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Zoo Babies Card Class

Aren't these animals so cute?  I love all the animals in the zoo babies stamp set. It was hard to make a card with just one so I stuffed as many as I could onto this card :) 

 

 

What is it about babies at the zoo?  They are so fun to watch!  Is it their playful nature or the fact that they are more our size or because we don't have to touch them or clean up after them?  Who knows.  I who am not an animal lover sure enjoyed watching the baby elephant play with her ball at the zoo last year :)  so cute right? 

 

 

Well with these stamps, we get the cuteness with out the mess.  Well almost :)  I know my kids will love playing with these stamps.  The stamp set comes with a few other animals and 2 greetings that go perfectly together. 

 

 

This card was so fun to make, don't you just love the washi tape?  I LOVE that it is transparent, so the So Saffron shows through.  Also did you notice the strip of Soft Sky ribbon on the bottom?  It is kind of hard to see in the picture but it adds just the right amount of texture while keeping the animals in the spotlight.   We are all so glad Soft Sky is back right?  I also thought that for a baby boy card, I would leave off the cute flower on the giraffe.  (the flower was punched out with the tiny 4 petal flower... I then crumpled it up and pulled the paper apart to make 2 flowers and stuck them together... if you have questions on this feel free to ask :)

 

 

We are making this card at my class tomorrow night and Thursday afternoon.  I hope everyone loves it :)  If you would like to come to my class feel free to e-mail me at kasia567@yahoo.com

All about me Poster

My Daughter had an assignment last spring in preschool to bring a poster to school that shows all about her.  My friend Stacie shared this idea with me.  Instead of decorating the poster, decorate some smaller pages and put them on the poster.  That way when the poster comes home, you can take those smaller pages off and put them in a scrapbook!  So I made these pages 6x6 and stuck them on the poster with dimensionals!

 

 

 

As you can see she LOVED the poster and she still loves to look at the pages in the book I made!

Here are a few more pictures of the pages...

 (first cake)

Don't you love that banner?  I stamped it with the photopolymer stamp on the back and cut it out!

(elephant watching)

 (she loves Classic Skating)

(sparklers)

 

Now you might be thinking to yourself... now wait Stampin' up! doesn't sell 6x6 albums anymore.  You are right, they aren't in the catalog but I found this one on the Clearance rack! 

 

 

and guess what?  It suprisingly is still there!  So go get it while you can!  Click HERE to go to the clearance rack.  These deals are only good while supplies last.  Make sure to mark that I am your demonstrator when you order online, that way we both get rewards :)

 

Oh Whale Cards

If you recall, I recently posted about my spring downline group meeting.  For the meeting I made a super fun box with the fancy favor die.  You can see it HERE.  Today I want to share with you the 5 whale cards I made to fit inside the box.  After the downline meeting, I was able to hold a class at my house with my stamping friends.  These cards are made with the notecards and envelopes, so they are a bit smaller than a regular sized card.  I love them all, which one is your favorite?

This heart card would be perfect for Valentine's day.

On this Whalecome card I used a larger rinestone so it looked like a baby whale to me.

 

The waves on both of these cards were made with the wheel using versamark ink.  Love that stuff.

This Get whale soon card was the favorite at my class. 

This last card matched the box!  Love the doily waves!

For Baby!

Love this baby card!  Enjoy

More Button Buddies

Button Buddies is such a fun stamp set, I always seem to focus on the new and forget about the stamps I have had for a little while.  It is always fun to pull out a stamp set or cards made with the stamp set and fall in love with it again.  

I love how these cherries look vintage by just using the Stampin Markers. I also love how the colors match perfectly! (the ribbon, paper and ink are all the same color!)

The fun part about this stamp set is that the buttons we sell coordinate perfectly with every image.

I am pretty good at making birthday and thank you cards but I always forget about baby cards!  What kind of card are you always running out of?

Gift Bags

I am LOVING the new pennant die for the big shot, and the punch too of course. I used the smallest pennant on the die for this bag. and the medium sized pennant for this baby one. Here is a close up of the hair clip I put on the bag... I love this flirtatious fabric! It was pretty simple to decorate these bags, just paper and dimensionals! So Fun. Next time I want to try it with the punch, think of how many pennants we could add!

