Birthday Celebration --

Hello & Happy Tuesday everyone!

Happy, Happy New Year! I'm back from my vacation

and ready to start the New Year off right! :)

I had a wonderful Christmas with my family and got some AWESOME

Crafting goodies that I have yet to try out! Along with a FANTASTIC

visit with my sister - We went clothes shopping! 

I had a ball, seemed to fly by to fast for me though, but that's

okay.... it was really nice to just disconnect from the internet

for a couple of weeks.... I honestly didn't miss it - especially

Facebook! Talk about time consuming! UGH! :)

I found some free time yesterday and left you some

blogging love - I couldn't leave a comment on each post,

but I did let you know I checked out your blogs to see what

I had been missing - some of you where very busy while

others took a nice break as well - I spent all day doing it, 

but it was well worth the visits to your blogs! :)

So... it's a new year - and I've decided to step down

as a Design Team member from KaDoodle Bug Designs

I LOVED everything about that team, but feel I need to focus

on making what I want when I want too... This thought may change

of course as I love being apart of a team - But for now...

I'm happy with my decision! :)

I've also decided to try and make 1 Christmas card a week

this year! Doesn't matter what day - just as long as it's 1 holiday card 

a week! I really enjoyed being more prepared this past holiday

and want to try to be a little more prepared this New Year! :)

Today, I thought I would share a Birthday card I made for

the school that I work at - I told you in another post that I

offered to make Birthday cards for the Teachers & Staff

which I'm enjoying of course - So here's one I made --

I'm using a Viva La Verve Sketch - I believe it's Oct. 2016 and

I turned it on it's side - 

The Designer Papers & Embellishments are from

Simple Stories (Let's Party) collection

Lg. Stitched Card Mat Die - My Favorite Things

Smaller Stitched Mat Die - Craftin Desert Diva's

Card stock is Stampin' Up & American Crafts

I was going for a masculine card for the male staff members -

It took a lot out of me NOT to use my Wink of Stella Glitter Pen! LOL

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a FANTASTIC DAY!!

Theresa