Better Beary Soon

I made this little card for the Cards for Kate drive that Jennifer McGuire is organizing for a little girl in Arizona who was just diagnosed a couple of months ago with brain cancer. It was the first time I inked up the Stampin' Up! Build-A-Bear sets in the Holiday Mini catalog (the bear set is called Beary Best Friends and the sentiment set is called Beary Nice Wishes). I think they are just adorable! I used my SAMJ to line the sentiment up in a square formation and then stamped the bear in the center and colored her in. A simple mat, brad, embossed heart, and button with linen thread finished off the look simply.

Supplies: (all SU!) Beary Best Friends, Beary Nice Wishes, and Canvas BG (retired) stamps; Ballet Blue, Old Olive, Rose Red, and Whisper White cardstock; Chocolate Chip, Ballet Blue, Bashful Blue, Close to Cocoa, Rose Red, and Versamark ink; Cutter Kit, Playground Button, More Mustard Brad, Heart to Heart punch, 3/16" Corner Rounder punch, Crystal Clear Embossing Powder, Linen Thread.

One Little Baby

I made this quick, cute card today for our friends, who just had their second baby girl. :) It went together pretty quickly because I had the flowers made already and the leaves were already punched. The white card base was even cut to size and folded. I just cut a length of the dotted Swiss Bazzill, adhered everything on the card, and stamped the SU! Curvy Verses sentiment in Basic Gray SU! ink. The SU! Sizzix flowers have some added texture from tone-on-tone ink in Pink Pirhouette and Pretty in Pink that I dabbed on with the sponge daubers. The yellow center is Barely Banana stamped with a texture stamp that has been long retired from SU! (The Art of Life). The green rick-rack is a spool that I got from Michaels a long time ago. Thanks so much for looking and for any comments! :)

Look What I Made!

For Gracie's room--a mobile! :) I started on it last night and didn't have an embroidery hoop, which is what I was originally intending to use for the round apparatus to hang the fishing line from for the embellishments to dangle. I was walking around in the basement and came across this tiara and figured that would be PERFECT and it WAS! :) I used a bunch of different things for this mobile: Quickutz Revolution Monarch butterfly die for the butterflies (cut out of pink SU! patterned paper that is retired and Certainly Celery cardstock that I inked with some Technique Tuesday pigment ink for a brighter color), Sizzix die from SU! for the flowers (Pretty in Pink and Pink Pirhouette with Barely Banana centers stamped in So Saffron), Sizzix die for the hearts that I stamped with the big heart from the SU! Always set (cut out of Kiwi Kiss and inked in the same color), Prima tiny flowers and Darice rhinestones, and the SU! Small star punch (used Barely Banana for the cardstock). I love the way it turned out and Gracie does too, so that's all that matters. :)

Bundle of Joy

I had some leftovers from my stamp camp and decided to whip up a baby boy card in the event that I might need it someday. :) I embossed the Kraft cardstock with my Cuttlebug embossing folder that I have had forever and never used because I didn't have a Cuttlebug. I watched a video on YouTube of someone using the embossing folders in their regular Sizzix machine (with converter) that I have had forever, so I was pretty excited to finally be able to use this. The blue dotted cardstock is Bazzill Swiss Dot and was in my scrap baggie. I used the retired Punches Three set for the "bundle" image and the wide oval punch to punch it out. The green ink I believe is a VersaColor pigment ink. The light blue base is Bashful Blue by SU! and I used dimensionals (also by SU!) to pop up the focal point. The dark brown inking on the Kraft piece and the tiny border on the Bazzill is SU! Chocolate Chip. Thanks so much for looking and for any comments! :)

Okay, one more....

This was the best attempt at the kids together...Gracie's fake smile. :)

TONS of pictures

There was good light in my bedroom yesterday and I had Gracie come in my room to try to snap some pictures. I had her lying on my bed and as soon as I snapped the shot above and the picture showed up in the window, the baby shot of Gracie at almost 6 months old immediately came to mind (please don't mind my early scrapbooking attempts--it was a little mini book I made and this was one of the BEST pages. LOL!) Does anyone else get chills by the similarity in the pictures, or is it just me? They were taken in the same spot, albeit now with better lighting and a better camera. I think I am going to make an updated mini book of all of the new Gracie pictures and store the two albums together. This is why I love to scrapbook! :)

The attempts at adding Ava were not so hot. Can't you just hear the loud CHEESE! that Ava is screetching? LOL!

Pretty girlie.

Yep, I am going to have fun making a new mini album with these pictures.

A funny one---I am pretty sure this look was accompanied with an exasperated, "Moooom!"

I am going to go kiss her cheeks now. :)

I will post a card later...I made one last night and I have to make another one today.