Waiting

Good morning!  I think Spring may actually be poking through now.  It has been the longest winter ever!

With Mother’s Day fast approaching here in North America, our theme Flowers for Mom is what’s up this week at Use it Tuesday.  A time to celebrate those women in our lives who were the big influence.   Maybe it wasn’t your mom, but your grandma, or perhaps an aunt or any other female who was like a Mother to you.

I have a layout for you today that highlights my pregnancy with Riley and how crazy I was waiting for him to come out.  In case you didn’t know he was 41+4 when I finally went into labour.  I felt like I was pregnant forever!!!

 

 

That’s my belly a couple weeks or so before he was born and then a pic of him a couple of days old!  All the product is from my stash, so I’m not entirely sure I know where they came from.  I hope that you enjoy the layout and please stop by the blog to see the other gorgeous projects the DT created this week.

It’s a Boy

Happy Friday! So happy it’s the weekend, even if I don’t really have anything planned.

Just sharing with you our new challenge at Creative Corner Challenges this week.  Our last one for February hosted by Tina.  Next month I will be hosting the challenges and offering some great weekly prizes so make sure you check in each week.

A super easy challenge this week, we just want to see some designer paper on your project.  It can be old, new, one or two.  Head over to the blog to link up and to see what the DT has for you this week.

Here is mine for you this week, a cute little baby card.

 

Since I am on a buying freeze right now, everything on this card is from my stash.  The paper is sooo old.  It is from Hot off The Press’s 8×8 baby kit.  The image was from a swap I did ages ago and the sentiment sticker I’ve had for ages.  It was fun to make a 5×5 card this time instead of my usual 4.25×5.5.  I hope you like it.

Entered into these challenges:

7 Kids College Fund: anything goes.

Party Time Tuesday: anything goes

Love to Create: Wrap it Up (twine, ribbon, string)

Crafting for All Seasons: Dies/Punches

Robyn’s Fetish: Use Ribbon or Twine

Joanna Sheen challenge blog: layer it up

Divas by Design: anything goes

Lady Anne’s Challenges: anything goes

Paper Pretties: Spike the Punch (use a fave punch)

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Guys

After a bit of a hiccup in our challenge blog (we believe we were hacked) we are up and running again at Creative Corner Challenges!  We have a new challenge for you hosted by Tina (who has a little prize for this week’s winner).  We want to see eyelets and/or brads on your projects this week.  It can be one or it can be many.

I have a layout for you this week of my husband and sweet boy.  This was taken a few years ago when we did our annual family vacation to Cuba.  It was the first one with Riley and so he is six months old in these pics.  We were just getting Riley used to the water and he took to it like a fish.  He still loves it!

The DP is from my stash and it’s the Bella Blvd Super Stud collection. I added a few brads in the circles and just a little bling on some edges.  I hope you like it.

Make sure you stop by the blog to enter this week and also to see the other creations by the DT for you this week.

Entered into these challenges:

Crafting by Design: Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door: anything goes

Use it Tuesday: Fasteners

Crafty Bloggers Network: anything goes

Creative Creations Challenge Blog: Inspired by a Song (Holidays in the Sun by the Sex Pistols)

Use Your Stuff: All in the Family

Challenges for Everybody: anything goes

Jellypark Challenges: Get in Shape (use different shapes)

 

Cute as a Button

We have a new challenge for you on the Creative Corners Challenge blog.  Our theme this week is cute as a button, however you want to interpret that.  We also have a little prize to be won, along with your name being entered into the monthly prize draw.

I created two cards for you this week.

 

This is just a simple baby card using some bits and bobs from my stash and scraps.  I hope you like it.

Entered into these challenges:

The Pink Elephant: Celebration (celebrating a new baby)

Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges: Use Ribbon

Crazy4Challenges: Ribbon and bows

 

 

 

 

Someone had given me the owl in a swap and I thought he was just so cute.  The DP for this one is from MME True Blue.  The bling and twine are from my stash.

Entered into these challenges:

Crafty Catz: Buttons and bows

 

I hope you enjoy these and stop by the blog to see the other DT entries for you this week.  You can also enter on our FB page.–CreativeCornerChallenges.

 

 

 

Baby Boy: A Digital Delights creation

Oh boy! I’m late in getting this up. So sorry everyone. It’s Thursday so the Digital Delights DT has some new inspiration for you this week.

I have a friend who just had a new baby boy. The baby shower is next month so I need a card. I have this little cutie for you today.

The digital image is from the LuvvyBaby set.

It has a couple of different images and sentiments to choose from. You can find it in the store here!

You can also get this little guy as singles and in colored images!

