Baby card

Today I am going to show a baby card I made for my friend who just had a baby girl!  The Cricut Cartridge Spotlight is postponed until tomorrow since I got a little behind because of the weekend I had.

This was actually really fun for me to make since this was the first girlie thing I got to create!!  I have 2 boys, the boys cousins are boys and my friend's other child is a boy!  Lots of testosterone around here!

All products are Stampin' Up!

Dimensions: cut at 5.5x8.5, scored at 4.25; top layer (pink) is 5.25x4

Paper: whisper white cardstock, pretty in pink cardstock, melon mambo cardstock

Ink: Staz On black, pretty in pink classic, melon mambo classic

Stamps: Fun & Fast Notes, Priceless

Other: melon mambo stampin' write marker, melon mambo .5" grosgrain ribbon, 1.25" square punch, scallop border punch, dimensionals

1. cut and score main card base

2. cut pink top layer and use scallop border punch on the bottom

3. stamped stroller image on whisper white with StazOn and colored it in with marker; stamped flowers on whisper white with classic ink

4. cut the stroller out to size of the image, punch out the flowers with the square punch

5. adhere those images on top of melon mambo cardstock - 1/8" border on all sides

6. used dimensionals to adhere the images to the pink cardstock

7. tie the ribbon around the pink layer cardstock (used the fake bow method for this one)

8. adhere the pink layer on top of the whisper white base

9. stamp the sentiment on the bottom below the scallop border

I'm also pretty excited because I am making her a first year scrapbook and I can't tell you how nice it is to work with other "girly" colors!  My pink papers are finally getting used!

Thank you card

I wanted to play with my Stampin' Around wheel and create something with it, so I came up with this thank you card

The whole thing was fairly simple and using the wheels with the ink cartridge for backgrounds is very neat!

1. cut and scored the very vanilla cardstock

2. wheeled on the background using the chocolate chip cartridge for the wheel

3. stamped "thank you" with chocolate chip ink on very vanilla

4. cut out "thank you" with circle punch

5. used designer label punch to punch out chocolate chip paper

6. used horizontal slot punch to put "slots" on each side of designer label

7. mounted thank you circle with dimensionals on the designer label

8. added the ribbon through the slots - it's attached to the back of the label, where it is then attached to the card.  On the inside of the card, I just taped the ribbon underneath to the cardstock so it wouldn't slip

Dimensions: 8.5"x11" cardstock, cut at 4.25"x11", scored at 5.5"
Paper: very vanilla cardstock (SU), chocolate chip cardstock (SU)
Ink: chocolate chip classic (SU)
Stamps: Baroque border wheel, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Other: 1" circle punch, designer label punch, horizontal slot punch, dusty durango 1/2" grosgrain ribbon, dimensionals

My first Stampin' Up! card

I think I feel it....I think, maybe, possibly my mojo is coming back! At least I can only hope it is! Everything has been so hectic around here lately and my stress level is through the roof, but it seems like whenever I step into my little scrap corner all that tension just melts away.

I finally made my first Stampin' Up! card
I used the new Medallion stamp, which I just LOVE, and 3 of the new In Colors. The background cardstock is Dusty Durango, sized at 5 1/2" x 4 1/4". I then stamped the Medallion with Dusty Durango classic ink onto whisper white, which was cut to 5 1/4" x 4" The ribbon is Soft Suede and the was just tucked behind the whisper white and taped and then that whole piece was taped onto the card. I stamped the "just for you" sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set with Crushed Curry ink onto whisper white and punched that out with the word window punch. That was placed onto Crushed Curry paper cut with the curly label punch. Both were edged with Soft Suede ink around the edges with a sponge dauber. This was then placed on the card front using Stampin' Dimensionals.

Now in other news...I have been thinking and working hard on coming up with new ideas for my blog. I really want to post more regularly and I have a couple things in the works. I will talk more about what is to come another time, when I get all my thoughts together. But I think it is going to be a lot of fun! I know I haven't posted a lot lately, but I am hoping to change that so I hope whoever is still here will please stick around! Thanks!