babies, babies, babies!!

I know lots of people having babies these days... thankfully, it's not me this time around!!  One however, is my little sister and I wanted to make her thank you notes for her baby shower!! so I cleaned and organized my craft room last week... and then I got busy!!  The one set I made is based on a set I had made before, but with boy colors this time.  I have another redo that I will be working on tomorrow, but today, I wanted to make something new... then I found this FTL132 sketch from Clean & Simple!

I knew I could make a cute baby thank you with this... and I think I did!

 I love baby feet!!  and I love making matching envelopes, and I added little feet inside the card, too.  I also used adorable scrapbook paper that I have had sitting around for YEARS (my son is going to be 8 soon)!!

look, a whole set of them!!

I liked it so much I made a girl set, too!!

hoping I can get them uploaded to my online card shop soon!!  (this whole trying to run an online card shop is harder than it looks... )

I made a card!!

 It took all my energy just to make this card and take pictures of it... I have nothing left to actually write a post on what I did.  I am not good (in that I never) take pictures of the process, so here is the finished product.

I started with this sketch from Heart 2 Heart Challenges, using hearts for Off the Wall Craftiness Challenge 45, and working with this Honeysuckle color scheme as part of the CSI project....

I bought a new baby stamp set in anticipation of my new nephew that's coming this spring... but I will have to redo this card in a different color for him, but if you know of any baby girls coming and love this card... let me know, I can put it up for sale in my Whimsical Words shop... or you can make one yourself.

The hearts are punched out with Creative Memories (no-longer-available) heart punch. baby feet stamped on white heart, inside and on the envelope to bring it all together.  I sponge-dusted the front of the card, to soften the white. 

Welcome to new baby!!

linked up to...

Heart 2 Heart Sketch Challenge
the CSI Project 2011 Pantone Honeysuckle
Off the Wall Craftiness Hearts or Vintage Challenge 45

Thinking of you...

Just wanted to share another one of my recently created cards... in that one time I had a chance to make a handful of notecards!  This one was FUN!  I only combined two challenges, AND I was able to use some ribbon that has been in my stash for ages!!


I used this sketch from Clean and Simple

and I chose these colors from Color Throwdown

I really like the way it turned out... do you?

multiple challenges

FINALLY!!!! It has been over a month since I have sat down with my crafts and card making supplies and I was starting to go insane with the ideas brewing inside my head... I could NOT keep track of them all. I missed a lot of ideas in many of the challenges that came across my Google Reader!! I have bookmarked a lot and hope to go back and create some fun cards, even if I missed out on the challenges.

However, I found a few to work with this weekend that were still opened. So I went to town. I made the mistake of trying to fulfill multiple challenges on one card... it almost made me want to quit completely. I am still not sure I like this card and I am still wondering what I can do to "fix" it, but here it is...


This card reflects the following challenges:

Off the Wall Craftiness Challenge #18 with the colors blue, yellow, and white!

The layout idea was part of 365 Days Day 153-Saturday Sketch

and then I added some bling to participate in CAS-tastic Wednesday Challenges Bling it Up!
(the daisy is sparkly on the edges and I added two silver jewels in the upper left corner)

My most favorite part of the card is ... the envelope. I made it matching and just LOVE it!!

Sunday sketch week4

So I totally missed this Sunday Sketch.

from Handstamped from the Heart... but I like the idea and I was working on it in steps. I finally finished it on (the following)Sunday, but by then a new sketch was up and I had missed the linky... Oh well!!

I have TONS of different kinds of paper, so the hard part was deciding on a theme... I am definitely going to make this card again with some of my other papers. I confess, this time I picked paper I didn't like and that I wanted to get rid of use up!!

Mostly, I agonized over what sentiment to use... so many to choose from and I didn't like any of them, they were all smaller than I wanted. So I made a few of each...

Here's the other one!


I can NOT stamp cards, take pictures, and create a post in time to make the links on some of these things, but I am loving the ideas, challenges, and inspirations for my card making... now if only I had a "studio" to work in!!!