Hamilton Stampin' Up Regionals Swap : Baby Tees

I am so glad that I get to show you these swaps:



I started working on these swaps some time back in August, and I have been wanting to share them with you allfor so long, but I did not want to ruin the surprise for those that might be recieving my swaps.

Make sure to head to my Stampin' Up Blog tomorrow afternoon for the tutorial to make this card yourself.

Baby Whale Diaper Clutch

I want to share with you today a cute lil project that I made, well, for myself. I was re organizing the kid's room and I came across some fabric that I have left over from when I was pregnant with Tyson. (I like to make all of my baby bed linens, and a few blankies for them here and there)
I have seen many fancy and oh so pretty diaper clutches on Etsy, but I just can't afford to squeeze in a purchase quite yet, so I decided to make one myself with the scrap of fabric that I had.
You can find many tutorials if you just Google it, I do plan to make more, so I will have one up soon hopefully within in the next month. In all, it took me about 45 mins to an hour to make, including time to draft out my idea, make a lining, and then even cleaning up after!
Above is a quite snap of the diaperclutch closed up with it's matching tag.


I wanted to show that you can ALWAYS resort to your papers and stamps for many occasions. As soon as I saw that fabric, I just knew that I had to showcase a matching tag. The tag took me about 10 minutes to make.


And here is one last look at the open diaper clutch with it's matching tag.
Just imagine giving this out, with a co ordinating tag!

Simple Baby GIRL card

Yes thats right! I made a baby GIRL card. Sometimes with two little boys, it's hard for me to "think pretty" when it comes to baby girl cards. My friend just gave birth to a girl on Thursday and I will be visiting her tomorrow so I wanted to whip up a card for her. This card was simple, yet took me a while. The stamp set that I am using is Cute and Cuddly (113682) which is in the Growing Up section of our catalogue. The part that took me a while was actual the teddy bear:

I wanted to have a simple layout, but wanted to add pizzaz with the teddy bear. So what I did was I stamped it three times on Creamy Caramel. Using a sponge dauber with Creamy Caramel ink, I sponged the edges of the bears arms on one image. On the second image, I sponged on the edges around the body and legs, and on the third stamped image, I sponged around her head and ears.
For teddys head, using my white Signo gel pen, I coloured in the eyes. To get her blushing, I used the pretty in pink chalk from my Stampin' Pastels set.
I stamped the bear image one more time on very vanilla card stock and cut out the mouth and belly part using my paper snips. Glue the mouth part to your decorated head piece, and the belly to your inked body image. I trimed out all head, the body and then the arms and used Stampin' Dimensionals to piece together the Teddy Bear.


I usually don't decorate the inside of my card, but since I chose to keep my layout simple, I did not want the card to look that simple, so I just continued the Top Note designer paper to the inside, and stamped my sentiment and the little bunny inside.
So cute, I want to keep it for myself :)

Stamp Set: Cute and Cuddly 113682
Congrats *retired*
Ink: basic black, Almost Amethyst, creamy caramel
Paper: Apricot Appeal C.S, Creamy Caramel, Very Vanilla, Tea Party Designer Series Paper 113992
Accessories: sponge dauber, Top Note die, Stampin' Dimensionals, glue dots, signo white gel, Stampin' Pastels,

If you would like to purchase this stamp set, you can shop online or order through me by phone, email or come in person to my studio. Don't forget, this stamp set qualifies you to come in for a FREE Mom&Me class, for more details to take advantage of of free class, please follow this link

Stamping with Thomas, and Baby Card Class sample

How was your weekend? I hope it was good, here on my end it was busy. I am tired from the weekend. We did get to go to the Elgin County Railway musuem to see Thomas The Tank Engine :) The ride up there, the day there and coming back home was tiring as is, then Michael's dad called us while we were driving past Woodstock and asked us to make a stop. As tired as I was, I said sure why not, I always encourage any Grandparent time, so off to Missisauga we went. Had intentions to sleep in for Sunday, but if you have small children, you know that there is no such thing!
Anyhoo, I am glad that I ended up taking the Saturday off, because the weather was beautiful in St. Thomas. It did not start to rain until we were already on the road.

I have a some pictures to share with you!!!

Heres Thomas the Tank Engine. This was truly the star of the show. What they did was they converted a realy train to look like Thomas the Tank Engine, and we got to ride on through St.Thomas for a nice 25 minute train ride. You can just imagine how excited Aiden was!


And here we are inside the train, we got in line early to make sure that we would get a window seat. What we also didnt know is that we got the seats right next to the whistle, and booooyy was it loud!

I absolutely love these pictures that I am about to show you, not only do I stamp for a living, it follows me on my days off!!

In the "Imagination Center" they had tables with Thomas and Friends stamps!!! heheheh


And here is my crafty Aiden stamping away!

I cant wait to make a scrapbook album for him, I purchased a Thomas album, papers, and stickers for some time now and Aiden has been eagerly waiting for me to make him an album. So stay tuned for more adventures with Thomas the Tank Engine!!


