Baby Love!

Mornin' y'all!  I must admit, I've lately been obsessed with a new project--I'm stitching Disney Princess bookmarks for my friend Tiana and her girls so I've been concentrating on those (since...Sunday) and not wanting to do anything else.  BUT!  A friend announced her pregnancy on Facebook this weekend so I decided to make a card for her.  And just because I can (and I love these feets), I broke out some older retired stamps for this card.

The Gingham Gala paper and the ribbon are new (though sadly the ribbon pack is no longer available, it was a super-popular Sale-a-Bration option apparently) but like I said, the stamps are old.  But I don't know that there will ever be a more perfect baby card stamp than those feets, I just love 'em.  I took my color combo from the ribbon and paper:  Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist, and Grapefruit Grove.  Grapefruit Grove is kinda pinkish, but it's not a frilly girly pink to me if that makes sense, so I think this works as a gender-neutral baby card.  I hope.

I used this week's sketch from Global Design Project:

And the theme challenge at Retro Rubber:

I admit that I'm stretching their theme just a teensy bit but I was singing "Baby Love" to myself the whole time I was making it so I hope that the kind ladies at Retro Rubber will forgive me.  I *did* use ribbon, and the card does say love on it ;). I got Baby Prints in 2012, so it's 7 years old now, and Beyond the Basics is even more retro since I've had it since 2008.  Labeler Alphabet is just one year old so it's a relative baby in my craft room.

Ryan and I are off to the gym today and maybe I'll get to try out my new BlueTooth wireless headphones that hubs gave me for my birthday.  I was supposed to test-drive them yesterday but I lost my brain and left the headphones at home when I went to the gym.  Sigh.  Today is a new day though!

Cheers, y'all!  Don't forget your headphones.

Supplies, all SU! (some retired)
Stamps:  Baby Prints, Beyond the Basics, Labeler Alphabet
Ink:  Lemon Lime Twist, Grapefruit Grove
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist, Thick Whisper White, Gingham Gala DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes Framelits, Sale-a-Bration ribbon, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Banner Blast

Happy Friday, stampy pals!  Today's Friday Flashback stamp set is Banner Blast, which was one of last year's Sale-a-Bration offerings.  So let's get to it!

Also features Baby Prints and My Paper Pumpkin (tiny chevron)

Sweet baby feets!

Also features Bring on the Cake

Or how about a bright birthday banner?

Also features Petal Parade, Best of Sale-a-Bration

Or just a funky floral "hi".  This was one of those odder Splitcoast layouts...and that's it from the archives.  So let's see something new!

I tried to resist the butterflies, really I did, but I just couldn't.  (I almost used them yesterday too but went with Be the Star instead.)  I used the latest sketch from Create with Connie and Mary:

I adapted it to a landscape card instead of portrait and I cannot seem to type today so hopefully I caught all the typos before this goes up on the blog.  Anyway, I used all the same parts and pieces, but the butterfly was too wide to accommodate a portrait card.

I also used the colors from this week's Color Throwdown:

Hmm, maybe that inspiration pic is why I couldn't resist the butterflies today.  There's a thought.  Anyway, I interpreted these colors as Tangelo Twist, Basic Black, and Garden Green.

Hope you have a great weekend, peeps!  Mwah!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Banner Blast, Watercolor Wings
Ink:  Tangelo Twist, Garden Green
Paper:  Basic Black, Whisper White, Night & Day DSP, Basic Black & Garden Green DSP
Accessories:  Bold Butterflies & Ovals Framelits, Butterfly Thinlits, banner punch, rhinestone, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Baby Prints

Happy Friday!  And of course it's time for a Friday Flashback : )  Today's featured retired stamp set is Baby Prints, which I've used more than a couple of times since my friends do insist on having the babies.  I think you'll be able to figure out pretty quick which stamp in the set is my favorite!

Also features A Word for You

Here's an easy-peasy baby boy card to start off with.

Also features Banner Blast and a past Paper Pumpkin stamp

And one for baby girls too!

Again with the stamp from A Word For You

...And another baby girl card, which is funny because for a long time it seemed like everyone I knew was having boys.

Baby book!  Can't go wrong with green and blue for baby boy pages, right?  And it turns out there's a pair of hands to go with the baby feet.

 Hey, same layout but in pinks.  The lighting isn't optimal in this picture, it looked better in real life.

Also features Cuddles & Kisses

 I wish the sentiment had shown up a little better on the patterned paper for this one.

Also features Curly Cute

I know you're surprised to see more baby feet.

Also features Cuddles & Kisses

And this time it was TWIN feet!  Those twins turned one a couple months ago.  So there's the Flashback (a long one this time!) and that means it's time for today's brand-new card, featuring (you guessed it) FEET.

