Baby Braylee Katherine Buber is here!

She's here! My fiance's son and girlfriend had their baby girl. Before the details, I want to know something...just because I'm engaged to a man who just became a grandfather, does that make me a grandmother????? She couldn't have waited until the end of next week, then I would at least be 40!

Here are the details:

Born at 5:37 PM 12/2/10
Weighing at 4 lbs 13 oz
Measuring 21 inches

She's doing excellent, we were not able to hold her because she's a preemie and needed to stay on the warming blanket and under the heat lamp. But she took her 1st bottle in front of us with no problem.



Don't worry about the tubs in her nose, it's not pure oxygen, it's the same air in the room. She can breath on her own, they just have them in as a precaution due to premies lungs collapsing and the walls stick together. All it's doing is pumping the air in and out to keep her lungs constantly working.

Here's the card I made them:








Baby Formula:
CS: BB Brandywine, DCWV Glitter White & Silver
PPs: Heidi Grace Designs “Baby Girl/Buggy”, Colorbok “16972 Rose Stripe”, SEI “Chocolat”
Rub-ons: Cloud9 Memories
Cricut Cartridges: New Arrival – Buggy cut @ 5.5” with a shadow base
Misc: Rhinestones, Heart Button, Adhesive


TFL!!!

Baby Announcements!

Hi there! This past week's challenge over at Bitten By the Bug was the flower frame from the Pooh & Friends cartridge. Unfortunately I do not have this one, which I should be sooo ashamed since I'm a huge Disney fan! I do have Pooh Fonts & Mickey Fonts but none of the other Disney carts, can't believe that! Anyway, so I asked my wonderful sweet friend (and fellow BBTB designer), Sharon to cut me one pink and one blue at 4" and she sent me all these wonderful options...shadow, white, etc. I was originally going to use self-adhesive pearls for the center of the flowers, but because Sharon being the sweetheart she is, the white flower frame went so beautifully over the blue one and then the shadow, so I left as is! So here's my take on the challenge this week. I'm going to show my SIL and see if she wants me to make her a bunch when she has my nephew (yes it's a boy!...we didn't know until Thurs, that is why I asked Sharon for one in pink and one in blue, didn't know what color theme I was going to go with). She's due in early February and we'll have fun going paper shopping as I would like her to pick them. :)

Also, please go over to the Bitten By the Bug site and see all the beautiful creations the rest of the designers did. Not to single anyone out but Sharon's is a beauty!

The baby bottle is from Doodlecharms which I cut at 8 1/8".







Baby Formula:
-DPS: Kaiser Scrapbook Cocco Series "Mocha" (both the striped side and the brown side) and Anna Griffin (don't know the name of the pattern)
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Cocoa" and "Dune"
-Computer fonts: scrapNfonts CK Bella (22 & 40 pts)
-Stickers: Deja Views Wonderful Words "Phrases*Expressions"
-Cricut Carts: Pooh & Friends "flower frame" cut at 4" by the lovely Sharon (also using the shadow and blackout features)
Doodlecharms for the baby bottle cut at 8 1/8" (don't ask me why I did that extra 1/8")

TFL!!

Another Great Grandchild on the way...2S4Y

Hi there, turns out we have another great grandchild on the way. My brother and his lovely wife are expecting in February and now our cousin Rachel and her husband are expecting in March! So here is the card that I made her using Laura's sketch from this weeks sketch over at 2 Sketches 4 You.

Here's is Laura's sketch:


And here is my take:


Trying to add some more visual effects around my work...


Just loving the Dew Drops!


So I've been playing with my camera trying to figure out what is the best time and light to get pictures of true colors of my work and these pictures show really what the colors are like:







Baby formula for this creation:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Safari
-DPs: Anna Griffins collections
-Flowers: Gartner Table Confetti Embossed Ivory Shimmer
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox Dark Moss
-Computer fonts: DB Boho Frames 1 using the "L" character at 400 pts and "F" at 600 pts, Ck Bella for both quotes at 38 pts and 35 pts
-Robin's Nest Dew Drops "Fresh Mowed Grass"
-Cricut Cart: New arrival for the baby girl and boy onsies
-Misc: Chipboard, Adhesive, Mini Pop dots, Prismacolor pencils and gamsol

TFL!

A Baby Will Be Strolling In... and for 2S4Y

I think it's been at least 2 weeks since I've been able to do a card using one of the awesome sketches over at 2 Sketches 4 You, this week is Kazan's sketch:



My brother and his lovely wife are having a baby!! Due in February...they told us a couple weeks ago so I'm a little late on getting my congratulations card to them. So here it is using Kazan's awesome sketch:










For the center of the flowers I used Black Diamond Stickles and then Glossy Accents over the stickles, not quite sure I liked how it came out:






And here's the front of the envie:



And the back of the envie:






Baby Formula for this creation:
-CS: Bazzill Black, The Paper Company "Metallic Cold Steel" and "Solar White"
-DPs: DCWV The Christmas Glitter Matstack, The Luxury Stack & Specialty Matstacks Mulburry
-Photo corners by Martha Stewart
-Fluid Chalk Ink: Colorbox Moss Green
-Flowers: Gartner Table Confetti Embossed White Shimmer
-Computer Fonts: scrapNfonts "CK Elegant
-Stickles: Black Diamond
-Cricut: New Arrival for the stroller cut @ 3 1/2" and the safety pins also cut at 3 1/2"
-Misc: Rhinestones, Gelly Roll pens, Glossy Accents, Mini Pop Dots, adhesive & glue

TFL!!!

