Baby Shower

I have no excuse why it has been nearly a year since I have posted to this blog. So I will just jump right in and pretend I never took a break.

I am hosting a very casual baby shower and cookout this afternoon for a great friend who is having triplets - yikes! Despite the rain we are having today, the celebration shall go on.

I used 2 different stamps for this card. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up Teeny Tiny Wishes and the image is from A Muse Artstamps - Maternity Dress.

I love this set from Stampin' Up because they are so small and I can punch them out then pop them up on my cards. I could probably get rid of a lot of my other sets and just use this one. I can not remember the last time I made a card and didn't use this set of sentiments. They also work very well on their own without an image to go with them.

Photos After Dark

I really need to stop trying to take photos at night. With 2 kids though, that is usually when I get time to work and I like to take the photo right away, especially if I am mailing it out the next day. But no matter how I try, I just can not get a good photo after the sun goes down.

Both of these cards turned out really well but the photos sure do not show it.

This one is for a baby shower invitation. No stamps but the letters and hat were cut out using my cricut.


This was a valentine card from a few weeks back. I used my JustRite small letters for the sentiment.

Big Belly

One of my very best friends is having a baby and so she asked me to make a few thank you cards for her. I found a neat paper stack that was kind of retro and funky so I decided to use my new paper for these cards. The image of the dress is new as well, it is from A Muse Stamps. The sentiments are from Stampin' Up! I used the same basic layout for all the cards but changed the paper and colors so she would have a little variety.

Clean and Simple Baby Cards

When a baby is on the way, the star of the show is the baby so the invitation can be clean and simple. I enjoy this style of card and for a baby, I think it is perfect. This card would work for either a shower invitation or to accompany a lovely gift for the mom-to-be.

Birth Announcement Challenge

This week at CPS they had a nice sketch challenge I used to make this card. I used my justrite oval stamper, tiny letters and monogram set to create the monogram. I added a few small blue buttons which matched the embossing on the brown strip. Hope you enjoy!

Baby ABC Album

I make a lot of these because they are really great baby shower gifts. There are 27 pages, one for each letter of the alphabet and a title page. This one was made for a friend who does not know if it will be a boy or girl so the colors are green/yellow/orange with a touch of brown. A lot of the paper is glitter paper so it adds just a touch of fancy without being girly. These are great albums for a new mom to have to be able to quickly get those baby photos in a book.


I use my cricut to cut out each letter on every page but I do print each page header on the computer. I have the file saved so anytime I need to make one, I can just put in the color card stock I need and print the file. If it is ever deleted, I may never make another one again because it took me forever to create the document making sure all the margins and spaces were right for easy trimming and minimal paper waste.

Baby Shower Invitations

My sister is having a baby shower for my cousin in a few weeks so I helped by making the invitations. She is having a little girl, Molly Kate and I felt like a monogram would make a sweet shower invitation. I pre-print the details for the shower on the inside of the blank white cards before I decorate them. I like to match baby cards to the nursery and this little baby is going to have a coral and green room. I got a little bonus when I got out my coral paper and it had a white core to it. When embossing white core paper, you can sand the embossed image and it will reveal the white core on the inside.


I stamped the monogram in cameo coral and inked around the edge in certain celery from stampin up. I used my JustRite monogram and the tiny letters to create the monogram.

Baby Shower

I love making baby cards. There are so many options and seem to be so many opportunities. I am 30 so I am at the stage in my life where I know between 5-10 people at an given time who are pregnant. I was asked to make a few shower invitations for a friend who is having her third child but it is her first boy. We are very excited for her and her family.

I stamped the letters using Justrite monogram stampers. I punched them out using a 1 inch punch. Using a 1 1/4 inch punch, I punched out the patterned paper. I used Stampin Up Sincere Salutations for the "Your Invited".

Frugal Stamper Tip: The white paper I stamped my letters on was the back of a white card I had messed up when I printed some invitations for an earlier project. No point in wasting that nice heavy paper. Always remember, when you are using the back of something you messed up, hold it up to the light and make sure you are not going to be able to see through.

Baby Shower Gift

I have a dilemma. A friend of mine is pregnant with her second child. She is strongly adamant about not wanting a baby shower. And it is not like she is saying she does not one but really does...she really does not want one. Another friend of ours set up a week long gift giving system where everyday several of us send her a gift to work. It is a wonderful thought because she is going to need stuff for the new baby but I am worried she is not going to enjoy this. So...what to get her. I figured she is going to need a bunch of thank you cards so that is going to be my gift for her. I picked the first day to take my gift so that she would have the cards at work and ready to fill out on the spot.



I embossed the blue paper with my Cuttlebug and cut out the scalloped oval using the Cuttlebug and a Spellbinders Nestabilities die. The sentiment is from Stampin Up and the little foot prints are from a pack of stamps from Hobby Lobby, I don't know the brand.

