Star Baby

Mornin' y'all!  Hope your week is off to a good start.  Over the weekend, the hubs and I put together baby gifts for two people who work for him that are expecting babies.  It was 9:00 on Sunday night and I said I needed to make cards for them, and hubs was like "just skip the cards", and I said, "Honey, I am a CARD Maker, It's What I DO" and then I made two of these.

I personally do not care for all the gray baby clothes/sheets/etc. that's all the rage right now, but I seem to be a minority of one.  That's okay though, I made these to match some of the items we chose to include in the gifts.  I broke out a couple of very old stamp sets for this because I used the Retro Rubber sketch:

Hey, Retro Rubber team, thanks for choosing my card as a winner for the last challenge!  I sent an email as instructed, but you'll probably have to check your spam filter : )

Anyway, my two cards came together quickly thanks to this sketch.  One couple has elected not to find out the gender beforehand, the other baby is a girl, but I just made two gender-neutral cards to keep it simple for me.  Baby Tees was originally a jumbo wheel that I cut apart to make five stamps; I've had it for at least 10 years and Sweet Essentials (the sentiment) is also 10 years old.  The Twinkle, Twinkle DSP is not quite that old but still four or five years.

Didn't get to work much in my craft room yesterday so I'm going to hop to it right now.  Right after I start the next load of laundry...

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Baby Tees, Sweet Essentials
Ink:  Night of Navy, Blends in Gray Granite, So Saffron, Soft Sea Foam
Paper:  Gray Granite, So Saffron, Thick Basic White, Twinkle Twinkle DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Stitched Shapes dies, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Baby Tees

Happy Friday, y'all!  I've got a busy day going here because I have a LOT to do before we leave for Texas tomorrow afternoon.  Wheee!  So let's get to the Friday Flashback, shall we?  This week's stamp set is Baby Tees, which was actually a jumbo wheel but I cut mine apart and made it into five stamps and I love it that way.  Okay, cards!

Also features Cuddles & Kisses

It seems like most of my friends for the last several years have had boys, so a LOT of these cards are boy cards.  Out of the last five baby books I made, four were for boys (and you know who got the girl one).  Anyway, I think I made a mask and sponged the color on the onesie for this card which I thought looked pretty cute.

Also features A Word For You

Watercolor Wonder Crayons for coloring on this one.

Also features Curly Cute

Oh look, girl cards!  I made the one on the right because I'd seen a purple and orange baby quilt that I really liked (more grape purple rather than reddish purple like Rich Razzleberry, but I have to work with the ink colors I have).  Might be interesting to try that kind of card with Peekaboo Peach and Sweet Sugarplum, hmm.

Also features Sweet Essentials and Confetti

The sentiment should be a little darker on this one but otherwise I think it's cute.

Also features Cuddles & Kisses

And from the name of the photo on this one, I made it after Duchess Kate gave birth to lil Prince George :)

Also features Alphabet Rotary

Okay, one last card from the archives, and here is today's new creation:

It's...another boy card!  But I'll get to why in a minute.  First up I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

Cutting out all the pieces for the card and stamping the images and sentiment took like five minutes, and then it took me an hour to color in all the onesies (I used a blender pen and squished ink pad lids).  And it's more boy because it just happens that I liked the Color Throwdown this week and it's more boyish:

I used Wild Wasabi, Daffodil Delight, and the retired Coastal Cabana for my colors, plus some Basic Black and a wee bit of Soft Suede for the hangers.

Okay, off to work on my to-do list.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Baby Tees, Made with Love, Hearts a Flutter
Ink:  Basic Black, Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Soft Suede
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight, Thick Whisper White, Wild Wasabi DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Confetti

Man, I was doing really good this week with having posts written and scheduled the day before they were to go up, but I think I'm coming down with something right now :(  So I made my card yesterday but didn't get the post done.  Anyway, welcome to this week's Friday Flashback, which features the background stamp set Confetti!

