Baby on my mind...

Hi y'all!
Well, today marks the beginning of Week 31 for Lentil (aka Baby Lam 2). How time is really flying! {whoosh, clock hands flying around like mad} Like monumentally flying! Before I know it, we will be a week away from Due Date and I wont have anything organised!! Argh {freak out!} What am I going to do with 2 children??!! I hope I can still steal some time away now and then to do some crafting!
At least having baby on my mind means I like to make Baby Cards too! LOL!
Here are some recent Baby Cards I've made.
I do love Elephants, especially on baby things. So you will notice a little theme here! LOL! Lots of elephants!
This first card is a bit of a neutral baby card, perfect for a baby shower. And a good little chance to use up some of my button stash! I must use buttons more often, I have oodles!

More elephants! This big cutie is by Kaisercraft, and I made him a little Congratulations sign to hold, with the sentiment from Stampin Up. A wee bit of washi on the side of the card is sweet too {smiles}. And I have enough washi to go around the Earth 3 times, so every tiny piece helps to reduce my stash {giggles}.
 
This Whale is from Stampin Up's "Oh Whale" set which I absolutely love! The waves and little star fish are also from the same set, isn't it just so cute! There's that SU sentiment again too. I love the font of that Congratulations, so elegant, yet not too scrolly and formal. Just right!

Another whale card :) This Congratulations sentiment is also from Stampin Up. It's one of my most used stamps! I love the soft blues of these baby boy cards too, so sweet!

And for the little boy who's parents are not into animals, how about a New Arrival card with a plane on it? It's a sweet Kaisercraft plane, and the sentiment is from Kaisercraft too. The stars are Stampin Up. Theres more blue/brown colour combos, I must have had those colour paper scraps on my desk!

And a brighter Baby Boy card here, with robot background paper and the Geometric arrow stamp from Stampin Up's "Oh Hello" set (one of my current faves!) I also stamped the big oval chevron from the Oh Hello set, and punched out the big star with my SU punch. I love how the chevron star looks! It's so pretty! More washi in the background too. Yeah! Use it up!

One last boy card, this one is a bit softer, with shades of blue and yellow (and just a tad bit of light brown!) The boat and bike are from Stampin Up and I was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest for this one. I put a tiny pearl in the centre of the bike's wheel too, looks sweet! Have I also mentioned I have enough ribbon to wrap our whole house about 10 times? Yeah, I've really gotta use up my ribbon stash too!

And just to show I don't only make boy cards, here's a Baby Girl card! I love using the paper doilies on cards, and here I used a half one, some of my giant stash of ribbons, a few buttons from my massive collection and an elephant! It all came together so sweetly! Love this card.

I hope you've had a chance to be creative this week too!
:) C

Oh Baby Baby!

Hi y'all!
I'm setting this to automatically post while we're away, I'm not making cards on holidays. LOL! I'm probably sipping on a Mai Tai right now, or shopping my heart out at Ala Moana Centre! YAY!
I make a lot of Baby Cards for my card box. I think they are my most bought card! I guess people are always having babies aren't they?!

I really enjoy making baby cards, I think I have a lot of sweet stamps to use and I like the sweet soft colours!  This Owl is from Maya Road, and I paired it with some sweet pink and brown papers (a gorgeous colour combo) and the sentiment is from Stampin Up.

I'm sure I've made this card before, using the cute Kaisercraft Elephant stamp and some Stampin Up stars! I love it though, so I've made it again! The sentiment is from Stampin Up.
Sometimes I like to break out of the "soft box" though, and go with something a bit brighter, like this Tiger.

He's so cute! He is from Kaisercraft too. They have a great range of individual animal stamps! I have a few and I love them. They make great kids birthday cards too!

How about a Penguin? I {heart} this guy! He looks pretty cool in pink! How about adding some yellow ric rac? Yeah, looks cool!

I have also done him (or her) with a toothpick "flag" with the sentiment on the end, for Xander's birthday. Love it!

Back to the pastel cards, this time, with a Hero Arts owl and Stampin Up sentiment.

And a similar card in a different orientation.
Have you been making cards this week?
:) C

Sweet Baby Cards

Hello!

Quick post, I wanted to show you some cards I made on Wednesday night when I finally got some time to relax! I am so sick of Swine Flu and being run off my feet at work! So I decided I am going to Wollongong tonight and am having a relaxing day out of Sydney tomorrow with Mum and Dad. Sweet :)

The first card I decided to do a different colour scheme than pink! I love pink for girl cards but I thought probably not everyone does! I love the way soft green and purple look together, and these Wordsworth Stick People are just the cutest!

The next card I made using a "negative" of the small nestabilites scallop rectangle die cut that I found hanging around on my desk! I always keep my scraps (hoarder! {sigh}) but now and then they come in very handy for making a sweet card really Pop! The "It's a Girl" is a sticker (pebbles ink I think- ha that rhymes!) and makes for a very quick and easy sentiment for this card!

For the last card I wanted something a bit more modern and in brighter colours so I chose Rose Red cardstock and then a scrap of the cute multi-coloured PP that I've had for DONKEY"S YEARS! Glad to have used that up! I love the big pink brads on the left, the elephant I outlined in my glitter gel pen, hard to see in the pic but IRL it looks really cool!

Well, I'm running off to work (I start in 10mins!!) so have a good weekend!!

:)C

New Rubber see's Ink!

Yay, finally had time tonight to ink up the new Hero Arts stamps I got for my birthday {hugs Fliss!} Well that was after I made Lemon Cream Cheese Cupcakes and a Banana and Walnut loaf. Somehow when I step into the kitchen I move into some time warp where I create extra baking time outside the normal realm of the clock... I will try to pass on my skills if you're interested!! If I sit down at my desk the time flies past, but in the kitchen I can bake for hours and hardly any time has passed! How does this happen?!

Anyway... this first card is using the Sky's the Limit and Precious Baby set.. sorry for the poor quality pics but it is 11:30pm and the sun aint out anymore!! So I love both these sets. This was the exact card I had in my mind when I chose this set so I'm so happy to see it come to life! The cloud designs are just adorable for baby cards! {Heart!} Love them.

And of course I loved the card so much I made another one, just in a different colour scheme :) You know I love to do that!! I think this card would be great for a baby shower, which is quite a co-incidence seeing as I have a baby shower to go to on Sunday! Genious.

And then I used the Precious Baby set again to make this cutie little card! I love elephants (not quite as much as I love Owls, but they're up there. Maybe if there was an Owl sitting on an Elephant's back I would be in Utopia) and this little guy is squirting out such an adorable little water splash which I coloured with my Spica Atyou glitter pen. Awesome IRL!! I love the gingham elephant body.. Hero Arts gets 5 stars from me with this set!! It's so cool to have new baby stamps seeing as baby cards are the ones I sell the most of and I'm kinda sick of my old supplies!

Another busy week ahead at work for me means this might be the last chance I have to create til Saturday {sigh!} I'm happy with what I did tonight though!

:) C