Onsie Shaped Baby Shower Invitations (video!)

I made some invitations the other day, that I just adored and decided that I would make my first video and do the editing required, converting and all that good (but time consuming stuff)

So, here is the video! I also stuck up some stills of the ones from the other day! Note that the invites made in the video were cut at 4". The stills are of the ones I made at 5.5".



And here are a few photos from the other set.

My Bridal Shower Invitations

I posted Jessica's bridal shower invitations that I made, along with a recipe for them and actually our weddings are similar colors.

These are the ones I made for my mom & maid of honor who are hosting my shower. I didn't have enough of the same patterns to make all of them the same, so I had to make two designs, which both turned out cute!!

The light pink paper is Core'dinations Gemstones collection, dark pink is basic cardstock, same with the white. The orange pattern is from the DCWV Flower Shower spring stack. The pink polka dot paper is from Lila's and think it's from Basic Grey, green at heart.

The base is 4X4, and each layer is just a 1/4" smaller. The white paper, with the printed information ended up being 2.75X2.75.

I hope you like them!

Hawiian Wedding Card and update!

It's been a few days since I have really had a chance to sit down and get a post or project up here. With potty training going on, and all of the other hectic events life brings, this is my first real chance to sit down on the computer!

I can say I think Zoe is basically potty trained. She hasn't had but a handful of accidents since we started and I think it helps I waited until she was beyond ready.

Last night, mommy and daddy had the night off, Zoe stayed over at her nana's house so we could go watch sprint cars at the speedway, but of course being that we live in western washington- it was rained out. No crisis for me, I didn't mind sitting at Don's diner and enjoying a taco salad and then coming home and doing some crafting while Adam worked on his car.

Most of you know, my brother is getting married in July, and they are going to Maui to do so! We're going with and calling it our honeymoon even though it's about a month after our wedding. Over on Lauren's Creative she made a gorgeous tropical wedding card a while back, and motivated me to make one too! In my lifetime I can count the weddings I've been to on one hand, and now that I'm in my 20's it seems they are rolling up all the time! Anywhoo, this is the card I made for my brother and his bride to be.

I used the Sweet Treats Cartridge, and paper from Green at Heart. The card base is Raspberry Fizz from Papertrey Ink the little flowers are from Jolee's and I got them at Lila's Scrapbooking. Ribbon is from Abbey Road.

The cake is cut at 4 inches and assembled with Scotch Quick Dry glue, since I couldn't find my Zig 2 way glue pen!

Today, I'm headed to Snoqualmie Falls to take another set of engagement pictures for my brother and his fiance. I'm looking forward to getting some shots of the falls as well. Maybe if I get a chance, I'll stick some photos of that up tonight.

Card Patterns Sketch 59

I made this today for CardPatterns Sketch 59.

I hope it is enjoyed! I like how it turned out, and it is going to my mother in law, out in Swartz Creek, MI.

I needed to get on the mother's day cards for my mother in law, as well as my own mom. The one for my mom I don't need to mail for a while, but usually the cards I send to MI always take like a week.

Off it goes!!!!!!!

a reminder that summer is coming!

I was crafting away tonight and still feel like I'm working on the My Pink Stamper challenge, since I made a layout instead of a card like I normally would, but sticking with the pink, black and green scheme... creating this little gem. You can click to make it bigger.

I can't wait for summertime- and not just because I'm getting married in June (which is beyond RAD) but also because I can't wait for strawberries & watermelon to be a normal thing to eat daily.

As you can see in <------------ that photo, the paper is actually sort of sparkly. It is open stock paper, from Joanne's called Pink Pomegranate Metallic. The same paper is used for the main watermelon cut.

I would normally make cards that are A2 sized, but this one was 6"X4.25" to make it a little taller than normal.

The watermelon is cut from the Stretch Your Imagination Cartridge @ 4". I made a blackout cut of the watermelon in black, to color the seeds and a shadow cut in white. The 'rind' section is actually spotted green paper from the Flower Shower Spring Stack by DCWV. The white embossed paper is open stock from Lila's Scrapbooking, but you could use your cuttlebug & swiss dots folder. Of course, the white paper is inked with pink, green and black pigment inks. I stamped the phrase in white, the phrase is actually from the $1 bin @ Joanne's. Flowers are Making Memories Jar Collections blossoms in lemonade, with the bottom flower,it was ivory- i just rubbed it all over with the same green ink pad. Ribbon is also from the $1 section @ Joannes.

I think I'm going to send it to a friend just to say hi. I never remember to mail them anymore... I love making them though!

Tomorrow, I have a big goal of getting the house clean, and taking back my library books. I've got like 10 checked out right now, about photography, portrait photography, Canon EOS cameras and all sorts of random paper craft books. They all seem to have the same information and variations of the same projects so I'm not loving any of them enough to buy them!