Baby Girl Cards

Hey peeps!  Happy Spring!  FINALLY!  Let’s hope it sticks!  My niece had a little girl earlier this week and the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge this week was this pretty inspiration photo:

I found a sweet little image from a Crafty Secret note pad and cut it down to fit the Mojo Monday sketch from this week:

and here we go:

I did put my sentiment element at the top instead of the bottom so I didn’t cover up that cute little puppy!  All the designer papers are digital; the card base is Pistachio Pudding and the embossed piece is Blushing Bride.  Sentiment is from Papertrey’s Daily Designs Sentiments

Then, I had the remaining piece sitting on my desk, looking up at me, as well as this little tag, bare and unadorned, so I decided to make another baby girl card for the receptionist at my dentist’s office!!  The Kraft Journal’s challenge this week is “tags”, so it was a perfect fit:

I mounted the Crafty Secrets piece on a scalloped square and embellished it with some lace, pleated ribbon and an embossed heart.  Then I stamped and embellished the tag with a few miscellaneous images and sentiments…..I was really just kind of playing around with some sets I rarely use!  The ribbon is the same pleated ribbon with the stitching removed and pressed.  I stamped the Blush Blossom card base with the retired Distressed Dots background stamp.  (If you need details on any of the stamps or colors I used, just send me an email….there were too many to list!!).  Enjoy your day!

Cassidy & Dana enjoyed a trip to the National Aquarium in Baltimore!

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Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Brrr, it really felt like November yesterday….I guess we have to face that winter is on its way!  I love these earthy colors that Arielle chose for us this week for the ColourQ challenge:

Just Something I Made just offered a nice Thanksgiving postcard last week and it had most of the challenge colors, so I printed it out and made a vintage-style card:

(Thanks to Julie for correcting me on the source of my postcard!!!)  I stamped my background with the wheat sheaf from Truly Grateful and used the woodgrain and woodcut images as well to stamp my panels:

I also used my trusty 1970 Smith Corona Corsair typewriter to make this little tag which is anchored by a pretty houndstooth brad in Bashful Blue!  The Bible verse from this week’s Word Art Wednesday seemed appropriate for my inside sentiment:

This also qualifies for Sugar Creek Hollow’s challenge, which is vintage; and Frilly and Funky’s challenge this month is Thanksgiving. 

I hope you will find some inspiration from this lovely set of linens, and that you translate it into something crafty!  Share it with us at the ColourQ so we can all enjoy it, and be sure to check out what the designers made as well!

If you’re squeamish about dead animals, don’t look at the next picture!!!!

Yep……life in the country means you might see a dead mouse on your driveway!  Nuff said! Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Truly Grateful, Vintage Postcard Digital Image
Card stock & Papers	Early Espresso, Whisper White, Dusty Durango, So Saffron
Ink	Early Espresso, Dusty Durango, So Saffron
Accessories	Early Espresso Baker's Twine, Misc Brad
Tools	Decorative Label Punch, Sponge Daubers, Typewriter, Dimensionals, Big Shot, Chalk Talk Die

SCH58

Happy Wednesday, wee ones!  I have a quick post for you today, then I am going to be taking a little blog break as my allergies are acting up and I am feeling a bit under the weather, plus DH is almost finished remodeling my craft room and I will be busy moving all my supplies back upstairs!  Yippee!

Today’s card is a wee bit different than my usual stamped card; I recently purchased a card kit featuring images of Mabel Lucie Attwell.  The images are punched out, then layered with dimensionals, sort of like paper tole.  Since the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge 58 is to make card with or for babies, I couldn’t resist breaking out my kit:

There is a wee bit of stamping (I wanted to do a cute poem about spring but I just didn’t have the energy, LOL!) and I made a little 3D flower:

and here you can see all the layering:

Aren’t they cute?  I did some research and found that Mabel Lucie Attwell was British, and she did illustrations for many children’s books from the early 1900s to the 1950s.  Sweet as can be!

I’ll see you back next week for the Paper Players challenge! 

Building a tower!

DD28 & SCH37

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  I have a quick card for you today, a birthday card for my dad in the Dynamic Duos colors this week:

and also for Sugar Creek Hollow’s challenge “for the boys”!

I used some Artistic Outpost stamps with some masking, distressing, embossing and sponging for my dad’s card.  This is sort of a tongue-in-cheek sentiment and I don’t know if he’ll “get it” or not…..he lived on our farm until he retired and then moved to the beach because my mom liked it.  Now that she’s been gone for many years, we are trying to get him to come back to the country!!!  Anyway, I know he’ll like it at least for the vintage truck!  Thanks for visiting!  Again, any questions???  Shoot me an email!