Baby Card Class

Switching topics now, I wanted to show you 2 out of the 4 cards that we will be making for this Thursday's and Friday's Baby Card Class I love love love making baby cards, kid cards all things cute. If it's cute, it is part of my stamp collection. I cant wait to load up on more cute stamps in August ;) *a hint for the upcoming Just for Kids promotion.
So here is a pair of little baby onesie cards! Yes, you have seen me make these before, they are just too cute to exclude for my class.
If you are interested in attending I have spots for this Thursday for an 11-1 class or 1:30-3:30. And for my hard working crafters that need an evening class, I have one available for the Friday from 7-9, and Saturday 12-3
Contact me today if you would like to attend!
Velariem@hotmail.com
647-500-0444

Animal Crackers Baby Card

Here is yet another baby card :) I can't help it, I love making baby things! But have you noticed it is usually for baby boys?? Yes I am guilty of that. Well, now that just means that I will have to make a baby girl card soon.
All supplies are Stampin' Up!
Stamps: Animal Crackers 113395
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, barely banana, bashful blue
Ink: close to cocoa
Accessories: Stampin' Pastels, Certainly Celery SAB ribbon
Other: Star punch
Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network

Onesie Tutorial

Okie dokie! I have been feeling a little bit better so decided to take a few minutes to come on the computer. Heads up to my followers, I will not be posting anything until Sunday night or Monday. I have a full schedule from today up until Saturday. Also, the items that I want to really really post are gifts and I dont want to ruin the surprise. Anyhoo, I am blabbin, back to the tutorial!

Baby Onesie Tutorial
Supplies:
Cardstock
Ruler
Pencil
Scissors #103579
1 3/8" circle punch #104401
Bone folder #102300



1. First you want to cut your cardstock to 4 1/4"wide x 11". Fold in half using your bone folder so that you get a nice crisp fold.
Using your ruler, measure 1.5" down from the fold, lightly mark with a pencil on both sides.


2. Now, from this marked point, measure 1" across and lightly mark this new point. Repeat on other side.


3. Using your ruler, start at the inside marking, align your ruler so that it meets the bottom corner of your card. Lighly trace this line with your pencil. Repeat on the other side.


4. Using your paper snips, cut out your traced lines. Now your onesie is starting to take on shape! :)


5. Using your 1 3/8" circle punch, aligning the circle in the middle of the fold line, half way in, punch half a circle. This is the onesies neckline.


6. Now for the leg holes, picture the cicle punch into 4 quaters. You will be taking in the bottom corner of your card and aligning it to take up a little more than one quater of the punch. I hope my picture helps! Repeat on the other side.
and Ta da! decorate as desired!

If you have any questions please feel free to email me at velariem@hotmail.com
*I believe Lauren is the originator of the onesie, but I altered my process a lil.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these Stampin Up! products, contact me at anytime of the day!
-Val

Bellarific Friday March 6th

I have yet another entry to show you! You can really tell that I am making the most of my mat leave eh? I am having so much fun creating projects. Well, I went through my Bella stash and noticed that this little guy hasn't seen any ink yet. Then when I saw the colour sheme for the challenge, I was like.. ou! another baby card! Are you sick of my baby cards yet?? There are a few more to come just to warn you!
Again my camera is not working so I had to take the picture using my BB. It is not too clear, now I wish I would have paid the extra $75 and just got the BB bold. it has a better camera. So please excuse the quality!

This stamp uses "My Beary best Friend" you can get yours over at the Bella Store at www.stampingbella.com
I am very lucky to live near by to attend Nicky's classes :) I am hoping to save up enough to attend a copic class by the end of the year.
Ok, gotta make lunch and take a nap. Tyson had me up 6 times last night!! Going to try to squeeze in time to post the onesie tutorial. If not, will do tomorrow. Need the supplies in the meantime? check the post below...

Another Baby Card and Tutorial

Babies Babies everywhere! My cousin Lily just gave birth to her baby boy yesterday afternoon at 3:30pm, a healthy 7lbs 11 oz. I am so happy for her! As soon as I got the news I went straight to the post office.
Here is what she will be recieving hopefully by tomorrow:

Isn't this just flippin adorable!!? I completely CASEd this card from the talented Amy Celena over at www.ustamp4fun.com

Remember the gift that I gave her a while back?? the one with the onesies? Well... I wanted to give you a tutorial. I will post the tutorial later today or tomorrow, as my hour to myself is up and now its vacumm, run over to the store, make lunch, la de da de da.
Here are the supplies you will need for the onesie tutorial:
Cardstock
Stamps
1 3/8 circle punch
scallop circle punch
ruler
pencil
scissors

See you then!

Baby Boy gift set

My cousin Lily is expected a baby boy to add to her family and instead of buying gifts. I decided to take the time to make something from the heart. I made these a while ago but I did not have a chance to post them because of my broken camera, so I had to wait for her to take pictures of them. This card set turned out so cute, I had to give it to her as soon as I completed it. It's is a card holder with baby onesies in them to use as announcement cards or thank you cards.
After seeing this set made over at Inkin Idaho (check my blog list) I knew I haaaad to make this!


I cannot remember who the originator of the onesies are, but I did CASE this off my good crafty friend Caro when I attended one of her classes last summer.


So since I got all eager beaver I did not have anything to give to her for her baby luncheon. So I decided to make a scrapbook to match the cards that I made for her.


I also decorated a clipboard. For the scrapbook, one page was left blank for a filled in calendar to be adhered on once completed. The other page, would have a number for the month so that she can make a collage of the baby at 3 months, 4 months, so on and so on. The calendars are blank so that she can fill in the babys milestones. By the time she is done filling in each month, she basically recorded all the babys milestones and monthly pictures! I got the templated from captured memories. I will post up the link to the download another day as the address is downstairs with my blackberry.
I hope you enjoyed! ta ta for now