My 1st Challenge for Bitten By The Bug design team

Here's my creation for my 1st challenge as a Bitten By the Bug design team member. You must go over and check out what everyone else did, everyone did such an amazing job. It's so interesting to see all the different things you can do with one cut and to also see what other's creative minds came up with. Like I said everyone's creations are amazing!

The challenge was to create a project using the Train from the New Arrival cartridge (page 121) and here's what I did... (You can click on each image to see a larger view)







Some close ups...



















TFL!!

Sweet Baby of Mine

It's another week over at 2 Sketches 4 You and this week it's Kazan's sketch, which is her 3rd sketch (and what a sketch it is!).

And there is also a new contest over at Bitten By The Bug that gave me the opportunity to combine two challenges into one. The contest over at BBTB is something for a baby using brown as the primary color, have a heart somewhere on the project and use any cut from any of the Cricut cartridges!

A colleague of mine is having a baby in August and there is going to be a baby shower for her soon and due to a very busy schedule I had to combine both challenges into one.

Here is Kazan's sketch:



And here is my take:















Baby Formula for this creation:
-CS: The Paper Company - Sable, Neutral Tan, Neutral Tan Texture, Parchment Ivory, Cool Metallic Cover Amber, Cool Metallic Cover Lime, Blonde Columns and Burgundy Corduroy
-DPs: Paper Pizzazz "Brown Diamonds" and "Tan Scrollwork Stripes"
-Ribbon: Offray Lime Juice White Dots
-Stickles: LIme Green and Copper
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox Creamy Brown
-Diecuts: K&Company Smitten Hearts
-Cricut Carts: Doodlecharms for the bottles cut at 2"
Opposites Attracts for words "Joy" (using the base feature cut at 1 3/8"), "to" (welded using the upright feature cut at 2 1/2"), "your" (welded using the Opposite feature cut at 1 1/2"), "trish" (welded using the upright feature) and "baby" (welded using the base feature)
George for the ampersand
Cuttin Up for the word baby cut at 2 1/2"
-Computer fonts: scrapNfonts - Sweet using LD Punch Out, Baby using LD Remington Portable, Of using CK Bella, Mine using LD Warm Heart and Frame using DB Frilly Frames (r character)
-Misc items: Chipboard, Sewing machine, lime thread

TFL!!!

Bitten By The Bug Contest! - 2nd Entry

OK, this is my 2nd entry to a BBTB contest! This time as a baby boy card. Another really fun project do!!!
Just to update you, the contest was:
1. Create a card for a baby (girl or boy) using LIME GREEN and PINK for a girl OR LIME GREEN and BLUE for a boy.
2. Use RIBBON somewhere on the card.
3. Use at least ONE cut from ANY Cricut cartridge.

Here's some of the items I used to make it:
Blue Baby paper & Giggle Green paper from Sandylion
Small Wonders Boy Summer Strips from K&Company
Cool Morning Stripes from Around the Block
Olive & blue ric-rac, various Satin & Sheer ribbons
Various Gems, brads & eyelets
MM blossoms
Various Colorbox inks & I Kan'Dee pearlescent chalks
Just Arrived Stamp by Rubber Stampede (I embossed which is hard to see in the pics)
Teddy Bear, Baby Bottle & Baby Bag from Doodlecharms
It's a Boy from Beyond Birthdays
Lettering from Alphalicous & Opposites Attract
Scallop Oval from Mini Monos
Oval and tag from George
Accent Essential
Tag for frames from TBBM (using the Mirror Window Hole feature)
All used with CDS

Hope you like!

Bitten By The Bug Contest!

OK, this is my very 1st entry to a BBTB contest! This was sooooo much fun to do!!!
The contest was:
1. Create a card for a baby (girl or boy) using LIME GREEN and PINK for a girl OR LIME GREEN and BLUE for a boy.
2. Use RIBBON somewhere on the card.
3. Use at least ONE cut from ANY Cricut cartridge.
Here's mine for the girl card (boy card to come soon, hopefully!)

Here's some of the things I used to make it:
K&Company for the lime & pink harlequin vellum
DCWV for the Pink Baby paper
Lime ric-rac
Satin ribbon
Various Gems
MM blossoms
I Kan'Dee pearlescent chalks
Various Colorbox inks
Inkadinkadoo Stamp (Hand Made with Love)
Baby Bottle from Doodlecharms
It's a Girl from Beyond Birthdays
Scallop Card from Accent Essential
Tags from Tags, Bags, Boxes & More (surprise!)
All used with CDS

Hope you enjoy!