Baby Shower Invites

I thought it would be appropriate to post this on Groundhog day, because it just keeps coming back. :) I don't know if any of you will remember, but my very first post was almost this same project - it was a baby shower invite for my sister, well my friend saw them and wanted to make some of her own. We used almost the same colors and elephant stamps both times. This card is super fun because it folds flat, but when you pull the tag, it creats a stand.

Have a great day.

T-Shirt Re-Fashion

I have been having a lot of fun lately re-fashioning shirts, especially for my little girl. For this shirt, I used the larger scallop on the Scallop's 2 die and the letter A from the simple letters alphabet.

I also had to make a matching hair accessory. For this I used a die that is retired but you could use any one. I just layered a bunch of layers of white and pink fabric and attached it to a felt circle.Then I hot glued it to the headband and added another felt circle (one on each side of the headband)This shirt is one of my favorites. It has also lived through MANY washings and still looks great since I stitched around the edge with a zig zag stitch! I also made a shirt for myself. - my hair is all in my face - the wind was blowing like crazy but the pictures inside didn't work very well...

Can you guess what big shot die I used for my shirt? The flowers aren't very recognizable now that I washed the shirt - but I LOVE how messy they look!

I actually bought 2 of the same shirt, one my size and another the largest size I could find so I would have the most amount of fabric :) I used about half of it and now I can save the rest for another project. (I already used some for a rosette necklace!)

Here is a better picture of the flowers. They look more like flowers in this picture, can you guess the die yet? I first pinned on the flowers and layed out the ruffles like this, and pinned them on a little as well before sewing them. I started with the bottom ruffle and worked my way up and sewed on the flowers last.

Yep I used the flower folds die! I layered 4 flowers on top of each other. (the flower on top is a little bigger than the other 2) I also cut some fun ruffle strips to add as well. I sewed these on with some brown thread for a little contrast.



Sorry for the awkward picture - I took it of myself :) But here you can see the stitching a little better. I just sewed on the flowers with a spiral.

Taggy Blanket with Crinkly Circles

When I made my taggy blanket for my daughter (you can see it here), I had an idea that I wanted to try. I wanted to cut out an image in fabric and in a celo bag and sew them together to make a crinkly image! So I cut out some circles with my big shot and gave it a try. It was kind of tricky to sew them both together... I think next time I won't use such a slippery fabric since the celo bag is slippery too. It doesn't look really pretty, but it totally works! The circles crinkle like so many baby toys thest days... and since it is just a small circle it isn't obnoxious!

I chose to do circles because the fabric on the back had circles, and of course I finished it up with a bunch of Stampin' Up! ribbon.... some of it is retired though.

Hairbow Frame

I have made a TON of hairbows for my baby and I have been wanting to hang up my favorite ones. I finally decided how I wanted it to look! I made all the bows with the big shot and their dies. Most of the big shot dies I used are ones that you can only buy through Stampin' Up!, but not all of them :) Here is the backside. I hot glued ribbon onto the frame and I just clip my bows onto the ribbon.

(I bought my frame from my neighbor who is really good with wood...)

Scallop Square Skirt

Have you seen the scallop square purse yet? It is super popular right now. (I haven't made one yet, but it will be my next sewing project :) I took the idea of the purse and made a skirt instead! Every once in a while I come up with something on my own that surprises me. That is pretty much how I feel about this. I am also amazed that I made this all by myself!

All the squares were cut out of fabric with the big shot using this trusty die pictured below. This die cuts through 8 layers of fabric at a time and the squares are 4 3/8 x 4 3/8!

I also decorated her shirt and I made a hairbow to match, all using the big shot. I love that thing!

Sweet Pea Felt

I am in LOVE with the Sweet Pea Felt. You can use it with so many things! Today I want to show you a super fast and easy hair clip you can make with them. The Felt comes already stitched so all I did was hot glue it to the clip! I think it will look a lot cuter in my baby's hair when her hair is longer but I still love it now! And as a bonus, my husband is more likely to put a flower in her hair when he is watching them if the flower is small :)

Cards from a friend

I received 2 beautiful cards from my friend and downline Becky last week, we both had babies about the same time so she gave me a baby card and a thank you card! Look how cute they are!