I've been a slacker as a blogger this week and the only excuse is that I've been busy. My youngest son went from having the flu last weekend which lead right into a full blown head cold this week with a high fever and needed his mommy. I'm happy to report that he is now feeling much better and almost all of us are well (I think I should knock on some wood). This winter has really kicked our butts as far as being sick in our family even with all the cleaning & lysoling in the world..jpg)
The Bella-riffic Friday Challenge this week was to create a card for a celebration since its Stamping Bella's 2 year anniversary. Well I know this card doesn't look like a celebration card but........ I always like roses for my anniversary so I thought why not. I've been wanting to create a card with one of the new Bittybloom stamps that I got in last week but I just hadn't made time until now. I actually had this card in my mind when I order this Rosy Bittybloom and now that I've made a card with her I think I'm in love! The image of her is so sweet and I can picture her being so many colors, I'm actually using this card as a baby card for a friend. You can see in the picture below how I stamped Rosy twice and colored the roses on her head, cut and popped them up and applied them to the second image. I used my Copics to color her and outlined all of the flowers with my Spica glitter pen (did I tell you how much I love this pen?).
These scrapbook pages are for Cyndi's Scrappy Sketch #24! My pages for today are rather simple, without having any baby stickers or accents, I tried to add to my pages using small details so the focus stays on the pictures. The look on my son Connor's face when we were trying to feed him fruit and cereal the first time is priceless, he looks like "what the heck are they giving me now".
Supplies: Bazzill card stock, Buttons, Ribbon, Provo Craft designer paper (sorry forgot the name), Piercer w/mat, Cricut with All Mixed Up, Basic George, Opposites Attract cartridges, Computer lettering, Paper clip, Twine.
Stop by and check out Cyndi's fabulous pages for this weekends sketch!
This baby card is for a new baby on my husband's side of the family. I kept this card relatively simple, I used Fun & Fast Notes for the baby carriage and Full of Life for the saying (I love this saying for a baby card). Yes I have naked buttons on this card, I just didn't have the time to keep going with it. My DH the landscaper has been working a ton, weekends included which is totally great, it just limits any creating time for me and by late at night I've been too tired. Our little guy who is 20 months old has really been keeping me on the move lately, I never remember our other two kids being THIS busy!
I really like the little flag (I guess that's what you call it) that I added, I've seen this being used some of the Karen Lockhart cards and I think its a neat little way of adding to the main image. I saw a trick on someones blog about how to get a perfect "v" cut into the end of your flag, you take and cut your strip of paper the length that you need, stamp your word or saying (leaving enough room for a brad) and insert one end into your square punch, 
holding your punch up side down and punch like this:
These are my pages for Cyndi's Scrappy Sketch #17, yes more baby pages, I will be scrapping other things/people but for now I'm really trying to get some pages completed for my son Connor's scrapbook. Looking at these pictures makes me see how fast hes growing and how much hes changed already, this last Thursday he turned 1 1/2. I like this sketch layout because of the different panels behind the pictures, it really helps anchor your photos on the pages. For more examples using this sketch be sure to check out Cyndi and Heather's pages.
This last week I was asked by my blogging friend Cyndi if I would like to be a member of her sketch team. I didn't even have to think about it, my answer was yes of course I would!
Here is another page layout for my sons scrapbook using a sketch from Cyndi Bundy. On Cyndi's blog the Scrappy Chick she is offering blog candy to someone if you use her Scrappy Sketch #15 on a layout and post a comment with a link to your pages. So these are mine, I used Doodlebug paper and card stock stickers, the Cricut for the lettering and brackets, buttons with floss and hand sewed the little X's.
Well, I made this card for my friend Dawn who is expecting her fifth child. I'm very excited for her and her family, yes five children sounds like a lot, but she is a fabulous mother and loves children. I knew I wanted to make her a card so I borrowed this Swell News stamp set from my sister-in-law and happen to sit down to make the card last weekend when I saw Beate's sketch challenge and thought why not!
Hope she likes it.
Supplies: Swell News, Happiness BG, Looks Like Spring, Polka Dot BG stamp sets, Scalloped Circle Punch, Circle Punch, Piercer, White Gel Pen, Ribbon, Buttons, Coluzzle, Aqua Brush. Colors: Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, Apricot Appeal, Whisper White.
Today I wanted to post something that was given as a gift to my son Connor after he was born. My friend Bonnie, who is so talented and anything she touches turns out a masterpiece made Connor this beautiful decorated paint can. The pictures don't do it justice, there is so much detail, on the front of the can she put Connors initials in tags, the handle is loaded with ribbon, on the sides she tied on the sweetest tags, little blue pacifiers and bells.
I feel so blessed to have such talented and wonderful friends and I hope that they don't mind that once in a while I show off some of their work and brag about them because their work is just to good to keep to my self. Thanks again Bonnie for the beautiful keepsake!
This is one of the cards I'll be doing for my next Stamp Camp, I just love the hippo from this set!
I made this name frame for my son's nursery, the little frogs from the stamp set Unfroggettable from Stampin' Up match his bed set perfectly.
