CCC #19 .... thanks!

{for my shining the light post please scroll down}

hello!!!  i'm back with my post for this week's CASology challenge.  so many wonderful and clever entries for our orange challenge!   i always have soo much fun checking out all the entries each week and many, many times i find myself thinking "doh! why didn't i think of that???"   this week the cue word is "thanks" and with thanksgiving right around the corner... well the options are endless!  our guest designer this week is the super clever and talented shelly!

i decided to have a little bit more fun with my alphabet dies this week.  instead of using the positive letters i used the negative image.  my card is really, really simple and really quite easy to execute.  you just need to make sure you spend the bit of extra time to make sure that all the letters are lined up and centered.  another tip to share.  this one relates to washi tape and you may already know this one.  i have a hard time using washi tape on my cards for the simple reason that i often don't like how it looks once i have added it to my card.  but i discovered that washi tape is absolutely perfect for holding down your dies and comes off easily with no leftover residue.   so if you have some washi tape and can't figure out what to do with it use it to hold down your dies!!   okay... on to my card.  i cut my white cardstock piece and then laid out the alpha bet dies on the cardstock.  i used a ruler to adjust the letters so that they were as close to the center of the cardstock as possible.  once that was done i taped them down with my washi tape and ran the piece through my big shot.  some fun polka dot paper was adhered to the back and then the entire piece adhere to the cardbase.  even with taking the time to center the letter i think this card didn't take me more than 15 minutes to make.

thanks for stopping by....make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team: Melissa, Tracey, Jen, Ardyth and this week's guest designer, Shelly!   can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

supplies:  cardstock:  pti white; pp:  stampin up! marine mist polka dot; dies:  my favorite things high rise alphabet dies