An April Baby

I have been SO excited to use these adorable stamps, hand-drawn and made for me by StampOutOnline. Could this girl BE any more adorable? I am going to abuse the privilege of this stamp already, I know it.

I set out to work using the New Arrival cartridge, and used the "Card 1" feature to print out this cute preggo girl (page 25). I then stamped the card and the envelope carefully, with my paper on a magazine for extra cush and maximum stampage. Don't these girls look like they were meant to be together?

I then added a liner from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More to the inside of the card, so preggo mama could have a polka-dot dress on. I used my Gypsy so that the "circle punch" wouldn't cut out, making for a nice rounded-corners. Of course, mama also needed a hat and purse, and her accessories are easily cut out from the New Arrival cartridge as well. I glue dotted those for some 3D action.

Babies need lots of new goodies, so I go the mama-to-be a Babies-R-Us gift card. I then cut out this gift card holder from the Wild Cards cartridge.  I used my Fiskars cutter with a scoring blade to make a perfect score.

The gift card fits perfectly, and I just added some bling to make it look like a little clutch. The paper also matches preggo mama's dress.

I then decided to add April's name to the envelope, since baby's name hadn't been announced yet. I used the Sans Serif font cartridge. My super-pointy Fiskars scissors came in handy here in smashing the edges down nicely.

One day after I gave April her card, she gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby girl. So already this card is a smash hit I think!

Congrats, April, and blessings on your new baby girl!
Cheers,

-marcia

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

When my hubby left the house for a meeting on Sunday afternoon, I took the time to make his V-Day card and gift, lickety split!

I got the idea to make these adorable fortune cookies from Carrie at Greenbean's Craftrole. So easy and cute! I printed out little sayings on my computer and then stuck them inside. I used my "heart" punch to really Valentine's it up.

 


When Scrapguy wrapped Hershey's Bars for Valentine's, it got my mind working ... only my guy likes mint with this chocolate. So I found these York Peppermint Patties shaped in hearts for V-Day. Ha! I used the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge to print out a plain old tag with rounded edges  at 7 inches wide and 3 inches high. On your Gypsy, you have to click that chain under the inches so you can modify it to your own needs. Then, I just wrapped them right around the candy, and I held it in place with Zots Singles, medium clear adhesive dots.

I used the Gypsy Font (also on Gypsy) to cut out the X, O, and two hearts in coordinating paper. I cut out slightly larger X,O, and two hearts in the same paper and glued them to a plain old kraft paper gift bag from Target. We bought a couple of 10 packs a while pack and I just decorate them up (or not)--it's great as you can use them for boys and girls, young and old.





I then used the heart card on the Wild Card cartridge to make him a cute V-Day card.

I continued my theme and did an X,O, and hearts on the front of the Heart Card.







I used the Heart Card's Liner and the "hugs & kisses" Phrase on the inside. Easy!

I used my Crop-a-Dile and punched a couple of holes so I could wrap the whole thing up with a ribbon, instead of cutting out an envelope.

Hope everyone shares some love with someone that really needs it today!

Hugs!
-marcia