We were excited to meet sweet little Archer yesterday so I wanted to make up a baby card to welcome him.

 I needed a baby card for some friends as well as some to take up to Fullfill. I couldn't help but take out a Winnie the Pooh set along with my distress watercolour pencils.

I hosted a baby shower this weekend for a family member and this is the card I made her! 

 I am loving colouring up these fun Winnie the Pooh images from Unity Stamp Co.! 

 I wanted to make some special baby cards to celebrate the arrival of our friends' babies this fall, so I decided to recreate one of my favourite cards from this spring!

 Here are the cards I made for our nephews to celebrate the arrival of the newest member of our family! Baby Jacob brings the total number of grandchildren on that side of the family to 10: 8 children earth side + 2 babies up in the stars.

 It is difficult to explain the incredibly deep meaning for me behind the creation of this card but I will try. I have envisioned this creation for a few months now and was finally able to put it together today.

 I decided to make another personalized baby card to celebrate a friend having a baby recently. The name she chose, Brent, also happens to be the middle name of our son, Alexander! I was very inspired by Grace Camou's recent starry night sky card where she created a moon using an outside in circle die set. I loved the dark blue sky that she created with the puffy vellum cards and just had to make one myself!

 Here is a baby card I made up for my husband's friend who just had a baby last month. I decided to go with a farm theme as they have many animals on their property. I am linking up with the Lawn Fawnatics challenge of favourite place or travel destination, which I figured fits nicely with the farm.

I was asked to make a custom baby card for some Green Bay Packers fans. Luckily, this happens to be my husband's favourite team so I know a little bit about them! I used my Cricut to cut out a football and a piece of cheese and then had a random baby onesie die in my collection. I was able to cut out all of these from paper scraps in my collection.

I got a request to make a gender neutral plantable baby card. I immediately thought of this waterfront set, especially the lake and mountain stamps. I paired it with my favourite baby sentiment that I own.

A nature-inspired modern rustic mountain baby card for a custom set I am putting together! I have had visions of stitched elements, mountains, and this beautiful baby quote (definitely one of my favourites!) floating around in my head the last couple of weeks so I was pretty happy to find some time to put it all together. I kept going back and forth over one or two trees on this card but I think I have finally decided to just keep it at one. I made a few more of this version and decided I preferred the one tree on the other side! And after all this time, I finally realized this summer that the mountain views I look at actually have darker mountains closer up and lighter in behind. I could easily achieve this look with our two-tone paper at Close To My Heart by using each side to diecut my mountains!

This quote from Papertrey Ink has got to be one of my favourites to use for a baby card. You can check out some tags I made with it here. I have been playing around with this beautiful daisy set from The Greetery and decided to set it on some plantable paper. The diecuts are cut out of plantable paper as well. I added a subtle blue hue behind the daisies to make them pop a bit more. I used second and third generation stamping with some distress oxide inks to get a light hue so that my daisies were still mainly white.

A banner for Baby Charles for his Sip & See. These beautiful eucalyptus sprigs from The Greetery were my go-to for this special banner. With a colour palette of white, gold, and green, I was able to cut out some letters in gold foil using my Cricut Explore Air 2 and mount them on a wreath of eucalyptus set on white pennants from Martha Stewart. The delicious spread was created by Brindley & Barclay. These colours proved very tricky to photograph in order to obtain the look in real life. I had just enough sprigs leftover to create a little tag for the basket of Canadian made baby clothing!

Here are two baby cards I created using Freshly Made Sketches. A friend asked me to make up some gender neutral baby cards for her to have on hand after seeing this card I made awhile ago. I really wanted to use this paper that I got in a Simon Says Stamp kit quite awhile ago, and although it does contain some rose gold and pink shades, I still find it to be gender neutral (plus I hope we're moving more away from the whole pink=girl, blue=boy stereotype!) ! At first I thought about overlapping my stars but I really wanted to showcase this sweet sentiment so I used a stitched circle to (hopefully) convey the moon with the stars. I am playing along with #MarchMeetTheMaker by Joanne Hawker on Instagram this month. Be sure to check it out - lots of great inspiration!

I needed a baby card for a friend this week and I knew just the paper collection I wanted to use. Our new Close To My Heart paper collection, Feels Like Home, is beautiful and perfect for many different occasions. Using Freshly Made Sketches again I set to work with this beautiful saying from Papertrey Ink.

I've been meaning to share this card I made for our friend. It has been amazing to make memories with one of my childhood friends and our babies this year who are 2 1/2 months apart. Sunflowers hold a special place in my heart so I was beyond excited to see this new paper collection release from Close To My Heart to kick off our next idea book. It is one of my favourites that I have seen come out in the past few years! This card features a few of our newest products -

As I have mentioned before, one of my goals this year is to support and shop more local shoppes and handmade items. I came across a fabulous shoppe called Timber Child a few months ago. They make the sweetest children's wooden plates out of Canadian Maple Wood and pledge to use only 100% Canadian materials - that's awesome! And the best part is that they are located right here in British Columbia. I was so happy with the cute little fox plate we got our son to celebrate his move to solid foods that we gave one to our friend for her birthday too.

I wanted to create a rainbow card to play along with Heart2Heart and put together one to use with a baby gift.