The final product....finally!!!

Here's the final invite that I am sending out tomorrow (fingers crossed) for my sister-in-law's shower.

After looking at her registry, I noticed the giraffe from the baby's bedding is quite similar to the giraffe from bundled in love. So I swapped out the prego lady from she's all that and added a giraffe. I then got to use my favorite cuttlebug embossing folder, swiss dots, and used the polka dot paper from the river rock DSP.

What's also great is that I found coordinating tableware for the shower itself! I put a picture below, what a cute little giraffe he is too! OK now I'm back to fairy princess invites!!

I'm a stamping fool!!!!

I am in stamping overload right now! I am working on birthday thank you's, shower invites and birthday invites!! My girls' birthdays are less than 3 weeks apart. So I'm knee deep in Tinkerbell, fairy princesses and giraffes!! Hopefully I'll have a chance to break away and make something fun to post!! I'll post the final baby shower invite as soon as I get to the final stages of those.

Entries are coming in for my bundle of blog candy and WOW am I blown away!!! For those of you that haven't entered yet, there's still time and more goodies to be added!!
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Challenge card

Quick post before I start on a weekend of yard work!! This is a card I created for papertake's weekly challenge. The sketch was designed by my blogging buddy Katharina, so I figured I'd try it out. I broke into my cutie pie dsp and my stash of pun fun images. The finished size is 4 1/4 x 4 1/4.

***Also looking for even more blog candy??? Check out this link, it will bring you to Tracie Jane's blog!!***

Finally Friday!!

It's Friday again and that means another Finally Friday Challenge!!! When I was visiting blogs this week, I noticed a lot of people making really cute gift card holders. Denise had a great tutorial for making one on her blog too.

So for today's challenge....make a gift card holder. Either by using the tutorial on Denise's blog or anything else you can come up with.

For this challenge, I followed Denise's instructions, but I used the "pouch" for a picture not a gift card.

This is the card I am going to use for my daughter's first birthday invitations.---------> I used the textured wild wasabi card stock from last month's promo, and made it into a pocket card. All the details of the party are written on the white card stock in the pocket. I then made a gift card holder from the regal rose card stock and attached it to the front. Instead of a gift card, I mounted her photo on card stock and made a tab usind the round tab punch to pull it out. Here is the gift card pouch open.

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Have fun with this challenge and link your gift card holder so everyone can take a peek.

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Shower Invites A & B

I am working on the invites for my sister-in-law's shower. I am making 20 of them so it's right in that gray area between "I can add a layer here or an embellishment there since there's not too many" and "keep it simple there are only 24 stampin hours in a day"

It's going to be interesting to see what it looks like on the blog (my layout "softens" my pics). It looks a lot different IRL, this poor pregnant lady looks bright orange!!! She's really cute IRL. Anyway let's call this "my starting point" since I can't send out this poor orange woman and I'll use it as a little tutorial on how to make something that isn't your favorite look better.

**Tip Alert** Whenever I am planning something like an invitation that I know I am going to fiddle around with a few times before I love it, I make a template. When I am adhering the layers of CS together I use a smidge of removable double sided tape on the top of the layer so it pops on and off easily and I can flip it over and still use the backside of the card stock so I am not "wasting" it in my trial and error process.

Here's the new and improved version! Well I kept the original River Rock base but beyond that it's all new!! After looking at the first card for awile I realized, although I love blush blossom, it took over the first card a little. So I replaced it with very vanilla that I emboosed with stylized flowers(cuttlebug). I originally used my corner rounder to soften the main image since its for a girl but I changed my mind and decide to tear the edges instead for softness. I also knew the main image in guava needed to be toned down a bit, so I opted for river rock instead. I still wanted the guava ribbon on the card, but there was too much on the first card. On card B, I just used a smidge of ribbon on the main image. I kept the paper piecing on the purse, since I'm addicted to paper piecing!

I'm still not sure about the "you're invited" oval, but it's coming along......

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Friday!!! Big news and fun challenge!!

WOW this was a fast week!!!! I didn't even have a chance to do my own challenge since we've been outside as much as possible!

Just found out my sister is having a girl!! woo hoo!! So I'll have 2 neices about a month apart!!

So in honor of it being 75 degrees today and sunny!!! Today's challenge is to get outside with the kids, pets or friends and take some photos to scrap!

I just took one of my daughter with her first popcicle, can't wait to scrap that!!

Look for blog candy by Monday!! Have a great weekend everyone!
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Cute Card Thursday Entry

Here's my card for Cute card thursday (a challenge blog--check it out it's great and some of my SBS3 sisters are on the DT). I had it ready to post yesterday for rubbadultery Tuesday, but American Idol got in the way!! Boy are those two Davids FANTASTIC!!! Back to the card!

The challenge this week was things with wings. Well this image has 2 "things with wings" and I think she's super sweet! I also used my new cuttlebug embossing folder, swiss dots, on the river rock piece. I then sponged the edges in old olive. (I'm soooo excited to have my swiss dots, now when I visit the blogs of others who already have it, I won't be sad anymore!!) I colored her in using reinkers and a blender pen. Which on this fab paper is so easy!!

To make this card all SU, try using one of the ladies from she's all that in the mini.

Also, keep checking back...later this week I'm going to be adding my first ever BLOG CANDY!!! I'm working out the details now, then it's up for grabs!!

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