Hello Prince

This happens to be the very last challenge over at Wee Memories, I whipped up a card fit for a prince (or a king) which I thought an appropriate way to finish in style!

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I used a piece of scrap paper as my base and cuts 1/2" strips of Bashful Blue and Whisper White, lining them right up against each other. After I had the desired amount, I cut my striped background to the appropriate size, at a slant, before adhering it to Night of Navy. 

This is a trifold card and the belted crown slips off to reveal the inside.

A heat embossed golden Hello, paired with the crown is perfect to welcome a little 'prince' into the world...

don't you think so?

SU! product used:

Stamp Set - Artistic Etchings

Paper - Night of Navy, Whisper White, Bashful Blue

Punches - Scallop Border, Scallop Circle, 1-3/4" Circle

Other - Gold Embossing Powder, Dimensionals, Gold Super Fine Glitter

Hand Stamped Sentiments #101 - Shaker Technique

It's time to SHAKE IT over at Hand Stamped Sentiments this week! 

I had so much fun watching this card come to life before my eyes...I pulled out my SWEET TREAT CUPS and knew I wanted to make a rattle for this challenge...so on went my thinking cap and I was off in lala creative land (or shall I say, shaker land)!

I used one of the flower petals from the BIGS Flower Die as my handle, edging it in brown ink. My little onesie was stamped and cut out, for a fun surprise once the glitter has been shaken the bottom of the Sweet Treats Cup. My circular outline of the rattle was made with first the 1-3/4" Circle punch and then lining up the 2-1/2" Circle punch on top of it. I then used the Lattus EF to bring a little bit of texture to my rattle. A sweet little bow for tiny touch of elegance, so cute! This is perfect for a sweet little boy that was just born to our old neighbors back in Texas. Life's too precious to not add some sparkles and 'shake it' once in awhile!

Head on over to Hand Stamped Sentiments to check out what the Design Team has shaken up this week...put some tunes on your radio and get your own shakin' goin' on!!

SU! products used:

Paper - Bashful Blue

Stamps - retired SAB Whimsical Words

Punches - 1-3/4" Circle, 2-1/2" Circle, Large Oval

Die/EF - Lattus EF, Clear Flower Bigz Die

Other - Early Espresso 1/8" taffeta ribbon, Sweet Treats Cups, Lg. Blue Chunky Glitter

BIG congratulations!

Freshly Made Sketches has a fun, fresh and simple sketch this week, I flipped it to fit my stamps and send some BIG Congratulations to two of my friends! Way to go ladies!!

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I paired the sketch with these fun colors over at The Play Date Cafe, Burgundy, Gold & Plum.

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I stamped my b, preggo gal and g directly onto the Brushed Gold cardstock. I thought she could use a little jazzing up, so a bit of Perfect Plum paper piecing gave her some sass. The stripes are small strips of gold cardstock and some of that fun Japanese tape, which my brother brought me for Christmas. I'd never used it before but thought it would be fun to try out on this card and it was!

I showed this card to my DH (dear hubby) and his statement was..."I hope you don't offend anyone with that!" MEN...haha...

SU! products used:

Cardstock - Bravo Burgundy, Brushed Gold, Perfect Plum

Punch - Word Window

Stamp Set - Baby Bundle

Technique: Paper Piecing

Rocking Horse Congrats

I was thrilled when I spotted this sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches this week...so many fun options, it was actually hard to choose just what I wanted to spotlight in the three little panels. 

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I did however, finally decide on these sweet felt little rocking horses that I picked up in Germany a few years ago. I love how striking the red is against the cool blue.

SU! products used:

Stamps - Baby Bundle

Ink - Real Red

Paper - Whisper White, Bashful Blue

Punch - 1-3/8" Circle

EF - Striped

Simple Congratulations

This week over at Hand Stamped Sentiments, they are having a clean and simple challenge (fun!), which I paired with the color challenge over at Just Add Ink (JAI84), where we are to use Whisper white and a color of choice. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Crumb Cake (can't get enough of it) so after stamping my sweet little elephant in Versa Mark, I then heat embossing the image with Clear Embossing powder for a subtle impression. I added a piece of coordinating ribbon off to the side and stamped my Congratulations sentiment in Basic Black, from the RETIRED Well Scripted stamp set. I also corner rounded the edges to soften the card a bit. I love making simple cards to celebrate people, a new job or a new little life in this case. A childhood friend is pregnant with her fourth child and I remember her bed being surrounded by stuffed elephants, which is why I chose our stout little friend.

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Sweet Baby PINK

Using this weeks Just Add Ink Sketch & Wee Memories Challenge #66, I created this sweet pink card for a dear friend who will soon be delivering her 3rd baby (second girl) in a far away country (where we delivered our  first born daughter)...so sending lots-a PINK vibes and prayers your way, Nat! Miss you and I know you're going to do AWESOME!!

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I've been tapping into my RETIRED stash of lovelies lately, not only because after unpacking everything, I'm remembering exactly what I have but also because it's best to use what I have to make room for more, hehe!