For my card I used the Hot off the Press 8×8 baby papers.I recently found these papers in a drawer so I’ve been using them up. They were in a bag with some HOTP birthday papers as well. I added just a few pearls and then added a bit of texture with a border punch and a little ribbon. The image is colored with my copics and then cut out with spellbinders. I think I am going to make some more of these in a variety of pink, blue and gender neutral. It’s such a cute image.

Thanks for stopping by today and you just have to check out the blog to see all the great projects the other ladies have for you this week! AMAZING!

Entered into the following challenges:

Little Red Wagon: dog days of summer (use an animal on your project)

Waste Not Wednesday: always use your forgotten stuff (the 8×8 papers)

Ready Teady Go-anything goes (with a teddy or bear)

Crafty Catz: Anything Goes

Make it Monday: always anything goes

Anything Goes with Lollipop Crafts

Hello everyone! It’s another Monday challenge at Lollipop Crafts this week.  It’s our last challenge of the month so that means it’s a just for fun anything goes challenge.  Make sure you stop by the blog to see what the rest of the design team has created for you and to link up your challenge project.

 

I have another layout for you.  In keeping with the Little Sprout Collection from Crate Paper I did another cute layout of Mr. Riley.

Thanks for stopping by and I love to get your comments.

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Baby Tag

So last week I had posted a layout I did for a kit of the month challenge on CanadianScrapSwapChat.  That was part one.  Part two was to create another project using the same kit..it could be card, altered project, tag etc.  I really like the die cuts in this pack so I made a cute little baby tag with it.

It’s a bit fuzzy so I hope you’ll forgive that.  I basically just used up some of the scraps and then added the diecuts and popped them up.  Nothing fancy here.  Just a little ribbon to match.  Pretty clean and simple I think. I hope you like it.  I have a friend who’s newly pregnant and so I can’t wait to put this on her present for her shower!  I hope she likes it too!

I’ve entered into the following challenges:

A.muse studio: die cuts

Crafting When We Can: Animals

CASual Fridays Challenge: Hello Baby

Crafty Ann’s Challenge Blog: Anything Goes

 

 

 

 

Animal Antics

Happy Friday.  If you are looking for the AIF blog hop please scroll below.

 

It’s a new challenge at the Poodles Parlour this week. It’s all about the Animal Antics.    Bugaboo

 

is our great sponsor this week and they gave us the cutest images to work with!  I made this adorable baby card for my DT inspiration this week….

 

After coloring the image with my copics, I inked around it while in the nestiblility.  The paper and little sentiment is from a Hot Off the Press baby 8×8 pack that I have had forever.  The buttons and the twine from my stash as was the bling.  I received the butterfly in a swap ages ago and am glad I was finally able to use it! A little bit of border punching and voila! I hope you like it.  Please stop by the Poodles Parlour blog to link up your own project for this week’s challenge and for all the details on how you can win from our great sponsor Bugaboo!

 

I’ve entered into the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday: A Pinch and a Punch (use at least 1 punch)

Do you Stack Up?! : Friendly Critters

Little Red Wagon: Border Punches

Your Next Stamp: Inspired by a Song (Baby of Mine)

The Crazy Challenge :New

 

2 New Challenges

Happy Monday everyone! Here are two new challenges for you this week.
First, at Lollipop Crafts,

Robin’s Fetish is sponsoring this week’s challenge and our theme is a thank you for that special teacher/educator/babysitter out there.  Here is the card that I created

and secondly at the Crazy Challenge, we have a color challenge for you, pink and green this week. It’s sponsored by the Digi Doodle Shop.  This is my card this week.

A late challenge and ACAD

Hey there everyone! I do apologize for posting my AIF challenge card so late!  It’s just been crazy here with Riley teething that I’ve not had a lot of creative time or posting time.

This week the DT is using a really cute baby booties set that you can find for sale in the store here and be sure to check out the other images and freebies you’ll find there!

The theme this week is New Beginnings!  A new year with new prospects so I hope that you will stop by our challenge blog and enter to win this week.  You have until 11:59EST on Wednesday Jan 12 to enter.  If you are uploading from an online gallery please use AIF063 as a tag!

My card also coincides with my ACAD challenge for January 6th. Woo hoo!  I used some scrap baby paper that I have been using for over a year now when I started Riley’s baby album..LOL  and also some scrap ribbon.  I added some yellow stickles to the image which I printed out on the DP.  The BABY word are some alpha stickers that I had in my stash.  I hope you like it.

I’ve entered into the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday: Out with the Old

Simon Says Stamp: New Beginnings

Stamp Something: Use a Digi

Papertake Weekly : anything goes