Congratulations!

Good morning everyone! As I sit here crafting the heavens have opened up and it's raining something fierce. I love being home on these days and just watching the storms.  Today I made a baby card using the challenges over at Double Trouble and Crafter's Café.  I love doing the Double Trouble challenges. They always make it so much fun and the twists are so cool.

I got a bit creative with my card and tried some new techniques out.  I used distress ink and brusho powder inks to create my card. I have some pictures to share before sharing the final project.

Here is my finished project.  I used an elephant for my animal. I added a banner using a stamp that looked a bit like a baby mobile to me. I was originally going to add the congratulations to the large tag but decided I needed a bit more "pop" and dimension.

Supplies:

SS: henry says-Stampin' Up!

DIES: planner essentials 2-Elizabeth Craft Designs

INK: distress ink worn lipstick, seedless preserves & crushed olive-Tim Holtz's, midnight-Catherine Pooler ink. brusho powers-white & purple-ColorCraft

CS: purple and white

ACCESS: white brad, silver rhinestones-Want2Scrap, white/grey striped ribbon-CTMH

Blessed Be...CC74 Card Challenge

Hi everyone.  I don't know if you've seen the Hulu show Handmaid's Tail but I love that show! I was so excited to see Kindred Stamps made a stamp set just for fan's of the show!! I couldn't wait to use it for a pregnancy card for a co-worker.

I chose a sketch from Soul Scrappers this week to get my juices flowing. I've been having a hard time lately getting cards made.  I seem to go through spurts, how about you??

Here is the sketch I used

Here is my finished card. I used an aqua painter dipped into ink to color the dress, cap and hair on the image.  I used a sponge and stencil to create the background and added glitter to double sided tape for the banner.

Supplies:
SS: strong maiden - Kindred stamps
INK: mint to be, be mine, tiara, pixie dust & midnight - Catherine Pooler Designs
CS: purple & white
Acces: glitter - black ice - Sparkle N Sprinkle,

Congratulations Gift Card Holder

I have a co-worker whose wife is expecting any day now.  We wanted to give him a little gift for the baby so we decided on a gift card and I have some baby announcements I made a while ago that I'm going to give them.

I used the same YouTube video that I used for the last gift card holder.  The biggest difference is that I added it to a card base so everyone could sign the inside.

Here is the completed card.  I inked all the edges to create a softer look.  I'm loving how this turned out.

 I wanted to give a bit of a closer look at the embellishments and embossing as the above picture doesn't show it to well.

Here is the gift card holder pulled out a bit.  I adhered the band with sticky strip to give it extra hold.

Here is the gift card holder. I put my business card inside to show how the gift card would go. 

Baby Face

Hi everyone! So happy your here.  Can't wait to share this layout sketch with you today.  I had a lot of fun creating this fun layout using the sketch. Sketch~N~Scrap has some amazing sketches that are really fun to play along with.

The pictures I used are the second half from this layout HERE. I still can't believe how big this little guy is.  No more sleeping on the floor and covering his face with his blankie.  I so miss those days. This is not the best picture but the best I could do right now. 

Now it's your turn.  Head over to Sketch~N~Scrap and get crafting along with us.

Nap Time

Hello.  Welcome to the July 15th sketch challenge at Sketch~N~Scrap. Check out the sketch and my sample and join in the fun!

Since the photos I wanted to use didn't go vertical I decided to turn the sketch on it's side. My youngest always slept in the funniest ways when he was a toddler.  I so miss getting these cute pics from him.

It's A...

Good afternoon everyone.  I'm trying to get a good stash of cards made so that I can either sell them or have them on hand when I need them.  I noticed I'm really low on baby cards so using the sketch over at Try Stampin' On Tuesday I was able to get two done in the matter of minutes! The only thing that took me a few minutes was trying to figure out the embellishments to use.

Here is the sketch I used

I made two cards.  One boy and one girl card.  I'm thinking of stamping the inside with a baby stat stamp and make them announcements.

Two Card Designs

Here are two cards I created to show how to use the Kiwi Designs templates for scrapbooks when you don't have any card templates to use (hoping to add these soon lol).  I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out.  I've never used templates on cards before and they came together quite fast.

 

The templates I used are:

Baby card: chestnut drive 1B & 2 B, Adventure 1, 4, 6

Happy Birthday card: cascade trails 1A & 1B, Madison Avenue 3A, Tiny Bracket 1T