I wanted to keep this card very girly and PINK, which explains the monochromatic look. I used Regal Rose, Melon Mambo, Pink Pirouette, Blushing Bride & Pretty in Pink. Three little strips of RETIRED DSP from the little demo paper sampler (I knew I kept it for a reason!) along the bottom of my card, topped with two pieces of already scrunched up ribbon (also retired) from the Fairy Tale line. My center flower was created with a 2-1/2" Circle with 6 little 1-1/4" Circles tucked behind. A phrase stamped in Versa Mark and Heat Embossed with Melon Mambo Embossing Powder, some PINK bling and viola!! Can't wait to send this card off to the new little princess once she arrives!

Baby Will

 This post has been a loooong time coming...I made this sweet little card to coordinate with monogramed socks and a little hat for a friend who recently had her first little bundle of joy, before we left TX but with getting everything ready for the move, etc. it's been sitting on my desktop until now! 

I used the Top Note for my colorful background, Varsity Alphabet and the baby giraffe from the RETIRED It's the Thought hostess stamp set, to fill in for the letter "I".

aren't those little socks just the cutest?!

Little Boy Blue

Having issues with blogger as 3 of my posts are no where to be found that I put up yesterday...blah...I'll try to recap as best I can

 I made this for my friend Holly's little baby boy awhile back and am just now getting round to posting, it's been a little bit on the busy side here so crafting has been put on the back burner, much to my dismay. Peyton's room is decorated in classic Mickey, so I googled the bedding online to use as color inspiration.

Using scraps from my framed piece, I then stamped directly onto the twill tape with Stazon ink, using a phrase from the Picture This Hostess set.

Baby Belly Rubs

I've recently had two good friends let me know about the little miracles budding inside their bellies, so was inspired to create the following cards (I made two) with them in mind. I used this weeks Card Patterns Sketch, I've become slightly addicted to Card Patterns Sketches lately...I love their simplicity but yet, you can add such a big bang with the little details!

With my recent revamp and spring cleaning of my stamp room, I'm finding all sorts of bits and bobbles I've forgotten about. Such as these fab retired Pacific Point corduroy buttons and ribbon. I checked to see if I had any DSP that matched and I was in luck! 2 full sheets and some scraps, which were perfect for my paper piecing. Me, cutting out tiny images stamped onto paper can truly be summed up in one word....heaven!!! sigh.. These cute little bellies were a breeze to cut with their rounded edges, I just had to be careful not to cut off the bows.

I paired my Pacific Point with a sunny Daffodil Delight & Whisper White

Punches Used: Large Oval, Small Oval, Scallop Edge Border, 2-3/8" XL Scallop Circle, 1-3/4" XL Circle

Baby Thanks

I keep running out of baby thank you for little Asher man, so decided to use this weeks Card Patterns sketch as inspiration to whip up a batch. I really wanted to call this post, "Thanks...I Think" but wasn't sure if anyone would get my funny! Thought this little elephant was so cute stamped in Craft Chocolate Chip and embossed with Clear embossing powder...so I decided to give him a little tag along buddy, to hold onto his tail but well ya know, not sure if it looks like that...or that he's poking him in the bum, there I said it! Eeek! Dare I?? I'm seriously laughing out loud writing this, so I hope you'll find it a bit humorous as well. Elephant #2 is stamped in Marina Mist.

 I ran a strip of Very Vanilla through the Big Shot in the SU! Square Lattice Impressions Folder, dabbing a bit of Marina Mist ink around the edges with a sponge. My little elephants looked like they needed a snazzy little place to stand, so a piece of Sticky Strip, sprinkled with Stampin' Glitter in Baja Breeze and viola, a shiny little road! My first attempt at working with Seam Binding, so fun! I stamped my sentiment from the Hostess level 1 stamp set Afterthoughts (found in the front of the 2010/2011 Idea Book & Catalog) directly onto the bumpy cardstock and quite like the crackled effect it presents us with.

B is for BOY

Using this weeks Color Throwdown colors of Early Espresso, Kiwi Kiss, Marina Mist & Old Olive and this fab sketch from The Paper Players, I pulled together this cutie patootie card. 

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 One of my all time favorite baby themed sets from SU! is of course

RETIRED but I just love the detail of this little foot from the I'm Here Stamp set. I stamped my little piggies in Early Espresso as well as the sentiment. After a bit of edging with the Cutter Kit tool on two of my circles, a few Stampin' Dimensionals and a scrap of 1/8" Marina Mist Taffeta Ribbon tied through my button and viola'!

Punches used: 2-1/2", 1-3/4" & 1-3/8" Circle

Congratulations TWINS

My cousin & her hubby just had TWINS a few days ago and I wanted to make a card that "sort of" went with their purple baby room. This weeks Play Date Cafe had a fab color challenge, with the color purple, so I thought I'd give it a go while adding a Sweet Sunday Sketch as the base of my card.

After picking a favorite SSS, I got to work matching up my colors with my Color Coach. Elegant Eggplant, Certainly Celery & Basic Gray won this match up so I started in on punching out my circles. The gray circles are 1-1/4" & the Celery circles are 1". I added a bit of Rick Rack Ribbon (say that three times fast!) over my piece of gray and only punched 1/2 of the sentiment from the Baby Bundle Stamp Set. I did a bit of cutting and coloring to a few of the images since I thought they needed some sort of pop. And I finished off the card with three random buttons from my button jar. (The rest are covering my floor, thanks to my very helpful 2-1/2 year old)

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 Sweet Sunday FAVE

Congratulations on your beautiful babies!! Hartley & Beau are just PRECIOUS!! Can't wait to meet them.