Baby Carriage

Our friends, Paul and Jen, had a baby girl today! YAY!! Her name is Naomi Faith, she weighed in at 6 lbs 10 oz and 20 inches long. After an incorrect epidural and 16 hours of labour, mother and baby are doing well - they are both very tired, though!

Jeff and I went to see them today, and this is the card I made:

Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose, Sweet Pretty DSP (retired now)
Tools: Scallop Edge punch
Accents: Silver Brads, White 1/4" grosgrain ribbon

For this card, I cut out a regular card-sized piece of card stock and folded it with the boner, and since I don't have a circle cutter or BigShot (yet), I used one of our huge tea mugs and traced over it, making sure there was still enough room on the left to fold the card. Then I cut out the wedges.

I traced that shape onto a piece of the DSP and cut that out too, needing to trim it to be a closer fit once it was glued on.

I used the scallop edge punch to punch out the trim, and after it was punched, I trimmed the pieces to be 1/2" thick.

I used bottle lids for the wheels for the carriage, and stuck brads in the center. But this time, I ran out of snail *gasp* and so I had to use tape to adhere the wheels :( But that turned out okay.

I used this sticky strip that my mom got me from the dollar store to stick the ribbon on. You peel back the cover, and stick whatever it is that you're sticking onto the sticky sheet, and then the sticky-ness is stuck to your item, and it sticks really well to your cardstock! It's called Microdots.

Enjoy!

Manly Cards

Here are some of the masculine cards that I made for Dave - an extended order for encouragement cards:

Stamp Sets: Thank You Kindly, Seeing Spots

Card Stock: Pacific Point, Basic Black, Whisper White

Ink: Basic Black, Pacific Point

Stamp Set: A Year of Sweet Sentiments (Taylored Expressions)

Card Stock: Not Quite Navy (with Whisper White on the inside) and Really Rust (with Very Vanilla on the inside)

Ink: Not Quite Navy, Really Rust

Tools: Large Oval punch, White Gel Pen

Stamp Sets: Inspired by Nature, So Many Sayings

Card Stock: Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White

Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Old Olive

Tool: Brayer

I know you have seen the last card before, but the grass was black, and I think it looks better with the grass in Old Olive, makes it look more like grass. But Whisper White is harder to brayer on than the walmart white, which is what I had used before. The Whisper White cardstock has a bit of a sheen to it, and the walmart white is a bit more "porous", if you know what I mean. But the card does look acceptable.

I hope you like them!

Encouragement Cards

One of my friends from church wants me to make some encouragement cards for him. So this week, I've been compiling a few cards that he can choose from. There are some cards that I made last year, but these are the cards I made last night:

Stamp Set: Baroque Motifs, Full of Life

Card Stock: Very Vanilla

Ink: Close to Cocoa

Extras: Silver Brads, Flower Fusion

Stamp Sets: Baroque Motifs, Sincere Salutations

Card Stock: Rose Red, Whisper White

Ink: Rose Red, Old Olive

Extras: Flower Fusion, Silver Brads

Stamp Sets: Baroque Motifs, Flight of the Butterfly (for the sentiment)

Card Stock: Whisper White, Close to Cocoa

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Riding Hood Red

Extras: Dimensionals

Stamp Sets: Full of Life, Botanical Blooms (from the Sale-a-bration sale 2009)

Card Stock: Old Olive, Very Vanilla

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Old Olive

Extras: Old Olive 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon, Blender Pen

I hope Dave enjoys these cards, and I hope you enjoy them too!

New Cards

I made some new cards! Here they are:

Stamps: Sincere Salutations

Card Stock: Baja Breeze, Whisper White

Ink: Baja Breeze

Extras: Whisper White 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, Scallop Edge punch, flowers and pearls from Dollarama

Stamps: Upsy Daisy

Card Stock: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Sweet Always DSP

Ink: Real Rose, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie

Extras: Blender Pen, Large Oval punch, Oval Scallop punch

I hope you like them! I really enjoy the sentiments from Upsy Daisy, I don't know why I don't use them more often!

Thank You Card

First of all... HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!! I hope this day brings you and your families joy.

Now that I know the Niki won't see this post until after she receives the card, I can safely post it, though I've been wanting to post it since I made it earlier this week.

Niki bought me a stamp set for my birthday, and I LOVE IT!!! And here is the thank you card I made for her with it:

Stamp Sets: Scene in a Garden, Year of Sweet Sentiments

Card Stock: Whisper White, Riding Hood Red

Ink: Basic Black, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip, Night of Navy, VersaMark

Extras: Silver Brads, Chocolate Chip 1/4" grosgrain ribbon

Everything for this card was made with Stampin' Up! products except for the sentiment, which is from Taylored Expressions. I know the card doesn't look like much in a picture, but I think it looks great in real life. I hope Niki likes it.

More Thank You Cards

I completely ran out of thank you cards for Jeff's clients today, so I had to buckle down and make some. I made 14 cards tonight; of two different designs.

Stamp Sets: Thank You Kindly, Medallion

Card Stock: Very Vanilla

Ink: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie

Stamp Sets: Thank You Kindly, Doodle (roller)

Card Stock: Rose Red, Whisper White

Ink: VersaMark

Extras: Heat Embossing Powder - white, Large Oval punch, Scallop Oval punch

These were totally easy to make in bulk! I really like the first one, but it would look better if I had the Stamp-a-ma-jig thing to center the stamps, but I don't have one yet. That's for the next order... :) Enjoy!

More (and the last) Christmas Cards of 2009

Hello! I've made my last bunch of Christmas cards - for myself. I have had a few orders from people wanting me to make Christmas cards for them, but I had those done before I had my own done! I just wanted to post the last two cards I've made (I make more than 1 of each kind of card, so I don't have to wrack my brain about what kind of card to make for who):

Stamp Sets: Dasher, Many Merry Messages

Card Stock: Real Red, Whisper White

Ink: VersaMark

Extras: Gold Heat Embossing Powder, 1/4" Real Red ribbon, dimensionals, Petals-a-Plenty die folder

I must tell you now; you may not see the embossed card stock (on the white behind Dasher), and that is due to the fact that I do not have the Big Shot yet. I'm hoping to get it early next year, but until then, I'm using a rolling pin. And for your information, no, it doesn't work very well. :)

Stamp Set: Medallion, Many Merry Messages

Card Stock: Night of Navy

Ink: VersaMark

Extras: Silver Heat Embossing Powder, dimensionals

Stamp Set: Medallion, Many Merry Messages

Card Stock: Riding Hood Red

Ink: VersaMark

Extras: Gold Heat Embossing Powder

Now, before you state the obvious (the last 2 cards are the same design, just different colours), let me tell you that the reason I posted both of them is because I wanted to show both of the colour scheme I chose for these cards. I thought I would like the red and gold better, but upon seeing the finished product, I think I like the blue and silver better. Perhaps it is because I used Riding Hood Red instead of Real Red (Real Red is a truer red, Riding Hood Red has a little more yellow in it), and Real Red would show off the gold better. Unfortunately, I had run out of Real Red by the time I did this last card, so I was stuck with the only other red I had. Now, this is strictly my personal preference.

Tell me, which one do you like best?