I can't help it, I like the baby feet stamp like 700 times more than the baby hands one.  I was looking around for a sentiment to go with the baby feets and that one from Apple Blossoms seemed like a good idea, so I went with it.  Today's card is boyish because that's where the colors from Colour Me...! took me today:

I started out kinda doing this week's Retro Sketch, but I strayed far enough away from the original sketch that I'm not going to enter it over there.  So that's it for me this week, hope you have a great weekend!

Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Baby Prints, Apple Blossoms
Ink:  Island Indigo, Crisp Cantaloupe
Paper:  Soft Sky, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Crisp Cantaloupe DSP
Accessories:  Labels Collection Framelits, Alphabet EF, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Dimensionals

Baby Love

Anybody else out there make cards and also scrapbook?  And do you have trouble moving back and forth between the two?  I think I do sometimes.  I've been working a lot on my scrapbooks lately and I've made a couple of cards that just didn't quite work to me.

This was the first card I made for yesterday's Nacho sketch, and it just didn't seem really finished to me.  I don't know why.  So I made the leaf card I posted yesterday.  Here's the sketch again:

Well, I'm off to take my doggos to the vet so they can get their fit-to-fly health certificates.  Sadly, that means that they're flying out of here on Friday.  I'm going to miss them, even if they're both constantly getting in the way because they like to lay down under my craft table or right behind my rolling desk chair ;)

Cheers, peeps!  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Baby Prints (retiring), Banner Blast (from this year's Sale-a-Bration), past My Paper Pumpkin kit (small chevron pattern)
Ink:  Pink Pirouette, Pistachio Pudding
Paper:  Pistachio Pudding, Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Labels Collection & Banners Framelits, Festive Paper Piercing Pack, banner punch, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: A Word for You

Hello and welcome to today's very late Friday Flashback!  It was a crazy day today, we're trying to get our dogs' travel arrangements worked out since we're moving from England back to the States in a few months.  It's a mess.  But anyway, I have a long flashback today featuring the sentiment stamp set A Word for You.  So let's get started!

Here's a fun, bright anniversary card...

One for baby boy...

...and one for baby girl....

And another boy.  Of all the pregnant or recently pregnant ladies I know, and that's a LOT, there's only one girl in the bunch!  What's up with that?

Some nice fall leaves...

...and another anniversary, this time at the Eiffel Tower.

This card makes sense if you're a big Friends fan and know about Phoebe and the lobster theory.

And we'll finish up the flashback with yet another anniversary card, this one for the perfect pear.

So here's today's new card:

Ok, I cheated since I just used this punch art cupcake on Wednesday, but it was perfect with this sentiment stamp too!  I also used a very old Splitcoast color challenge on this (I have less than a dozen to do before I'm caught up!) and this week's Retro Sketch:

It's been a long day involving six hours in the car for a round trip to Heathrow Airport, so that's all she wrote today.  Have a good weekend, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  A Word for You
Ink:  Chocolate Chip, Mellow Moss, Melon Mambo
Paper:  So Saffron, Mellow Moss, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, retired DSP in So Saffron, Melon Mambo, and Chocolate Chip
Accessories:  Cupcake builder punch, hexagon punch (to do the flagged ends on the sentiment), Dimensionals

Woohoo, It's Two!

So I'd already made a card to give my friend Karyn at her baby shower but the day before the shower I got this idea for a twin boy card and I couldn't help making it.

And I need a V-8, so just tilt your head to the left :)  I always seem to get pictures just a little bit crooked, and I haven't figured out how to rotate just a few degrees on the Mac like I can do on our PC laptop, so it stays crooked.

Anyway, for the polka-dotted piece, I punched out two Modern Label punch shapes and lined them up so they'd extend all the way across the Whisper White baby feet panel, and then I covered up the join in the middle with the sentiment.  Simple layout but I adore how it turned out!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Baby Prints, Cuddles & Kisses
Ink:  Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo
Paper:  Pool Party, Island Indigo, Whisper White, retired Lucky Limeade DSP
Accessories:  Oval, scalloped oval, and Modern Label punches, Dimensionals

Triple Challenge

Oyy, I haven't been doing so hot this week with getting things up here in a more timely manner.  I was doing so good for a while there, too.  Nevertheless, I have at last got a card for today!  And it's a triple challenge.

I won't lie, this card was a bit of a pill to make.  I decided after I'd already stuck down the DSP that it needed something else to go behind the circle punch, so I had to mask the DSP before I started sponging and stamping.  My Baja Breeze ink pad was in need of a refill too so the background coral isn't 100% there, but it kind of works for that bit of the card.  I did hunt up my ink refill though for the sand dollar because it was getting overpowered by the plum starfish.  Still is, even though the sand dollar is popped up and has the pearl accent.  Ehh.  At that point I'd already stamped and cut out four images from By the Seashore so I just decided to stick a fork in it and call it done.

