Call Me Maybe

I'm baaaaack!!!!! This pregnancy has kicked my butt in the energy department. But since today was National Scrapbook Day, I figured I should get a few layouts done. I actually got four one-page layouts done!!! But... I can't find my camera cables. :(

So here's the card I gave Chris for Valentine's Day. I'm really going to try to catch up on all the projects I've done but not had the energy (or as Carver calls it: engine-ee) to post.

Details:

Spellbinders - Standard Circles Large

Pink by Design - Call Me

My Mind's Eye - Quilting Bee

Twine

In the baby department, I'll be 30 weeks tomorrow and everything is progressing perfectly!! Oh, and if you hadn't heard, we're having a girl! It's been a big mind set change but we're really excited. :)

Owl Baby Shower

Hey everyone!! I hosted a baby shower for a high school friend last month and it was so much fun!!! She's having a little boy and is due in a short 3 weeks. The nursery theme is owls so I took it from there and did a blue and grey theme. Loving grey right now!!!

Here's the invites. I love how it stretched my creativity to do something different and the end result was exactly what I had pictured. On the back I put a bigger owl silhouette with her registry information.

 Wishes for Baby. This is becoming a staple for all baby showers. I love peaking at some of the answers people come up with and it will be something to treasure for years to come.

 Cover of the Words for Baby

Words of wisdom for the mommy. I put them on a book ring so that she can hang them in the nursery for those moments when she needs a little advise.

 Banner

 Favors - I did smarties and the tag says "Thanks for giving a HOOT!"

 I made three of these to put on the food table. Even though my thumb was numb when I was done, they're just so cute! Oh, the gummy bears in the background were because she is craving them. And just so happened I crave them too! :)

 Wreath for the front door. My mom has a thick (think 3-4" thick) door so we a traditional wreath hook wouldn't work. I picked up a magnet wreath hook thing that I thought would work since most of the door is glass. That didn't work either because the glass was thick too. So I turned to my stand-by... packing tape. Worked like a charm and wasn't too noticeable.

Details

Invites:

Core'dinations - Jet Stream & Elephant

ColorBok - Aqua Stripe

Create a  Critter 2.25 & 3"

Peachy Keen - Bird Faces & More

Spellbinders - Labels Eight

Words of Wisdom:

Core'dinations - Jet Stream & Elephant

Create a Critter 1.25"

Wise Words for Baby:

ColorBok - Aqua Stripe

Core'dinations - Jet Stream & Elephant

Spellbinders - Labels Eight

Cherry Limeade 2" shadow

Create a Critter 2.5"

A Cup of Friendship

 When our Bible Study ended before Christmas, I organized with everyone to collect money to go towards a Nordstrom gift card and have this card for everyone to sign to thank Erica for hosting and leading us. 

You know when you have a piece of paper that you love so much that it ends up sitting there and never gets used? Well that was this coffee paper for me. My local scrapbook store doesn't carry it anymore so I'd have to get it online. It actually hurt to cut into it! :) But the end result was definitely worth it. This was a 5.5 x 8.5 card (just fold an 8.5x11 in half) so that everyone had room to sign it.

 

Details:

Love You a Latte 7"

Recollections kraft & whtie

Bazzill Chablis

Canvas Corp - Coffee Stamps on kraft

Spellbinders Grommet tags

twine

I originally cut the coffee cup to small for what I had in mind for Erica's card so I decided to use it on another card. The fun stamp is from a new set by Pink by Design called Extra Hot.

Details:

Love you a Latte 6"

Recollections kraft & white

Pink by Design - Extra Hot

Canvas Corp - Coffee Stamps on Kraft

Reindeers Galore!

I made a bunch of Christmas cards to have at my last craft show. And my Gramma bought them all! So now I need to make more for my show this weekend. If you're around Belfair WA, come say hi!

I made a box of five for each design.

Details:

Create a Critter 3.75"

Bazzill Mud Pie

Recollections kraft

scraps

DCWV - Christmas Combo, Christmas & Winter

Pink by Design - Christmas Wishes

Spellbinders Labels 8 (cut in half)

Bring You Peace

Here's another card I did for the Master Craft challenge at Pink Cricut. Don't forget that voting will open on Oct 4th. I wanted do a card that you wouldn't expect from this stack. How unexpected would a sympathy card be from a Rockstar stack? :)

Details:

DCWV - Rockstar (c)

Core'dinations - Deep Navy

Recollections white

Spellbinders Labels 4 Small

Pink by Design - Sympathy

Ribbon

Owl Be Thinking Of You

Hey everyone! Yesterday was my hubby's birthday so I took the day off of blogging. I loved that he got to do exactly what he wanted for his birthday - sit in a tree stand. haha Sept 1st was opening day for archery for deer. This is Chris's first year doing archery so he's really excited. He's been tracking some deer by his parents house as well as on the neighbor's property. While we were in Ellensburg last weekend he went out at least once a day. He's seen a lot of non-legal bucks and lots of does but nothing he can shoot yet.

Here's a card I made last week. It's for Pink by Design's Ink it to Pink challenge.

