Precious Baby Girl

I've been working on a few scrapbooking layouts recently including some of NBG (New Baby Girl).  I am already way behind in my scrapbooking .... the other day I actually ordered a couple of photo books just to get the pictures organized and printed (plus My Publisher and Shutterfly were having great sales). Doing that sort of frees me up to really scrap the photos I really love.

And this is a photo I love...
Many of you have seen this photo before.  This is NBG in her dad's hand....she was about 2 weeks old here.  We have a similar photo of AG (Adorable Grandson) when he was a newborn so my daughter wanted the same pose with her.  I took this photo and this was actually one I had leftover.  I had put different filters over the photo and this was not our favorite but I just couldn't bear to dispose of it.  I wish her eyes had a little more catch light to them but I didn't edit it that way and decided this will be good for her scrapbook.

I used some My Mind's Eye paper as well as some ribbon I'd gotten at Michaels (the black is satin...the pink is grosgrain) and I just ruffled it up a bit.
The label is from the Creative Memories Stork's Delivery Cartridge.  I've actually used it several times now (Yay for me!).


We took AG to the train (tootoo tain) at Stone Mountain Park today and here is a photo I took of him on the train.

I know you'll agree he is ADORABLE! :)

Happy Crafting!

Gift Bag

Made this Gift Bag to match the little shaped card I made HERE.  I used a plain ol' white bag I bought with a coupon from Joann's, scraps of paper, one sheet of Martha Stewart printed paper, some foam tape and my trusty EXPRESSION 2 and the Creative Memories Stork's Delivery cartridge.  The giraffe was cut at 6 inches....and popped up with some foam tape...added a little ribbon from Michael's, a few gems for the eyes...a little felt rickrack at the bottom ...and voila...instant, but CUTE, gift bag!

Happy Crafting!!! 

Fun Shaped Cards and Cricut Challenge 11: Creative Memories Stork's Delivery

Like my friend, Kim, who hangs out in her BASEMENT and was talking about this the other day, I too am a linear scrapper.  I like straight edges...it's something for me to round the edges of a card.  I do it from time to time but it really takes effort.  I like those 90 degree angles much better for the most part!

So what showed up in my inbox last Friday?  A challenge at CAS-ual Fridays for a shaped card.  Yikes...that meant probably no straight edges.  Today, one of my favorite bloggers Christina of Creations with Christina made a shaped card using her Gypsy and I thought to myself, "Self...you can do that!"

I ended up making these two little cards:

Both were made for enclosures for baby gifts.

The first one was made with cards stock scraps I had in my scrap box.  Some Core'dinations cardstock and some Bazzill were used for the little zebra.  I used a little tag I had and stamped "Sweet Baby" which is a Paper Trey Ink sentiment from the Mega Messages set. He has a little Bazzill bling for eyes.

You can see the cute little zebra a little closer here:

The image came from the Creative Memories Stork's Delivery Cricut cartridge.  I think he's just so cute!

The second one shown below was done with the Baby Steps Cartridge (another newer cartridge):

was done with Martha Stewart papers and a little white ribbon.  I think he's kind of cute, too, if I say so myself!

I had not used the Stork's Delivery Cartridge before so this is another one knocked off my Personal Cricut Challenge! Yay!!!  I will come back to this, though...it's a great cartridge and I need to look at it a bit more closely.

And my dear friends...that is it for today I think!  Hope you all are staying cool...we are having a huge heat wave in the south here....I think today is going to be worse than yesterday with temps in the mid 90s.  And of course here in Atlanta we have HUMIDITY!  It is oppressive but I try not to complain too much as I'd rather have it hot any day as opposed to that cold that some parts of this country get!

Happy Crafting!