Baby Books: First & Last Pages

This is it, y'all, the last of the twin baby books pages.  Just in time too, my niece is making her world debut next month so it's time to start sharing her book next.  But anyway, let's take a look at these last couple of pages.

I asked my friend Jen what colors she was using in the nursery for her boys, and she said mostly yellow and gray with some aqua and orange, so that's what I used for the album colors and the first/last pages.  I just happened to have some patterned paper with yellow and gray stripes on it :)  The letters are cut out of Basic Gray, it looks kinda black in the picture but it's dark gray.

There's the last page; the little tag says "world traveler" on it because their parents have been to more countries than anyone else I know, and those boys are going to be little travelers too.

The color palette for today:  Whisper White, Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, and Tangelo Twist.  Didja miss the Tangelo Twist? It's on the beak of the rubber ducky on the first pages.

So next Saturday, we'll switch gears a little bit and go all GIRLY for a while!  Ta-ta for now!

Supplies, mostly SU!
Stamps:  Something for Baby, non-SU stamp
Ink:  Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, Tangelo Twist
Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, Watercolor Wonder DSP
Accessories:  Baby's First Framelits, Banners Framelits, scalloped circle punch, small star punch from a retired punch pack, Sizzix alphabet

Little Miss Perfect

Howdy, peeps!  For the first time this week, I got a card done the day prior to when I needed to post it, I made today's card last night while my hubs was putting together some Ikea drawers for my craft room (thanks, Tiana!).  So anyway, the baby shower might be over but apparently I still have babies on the brain.

I thought that sentiment from Greatest Greetings would be awesome for a baby girl card.  Anyway, my creative process began with the Paper Players' tic-tac-toe challenge:

I went down the left side, using flowers, die cuts, and yellow.  I paired it with the Freshly Made Sketch for this week:

My banners are a bit longer than it shows in the sketch so that they could accommodate the sentiment, so I pulled the onesie over to the side so that I kept the asymmetry of the sketch.

Lastly, I used this week's Colour Tree combination:

I think the trend the past few years to have more saturated colors for baby stuff is fun, I like it.  I only used a tiny bit of Tip Top Taupe and just a bit more of Pool Party, but I think the Daffodil Delight and Calypso Coral work really well for the rest of the card.

I've got a poor sick hubs at home today so I will be quietly working in my basement craft room while he hopefully gets lots of rest so he feels better.  And also so we're separated by an entire level in the house so maybe I won't get sick? ;)  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Something for Baby, Greatest Greetings
Ink:  Pool Party, Tip Top Taupe, Calypso Coral
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Thick Whisper White (what did I do before this came out!!!), Calypso Coral DSP
Accessories:  Baby's First Framelits, hexagon punch, Brights Candy Dot, Dimensionals

Congratulations, It's Twins

My friend finally had her twin boys this past weekend--at 41 weeks and 4 days.  Who is LATE delivering twins?!  And she's so tiny, I really don't know how she held out that long.  Or the twins did.  Anyway, this is the one I made the two baby books for, but I thought it would be nice to send her a little card now that they've finally arrived:

She told me they're doing the nursery in gray, yellow, orange, and a little aqua, so I worked with those colors (except not the gray) to make this.  I also used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

It came together pretty quickly, which is nice.  Now my only problem is that I've run out of postage stamps...well, I need to mail off a package today anyway so I might as well get some more while I'm there.

Hope you have a great day, peeps.  It's raining but I can't let that stop me doing my errands :)

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Something for Baby, past My Paper Pumpkin kit
Ink:  Bermuda Bay, Tangelo Twist, Daffodil Delight
Paper:  Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight, Coastal Cabana, Whisper White, Tangelo Twist DSP
Accessories:  Baby's First Framelits, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Dimensionals

Baby Girl Wishes

Mornin, y'all.  I'm tired this morning, but I'm fighting the urge to go back to bed :)  Lucky for me, I finished the card for today's post yesterday when I was fully awake and hopped up on chocolate, which is the only way to craft.  Note to self:  need more chocolate.

It's a soft and sweet baby card!  All the patterned papers are retired; I was using scraps of older patterns because I've got a lot of them in those colors and I don't have the new DSP stack in Subtles yet.  So what inspired this card?  The inaugural challenge and a new blog, the Global Design Project:

Seems like it's been a long time since I used a palette that was only soft subtle colors.  Guess I like my bright, vivid tones :)  Anywha, I paired the colors with this week's Mojo Monday sketch:

This one has so many layers that it's a little out of my comfort zone, but I gave it a shot after seeing what Mary Fish did with it.  Somehow she can take even the most complicated sketch and make it look easy to work with, much to my consternation.  But I keep trying :)

In other news, I finished the last few pages in the twin boy baby books yesterday!!!  Woohoo!!!  Now I just need to take pictures of those last few, and put the books together so they can go out in the mail.  I'll have a little bit of a break before I start the next one, but as of right now I've made FIFTEEN baby books, not counting smaller albums I've made for baby showers.  That's a lotta babies.

Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU! (some retired)
Stamps:  Something for Baby, Lovely Amazing You
Ink:  So Saffron, Pink Pirouette
Paper:  Whisper White, Smoky Slate, retired DSP in So Saffron and Pink Pirouette
Accessories:  Baby's First Framelits, corner rounder punch, Dimensionals

Nachos: Bold Baby Card

Tuesday once again, Nacho fans!  Are you ready for a Nacho Average Sketch Challenge?

I won't lie, this sketch made me go hmm.  I had to think about it for a while, but here's what I made:

I recently bought Something for Baby (and the matching Framelits, which I didn't use on this card) so this is its maiden voyage.  I figure it seems like half the ladies I know are pregnant right now, so I could use a few more baby cards.  According to my mom, the current trend is for bolder, brighter colors in baby nurseries as opposed to pastels, so I went with the Cherry on Top DSP stack and used it for color inspiration.

Your turn next!  Be sure to upload your sketchariffic card to the Nacho blog.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Big News, Something for Baby
Ink:  Bermuda Bay, Tip Top Taupe, Pool Party, Watermelon Wonder, Crushed Curry, Cucumber Crush
Paper:  Pool Party, Crushed Curry, Watermelon Wonder, Whisper White, Cherry on Top DSP Stack
Accessories:  Sweetheart punch, Dimensionals