Nov 26 2009
Last week, my sister and her family moved to Michigan. Seems so weird that she is now 11 hours away. Since my hubby and I are moving next week (only 4 miles away), alot of my stamping supplies are already packed. This is my "limited supply challenge" to make a card without using any stamps.
My six-year-old grand girl saw the card and wanted to make one too. Here’s her version:
So sweet!
Nov 25 2009
A customer asked me to make this Christmas frame in Bravo Burgundy and Handsome Hunter colors. I like how it turned out.
Nov 25 2009
One of my downline, Sandy, surprised me with this Halloween Scrapbook.
I love the Night & Day Specialty Designer Series Paper (retires 1-4-10) and the Twick or Tweet stamp set. I can’t wait to fill this with pictures of the grand girls!
Nov 25 2009
On November 14, my daughter hosted a baby shower for my daughter-in-law. She did 99% of the work herself, but would ask me for input and ideas. We both like making decorations ourselves vs. buying the cheezy stuff the stores sell. The baby’s nursery is done is green and brown. My son and daughter-in-law aren’t finding out the sex of the baby before it is born in early January. So the colors for the shower were the same as the baby’s nursery.
Sorry, but I didn’t get a formal invitation because my daughter ran short. But the invitation was in the shape of a baby’s onsie–very cute.
The Sizzix Big Shot Flower Folds die cut got used for a lot of the decorations. This was the sign on the front door.
This is the diaper cake. You roll the diapers and secure with a rubber band. The wide ribbon hides the rubber bands. After the shower, the diaper cake can be taken apart and the diapers can be used.
I’ll be honest here. This diaper baby freaked me out! You roll diapers for the head, arms and legs. Stuff the clothes with towels or blankets. Add a hat, mittens and booties to cover the diapers. A nuk in the mouth and we placed it in a doll carrier. So many people attending the shower thought this was a real baby when they glanced at it. It was only when they got close that we’d hear a gasp!
For the three table decorations, I used my wire card tree to feature two-sided baby pictures of my son and daughter-in-law. I used the Sizzix Big Shot Scallop Square and Scallop Circle die cuts. I stamped baby words and punched them out with the Modern Label punch. Tied some ribbon at the base and it was done. I love how these personalized the shower, gave people something to talk about and helped people visualize what the new baby may look like.
I made a 5"x5" baby card using the nursery colors. This was easy using the Sizzix Big Shot Scallop Circle die cut, Swirly Sizzlits decorative strip die, Sizzix Texturz Plates Backgrounds I, Eyelet Border Punch, 3/4" Circle Punch, 1" Circle Punch and 1 1/4" Circle Punch, 5/16" chocolate chip jumbo brads and 1/4" Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon.
These sugar cookies are so darn cute! My daughter found the cookie cutter on Ebay. She made the cookies from scratch and then made the homemade frosting. It didn’t take her very long to decorate them. Me? I would never have attempted this complicated project. Many people at the shower thought she bought these! Now, that’s a compliment!
What do you do with your retired Stampin’ Up! ribbon? My daughter decided to make a taggie blanket. It was fun to see all the different colors, sizes and textures of the ribbon. I know the new baby will love playing with this.
These are just a few of the personalized decorations at the baby shower! Over 22 adults attended and 5 children. It was a fun shower!
Nov 05 2009
We were invited to the 6th birthday party of our oldest grand girl today. I don’t usually have much of a selection of wrapping paper on hand, other than Christmas paper. I found this beige wrapping paper for her gift. Boring…plain jane.
Now this IS a fancy present! I used the Big Shot Flower Folds die cut, Pink Passion and Pixie Pink cardstock. The pop-up glue dots did their magic in keeping everything inside the box!
Here we are with both grandgirls!