Baby Cards - No Stamping

You may not realize this, but you don't need stamps to make cards. There are lots of wonderful papers out there that don't need much to make a beautiful card. DCWV has a great Nursery stack of paper that I use A LOT for my baby cards.

I did not use a single stamp in these cards. I did use my cuttlebug to add some embossing, little foot prints on some and the swirls on the other. So, put your stamps away (did I just say that?) and make some cards and keep your hands clean!

Congrats...On the birth of your beautiful baby

I apologize for the bad photo but it was dark and I did not have time to wait for a nice bright sunny day because we are heading north for Easter later today. My mom called last night and said she needed me to bring her a few baby cards when we come to visit. I just got this new set from Stampin Up 2 days ago and I was excited to use it. Plus is was a free set so you can not beat that! I used Stampin Up paper and ink, the ribbon was from the roll at Hobby Lobby. I also got to use my new Nesties die from Spellbinders that embosses while it cuts. Unfortunately, you can not really see it, it is on the small rectangle. I think my paper was too think to allow the embossing to really show. The embossing on the blue paper was done with an embossing folder and my Cuttlebug.

Baby Boy Cards

I worked on a few more baby boy cards over the weekend. And, I did something I never do because I am too cheap: I used Stampin Up paper. I have had a pack of their paper for about a year now and this is the second time I have used it. I have been saving it...for what I wonder? Who knows but since I was using a Stampin Up colored ink, I figured this was a good reason to use the paper because the color matches perfect, which is the whole point. Of course, I only used it as an accent panel (the blue) so I did not have to use as much, the green is just from a pack of paper from Hobby Lobby. I brushed the edges of each panel with brown ink.

The stamps I used were both Stampin Up - Bundle of Love and Winged Things for the sentiment.

Lets Forget The Rules!

No Time to Stamp has a challenge this week I wanted to play along with. The Challenge is Let's Forget the Rules...

Let’s Forget the Rules! Do you remember when we were kids (at least when I was a kid!!) we were taught not to mix patterns when we dress ourselves. I guess styles must have been rather bland back then — LOL!!! We would never wear a plaid skirt (remember those red wool plaid skirts?) with a printed blouse, or a striped jumper with a polka dotted blouse. We just DID NOT do it back then!!! Oh, but look at the fun we have today with patterned paper — Mix and Match — anything goes!!! And I love it!!! So today we are going to use EITHER stripes or dots and mix them with any other print or pattern you so desire! Or use the stripes and dots together if you like. You may use patterned paper or you may stamp your prints/patterns. Just make sure you use EITHER stripes or dots, or both!!! I LOVE both stripes and dots. And today you get bonus points if you can use 3 different prints together!!! Forget those old rules, let loose and have fun!!!

This had my name written all over it because I can not match things, ever. I have mentioned it before. I once got in trouble when I was in grade school for it. I guess my mom or sister did not see me before I left for school and when I got home, they yelled "Is that what you wore today?!?" I thought I had done well, both the top and bottom had purple in it but after I got a lesson in "What Not to Wear" I was told you can NOT wear stripes with polka dots. I think that traumatized me and so I have worn nothing but blue jeans ever since because as far as I am concerned, blue jeans go with everything!

More than you ever wanted to know...So here are my 2 cards for the challenge. I did not use polka dots but I did use stripes and checkers and even threw a print in the mix. Hmmm...I wonder what my mom and sister would think of this.

ssnotime79 Challenge - Ribbon Tabs

Sharon Johnson is a wonderful stamper and presents challenges on her blog for others to play along. I love her work so much that I have decided to try to start playing as much as I can.

Here is the challenge...

You’ve Been Tabbed! Today’s challenge is all about little bits of ribbon — ribbon TABS that is. Rather than adorning our card with wrapped ribbon or bows, let’s just use a bit of ribbon and make ribbon tabs — wide, narrow, whatever — let’s just make sure we have at LEAST one ribbon tab on our project today. Anything else goes!! Let’s all show each other how much fun we can have with our little scraps of ribbon!!! Anything you can do with a small piece of ribbon is what we’re after! And the most important rule — HAVE FUN!!!

Well, I had to make a baby card for a friend so this is my card I did today with Sharon's Challenge!

Handmade Baby Cards

Do you have new baby in the family and need to send out Thank You cards or Baby Announcements? Maybe a friend had a baby and you would like to send them a one of a kind greeting card. I have been working on expanding my baby card collection and they look great. I have made several to match nurseries for the mothers to send out announcements. It is always a good idea to keep a few baby cards on hand when a coworker, friend or neighbor has a new addition to the family. Below are just a few samples I have made.