Rock-a-Bye-Baby

When I saw this DP in the Good Neighbors paper pad, it reminded me of water but I still didn't know what I was going to use it with. Then I saw a baby card while blog surfing and knew what I wanted to do with it. I used the Nursery Necessities stamp set and the card stock colors are Taken with Teal, Real Red, Brilliant Blue, and Whisper White. The inspiration for this card was from Stamping 4 Sanity. If you are wondering why so many baby cards lately, I have been asked by the owner of a Baby Store in Alabama to supply her with a variety of baby cards to sell in her store. Since most of her business is from people buying gifts she needs cards to go along with the gift. Now, I can't show you all of them yet until she gets a chance to preview and buy the ones she wants. I have sent her 2 different batches to preview, this one was from the first batch and I am happy to say it was a winner! If you have a need for specialty cards, let me know and I will be glad to send you a price list.

Lots of Pink

Well, I am out of pink paper until Mr. Brown gets here and that won't be until Monday. I have been busy getting ready for an upcoming Cancer Fundraiser, the Pink Event, so lots of pink items already made and few more in mind before March 13. This is a little basket made using the Top Note die. I cut four and cut two of them up, sponged the edges with Pretty in Pink ink and glued them on the other Top Note. I used a cut down version of the Fancy Favor die for the middle. I will fill this with some raffia and some Easter candy items but that means a trip to Walmart but there is no time for that today. Thanks for dropping by!

Bundle of Joy

Hope you are having a good day, I have enjoyed my grandson Dalton today. He spent the night last night and we have played all day, he is crawling and pulling up and he is so much fun. I did sneak away and stamp a little while he napped. I was talking to a friend today while waiting for Sadie to get out of school and she told me some good news. She is pregnant with her fourth child, she has 3 beautiful girls and will find out the sex of this one very soon. I came home and pulled out my baby cards and noticed I was out of girl cards. Now, I know she wants a boy this time but I thought I had better have a girl card on hand just in case. I used the stamp set Teddy and Train and lots of pink paper and brown ink. I hope I get to give her one of the boy cards I have on hand but I know she will be happy no matter how her ultrasound turns out so long as she has a healthy baby. Good luck, Katie!

Friendship

Don't throw those little trim pieces of ribbon away! Make butterflies our of them, just tie a piece of linen thread or hemp in the middle, trim and you have a butterfly. My colors aren't very true today, the day I took the photo was very cloudy so this is the best I could get. The swirly thing that I thought kind of resembled a bush or small tree is stamped in Certainly Celery. The ribbons are Melon Mambo, Bashful Blue, and So Saffron. The paper is from the Sweet Pea collection. the stamp set is Wings of Friendship. Thanks for stopping by.

Lolipop Flower

Just love these "lollipop flowers" made using the circles die cut. You cut all four sizes and then just layer them and attach a brad or button to the center. I also scrunched slightly for a little more dimension. I made some of the flowers into hair bows for my girls by cutting four circles in fleece and gluing them together and adding a clip. Paper is from Sweet Pea paper pad and the ribbon is old olive satin ribbon. The sentiment is from the stamp set, Well Scripted, which can be found on page 19 of the Occasions mini catalog. If you need to place an order, email me at dls8383@gmail.com. Thanks and have a great weekend.

Thinking of You

Today I have a card with another CAS and another version of a flower using the scallop circle punch. This time I used an old book to punch out my flower pieces. I punched 6 of the scalloped circles, stacked them together slightly offset, secured them with a brad in the middle, and scrunched them, and added a button to the middle. I have seen a lot of these on different blogs but kinda of got lost trying to get to the original person to give credit, not sure but it may have been Jenn Balcher.

Mr & Mrs

Good afternoon, hope you have had a good day so far. Today I have a CAS wedding card. I don't usually do a card with a whole lot of white showing but I kinda like this. A friend from church got married last week and I made her a pretty card but gave it to her without taking a picture...I hate when I do that. Short post today, I've got one at Scouts and one at basketball practice and it is time to pick them up.

For All You Do

Good Morning, we had school today!!! I think the girls were as ready to go back as I was, they miss their friends plus they hadn't got to do their Valentine parties yet so they were excited. Today I have a card using the stamp set For All you Do with Rich Razzleberry and So Saffron papers. I haven't used the In Colors very much lately, with Christmas and Valentine's Day I have used more traditional colors. So I pulled the In colors out but I needed help with color combinations so I used the Color Combo Machine (located on the left side bar) and came up with this combo. I have been wanting to try the flowers I have been seeing on some of the blogs I visit so I used Razzleberry Lemonade DP for my Scalloped Flower. I really like how this card turned out, and guess what...I did the inside!! Caren, you should be proud of me! The butterflies are made with the Beautiful Wings embosslit die from the Occasions Mini catalog. Thanks for stopping by.

Sweet Gum Ball Treat

Just a day late to post a Valentine, right? All I can say is busy weekend and hardly even remembered it was Valentine's day. Here is the treat I gave to my kindergarten Sunday School class, they loved them. I completely cased this idea from Becky Roberts. I used the gumball machine from the Stamp Set Sweet Centers and the sweet treat cups. They were quick and easy.

Happy Birthday!

Good afternoon! I am really feeling the pain...the kids have been out of school all week except for Monday and they are out again tomorrow. They are just a little bit bored so they are are picking at each other and I am constantly playing referee, I just sent them upstairs to clean their rooms and based on what I can hear they are at it again. OK enough whining...today I have a project using the Milk Carton Die and a box that holds two. This was going to be a Valentine project when I started it 2 weeks ago but I got interrupted and didn't get it finished until thins morning so I am using it for a birthday instead. The paper is Sending Love. I used a pink paperclip to hold the box shut and tied a piece of Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon through them. The sentiment is from the Chit Chat rub-ons.



I have one ribbon share left from the Satin Ribbon if anyone is interested. Contact me at dls8383@gmail.com. It is $21.00 if you pick it up and $24 if I mail it.