Okay, just a few more baby cards . . .

What can I say, I was on a roll.  This will hopefully get Brandy off my back for a while!  These cards were inspired by this card that I found on none other than Pinterest. I had to dig for quite a while to find a baby shower worthy stamp!  I swear I never make these things.  Anyway, I was always thrilled to finally use some of these buttons from Pebbles.  They are so darling but I haven't been able to work them into a project yet.  Yes, to using my supplies . . .

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It's A Girl Again!

Yep, more baby girl cards.  This one I came up with while playing around with the flourishes I used on my flower modeling paste cards.  It took a minute to come together, but overall I am pleased.

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It's A Girl!

And now for the girls!  More embossing of tone on tone cards, but a different take.  Don't you love the combination of pink and brown?  You really can't go wrong with them.  The patterned paper is from one of the DCWV 6 x 12 stacks that were out at Michael's sometime ago.  It's been a while since I've seen them there, I guess that means they sold them all!

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It's A Boy

Let the onslaught of baby cards begin!  Brandy has been hounding me for what seems like forever for baby cards.  Not really on my radar but I saw a few cards on Pinterest that got me inspired.  Finally.  This one is pretty much a straight scrap lift from this card.  I used the Twinke Twinkle collection by My Mind's Eye. I really loved the simplicity of the design and the texture added by the embossing folder.

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It's A Girl! . . . Baby Shower on the Horizon

My sister asked me to make her a card for a baby shower she is attending soon.  I didn't have a lot of time, so I quickly found a file in the Silhouette store.  The paper you see is from My Mind's Eye, a combination of one of their Valentine's Day packs, and Lost and Found II.  I am almost through both of these packs of paper and I'm pretty daggone proud I have used as much of it as I have.  

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Baby Shower Bucket

I haven't played with vinyl is sooooooo long!  But I did tonight.  Brandy came over and we decorated a silver bucket that another friend is going to use for a baby shower gift.  It's a boy and apparently the Mom to be is going with a Lion King theme.  I can work with anything safari.  Ha!  Here's what we came up with:

This was such fun to make.  And it only took a few hours.  Brandy is the queen of weeding which is great because I LOATHE doing it.  I am hoping our friend will take a picture when it's all filled up with baby goodness and I can come back and share that with you as well.

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A New Journey

Good morning everyone and welcome to your almost weekend!  Today is my day to post at the Paper Craft Weekend Challenge blog.  I have a vinyl project to share with you today!  In keeping with this baby shower my sister is putting soon, she forwarded a few pregnancy pictures of the expecting Mom and asked me to work some magic with them.  I decided to customize a frame with vinyl.  First, I have to tell you that I printed the photos using my new wide format printer and I am in LOVE with it. Epson Artisan 1430 for those of you in the market for one - you won't be disappointed.

I used my Silhouette Cameo and studio software to design the frame.  One thing that I learned recently about the software is that you can import images into your work space mat and size and tweak them like you would any other image.  Having the actual picture on the work space goes a long way in helping me decide if I do or don't like an element, it's placement etc.  I get to see how everything will look when it's done before I make a single cut.  I have been doing this more and more and I have been amazed at how much time I am saving by laying the entire sketch out in the design program first.  Here is what my file looks like after I completed the design.  You will note that none of words or flourishes are reversed or mirrored.  That's because I used a floating frame for this project.  If was using a regular frame I would have had to mirror or reverse the images so they would appear correctly.  Floating frames are an easy way around that problem and especially nice to use if you want more space to work with.

And here is the finished frame.  I really love how this project turned out!

Recipe:
Silhouette Cameo:  Baby Boy & Flourishes
Paper:  Echo Park's Happy Days
Font (A New Journey) - AL Hurried Note
Vinyl:  Silhouette flocked black vinyl

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Momma's Main Man Diaper Bicycle

My sister is hosting a baby shower in a few weeks and I thought I would come up with a few unusual items for her to use.  I have been wanting to make one of these baby diaper bicycles for some time now.  I couldn't believe how absolutely easy it is, and well, there wasn't a whole lot else for me to do other than add the baby supplies.  I did add a few ribbons on the handlebars, but that's it.  First time NOT using my Cameo in a long time - go figure!  I think it turned out very cute and I am hope the Mom to be loves it.

Supplies Needed:
Size 1 Diapers - there are approximately 60 of them here
2 bibs, 2 receiving blakets
1 stuffed animal
1 bottle or sippy cup.

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My First Big Craft Project - Baby Shower Invitations for my BFF

Hey everyone!  I know I've been a bit quiet this week but I have a lot going on!  Summer is taking its toll on me.  The kids want attention, attention, attention!  It's great to have them with me though and we've been on several new adventures.  Hopefully I will be able to share some of them with you an upcoming date when I get those pages scrapped.  In the meantime, I wanted to blog about my very first big crafting project.  As many of you know, my BFF Brandy has twins, and last year, I offered to throw her a baby shower.  Of course, in order to outdo myself I decided that I was going to handmake all of the invitations.  She thought I was crazy, but I have a Cricut so I felt confident that I could mass produce something spectacular.  Here are the invitations that I designed.

As you can see from the invitation, Brandy was expecting twins (boy/girl) and she wanted bright, fun colored invitations.  I based the invitation on a Splitcoaststampers tutorial on crisscross cards.  I created a cut file in Design Studio using the George cartridge to create the card, which is actually two pieces that I glued together.


One of my favorite things to do is to make the same design but use slightly different colors and/or papers.  I made the card in four base colors and then alternated the pattern paper that appears on each.  No two invitations are alike, but they are all coordinated by using the same Martha Stewart paper pack.  At the time it was sold at Walmart where I picked four of these babies up for cheap, but as many of you know WalMart doesn't carry the Martha Stewart line any longer.  I recently saw this paper pack being sold in the Martha Stewart isle at Michael's so it is still available for anyone who is interested.  


The "It's a Boy, It's a Girl" circle sentiment was generated on my computer using Word Art.  I printed it on white cardstock and cut it out using a Spellbinder circle die.   The stork, rattle, and baby umbrella were all cut from DCWV glitter paper using the New Arrival cartridge.  I cut the mats out for these embellishments using George. The invitation slides into the holder and the writing was generated using Word and printed on vellum.  I attached it to a white mat and then put it on the other side of several different cuts of the Martha Stewart paper.   


Had I known it at the time, I might have saved myself a lot of design time and trouble by using the crisscross card that is on the Tie The Knot cartridge.  It is identical to the one I made for this project, other than the inside are scalloped shaped.  Here are a few pictures of cars I made using this Cricut cut.

You live and you learn right?  So the next thing I did for this shower was create diaper cakes for the actual shower.  Since Brandy knew she was having a boy and a girl, I decided to make two and make them gender specific. 

The paper I used for each of the bands from Basic Grey and I layered it on top of shimmery Coordinations cardstock.  The images on the bands are from A Child's Year.  They were cut using the same Coordinations paper and blinged out with faux pearls.  We also topped each with fresh flowers and laid flowers around the base of the diaper cakes.  I love the way these turned out. Brandy adored them as well.


My final craft contribution to the shower were the gift boxes.  I used a heart shaped hexagon box created by Denise Hill from PaperPastime.  I used the exact same Martha Stewart paper that I used for the invitations.  I wrapped them with a little ribbon, stamped a "Thank you" sentiment on a small die cut with one of my Spellbinders tags, and Walla! I was done.  Here they are:

So there you have it!  Brandy and the guests loved everything and I really had a ball making it all.  Of course I told her that I will never hand make 50+ invitations again.  She was my first and only!


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