Also features Baby Tees, Sweet Essentials

There are six stamps in the Confetti stamp set, and I love that little alphabet one for baby cards.  I don't know why I think that baby stuff should have the alphabet on it?  But I do.  Hey, I like the layout on this card, I should use that again.

Also features Fintastic

If you click on that pic to see it bigger, you'll see the little polka dot bubbles on the background paper on this one.  I think that's about the only time I used Fintastic, but I was super excited to get it and I'm sure I'll use it again somewhere else.

Also features Baby Bundle

One last baby card for the Flashback part, I'm not sure how all my projects with Confetti ended up being baby-centric, but as it turns out my new card is also baby-riffic as well!

I did try to let Confetti be the star of the show on this one, with the polka dots on the Pistachio Pudding piece and the heart background underneath.  I used the sweetheart punch to cut a heart out of the Pistachio layer so you see the card base through it.  The "baby" is from All-Year Cheer II and I just hand-wrote "hey" next to it.  Seems like everyone I know is having boys right now, but sooner or later the pendulum will spring back and someone will have a girl and I'll have this card all ready and waiting.

I used the color combo from Colour Me...!

And the awesome sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, super easy to work with this week:

So there's your Friday Flashback for this week!  Hope you have a great weekend, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Confetti, All-Year Cheer II
Ink:  Blushing Bride, Pistachio Pudding, Rose Red
Paper:  Blushing Bride, Pistachio Pudding, Whisper White
Accessories:  Sizzlits labels (I think they're retired), Sweetheart punch, Dimensionals

Yeah Baby

Seems like half my friends are announcing pregnancies on Facebook, and just about all of them are having boys (probably the rest are too, they just don't know it yet).  So I need some baby cards!

I admit, I wanted to do the Yeah Baby card because of that bitty stamp in the long-retired A Little Love.   I don't have any current SU! baby images, so I broke out my old fave Baby Tees for this one.

My perfectly boyish colors are courtesy of Colour Me...!

And I used this week's sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

Well, time to get back to the ol' craft room and create something else :)  I need to do a card for tomorrow but I've got ideas for my next scrapbook layout, so we'll see which one I do first.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Alphabet Rotary, Baby Tees (retired)
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Sahara Sand, Marina Mist, So Saffron
Paper:  Whisper White, Sahara Sand, Marina Mist, So Saffron
Accessories:  Labels & Banners Framelits, Alphabet Press EF, 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

Baby Makes Three

Howdy, peeps!  I've got a cute little baby card to share today.

This has already been sent off in the mail to our friends who are expecting their first little one.  I really intended for this card to be much more gender-neutral but somehow it ended up being very BOY...but it seems like most everyone I know is having boys right now so maybe I'm psychic?

Have a great day!!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Baby Tees, Cuddles & Kisses
Ink:  Early Espresso, Marina Mist, Bashful Blue, Calypso Coral, Soft Suede
Paper:  Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Whisper White, Sweet Shoppe Specialty DSP (retired)
Accessories:  Marina Mist buttons (old style, retired), linen thread, Marina Mist ribbon from the Occasions catalog (retired)

Royal Baby

So the Internet has been all abuzz since yesterday about the new royal baby, and since I had insomnia last night because it was too hot to sleep, I did a bit of late-night stamping and made this in honor of lil what's-his-names:

What's funny is that this card came together really fast at 11:30 last night when I couldn't seem to get any traction during normal daylight hours.  I used the color combo from Just Add Ink:

And the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

And now I have a boy baby card in my stash, which is good since I had a couple of girl baby cards and no boy ones till now even though it seems like most of the mamas I know are having boys.

It's raining this morning but inside the house at least it just feels more humid rather than cooler than yesterday.  Bleargh.  I'm ready for it to cool down a little bit!  75 would be aces.

Thanks for stopping by today and congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on their new arrival :)

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Baby Tees (jumbo wheel, I unmounted it), Cuddles & Kisses
Ink:  Coastal Cabana, Baked Brown Sugar, Early Espresso
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Baked Brown Sugar, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Afternoon Picnic DSP
Accessories:  Early Espresso button (old style, I don't have the new ones yet), linen thread, Chevron EF