Gratitude

I think I'm setting myself up for potential disaster by always making thank you cards when there's a baby shower. haha They're just so practical and fun to make. My Bible Study had a baby shower last Wednesday before we left town so I made these really quick. I only had enough ribbon for half of them but this gives her a little variety. This stamp set (Definitely Definitions) by Pink by Design is fast becoming one of my favorites!!! They might need to make another set with different words (hint hint Sarah! haha)

Details:

New Arrival 2.75"

Core'dinations - Persimmon & Deep Navy

Pink by Design - Definitely Definitions

I'm Alive!

We're still alive! We're doing ok... just hanging out as a family. I've also been trying to get Noah's life announcements finished and in the mail. Well, I got half of them done today and in envelopes before I remembered that I had forgotten the giraffe for the back. Oh well. I'm not going to open all of those envelopes. I'm waiting on the rest of the giraffe paper that I ordered so I can finish the rest.

I've also been working on my friend's baby shower. I finished the invites and got them to her mom to mail out (I'm scheduling that post for tomorrow) and now I've got the Wishes for Baby cards, a banner and cupcake toppers. These cards are going to be part of my gift to Amanda. The ones that I'm going to give her say "thank you" instead. My friend has my memory card for my camera since she is editing the pictures of Noah that are on there. So this is the only picture I have right now.

Details:
New Arrival 3.5"
ColorBok Blue Mini Dots
Bazzill Mud Pie
Recollections kraft
Pink By Design - Scripted Year & Red, White & Blue (Star)

Final Set of Onesie Cards

Here's the final set of onesie cards I made for Sara's shower. I love this layout, can you tell?!? haha

Details:
New Arrival 3.5"
Create a Critter 2.25"
Paper Pizazz - Soft Trims Lavender Swirls
Recollections - white & kraft
CB - D'vine Swirls
ribbon
Core'dinations Grapevine

Onesie Cards #3

Here's set number three. Have I mentioned that there are 5 of each set?

Details:
New Arrival 3.5"
George & Basic Shapes 1.25"
Paper Pizazz - Soft Trims Pink Swirls
Recollections - white & kraft
CB - D'vine Swirls
ribbon
Core'dinations - St Valentino

Onesie Cards #2

Here's the second set of onesie cards I made for Sara's baby shower. I think this one is my favorite. :)

Details:
New Arrivals 3.5"
9 Months 4"
Recollections Light Pink Dots, white & kraft
CB - Swiss Dots
ribbon
Core'dinations - Hawaiian Orchid

Onesie Cards For a Baby Shower

Can I preface this by saying I have been super busy lately making things for craft shows. I'm almost to a stopping point and then I am gladly getting back into cards and (hopefully) layouts!

I made 4 different types of baby onesie cards for a baby shower I went to. They all have the same layout but with different papers. Here's the first one I did. For Sara's cards, I had a black C for Charley Mae.

Details:
New Arrival 3.5"
Recollections Purple Damask and Black
CB Texture embossing folder
Flower punch (Alphalicious 1" for the C)
ribbon

Onesies Galore!!!

I was low on baby cards so I set out to stock up. I started by taking a 12x12 sheet of white cardstock and did an auto fill for the onesies. I figured, as many as would fit on one sheet would be how many cards I would make. Well, 9 onesies fit on the page. So I split it up 5 gender neutral, 2 boy and 2 girl.

Details:
New Arrival 3.5"
George & Basic Shapes 1.25"
The Paper Studio white
Bazzill Limeade
Core'dinations Pastel Yellow
CB Swiss Dots

This one took me the longest. I couldn't find the perfect pattern paper. So I settled on this one.

Details:
New Arrival 3.5"
George & Basic Shapes 1.25"
Bazzill Chablis
K & Company SnuggleBug

This is probably my favorite out of the three styles.

Details:
New Arrival 3.5"
George & Basic Shapes 1.25"
DCWV All About Boys
Value Pack Chocolate
scraps
CB Swiss Dots
ribbon

Another Baby Girl Bannerhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

Here's another banner I made to have at the Farmers Market. I love, love, love how this turned out!! Sorry the picture is horrible, I was rushing to take this and finish getting ready for the market.

