Baby Books Part 2- Helping a friend

Don't you just love the name Audrey for a little girl! Here is the second Baby Book that my friend wanted to do with my "help". I think this one turned out much cuter then the first one. I guess I am much fonder of the SU Cherry DSP then Deb's original pick of papers for the first Baby Book. This time my "help" was much less, The choice of papers and matching goodies were much easier to match and pick from this time around. Of course I had to do a title on my Pazzles. When I first was learning my Pazzles I found this great font that had cherries and of course I had to turn it into a diecut. This cherry paper and diecut were made for each other. The mom this baby book is made for is not really a pink kind of gal, she is more of a 1950's style with the dark black hair ........cute like "rosie the riveter". Ok.....only 2 or three more baby books...If only I could talk her into using one of the Simply Scraping Kits!. See the last BabyBook post for all the tools and where the inspiration came from.

Baby Books- Helping a Friend

Deb's Baby Book 1: The Story:

I have a friend that is what I call a HOARDER... she has all the items to create lots of crafty things BUT never uses them.... We all know what that means.. she has talent but needs a bit of coaching to start something and finish it. Yup we are both procrastinators! Now I am a very knowledgeable crafter that has been doing this for a long time...also I am a bit meticulous with my cards as in no crooked cuts or catty-whompus stamped images. She on the other hand has a different more relaxed view on things... like crooked is OK and certain off papers mixed and matched are OK. Now we come to the day that I "coached" her with this book. Compromise; that was the key word. Working with the papers she wanted to pick from and adding some of my Stampin' Up papers was the challenge for that evening! But look how cute it came out! Many of the items we used were from her stash of goodies but I added a few die cut items either designed by me from my Pazzles or from the Stampin' Up exclusive Big Shot. The album was scored using my Scor-Pal and bound together with my Coil-Mac 41. We also covered the front and back using GBC transparent covers that I purchased from Staples. The original book was a design I found on Patty Bennetts blog and from Splitcoast Stampers website.

Swap #6 Done!!!

This card was inspired by Dawn and her great video, If you have not checked out her site it really is fun. I love the Polka Dot Background Stamp ( yeah not retired!!), Other stamps: Everything Baby and Fun & Fast Notes. Inks: Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Black, Baja Breeze. Paper: Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose. 1/4 in hole punch, 1 in hole punch, Any Scallop punch will work. Ribbon: Light Pink Gingham.This was the swap I came up with when I was told our Women in Ink group was swapping at our dinner at the Olive Garden. I thought "oh my another 30 cards"...I'm tired...Then I made 60 of them cuz they were so cute and I thought some women are going to have full cards like this to swap also. Ok I'm done for a while...I will be posting from convention if my wireless card and wifi is cooperating. Bye for now!! Wish me a safe driving Motorhome trip to Utah and back!!!!

Baby Bib Cards and Overlay!

This is a design I did for the Pazzles Design Team. Whoo Hoo they liked it. So it will be coming out on one of their new CD's sometime in the future. So I thought I would give you a preview. Aren't they cute! They are little baby bib cards. Wouldn't these be adorable for a baby shower or baby announcement. I had to use those little tiny button brads and the teeny tiny white brads to finish it off! Also I was looking at the new Summer Pazzles 2008 catalog and not 1 but 2 of my designs are on their first page!! Yeah!! Sorry had to toot my horn a little! This one below is an overlay I created and I will be offering this file when I get back from the Stampin' Up convention. If you would like this file email me please

Nuggets Nuggets and more Nuggets!! I Love Chocolate!

This has been a very fun project! I have been making Lots of Nugget Boxes with my Scor-Pal scoring tool. I updated the nugget box measurements to work easier with the Scor-Pal , and made up a revamped tutorial in the process. I will be uploading the file in a Word and PDF format file within the next week. So keep your eyes peeled for my upload. Coincidentally this last week Splitcoast had a Technique Lovers Challenge #144 to make nugget boxes with Acetate sleeves. So the baby box was created!
P.S. Sometime this week I will be posting the tutorial for everyone to upload in either a Word or PDF format. I have submitted it to the Scor-Pal website and want to release it around the same time they do. Thanks for asking Shannon.

Baby Nuggets! SCS TLC144

Since I was making Nugget boxes with my Scor-Pal this week I figured I would do the Splitcoast TLC Challenge #TLC144. Make your sleeve with clear acetate instead of cardstock and make a matching card. These would make great Baby Shower trinkets or instead of the cigar/Hershey bar when the baby is born, hand these out instead with all the newborn's info under the nuggets!

Fun with Tiles!

This is my first experiment with tiles. These were stamped with Black Staz-On. Then I colored them with chalks. To finish I sprayed them with Krylon Workable Fixative. I have read so many ways to seal the tiles I thought I would try the fixative. I did not heat them either, which I have read is one of the ways to set the color. I will be testing these with water, scrubbing, and chemicals to see if they are sealed well enough to use as coasters and trivets. I purchased the tiles at my local Home Depot. These are the " Jeffrey Court - 4 in. Botticino" tiles. $5.99 for 1 SQ. FT. = 9 tiles. The stamp set is the retired "A New Little Someone" from Stampin 'Up. I just love the Bunny....He is too cute!