Chalkboard Birthday

Hello Friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! There are certainly many things for me to be thankful for this year, but topping the list is definitely our little girl! We are so thankful that we have been blessed with a healthy, happy, and sweet baby. Family is so important, and I thank God every day for blessing me with my wonderful family and close friends.

Today, I'm sharing a card I made for my boss' daughter (gotta get in good with the kids!) LOL! She is 12 years old and is the sweetest young lady. I decided to go chalkboard style on this one as it is still so popular right now in paper crafting.

I think this turned out pretty fun and festive! She liked it and I think it helped me get in really good with my boss! :-) Well, I hope you are having a great start to the holiday season and getting your shopping done early, the deals are amazing!

 

Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Crate Paper (Maggie Holmes Collection)

Stamps: Think Big Favorites (Birthday), Cupcake Collection - Papertrey Ink

Misc: Enamel Dots, Washi Tape

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Carol

SMILE

Hello Friends! I'm back today with a really fun/cute card to share. A friend of mine needed a little pick-me-up so I made this card to help brighten her day.

Isn't she cute?! I love this patterned paper by October Afternoon! Their paper and embellishments are so beautiful, I didn't have to stamp on this card at all! My friend absolutely loved it and she said it definitely put a smile on her face. With that said, my work there was done! :-)

 

Supplies:

Patterned Paper: October Afternoon (Travel Girl)

Misc: Enamel Dots, Washi Tape, Twine

 

I hope you have a great day and thank you so much for stopping by!

Carol

 



Masculine Birthday

Hello Friends! While I'm home on maternity leave, I've been making a conscious effort to get some crafting done so I can start posting regularly on the ol' blog! Being a new mommy is great, but time goes by so fast during the day it's hard to really do much of anything else! So, I won't make any promises, but I will do the very best I can! :-)

Today, I have a masculine birthday card that I made for my brother-in-law's birthday. As many of you know, masculine cards really aren't my thing but I think I'm kinda diggin' this one!

This card came together really quickly. I just used my circle die to cut out the circles, added that little quote bubble and stamped the "Oh Snap!" sentiment. I then adhered those cute little wood veneer cameras, a few enamel dots, and the birthday sentiment to the middle. Not too shabby for my take at a masculine card, what do you think?

 

I have a few more cards that I made recently that I will be sharing in the coming days, and like I said I hope to get crafty more often - Wish me luck!

 

Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Farmhouse Company

Stamps: Think Big Favorites Birthday (Papertrey Ink), Picture Perfect a la mode (MFT)

Embellishments: wood veneer cameras, quote bubble (Studio Calico), enamel dots 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Carol

I'm in Love...

with this beautiful little girl! Please say hello to Miss Paige Nicole! She's now 7 weeks old and she is a healthy, beautiful, sweet, and busy baby. She totally has me and dad wrapped around her little  finger!

 

She is the sweetest baby ever! I think all new mom's say that, right? Well, I just wanted to pop in and introduce you to our little bundle of joy!

 

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

 

I'm Back!

Hello Friends! I can't believe it's been over a month since my last post (Bad Blogger, Bad Blogger - said as I'm slapping my wrist - LOL!). Pregnancy and life really throw a monkey wrench into blogging on a regular basis. Things have been going great with me, I'm now 35 weeks pregnant and we had a BEAUTIFUL baby shower last week, and my co-workers gave me another baby shower this past Friday. Paige really has a lot of people who love her already!

My husband had a boys weekend in Key West so that gave me some quiet time to just start getting things ready for Paige. My girlfriend Jeanette came over yesterday and washed all of her clothes, and put them away, she put her high chair, high tech swing, and pack & play together she really helped me SO MUCH! I absolutely love and adore her.

I promise that I will post pics from both showers very soon! Everyone was just so sweet and I am so blessed to have all of them in my life.

So, I do have a card to share with you today. We had some seriously delicious food for our baby shower and we had it catered from a local restaurant. We had baked chicken (which was seasoned like nobody's business!), green beans, pigeon peas and rice, candied yams, and cornbread muffins. Can you say DELICIOUS?! Everyone enjoyed the food tremendously and my husband asked me to make a card for the restaurant owner, which I happily obliged. Here's what I came up with...

For this card I embossed a piece of cardstock with the twig like image you see in the background. I used the Rosie Posie stamp set from Papertrey Ink for the flowers as well as Boutique Borders Thanks mini stamp set and a little chocolate ribbon finish it off. Even though there are flowers on the card, I still feel that it's manly enough to give to a dude, my husband agreed so I'm cool with it! LOL!

 

Well that's it for me today. Since I only have 4 more weeks to go before I deliver, I will do my best to post as much as I can! I guess that means that I gotta get to crafting, right?! As always, thank you so much for stopping by!

Carol

Baby Bump Update

Hello Friends! Did you have a nice weekend? Mine was certainly nice, very busy but nice. So, we had an appointment for our 3D ultrasound, but little Miss Paige decided that she didn't want to cooperate. :-( She had her hand in front of her face the whole time so we couldn't get a good picture. Considering that we get an ultrasound every two weeks, maybe she's just tired of the paparazzi! LOL!

Then on Sunday we took a breast feeding and child care class which was really informative. I've been on the fence about breast feeding but after hearing about all the benefits for the baby I'm totally on board! The class was 3.5 hours long so it was A LOT of information and we got a great goodie bag, so it was well worth our time. The next thing on the agenda is to tour the hospital we're going to deliver in. That should be fun! There are just so many little things to put into place before she gets here, I have a running list of "to-do's" for me and my husband!

So, without further ado, here is our Week 30 photo! Wow, 30 weeks I can't believe how fast this time is going!

My belly is definitely growing by leaps and bounds! But, I'm still feeling good, still working out, and still smiling! Well, I hope you all have a great day and a wonderful week! Thank you so much for stopping by!

Carol

Vegas Birthday

Hello Friends! Happy Friday to all of you!! This week hasn't been too bad at all, and the weekend is here so that's definitely a reason to celebrate! Do you have anything fun and exciting planned for the weekend? Well my husband and I will be getting one of those cool 3-D ultrasounds this weekend and we're also taking a childcare class so this weekend is all about baby! I still can't believe I'm already 30 weeks, the time is truly flying by!!

Well, today I have a cool card to share with you. My sweet friend Chi will be celebrating her birthday with some girlfriends in Vegas so what else could I do but make a Vegas themed card?

Of course I used my handy dandy Silhouette to cut out the Las Vegas sign (I love that machine!). I also had a super small box of playing cards from Tim Holtz that I added to the bottom of the card. And, I'm not sure how well you can see it but I added the sentiment Happy Birthday to You (Papertrey Ink) and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder. I really enjoyed making this card and Chi really liked it, so as I always say that's what makes me the most happy! 

 

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend, and thank you so much for stopping by!

Carol