Babies are brewing in a Tea for Two Baby Shower

What a fun yet busy weekend.  I was a shared hostess of a double baby shower.  And truly this was unlike any other shower I've been too.  When it involves my Diva Buddies, whom I've scrapped about before on here, then you know it's going to be a good time.

To start off with, my friend Jeannine is a world class decorator.  Here are some of the Martha Stewart-y decorations she and her sister came up with.

Some blinged out pumpkins for the coming babies.

I made a set of teapots for the a guest drawing.  Brown and pink for the girl team and brown and blue for the boy team.  More details on the teapots/teacups below.

Each Mommy-to-be received a baby buggy for their baby rooms at home.

 

We had a Onesie Decorating Station for the guests to make for the babies.  Here are two I made for them.

And the greatest station at the baby shower.  The Cara-tini and Tina-tini stations.  Ha ha ha.  The Mommies-to-be couldn't join in but all the guests were able to toast to the coming bundles of joy.  

Truly, it was great fun and I had a wonderful time helping with the decorations.  Below is a closer look at what I made.

The Pink buggy was made using the DCWV Luxury Stack.  The borders are Martha Stewart border punches.  The buggy template is from My Time Made Easy.  The Brown/Blue buggy was made using the DCWV Linen Stack.

The teapots were also made using the same DCWV stacks.  Both teapots, cups and phrases were all from My Time Made Easy.

The flower design is Tim Holtz's Grunge Flower technique that I used with paper instead of grunge board.  I also used his Alterations Flower Sizzix die .

The cups, designs and phrases are digital elements from My Time Made Easy.  I colored the cups with Copic Markers.  After completing the cup, I traced a second cup on paper, glued only the edges to the Colored cup and inserted a Gift Card in the slot at the top.  They made great gift card holders for the Guest prizes.

So that's what I did this weekend.  How about you?

Bouncing Baby Buggies

I'm a paper piecer.  I have loved it and always will.  Due to lack of time, I don't get to do it as often as I used too.  But now, I've found a new timesaver and still just as fun.  Lauren, from My Time Made Easy has come up with the cutest templates.  They're so versatile and easy to use.  I just love them!  I snagged up her Baby Buggy which was just released this month for this layout of my youngest.  I loved these baby pictures of her and my Swirlydoos kit for March arrived with the perfect papers.  The kit this month has the beautiful Flight of Fancy Prima papers and oh, they are delish.

Lauren's template is actually for a full Baby Buggy but I wanted to put it on my layout instead of free standing.  Easy enough.  After making the template I cut it in half and trimmed it down to about 1/2" wide and folded in about 1/4" so I would have tabs to glue it to my layout.  Isn't it too cute?  I decorated it with the Prima papers and used the Doily Lace Trim punch from Martha Stewart for the edges.

I picked up a neat tip from Lisa at Swirlydoos.  I scanned the butterflies off of one of the Prima patterned papers, so I would have them to print and use as embellishments instead of cutting up the patterned paper.  I imported the photos into a word document and made 2 copies of each butterfly.  I sized one a touch smaller than the other, printed out on cardstock and cut them out.  I glued the smaller butterfly body on top of the bigger one and bent the wings up to give it dimension.

Finally, I doodled a black dot outline around the photos and doodled some dot flourishes around the butterflies.  Oh and just because you went crazy and bought a MILLION of the baby photos you had done, doesn't mean they need to go to waste.  Using 3 of the same photo in different sizes and arrangement is a great way to use up the leftover photos.

Happy Monday to everyone!

Snow, Super Bowl and a whole lotta love.

I really did not fall off the face of the earth...but I am about 26" under it. Yes, we just received another blizzard and all the shoveling fun that comes with it. I actually saw some Penguins waddling into the area yesterday morning. So, because the last thing I want to see is another snow storm, I decided to get some summer pics out and scrap them.

As you all know, Valentine's is fast approaching and I now have all the goodies and cards completed for my dear husband and darling daughters. I even had some kit product leftover for a layout. All of these items below were made using the Bo Bunny Love Bandit Deluxe kit from Lil' Lambs Boutique.

I decided to make the die cut sheet my whole layout this time instead of backing it with 12x12 cardstock...oooo dare to be different I am. I also did two new techniques for me that I have seen around the scrapping world. I'll be putting up pictorial technique explanations in the next day or two.

Like those two tone flourishes...well you can make them yourself. The "faux pearl swirl" explanation coming soon. And look, there's some more of those dual colored paper roses.

Last month, Bo Bunny listed a free transparency title for download. I saw so many beautiful uses of it with winter themed layouts and thought the title fit well for Valentine/Heart themes as well. The "You Melt My Heart" phrase can be found here. I thought it would be cute to shrink my kiddos and add them to the background scenery. I used a swivel exacto knife to cut around the flower so it could sit on top of the added photograph. Neat little effect huh?

The background on my heart was a lot of fun to make and I'll be posting a pic by pic tutorial soon.

I used faux stitching along the ruffled edge of the heart. To create this ruffled edge, I cut 3/4" strips and used my scalloped deco scissors along one side. I then pleated the strips at various intervals. It took about 4-5 twelve inch strips to complete the heart. After gluing the pleated strips around the edge, I added the faux stitching on top.

Here's another look at both the background and the pleated strips around the edge.

Last week, I posted the 3 cards I did for the Lil' Lambs Boutique card challenge. Since I made coordinating gift bags/boxes to go with the cards, I added them back into the photos here, for the full collection.

The bag was part of the Deluxe kit and it's a decent sized bag, so that one goes to Dear Hubby. I used the Martha Stewart Deep Edge Daisy Fan punch for the top and bottom border and grabbed a tag/card from the Love Bandit Cut Out page.

Next up, are candy holders for my girls. The gift boxes were made with the Shutt-erfly template from My Time Made Easy™. Aren't they too cute?

I created this one below with one of the Love Bandit sheets.

I picked up the pink, faux stitched background from the card and added it to the gift box. The embellishments are cut outs from the tag sheet and a punched flower from the paper line.

Here's a view of the top. The packaging makes a butterfly closure at the top, so I added some matching accent paper and added the layered flower by gluing down only one petal to one of the butterfly tabs. (Note: do not glue the whole flower down or you will be unable to open the package.)

More cute cut outs from the tag page and hand punched flowers.

The kit had a sheet of Bo Bunny double dot paper. This "solid" colored cardstock is very sturdy and makes a nice gift box.

The Love Bandit line has so many adorable critters that make perfect accents for kiddie gifts.

I followed the card theme using the Martha Stewart Lattice Heart and Scallop Heart punch to add a border and top accents to the gift box. The flower is a combination of flowers and brads from the kit and a hand punched flower using the paper line. Again, I only glued part of the flower to one section of the top to allow for easy opening.

Here's a view of the opened box where you can see the attached flower.

Don't forget your honey or loved ones this coming Valentine's Day. And be on the look out for my tutorial posts this week.

And finally, a "heart-y" congratualtions to the New Orleans Saints!! A wonderful comeback and fantastic victory!