Nintendo DS Card

 Making this card really made me miss my stuff. I didn't realize how easy basic tools like corner rounders and circle punches make my crafting time. Maybe not as much easier as it provides a cleaner more professional look. Oh and paper. I don't have much paper here so when I thought I might re-do this card, I couldn't! (sigh) It really will be like Christmas, because it will be Christmas (We are moving the week before) when I get my room unpacked and I CAN'T WAIT!
I didn't think I would say this, but I didn't realize when I left my stuff to be packed up for storage that it would be this long until I saw it again. I MISS MY STUFF! I keep getting ideas that I can't do anything about.  My idea sketch book will be full, believe me!

I noticed that I forgot to round the edges on the bottom flap before this picture was taken, but I fixed it before I mailed the card.

The black paper inside is black board contact paper. You can actually write on it with chalk! For the birthday message, I'd use something more permanent like a metallic marker on one surface and allow the child to use chalk to change the "screen" on the other half.
So cardstock, black contact paper, and a white gel pen (thanks Velda)... and that was it. Fun Fun...
Be blessed... I have to finish a little homework and come up with my Thankful post for F for tomorrow...

*Somebody* needs to update this blog.

We haven't talked since World Card Making Day... and wow, so much has happened.

Let's get started with the important news that I know you are dying to hear...

• We are still in a townhouse, still looking for a job, still in school or back in school. I haven't taken too much card making time, but I have done a little coloring. Amazingly enough, I've been sending cards. As a matter of fact, there are several cards sitting right here waiting for the mailman to come in and get them.  He didn't get the memo last week... LOL 
• We found a house! We found a house that we all could agree upon, most importantly. We are still in the same school district but not the same neighborhood. I'll show you a picture or two of the space that is going to be The Card Castle later this week
• Our house has not sold in GA, so be prayin' that the perfect family is coming soon to see it and purchase it SOON! :) Did I say soon, already? 

In the way of updates, I don't have much else.  The job search and now the classes are keeping me busy.

I did realize that I haven't shown you this card. I made this for my son who turned 15 in September.  I made it but he sketched the design for me. He thought the ones I was working on were inappropriate for his manliness. :) Hey, he's an artist so he should have some say, don't you think? 

Unfortunately that's all the time I have to chat today. I still have some reading to do for my classes. By the way, because I know someone is going to ask...

I'm taking Intro to Business and Technology. Very basic, but updated version of the Intro to Business I took a "couple" of years ago. And I'm also taking Computer Applications for Business. This was a prerequisite for the other computer classes I want to take. Again basic stuff.  I'm hoping the classes this session aren't too difficult, and I don't think they are. They will keep me busy nevertheless. 

So that's all for now. Leave me a comment and let me know you're still out there. Thanks for your patience.