Details:

Create a Critter 2.5"

Core'dinations - Deep Navy & Jet Stream

DCWV - Green #1

scraps

Spellbinders Labels 8

Peachy Keen - Bird Faces & More

Pink by Design - You're a Hoot

Quatrefoil Birthday

I've been cleaning out some of my crafting stuff (gasp! I know!) so that it's a little more organized and I'm not holding onto things that I know I'll never use. I reorganized all of my Stampin' Up! paper that I got when I got a bunch of ink pads from an old distributor and decided to make a card with them for my mother in law's birthday (which was August 4th. I'm catching up!) 

You can't see it but the middle says Happy Birthday. I used Gable Green which is super light but its beautiful in person. I had a hard time with this card because I usually do gardening type cards for her and wanted something different. 

 

Details:

Stampin' Up! - Gable Green & Brocade Blue

Spellbinders Labels 8

Pink by Design - Quatrefoil background & Scripted Year

Friendship and Coffee

Ok, I have to say it. I cheated on Pink by Design and I'm feeling guilty. But I saw this set by Emma from My Creative Time and fell in love with this background stamp. It's the smaller of the two of this design and I love it! I've had this set since it came out and am just now getting the courage to use it. Can you tell that I'm intensely loyal? haha This picture does not do the card justice. I loved it so much that I made two and one's going to a friend and the other is for my {future} craft room.

Details:

My Creative Time - Coffee Break

Pink by Design - Perk Me Up

Recollections kraft

Divine Twine

Button

Carver's 3rd Birthday Invites

Here's the invites I made for Carver's pirate party. I've had these done for so long and kept meaning to post these but I was too busy getting ready for the big day. haha

Details:

Life's a Party 5"

Cricut Craftroom to weld 2 circles and a rectangle

Core'dinations - Oceanic & Burgundy

DCWV - Pirate Sayings

Spellbinders - Standard Circle Large & Classic Scallop Circle Large

Pink by Design - Pirate

Wishes for Baby take 2

Here's the Wishes for Baby cards I made for Amanda's shower last weekend. They are essentially the same as the ones I made for my friend, Jena in January, just with colors changed. I love how simple they are to make and how personal they are to the baby. I purposefully try not to read what people write but I caught a glimpse of one of Amanda's brother's cards. It was so sincere and he put so much time into his answers. I loved it! This little boy is going to grow up knowing so many people love him.

Wishes for Baby

I found these on Pinterest and my best friend and I thought they would be perfect for her baby shower. So I went about making them (the pin had a free download but it wasn't the right colors). I used the colors of the bedding for the nursery and I love how they turned out! We had everyone fill them out and she's going to make a book out of them. Even though I had the most time to think about what I wanted to answer, it was still really hard to come up with things - especially since he's already here and I've fallen head over heels for him. :)

Details:
Spellbinders Label 8
Bazzill Mud Pie
Core'dinations Deep Navy & Burgundy
Value Pack white

Sprinkled with Love

I'm really liking the pink/white combo right now. It's going to be hard to do any other combination. haha

Details:
Pink by Design - Grow & Friends to the End (hearts)
Spellbinders Labels 8
Core'dinations St Valentino
Recollections white
Glossy Accents
twine

Challenge:
Whimsical Designs - sketch

Toasty Hands

Here's another card I made while we were cooped up in the house. The power was out so I stretched my imagination and pulled out my Spellbinders to see what inspiration I could come up with.

I really like this card and actually used it as part of my submission to the Pink by Design Design Team Call. There's still a couple days left to enter! Here's all the information that you need to include in your application.

Details:
Core'dinations White Wash Cellar Door
CB Snowflakes embossing folder
Spellbinders Mittens
Pink by Design - Goodie Labels & Goodie Labels Die
Stampin Up! Tempting Turquoise
Viva Pearl Pen Light Blue

Challenges:
Getting Cricky - Let it snow / embossing
Crafting for all Seasons - Snowman or Snowflake
Fantabulous Cricut - snowflake or snowman

Bundle of Joy

This was originally going to be for Peachy Keen's Face it Friday challenge (shape card) but then I added the yellow backer paper and kind of ruined that idea. haha I took a folded piece of paper and ran it through my Big Shot with a spellbinders die positioned so that it didn't cut one side all the way (see second picture) to create a shape card. But then I realized that for that die set, it made the card too small. This would work better with a different set.

I LOVE how it turned out and will definitely be making more of these - with different die sets though. I used OWH Stars & Stamps sketch #81.


Details:
Spellbinders Labels 8
Baby Steps 2.25"
Making Memories Pastel Matstack
scraps
Bazzill Pollen
Pink by Design "Scripted Year"

Thank you cards for Carver's birthday

I needed to make some thank you cards for all the presents that Carver got for his birthday. I wanted to keep with the construction theme so this is what I came up with. They are just notecards with the writing on the back. The stamp is supposed to go with an elephant since it's in the Jungle Fever stamp set by Pink by Design but it works perfectly with a dump truck!!!

The back

Details:
B is for Boy 4.25"
Bazzill Mud Pie & Desert Marigold
Spellbinders Labels 8
Recollections kraft & white
Pink by Design "Jungle Fever"

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