Happy Father's Day!

This is the Father's Day Card I made for my husband from the girls. The inspiration came from one of the Blogs that I follow Stampin' Mom of Four. She has put a full tutorial with all the measurements on her blog that you can follow while making the card. It is very simple but has a nice finished quality to it. I used some pattern paper from my Masculine Stash. I am sorry I can't remember what company it is from. I then finished the shirt off with some small solid eyelets. I haven't used eyelets in so long that I almost forgot how to put them in.

I stamped the "Happy Father's Day" on the inside with Blue Bayou ink. The stamp is from a Fishing Set that I picked up at my local scarpbooking store.

ENJOY!!

Happy Birthday Hayden!

I am excited that for the last two days I have been able to hang out in my scrap space.  I really needed it this week as I have 2 birthday, a wedding, a anniversary, and 3 father's day cards to make. This is the first time I have been able to scrapbook since Rhylan was born. Now that she will hang out in her vibrating chair or on her playmat I am hoping that I will be able to get more done. I made this card for my cousin's baby who is turning one this week. 

I started with some Marina Mist cardstock. I then used my new texturzs plates from Stmapin' Up to add some texture to the Certainly Celery cardstock. The pattern paper is from my new 6x6 Jillian Bean Soup pack of paper. I matted it with some more Marina Mist. The Owl is created with the Owl Punch from Stampin' Up. His wings are made by cutting a Scalloped Oval in half. I used the Tiny Leaves sizzlet to give him a branch to sit on. His hat is a triangle cut from some of the Jillian Bean Soup paper. I cut off a small pom pom from the Tangerine Tango Pom Pom Ribbon from Stampin' Up and added it to the top of the hat. I mounted the owl and branch on a circle cut from Whisper White Cardstock with the circle nestabilities. I then mounted it on a Marina Mist scalloped circle cut with my nestabilities. The balloon is made from an oval Nestability and cutting a little of the sides to make it more like a balloon shape. I then attached a small bow and tail made out of baker's twine. I added some Marina Mist Ribbon across the bottom to finish it off.

For the inside of the card I used Marina Mist Ink and the new Birthday Set from Stampin' Up. I used a strip of Jillian Bean Soup paper across the top with a strip of Certainly Celery punched with the scalloped border punch. I matted the piece off whisper White cardstock with Certainly Celery to finish of the card.

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These are my thank you cards that I sent out after Rhylan was born. I have to thank my friend Lee-ann for the inspiration. I started with Certain Celery for the base of the card. I decided to try and use up some of my Baby Girl paper that I had in my stash, so I used three pattern papers from the same line. I am so sorry I just can't remember who made the paper line at this moment. I then used my cricut and the Simply Charmed cartridge to make the soother. The thanks was also cut with the cricut from some Crumb Cake cardstock. The ribbon was purchase from my LSS. I added two buttons in the right corner to finish it off. The only problem with the buttons is that they made the card to thick and I had to pay for a oversize letter. I decided to hand deliver as many as I could to save me some money. I need to make a few more so I think I will try to find something else to use in place of the buttons.

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Here is the announcements I made to send out to our family and friends. I made them with magnets on the back so people could put them on their fridge. I started with a piece of Pink Pirouette cardstock cut to fit my magnets. I then used so pink distressed paper from a old CTMH line and made a scalloped border for the bottom. I used the small scalloped border punch from EK Success. The stripped paper was from a old line from The Paper Company. I cut a two inch strip for the background. I then laid some "It's a Girl" ribbon at the top. The flower are punched out using a EK Success flower punch from the same paper as I used to make the scalloped border. I added three small rhinestones in the centre of the flowers using the iRock tool. With my computer I printed out the her birth information, I then used Regal Rose Ink and my stamp-a-ma-jig to line up my information stamp. The stamp is from a old Stampin' Up stamp set called "Bundle of Joy". I mounted it on some Blush Double Dot paper from Bo Bunny. I printed a 2x2 photo of Rhylan and mounted it on the same Bo Bunny Double Dot paper. I love how they turned out but after making 75 of them I about done with them. They also cost me a fortune to mail as the magnets made them a little heavy, well I guess that is a lesson learned and I will remember how heavy magnets are next time I want to add them to a project.

ENJOY!!

I'm One Month Old!

I can't believe that a month has gone by already! It was definately a very long month. I stayed in the hospital for 5 days after Rhylan was born. We had to stay that long as she was a bit jaundice and needed the blue lights to help her get better. I couldn't complain it was a nice little vacation for me I got to read and relax while we were there. We then came home for about 48 hours and then I started to get really sick. I tried to ignore some of my symptoms in the afternoon but then by the evening they had gotten really bad and I was running a temp of 42 degrees. My husband rushed me to the hospital. It turns out that I had multiple infection throughout my body and I had started to go into septic shock. It was pretty scarry but we made it through. I end up spending 8 days in the hospital and had to have a blood transfusion on day 3. Things started to turn around after that and I got better each day. Now I have been home for about two weeks and we are finally starting to get into a routine. I haven't been able to scrapbook much, but I did manage to get most of my birth announcements for Rhylan out as well as all of Rhys' Birthday invites. Here hoping next month is a bit better.

She has Arrived!!

Rhylan Irene Pearson

Born: Wednesday April 20th, 2011 at 8:21 a.m

Weight: 8lbs 13oz

Mommy and Baby are doing fine!

Rhys' Birthday Invites

I have been working away at anything that I can think of these days. I am just trying to keep my mind occupied while we wait for this little one to finally make an appearance. I decided to get a head start in planning Rhys' birthday party. Her party is not until June but I thought with the new baby I might not have as much time as I like to make invites. Right now I have all the pieces cut and the invites printed. The party location has been booked and the deposit has been put down. Now I just have to glue everything together. I figure I can do that slowly while the kids are napping or watching T.V. I find the hard part is getting into my scrap space to get things planned and cut. Now that part is done so it should be easier to get them together. 

I used my Gypsy to create the template for the invite. The base is made from welding the "3" candle from Sweet Treats with the cupcake from Create a Critter. I removed the eyes and mouth from the frosting cut. The base is made from left over paper from a previous project, I had enough scraps to cut all the bottoms out. The frosting is cut from Bo Bunny Double Dot paper. I then passed it through the cuttlebug using the Swirl embossing folder. I also sprayed it with a layer of Pink Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angles. The "3" candle is cut from Bo Bunny Double Dot paper. I then used the Burnished Velvet technique to create the flame at the top of the candle. I finished it off with a pretty pink bow on the cupcake base. 

This is what the back of the card looks like. I printed these with my computer after I had cut the out but before I assembled the front pieces. I created the blurry part in photoshop for privacy reasons, on the real version you can read all the information.

I am really happy how these turned out and found that even though I have to make 28 it really didn't take me very long. So Far ... LOL!

Enjoy!!!