to create this card. The owl was cut from the Just Because Cards cartridge and the branch he is sitting on was cut from the Create a Critter cartridge. 

I love using my Cricut when I need to come up with something quickly, as was the case for this card because I forgot that we had changed themes from Celebrations to Owls. I had made a card and prepared a post with a birthday card, which I will still post because they are always useful, but then I had to come up with a card that worked for the Owl theme in a hurry.

I added some googly eyes and glossy accent to the owl's beak and feet, wrote up a sentiment on some labels cut with Spellbinders dies and my Cuttlebug, cut a border with a Fiskars border punch and nobody would have been any the wiser, except maybe for the owl (ha ha).

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the card. Be sure to come back tomorrow to see what another designer comes up with.

Birthday Cards

Now that I am a cardmaker, I find that there is nothing worse than having to quickly make a card just before going out to see someone on their birthday. That's why I like to have lots of birthday cards on hand, ready to give to someone.

Since our theme is still Celebrations, I decided to make another birthday card that I can keep on hand for just the right person.

Full details on how I made this card and the list of items I used are on my ScrapperCreations blog.

Be sure to join in the fun and participate in our challenge.

Come back tomorrow and every day to see more cards!!

OWL Love You Always...........

Well, it's a new week, and our new theme, as you might have guessed from the title, is OWLS.  Today's card is brought to you by our designer, Christine Patton.  It's a great card for an anniversary, but it's also perfect anytime you just want to tell someone you love them.

 

Please hop over to Christine Patton's Blog to see how this card was made and what supplies you'll need.

So glad you stopped by today.  Tomorrow is a holiday in the USA, but we'll be here with another special card from another one of our terrific designers.

Celebration

The theme this week is Celebrations. What better way to honor celebrations than with a celebrations card . Today's designer, Shirley Ross, has made a wedding or anniversary card using scraps to create a 3-D cake:

Complete details on how to make this card can be found on Shirley's blog at Mom 'n Me Scrap

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to come back tomorrow and see another one of our fine designers at work.

It's a Boy!

One of my Scrappin' Sistas had a baby boy this week so I decided to make my first card for the Card a Day Blog a baby card. I am so excited to be part of the Card a Day Blog and I really hope people enjoy it.

Full details on how I made this card and what I used are available on my ScrapperCreations blog.

Please come back tomorrow to see what we have in store for you!

Launch of our Card a Day Blog

We are so excited to launch this blog today. I can't tell you how many hours of work we have put into organizing this blog. We have a wonderful team of designers who will be sharing their beautiful creations with you, but who are also working very hard behind the scenes to inspire each other, collect and organize prizes for our challenges and so much more.

So many great ideas will be shared with you here. We hope that you decide to check our blog out often and join us as a follower.

This month, we will be sharing cards you can use for celebrations, fall, Thanksgiving, cats and bats and Halloween. On October 1 (World Card Making Day), we will launch our Christmas Card Blog Hop that will continue until mid-December. This should help you get the creative juices flowing for your own Christmas cards.

After the Christmas Card Blog Hop, we plan to continue inspiring you all year. With any luck, we will have lots 'n lots of followers, sponsors and designers so we can continue for a very long time.

We do want to offer our followers a chance to participate as well, so we challenge you to follow the weekly theme from Sunday till Monday and at the end of the month there will be random drawn prize winner (the challenges are only open to residents of the U.S. and Canada) for that month's prize which is always a surprise! Full details are provided on the Challenge page.

Now, enough of all this ... let's get to what we're here for!!!

The theme this week is Celebrations. What better way to honor celebrations than with the celebration of a new life. Today's designer, Tina Campbell has made a baby shower card with a technique of welding a card base with a Gypsy:

Complete details on how to make this card can be found on Tina's blog at Tina's Scrap Corner

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to come back tomorrow and see another one of our fine designers at work.

Be sure to join in the fun and participate in our challenges. You can start submitting your cards for the September challenge at 10:00 a.m. on September 1, 2011 either below or on the Challenges page.