Details:
Birthday Bash - ovals 5", letters 3"
New Arrival 4"
Bazzill Chablis
Core'dinations Grapevine
scraps
iRock (on the bow on rattle)
Celebrate it ribbon
K & Company Snuggle Bug stack

Link Parties:
You Had me at Craft
Joyful Stamper
Patches of Pink

Baby Banner Card

I love how simple this card turned out. It took a little thinking on how I wanted to do the twine but in all, it's pretty cute. :)

Challenges:
My Creative Time - green & yellow
More Than Favors - New Arrival


Details:
New Arrival 1"
Value Pack white
Bazzill Limeade & Pollen
Spellbinders Labels 8
Pink by Design 'Here Comes the Bride'
Stampin Up! Daffodil Delight
Divine Twine

I Heart Naptime's Sunday Scoop

Thank You Cards for a Baby Shower

There was another baby shower at our church. They are both having girls so I decided to make them both thank you cards. I made 10 for each of them and did half with the gingham paper and half with the small dots.

I also made the boxes to put the cards in. I got the tutorial from Ruthie at September Ninth. It took a little math but once you got that figured out, it was pretty easy.

Everyone loved the cards and were amazed that I made the boxes too. :)

Card Details:
New Arrival 3.5"
Heart - George and Basic Shapes 1.25"
Pink - scraps
Wausau paper white
Making Memories - Pink Gingham & Pink Small Dots
CB Swiss Dots embossing folder
JoAnns ribbon

Box Details:
Value Pack kraft & white
Jute
scraps
Fiskars ticket stub punch

Clearing the Clutter Challenge #9

Welcome to another month of Clearing the Clutter! For those of you who are new, go check out this post to get caught up to speed. In a nut shell, it's my personal mission, once a month, to clear/finish something that's been sitting on my desk for too long. It gives me a sense of accomplishment and cleans up my desk as well. :)

For today's post, I was clearing out a shelf on my desk and found all of these cuts that I'd been accumulating. They were either the wrong size for the project I was working on, I made extras, or I just decided not to use it. So I decided to make some cards out of them and use up some of my scraps as well. A two-fur, you might say. :)

For this one, I took a bunch of flowers that I'd cut and layered and curled them so they'd pop up. I may go back and cut out the it's a girl again since this is the shadow feature.


Details:
New Arrival 2.5" ?
Accent Essentials ?"
Core'dinations Lipstick
scraps

I LOVE how this one turned out. I got the idea from a blog, but can't for the life of me remember whose it was. If this was yours, please let me know so I can give you credit. It had an N on the onesie. Thanks!

Details:
New Arrival 3.5"
heart - ?
Bazzill Mud Pie
Rhonna Farrer paper
CB Swiss Dots embossing folder
ribbon

I'm still not too sure how I feel about this one but I know that my niece will love it. Her name is Alea and her bedroom is filled with butterflies. :)

Details:
New Arrival 2" ?
A - ?
Core'dinations Lipstick
scraps
Divine Twine

Last one. This one turned out really fun. I used Pink by Design's 'Here Comes the Bride' for the sentiment. Just goes to show that just because the set is for one thing, it doesn't mean they don't fit other occasions.

Details:
New Arrival 3"
Heart - ?
Bazzill Limeade
scraps
Pink by Design "Here Comes the Bride"

If you want to play along, just add a link to your post in a comment. If I get enough people wanting to play, I'll add a link button.

Another baby on the way!

Our church has a lot of young families so there is always babies being born. Well in the span of about a week, 4 ladies announced that they were pregnant! I made this card for one of them since she's in my MOMS group and my bible study. Two of the other ladies that are pregnant are also in my MOMS group.

Details:
New Arrival 4.5"
Bazzill Pollen
scraps
twine
iRock
Pink by Design 'Hats Off'

Challenge:
Scrappy Moms - New Arrival

I've been on a mission to use up some of my scraps and I saw this patterned paper laying around. The next cards you'll see out of my will be using my new cartridges (except for one more that I just remembered about!). I can't wait to play with them!!!



Details:
New Arrival 2.5"
Dollar Tree ribbon
scraps
Pink by Design 'Hats Off'

Clearing the Clutter Challenge #8

For this month's challenge, I finished something that's been sitting on my desk for a couple months - except for when Carver would take it to the living room and stuff it with toys, that is. I guess he'll be able to use it next year.

