The Babies Are Here

A dear, dear friend of mine recently became a new grandmother, welcoming 2 very healthy twin baby girls.

She will be receiving this card any day now.

And this card will go in the box with the 2 baby blankets I crocheted for the little ones.

 I used a paper pack called Little Treasures from Kaisercraft.  The flowers on the first card and hot air balloon bunnies and small sentiment on the second card were included in the pack.

 

Challenges:

CRAFT Challenge #613 - AG

Through the Craft Room Door October 5th Challenge - AG 

 

 

 

Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge #555

Welcome!  

The calendar says it is Tuesday, which means it is time for a new challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Thanks for a great sketch, Melissa.

When I made my card for this week's sketch, I sort of went at it backwards.  I saw all those strips on the sketch in various shades and wasn't sure how I was going to accomplish that.  Using a SU die, I cut 4 scalloped strips from white glitter paper.  That was the easy part.  

A note about the glitter paper: It is printable glitter paper from WalMart and is fantastic!  Doesn't get glitter in your printer.  Great for printing digital images or stamping them and it colors nicely. Look in the office supply aisle. It's available in some colors too.

 With a blue promarker and a ruler, I colored the first strip once, the second one twice, the third one three times, and the fourth one four times, making each strip a darker shade of blue.  Then I also cut 4 1/4" strips and colored those in much the same manner until I got the desired shades I wanted.  That was going to work, just fine.  But, now what?  

The first sheet of patterned paper I found in my box of partial sheets was this pretty baby boy paper.  And then a certain stamp popped into my mind and the card started to take shape. 

 

The Doodle Baby Carriage  by Sweet Stamps was a purchase I made at my very first stamp show over 10 years ago.  The fact that I could find it now, in my much larger stash, is a bit miraculous.

 I stamped it in a blue ink that matched, rounded the corners, then mounted it on a square of the white glitter paperafter giving it a blue edge with the same blue promarker I had used before and popped it onto the card front.  I made another blue frame around a piece of white cs just a bit smaller than the card front, in order to make the patterned paper stand out more and unify the whole design.  Adding a few stickers, here and there, completed the card.   Except, it had no sentiment.  

I found a set of small sentiment stamps by Taylored Expressions, held my breath, and added CONGRATS to the card.

Now if the new baby my granddaughter is expecting is a boy, I'll be ready.  Too soon to tell.

Hope you'll play along with us this week
at  Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Please visit again and stay safe!

Challenges:

Sparkles Forum Challenge #128 - Use a real stamp (no digi)

I Love Promarkers Challenge #410 -  AG using promarkers 

Everybody Art Challenge #469 - Baby

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 420 - Oh the Places You'll Go (Wouldn't a nice walk about the park pushing a perambulator be wonderful right now?)

Through the Craft Room Door Week of May 19th - Always Anything Goes 
 

 

Double Trouble Challenge #46

One of my good friends is going to have a wonderful new year.

She's going to be a grandmother for the first time!

It's too early to know if the baby is a boy or girl, so I made a gate fold card and to cover both genders.

The theme of Double Trouble's current challenge is

Something, Anything, and Everything. With options of using something new (the heart embossing folder), or making your project about something new (new grandma) to make Twisted Sister happy.  I've also linked up with one of Double Trouble partners, The Crafter's Cafe.

Additional Challenges:

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge - Holidays or I spy something beginning with a C (Congratulations) 

Allsorts Challenge #551/2 - AG

Colour Crazy Challenge Week 50 - AG

New Baby Congratulations

Today I'm sharing the card I made for my granddaughter, who had a baby girl last weekend.  

I've used a digi image from Sweet n Sassy stamps, colored with markers.  Papers and sentiment are from CTMH.

Challenges:

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #496 - New (Baby)

Southern Girls Challenge - AG

Mod Squad Challenge - Patterned Paper

Pile It On Challenge #150 - Land Animals 

Angie's Digital Stamps Challenge #27 - AG

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #324 - tic tac toe (bottom row, white daisy, raspberry, pixie)

Stamplorations January Challenge - Animals and/or sketch

HB GG and Aunt Eileen

About a month ago I posted a baby card I made using a drawing by my BFF's granddaughter, Layla.  I made two more birthday cards using her drawings, one for her great grandmother...

(card front featuring a Layla's drawing of the cat sleeping on the arm of GG's sofa)

(inside of card)

and also one for her Aunt Eileen ...

(This drawing is of Aunt Eileen's new puppy.)

(inside)

 Layla's brother has the next birthday.  I can't wait to see what she draws for on his card.  Last year it was a big hippopotamus!

This is really easy to do with any drawing.  

Scan the image.  Save it.  

I open the image in my Paint program, 

resize it and print it just like a digi.  

Speaking of hippos, 
here is the baby card I made for Eileen's new little boy. 

The stamps are from CTMH.

Challenges: 

The Ribbon Girls September Challenge - Any image + ribbon

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - Patterned Paper 

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #175 - Anything Goes 

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Week of Sept 19 - Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's September Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes 

Crafty Animals Challenge #6 - Anything Goes 

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #52 - Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Pop It Up (I used foam tape to pop the hippo's head.) 

That's it for now.  

I have a couple new badges I'm anxious to add to my blog.

Enjoy your day and thanks for your visit!

Sweet Baby Card

This post was almost finished last evening, but I was just too tired to finish it.  After a good night's sleep, a rare occurence in my world, I'm ready to share it with you. Not only that, but I've made 2 cards this morning that I'll share in separate posts, to make up for not blogging the last few days.

This adorable Doodle Baby Carriage stamp 
 
from Sweet Stamps caught my eye at a stamping show.   I walked the whole show mentally trying to talk myself out of buying it. 

 But, I bought it anyway.  

There are times when you just can't listen to that stupid, reasonable, party pooper voice in your head and you have to do what makes you happy!

 

And making this gate fold card with belly band made me happy, too. 

Challenges:
Ooh-la-la Creations Challenge #214 - Feminine
Craft-dee Bowz October Challenge - Anything Goes with a handmade bow
Southern Girls Challenge - Pretty in Pastels
Cut It Up Challenge #106 - Pink or Breast Cancer Awareness (I've used La La Land Stitched Circle Dies when making this card.)
Brown Sugar Challenge #218 - Anything Goes
Polkadoodles Challenge #38 - Anything Goes
Broken Fairy Challenge - Monochromatic
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Oh Baby 
The Alphabet Challenge - P is for Pretty in Pink 

My next post is a birthday card for my lovely DIL.

Today is Wednesday + CTMH Class 7/5/16

Having holidays and deviating from routines sure can be confusing.  But I know it is Wednesday because yesterday was Joyce's Tuesday CTMH card class and a new Tuesday Throwdown Challenge.

Here  are the 4 cards we made at Joyce's:

(We all did our own thing with this 2nd double skirt fold card;
 to see the varied results and directions for the fold
click here.)

 And here are 2 cards from last week's class that I didn't get posted.

 

And this is a card that I created for classmate, Mickey, who just recently became a grandmother for the first time! 

 

I am entering this last card in the following challenges:

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #19 - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #119 - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Challenge #319 - Anything Goes

Ooh-la-la Creations Challenge #208 - Something that begins with an "f" (Fussy cut baby onesie)

Use Your Stuff Challenge #228 - Animal (Bunny on the baby onesie)