Baby Shower

Yes, another baby card - originally, I made the previous sailboat card for my boss to give to my co-worker, but she ended up buying a card, so I gave the mommy-to-be the other card. But I am still proud of this card as well!

I got all of my inspiration from a card I saw on another blog (sorry, I don't know who it is!!) but she used the card with graduation hats -- if you know which blog this was from, please let me know!!

I just think this is so cute - and I hope I get the chance to give it to someone soon! The stamp is PTI's Bitty Blessings stamped repeatedly, then I stamped on another paper and cut out. I stamped in PTI's vintage cream and used PTI's bitty dots paper, Spring Rain ink for the sentiment from PTI (again....) Scattered Showers.

Enjoy!

Ahoy Little Sailor!

This card was a lot of fun to make (but also a little frustrating at first...)

I made this along with a present and the chocolate trifle that you saw in my last post. Everything was a hit! The trifle was practically gone and my card was passed around the room! The mommy-to-be was like "you made this??" it was cool :)

This card was all about trial and error...I've never made anything like this (except for my ladybug card) but this I've never seen done before. I used SU and PTI paper, PTI Polka Dot Basics, Background Basics and Bitty Blessings. I also used PTI's Ink Duo to distress the outsides. I used twine from Walmart and my poker from CTMH to keep the sails "together" and create the flag pole. I popped everything up with SU's 3-dimensionals.

I'd love to hear your comments!

Enjoy!

Mmmm Chocolate Trifle!

Wow! Right?? My thoughts exactly...and it should be quite delicious!

I'm going to a baby shower later today and I knew I wanted to make something with chocolate. And then I wanted to venture out an make my first trifle! I went to allrecipes.com (one of my favorite website for anything cooking) and found a really great looking trifle. This picture is the one that I actually made! (and it goes great with my granite countertops, lol). If you're wondering what the book in the background is, it's "Intercourses"...an aphrodisiac cookbook that I got my hubby for our 1 year anniversary. There are some hot pages in there and lots of yummy looking recipes...I highly suggest this to add a little spice in the kitchen! To read more about the book, go here. I bought mine on Amazon (my husband loved it!).

***Anywho - you can find the trifle recipe here. It's super easy to make...just make sure to cook the brownies earlier and let them cool down...and thaw the Cool Whip!!

Let me know if you make it and what you think!!!

Enjoy

Julie

Happy Birthday - Pocket Silhouette Style

I know...I have been such a bad blogger lately...I've made a lot of cards, just haven't posted (and my camera batteries are being fussy and not charging!!). I'll try to be better!!

I made this card last week over at my friend Terry's house. I'll be posting my other creations from last weekend (and this weekend) throughout the week - check back for more!!

I was heavily inspired by Hannah Bug Designs for this card. I don't know how I came across her blog, but she does some fabby cards!

I have save this in my "inspiration" folder and have been wanting to recreate for a while now...and finally I did!

I used SU's Pocket Silhouettes stamps using a few different ink colors and ZING embossing powders. The papers I used were PTI's Rustic Cream and SU's in colors. The sentiment was from stamp in the $1 bin at Michael's (it had a candle, too, but I only stamped the HB). I used the Martha Stewart doily punch and used some twine from WalMart. My friend Connie loved it!!!!

(oh - and I distressed the edges, too) -- (and sorry for the fuzzy picture, I tried to snap a quick pic before my camera batteries died!!)

Enjoy!

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Take care and happy advertising!

Raspberry Sweet CC #16 - Enjoy the Moment

It has been quite a while since I have had the creative juices to participate in any challenge, let alone Dawn's fabulous color challenge. And we're already at #16! I can't believe it...

Again, I am using my new favorite ZING embossing powder. Here, I'm using the Mustard and Brown.

I used my huge background stamp by Impression Obsession (an Alesa Baker design) with my brown Staz-on then used my Versamark pen and embossed the centers and petals. Then I tea-dyed the edges with Papertrey's ink duo. I then attached CTMH brown ribbon to it and popped-up the sentiment from PTI.

I attached some Bling It from Basic Grey (the brown and the mustard color were from the same set...perfect!!) Then I put the entire design onto Kraft paper from Stampin' Up. Latly, I punched two butterflies from Martha Stewart...one in brown cardstock and one in SU's new Crushed Curry (In Color).

I'd love to hear your comments and I look forward to seeing your designs!!

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Na!!

One of my most amazing friends just celebrated a birthday on Saturday. I'm sure you're very familiar with her blog (if you aren't you should be, she has incredible designs) -- Naomi Chokr - Happy birthday Na!!

A couple weeks ago, Naomi, her husband Amir, our other awesome friend, Christy and I went to Whim-so-Doodle...mmm it was incredible!! I bought a lot...including 8 colors of ZING -- it's my new favorite embossing powder, it's just FABULOUS!

Na and I are true shoe-wh*res and when we find a great shoe, we've literally got to have it in every color. Wait, we do that with scrapbooking stuff, too, lol...

Enjoy!!