The Babies Are Here

A dear, dear friend of mine recently became a new grandmother, welcoming 2 very healthy twin baby girls.

She will be receiving this card any day now.

And this card will go in the box with the 2 baby blankets I crocheted for the little ones.

 I used a paper pack called Little Treasures from Kaisercraft.  The flowers on the first card and hot air balloon bunnies and small sentiment on the second card were included in the pack.

 

Challenges:

CRAFT Challenge #613 - AG

Through the Craft Room Door October 5th Challenge - AG 

 

 

 

New Baby Congratulations

Today I'm sharing the card I made for my granddaughter, who had a baby girl last weekend.  

I've used a digi image from Sweet n Sassy stamps, colored with markers.  Papers and sentiment are from CTMH.

Challenges:

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #496 - New (Baby)

Southern Girls Challenge - AG

Mod Squad Challenge - Patterned Paper

Pile It On Challenge #150 - Land Animals 

Angie's Digital Stamps Challenge #27 - AG

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #324 - tic tac toe (bottom row, white daisy, raspberry, pixie)

Stamplorations January Challenge - Animals and/or sketch

Baby Girl Card = Lots of Pink + CTMH Class 8/28/18

My posting has been a bit sparce lately, I know.  I have several non paper projects on which I am working.  One of those projects was a baby blanket, now complete and ready to mail on Tuesday.  Here is the card I just made to go with it:

card front

inside sentiment

Challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge #211 - Bingo + a Sentiment (Die Cut, Lace and Embossing)

 

Southern Girls Challenge - Add a bit of metal 

Creations in Pink Challenge #1 - Anything Pink Goes

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge - 3 of Something 

A Perfect Time to Craft September Challenge - Open 

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #75 - Anything Goes 

2 Sisters on a Blog Challenge #19 - Baby Card

Hiding in My Craft Room Challenge #368 - Pastels

Stamping Sensations September Challenge - Something beginning with a "B" (baby coach) 

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Guess I should post the cards we made last Tuesday at Joyce's CTMH Card Class.  Here they are:

Hope you are all enjoying a lovely weekend.

TTFN 

Pom Pom Monster & Welcome Baby Card

My grandsons spent the day with us today.  As always, Matthew wanted to make a craft.  He really wanted to make a batch of puffy slime.  Unfortunately, I did not have the ingredients.  (Broke my heart!)  His second choice was this Pom Pom Monster....

 Matt made the 3 pom poms using my Craft-Dee Bowz tool.  It's much easier than wrapping yarn around a piece of cardboard!

Cute little monster, don't you think? 

 I am going to enter it in the August Craft-Dee Bowz Challenge.

Matthew isn't the only creative young person in my life.

Two days before we left for vacation I received a priority envelope from my BFF's daughter.  Inside the envelope, were three sheets of paper with drawings her daughter, Layla, age 9, had done.  

(I think my grandson, Matthew, and my BFF's granddaughter, Layla, would make a perfect pair!

But, they are only 9 and 10.  So, I have lots of time to work on that project.)

 One was a stork carrying a baby; one was a dog; and one was a cat on a pillow.  There was no explanation in the envelope.  Just the drawings with small notations on each one: baby, Aunt Eileen, and G G Bday, respectively.   I had a feeling Layla wanted cards made.  I've used her drawings before.  So I got busy.  I scanned, cropped, and then saved the colored drawings as JPG files, creating 3 digis to make the 3 cards.  It was much more fun making cards for Layla than cleaning and packing for vacation.

Here is the center step baby card I made using Layla's stork: 

 We are all excited about this baby's expected arrival in September!

I am entering this card in the following challenges: 

Cardz 4 Guys Challenge #176 - Fancy Folds 

Use Your Stuff Challenge #276 - New Beginnings 

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge for Aug. 22 - Anything Goes

Pile It On Challenge #133 - Recycle and/or For a Child 

Fussy and Fancy Challenge #194 - Things with Wings

I'll show you the other 2 cards I made with Layla's drawings another day.   

Thanks for dropping by.

It's a Girl & CTMH Card Class 9/20/2016

Here's a very simple baby/baby shower card.  No stamps.  Just some clouds and a sentiment, cuts from the CTMH cricut cartridge, and a few punched hearts.

Challenges:

CCEE Stampers Challenge CCEE1637 - Die Cuts 

Scrap from your Heart Challenge #1 - Use Hearts

Get Creative Challenge #48 - Include Embossing

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #285 - Embossing 

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Since I'm posting a baby card, I thought I'd show you the baby blanket I just finished crocheting.  It's my new favorite pattern.