I've been meaning to get to last week's Sketch Frenzy Friday challenge all week and just managed to squeeze it in before the next sketch goes up tomorrow.  Here's the sketch:

And here's the Fab Friday color combo, also at the eleventh hour as the next challenge posts tomorrow as well:

And the third challenge is Still Addinktive's Spot that Stamp Set, to use By the Seashore or By the Tide.  I used both so I'm awarding myself extra points :)

Here's a bonus for you if you're still with me at this point:  a very fast baby card.

Out of curiosity, I timed myself and had this one done in about 7 minutes.  Would have been under five, but several of the toes didn't show up on my stamped image as well as I wanted them to, so I had to touch up with a blender pen.  This is for the very lovely lady who cuts my hair, and is expecting her second boy to arrive soon--I whipped up this card really fast this morning and then ran up to the salon to give her a little gift (baby booties my mom crocheted) as the salon was having a shower for her today.  So yep, there it is.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies (all SU!) for the first card:
Stamps:  By the Seashore, By the Tide, Curly Cute
Ink:  Baja Breeze, Perfect Plum, Wild Wasabi
Paper:  Baja Breeze, Sahara Sand, Whisper White, retired Halloween DSP because it was plum and I used up almost all of the current plum DSP I have
Accessories:  2 1/2" circle punch, pearls, Dimensionals

Supplies (all SU!) for the second card:
Stamps:  Baby Prints, Sweet Essentials
Ink:  Island Indigo, Gumball Green
Paper:  Whisper White
Accessories:  Gumball Green ribbon

Baby Boy Joy

While I was in Texas, I got to call my friend (and former college roommate) Beth on the phone and *finally* found out she had a baby boy just after Thanksgiving.  Beth is kinda almost completely unplugged...not on Facebook, and she didn't set up her email again after it got corrupted last year.  Happily, I did catch her on the phone and found out her hubs is on FB so I now have an electronic lifeline to her : )

Anyway, I need to finish up a couple of layouts for the baby book I'm making for Beth's son Elijah, and here's the card I made to go with it:

Kinda wish the sentiment showed up better on that patterned paper, hmm.  The star brad is retired but I liked it on this card, which is based on the most recent sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch:

I really liked this sketch, lots of possibilities.  That's all she wrote for today, thanks for stopping by!

Supplies (all SU!):
Stamps:  Baby Prints, Cuddles & Kisses
Ink:  Gumball Green, Night of Navy
Paper:  Whisper White, Night of Navy, Gumball Green, Subtles DSP Stack
Accessories:  Star brad (retired), Dimensionals

Olivia's Baby Book

Not too long after I started stamping, I got the idea to make baby books for a couple of friends of mine for their baby showers.  Since then, I've done ten, and I've got one more that's 80% finished (I just need to find out if the baby's a boy or a girl).  I do one layout for each month of the year, plus layouts for the baby's birth and first birthday.  Add in the first and last pages, and each book is 30 pages.  They take me at least a couple of months to do, so I don't do them for very many people.  And I won't sell them either, because honestly, no one would pay what I would want to charge for them given how much time they take, never mind the cost of supplies.

So here's the one I just finished up for my SIL and her new daughter, Olivia.  If you want a complete supply list, check out my SCS gallery here.  Jill is doing the nursery in what my mom calls Strawberry Shortcake colors--pink, hot pink, and lime green, so that's what I started with.  The die cut alphabet I used is by Sizzix and I've had it since I graduated from college and it's long retired :)  Click on any of the pictures to see it bigger.

 Stamps:  Mixed Bunch, Papillon Potpourri

Stamps:  Baby Prints

Stamps:  Make a Mitten (retired), Snow Swirled

Stamps:  Artistic Etchings, Carte Postale (retired), En Francais

Stamps:  Celtic Knots (retired), Tag Time (retired)

Stamps:  Announcements (retired)...I did this one several months ago, had I known Rain or Shine was coming out I woulda waited so I could have used that!

Stamps:  Tea Shoppe...I thought a mother-daughter tea party theme would be cute?

Stamps:  By the Seashore

Stamps:  Land That I Love (retired)

 Stamps:  Bronc Buster (retired), Wanted (retired)...Olivia was born in Texas, she needed a cowgirl layout :)

Stamps:  Fruit & Flowers, One Smart Cookie

Stamps:  Googly Ghouls (retired)

Stamps:  Wonderfall, Falling Leaves (retired)

Stamps:  Reindeer Print

Stamps:  Crazy for Cupcakes (retired), coordinating cupcake wheel (retired)

So excited this one is done!  I've even made a card to go with it, so now I just need to get it in the mail.  Thanks for stopping by!