I was bringing in groceries and had the door propped open…..isn’t that a perfect place to enjoy one’s banana?

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I’ve been trying to get this project done all week….the challenge theme 34 at Sugar Creek Hollow is Sew Fashionable, and you must have a fashion item on your project!  I recently bought a whole stash of Workbasket books; the oldest was from 1948, and that’s where this crocheted bathing suit pattern originated:

I cannot imagine making ANY kind of bathing attire, let alone a crocheted one.  My first dive into the ocean and it would be wet and sagging for sure!  But here it is—I even used some of the directions as part of the embellishments, along with some Graphic 45 papers, a few buttons from my stash and an old measuring tape we found when cleaning out my MIL’s sewing room.

I did add some “water spots” from the French Foliage set, and stamped a cheesecloth image on the background.  This is larger than a card, so I made it into a little vignette and added a stand to prop it up on the back.  This is probably not as “embellished” as some vintage things are, but I didn’t want it to look too awfully crowded!

Cassidy has a bit of a cold, but it didn’t stop her from showing off her artistic skills in coloring the jack-o-lantern Grammy drew for her:

There are also “raindrops”, drawn by the little artist HERSELF!

LRW153 & SCH31

Happy Friday!  Today’s creation is more than a card….it’s actually a little propped-up vintage doodad/decoration…not sure what to call it!  I printed out some vintage Halloween images from Graphics Fairy, did a tiny bit of stamping and a bunch of embellishing and here we go:

This fulfills two challenges; Little Red Wagon has a button challenge (at least three!) and Sugar Creek Hollow has a “Things with Wings” challenge….and I have an owl and two bats!

I even managed to sneak in a little ghost, wandering among the trees and pumpkins!

Hope it gives you a wee bit of a giggle!   And here’s what my wee one has been doing with HER broom:

Have a great day!

CCCB127 & SCH29

The Sugar Creek Hollow challenge this week is Pretty in Pink, and the City Crafter Challenge Blog also had a fun challenge of “inchies”!

I needed a special little baby card, so away I went:

I made a “quilt” of 1” DP squares and ran it through my Fancy Fan embossing folder.  The image is from Crafty Secrets; felt cut with a Nestie and the heart charm is a yardsale purchase!!!  I dyed some white seam binding with Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose inks to make my shabby bow.

Sentiment is from PTI, and I added a couple butterflies from Beautiful Wings embosslit.  Thanks for visiting today!

SCCC35 and SCH22

 

Happy Monday, peeps!  I survived the weekend with this nasty summer cold, I hope no one else out there is suffering from it…DH is still down & out!  I mustered some strength to make some Christmas cards after seeing the Weekly Christmas Card Challenge #35 – No Stamping; and the Sugar Creek Hollow Challenge 22, which was to make a shabby, vintage Christmas card!  Comin’ right up!

I mixed up some vintage Christmas papers with a Santa chipboard tag for this card:

Since there was no stamping, the hardest part was (after choosing papers!) making the shabby bow and glittering up my little greenery:

 

And since I already had the papers out, I made another one with the leftovers, and just added a little scalloped border and a vintage sticker:

 

I snipped out the bottom part of the fishtail banner and brought it to the top!

What fun cards to create and now I have two more for my stash!  Have a great Monday, and be sure to stop back for tomorrow’s ColourQ!

Building a tower is serious business!

SCH21 Vintage Baseball

Happy Monday!  It’s VBS week so I doubt I’ll have too much time for stamping/blogging this week!   I did have a fun time over the weekend making this vintage card for Sugar Creek Hollow’s challenge 21, which is all about sports.  I rummaged around in my digi image file and found some old baseball card images, I believe from the Graphics Fairy, to make my creation:

 

I pulled out some Basic Grey scraps, printed off a cool vintage baseball cap image from the net,  and stamped some miscellaneous Americana images, as I really have NO sports stamps:

and I even made a little baseball player chipboard piece, printing him on some DP and mounting him on three pieces of cardboard, coloring the edges with a black marker:

 

Oh boy, this was fun to make….a bit time-consuming to figure out what to put where, but it’s nice to have a masculine card on hand for a birthday!

Enjoy your day and be sure to come back tomorrow to see the ColourQ challenge!!!