If you're new to Clearing the Clutter, head to this post and see what it's all about. I post on the first Friday of the month. Feel free to join in. Just put your link in a comment. If I get enough people I'll start doing a Mr Linky.




Details:
Rhonna Farrer paper
Offray ribbon
scraps - paper & ribbon
New Arrival: Circle 2.5", Monkey 3.5"
Cuttin' Up 1.5"

Another Layout

I did another 2-page layout. That means I reached my goal of doing 6 pages this month! For this one I used The Scrappiest's Sketch #112 as a jumping point. These pages were for my 33wk belly pictures when I was pregnant. They weren't the best pictures but I'll give you a sneak of my adorable belly when I do another set of pictures.



Details:
monkey - New Arrival 4"
33 weeks - Plantin Schoolbook 2.5"
dots - Rhonna Farrer
Bazzill Mud Pie
TPC Neutral tan
JoAnns ribbon
Core'dinations Guava

Baby Shower Layout Part 1

I did a layout!!! And it took FOREVER!!! Seriously, each of these animals had 3 layers. But I finished it! And I LOVE it!!! Ok, enough drama. Onto the layouts. This was for my baby shower. My son's nursery is a monkey theme and so we went with a monkey/safari theme for the party. Sorry for the poor quality photos. I couldn't get the right lighting and I didn't want to wait for the clouds to blow over.


Details:
DCWV Nana's Kids - Circus Animals with Glitter
Recollections Blue, White, Kraft & Black
Create a Critter - Train 4", Hippo 2.25", Lion 2", Elephant 2", Zebra 2.5", Giraffe 4.5"
Monkey - New Arrival 3.5"
Circle - George & Basic Shapes 5.5"
Bazzill Bling Stack
JoAnns ribbon

I'll try to take some better pictures and some close-ups later on.

Clearing the Clutter Challenge #7 - Finally!

Better late than never... right? Carver's feeling a little better. He's still got a nasty cough but his nose isn't running anymore so I think we're on our way out of the woods.

Ok, onto the project! I was asked to make a banner for baby boy shower since I was making this one for a girl. These will be used for every shower that my church hosts. And I figured, since I'm making one, why not make two? I'm toying with the idea of doing a few craft fairs and I'd sell this there.

**Carver's actually taking a nap in there while I take pictures. haha Gotta love a good flash!**


Details:
Old West 3.5"
New Arrival 4"
Recollections Blue (98939) and White
DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy
DCWV Summer matstack
Bazzill Limeade
Michaels ribbon - cut at 7'

It's a Girl Banner

Here's the banner I made for the baby shower last weekend. Here's how I made it:

Take a 6x12 sheet of paper and make marks at 5" and 10" on the top. On the bottom make marks at 2.5" and 7.5". You can draw cheat lines if you want and then cut. A 12x12 will make 6 triangles. For the second layer, cut triangles that are 1/4" smaller (5.5x12 and 4.5" wide).

The only place that I could find to take pictures was on Carver's crib. haha All of the other walls had too much of a glare.




Details:
Recollections Pink (#98959) and White
DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl
Bazzill Limeaid
George 3"
Flowers - New Arrival 4"
Michaels ribbon cut at 8 feet

Baby Shower card

This is the card I made to go with my present at the baby shower last weekend. The ribbon is a sheer pink which the photo doesn't show very well.

Details:
Recollections Pink & Black
DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl
New Arrival 4"
JoAnn ribbon
iRock

A gift of cards

My MOMs group had a baby shower for one of our moms today. She has a 2 yr old little boy and is pregnant with twin girls! We were asked to buy clothes, since she'll definitely be needing them! I was part of the planning/decorating so the onesies that I bought were hung on a clothesline as decoration.

I didn't feel like that was enough so I made her some thank you cards. I did 10 of each design for a total of 20 cards. They were really simple but so adorable!

I'll post the card I made for the mama and the banner on Tuesday and Wednesday.


Details:
Onesie - New Arrival 3.5"
Heart - Doodlecharms 1.25"
Recollections pink #98959 (I didn't grab the name while I was at Michaels)
Bazzill Limeaid
CB Swiss Dots and Perfectly Paisley embossing folders

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