Rain, Rain Go Away

Hello everyone, For this weeks theme at SweetSassyDiva  ~ Rain Rain Go Away ~ We are asked to have an umbrella and boots on our project. Well I was drawing a blank on a card or altering something..... so I bit the bullet and made my very first layout !!! I know, I can hardly believe it myself :)  First I called my daughter to see if she had any photos of the kids playing in the rain. She thought she did but was all excited to dress them up and send them out to play the next time it rains ! So there are no pictures in my layout, but I think you will be able to figure out where they will go.

The boots and splash are from Nate's ABCs and are cut at 2.75 inches. The umbrella is from Kate's ABCs and is cut at 2.75 inches.

The flowers - my new obsession - are from CTMH Art Philosophy and are cut at 2.75 inches.  I sponged the edges of all the cuts and attached them all with dimensionals . The papers and ribbon are from Stampin UP.

There you have it - my 1st layout! I hope you like it !

Baby Shower Card

Here is the card that I made for the same baby shower that I made the banner for.

I used Paisley and Kate's ABC's a stamp from Stampin Up.

The directions for the pop up inside can be found at     Dawns Stamping Studio

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Baby Shower Banner

I decided to do a rather unconventional gift for a baby shower.... a banner with the baby's name. When I started to plan it out, the only thing I was sure of was I didn't want the traditional triangle shape. So I started to check out all my Cricut handbooks. When I came across the paisley shape from the Paisley cartridge, I knew I had found my background.

I cuttlebugged the pink layer with the swiss dots folder, made rossettes and inked the edges.( I ended up digging out my hot glue gun - gasp !! - to hold those beautiful yet hard to hold together rosettes ! )The letters for the name are from Nursery Rhyme. 

The papers are Stampin Up and DCWV.

The felt flowers are Stampin Up.

The little girl cuts are from Kate's ABC's. I attached the white satin ribbon to the center of the paisley shape with brads and covered them on the back with a circle punched from the brown cardstock. I used glue dots and a tiny flower brad to attach the girls to the ribbon. I tried several different adhesives to attach the felt flowers to the ribbon and finally ended up using fabric glue.

I added a few gems, a little bit of stickles and brown bows and called it done.

I sewed small bone rings to the white ribbon about 14 inches away on each end and then stiched the white bows to them.

The time and effort I put into this project was well worth it as the mom-to-be really seemed to like it :)



I made a card to go with this, but will save that for my next post...

As always, thanks for stopping by.

ps   I entered this in the challenge at Scrappy Moms Stamps