Baby Shower Decorations - part 2

Hello, I'm back!! Today I am going to share the card, diaper bouquets and banners that I did. I really had so much fun designing and doing all of these things for my sister-in-law's baby shower. I had so many ideas going through my head but ultimately we landed on a coral, turquoise and pink color scheme with hot air balloons and bunnies. I wanted to do something that wasn't the traditional pink for a baby girl shower. And I was just in love with the hot air balloon diaper cake that I had to have that in there somewhere. So imagine my surprise when I go into Carter's a few weeks before the shower and they have a whole section of baby girl's clothes in peach and turquoise with hot air balloons on it. What are the chances of that. It was perfect! We were doing a clothesline banner so the 5 onesie set that they had was a perfect fit for this. (The set included gray which was a color we also used). I love how everything just coordinated so well.

So I will start with the clothesline banner. I couldn't get a great picture of this so this is the best I have right now (I will update this if her friend got a better picture of it).

All of the clothes were hung with clothespins on Smokey Slate Chevron ribbon (which is hard to see in the photo). In between each onesie, I die cut a onesie from the Papertrey Ink die in Crisp Cantaloupe, Coastal Cabana and Pink Pirouette. The heart is from the Hearts a Flutter framelits.

Next up is the "It's a Girl" banner. (Again, sorry for the bad/blurry photos). I wasn't able to take any at home so the best I could do was while it was hung up at the restaurant.

I printed out all of the letters from MDS in Crisp Cantaloupe, which were then punched with the 1 3/8 inch circle punch. I then punched scallop circles from Pink Pirouette cardstock. The Coastal Cabana flowers were from the Floral Framelit dies. And all of these items were then glued to paper doilies and attached to Calypso Coral chevron ribbon with clothespins. Next to the "A" letter I added 2 Coastal Cabana roses from the Flower Spiral die.

We will now move on to the diaper bouquets. This was an idea that I had seen at another baby shower that I really liked. I liked it instead of the traditional diaper cake. I made 4 of these for the tables. I searched pinterest for how to make the diaper flowers. Then I used the Flower Spiral die to add roses to each bouquet. I added 5 roses to each bouquet in Pink Pirouette and Crisp Cantaloupe. I added Smokey Slate and Calypso Coral chevron ribbon to each of the mason jars.

And last but not least is my card for the baby gift.

I cased the 3rd card on this site. I just changed a few things to the colors and theme of the shower. Since I actually don't have the Baby We've Grown stamp set, I just printed out the images I wanted from My Digital Studio. Looking back, I should have printed the bunny bigger but oh well. I used the Fresh Prints DSP stack for the background. I colored and cut out the bunny and used the Starburst framelits for the "Brand New" image. To finish it off I added Crisp Cantaloupe ruffled ribbon and 2 pink buttons from my button stack.

Now that this is done, I hope to have a little more time to get back to crafting. I do have my son's second birthday invite to share as soon as I get that finished. Then I hope to play with some new catalog goodies soon! Thanks for stopping by!

Card details:
Stamps: None (Baby We've Grown - digital download for the images)
Ink: Smokey Slate, Pink Pirouette, Crisp Cantaloupe
Paper: Smokey Slate, Fresh Prints DSP, Vellum
Accessories: My Digital Studio, Circle Framelits, Scallop Circle bigz die, Starburst Framelits, markers, blender pens, Crisp Cantaloupe ruffled ribbon, buttons

Baby Shower Decorations

Hello, long time no see! Again, I have fallen off the blog world for a while. But I finally have some things I can share. For the past 2 months I have been working on invites and decorations for my sister-in-law's baby shower. Now it didn't take me 2 full months to do these baby shower things. It was more like, I had to finish everything at the last minute, haha!! I have just been so tired when I get home from work that I was putting things off and off until I could no longer do that. But now that the shower has passed, I can finally share what I've been working on. Even though, it took me while to get my act together and get these things done, I really enjoyed making everything and I'm glad that everything turned out well. The theme of the shower was a bunny/hot air balloon theme. It actually all started with a hot air balloon diaper cake that I saw that I really wanted to do for the shower. Then we added bunnies since the mother-to-be really liked the velveteen rabbit. So we will start off with the invitations.

I used MDS for the invitations. I LOVE using MDS for invitations! I used the Up, Up and Away digital download for the balloon as well as the Baby We've Grown download for the bunny. Colors used were Crisp Cantaloupe and Coastal Cabana. Once I printed out the invites, I colored the bunny in with blender pens and Smokey Slate ink. I then mounted it to Coastal Cabana paper and added Calypso Coral baker's twine.

Next up is the hot air balloon diaper cake. There aren't too many Stampin Up products on this but where I could use them I did.

I followed the instructions from here on how to put this together.
For the balloon, I added Coastal Cabana ruffled ribbon with Calypso Coral twine and a couple of hearts punched out of the vanilla coaster board. You can see a close up of the balloon in the last picture. For the basket part I tied Calypso Coral Chevron ribbon. I think this ribbon is my favorite of all time! I love this stuff! I think I should have added some more ruffled ribbon to the balloon but over all, I love how cute this turned out!

I will come back tomorrow with the card, diaper bouquets and banners that I did.
Thanks for stopping by!

Project Life - Stampin' Up! Style

I have some exciting news to share from Stampin' Up! They are partnering with the great Becky Higgins to bring Project Life to Stampin' Up! I am so excited about this news. I have wanted to venture into Project Life when my son was born but I just couldn't justify buying more scrapbook items when I have so many things from Stampin' Up! Well beginning May 1st the forces will join and I will be able to use my Stampin' Up supplies in conjuction with the Project Life supplies Stampin' Up will be producing. I CANNOT wait! My plan is to start an album up when the new baby arrives.