And finally, here are the cards we made at Joyce's CTMH card class this afternoon.

I know Joyce gets a lot of her ideas on Pinterest.  If any of these cards look like one you posted on your blog, please accept our compliments on a card worth CASing.

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #301 with My Grafico & Prize Winner

Exotic Animals is the theme for  
Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #301.  
This week My Grafico, 
 our wonderful sponsor, provided our team with the Jungle Animal Faces Digital Stamp Set to create some inspiration for all of you.  The set has 9 different animals faces, and I couldn't choose just one, because they are all so darn cute....

 I reduced the images to 10%, printed them on 3 different papers, die cut them with the smallest stitched hexagon in the MFT die set, pieced them together to make a baby quilt.  

Now it's time to find the exotic animals lurking in your stash and make something for this week's Tuesday Throwdown Challenge.  Need more inspiration?  My teammates have all made wonderfully creative cards.  You can see them on the Tuesday Throwdown Challenge blog, and then hop over to their individual blogs for details and maybe to leave a little comment.

 Before I go, I promised to announce my blog winner from last week's Celebration Blog Hop and Giveaway.  

The lucky winner on my blog will receive a gift certificate to D.L.Art for some fabulous ribbon is.....

Pam Sebring! 

Congratulations, Pam!
Please contact me at
dkbgabysnana at gmail dot com
for your gift certificate to DL.Art.

A big Thank You to everyone who participated in last week's 
blog hop and giveaway.


 

Challenges being entered:
Moving Along with the Times Challenge - New Baby
Crafting from the Heart Challenge #119 - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion Challenge #319 - Anything Goes
Use Your Stuff Challenge #228 - Animal
Animal Friends July Challenge #40 - Animal
Digi Stamps 4 Joy Challenge #128 - Anything Goes w/ punches or dies (I used dies)
Dragon's Lair July Challenge - It's a Zoo Out There
Crafty Ribbons Challenge #158 - Animals

Joyful Stars April Blog Hop

As I made this card for the April Joyful Stars Blog Hop, we were having one nasty April shower.  

Our family has a different type of shower in the forecast ... a baby shower.  My niece, Ronin, is doing some hopping of her own because she is so excited to be getting a girl cousin.

The most recent issue of Quick Cards featured an Easel Swing Card.  Since I had never tried my hand at this type of card, I thought I'd give it a go and make a baby card for the shower.  It looked simple enough.  All I had to do was convert it from a square card to an A2 card.  Well, two and a half hours later,  I pronounced it finished...

card front, not folded entirely flat so you can see the center swing piece

inside of card which also is the base for the easel with framed sentiment popped

top half of inside of card

card in easel position

 I used 2 CTMH stamp sets, C1631 Birthday Princess and C1547 from the For Always Cardmaking Workshop.  Papers are from the Kaleidoscope pack and also a sheet of Pink Fundamental paper.  This little princess was colored with markers and pencils, and she has a touch of Prisma glitter on her skirt.  The sentiment frame is from the CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge.  Bows are made with CTMH extra thick twine.  CTMH pink enamel gems embellish the base of the card.  

The crocheted pink blanket will accompany the card to the baby shower.  I love making baby blankets!

Now it's time to hop on over to see what Nancy Brown has made for this month's Blog Hop.  The hop is a circle, so it doesn't matter where you start, just continue from blog to blog until you're back where you started to make sure you see all the fabulous projects. 

If you get lost, you can visit Joyce's blog for a complete list. 

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

Fresh Brewed Designs Challenge - Ribbon or Twine
Crafting with Dragonflies Challenge - baby card 
Fantasy Stampers Challenge #60 - new baby
Crafting with Friends Challenge #18 - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar Challenge #193 - Anything Goes
Sparkle n Sprinkle April Challenge - Anything Goes with glitter, flock or embossing powder

Happy News

My mother received a call this morning announcing the arrival of a grandson to some friends of hers.  She asked if I had anything in my traveling stash to make a card for the grandparents.  Luckily, I happen to have some CTMH stamps, including the new CTMH Stamp of the Month for February, Balloon Animals, and a new paper pack from SU.

Challenges:

The Alphabet Challenge - Y for You Choose (I chose everything but the theme of this card.)

ABC Challenge - A is for Animals 

Open Minded Crafting Challenge - Something New (balloon stamps is new)

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #8 - Anything Goes 

Through the Craft Room Door Feb 2-8 Challenge - Anything Goes

Well, that's it for now.  My computer is being very difficult; my tummy says it's time for a sandwich; and my DH will be ready for a walk shortly.  Enjoy your day!