Valentine's Banner

It's Monday again! These weekends just go by way to fast. Actually the month of January flew by as well! I've actually had this banner hanging on my mantel for a while now, I just haven't had the chance to write up a post about it.

This banner started with the cute heart and pom pom heart garland that I got from Pier 1. It was really cute but I thought it needed something else so I decided to spruce it up with some Stampin' supplies. I used the Be Mine Stitched Framelits along with the Large Letter Framelits to add XOXO to the garland. I used Powder Pink cardstock and the black and white DSP from the Botanical Butterfly DSP. (This DSP is FREE, get it now while you can!)

I did something a little different on each banner but they all have some hearts, a Gold glimmer letter and some Rose Metallic thread.

I also stamped the heart image from Forever Lovely in Powder Pink on each of the banners.

I used the Gold Library clips to attach them to the banner. That way if you wanted to change it out each year you can.

And here is what it looks like on my mantel. It's a cute little addition for Valentine's day. How could you not like some pom poms, hearts and glitter. :)

Thanks for stopping by!!

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

Joy Banner!

Happy Friday! As usual time has gotten away from me. I made this banner a couple of weeks ago but I just haven't had the chance to post about it yet. I had to make sure I posted it soon before Christmas passed us by. I originally wanted to make this banner for this cute snowman that I just got. He's about 18 inches tall and I thought it would be cute for him to hold the banner. But after I made it, I decided that it looked much better hanging on my mantle. It actually didn't take that long to make. I used 3 of the banners from the Build a Banner kit. I had some champagne shimmer paint from who knows when and I used with the polka dot stencil to make shimmery polka dots. I did mess up on the "Y" banner a little bit. My dots weren't lined up where I wanted them. But hopefully it's not too noticeable. I had planned on using the letter stencils that came in the kit but they were a little bigger than I wanted. So I went to MDS, picked a font I had and typed out JOY in green. Then I printed them and die cut them with the Deco Labels framelit dies. I then die cut 3 snowflakes on the silver glimmer paper (LOVE THIS!) with the ever favorite Festive Flurry dies. The final touch was to add a few buttons to each banner. I glued everything together on the banner with a glue gun because I thought that would help it stay together longer. Then I just used Cherry Cobbler seam binding and put it on my fireplace! It's a nice little touch to my mantle. So I'm still working on my advent calendar, ugh! I am doing the 12 days of Christmas which I'm starting today, so I'm hoping to finish up the last few things I need to this afternoon. I plan to post about that next week. I also have my Christmas cards to post about too. I'll post about those once I get them sent out.
Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: None
Ink: None
Paper: Silver glimmer
Accessories: Build a Banner kit, Champagne shimmer paint, Cherry Cobbler Seam binding, Festive Flurry Framelit dies, Deco Label dies, Brights buttons (retired), Very Vintage Designer buttons, Vintage Faceted Designer buttons