If you are unfamiliar with Project Life here is a little more information about what it is all about.
It's a super simple, totally affordable way to get your photos into albums: you just slip your photos into Photo Pocket Pages and add designed cards. It's a back-to-basics approach to documenting your life. In a nutshell, it's all about spending more time making memories and less time scrapbooking them.

A selection of products will be available May 1st. And with the launch of our new annual catalog on June 2, you'll be able to buy from our complete line of Project Life products!
Here is a peek at what will be available on May 1st.

Here is a little bit of how Stampin' Up! will do Project Life...

Coordination, coordination, coordination. You know we do it best, and our Project Life line is no exception.

Our products center on things that matter most-weddings, babies, kids, and the everyday moments of getting together with your favorite people-all things that need to be remembered.

Our card collections come without rounded corners so you can decide if you want to keep them that way (and match the corners of your photos as they come) or use our Project Life Corner Punch to round them out.

Our card collections come packaged in an exclusive storage system that holds all your Project Life supplies on your desk: cards, journaling pens, photos, accessory packs, stamp sets, and more.

I hope you are all as excited about this as I am. If you would like any more information on this new endeavor, please contact me!

Another Paper Pumpkin card

Happy Friday! Short post for today. I have another stepped-up Paper Pumpkin card to show you today. This time I used the gold for the envelope liners as a background on the card. I also used the Starburt Sayings stamp set and framelits. I really like using the Strawberry Slush with Costal Cabana. I really just love all of this year's In-Colors together. And the ruffled ribbon is so great! This card was also fairly quick to put together.

If you are interested in these quick and fun projects that you can do with the monthly paper pumpkin subscription, please contact me now! You won't regret it!

Stamps: Starburt Stayings
Ink: Strawberry Slush
Paper: Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana
Accessories: March Paper Pumpkin, Starburst Framelit Dies, Strawberry Slush ruffled ribbon, Gold sequin trim

Spring Card Class

Join me at my home for my Spring Card Class.
We will be making 4 cards using the Simple Stems stamp set and Retro Fresh DSP.
April 16th 7:30 - 9pm.
Cost: $20.

Please contact me for more information.

March Paper Pumpkin!

Hello! Long time no see. I didn't realize it has been quite so long that I've posted. As usual, things are busy busy. We have baby #2 on the way so I've been a little more tired than usual, chasing a toddler and dealing with the pregnancy symptoms. We just found out this week that baby #2 is a girl so that is very exciting!! (Not so exciting for my wallet, haha!)

Anyway, for my lack of posts, I will show you 3 cards today. They all use the March Paper Pumpkin kit plus a few other random things from my stash. If you haven't heard about My Paper Pumpkin, check out the Paper Pumpkin website for more info. You get a package each month filled with goodies to make cards, gift bags, etc. Stampin' Up! gives you all of the supplies you need to make the project that month. I just recently signed up and I'm so glad I did. I had so much fun with it. These kits are great for when you are busy and just don't have the time to create. Everything is there for you and it takes the guess work out of creating something. Of course, you also have the opportunity to use any other supplies you have to make it your own. Which is what I did with this month's paper pumpkin.

The first card is the example they show you in the kit. The next 2 cards are ones that I came up using my own supplies. I just love all of the items that came in the kit this month. The wood sentiment pieces are so cool. And of course you can't go wrong with glitter dots. And the biggest bonus of it all is that all 3 of these cards only took me a half hour to do. The first card probably only took me 5 minutes but it just looks so cute!! Also included in the kit are envelopes and the gold envelope liners. My plan is to have 1 or 2 posts each month showcasing the Paper Pumpkin kit that month plus alternative ideas for the kit. So stay tuned!!

If you are interested in signing up and have any questions, please feel free to contact me. I don't know why I waited so long to sign up. It's been so fun waiting for this to arrive the past 2 months. (I have yet to play with the starter kit; it's next on my list). And as an additional bonus if you sign up before March 31st, you get a free marker set. How cool is that!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Chalk Talk
Ink: Calypso Coral, Island Indigo
Paper: Calypso Coral, Fresh Prints DSP paper stack
Accessories: March Paper Pumpkin kit, Starburst Framelit dies, Doilies, Chalk Talk Framelit dies, Decorative Dots embossing folder (SAB)

Starburst Thank You

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I was fairly productive craft-wise, not so much in the cleaning department, haha! I was able to work on some cards for my upcoming card class. Stay tuned for information on this class. But on to today's card. I saw this layout on a card from Pinterest. I used the super cute Retro Fresh DSP. I am in love with this paper. I think I really like the fun springy colors in it. I stamped the sentiment from Starburst Sayins in Coastal Cabana and cut it out with the Starburst Framelits. The flower behind the starburst is from the Floral Framelits dies. I think this is the first time I actually used these dies. I have no idea what took me so long to use them. I then added some gold sequin trim and Crushed Curry ribbon. I finished it off with a very vintage designer button. This was a pretty quick card to put together. I think it would be cute to try this out with other DSPs.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Stamps: Starburst Sayings
Ink: Coastal Cabana
Paper: Retro Fresh DSP, So Saffron
Accessories: Starburst Framelit dies, Floral Framelit dies, 1 3/8 inch circle punch, Gold sequin trim, Crushed Curry ribbon, Very Vintage designer buttons, Pool Party bakers twine