December Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - Special Care

Hello again and welcome to our monthly blog hop!  If you came from Katy's blog, you are on the right track, if not, start here and keep hopping, you will do a complete circle.

This month's stamp set is Special Care:

Three of these stamp can be cut out with the Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge - see the red outline.

I thought of my baby girl when she was in the tub in Wisconsin Dells. It's really a hot tub in our hotel room. She and Daddy had a blast - better than the cold pool!  It was Thanksgiving weekend 6 years ago.

WARNING NAKED BABY PICTURES:

I used the HANDLE WITH CARE stamp and created a background paper by stamping the image in rows.  I White Pigment stamped the Special Care stamp on the top right. There's even a Warning Label stamp.

The top is the left page and this one above is the right.  I have this one in the page protector because I added flip flaps to the center, on top of the page protector so they can be opened without having to take out the page.  Underneath is naked Daddy chest - and I promised to hide that - but still scrap them. 

A couple of clear gems for bling and sparkle.

Thanks for looking - please leave a comment!

Now hop over to Vicki's blog to see what she created with this stamp set!

You are my sunshine!

My latest creation for a friends baby's room!  Congrats Kate and Tim on your soon to be little girl!  This is 4 canvases with 4 different colors of vinyl layered to create these flowers and sayings.

Thanks for looking.

Dotty For You - Part 2 - 2nd Layout

This crazy complicated layout was not that hard, just a little time consuming!  Helen from our group of hoppers created this and I added to the workshop.  I took Jeanie to Walmart and these are the pictures we got from that shoot!  These were taken in 2007 - check out how the dress matches the layout - Butterflies!!

 Close up of each page.  She was so much fun that day playing in front of the camera!

 She picked up the flower and smelled it and the lady just kept shooting.

Here you can see the bling!  Sparkle Flourishes - we now have a few colors!

The Cricut AP Cartridge cut all the shapes.

 This shows you what the pages looked like prior to adding photos and additional mats.

Couldn't see wasting space for words so I'll add them on the back.
Thanks for looking!

Dotty For You Workshop Part 1 - 4 Months Long!

I created a 4 month long workshop for my regular ladies if they qualified and purchased the Dotty For You Paper Pack.  We will finish 6 layouts, 1 Mini Album and 13 Greeting Cards!  This is one of the layouts.  These ideas for the projects all came from other consultants who did the Dotty For You Blog Hop.  I was too busy creating cutting guides to attend.  I will try to give credit when I can, but just know I didn't create these and I did modify them a tad bit and then turned it into one big cutting guide and workshop.

First Layout:

The stamp set is Hooray Bouquet and most of the flowers can be cut out with the Cricut Cartridge AP.

Cut the flowers, stamp the image layer and glue, Repeat!

Here is what the layouts look like with photos!  I remembered this dress of Jeanie's, the photos are a little fuzzy but she's so darn cute in the hat and dress.  She loves hats!

 I wanted to remember the story so I added this picture on the back and  typed details of the day.  It's funny! I wanted the front to be clean and simple.  Don't know another way to do it but with notes on the back.

Thanks for looking!

Micky Mouse Ears!

 A friend of mine asked me to make this for a little boy's room.  Here's what it looked like on my computer.

 And because I took it with my cell phone I can't rotate these to their side . . . But you can see that they are ready to be picked up and stuck to the wall.  I have the transfer tape over the vinyl already.

 This is called Walter Fonts - go figure (hee hee)

Gotta have the ears!

Pendant Baby Banner

The O'Leary Baby Shower needed a banner so I started my Design Studio and found my Pendant Flag on the Celebrations Cartridge. The great thing about this is that there is a Shadow feature key that creates the shadow in green around the hot pink flag. First I laid out the pink flags and then using the Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge, I dropped the letters into each flag. The Umbrella and the baby feet are from the New Arrival Cartridge.

The flags are 5 inches high.

See the feet!

So the pink sit on top of the green and the letters are cut out of the pink letting the green show thru. I have to glue the center of letters inside, like the center of the O and A and the R & B, but that was easy!

I tied them together with white ribbon and made large loops on the end to hang.
I started reaching for my Jukebox, when I thought - GYPSY!
I have all the cartridges loaded - why not!!!

I saved the file as a gypsy file and sync'd with the gypsy and there is was!

Here is what the screens look like when you open it up.

I don't know if you can see the tabs on the top of the screen - that's how

many pages I had use to make the banner (around 6 pages)

Here is a close up of the screen. You can see the other pages in the background.

Good thing I did decide to use my Gypsy because my
New Arrival Cartridge is at my friend's house!
I connected it to the Cricut and cut everything super easy.
I even did a few changes right on the screen
and didn't have to go back to Design Studio! I'm loving this!
Leave a comment and tell me what you think!

Baby Shower - Diaper Wreath!

Yes, you read that correctly. Again, my good friend Patti & I were in need of a great gift for another good friend's Daughter-in-lawS showers! Double Shower party! So I came up with the Diaper Wreath (after doing a little Googling!) The first one is done with plastic diapers. I wrapped them around a wire floral wreath and tied them with curling ribbon - all she has to do is cut the ribbon and she can use the diapers. We filled it with little bottles of baby products, booties, spoons, a few rattles, Q-tips, and a big present in the middle.

This one is done with organic diapers that don't stand up very well. I had to tie them together and put cardboard inside the diapers to give them a spine. Same items decorate this one and another present in the center. The cards are homemade too!

Here are the ladies! Lindsey (mommy to be) Patti, ME and Aggie (the other mommy to be!)

Good thing I didn't do the Diaper Cake because Lindsey made one for Aggie!

Lindsey did a great job on her cake! Love the colors!

They took the wreaths that the restaurant had in the windows down and put ours up on both sides of the food table! It couldn't have been better unless we planned it!!

Baby Feet

Saw this layout in our Originals Book and scraplifted. Loved the colors and technique. I scored the card and then using a Pixie I chalked the score lines. I tore the center piece of paper and chalked that as well. Here is a close up of the chalking. I used our Pretty Pins - there are two different ones - I altered one (pulled off the pink and left the white top) so that it's more neutral. (I didn't think it would work, but a good tug and the pink came loose! I added a piece of ribbon and put it into the Sunny Yellow Cardstock. I stamped the feet with Dutch Blue.

B is for Boy

Another Originals Book scraplifted idea! Loved how this looks. It's a 6x6 card with a "B" Dementional Element letter. The B is white so to make it fit better with the colors I'm using I sponged Chocolate ink on it and then took the sponge and ran it down the edges to deifine them. I stamped the words in Chocolate as well as the edges of the Colonial White cardstock piece in the middle and the Garden Green pieces. I sanded the Garden Green pieces first to give it a distressed look. I added a green safety pin to the Chocolate Poka Dot Ribbon. The stripe paper is from Caprice Paper Kit.