Baby Mania!!!

It's been like baby mania around here lately! I am finding that I need baby cards again. I was digging through some old SU! designer paper lately and found these two old favs of mine. The base of both of these cards are the same - the boy card was taken in natural sunlight and the girl card at night under my OTT-lite. I'm working on rearranging some items on my blog. I added some links to blogs I visit regularly. If I visit yours and don't have yours listed, please let me know! It was an oversight and I would be more than happy to link your site to mine!!! I also spend a lot of time reading other types of blogs (gasp!) that are not stamping related. I listed some of those also. Today is the last day of vacation - sniff, sniff.... Thanks for stopping by my blog today!!!

Bud Basic Birthday

My husband's Grandma had her 84th birthday this week and this was the card we gave her. I'm ready to start thinking about Spring flowers now that Halloween is over! I did a little thinking about the holiday season today to try to reduce all the stress that happens that time of year. I'm going to enjoy the holidays this year because I'm going to be more prepared! (At least I keep telling myself that!) I wish I could capture the glitter better with my camera...does anyone have any suggestions?

Have a great rest of the weekend!

Here is the recipe:

Stamps: Hugs and Wishes, Bud Basics

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip

Square Simply Said

Have you ever made the same mistake three times while making a project? For some reason I have my red ink pad super juicy and it was taking forever for the red to dry on this card. Three times in a row I smeared it as I worked on the card. You would think I would be more patient. I let it go (which is not easy for me) and used the third smeared sample. This is an easy little square card. Thanks for looking at my blog and have a wonderful fall weekend! Here is the recipe:

Stamps: Simply Said, Hugs and Wishes

Ink: Real Red, Basic Black

Paper: Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White

Accessories: Hodgepodge Hardware, Black Gingham Ribbon

Splitcoaststampers Challenge

This is the first time I've participated in the inspiration challenge. The inspiration chosen for this project was the lovely dishes shown from Pier 1. I had to DIG to find some Taken with Teal paper! I finally found some in a 12x12 assorted pack I had stashed away. I thought it would be fun to use my SU tool that had the cutter on it that rolls. Being the GREAT demo I am, I can't remember exactly what it is called at this second! I added the stitching because I thought it needed just a little something else. Do any of you have those stamps you just can't seem to stamp straight no matter how hard you try or no matter how many times you practice? Well...the word "Congratulations" does that too me every single time! This was a fun challenge. I think I will do it again sometime! Thank you for looking at my blog! Here is the recipe:

Stamp: Hugs and Wishes

Ink: Basic Black

Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Taken with Teal, Old Olive

Baby Boy Card

Two of my friends had babies this week and they were both baby boys!

I started out with a 4 1/2 by 11 card base of close to cocoa paper and then added layers of blue bayou and scrapbook paper by www.karenpanacci.com. I used the ticket corner punch on those layers. I used my new favorite tool - the Marvy Uchida Scallop Punch with blue bayou paper and cut a circle out with my cricut out of very vanilla paper. I paper pierced a strip of close to cocoa behind the circle. I used SU I'm Here and Hugs and Kisses stamp sets. I added pewter brads and blue bayou ribbon to finish the project.