Cupcake Inspiration Guest Designer

This week I got to be a Guest Designer on Cupcake Inspirations! Here's the card I made for the challenge. I have to say, that site is dangerous! Everytime I visit, I end up wanting to bake some goodies, which really isn't good for my waistline ;) Anyway, I hope you enjoy the card! Thanks for stopping by!

Baby Quilt and Blankie

Here is the finished quilt for our new niece! I had so much fun piecing this particular quilt because it's all repurposed fabric from my girls' room when they had it garden themed. It's always fun to watch how one project turns into another, and it renews the fabrics. They look so cute together as a quilt!
This was my first time machine quilting. It was stressful, frustrating, and very rewarding, hehe. Next time I'll be trying it on a smaller project so that I don't feel as overwhelmed.

The backing and binding is made from some darling flower/ladybug print fabric that I got clearance for $1/yard 4 years ago. I had original bought it to make a bedskirt for Caitlyn's big girl bed and ended up buying one that went on clearance instead. I wish I knew how to sew this well when my girls were babies. Ah well, there is still plenty of other things I can sew for them ;) The quilt is huge instead of baby sized which is usually about 36x45. I didn't think about measuring and just started piecing together squares willy nilly!

So to go with the quilt I made a mini 30x30 fleecy blanket for the car or whatever. I've never done a little applique like this. Seems there were a few new things I played with on these projects ;) I pretty much made it up as I went along and I think it turned out darling! The ribbon antennae is stitched under the head as well as the seam around for extra security and it's folded over and tied so that their won't be any frayed ends. The eyes and mouth I drew on first with a disappearing fabric marker and then embroidered. My embroidery totally needs work but the fleece was very forgiving and made it look alright. I added a backing, the same material as the quilt. The added bonus was that the only thing I had to buy was batting for the quilt, everything else I had onhand ;) Thanks for letting me share!

Baby Clothes

Supplies : Dear Lizzy Paper and Rubons, and Thickers Letter Stickers by American Crafts; Apron Lace Border Punch by Fiskars

The little dresses in this paper remind me of baby girls clothes, which I'm sure I've mentioned before ;) With that in mind I used this odd little scrap to make a simple and quick baby card using some other scraps as well as some of the rubons I wouldn't be using on a layout. My SIL up in Washington is due in May and every ultrasound she's had they haven't been able to determine whether the baby's going to be a boy or girl. I'm rooting for a girl, but we'll see ;) Enjoy and thanks for visiting!

Quick Wrapping!

Supplies : Tiny Treats Valentines, Polka Dot Basics, Borders and Corners Circles, and Everyday Classics stamp sets, Ink, and button twine by Papertrey Ink;

I had a baby shower to go to last Saturday and being the scatter-brained mom that I am I completely forgot about it until that morning. So I rushed out to shop for the new baby boy and found a couple darling outfits (didn't get pictures, oops!). The colors were orange, brown, and khaki in both outfits, one sporting a truck the other a puppy. I got home with about 20 minutes until I had to leave for the shower and so I made quick work with a simple tag and card.

I've been trying to be more earth conscious with my wrapping so I used a repurposed kraft bag from the quilt store and some of the packing paper from an online order. I grabbed some kraft and rustic cream scraps, pulled out the orange zest and dark chocolate inks and went to work. I kept both the tag and card very simple, the dog and welcome circle elements pop dotted up for some dimension as the only real embellishment. For just a few minutes I think it turned out very cute! The pictures aren't that great since I just propped everything on top of my armoire real quick to snap a couple photos before running out the door with the girls. We were about 10 minutes late but it ended up just fine since the guest of honor wasn't there yet ;) Anyway, enjoy and have a lovely Sunday!

Baby Girl

Supplies : Paper by October Afternoon and Basic Grey; Daughter and Heart stickers by Pebbles Inc.; Premade Embellies from scraps;

So as I was looking through my misc photo file I came across these two pictures of Audrey and Paul. Look how little she was! I didn't think I had any unscrapped baby pictures left but I've found a few in this file. I probably put them there because they weren't the best pictures like these. I had to crop a lot of the background out mostly because the house was just a mess, lol. I used the Inspired Blueprints sketch #39 and shrunk it way down to fit the photos. And I even got to use some of my premade embellies, too fun! It made the layout go by super quick too, I love it when I can finish a page in 20 minutes! Anyway, I thought it was funny that I was just talking about wanting to redo baby pages and I found some spare photos hanging about ;) What are your thoughts on redoing scrapbook pages? Would you ever remake some of the ones you've done? I'd love to hear your comments! Thanks for dropping by and have a fab Friday!

Pretty Flowers

These flowers remind me of sorbet and baby girl nurserys, of sweetness and innocence. With two little girls I've done plenty of pages with the yellow and pink theme over the years ;) So I just had to make some of those lollipop flowers with those same scraps I used for the embellies. I used one of the blooms nestie sets as well as the scallops. I'm hoping to get the pinking ones soon since they look like fun too. Instead of just popdotting the buttons on with jute like I usually do I did a little extra and sewed them all the way through the flower with embroidery floss for stability. These make me want to redo baby pictures. I was looking through one of Caitlyn's old scrapbooks and while there are definitely some favorite pages, a lot of the pages I did back then I cringe at, lol. Maybe I'll start pulling photos and doing some here and there for a change of pace ;) I put the flowers on acetate with glue dots which I will warn you adheres them to the acetate. Really adheres them. I am having quite the time trying to get these babies off. I'm assuming I needed to use repositionable glue dots or something but I think from now on just to be safe I will just be leaving them loose ;) Thanks for stopping by and have a terrific Thursday!

Baby Girl Embellies

I did another couple embellishment sets, this time in baby girl colors. I'm so excited about these. When I go on crops it's hard to take everything I want to for making pages. Even cards I have a hard time with because I don't always know which stamps or inks I want to bring and then with both cards and pages I want to bring ALL my paper.... just in case. On my last crop all I brought was my scraps, nesties and cuttlebug, plus a box of embellishments like my buttons, candy dots, rhinestones, etc. I also took my Slice since it makes some fun shapes but I didn't have time to use it. That may sound like a lot but usually I'm bringing all my papers, chipboard, flowers, photos, embellishments, it's crazy because I feel like if I don't bring everything I'll miss the one item that would have 'made the page'. Anyway, deciding to create these instead of scrapping made packing for the crop so much easier and I was much more productive too! And these are way easier to clean up after, a big plus at my friend Julie's house since we have dinner on the same table we scrap at ^_~ And my my dinner was soooo good that night - Chicken Marsai with homemade french bread. So delish! Jules is an amazing cook, I would rather eat at her place than any resturant in town. And the company is awesome as well ;) Anyway, these make a great small project that's fun to do whether at home or away and makes your scrapping or cardmaking go by quicker later down the road. The added bonus - I'm reducing my huge mountain of scraps, yay! Have a happy hump day and thanks for visiting!

Baby Bitty Blooms

Supplies : Bitty Blooms stamps from Stampingbella; Pattern Paper by Making Memories; Ribbon and Sentiment by Papertrey Ink; Cardstock by CTMH; Colored Pencils and Gamsol

Fancy me making another card, eh? I reorganized my bella collection and was inspired to play with some so I looked up the bellariffic challenge and gave it a shot. The square quartet threw me off a little but then I thought I haven't used my bitties in a while and they would make such a cute baby card. I used my pencils with gamsol this time for coloring. This has got to be my favorite card I've made with these stamps so far. Enjoy and thanks for visiting!