I Shore Love You! Baptismal Birthday Card

I am blessed to have 5 godchildren, and I take that position very seriously!  :) If you've been following my blog for a while, you'll see that I give treats/gifts to my godkids for 6 different occasions: Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, Christmas, Birthday and Baptismal Birthday. This is to let them know that I am thinking of them and praying for them - my most important duty as a Godmother.

For baptismal birthdays, I make a card for them and give an ice cream gift card inside of it. My Godson, Nicholas' special day is next week, so I made this card for him:

Supplies:

• Cricut Create A Critter cartridge for whale, starfish and shell
• Stampin' Up Marina Mist cardstock for card base, scraps for remaining pieces
• Cuttlebug D'vine Swirls embossing folder for the "water"
• Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder for whale front
• "I Shore love you"" sentiment from Scrappy Moms' Sun Kissed stamp set
• Versa Ink black ink pad
• Ranger clear embossing powder and Marvy Uchida embossing gun
• Inspiration from Scrappy Mel's blog - Thank you, Mel!
• Ranger Liquid Pearl White Opal dimensional pearlescent paint for shell
• Waterfall Stickles for water out of spout
• Stampin' Up black marker for doodling on starfish
• Fiskars wavy scissors (for front and tag)
• Natural twine
• Foam adhesive dots for whale and starfish
• 2Peas Sitcom font for tag and inside wording
• Uni-ball Signo white gel pen

Phew!! What a list! Hopefully I'm not forgetting anything.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

1. Birthday Sundaes Challenge # 19 - Inspiration Photo (see it below -yum!)
2. My Craft Spot Challenge # 18 - Emboss It!

One last tidbit: Birthday Sundaes challenge blog is having a blog hop on Sunday, July 31st! Hop on over and join the fun! I know I will be! I really enjoy their design team's work. :)

Well that's all for now. I still need to photograph and upload the cute projects my daughters made at their craft camp last week. Maybe I can get that in tomorrow. Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by my happy place! :)

Zebra With Polka Dots Birthday Card

So I still have all of my grad cards to post, but I just made this fun zebra birthday card for my almost 2-year old niece that I wanted to share:

It was inspired by this adorable 2-piece outfit that is a part of my niece's gift:

Isn't this outfit so stinkin' cute?

I sure miss dressing my girls in cute things like this.

Does the card match the outfit well? I think so!

The patterned paper on the # 2 is a pink polka dot

(Stampin' Up), just a smaller pattern.

The zebra shape was welded on my Gypsy using the Create A Critter cartridge. I also cut another zebra so I could stamp and write on the inside. The # 2 is from the Cricut Sweet Treats cartridge and the inside sentiment is from my favorite Scrappy Moms stamp set, Sweet Somethings.

I am entering this in the Scrappy Mom's Terrific Tuesday Challenge - Sweet Treats. I know I only used Sweet Treats for the # 2, and I even cut off the flame on what should have been a candle, but we can't have the poor zebra's mouth on fire - LOL!

Have a wonderful remainder of the week my fellow crafters!

Easter Tags

Time is just "hopping" by! I can't believe Easter is this weekend!

Here are some tags I made for gifts to the kids in my family:

I squeaked by with getting my Easter cards done on Sunday night and then mailed off yesterday - phew! That is so unlike me! I will post my card tomorrow.

Have a good Wednesday, my fellow crafters! See you again tomorrow (which is almost today already - yikes)!

Birthdays, Birthdays and More Birthdays!

I know I said I had a lot to post coming up and it's already 1/2 way through the week, so I thought I'd better stop hanging out on all of your blogs and get posting - LOL!

Spring is full of birthdays for me to celebrate, and that includes a usual combined birthday party for my Godkids. Well, 2 out of the 3 kids are my godchildren, but I pray for and give a gift to the one that isn't my godchild just the same!

There are so many fabulous kid cuts out there to make fun birthday cards. How's a gal to choose? Well, I usually let my wrapping paper do the deciding for me. Here are the 3 cards with their wrapped gifts that I gave this past weekend:

Dragonfly made firefly from Cricut Paisley cartridge

to match firefly wrapping paper, 10 from Lyrical letters

Snail and 7 from the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge

to match snail wrapping paper

Butterfly from Create a Critter Cartridge,

3 from Once Upon A Princess

The Play-Doh tub was hard to wrap, so I thought solid tissue paper was the best option for it. I still wanted to use an insect of sorts to keep with my creature theme, though, hence the pretty butterfly.

All 3 cards had card bases cut from the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge, were embossed with Cuttlebug folders, were blinged up with Stickles, and included the child's age that they were turning.

I must say I just squeaked by getting these done for Saturday, but even in my rush I really enjoyed creating. I have lots more to do with Easter and my younger daughter's birthday coming up so I best get busy!

Have a good downslope of the week!

Reindeer Anti-Bac Holders!

Yikes!! Only 1 week left!! So much to do, so much to do . . .

I finally got around to making the cute anti-bac holders that I first saw on Tammy's Scrappy Critters blog at Halloween time!

First I started with these cute 1 oz anti-bacterial hand gels from Bath & Body Works:

Then I followed directions at Jan's Stamping Creations blog (thank you, Jan!!) to make the holders. The only thing I did not follow from Jan was using the oval punch. I did not have the right one, so I used my Creative Memories oval cutting system instead.

I used the following supplies:

• Reindeer from the Cricut cartridge, Create-A-Critter
• K & Company's Secret Santa 12x12 double-sided designer paper
• "Merry Christmas" from Ki Memories Clear Stamp set
• "Happy Holidays" from Stampin' Up's Warmest Regards Set
• Red, tan, ivory, brown, hunter green & black cardstock
• Red Stickles (girl reindeer's flower and Rudolph's nose)
• Stampin' Up Sticky Strip Adhesive (to hold boxes together)

 

I loved how easy these were to make and how cute they turned out! I'm going to add a gift card to the inside cover to complete a couple of pre-teen gifts.

Happy last week of prepping everyone!